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 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 491 560
Rank change year-on-year -18 +69 -131
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 124 150 234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.40% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 104 113 214
10th Percentile £60,375 £60,686 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,875
UK median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +12.50% -5.88%

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 58,618 37,864 67,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 91.01% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 38,020 21,372 53,629
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £39,281 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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
London -11 44 £100,000 0.00% 12
South East +10 23 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Midlands +14 21 £70,000 -6.67% 2
South West +2 21 £80,000 +23.79% 3
East Midlands -8 17 £70,000 - 1
North of England -18 11 £67,500 +8.55% 12
North West -2 5 £67,500 - 4
West Midlands +9 4 £92,500 +15.63% 1
North East - 4 £70,000 - 7
East of England +6 3 £90,000 +38.46% 6
Yorkshire -44 2 £67,500 +8.55% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 March 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.

1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (37.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (35.48%) Terraform
4 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
5 39 (31.45%) AWS
6 36 (29.03%) Kubernetes
6 36 (29.03%) Linux
7 31 (25.00%) Azure
8 29 (23.39%) Docker
9 26 (20.97%) Bash
10 23 (18.55%) Ansible
11 22 (17.74%) Grafana
11 22 (17.74%) Python
12 17 (13.71%) Containerisation
12 17 (13.71%) Prometheus
13 16 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (12.90%) Configuration Management
13 16 (12.90%) Windows
14 15 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (11.29%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (11.29%) Observability
15 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
16 13 (10.48%) VMware
17 12 (9.68%) Microservices
18 11 (8.87%) AI
18 11 (8.87%) AWS Certification
18 11 (8.87%) GitHub
18 11 (8.87%) Go
18 11 (8.87%) Security Cleared
19 10 (8.06%) Cloud Security

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 7 (5.65%) IIS
2 1 (0.81%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 39 (31.45%) AWS
2 31 (25.00%) Azure
3 16 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.29%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (8.87%) GitHub
7 10 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.84%) npm
9 6 (4.84%) NuGet
9 6 (4.84%) Serverless
9 6 (4.84%) SonarCloud
10 5 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.03%) CloudFront
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.23%) GCP
11 4 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Firewall
2 7 (5.65%) VPN
3 6 (4.84%) Network Security
4 3 (2.42%) DHCP
4 3 (2.42%) DNS
5 1 (0.81%) AMQP
5 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.42%) MySQL
4 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Git
2 8 (6.45%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.81%) git-flow
5 1 (0.81%) Gradle
5 1 (0.81%) JIRA
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 24 (19.35%) Finance
2 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.26%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.65%) Retail
5 2 (1.61%) Banking
6 1 (0.81%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) .NET
2 8 (6.45%) Node.js
2 8 (6.45%) React
3 7 (5.65%) YAML
4 5 (4.03%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.61%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.61%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.61%) Kafka
6 2 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.61%) WCF
7 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.81%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.81%) J2EE
7 1 (0.81%) Next.js
7 1 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.65%) Private Cloud
3 6 (4.84%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.42%) Web3
6 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) Derivative
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) PKI
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.03%) Linux
2 16 (12.90%) Windows
3 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (37.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
4 17 (13.71%) Containerisation
5 16 (12.90%) Configuration Management
6 14 (11.29%) Observability
7 12 (9.68%) Microservices
8 11 (8.87%) AI
9 10 (8.06%) Cloud Security
9 10 (8.06%) E-Commerce
9 10 (8.06%) High Availability
9 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.26%) DevSecOps
10 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (7.26%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (5.65%) Integration Testing
13 6 (4.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.97%) Bash
2 22 (17.74%) Python
3 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.87%) Go
5 6 (4.84%) C#
6 4 (3.23%) Bicep
6 4 (3.23%) SQL
7 2 (1.61%) Java
7 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) AWS Certification
1 11 (8.87%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) Degree
4 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 29 (23.39%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) iptables
3 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.61%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.61%) vSphere
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (35.48%) Terraform
2 36 (29.03%) Kubernetes
3 23 (18.55%) Ansible
4 22 (17.74%) Grafana
5 17 (13.71%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.65%) Proxmox
7 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.23%) Puppet
8 3 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.42%) Argo
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.42%) SCCM
9 2 (1.61%) Istio
10 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (10.48%) VMware
2 6 (4.84%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (4.03%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.42%) Okta
4 3 (2.42%) OneLogin
4 3 (2.42%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.81%) Confluent
5 1 (0.81%) Duck Creek
5 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.81%) F5
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds