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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 521 599
Rank change year-on-year +26 +78 -180
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 205 119 259
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.33% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 166 59 186
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% -8.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 79,518 36,214 88,110
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 90.02% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 55,925 21,171 65,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +1 55 £73,750 +1.82% 6
London -52 42 £92,500 -7.50% 12
Midlands +12 35 £70,000 +19.15% 5
South East -8 35 £65,000 -23.53% 16
North West +17 23 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -1 22 £70,000 - 2
South West -53 21 £65,000 +0.58% 1
Yorkshire -28 20 £69,655 -3.84% 1
West Midlands -7 13 £80,000 +36.17% 3
North East - 12 £69,308 - 2
East of England -20 5 £54,250 -16.54% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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.

1 205 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (42.93%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.54%) Azure
4 75 (36.59%) Terraform
5 64 (31.22%) AWS
6 61 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (26.34%) Kubernetes
8 51 (24.88%) Linux
9 47 (22.93%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (18.05%) Windows
11 34 (16.59%) Agile
11 34 (16.59%) Mentoring
11 34 (16.59%) Python
12 33 (16.10%) Test Automation
13 32 (15.61%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (14.63%) Containerisation
14 30 (14.63%) Microservices
15 29 (14.15%) Docker
16 27 (13.17%) Bash
16 27 (13.17%) GitLab
17 26 (12.68%) Platform Engineering
18 25 (12.20%) Java
18 25 (12.20%) Node.js
19 24 (11.71%) Ansible
19 24 (11.71%) Scrum
20 23 (11.22%) Unix
21 22 (10.73%) Argo
21 22 (10.73%) Azure AKS
21 22 (10.73%) Coaching
21 22 (10.73%) 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 6 (2.93%) IIS
2 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.54%) Azure
2 64 (31.22%) AWS
3 47 (22.93%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.73%) Azure AKS
5 20 (9.76%) GCP
5 20 (9.76%) GitHub
6 18 (8.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.34%) SaaS
9 12 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.88%) Serverless
11 8 (3.90%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.93%) npm
13 6 (2.93%) NuGet
13 6 (2.93%) SonarCloud
14 5 (2.44%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.83%) Firewall
2 8 (3.90%) DNS
2 8 (3.90%) VPN
3 6 (2.93%) Network Security
4 5 (2.44%) DHCP
5 4 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.73%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.85%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) Metadata
7 1 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (13.17%) GitLab
2 13 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.85%) Git
4 5 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.44%) JIRA
5 3 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.98%) MSI
7 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (18.54%) Public Sector
2 22 (10.73%) Finance
3 11 (5.37%) Banking
4 10 (4.88%) Social Skills
5 8 (3.90%) Retail
6 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.20%) Node.js
2 9 (4.39%) Kafka
2 9 (4.39%) YAML
3 7 (3.41%) React
4 6 (2.93%) .NET
4 6 (2.93%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.93%) ADO
5 4 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.46%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.46%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.46%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.98%) Spring
7 2 (0.98%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.49%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.49%) JSON
8 1 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.85%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.90%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.44%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.88%) Linux
2 37 (18.05%) Windows
3 23 (11.22%) Unix
4 5 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (42.93%) CI/CD
3 61 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (16.59%) Agile
4 34 (16.59%) Mentoring
5 33 (16.10%) Test Automation
6 32 (15.61%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (14.63%) Containerisation
7 30 (14.63%) Microservices
8 26 (12.68%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (11.71%) Scrum
10 22 (10.73%) Coaching
10 22 (10.73%) DevSecOps
11 21 (10.24%) AI
12 19 (9.27%) Observability
13 13 (6.34%) Configuration Management
14 12 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (5.85%) Infrastructure Automation
15 11 (5.37%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.59%) Python
2 27 (13.17%) Bash
3 25 (12.20%) Java
4 18 (8.78%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.83%) Go
6 11 (5.37%) SQL
7 7 (3.41%) C#
8 4 (1.95%) Bicep
9 3 (1.46%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.49%) Groovy
10 1 (0.49%) Perl
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (8.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.85%) AWS Certification
3 10 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.93%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.93%) Degree
5 5 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.41%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) GDPR
2 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.98%) PMO
2 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (14.15%) Docker
2 6 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.95%) iptables
4 4 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (36.59%) Terraform
2 54 (26.34%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.71%) Ansible
4 22 (10.73%) Argo
5 21 (10.24%) Grafana
6 20 (9.76%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.90%) Proxmox
8 7 (3.41%) Istio
9 5 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.95%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.95%) Puppet
11 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.49%) Packer
11 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (9.27%) Pega
2 13 (6.34%) VMware
3 11 (5.37%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.41%) Google
5 6 (2.93%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.93%) Okta
6 5 (2.44%) OneLogin
7 4 (1.95%) Confluent
7 4 (1.95%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.98%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.98%) OpenText
8 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.98%) Splunk
9 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle
9 1 (0.49%) Zscaler