Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 465 572
Rank change year-on-year -50 +107 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 136 136 244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.42% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 116 101 207
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,686 £61,100
25th Percentile £65,375 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 63,292 32,676 73,151
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 89.99% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 41,400 20,880 57,222
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
London -31 50 £100,000 -2.44% 15
Midlands -9 24 £70,000 -15.15% 9
South East -31 23 £65,000 -13.33% 13
East Midlands -29 20 £70,000 - 3
South West -30 19 £80,000 +23.79% 2
North of England -43 16 £71,250 +14.58% 16
North West -15 6 £76,250 - 4
North East - 6 £60,000 - 9
West Midlands -6 4 £90,000 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire -63 4 £75,000 +20.61% 3
East of England -28 3 £90,000 +38.46%
Senior DevOps
UK

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 March 2026, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 136 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (36.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (34.56%) Terraform
4 43 (31.62%) CI/CD
5 41 (30.15%) AWS
6 39 (28.68%) Azure
7 38 (27.94%) Kubernetes
8 37 (27.21%) Linux
9 30 (22.06%) Docker
10 26 (19.12%) Bash
10 26 (19.12%) Python
11 24 (17.65%) Ansible
12 23 (16.91%) Containerisation
13 18 (13.24%) Grafana
13 18 (13.24%) Windows
14 16 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (11.76%) Prometheus
15 15 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (11.03%) Go
16 14 (10.29%) Configuration Management
16 14 (10.29%) PowerShell
17 13 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (9.56%) Microservices
17 13 (9.56%) Observability
17 13 (9.56%) Platform Engineering
17 13 (9.56%) VMware
18 12 (8.82%) GitHub
18 12 (8.82%) High Availability
19 11 (8.09%) AI
19 11 (8.09%) AWS Certification

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.15%) AWS
2 39 (28.68%) Azure
3 16 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (8.82%) GitHub
7 10 (7.35%) GCP
7 10 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.88%) Serverless
9 7 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.15%) npm
9 7 (5.15%) NuGet
9 7 (5.15%) SonarCloud
10 6 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.68%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.09%) Firewall
2 7 (5.15%) VPN
3 6 (4.41%) Network Security
4 3 (2.21%) DHCP
4 3 (2.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) NoSQL
1 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.21%) MySQL
4 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.74%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 10 (7.35%) Git
1 10 (7.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.62%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.15%) GitLab
4 3 (2.21%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 30 (22.06%) Finance
2 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.09%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.88%) Banking
5 7 (5.15%) Retail
6 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) .NET
2 8 (5.88%) Node.js
2 8 (5.88%) React
3 7 (5.15%) YAML
4 6 (4.41%) .NET Framework
4 6 (4.41%) Kafka
5 5 (3.68%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.47%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.47%) WCF
7 1 (0.74%) ADO
7 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.74%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.74%) RESTful
7 1 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (5.15%) Hedge funds
2 7 (5.15%) Private Cloud
3 6 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.21%) Web3
6 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) PKI
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.21%) Linux
2 18 (13.24%) Windows
3 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.47%) Unix
4 2 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (36.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (31.62%) CI/CD
4 23 (16.91%) Containerisation
5 14 (10.29%) Configuration Management
6 13 (9.56%) Microservices
6 13 (9.56%) Observability
6 13 (9.56%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (8.82%) High Availability
8 11 (8.09%) AI
8 11 (8.09%) DevSecOps
9 10 (7.35%) Cloud Security
9 10 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (7.35%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (7.35%) E-Commerce
9 10 (7.35%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (5.88%) Test Automation
11 7 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.12%) Bash
1 26 (19.12%) Python
2 15 (11.03%) Go
3 14 (10.29%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.15%) C#
5 6 (4.41%) SQL
6 4 (2.94%) Bicep
7 2 (1.47%) Java
7 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.09%) AWS Certification
2 9 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) Degree
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.47%) GDPR
1 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.47%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 30 (22.06%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) iptables
2 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.21%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.21%) vSphere
4 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (34.56%) Terraform
2 38 (27.94%) Kubernetes
3 24 (17.65%) Ansible
4 18 (13.24%) Grafana
5 16 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.15%) Proxmox
7 5 (3.68%) Istio
8 4 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.94%) Puppet
9 3 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.47%) SCCM
11 1 (0.74%) Argo
11 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) VMware
2 7 (5.15%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (3.68%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.94%) Confluent
5 3 (2.21%) Okta
5 3 (2.21%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.47%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.74%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.74%) F5
7 1 (0.74%) Google
7 1 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds