Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 530 602
Rank change year-on-year +49 +72 -189
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 227 117 259
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 185 57 186
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,300 £50,625
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £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 80,801 37,194 87,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.27% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 56,895 22,002 64,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -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 1 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 1 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 +7 67 £75,000 +3.54% 16
London -53 44 £90,000 -10.00% 22
Midlands -5 38 £70,000 - 3
South East 0 35 £65,000 -23.53% 16
North West +14 29 £77,500 +3.33% 13
Yorkshire -19 24 £69,655 -0.49% 2
South West -47 24 £65,000 +0.58% 3
East Midlands -4 23 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -18 15 £80,000 +14.29%
North East - 14 £69,308 - 1
East of England -16 5 £54,250 -21.09% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 227 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (44.93%) CI/CD
3 86 (37.89%) Azure
4 79 (34.80%) Terraform
5 70 (30.84%) AWS
6 68 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (24.67%) Kubernetes
7 56 (24.67%) Linux
8 49 (21.59%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (18.50%) Mentoring
9 42 (18.50%) Windows
10 40 (17.62%) Agile
11 38 (16.74%) Test Automation
12 37 (16.30%) Continuous Integration
12 37 (16.30%) Python
13 32 (14.10%) Containerisation
14 31 (13.66%) Docker
15 30 (13.22%) Microservices
15 30 (13.22%) Pega
15 30 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (12.78%) Scrum
17 28 (12.33%) Coaching
17 28 (12.33%) Unix
18 27 (11.89%) Bash
18 27 (11.89%) GitLab
18 27 (11.89%) Java
19 26 (11.45%) Ansible
20 25 (11.01%) Node.js
21 24 (10.57%) AI
21 24 (10.57%) DevSecOps

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 (2.64%) IIS
2 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 86 (37.89%) Azure
2 70 (30.84%) AWS
3 49 (21.59%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.69%) Azure AKS
5 21 (9.25%) GitHub
6 20 (8.81%) GCP
7 18 (7.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (5.73%) SaaS
11 12 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.41%) Serverless
13 8 (3.52%) Amazon S3
14 7 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.64%) npm
15 6 (2.64%) NuGet
15 6 (2.64%) SonarCloud
16 5 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.61%) Firewall
2 8 (3.52%) DNS
2 8 (3.52%) VPN
3 6 (2.64%) Network Security
4 5 (2.20%) DHCP
5 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.69%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (11.89%) GitLab
2 13 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.29%) Git
4 5 (2.20%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.20%) JIRA
5 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.88%) MSI
7 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (19.38%) Public Sector
2 22 (9.69%) Finance
3 11 (4.85%) Banking
3 11 (4.85%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.52%) Retail
5 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.01%) Node.js
2 9 (3.96%) Kafka
2 9 (3.96%) YAML
3 7 (3.08%) React
4 6 (2.64%) .NET
4 6 (2.64%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.64%) ADO
5 4 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.76%) Spring
5 4 (1.76%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.32%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.32%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.44%) JSON
8 1 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.44%) REST
8 1 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.52%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.20%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (24.67%) Linux
2 42 (18.50%) Windows
3 28 (12.33%) Unix
4 5 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (44.93%) CI/CD
3 68 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (18.50%) Mentoring
5 40 (17.62%) Agile
6 38 (16.74%) Test Automation
7 37 (16.30%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (14.10%) Containerisation
9 30 (13.22%) Microservices
9 30 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (12.78%) Scrum
11 28 (12.33%) Coaching
12 24 (10.57%) AI
12 24 (10.57%) DevSecOps
13 19 (8.37%) Observability
14 15 (6.61%) Case Management
15 13 (5.73%) Configuration Management
15 13 (5.73%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (5.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (5.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.30%) Python
2 27 (11.89%) Bash
2 27 (11.89%) Java
3 19 (8.37%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.17%) Go
5 11 (4.85%) SQL
6 7 (3.08%) C#
7 5 (2.20%) Bicep
8 3 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) Perl
9 1 (0.44%) PHP
9 1 (0.44%) Scala
9 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.29%) AWS Certification
3 11 (4.85%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.64%) Degree
6 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.52%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) GDPR
2 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.88%) PMO
2 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (13.66%) Docker
2 6 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.76%) iptables
5 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (34.80%) Terraform
2 56 (24.67%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.45%) Ansible
4 22 (9.69%) Argo
5 21 (9.25%) Grafana
6 20 (8.81%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.52%) Proxmox
8 7 (3.08%) Istio
9 5 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.76%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.76%) Puppet
11 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.44%) Packer
11 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (13.22%) Pega
2 14 (6.17%) VMware
3 11 (4.85%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.08%) Google
5 6 (2.64%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.64%) Okta
6 5 (2.20%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.20%) OneLogin
6 5 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.76%) Confluent
8 2 (0.88%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.88%) OpenText
8 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.88%) Splunk
9 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.44%) IBM
9 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle
9 1 (0.44%) Zscaler