Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 532 588
Rank change year-on-year +47 +56 -210
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 239 114 258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 192 54 185
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,400 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% +8.06% -8.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,001 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%

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 82,582 39,134 83,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.30% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,054 23,578 61,195
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 15 July 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 15 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
North of England +20 75 £75,000 +0.17% 18
Midlands +8 42 £70,000 - 3
London -60 42 £90,000 -10.00% 11
North West +16 36 £75,000 - 13
South East +4 35 £65,000 -23.53% 6
East Midlands +1 27 £70,000 - 3
South West -50 25 £65,000 +4.31% 4
Yorkshire -17 24 £69,655 -0.49% 3
West Midlands -15 15 £80,000 +14.29%
North East -43 15 £69,308 -7.59% 2
East of England -18 5 £54,250 -36.18%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 239 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (45.61%) CI/CD
3 98 (41.00%) Azure
4 82 (34.31%) Terraform
5 70 (29.29%) AWS
5 70 (29.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (24.27%) Kubernetes
7 52 (21.76%) Linux
8 50 (20.92%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (19.25%) Mentoring
10 42 (17.57%) Agile
11 40 (16.74%) Python
11 40 (16.74%) Windows
12 38 (15.90%) Test Automation
13 34 (14.23%) Containerisation
13 34 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (13.81%) Docker
15 31 (12.97%) Microservices
16 30 (12.55%) Java
16 30 (12.55%) Pega
16 30 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (12.55%) Scrum
17 29 (12.13%) Ansible
17 29 (12.13%) Coaching
17 29 (12.13%) Unix
18 28 (11.72%) AI
18 28 (11.72%) GitLab
19 26 (10.88%) Bash
20 25 (10.46%) DevSecOps
20 25 (10.46%) Node.js

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 6 (2.51%) IIS
2 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 98 (41.00%) Azure
2 70 (29.29%) AWS
3 50 (20.92%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.21%) Azure AKS
4 22 (9.21%) GitHub
5 20 (8.37%) GCP
6 18 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.69%) SaaS
9 15 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.77%) Serverless
12 7 (2.93%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.51%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.51%) npm
13 6 (2.51%) NuGet
13 6 (2.51%) SonarCloud
13 6 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (2.09%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.28%) Firewall
2 8 (3.35%) VPN
3 7 (2.93%) DNS
4 5 (2.09%) Network Security
5 4 (1.67%) DHCP
5 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.84%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.21%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) Metadata
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (11.72%) GitLab
2 13 (5.44%) Git
2 13 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.93%) JIRA
4 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.26%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.84%) MSI
7 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (17.15%) Public Sector
2 20 (8.37%) Finance
3 11 (4.60%) Banking
3 11 (4.60%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.35%) Retail
5 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.42%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.46%) Node.js
2 9 (3.77%) Kafka
2 9 (3.77%) YAML
3 7 (2.93%) React
3 7 (2.93%) Spring
3 7 (2.93%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.51%) .NET
4 6 (2.51%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.51%) ADO
5 4 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.26%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.26%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.84%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.84%) RESTful
7 2 (0.84%) Web Services
8 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.42%) JSON
8 1 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.35%) Private Cloud
4 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.42%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.76%) Linux
2 40 (16.74%) Windows
3 29 (12.13%) Unix
4 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (45.61%) CI/CD
3 70 (29.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (19.25%) Mentoring
5 42 (17.57%) Agile
6 38 (15.90%) Test Automation
7 34 (14.23%) Containerisation
7 34 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (12.97%) Microservices
9 30 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (12.55%) Scrum
10 29 (12.13%) Coaching
11 28 (11.72%) AI
12 25 (10.46%) DevSecOps
13 20 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (8.37%) Observability
14 16 (6.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (6.28%) Case Management
16 12 (5.02%) Infrastructure Automation
16 12 (5.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.74%) Python
2 30 (12.55%) Java
3 26 (10.88%) Bash
4 19 (7.95%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.86%) Go
6 12 (5.02%) SQL
7 7 (2.93%) C#
8 4 (1.67%) Bicep
9 3 (1.26%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) Scala
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.60%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.60%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.18%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.93%) Degree
5 6 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.35%) QA
2 2 (0.84%) GDPR
2 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.84%) PMO
2 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (13.81%) Docker
2 6 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.26%) iptables
6 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (34.31%) Terraform
2 58 (24.27%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.13%) Ansible
4 22 (9.21%) Argo
5 20 (8.37%) Grafana
6 18 (7.53%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.35%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.93%) Istio
9 4 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.55%) Pega
2 13 (5.44%) VMware
3 10 (4.18%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.93%) Google
5 6 (2.51%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.09%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.09%) Okta
6 5 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.67%) Confluent
7 4 (1.67%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.26%) Splunk
9 2 (0.84%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.84%) OpenText
10 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.42%) IBM
10 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle