Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 440 365
Rank change year-on-year -97 -75 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 75 287 364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.47% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.50% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 46 155 321
10th Percentile £55,625 £48,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.74% -1.18%
75th Percentile £93,750 £103,750 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -3.03%

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 41,456 57,384 44,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.74% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,210 32,267 34,534
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -11 34 £90,000 -10.00% 40
North of England -2 18 £72,500 +46.46% 12
North West +20 13 £67,500 -15.63% 9
Midlands +56 9 £75,000 +7.14% 6
West Midlands +41 7 £85,000 +21.43% 3
South East -48 5 £75,000 - 15
South West +26 4 £54,500 -27.33% 10
North East - 3 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands +19 2 £72,500 +11.54% 3
Yorkshire -5 2 £59,750 +20.71% 2
East of England +10 1 £82,500 +6.45% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 November 2025, 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 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (76.00%) AWS
3 49 (65.33%) CI/CD
4 40 (53.33%) Terraform
5 35 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (46.67%) Kubernetes
6 31 (41.33%) Docker
6 31 (41.33%) Python
7 25 (33.33%) Agile
8 23 (30.67%) Azure
9 21 (28.00%) Containerisation
10 20 (26.67%) Ansible
11 19 (25.33%) Linux
12 16 (21.33%) Grafana
12 16 (21.33%) Mentoring
13 15 (20.00%) AI
13 15 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (17.33%) AWS Certification
15 13 (17.33%) Bash
15 13 (17.33%) GCP
15 13 (17.33%) Microservices
15 13 (17.33%) Software Engineering
16 12 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (16.00%) Architectural Design
16 12 (16.00%) Java
17 11 (14.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (14.67%) Azure Certification
17 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (14.67%) 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 1 (1.33%) Confluence
1 1 (1.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 57 (76.00%) AWS
2 23 (30.67%) Azure
3 13 (17.33%) GCP
4 12 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (14.67%) GitHub
6 9 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (10.67%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.67%) Serverless
11 4 (5.33%) Apigee
11 4 (5.33%) Kong
12 3 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Firewall
2 3 (4.00%) DNS
3 2 (2.67%) Network Security
3 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.67%) VPN
4 1 (1.33%) AMQP
4 1 (1.33%) DHCP
4 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.33%) KDB
3 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.00%) MySQL
3 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.67%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.33%) GitLab
3 6 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 6 (8.00%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.00%) JIRA
5 3 (4.00%) Maven
6 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.33%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.33%) git-flow
7 1 (1.33%) Gradle
7 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.33%) JUnit
7 1 (1.33%) Mockito
7 1 (1.33%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (28.00%) Finance
2 15 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (13.33%) Banking
4 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 8 (10.67%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Games
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (5.33%) .NET
2 4 (5.33%) OpenAPI
2 4 (5.33%) RESTful
2 4 (5.33%) Swagger
3 3 (4.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.00%) YAML
4 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.67%) React
4 2 (2.67%) Spring
4 2 (2.67%) WCF
5 1 (1.33%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.33%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.33%) J2EE
5 1 (1.33%) JMS
5 1 (1.33%) Kafka
5 1 (1.33%) Node.js
5 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.33%) Management Information System
3 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (9.33%) e-Learning
5 4 (5.33%) Equities
6 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.33%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.33%) Derivative
8 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.33%) Online Games
8 1 (1.33%) PKI
8 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.33%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Unix
3 4 (5.33%) Windows
4 2 (2.67%) VMS
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (65.33%) CI/CD
3 35 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (33.33%) Agile
5 21 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (21.33%) Mentoring
7 15 (20.00%) AI
7 15 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.33%) Microservices
9 13 (17.33%) Software Engineering
10 12 (16.00%) Architectural Design
11 10 (13.33%) Observability
12 9 (12.00%) Coaching
12 9 (12.00%) High Availability
12 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
12 9 (12.00%) SDLC
13 8 (10.67%) Data Management
13 8 (10.67%) Enterprise Architecture
13 8 (10.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) Python
2 13 (17.33%) Bash
3 12 (16.00%) Java
4 11 (14.67%) Go
4 11 (14.67%) SQL
5 9 (12.00%) C#
6 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.33%) Lua
8 2 (2.67%) Bicep
8 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 2 (2.67%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.33%) C++
9 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (17.33%) AWS Certification
2 11 (14.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 11 (14.67%) Azure Certification
3 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) GDPR
1 9 (12.00%) HIPAA
2 8 (10.67%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (41.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.67%) vSphere
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 40 (53.33%) Terraform
2 35 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 20 (26.67%) Ansible
4 16 (21.33%) Grafana
5 8 (10.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.00%) Argo
6 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.33%) Puppet
7 1 (1.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Google
2 8 (10.67%) IBM
3 7 (9.33%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) MKS
4 4 (5.33%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.00%) VMware
6 2 (2.67%) Splunk
7 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.33%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.33%) Okta
7 1 (1.33%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle
7 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.33%) Zscaler