Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £79,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 549 459
Rank change year-on-year +68 -90 -91
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 281 95 314
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.24% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 213 43 162
10th Percentile £63,236 £52,600 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £61,875 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £99,250 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

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 94,838 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66,862 23,458 39,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +15 101 £77,500 +10.71% 41
North West +23 51 £77,500 +10.71% 32
Midlands 0 48 £70,000 - 15
South East -5 45 £85,000 - 31
London -62 41 £90,000 - 102
South West -70 27 £75,000 +38.89% 23
Yorkshire -26 25 £70,000 - 7
North East -44 25 £74,655 -0.46% 2
East Midlands - 25 £70,000 - 11
West Midlands -25 23 £80,000 +14.29% 4
East of England -27 4 £54,250 -37.10% 5
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 281 (100.00%) DevOps
2 119 (42.35%) CI/CD
3 103 (36.65%) Azure
4 76 (27.05%) Terraform
5 65 (23.13%) AWS
6 63 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (21.00%) Kubernetes
8 58 (20.64%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (18.86%) Agile
10 48 (17.08%) Linux
11 47 (16.73%) Mentoring
12 45 (16.01%) Platform Engineering
13 41 (14.59%) Test Automation
14 38 (13.52%) Python
15 35 (12.46%) Containerisation
15 35 (12.46%) GitLab
16 34 (12.10%) Coaching
16 34 (12.10%) Continuous Integration
16 34 (12.10%) Java
17 33 (11.74%) AI
17 33 (11.74%) Windows
18 32 (11.39%) Security Cleared
19 31 (11.03%) Ansible
19 31 (11.03%) Scrum
19 31 (11.03%) Unix
20 30 (10.68%) Pega
21 29 (10.32%) Docker
22 27 (9.61%) Microservices
23 25 (8.90%) Azure AKS
24 24 (8.54%) GitHub

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 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.71%) IIS
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 103 (36.65%) Azure
2 65 (23.13%) AWS
3 58 (20.64%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (8.90%) Azure AKS
5 24 (8.54%) GitHub
6 18 (6.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (6.41%) GCP
6 18 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (5.69%) SaaS
8 10 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.85%) Serverless
10 7 (2.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.78%) Azure API Management
12 5 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.98%) Firewall
2 8 (2.85%) DNS
2 8 (2.85%) VPN
3 3 (1.07%) DHCP
3 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.71%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.47%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.71%) Power BI
4 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.36%) Metadata
5 1 (0.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.36%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 35 (12.46%) GitLab
2 12 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.49%) Git
3 7 (2.49%) JIRA
4 6 (2.14%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) MSI
6 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 39 (13.88%) Public Sector
2 14 (4.98%) Finance
3 12 (4.27%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.49%) Retail
5 5 (1.78%) Banking
6 3 (1.07%) Law
7 2 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.71%) Legal
7 2 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (27.05%) Terraform
2 24 (8.54%) Node.js
3 12 (4.27%) Spring
3 12 (4.27%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.14%) .NET
5 5 (1.78%) ADO
5 5 (1.78%) YAML
6 4 (1.42%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.07%) Kafka
7 3 (1.07%) React
7 3 (1.07%) XML
8 2 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.71%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.71%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.71%) RESTful
8 2 (0.71%) XSLT
9 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.27%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.08%) Linux
2 33 (11.74%) Windows
3 31 (11.03%) Unix
4 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (100.00%) DevOps
2 119 (42.35%) CI/CD
3 63 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (18.86%) Agile
5 47 (16.73%) Mentoring
6 45 (16.01%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (14.59%) Test Automation
8 35 (12.46%) Containerisation
9 34 (12.10%) Coaching
9 34 (12.10%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (11.74%) AI
11 31 (11.03%) Scrum
12 27 (9.61%) Microservices
13 23 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (7.83%) Infrastructure Automation
15 21 (7.47%) DevSecOps
16 19 (6.76%) Observability
17 18 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 17 (6.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.52%) Python
2 34 (12.10%) Java
3 17 (6.05%) Bash
4 13 (4.63%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.63%) SQL
5 11 (3.91%) Go
6 4 (1.42%) Bicep
6 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.07%) C#
7 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.07%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.07%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.71%) XPath
9 1 (0.36%) Groovy
9 1 (0.36%) Perl
9 1 (0.36%) PHP
9 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.69%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.20%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.49%) Degree
6 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.49%) QA
2 2 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (10.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.03%) Ansible
3 21 (7.47%) Argo
4 14 (4.98%) Grafana
5 12 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.85%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.71%) Istio
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.68%) Pega
2 21 (7.47%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.27%) VMware
4 9 (3.20%) Google
5 5 (1.78%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.42%) Okta
7 3 (1.07%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.07%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.71%) OpenText
9 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.36%) IBM
9 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle