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 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 450 483
Rank change year-on-year -65 +33 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 102 233 262
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.53% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 87 124 242
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,625 £61,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,188 £67,500
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 £106,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.03%

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 50,189 43,775 56,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.07% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31,901 22,794 44,874
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.30%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -8 37 £100,000 -2.44% 11
Midlands +19 20 £70,000 - 2
South East -38 17 £76,250 +1.67% 12
East Midlands +10 15 £70,000 - 1
South West +1 15 £80,000 +23.79% 9
North of England -9 8 £75,000 +51.52% 5
West Midlands +20 5 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West +8 5 £67,500 - 3
East of England +12 3 £90,000 +38.46% 3
North East - 2 £82,500 - 1
Yorkshire -28 1 £70,000 +41.41% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 January 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.

1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (36.27%) Terraform
4 36 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 30 (29.41%) AWS
5 30 (29.41%) Kubernetes
6 28 (27.45%) Linux
7 27 (26.47%) Azure
8 25 (24.51%) Docker
9 19 (18.63%) Bash
10 17 (16.67%) Ansible
10 17 (16.67%) Grafana
11 16 (15.69%) Python
12 15 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (14.71%) Containerisation
13 12 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (11.76%) Prometheus
13 12 (11.76%) Windows
14 11 (10.78%) High Availability
14 11 (10.78%) Observability
14 11 (10.78%) Security Cleared
15 10 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (9.80%) E-Commerce
15 10 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (8.82%) Configuration Management
16 9 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
16 9 (8.82%) Git
16 9 (8.82%) GitHub
16 9 (8.82%) Mentoring

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 5 (4.90%) IIS
2 1 (0.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.41%) AWS
2 27 (26.47%) Azure
3 15 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (8.82%) GitHub
7 8 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.88%) Serverless
10 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.92%) npm
10 4 (3.92%) NuGet
10 4 (3.92%) SonarCloud
10 4 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.94%) PaaS
11 3 (2.94%) Rubrik
11 3 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) Firewall
2 5 (4.90%) DNS
2 5 (4.90%) VPN
3 3 (2.94%) DHCP
4 2 (1.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.98%) AMQP
5 1 (0.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.94%) MySQL
4 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.96%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.98%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.98%) git-flow
4 1 (0.98%) Gradle
4 1 (0.98%) Maven
General
1 21 (20.59%) Finance
2 10 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.86%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (0.98%) Automotive
5 1 (0.98%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) .NET
2 6 (5.88%) Node.js
2 6 (5.88%) React
3 5 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.90%) YAML
4 3 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.94%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.96%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.96%) AWS SAM
5 2 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.96%) WCF
6 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.98%) J2EE
6 1 (0.98%) Kafka
6 1 (0.98%) RESTful
6 1 (0.98%) Spring
6 1 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.88%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Web3
5 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.98%) Derivative
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) PKI
6 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (27.45%) Linux
2 12 (11.76%) Windows
3 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 15 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 11 (10.78%) High Availability
5 11 (10.78%) Observability
6 10 (9.80%) E-Commerce
6 10 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (8.82%) Configuration Management
7 9 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (8.82%) Mentoring
7 9 (8.82%) Microservices
8 7 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (6.86%) DevSecOps
8 7 (6.86%) Integration Testing
9 6 (5.88%) Agile
9 6 (5.88%) AI
9 6 (5.88%) Cloud Security
9 6 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.63%) Bash
2 16 (15.69%) Python
3 9 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.86%) Go
5 5 (4.90%) SQL
6 4 (3.92%) Bicep
6 4 (3.92%) C#
7 3 (2.94%) Java
8 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.84%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.98%) Degree
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 25 (24.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.96%) iptables
3 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (36.27%) Terraform
2 30 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.67%) Ansible
3 17 (16.67%) Grafana
4 12 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.94%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.94%) SCCM
6 2 (1.96%) Argo
6 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) VMware
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (2.94%) Okta
4 3 (2.94%) OneLogin
4 3 (2.94%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.98%) Duck Creek
5 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.98%) F5
5 1 (0.98%) Google
5 1 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds