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 30 October 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 450 361
Rank change year-on-year -105 -89 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 77 286 386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.47% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.49% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40 161 337
10th Percentile £54,700 £48,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,438 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £84,063 £102,500 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -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 39,477 58,071 46,439
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 95.16% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24,341 33,021 35,877
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 October 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 30 October 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 -2 38 £82,500 -13.16% 25
North of England -40 19 £70,000 +41.41% 5
North West -23 13 £67,500 -15.63% 3
Midlands +40 8 £77,500 +10.71% 1
West Midlands +41 7 £85,000 +21.43% 1
South East -34 4 £71,250 -5.00% 20
South West +24 3 £54,000 -28.00% 5
North East +14 3 £80,000 +22.20% 1
Yorkshire -6 3 £70,000 +41.41% 1
East of England +11 1 £82,500 +6.45% 5
East Midlands +4 1 £70,000 +7.69%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 October 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 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (79.22%) AWS
3 52 (67.53%) CI/CD
4 40 (51.95%) Terraform
5 37 (48.05%) Kubernetes
6 35 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (41.56%) Docker
7 32 (41.56%) Python
8 27 (35.06%) Agile
9 25 (32.47%) Azure
10 22 (28.57%) Containerisation
10 22 (28.57%) Mentoring
11 21 (27.27%) AI
11 21 (27.27%) Ansible
12 19 (24.68%) Linux
13 16 (20.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (20.78%) Grafana
14 15 (19.48%) Coaching
14 15 (19.48%) GCP
14 15 (19.48%) IBM
14 15 (19.48%) Software Engineering
15 14 (18.18%) AWS Certification
15 14 (18.18%) Java
15 14 (18.18%) Microservices
15 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (16.88%) Architectural Design
16 13 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (16.88%) Bash
16 13 (16.88%) Red Hat
17 12 (15.58%) 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 1 (1.30%) Confluence
1 1 (1.30%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 61 (79.22%) AWS
2 25 (32.47%) Azure
3 15 (19.48%) GCP
4 13 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (15.58%) GitHub
6 11 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (11.69%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (11.69%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
9 7 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.49%) Serverless
11 4 (5.19%) Apigee
11 4 (5.19%) Kong
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (3.90%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (3.90%) Datadog
12 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) DNS
3 2 (2.60%) Network Security
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.60%) VPN
4 1 (1.30%) AMQP
4 1 (1.30%) DHCP
4 1 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.19%) KDB
3 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
3 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.60%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.30%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.39%) GitLab
3 7 (9.09%) Git
4 5 (6.49%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.19%) Maven
6 3 (3.90%) JIRA
7 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.60%) JUnit
7 2 (2.60%) Mockito
7 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.30%) git-flow
8 1 (1.30%) Gradle
8 1 (1.30%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (20.78%) Finance
3 15 (19.48%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.99%) Banking
5 8 (10.39%) Law
5 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (5.19%) .NET
2 4 (5.19%) OpenAPI
2 4 (5.19%) RESTful
2 4 (5.19%) Swagger
3 3 (3.90%) Spring
3 3 (3.90%) YAML
4 2 (2.60%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.60%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.60%) JMS
4 2 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.60%) React
4 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.60%) WCF
5 1 (1.30%) J2EE
5 1 (1.30%) Kafka
5 1 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (33.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (19.48%) Management Information System
3 14 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (16.88%) e-Learning
5 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.19%) Equities
6 2 (2.60%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.30%) Derivative
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.30%) Online Games
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.68%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
3 4 (5.19%) Windows
4 2 (2.60%) VMS
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (67.53%) CI/CD
3 35 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (35.06%) Agile
5 22 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 22 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 21 (27.27%) AI
7 16 (20.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (19.48%) Coaching
8 15 (19.48%) Software Engineering
9 14 (18.18%) Microservices
9 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.88%) Architectural Design
11 10 (12.99%) Observability
11 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
11 10 (12.99%) SDLC
12 9 (11.69%) Data Management
12 9 (11.69%) Data Privacy
12 9 (11.69%) Technology Roadmap
12 9 (11.69%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.56%) Python
2 14 (18.18%) Java
3 13 (16.88%) Bash
4 12 (15.58%) Go
4 12 (15.58%) SQL
5 10 (12.99%) C#
6 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.19%) Lua
9 2 (2.60%) Bicep
9 2 (2.60%) C++
9 2 (2.60%) Ruby
9 2 (2.60%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 12 (15.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (15.58%) Azure Certification
3 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) GDPR
1 10 (12.99%) HIPAA
2 9 (11.69%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (41.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.60%) vSphere
3 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 40 (51.95%) Terraform
2 37 (48.05%) Kubernetes
3 21 (27.27%) Ansible
4 16 (20.78%) Grafana
5 8 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.90%) Argo
6 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.30%) Puppet
7 1 (1.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) IBM
2 13 (16.88%) Red Hat
3 10 (12.99%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.19%) MKS
4 4 (5.19%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.90%) VMware
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
7 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.30%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.30%) Okta
7 1 (1.30%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle
7 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.30%) Zscaler