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 27 April 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 483 578
Rank change year-on-year -29 +95 -144
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 173 128 253
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.38% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 151 84 190
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,556 £61,213
25th Percentile £64,317 £65,000 £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 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,375 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 73,631 33,448 78,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 88.86% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 48,293 21,353 60,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 27 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 27 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 -28 53 £100,000 -2.44% 12
North of England -34 36 £72,500 +3.57% 7
South East -15 29 £65,000 -18.75% 6
Midlands -29 26 £70,000 -12.50% 4
East Midlands -30 22 £70,000 - 3
South West -45 19 £80,000 +23.79% 3
North West -19 14 £80,000 - 5
Yorkshire -54 13 £69,310 -0.99% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -23 4 £80,000 - 1
East of England -41 4 £90,000 +38.46% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (38.15%) Terraform
3 63 (36.42%) CI/CD
4 60 (34.68%) Azure
5 55 (31.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (31.21%) AWS
7 47 (27.17%) Linux
8 46 (26.59%) Kubernetes
9 32 (18.50%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (17.92%) Windows
11 30 (17.34%) Python
12 28 (16.18%) Docker
13 27 (15.61%) Bash
13 27 (15.61%) Microservices
14 25 (14.45%) Containerisation
15 24 (13.87%) Node.js
16 23 (13.29%) Ansible
16 23 (13.29%) GitLab
17 22 (12.72%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (12.72%) Test Automation
18 19 (10.98%) Grafana
19 18 (10.40%) Agile
19 18 (10.40%) Amazon EKS
19 18 (10.40%) Mentoring
19 18 (10.40%) Observability
20 17 (9.83%) Java
20 17 (9.83%) Prometheus
21 16 (9.25%) Firewall
21 16 (9.25%) Go
21 16 (9.25%) MongoDB

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 (5.20%) IIS
2 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (34.68%) Azure
2 54 (31.21%) AWS
3 32 (18.50%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (10.40%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (8.67%) Azure AKS
5 15 (8.67%) GCP
5 15 (8.67%) GitHub
6 14 (8.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (8.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.78%) Serverless
9 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.62%) npm
9 8 (4.62%) NuGet
9 8 (4.62%) SonarCloud
10 7 (4.05%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.89%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.25%) Firewall
2 8 (4.62%) VPN
3 7 (4.05%) DNS
4 6 (3.47%) DHCP
4 6 (3.47%) Network Security
5 4 (2.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.25%) MongoDB
1 16 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.58%) Metadata
5 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 23 (13.29%) GitLab
2 13 (7.51%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.94%) Git
4 9 (5.20%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.16%) JIRA
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (19.65%) Finance
2 26 (15.03%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.94%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.36%) Banking
5 8 (4.62%) Retail
6 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.87%) Node.js
2 9 (5.20%) React
2 9 (5.20%) YAML
3 8 (4.62%) .NET
4 7 (4.05%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.47%) Kafka
6 5 (2.89%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.31%) ADO
8 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.16%) AWS SAM
9 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.58%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.58%) JSON
9 1 (0.58%) Next.js
9 1 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.58%) REST
9 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.62%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.05%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.73%) Web3
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (27.17%) Linux
2 31 (17.92%) Windows
3 13 (7.51%) Unix
4 7 (4.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (36.42%) CI/CD
3 55 (31.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (15.61%) Microservices
5 25 (14.45%) Containerisation
6 22 (12.72%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (12.72%) Test Automation
7 18 (10.40%) Agile
7 18 (10.40%) Mentoring
7 18 (10.40%) Observability
8 15 (8.67%) Configuration Management
9 14 (8.09%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (7.51%) AI
10 13 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (7.51%) DevSecOps
11 12 (6.94%) High Availability
11 12 (6.94%) Scrum
12 11 (6.36%) Coaching
12 11 (6.36%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (5.78%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.34%) Python
2 27 (15.61%) Bash
3 17 (9.83%) Java
4 16 (9.25%) Go
5 15 (8.67%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.20%) C#
7 7 (4.05%) SQL
8 4 (2.31%) Bicep
9 3 (1.73%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.58%) Groovy
10 1 (0.58%) Perl
10 1 (0.58%) PHP
10 1 (0.58%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (8.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.94%) AWS Certification
3 7 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.16%) Degree
6 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.73%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) GDPR
2 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (16.18%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.31%) iptables
3 4 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (38.15%) Terraform
2 46 (26.59%) Kubernetes
3 23 (13.29%) Ansible
4 19 (10.98%) Grafana
5 17 (9.83%) Prometheus
6 15 (8.67%) Argo
7 8 (4.62%) Proxmox
8 7 (4.05%) Istio
9 6 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.31%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.31%) Puppet
11 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.16%) SCCM
12 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.94%) VMware
2 9 (5.20%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (3.47%) Okta
4 6 (3.47%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.31%) Confluent
5 4 (2.31%) Google
6 2 (1.16%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.58%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.58%) F5
7 1 (0.58%) IBM
7 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle