Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £79,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 537 450
Rank change year-on-year +49 -87 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 282 92 326
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.21% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.24% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 218 40 167
10th Percentile £62,572 £54,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £63,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £90,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 93,904 38,815 65,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.34% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,374 23,183 40,037
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
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 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.85% - -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 15 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 15 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 +25 102 £75,000 +7.14% 37
North West +17 51 £76,250 +8.93% 27
Midlands -4 49 £70,000 - 11
South East -6 43 £85,000 - 30
London -49 43 £90,000 +4.35% 111
North East -36 26 £69,310 -7.59% 3
South West -64 26 £75,000 +42.86% 26
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 6
Yorkshire -24 25 £70,000 - 7
West Midlands -20 23 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -26 4 £54,250 -37.10% 9
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 282 (100.00%) DevOps
2 116 (41.13%) CI/CD
3 107 (37.94%) Azure
4 76 (26.95%) Terraform
5 68 (24.11%) AWS
6 62 (21.99%) Kubernetes
7 60 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 58 (20.57%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (18.79%) Agile
10 49 (17.38%) Linux
11 47 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 44 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (13.83%) Python
13 39 (13.83%) Test Automation
14 36 (12.77%) Containerisation
14 36 (12.77%) GitLab
15 35 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
15 35 (12.41%) Windows
16 33 (11.70%) AI
16 33 (11.70%) Coaching
16 33 (11.70%) Docker
16 33 (11.70%) Java
17 31 (10.99%) Scrum
17 31 (10.99%) Security Cleared
17 31 (10.99%) Unix
18 30 (10.64%) Ansible
18 30 (10.64%) Pega
19 26 (9.22%) Microservices
20 25 (8.87%) Node.js
21 24 (8.51%) 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 (1.06%) IIS
1 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 107 (37.94%) Azure
2 68 (24.11%) AWS
3 58 (20.57%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (8.51%) Azure AKS
5 22 (7.80%) GitHub
6 20 (7.09%) GCP
7 18 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.67%) SaaS
10 12 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.19%) Serverless
12 7 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.13%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.77%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (1.42%) Amazon S3
15 4 (1.42%) Datadog
16 3 (1.06%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.61%) Firewall
2 7 (2.48%) VPN
3 6 (2.13%) DNS
4 3 (1.06%) DHCP
4 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.45%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.71%) Power BI
5 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.35%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) MySQL
6 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 36 (12.77%) GitLab
2 13 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.84%) Git
4 7 (2.48%) JIRA
5 5 (1.77%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.71%) MSI
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
General
1 39 (13.83%) Public Sector
2 16 (5.67%) Finance
3 13 (4.61%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.48%) Banking
4 7 (2.48%) Retail
5 3 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.06%) Law
6 2 (0.71%) Legal
6 2 (0.71%) Marketing
7 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (26.95%) Terraform
2 25 (8.87%) Node.js
3 11 (3.90%) Spring
3 11 (3.90%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.48%) Kafka
5 6 (2.13%) .NET
5 6 (2.13%) YAML
6 5 (1.77%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.77%) ADO
7 4 (1.42%) React
8 3 (1.06%) XML
9 2 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.71%) OpenTofu
9 2 (0.71%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.71%) XSLT
10 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.35%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.90%) Private Cloud
3 7 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.38%) Linux
2 35 (12.41%) Windows
3 31 (10.99%) Unix
4 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (100.00%) DevOps
2 116 (41.13%) CI/CD
3 60 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (18.79%) Agile
5 47 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 44 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (13.83%) Test Automation
8 36 (12.77%) Containerisation
9 35 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (11.70%) AI
10 33 (11.70%) Coaching
11 31 (10.99%) Scrum
12 26 (9.22%) Microservices
13 23 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (7.80%) DevSecOps
14 22 (7.80%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (7.09%) Observability
15 20 (7.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 19 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.83%) Python
2 33 (11.70%) Java
3 17 (6.03%) Bash
4 14 (4.96%) Go
4 14 (4.96%) SQL
5 13 (4.61%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.42%) C#
7 3 (1.06%) Bicep
7 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.06%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.71%) XPath
9 1 (0.35%) Groovy
9 1 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
9 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.32%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.84%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.48%) Degree
6 5 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.48%) QA
2 2 (0.71%) PMO
3 1 (0.35%) GDPR
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (11.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.64%) Ansible
3 21 (7.45%) Argo
4 14 (4.96%) Grafana
5 12 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.48%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.77%) Istio
8 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.35%) Packer
10 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.64%) Pega
2 19 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.26%) VMware
4 7 (2.48%) Google
5 5 (1.77%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.42%) Okta
7 3 (1.06%) Confluent
7 3 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.06%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.06%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.71%) OpenText
9 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle