Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 540 595
Rank change year-on-year +45 +55 -215
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 240 113 258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 194 53 185
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,100 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +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 82,591 39,177 83,567
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 90.42% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58,075 23,624 60,974
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,233 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
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 16 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 16 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 +24 77 £75,000 +0.17% 16
London -53 42 £90,000 -10.00% 11
Midlands +17 41 £70,000 - 3
North West +23 37 £76,250 +1.67% 12
South East +15 35 £65,000 -23.53% 6
East Midlands -11 26 £70,000 - 3
Yorkshire -17 25 £69,310 -0.99% 2
South West -43 24 £65,000 +4.31% 4
West Midlands -17 15 £80,000 +14.29%
North East -40 15 £69,308 -7.59% 2
East of England -10 5 £54,250 -36.18%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 240 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 97 (40.42%) Azure
4 81 (33.75%) Terraform
5 72 (30.00%) AWS
6 69 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (23.75%) Kubernetes
8 53 (22.08%) Linux
9 49 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 44 (18.33%) Agile
12 41 (17.08%) Windows
13 40 (16.67%) Python
14 39 (16.25%) Test Automation
15 36 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
16 34 (14.17%) Containerisation
17 32 (13.33%) Docker
17 32 (13.33%) Scrum
18 31 (12.92%) Coaching
18 31 (12.92%) Unix
19 30 (12.50%) Java
19 30 (12.50%) Microservices
19 30 (12.50%) Pega
19 30 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
20 29 (12.08%) Ansible
21 28 (11.67%) AI
21 28 (11.67%) GitLab
22 25 (10.42%) Bash
23 24 (10.00%) DevSecOps
23 24 (10.00%) 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 5 (2.08%) IIS
2 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 97 (40.42%) Azure
2 72 (30.00%) AWS
3 49 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.17%) Azure AKS
4 22 (9.17%) GitHub
5 20 (8.33%) GCP
6 18 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.67%) SaaS
9 15 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.75%) Serverless
12 7 (2.92%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.08%) Azure API Management
14 5 (2.08%) Datadog
14 5 (2.08%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.25%) Firewall
2 8 (3.33%) VPN
3 7 (2.92%) DNS
4 5 (2.08%) Network Security
5 4 (1.67%) DHCP
5 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.83%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.17%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) Metadata
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (11.67%) GitLab
2 13 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.00%) Git
4 7 (2.92%) JIRA
5 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.25%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.83%) MSI
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (17.92%) Public Sector
2 20 (8.33%) Finance
3 11 (4.58%) Banking
3 11 (4.58%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.33%) Retail
5 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.42%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.00%) Node.js
2 9 (3.75%) Kafka
3 8 (3.33%) YAML
4 7 (2.92%) Spring
4 7 (2.92%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.50%) ADO
5 6 (2.50%) React
6 5 (2.08%) .NET
6 5 (2.08%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.25%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.83%) RESTful
9 2 (0.83%) Web Services
10 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.42%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.42%) Middleware
10 1 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.42%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.08%) Linux
2 41 (17.08%) Windows
3 31 (12.92%) Unix
4 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 69 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 44 (18.33%) Agile
6 39 (16.25%) Test Automation
7 36 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (14.17%) Containerisation
9 32 (13.33%) Scrum
10 31 (12.92%) Coaching
11 30 (12.50%) Microservices
11 30 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (11.67%) AI
13 24 (10.00%) DevSecOps
14 20 (8.33%) Observability
15 19 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 15 (6.25%) Case Management
18 12 (5.00%) Configuration Management
18 12 (5.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.67%) Python
2 30 (12.50%) Java
3 25 (10.42%) Bash
4 18 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.83%) Go
6 11 (4.58%) SQL
7 6 (2.50%) C#
8 4 (1.67%) Bicep
9 3 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) Scala
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.58%) AWS Certification
2 11 (4.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.92%) Degree
5 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (0.83%) GDPR
2 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.83%) PMO
2 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (13.33%) Docker
2 6 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.25%) iptables
6 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (33.75%) Terraform
2 57 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.08%) Ansible
4 22 (9.17%) Argo
5 20 (8.33%) Grafana
6 18 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.33%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.92%) Istio
9 4 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.25%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.25%) Puppet
11 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.50%) Pega
2 13 (5.42%) VMware
3 10 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.92%) Google
5 5 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.08%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.08%) Okta
5 5 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.67%) Confluent
6 4 (1.67%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.25%) Splunk
8 2 (0.83%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.83%) OpenText
9 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.42%) IBM
9 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle