Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 537 446
Rank change year-on-year +74 -91 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 320 92 315
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.21% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.24% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 245 41 164
10th Percentile £63,626 £52,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £61,250 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £112,500 £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 96,584 39,137 63,749
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 90.50% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,856 23,062 37,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,000
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 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.55% - -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +39 125 £76,250 +8.93% 60
North West +21 69 £75,000 +11.11% 43
Midlands -5 51 £70,000 - 16
South East -6 49 £95,000 +33.33% 25
London -62 41 £90,000 +9.09% 121
South West -46 35 £75,000 +38.89% 21
Yorkshire -7 29 £70,000 - 10
East Midlands - 28 £70,000 - 11
North East -36 27 £80,000 +6.67% 7
West Midlands -26 23 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -38 4 £54,250 -37.10% 7
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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.

1 320 (100.00%) DevOps
2 137 (42.81%) CI/CD
3 112 (35.00%) Azure
4 83 (25.94%) Terraform
5 81 (25.31%) AWS
6 73 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (22.81%) Kubernetes
7 65 (20.31%) Agile
8 61 (19.06%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (17.81%) Linux
10 56 (17.50%) Mentoring
11 49 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
12 46 (14.38%) Test Automation
13 40 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 40 (12.50%) Python
13 40 (12.50%) Security Cleared
14 39 (12.19%) Coaching
14 39 (12.19%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (11.88%) AI
16 37 (11.56%) GitLab
17 36 (11.25%) Scrum
17 36 (11.25%) Unix
18 35 (10.94%) Ansible
18 35 (10.94%) Docker
19 34 (10.63%) Java
20 33 (10.31%) Windows
21 31 (9.69%) Microsoft
22 30 (9.38%) Pega
23 29 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
24 27 (8.44%) Azure AKS

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 (0.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.63%) IIS
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 112 (35.00%) Azure
2 81 (25.31%) AWS
3 61 (19.06%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (8.44%) Azure AKS
5 25 (7.81%) GitHub
6 20 (6.25%) SaaS
7 19 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (5.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (5.31%) GCP
10 12 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.19%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.19%) Serverless
13 6 (1.88%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.56%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.94%) Datadog
15 3 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.38%) Firewall
2 9 (2.81%) VPN
3 8 (2.50%) DNS
4 2 (0.63%) DHCP
4 2 (0.63%) SAN
4 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.56%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.63%) Power BI
4 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.31%) Db2
5 1 (0.31%) Metadata
5 1 (0.31%) MySQL
5 1 (0.31%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 37 (11.56%) GitLab
2 10 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.19%) JIRA
4 6 (1.88%) Git
5 5 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.63%) MSI
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) Snyk
General
1 45 (14.06%) Public Sector
2 13 (4.06%) Finance
2 13 (4.06%) Social Skills
3 7 (2.19%) Retail
4 4 (1.25%) Banking
5 3 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (0.94%) Law
6 2 (0.63%) Legal
6 2 (0.63%) Marketing
7 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (25.94%) Terraform
2 24 (7.50%) Node.js
3 13 (4.06%) Spring
3 13 (4.06%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.19%) .NET
5 5 (1.56%) YAML
6 4 (1.25%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.25%) ADO
7 3 (0.94%) Kafka
7 3 (0.94%) React
7 3 (0.94%) RESTful
7 3 (0.94%) XML
8 2 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.63%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.63%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.63%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.63%) XSLT
9 1 (0.31%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.06%) Private Cloud
3 9 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.25%) Culture of Ownership
5 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.94%) Robotics
7 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.81%) Linux
2 36 (11.25%) Unix
3 33 (10.31%) Windows
4 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (100.00%) DevOps
2 137 (42.81%) CI/CD
3 73 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (20.31%) Agile
5 56 (17.50%) Mentoring
6 49 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
7 46 (14.38%) Test Automation
8 40 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 39 (12.19%) Coaching
9 39 (12.19%) Continuous Integration
10 38 (11.88%) AI
11 36 (11.25%) Scrum
12 29 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (8.44%) Microservices
14 25 (7.81%) DevSecOps
15 23 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
16 22 (6.88%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (6.56%) Infrastructure Automation
18 20 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 19 (5.94%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 40 (12.50%) Python
2 34 (10.63%) Java
3 20 (6.25%) Bash
4 15 (4.69%) PowerShell
5 13 (4.06%) Go
5 13 (4.06%) SQL
6 6 (1.88%) Bicep
7 5 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.94%) C#
8 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.94%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.63%) XPath
10 1 (0.31%) PHP
10 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.31%) DV Cleared
2 17 (5.31%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.44%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.19%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.19%) Degree
5 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.88%) QA
2 2 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (10.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.94%) Ansible
3 21 (6.56%) Argo
4 15 (4.69%) Grafana
5 13 (4.06%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.81%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.31%) Istio
9 1 (0.31%) Opsview
9 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.38%) Pega
3 14 (4.38%) VMware
4 8 (2.50%) Google
5 5 (1.56%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.94%) Okta
6 3 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.94%) Splunk
7 2 (0.63%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.63%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.63%) OpenText
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.31%) YouTube