Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 551 450
Rank change year-on-year +53 -101 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 275 94 328
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.21% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.24% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 212 41 163
10th Percentile £60,025 £57,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 91,197 39,586 67,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 90.45% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64,443 24,001 43,893
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 1 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 1 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 +33 99 £75,000 +7.14% 20
North West +17 48 £75,000 - 11
Midlands 0 47 £70,000 - 4
London -49 46 £90,000 - 82
South East -12 37 £85,000 - 23
South West -57 27 £75,000 +36.36% 10
North East -35 26 £69,310 -7.59% 3
Yorkshire -19 25 £70,000 - 6
East Midlands - 25 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands -5 22 £80,000 +14.29% 2
East of England -18 4 £54,250 -37.10% 8
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 275 (100.00%) DevOps
2 119 (43.27%) CI/CD
3 110 (40.00%) Azure
4 82 (29.82%) Terraform
5 73 (26.55%) AWS
6 67 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 62 (22.55%) Kubernetes
8 59 (21.45%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (19.27%) Agile
10 51 (18.55%) Linux
11 50 (18.18%) Mentoring
12 44 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
13 42 (15.27%) Python
14 40 (14.55%) Test Automation
15 39 (14.18%) Containerisation
15 39 (14.18%) GitLab
16 37 (13.45%) Windows
17 36 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (12.73%) Docker
19 34 (12.36%) Java
20 33 (12.00%) AI
20 33 (12.00%) Coaching
21 32 (11.64%) Security Cleared
22 31 (11.27%) Ansible
22 31 (11.27%) Scrum
22 31 (11.27%) Unix
23 30 (10.91%) Pega
24 28 (10.18%) Microservices
25 25 (9.09%) Node.js
26 24 (8.73%) 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 (1.09%) IIS
1 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 110 (40.00%) Azure
2 73 (26.55%) AWS
3 59 (21.45%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (8.73%) Azure AKS
5 23 (8.36%) GitHub
6 19 (6.91%) GCP
7 18 (6.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.82%) SaaS
10 13 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.00%) Serverless
12 7 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.18%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.18%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.18%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.82%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.82%) Datadog
15 4 (1.45%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.73%) Firewall
2 7 (2.55%) DNS
3 6 (2.18%) VPN
4 4 (1.45%) DHCP
4 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.73%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.73%) Power BI
6 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) Metadata
7 1 (0.36%) MySQL
7 1 (0.36%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 39 (14.18%) GitLab
2 17 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.64%) Git
4 7 (2.55%) JIRA
5 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.09%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.73%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
General
1 41 (14.91%) Public Sector
2 20 (7.27%) Finance
3 15 (5.45%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.00%) Banking
5 6 (2.18%) Retail
6 3 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.09%) Law
7 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.73%) Legal
7 2 (0.73%) Marketing
8 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (29.82%) Terraform
2 25 (9.09%) Node.js
3 11 (4.00%) Spring
3 11 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 9 (3.27%) Kafka
5 6 (2.18%) .NET
5 6 (2.18%) ADO
5 6 (2.18%) YAML
6 5 (1.82%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.45%) React
8 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.09%) XML
9 2 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.73%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.73%) OpenTofu
9 2 (0.73%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.73%) XSLT
10 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.64%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.55%) Linux
2 37 (13.45%) Windows
3 31 (11.27%) Unix
4 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (100.00%) DevOps
2 119 (43.27%) CI/CD
3 67 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (19.27%) Agile
5 50 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 44 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 39 (14.18%) Containerisation
9 36 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.00%) AI
10 33 (12.00%) Coaching
11 31 (11.27%) Scrum
12 28 (10.18%) Microservices
13 24 (8.73%) DevSecOps
14 23 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (7.64%) Infrastructure Automation
16 21 (7.64%) Observability
17 19 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 17 (6.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.27%) Python
2 34 (12.36%) Java
3 18 (6.55%) Bash
4 16 (5.82%) SQL
5 15 (5.45%) Go
6 14 (5.09%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.45%) Bicep
7 4 (1.45%) C#
8 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.09%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.73%) XPath
10 1 (0.36%) Groovy
10 1 (0.36%) Perl
10 1 (0.36%) PHP
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.82%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.91%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.55%) Degree
6 6 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) QA
2 2 (0.73%) GDPR
2 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.73%) PMO
2 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (12.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.36%) iptables
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.27%) Ansible
3 22 (8.00%) Argo
4 15 (5.45%) Grafana
5 13 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.55%) Istio
7 6 (2.18%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.73%) Puppet
11 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (10.91%) Pega
2 18 (6.55%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.00%) VMware
4 7 (2.55%) Google
5 5 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.82%) Okta
5 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.45%) Confluent
6 4 (1.45%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.09%) Splunk
8 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.73%) OpenText
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle
9 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.36%) IBM
9 1 (0.36%) OpenAI