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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 550 457
Rank change year-on-year +80 -93 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 311 91 311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.21% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.23% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 238 40 161
10th Percentile £63,626 £51,800 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,063 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £79,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% +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 96,589 38,920 63,413
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 90.50% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,795 22,937 36,846
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,160 £36,250 £40,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +32 117 £78,750 +12.50% 54
North West +19 63 £77,500 +10.71% 37
Midlands -13 50 £70,000 - 15
South East -11 49 £95,000 +26.67% 20
London -70 42 £90,000 +9.09% 104
South West -53 34 £75,000 +38.89% 22
Yorkshire -13 27 £80,000 +14.29% 9
North East -39 27 £80,000 +6.67% 8
East Midlands - 27 £70,000 - 10
West Midlands -28 23 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -32 4 £54,250 -37.10% 8
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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.

1 311 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (42.12%) CI/CD
3 111 (35.69%) Azure
4 83 (26.69%) Terraform
5 76 (24.44%) AWS
6 73 (23.47%) Kubernetes
7 70 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 62 (19.94%) Agile
9 60 (19.29%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (17.04%) Linux
11 52 (16.72%) Mentoring
12 49 (15.76%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (14.15%) Test Automation
14 41 (13.18%) Python
15 40 (12.86%) Containerisation
16 39 (12.54%) Security Cleared
17 38 (12.22%) GitLab
18 37 (11.90%) AI
19 36 (11.58%) Coaching
19 36 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
20 35 (11.25%) Ansible
20 35 (11.25%) Java
21 34 (10.93%) Docker
21 34 (10.93%) Windows
22 33 (10.61%) Scrum
22 33 (10.61%) Unix
23 30 (9.65%) Pega
24 29 (9.32%) Microsoft
25 28 (9.00%) Microservices
26 27 (8.68%) Azure AKS

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 (0.96%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.64%) IIS
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 111 (35.69%) Azure
2 76 (24.44%) AWS
3 60 (19.29%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (8.68%) Azure AKS
5 25 (8.04%) GitHub
6 20 (6.43%) SaaS
7 18 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (5.79%) GCP
7 18 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.57%) Serverless
10 7 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.93%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.61%) Azure API Management
12 5 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (0.96%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.50%) Firewall
2 9 (2.89%) DNS
3 8 (2.57%) VPN
4 3 (0.96%) DHCP
4 3 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.64%) SAN
6 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.75%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.64%) Power BI
4 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.32%) Metadata
5 1 (0.32%) MySQL
5 1 (0.32%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (12.22%) GitLab
2 12 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.57%) JIRA
4 7 (2.25%) Git
5 6 (1.93%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.64%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.32%) Snyk
General
1 41 (13.18%) Public Sector
2 14 (4.50%) Finance
3 13 (4.18%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.25%) Retail
5 5 (1.61%) Banking
6 3 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.96%) Law
7 2 (0.64%) Legal
7 2 (0.64%) Marketing
8 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (26.69%) Terraform
2 24 (7.72%) Node.js
3 13 (4.18%) Spring
3 13 (4.18%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.25%) .NET
5 6 (1.93%) YAML
6 5 (1.61%) ADO
7 4 (1.29%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.96%) Kafka
8 3 (0.96%) React
8 3 (0.96%) RESTful
8 3 (0.96%) XML
9 2 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.64%) OpenTofu
9 2 (0.64%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.64%) XSLT
10 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.86%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.96%) Robotics
7 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.64%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.64%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.32%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.32%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.32%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (17.04%) Linux
2 34 (10.93%) Windows
3 33 (10.61%) Unix
4 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (42.12%) CI/CD
3 70 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (19.94%) Agile
5 52 (16.72%) Mentoring
6 49 (15.76%) Platform Engineering
7 44 (14.15%) Test Automation
8 40 (12.86%) Containerisation
9 37 (11.90%) AI
10 36 (11.58%) Coaching
10 36 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (10.61%) Scrum
12 28 (9.00%) Microservices
13 25 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (8.04%) DevSecOps
14 23 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (7.40%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (7.07%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (6.43%) Observability
16 20 (6.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.18%) Python
2 35 (11.25%) Java
3 19 (6.11%) Bash
4 15 (4.82%) PowerShell
5 13 (4.18%) SQL
6 12 (3.86%) Go
7 5 (1.61%) Bicep
7 5 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.96%) C#
8 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.96%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.64%) XPath
10 1 (0.32%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
10 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (12.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.47%) DV Cleared
3 16 (5.14%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.22%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.25%) Degree
6 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.25%) QA
2 2 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (10.93%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (23.47%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.25%) Ansible
3 21 (6.75%) Argo
4 14 (4.50%) Grafana
5 12 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.57%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.29%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.64%) Istio
9 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.32%) Opsview
10 1 (0.32%) Packer
10 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (9.65%) Pega
2 29 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.18%) VMware
4 9 (2.89%) Google
5 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.29%) Okta
7 3 (0.96%) OneLogin
7 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.96%) Splunk
8 2 (0.64%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.64%) OpenText
9 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.32%) IBM
9 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle
9 1 (0.32%) YouTube