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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 553 451
Rank change year-on-year +98 -102 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 351 82 318
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.21% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 268 39 166
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,600 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £61,875 £64,063
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 £101,875
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 96,749 38,808 60,512
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 90.55% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,708 23,182 34,779
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 15 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 15 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 +49 137 £75,000 +7.14% 15
North West +40 81 £75,000 +11.11% 6
Midlands +4 54 £70,000 - 5
South East -10 48 £95,000 +26.67% 18
South West -34 46 £80,000 +48.15% 9
London -71 44 £90,000 +9.09% 13
Yorkshire -10 29 £69,655 -0.49% 6
West Midlands -25 27 £72,500 +3.57% 3
North East -37 27 £80,000 +6.67% 3
East Midlands - 27 £70,000 - 2
East of England -39 7 £52,222 -39.45% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 351 (100.00%) DevOps
2 152 (43.30%) CI/CD
3 126 (35.90%) Azure
4 91 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (23.65%) AWS
5 83 (23.65%) Terraform
6 82 (23.36%) Kubernetes
7 67 (19.09%) Agile
8 64 (18.23%) Platform Engineering
9 58 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (15.38%) Linux
10 54 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 49 (13.96%) Microsoft
11 49 (13.96%) Security Cleared
12 45 (12.82%) Containerisation
13 42 (11.97%) AI
13 42 (11.97%) Python
13 42 (11.97%) Test Automation
14 38 (10.83%) Coaching
14 38 (10.83%) Docker
15 36 (10.26%) Ansible
15 36 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
16 34 (9.69%) GitLab
17 33 (9.40%) Java
17 33 (9.40%) Scrum
17 33 (9.40%) Unix
18 30 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (8.55%) Pega
19 27 (7.69%) Windows
20 25 (7.12%) DevSecOps

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 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 126 (35.90%) Azure
2 83 (23.65%) AWS
3 58 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (6.84%) Azure AKS
5 22 (6.27%) GitHub
5 22 (6.27%) SaaS
6 17 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (4.27%) GCP
8 11 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.28%) Serverless
10 7 (1.99%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (1.99%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.42%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.14%) PaaS
13 3 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.13%) Firewall
2 8 (2.28%) VPN
3 6 (1.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.57%) SAN
4 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 17 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.57%) Db2
4 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.57%) Power BI
4 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) Metadata
5 1 (0.28%) MySQL
5 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (9.69%) GitLab
2 9 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.99%) JIRA
4 5 (1.42%) Git
4 5 (1.42%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.57%) MSI
6 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.28%) Snyk
6 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (16.24%) Public Sector
2 12 (3.42%) Finance
2 12 (3.42%) Social Skills
3 6 (1.71%) Retail
4 3 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (0.85%) Law
5 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
5 2 (0.57%) Banking
5 2 (0.57%) Legal
5 2 (0.57%) Marketing
6 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.28%) Local Government
6 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (23.65%) Terraform
2 20 (5.70%) Node.js
3 15 (4.27%) Spring
3 15 (4.27%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.28%) .NET
5 4 (1.14%) YAML
6 3 (0.85%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.85%) ADO
6 3 (0.85%) Kafka
6 3 (0.85%) RESTful
6 3 (0.85%) XML
7 2 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.57%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.57%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.57%) React
7 2 (0.57%) XSLT
8 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.42%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (1.42%) Robotics
5 4 (1.14%) Culture of Ownership
5 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.38%) Linux
2 33 (9.40%) Unix
3 27 (7.69%) Windows
4 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (100.00%) DevOps
2 152 (43.30%) CI/CD
3 91 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (19.09%) Agile
5 64 (18.23%) Platform Engineering
6 54 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 45 (12.82%) Containerisation
8 42 (11.97%) AI
8 42 (11.97%) Test Automation
9 38 (10.83%) Coaching
10 36 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (9.40%) Scrum
12 30 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (7.12%) DevSecOps
14 24 (6.84%) Microservices
15 23 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
16 22 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 20 (5.70%) Infrastructure Automation
19 19 (5.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 42 (11.97%) Python
2 33 (9.40%) Java
3 18 (5.13%) Bash
4 15 (4.27%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.42%) Go
5 12 (3.42%) SQL
6 6 (1.71%) Bicep
7 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.14%) C#
9 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.85%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.57%) XPath
11 1 (0.28%) PHP
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 21 (5.98%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 10 (2.85%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.99%) Degree
6 6 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.71%) QA
2 2 (0.57%) PMO
3 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (10.83%) Docker
2 6 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (23.36%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.26%) Ansible
3 18 (5.13%) Argo
4 14 (3.99%) Grafana
5 12 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.28%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.28%) Opsview
9 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.55%) Pega
3 13 (3.70%) VMware
4 7 (1.99%) Google
5 5 (1.42%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle
6 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.85%) Splunk
7 2 (0.57%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.57%) OpenText
7 2 (0.57%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.28%) Okta
8 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.28%) YouTube