Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 536 582
Rank change year-on-year +55 +46 -199
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 234 115 258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 189 55 185
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,700 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,001 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%

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 82,535 39,220 83,741
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.37% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,071 23,613 61,241
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,123
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.53% -11.46%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +33 73 £75,000 +0.17% 19
Midlands +6 41 £70,000 - 4
London -37 41 £90,000 -10.00% 14
North West +10 34 £75,000 - 11
South East -2 34 £65,000 -23.53% 4
East Midlands -4 26 £70,000 - 4
South West -43 26 £65,000 +4.31% 8
Yorkshire -15 24 £69,655 -0.49% 3
West Midlands -5 15 £80,000 +14.29%
North East -41 15 £69,308 -7.59% 5
East of England -15 5 £54,250 -27.67%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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.

1 234 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 94 (40.17%) Azure
4 82 (35.04%) Terraform
5 70 (29.91%) AWS
5 70 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (24.79%) Kubernetes
7 52 (22.22%) Linux
8 49 (20.94%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (19.66%) Mentoring
10 41 (17.52%) Agile
10 41 (17.52%) Windows
11 40 (17.09%) Python
12 38 (16.24%) Test Automation
13 34 (14.53%) Containerisation
13 34 (14.53%) Docker
14 33 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (12.82%) Java
15 30 (12.82%) Microservices
15 30 (12.82%) Pega
16 29 (12.39%) Ansible
16 29 (12.39%) Coaching
16 29 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (12.39%) Scrum
17 28 (11.97%) Unix
18 27 (11.54%) AI
18 27 (11.54%) Bash
18 27 (11.54%) GitLab
19 25 (10.68%) DevSecOps
19 25 (10.68%) Node.js

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 6 (2.56%) IIS
2 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 94 (40.17%) Azure
2 70 (29.91%) AWS
3 49 (20.94%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.40%) Azure AKS
5 21 (8.97%) GitHub
6 20 (8.55%) GCP
7 18 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (6.41%) SaaS
10 12 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.27%) Serverless
12 8 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (2.56%) npm
14 6 (2.56%) NuGet
14 6 (2.56%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.41%) Firewall
2 8 (3.42%) VPN
3 7 (2.99%) DNS
4 6 (2.56%) Network Security
5 4 (1.71%) DHCP
5 4 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.40%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (11.54%) GitLab
2 13 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.13%) Git
4 5 (2.14%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.14%) JIRA
5 3 (1.28%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.85%) MSI
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (17.95%) Public Sector
2 19 (8.12%) Finance
3 11 (4.70%) Banking
4 10 (4.27%) Social Skills
5 8 (3.42%) Retail
6 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.68%) Node.js
2 9 (3.85%) Kafka
2 9 (3.85%) YAML
3 7 (2.99%) React
3 7 (2.99%) Spring
3 7 (2.99%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.56%) .NET
4 6 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.56%) ADO
5 4 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.28%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.28%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.43%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.43%) JSON
8 1 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.43%) REST
8 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.42%) Private Cloud
4 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (22.22%) Linux
2 41 (17.52%) Windows
3 28 (11.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 70 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (19.66%) Mentoring
5 41 (17.52%) Agile
6 38 (16.24%) Test Automation
7 34 (14.53%) Containerisation
8 33 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
9 30 (12.82%) Microservices
10 29 (12.39%) Coaching
10 29 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (12.39%) Scrum
11 27 (11.54%) AI
12 25 (10.68%) DevSecOps
13 19 (8.12%) Observability
14 18 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (6.41%) Case Management
15 15 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 13 (5.56%) Configuration Management
17 12 (5.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.09%) Python
2 30 (12.82%) Java
3 27 (11.54%) Bash
4 19 (8.12%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.98%) Go
6 11 (4.70%) SQL
7 7 (2.99%) C#
8 4 (1.71%) Bicep
9 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.43%) Groovy
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) PHP
10 1 (0.43%) Scala
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.40%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 11 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.56%) Degree
6 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.42%) QA
2 2 (0.85%) GDPR
2 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.85%) PMO
2 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (14.53%) Docker
2 6 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.71%) iptables
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (35.04%) Terraform
2 58 (24.79%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.39%) Ansible
4 22 (9.40%) Argo
5 20 (8.55%) Grafana
6 19 (8.12%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.42%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.99%) Istio
9 4 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.71%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.71%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.82%) Pega
2 13 (5.56%) VMware
3 10 (4.27%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.99%) Google
5 6 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.14%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.14%) Okta
6 5 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.71%) Confluent
7 4 (1.71%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.85%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.85%) OpenText
8 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.85%) Splunk
9 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.43%) IBM
9 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle