Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 469 482
Rank change year-on-year -47 +13 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 106 211 258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.45% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.49% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 89 122 239
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £61,236
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,563 £67,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +6.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -3.03%

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 50,803 43,291 58,557
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 92.03% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 32,377 22,547 46,758
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 January 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 30 January 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 -3 39 £100,000 -2.44% 9
Midlands +27 21 £70,000 - 2
South East -34 17 £76,250 +1.67% 11
East Midlands +6 16 £70,000 - 1
South West +15 15 £80,000 +23.79% 7
North of England +2 8 £75,000 +51.52% 5
North West +26 5 £67,500 - 3
West Midlands +13 5 £85,000 +21.43% 1
East of England +19 4 £90,000 +38.46% 2
North East - 2 £82,500 -
Yorkshire -28 1 £70,000 +41.41% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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.

1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (35.85%) Terraform
4 37 (34.91%) CI/CD
5 32 (30.19%) AWS
6 31 (29.25%) Kubernetes
7 30 (28.30%) Linux
8 29 (27.36%) Azure
9 26 (24.53%) Docker
10 20 (18.87%) Bash
11 17 (16.04%) Ansible
11 17 (16.04%) Grafana
12 16 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (15.09%) Python
13 15 (14.15%) Containerisation
14 13 (12.26%) Windows
15 12 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (11.32%) Prometheus
16 11 (10.38%) High Availability
16 11 (10.38%) Observability
16 11 (10.38%) Security Cleared
17 10 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (9.43%) E-Commerce
17 10 (9.43%) Git
17 10 (9.43%) Microservices
17 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
17 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
17 10 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
18 9 (8.49%) Configuration Management
18 9 (8.49%) Continuous Integration

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 6 (5.66%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.19%) AWS
2 29 (27.36%) Azure
3 16 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (8.49%) GitHub
7 8 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.60%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.66%) Serverless
10 5 (4.72%) npm
10 5 (4.72%) NuGet
10 5 (4.72%) SonarCloud
11 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.83%) GCP
12 3 (2.83%) Mimecast
12 3 (2.83%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) Firewall
2 5 (4.72%) DNS
2 5 (4.72%) VPN
3 3 (2.83%) DHCP
3 3 (2.83%) Network Security
4 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.94%) AMQP
5 1 (0.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.72%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.83%) MySQL
3 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 10 (9.43%) Git
2 6 (5.66%) Bitbucket
2 6 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.89%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 2 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) git-flow
4 1 (0.94%) Gradle
4 1 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 22 (20.75%) Finance
2 10 (9.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.83%) Retail
5 1 (0.94%) Automotive
5 1 (0.94%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) .NET
2 7 (6.60%) Node.js
2 7 (6.60%) React
3 6 (5.66%) YAML
4 5 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.83%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.89%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.89%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.89%) WCF
8 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.94%) J2EE
8 1 (0.94%) Kafka
8 1 (0.94%) RESTful
8 1 (0.94%) Spring
8 1 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.66%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.83%) Web3
5 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.94%) Derivative
5 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) PKI
5 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.30%) Linux
2 13 (12.26%) Windows
3 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) Unix
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (34.91%) CI/CD
4 15 (14.15%) Containerisation
5 11 (10.38%) High Availability
5 11 (10.38%) Observability
6 10 (9.43%) E-Commerce
6 10 (9.43%) Microservices
6 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (8.49%) Configuration Management
7 9 (8.49%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (8.49%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.55%) DevSecOps
9 7 (6.60%) Integration Testing
10 6 (5.66%) Agile
10 6 (5.66%) AI
10 6 (5.66%) Cloud Security
10 6 (5.66%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.87%) Bash
2 16 (15.09%) Python
3 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.60%) Go
5 5 (4.72%) C#
5 5 (4.72%) SQL
6 4 (3.77%) Bicep
7 3 (2.83%) Java
8 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.55%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Degree
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 26 (24.53%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) iptables
3 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (35.85%) Terraform
2 31 (29.25%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.04%) Ansible
3 17 (16.04%) Grafana
4 12 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.83%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.83%) SCCM
6 2 (1.89%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.49%) VMware
2 5 (4.72%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.83%) Okta
3 3 (2.83%) OneLogin
3 3 (2.83%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.94%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.94%) F5
4 1 (0.94%) Google
4 1 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle
4 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds