Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 552 452
Rank change year-on-year +65 -100 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 267 94 330
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.21% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.24% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 206 41 164
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 90,592 39,605 69,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.51% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 63,845 23,969 46,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,320 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 26 August 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 August 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 +31 100 £75,000 +7.14% 8
North West +27 48 £75,000 - 3
Midlands +7 45 £70,000 - 4
London -57 44 £90,000 - 31
South East -10 32 £85,000 - 7
North East -36 27 £69,310 -7.59% 4
South West -55 27 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Yorkshire -18 25 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 24 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands -11 21 £80,000 +14.29% 2
East of England -22 4 £54,250 -37.10%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 267 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (42.70%) CI/CD
3 106 (39.70%) Azure
4 80 (29.96%) Terraform
5 68 (25.47%) AWS
6 67 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (21.72%) Kubernetes
8 51 (19.10%) Agile
9 50 (18.73%) Linux
9 50 (18.73%) Mentoring
10 41 (15.36%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (15.36%) Test Automation
11 39 (14.61%) Python
12 38 (14.23%) GitLab
12 38 (14.23%) Windows
13 37 (13.86%) Containerisation
14 36 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
15 34 (12.73%) Docker
15 34 (12.73%) Java
16 33 (12.36%) Coaching
17 32 (11.99%) Security Cleared
18 31 (11.61%) Scrum
18 31 (11.61%) Unix
19 30 (11.24%) Pega
20 29 (10.86%) AI
20 29 (10.86%) Microservices
21 28 (10.49%) Ansible
22 25 (9.36%) DevSecOps
22 25 (9.36%) 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 4 (1.50%) IIS
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 106 (39.70%) Azure
2 68 (25.47%) AWS
3 58 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (8.99%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.12%) GitHub
6 18 (6.74%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (6.74%) GCP
7 16 (5.99%) SaaS
8 14 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.12%) Serverless
10 6 (2.25%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.25%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.87%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.87%) Datadog
12 4 (1.50%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.12%) Firewall
2 7 (2.62%) DNS
3 4 (1.50%) DHCP
3 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.50%) VPN
4 2 (0.75%) SAN
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.24%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.25%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.75%) Power BI
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.37%) Metadata
7 1 (0.37%) MySQL
7 1 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (14.23%) GitLab
2 15 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.75%) Git
4 6 (2.25%) JIRA
5 5 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.75%) MSI
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
General
1 42 (15.73%) Public Sector
2 20 (7.49%) Finance
3 14 (5.24%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.12%) Banking
5 4 (1.50%) Retail
6 3 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.12%) Law
7 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.75%) Legal
7 2 (0.75%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (29.96%) Terraform
2 25 (9.36%) Node.js
3 11 (4.12%) Spring
3 11 (4.12%) Spring Boot
4 9 (3.37%) Kafka
5 7 (2.62%) .NET
5 7 (2.62%) YAML
6 6 (2.25%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.25%) ADO
7 5 (1.87%) React
8 3 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.12%) XML
9 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.75%) OpenTofu
9 2 (0.75%) XSLT
10 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.00%) Private Cloud
3 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.37%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.73%) Linux
2 38 (14.23%) Windows
3 31 (11.61%) Unix
4 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (42.70%) CI/CD
3 67 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (19.10%) Agile
5 50 (18.73%) Mentoring
6 41 (15.36%) Platform Engineering
6 41 (15.36%) Test Automation
7 37 (13.86%) Containerisation
8 36 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (12.36%) Coaching
10 31 (11.61%) Scrum
11 29 (10.86%) AI
11 29 (10.86%) Microservices
12 25 (9.36%) DevSecOps
13 22 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
13 22 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (6.74%) Observability
16 17 (6.37%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (6.37%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.61%) Python
2 34 (12.73%) Java
3 17 (6.37%) Bash
4 16 (5.99%) SQL
5 15 (5.62%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.49%) Go
7 5 (1.87%) C#
8 4 (1.50%) Bicep
9 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.12%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.75%) XPath
11 1 (0.37%) Groovy
11 1 (0.37%) Perl
11 1 (0.37%) PHP
11 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (11.99%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.99%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.25%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.25%) Degree
5 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.62%) QA
2 2 (0.75%) GDPR
2 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.75%) PMO
2 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (12.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.37%) iptables
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (21.72%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.49%) Ansible
3 22 (8.24%) Argo
4 13 (4.87%) Grafana
5 11 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.62%) Istio
7 4 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.50%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.75%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (11.24%) Pega
2 15 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.37%) VMware
4 7 (2.62%) Google
5 5 (1.87%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.87%) Okta
5 5 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.50%) Confluent
6 4 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.50%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.12%) Splunk
8 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.75%) OpenText
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle
9 1 (0.37%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.37%) IBM
9 1 (0.37%) OpenAI