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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 471 572
Rank change year-on-year -44 +101 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 163 127 245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.38% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 142 88 202
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,686 £60,913
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,188 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £109,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £111,746
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -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 70,451 33,096 77,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 89.30% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 46,116 21,213 59,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.51% -9.51%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -15 53 £100,000 -2.44% 6
North of England -42 29 £80,000 +28.65% 5
Midlands -17 28 £70,000 -15.15% 3
South East -30 28 £65,000 -13.33% 5
East Midlands -30 23 £70,000 - 3
South West -52 19 £80,000 +23.79% 1
North West -20 11 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -53 9 £80,000 +28.65% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -10 5 £100,000 +21.21%
East of England -36 3 £90,000 +38.46%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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.

1 163 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (35.58%) Terraform
3 57 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (32.52%) CI/CD
5 50 (30.67%) Azure
6 46 (28.22%) AWS
7 45 (27.61%) Kubernetes
8 41 (25.15%) Linux
9 30 (18.40%) Docker
10 29 (17.79%) Python
11 28 (17.18%) Bash
12 25 (15.34%) Containerisation
13 24 (14.72%) Ansible
13 24 (14.72%) Windows
14 23 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (11.66%) Grafana
16 18 (11.04%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (11.04%) Microservices
17 17 (10.43%) Prometheus
18 16 (9.82%) GitHub
18 16 (9.82%) Go
18 16 (9.82%) Observability
19 15 (9.20%) Configuration Management
19 15 (9.20%) Firewall
19 15 (9.20%) PowerShell
20 14 (8.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 14 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
21 13 (7.98%) Continuous Integration
21 13 (7.98%) DevSecOps
21 13 (7.98%) Jenkins

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 9 (5.52%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 50 (30.67%) Azure
2 46 (28.22%) AWS
3 23 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.04%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (9.82%) GitHub
6 14 (8.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (7.36%) GCP
7 12 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.52%) Serverless
9 8 (4.91%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.91%) npm
9 8 (4.91%) NuGet
9 8 (4.91%) SonarCloud
10 7 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.07%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.07%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.20%) Firewall
2 8 (4.91%) VPN
3 6 (3.68%) DHCP
3 6 (3.68%) DNS
3 6 (3.68%) Network Security
4 4 (2.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.13%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.68%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.36%) Git
2 12 (7.36%) GitLab
3 9 (5.52%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.84%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.23%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (20.25%) Finance
2 18 (11.04%) Public Sector
3 13 (7.98%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.75%) Banking
5 8 (4.91%) Retail
6 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.98%) Node.js
2 9 (5.52%) .NET
2 9 (5.52%) YAML
3 8 (4.91%) React
4 7 (4.29%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.68%) Kafka
6 5 (3.07%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.45%) ADO
8 2 (1.23%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.23%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.61%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.61%) Next.js
9 1 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.61%) REST
9 1 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.91%) Private Cloud
3 7 (4.29%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.84%) Web3
6 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.15%) Linux
2 24 (14.72%) Windows
3 7 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.07%) Unix
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (32.52%) CI/CD
4 25 (15.34%) Containerisation
5 18 (11.04%) Microservices
6 16 (9.82%) Observability
7 15 (9.20%) Configuration Management
8 14 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (7.98%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (7.98%) DevSecOps
9 13 (7.98%) Test Automation
10 12 (7.36%) AI
10 12 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (7.36%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (6.75%) Cloud Security
11 11 (6.75%) High Availability
12 10 (6.13%) E-Commerce
12 10 (6.13%) Mentoring
13 8 (4.91%) Analytics
13 8 (4.91%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.79%) Python
2 28 (17.18%) Bash
3 16 (9.82%) Go
4 15 (9.20%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.91%) C#
6 7 (4.29%) SQL
7 6 (3.68%) Java
8 5 (3.07%) Bicep
9 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.61%) Groovy
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (7.98%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.36%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.07%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.23%) GDPR
1 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.23%) QA
1 2 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (18.40%) Docker
2 6 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.45%) iptables
3 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.23%) vSphere
5 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (35.58%) Terraform
2 45 (27.61%) Kubernetes
3 24 (14.72%) Ansible
4 19 (11.66%) Grafana
5 17 (10.43%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.91%) Proxmox
7 7 (4.29%) Istio
8 6 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (3.07%) Argo
10 4 (2.45%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.45%) Puppet
11 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.23%) SCCM
12 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (7.98%) VMware
2 8 (4.91%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.68%) Okta
3 6 (3.68%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.45%) Confluent
5 2 (1.23%) Google
5 2 (1.23%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.61%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.61%) F5
6 1 (0.61%) IBM
6 1 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle
6 1 (0.61%) SolarWinds