Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 582 432
Rank change year-on-year +61 -150 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 128 249 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.31% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 84 186 479
10th Percentile £60,556 £61,063 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,718 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £121,375 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in England.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 2025. 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 +44 64 £101,251 +14.09% 35
South East +117 17 £80,000 +10.34% 19
South West +101 16 £64,627 -19.22% 4
North of England +33 14 £72,435 +2.63% 9
Yorkshire +73 10 £72,435 +2.63% 3
East of England +61 10 £65,000 +12.07% 7
Midlands +81 5 £80,000 +18.52% 7
North West -16 4 - - 6
West Midlands +50 3 £80,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands +49 2 - - 1
Senior DevOps
UK

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (73.44%) CI/CD
3 80 (62.50%) AWS
4 74 (57.81%) Terraform
5 60 (46.88%) Finance
6 58 (45.31%) Kubernetes
7 47 (36.72%) Ansible
8 46 (35.94%) Docker
9 44 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 43 (33.59%) Agile
11 41 (32.03%) Python
11 41 (32.03%) Azure
12 34 (26.56%) IBM
13 31 (24.22%) Software Engineering
14 30 (23.44%) Amazon S3
14 30 (23.44%) Jenkins
14 30 (23.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 30 (23.44%) Serverless
15 29 (22.66%) AWS Lambda
16 28 (21.88%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (20.31%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (19.53%) Mentoring
18 25 (19.53%) Banking
19 24 (18.75%) Java
20 23 (17.97%) GCP
20 23 (17.97%) Deployment Automation
21 21 (16.41%) Containerisation
21 21 (16.41%) AWS CloudFormation
22 20 (15.63%) JavaScript
22 20 (15.63%) Management Information System

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.03%) nginx
2 8 (6.25%) Apache Solr
3 6 (4.69%) Confluence
4 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 80 (62.50%) AWS
2 41 (32.03%) Azure
3 30 (23.44%) Amazon S3
3 30 (23.44%) Serverless
4 29 (22.66%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (21.88%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (20.31%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (17.97%) GCP
8 21 (16.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (13.28%) GitHub
10 16 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (11.72%) Datadog
12 14 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (4.69%) IBM Cloud
16 4 (3.13%) Azure AKS
16 4 (3.13%) CloudFront
17 3 (2.34%) PaaS
17 3 (2.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.25%) DNS
1 8 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 8 (6.25%) IPsec
1 8 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.13%) Firewall
3 3 (2.34%) VPN
4 2 (1.56%) LAN
4 2 (1.56%) Network Security
4 2 (1.56%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.56%) WAN
5 1 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.28%) NoSQL
2 16 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (10.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (8.59%) MySQL
5 8 (6.25%) Couchbase
5 8 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.78%) DB2
9 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.78%) Power BI
9 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 18 (14.06%) Git
2 18 (14.06%) GitLab
3 14 (10.94%) Cucumber
3 14 (10.94%) IntelliJ
3 14 (10.94%) JUnit
3 14 (10.94%) Maven
3 14 (10.94%) Mockito
4 13 (10.16%) JIRA
5 8 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.13%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (2.34%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.34%) Selenium
7 3 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.78%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 60 (46.88%) Finance
2 25 (19.53%) Banking
3 18 (14.06%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.72%) Front Office
5 7 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.13%) Retail
8 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.94%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (10.94%) JMS
1 14 (10.94%) Spring
1 14 (10.94%) Spring Boot
2 8 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (5.47%) YAML
4 5 (3.91%) Kafka
5 4 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.34%) Django
6 3 (2.34%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.34%) Flask
6 3 (2.34%) Node.js
6 3 (2.34%) Playwright
6 3 (2.34%) React
7 2 (1.56%) .NET
7 2 (1.56%) Vue
8 1 (0.78%) AWS SAM
8 1 (0.78%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.78%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.94%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (10.94%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (7.81%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.69%) Blockchain
6 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.13%) e-Learning
6 4 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 4 (3.13%) PKI
6 4 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.78%) Life Science
9 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Unix
2 3 (2.34%) Windows
3 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (73.44%) CI/CD
3 44 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (33.59%) Agile
5 31 (24.22%) Software Engineering
6 30 (23.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 25 (19.53%) Mentoring
8 23 (17.97%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (16.41%) Containerisation
10 19 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (12.50%) Fintech
11 16 (12.50%) Software Delivery
12 15 (11.72%) Analytics
12 15 (11.72%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (11.72%) SDLC
13 14 (10.94%) Asset Management
13 14 (10.94%) E-Commerce
14 13 (10.16%) Microservices
15 12 (9.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.03%) Python
2 24 (18.75%) Java
3 20 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.94%) C++
5 10 (7.81%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.03%) PHP
6 9 (7.03%) SQL
7 7 (5.47%) C#
8 6 (4.69%) Bash
8 6 (4.69%) Go
9 5 (3.91%) Ruby
10 3 (2.34%) Groovy
11 2 (1.56%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.78%) JCL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.34%) OCP
7 3 (2.34%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) Degree
8 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) GDPR
1 6 (4.69%) HIPAA
1 6 (4.69%) NIST
1 6 (4.69%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (35.94%) Docker
2 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (57.81%) Terraform
2 58 (45.31%) Kubernetes
3 47 (36.72%) Ansible
4 10 (7.81%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.47%) Grafana
6 6 (4.69%) Istio
7 5 (3.91%) Argo
7 5 (3.91%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.78%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.78%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.78%) Kibana
9 1 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.78%) logstash
9 1 (0.78%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.78%) Packer
9 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (26.56%) IBM
2 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.47%) VMware
3 6 (4.69%) Google
4 5 (3.91%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.13%) Splunk
6 3 (2.34%) Confluent
6 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.56%) Snow
8 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.78%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.78%) Imperva
8 1 (0.78%) Meraki
8 1 (0.78%) Okta
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle