Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 438 360
Rank change year-on-year -86 -78 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 79 260 317
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.51% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.55% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 70 136 290
10th Percentile £63,625 £48,250 £59,875
25th Percentile £68,125 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% -4.69% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,402 47,653 41,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 93.43% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 29,041 25,743 32,277
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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
London -3 26 £90,000 -10.00% 16
Midlands +21 16 £70,000 - 24
North of England 0 14 £75,000 +51.52% 27
South West +23 10 £80,000 +6.67% 22
North West +10 10 £71,250 +35.71% 14
East Midlands 0 10 £70,000 - 13
South East -43 8 £90,000 +20.00% 32
West Midlands +30 6 £87,500 +25.00% 8
East of England +30 3 £90,000 +38.46% 25
North East - 3 £80,000 -
Yorkshire -21 1 £70,000 +41.41% 13
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (43.04%) AWS
2 34 (43.04%) CI/CD
3 33 (41.77%) Terraform
4 31 (39.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (36.71%) Kubernetes
6 27 (34.18%) Docker
7 24 (30.38%) Azure
8 20 (25.32%) Python
9 19 (24.05%) Linux
10 15 (18.99%) Ansible
10 15 (18.99%) Containerisation
11 14 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (17.72%) Bash
11 14 (17.72%) Grafana
12 13 (16.46%) Agile
13 11 (13.92%) Microservices
14 10 (12.66%) E-Commerce
15 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (11.39%) Observability
15 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (11.39%) Security Cleared
16 8 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (10.13%) AWS Certification
16 8 (10.13%) GitHub
16 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
16 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
16 8 (10.13%) SQL
17 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (8.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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 (3.80%) IIS
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.04%) AWS
2 24 (30.38%) Azure
3 14 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (10.13%) GitHub
5 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.86%) GCP
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.33%) Serverless
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.80%) npm
9 3 (3.80%) NuGet
9 3 (3.80%) SaaS
9 3 (3.80%) SonarCloud
9 3 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) DNS
2 2 (2.53%) Firewall
2 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
3 1 (1.27%) AMQP
3 1 (1.27%) DHCP
3 1 (1.27%) Network Security
3 1 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.80%) MySQL
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Git
2 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket
2 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.06%) Artifactory
3 4 (5.06%) GitLab
4 3 (3.80%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) git-flow
5 1 (1.27%) Gradle
5 1 (1.27%) Maven
5 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (21.52%) Finance
2 8 (10.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.53%) Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Automotive
5 1 (1.27%) Games
5 1 (1.27%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) .NET
1 6 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (7.59%) YAML
2 5 (6.33%) Node.js
2 5 (6.33%) React
3 3 (3.80%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.53%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.53%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.53%) WCF
5 1 (1.27%) J2EE
5 1 (1.27%) Kafka
5 1 (1.27%) Next.js
5 1 (1.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.80%) Web3
4 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Derivative
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Online Games
5 1 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.05%) Linux
2 7 (8.86%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Unix
3 2 (2.53%) VMS
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (43.04%) CI/CD
3 31 (39.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (18.99%) Containerisation
5 13 (16.46%) Agile
6 11 (13.92%) Microservices
7 10 (12.66%) E-Commerce
8 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (11.39%) Observability
8 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
10 6 (7.59%) High Availability
10 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.59%) Scrum
11 5 (6.33%) Configuration Management
11 5 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.33%) FinOps
11 5 (6.33%) GitOps
11 5 (6.33%) Roadmaps
12 4 (5.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.32%) Python
2 14 (17.72%) Bash
3 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.13%) SQL
4 7 (8.86%) C#
4 7 (8.86%) Java
5 6 (7.59%) Go
6 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.53%) Bicep
7 2 (2.53%) Ruby
7 2 (2.53%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.13%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (8.86%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) GDPR
1 4 (5.06%) HIPAA
1 4 (5.06%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.53%) vSphere
3 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (41.77%) Terraform
2 29 (36.71%) Kubernetes
3 15 (18.99%) Ansible
4 14 (17.72%) Grafana
5 7 (8.86%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.80%) Argo
6 3 (3.80%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.27%) Puppet
7 1 (1.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (6.33%) Google
2 3 (3.80%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) VMware
3 2 (2.53%) Splunk
4 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.27%) Okta
4 1 (1.27%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle
4 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.27%) Zscaler