DevOps Job Trends in Yorkshire

DevOps
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 293 171 332
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.15% 4.89% 6.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.16% 5.46% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 215 140 262
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,425 £40,999
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +10.42% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,813 £74,721
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,755 3,131 4,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.35% 89.56% 78.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,414 1,509 2,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,143
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,450
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Yorkshire

DevOps
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +6 214 £71,250 +1.79% 57
South Yorkshire -12 60 £69,310 +38.62% 17
North Yorkshire +3 12 £62,500 -10.71% 8
East Yorkshire -19 4 £47,000 +16.05% 3
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.71%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.37%) Moodle
3 3 (1.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) IIS
3 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.68%) Apache
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Shopify
2 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 116 (39.59%) Azure
2 113 (38.57%) AWS
3 68 (23.21%) Serverless
4 66 (22.53%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (18.09%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (17.41%) Amazon ECS
6 51 (17.41%) Amazon S3
7 45 (15.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (15.02%) GitHub
9 37 (12.63%) AWS Step Functions
10 27 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (8.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (8.19%) GCP
13 21 (7.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 20 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (6.48%) Power Platform
16 18 (6.14%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (6.14%) Apigee
17 17 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) HTTP
2 4 (1.37%) Firewall
2 4 (1.37%) Internet
3 3 (1.02%) DNS
4 2 (0.68%) BGP
4 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.68%) NGFW
4 2 (0.68%) OSPF
4 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.34%) Broadband
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.33%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (7.17%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.17%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (5.80%) Spark SQL
5 12 (4.10%) Power BI
6 11 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (3.41%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.37%) Metadata
10 4 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.02%) Power Query
11 3 (1.02%) Redis
11 3 (1.02%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.68%) MySQL
12 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (18.09%) Jenkins
2 42 (14.33%) Git
2 42 (14.33%) GitLab
3 24 (8.19%) JIRA
4 21 (7.17%) Cypress.io
4 21 (7.17%) SonarQube
5 19 (6.48%) Maven
6 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.68%) JUnit
9 2 (0.68%) Postman
9 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (20.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.60%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.53%) Finance
4 14 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.05%) Retail
6 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Law
8 3 (1.02%) Legal
8 3 (1.02%) Local Government
8 3 (1.02%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.68%) Banking
9 2 (0.68%) Billing
9 2 (0.68%) Games
9 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (29.69%) Developer
2 68 (23.21%) Senior
3 64 (21.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (15.02%) Java Developer
4 44 (15.02%) Lead
5 27 (9.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (8.87%) Data Engineer
6 26 (8.87%) Senior DevOps
6 26 (8.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 22 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) AWS Developer
8 17 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (5.80%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) .NET Developer
10 14 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.44%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.33%) AngularJS
2 36 (12.29%) React
3 34 (11.60%) Node.js
4 33 (11.26%) .NET
4 33 (11.26%) Spring Boot
5 22 (7.51%) RESTful
6 21 (7.17%) Jest
6 21 (7.17%) REST
7 18 (6.14%) ASP.NET
7 18 (6.14%) Gherkin
7 18 (6.14%) PySpark
8 17 (5.80%) ASP.NET Core
8 17 (5.80%) Spring
9 13 (4.44%) Blazor
9 13 (4.44%) ML.NET
10 11 (3.75%) .NET Core
10 11 (3.75%) ARM Templates
10 11 (3.75%) CSS
11 10 (3.41%) HTML
12 9 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.73%) NHS
3 8 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.05%) Social Media
5 5 (1.71%) BBC
5 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.37%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.37%) iPhone
6 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.02%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.87%) Linux
2 16 (5.46%) Windows
3 12 (4.10%) Unix
4 5 (1.71%) CentOS
4 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.37%) Android
5 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (53.92%) CI/CD
2 107 (36.52%) Agile
3 56 (19.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (15.36%) Mentoring
4 45 (15.36%) Test Automation
5 42 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (13.99%) Scrum
7 40 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (12.29%) Microservices
9 35 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (11.60%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (10.58%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (10.58%) ITIL
12 29 (9.90%) Containerisation
13 28 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (9.22%) AI
14 27 (9.22%) Coaching
14 27 (9.22%) SDLC
15 26 (8.87%) Data Engineering
16 25 (8.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.89%) SQL
2 59 (20.14%) Java
3 50 (17.06%) Python
4 42 (14.33%) TypeScript
5 37 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 36 (12.29%) C#
7 29 (9.90%) Bash
8 24 (8.19%) Groovy
9 20 (6.83%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.71%) Go
10 5 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.37%) Bicep
12 3 (1.02%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.02%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (10.24%) Degree
2 26 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.83%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (5.46%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.71%) PMP
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) CBAP
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) IIBA
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.14%) QA
2 12 (4.10%) GDPR
3 8 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.71%) GRC
5 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (20.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (18.43%) Terraform
2 27 (9.22%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.14%) HP Fortify
4 12 (4.10%) Ansible
5 10 (3.41%) Argo
6 3 (1.02%) Packer
7 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.34%) Grafana
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.51%) Databricks
3 11 (3.75%) Google
4 10 (3.41%) Pega
4 10 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.71%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.71%) Apple
5 5 (1.71%) Facebook
5 5 (1.71%) IBM
5 5 (1.71%) Sony
5 5 (1.71%) Yahoo!
6 3 (1.02%) SAP
7 2 (0.68%) Arista
7 2 (0.68%) F5
7 2 (0.68%) Informatica
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle
7 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.68%) Sophos
8 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.34%) WooCommerce