Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 486 575
Rank change year-on-year -12 +89 -140
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 181 128 249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.38% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 158 84 186
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,556 £61,063
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,375 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +6.25% -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 74,248 33,643 78,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 88.94% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,779 21,258 60,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -36 53 £100,000 -1.24% 13
North of England -37 38 £69,310 -4.31% 3
Midlands -13 30 £70,000 -12.50% 4
South East -14 29 £65,000 -18.75% 2
East Midlands -21 26 £70,000 - 2
South West -51 19 £80,000 +23.79% 4
North West -15 15 £80,000 - 2
Yorkshire -55 14 £69,310 -4.31%
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -28 4 £80,000 - 2
East of England -29 4 £90,000 +38.46% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 73 (40.33%) CI/CD
2 73 (40.33%) Terraform
3 70 (38.67%) Azure
4 58 (32.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (29.83%) AWS
6 50 (27.62%) Kubernetes
6 50 (27.62%) Linux
7 41 (22.65%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (19.34%) Windows
9 33 (18.23%) Microservices
10 30 (16.57%) Docker
11 29 (16.02%) Bash
11 29 (16.02%) Node.js
12 28 (15.47%) Python
13 27 (14.92%) GitLab
14 26 (14.36%) Containerisation
14 26 (14.36%) Test Automation
15 25 (13.81%) Continuous Integration
16 23 (12.71%) Mentoring
17 22 (12.15%) Agile
17 22 (12.15%) Ansible
18 21 (11.60%) Java
19 20 (11.05%) MongoDB
19 20 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
20 19 (10.50%) Argo
20 19 (10.50%) Azure AKS
20 19 (10.50%) Grafana
21 18 (9.94%) Azure Service Bus
21 18 (9.94%) Observability

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 10 (5.52%) IIS
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.67%) Azure
2 54 (29.83%) AWS
3 41 (22.65%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (10.50%) Azure AKS
5 18 (9.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.84%) GitHub
8 15 (8.29%) GCP
9 13 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.97%) npm
11 9 (4.97%) NuGet
11 9 (4.97%) Serverless
11 9 (4.97%) SonarCloud
12 7 (3.87%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.76%) CloudFront
14 5 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.29%) Firewall
2 8 (4.42%) VPN
3 7 (3.87%) DNS
4 6 (3.31%) DHCP
4 6 (3.31%) Network Security
5 4 (2.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.05%) MongoDB
1 20 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.73%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.08%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.55%) Metadata
5 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (14.92%) GitLab
2 13 (7.18%) Git
2 13 (7.18%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.97%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.66%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.10%) JIRA
6 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (18.78%) Finance
2 29 (16.02%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.63%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.08%) Banking
5 8 (4.42%) Retail
6 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.02%) Node.js
2 10 (5.52%) React
2 10 (5.52%) YAML
3 9 (4.97%) .NET
4 8 (4.42%) .NET Framework
5 7 (3.87%) Kafka
6 5 (2.76%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.21%) ADO
8 3 (1.66%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.66%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.55%) JSON
9 1 (0.55%) Next.js
9 1 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.55%) REST
9 1 (0.55%) RESTful
9 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (4.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.42%) Private Cloud
4 7 (3.87%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.66%) Web3
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (27.62%) Linux
2 35 (19.34%) Windows
3 15 (8.29%) Unix
4 7 (3.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 73 (40.33%) CI/CD
3 58 (32.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (18.23%) Microservices
5 26 (14.36%) Containerisation
5 26 (14.36%) Test Automation
6 25 (13.81%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (12.71%) Mentoring
8 22 (12.15%) Agile
9 18 (9.94%) Observability
10 15 (8.29%) AI
10 15 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (8.29%) Scrum
11 14 (7.73%) Coaching
11 14 (7.73%) Configuration Management
11 14 (7.73%) DevSecOps
12 13 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (6.08%) High Availability
15 10 (5.52%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.02%) Bash
2 28 (15.47%) Python
3 21 (11.60%) Java
4 18 (9.94%) PowerShell
5 15 (8.29%) Go
6 10 (5.52%) C#
7 8 (4.42%) SQL
8 4 (2.21%) Bicep
9 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.55%) Groovy
10 1 (0.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.55%) PHP
10 1 (0.55%) Scala
10 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.63%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.10%) Degree
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.66%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) GDPR
2 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (16.57%) Docker
2 6 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.21%) iptables
3 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (40.33%) Terraform
2 50 (27.62%) Kubernetes
3 22 (12.15%) Ansible
4 19 (10.50%) Argo
4 19 (10.50%) Grafana
5 17 (9.39%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.42%) Proxmox
7 7 (3.87%) Istio
8 6 (3.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.21%) Puppet
10 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.10%) SCCM
11 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.63%) VMware
2 9 (4.97%) CrowdStrike
2 9 (4.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.87%) Okta
4 6 (3.31%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.21%) Confluent
5 4 (2.21%) Google
6 2 (1.10%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.55%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.55%) F5
7 1 (0.55%) IBM
7 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle