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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 549 438
Rank change year-on-year +91 -111 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 328 85 317
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 0.20% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.22% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 250 39 164
10th Percentile £63,626 £51,600 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £109,375
UK median annual salary £78,250 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.19% +6.67% -6.25%

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 96,140 39,294 61,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 90.57% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,276 23,232 35,571
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,019 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,828 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +35 128 £75,000 +7.14% 70
North West +36 73 £75,000 +11.11% 39
Midlands +1 52 £70,000 - 13
South East -10 46 £95,000 +26.67% 28
London -61 43 £90,000 +9.09% 128
South West -43 41 £80,000 +48.15% 14
Yorkshire -10 29 £69,310 -0.99% 16
East Midlands - 28 £70,000 - 8
North East -40 26 £80,000 +6.67% 15
West Midlands -23 24 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -38 4 £54,250 -37.10% 12
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 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.

1 328 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (42.07%) CI/CD
3 115 (35.06%) Azure
4 83 (25.30%) AWS
5 80 (24.39%) Terraform
6 75 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 74 (22.56%) Kubernetes
8 66 (20.12%) Agile
9 59 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (16.77%) Linux
10 55 (16.77%) Mentoring
11 54 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (13.41%) Test Automation
13 42 (12.80%) Security Cleared
14 41 (12.50%) Containerisation
15 40 (12.20%) AI
16 39 (11.89%) Python
17 38 (11.59%) Coaching
17 38 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
18 36 (10.98%) GitLab
18 36 (10.98%) Microsoft
19 35 (10.67%) Docker
19 35 (10.67%) Scrum
19 35 (10.67%) Unix
20 34 (10.37%) Ansible
21 33 (10.06%) Java
22 30 (9.15%) Pega
22 30 (9.15%) Windows
23 29 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
24 26 (7.93%) 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 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) Confluence
3 1 (0.30%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.30%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 115 (35.06%) Azure
2 83 (25.30%) AWS
3 59 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (7.93%) Azure AKS
5 22 (6.71%) GitHub
6 21 (6.40%) SaaS
7 17 (5.18%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.88%) GCP
9 11 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.13%) Serverless
12 6 (1.83%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.52%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.91%) Datadog
14 3 (0.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.66%) Firewall
2 8 (2.44%) VPN
3 7 (2.13%) DNS
4 2 (0.61%) SAN
4 2 (0.61%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.30%) DHCP
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.10%) MongoDB
2 19 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.61%) Power BI
4 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.30%) Db2
5 1 (0.30%) Metadata
5 1 (0.30%) MySQL
5 1 (0.30%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (10.98%) GitLab
2 9 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.13%) JIRA
4 5 (1.52%) Git
4 5 (1.52%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.61%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.30%) Snyk
General
1 46 (14.02%) Public Sector
2 12 (3.66%) Finance
2 12 (3.66%) Social Skills
3 6 (1.83%) Retail
4 3 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (0.91%) Banking
4 3 (0.91%) Law
5 2 (0.61%) Legal
5 2 (0.61%) Marketing
6 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (24.39%) Terraform
2 22 (6.71%) Node.js
3 13 (3.96%) Spring
3 13 (3.96%) Spring Boot
4 6 (1.83%) .NET
5 4 (1.22%) YAML
6 3 (0.91%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.91%) ADO
6 3 (0.91%) Kafka
6 3 (0.91%) RESTful
6 3 (0.91%) XML
7 2 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.61%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.61%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.61%) React
7 2 (0.61%) XSLT
8 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.30%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.66%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.22%) Culture of Ownership
5 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.22%) Robotics
6 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.77%) Linux
2 35 (10.67%) Unix
3 30 (9.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (42.07%) CI/CD
3 75 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (20.12%) Agile
5 55 (16.77%) Mentoring
6 54 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
7 44 (13.41%) Test Automation
8 41 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 40 (12.20%) AI
10 38 (11.59%) Coaching
10 38 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (10.67%) Scrum
12 29 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (7.62%) DevSecOps
13 25 (7.62%) Microservices
14 23 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (6.10%) Infrastructure Automation
17 19 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 17 (5.18%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.89%) Python
2 33 (10.06%) Java
3 18 (5.49%) Bash
4 14 (4.27%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.66%) Go
5 12 (3.66%) SQL
6 6 (1.83%) Bicep
7 5 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.22%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.91%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.61%) C#
10 2 (0.61%) XPath
11 1 (0.30%) PHP
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 18 (5.49%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.18%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.13%) Degree
6 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.83%) QA
2 2 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (10.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.37%) Ansible
3 20 (6.10%) Argo
4 14 (4.27%) Grafana
5 12 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.44%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.30%) Opsview
9 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.15%) Pega
3 13 (3.96%) VMware
4 8 (2.44%) Google
5 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.91%) Splunk
7 2 (0.61%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.61%) Okta
7 2 (0.61%) OpenText
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle
8 1 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.30%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.30%) YouTube