Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 557 499
Rank change year-on-year +71 -58 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 253 101 274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.25% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 198 46 162
10th Percentile £60,175 £53,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.20% -10.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -6.06%

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 88,622 39,653 68,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.63% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,192 23,887 46,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 14 August 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 14 August 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
North of England +31 96 £75,000 +7.14% 20
North West +27 46 £75,000 - 12
London -55 45 £90,000 - 96
Midlands +13 43 £70,000 - 8
South East -11 27 £85,000 - 13
Yorkshire -16 26 £69,655 -0.49% 2
East Midlands -3 24 £70,000 - 4
North East -37 24 £69,310 -7.59% 6
South West -49 23 £75,000 +30.43% 14
West Midlands -9 19 £80,000 +14.29% 4
East of England -17 4 £54,250 -37.10% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 253 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (43.08%) CI/CD
3 106 (41.90%) Azure
4 76 (30.04%) Terraform
5 67 (26.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (25.30%) AWS
7 56 (22.13%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (21.34%) Kubernetes
9 48 (18.97%) Agile
9 48 (18.97%) Mentoring
10 46 (18.18%) Linux
11 41 (16.21%) Test Automation
12 38 (15.02%) Windows
13 36 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
13 36 (14.23%) Python
14 35 (13.83%) Containerisation
14 35 (13.83%) GitLab
15 32 (12.65%) Coaching
15 32 (12.65%) Docker
15 32 (12.65%) Java
16 31 (12.25%) Scrum
16 31 (12.25%) Unix
17 30 (11.86%) Pega
18 28 (11.07%) Microservices
18 28 (11.07%) Security Cleared
19 27 (10.67%) AI
20 25 (9.88%) DevSecOps
20 25 (9.88%) Node.js
21 24 (9.49%) Ansible

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 4 (1.58%) IIS
2 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 106 (41.90%) Azure
2 64 (25.30%) AWS
3 56 (22.13%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.49%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.51%) GCP
6 18 (7.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (6.72%) GitHub
8 16 (6.32%) SaaS
9 12 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.95%) Serverless
11 9 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.37%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.98%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.98%) Datadog
15 4 (1.58%) NuGet
15 4 (1.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.56%) Firewall
2 7 (2.77%) DNS
3 4 (1.58%) DHCP
3 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.79%) SAN
4 2 (0.79%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.79%) Power BI
5 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.40%) MySQL
6 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 35 (13.83%) GitLab
2 15 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.95%) Git
4 6 (2.37%) JIRA
5 4 (1.58%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.19%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.79%) MSI
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
General
1 42 (16.60%) Public Sector
2 22 (8.70%) Finance
3 15 (5.93%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.35%) Banking
5 3 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.19%) Law
6 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.79%) Legal
6 2 (0.79%) Marketing
6 2 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.88%) Node.js
2 9 (3.56%) Kafka
2 9 (3.56%) Spring
2 9 (3.56%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.77%) .NET
3 7 (2.77%) YAML
4 6 (2.37%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.37%) ADO
5 5 (1.98%) React
6 4 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.19%) XML
8 2 (0.79%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.79%) XSLT
9 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.40%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.98%) Private Cloud
3 4 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.18%) Linux
2 38 (15.02%) Windows
3 31 (12.25%) Unix
4 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (43.08%) CI/CD
3 67 (26.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (18.97%) Agile
4 48 (18.97%) Mentoring
5 41 (16.21%) Test Automation
6 36 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
6 36 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (13.83%) Containerisation
8 32 (12.65%) Coaching
9 31 (12.25%) Scrum
10 28 (11.07%) Microservices
11 27 (10.67%) AI
12 25 (9.88%) DevSecOps
13 22 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (7.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (6.32%) Observability
17 15 (5.93%) Case Management
17 15 (5.93%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.23%) Python
2 32 (12.65%) Java
3 17 (6.72%) PowerShell
4 16 (6.32%) Bash
4 16 (6.32%) SQL
5 10 (3.95%) Go
6 5 (1.98%) C#
7 4 (1.58%) Bicep
8 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.19%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.79%) XPath
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.53%) DV Cleared
3 12 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.37%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.37%) Degree
5 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.16%) QA
2 2 (0.79%) GDPR
2 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.79%) PMO
2 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (12.65%) Docker
2 6 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.58%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.40%) iptables
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (30.04%) Terraform
2 54 (21.34%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.49%) Ansible
4 22 (8.70%) Argo
5 12 (4.74%) Grafana
6 10 (3.95%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.77%) Istio
8 4 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.79%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.40%) Packer
11 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.86%) Pega
2 16 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.77%) Google
3 7 (2.77%) VMware
4 5 (1.98%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.98%) Okta
4 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.58%) Confluent
5 4 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.58%) OneLogin
6 3 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.19%) Splunk
7 2 (0.79%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.79%) OpenText
8 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle