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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 522 591
Rank change year-on-year +25 +69 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 191 117 245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.34% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 162 72 184
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,519 £58,938
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £79,875
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.42% -6.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +8.28% -7.65%

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 75,487 34,868 79,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 89.50% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 50,840 20,779 60,307
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £53,847
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +7.71% -11.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,574 £71,980
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,508
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%

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 May 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 May 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
London -37 53 £98,750 -1.25% 17
North of England -8 40 £69,310 -4.31% 6
Midlands -5 33 £70,000 -12.50% 7
South East 0 31 £65,000 -21.21% 6
East Midlands +6 29 £70,000 - 3
South West -46 20 £77,500 +19.92% 8
North West +11 17 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire -49 14 £69,310 -4.31% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
East of England -16 6 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands -28 4 £80,000 - 4
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (40.84%) Azure
3 76 (39.79%) CI/CD
4 74 (38.74%) Terraform
5 59 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (28.27%) AWS
7 52 (27.23%) Kubernetes
8 49 (25.65%) Linux
9 45 (23.56%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (18.32%) Windows
11 33 (17.28%) Microservices
12 31 (16.23%) Bash
12 31 (16.23%) Docker
13 30 (15.71%) Python
14 29 (15.18%) Node.js
15 27 (14.14%) Containerisation
15 27 (14.14%) GitLab
15 27 (14.14%) Test Automation
16 25 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
17 24 (12.57%) Agile
18 23 (12.04%) Mentoring
19 22 (11.52%) Ansible
20 21 (10.99%) Java
20 21 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
21 20 (10.47%) Argo
21 20 (10.47%) Azure AKS
21 20 (10.47%) Grafana
21 20 (10.47%) MongoDB
21 20 (10.47%) Observability
21 20 (10.47%) PostgreSQL

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 10 (5.24%) IIS
2 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.84%) Azure
2 54 (28.27%) AWS
3 45 (23.56%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.47%) Azure AKS
5 18 (9.42%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (9.42%) GitHub
6 17 (8.90%) GCP
7 16 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.76%) Serverless
11 10 (5.24%) SaaS
12 9 (4.71%) npm
12 9 (4.71%) NuGet
12 9 (4.71%) SonarCloud
13 8 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.66%) Amazon S3
15 6 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.85%) Firewall
2 8 (4.19%) DNS
2 8 (4.19%) VPN
3 6 (3.14%) DHCP
3 6 (3.14%) Network Security
4 4 (2.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.47%) MongoDB
1 20 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.85%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.76%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (14.14%) GitLab
2 13 (6.81%) Git
2 13 (6.81%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.57%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.05%) JIRA
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) MSI
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (15.18%) Public Sector
2 27 (14.14%) Finance
3 12 (6.28%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.76%) Banking
5 8 (4.19%) Retail
6 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.18%) Node.js
2 11 (5.76%) YAML
3 10 (5.24%) React
4 9 (4.71%) .NET
5 8 (4.19%) .NET Framework
6 7 (3.66%) Kafka
7 5 (2.62%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.62%) ADO
7 5 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.52%) JSON
9 1 (0.52%) Next.js
9 1 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.52%) REST
9 1 (0.52%) RESTful
9 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.76%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.19%) Private Cloud
3 7 (3.66%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.57%) Web3
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.65%) Linux
2 35 (18.32%) Windows
3 15 (7.85%) Unix
4 7 (3.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 76 (39.79%) CI/CD
3 59 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (17.28%) Microservices
5 27 (14.14%) Containerisation
5 27 (14.14%) Test Automation
6 25 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (12.57%) Agile
8 23 (12.04%) Mentoring
9 21 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (10.47%) Observability
11 17 (8.90%) AI
11 17 (8.90%) DevSecOps
12 15 (7.85%) Scrum
13 14 (7.33%) Coaching
13 14 (7.33%) Configuration Management
13 14 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (6.28%) Infrastructure Automation
15 11 (5.76%) High Availability
16 10 (5.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.23%) Bash
2 30 (15.71%) Python
3 21 (10.99%) Java
4 20 (10.47%) PowerShell
5 15 (7.85%) Go
6 10 (5.24%) C#
7 9 (4.71%) SQL
8 4 (2.09%) Bicep
9 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.28%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.09%) Degree
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) GDPR
2 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.05%) PMO
2 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (16.23%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.09%) iptables
3 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (38.74%) Terraform
2 52 (27.23%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.52%) Ansible
4 20 (10.47%) Argo
4 20 (10.47%) Grafana
5 18 (9.42%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.19%) Proxmox
7 7 (3.66%) Istio
8 6 (3.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.09%) Puppet
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.05%) SCCM
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.28%) VMware
2 10 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.71%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (3.66%) Okta
5 6 (3.14%) Google
5 6 (3.14%) OneLogin
6 4 (2.09%) Confluent
7 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) F5
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle