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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 453 523
Rank change year-on-year -63 +70 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 113 213 239
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.52% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 94 124 222
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,456 £61,180
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,375 £116,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -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 54,122 40,636 63,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 91.44% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 34,857 21,382 50,354
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,500 £28,802
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
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% -8.33%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -22 38 £100,000 -2.44% 14
South East -38 22 £65,000 -13.33% 16
Midlands +17 21 £70,000 - 1
South West +6 20 £80,000 +23.79% 8
East Midlands 0 16 £70,000 -
North of England -23 8 £75,000 +51.52% 12
West Midlands +16 5 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West +14 5 £67,500 - 6
East of England +12 3 £90,000 +38.46% 3
North East - 2 £82,500 - 4
Yorkshire -42 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 16 February 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.

1 113 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (37.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (34.51%) Terraform
4 37 (32.74%) CI/CD
5 34 (30.09%) Linux
6 33 (29.20%) AWS
7 31 (27.43%) Kubernetes
8 28 (24.78%) Azure
9 25 (22.12%) Docker
10 21 (18.58%) Ansible
10 21 (18.58%) Bash
11 19 (16.81%) Grafana
12 17 (15.04%) Python
13 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (12.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (12.39%) Containerisation
14 14 (12.39%) Prometheus
14 14 (12.39%) Windows
15 13 (11.50%) Configuration Management
15 13 (11.50%) Observability
16 12 (10.62%) VMware
17 11 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (9.73%) Security Cleared
18 10 (8.85%) AWS Certification
18 10 (8.85%) E-Commerce
18 10 (8.85%) GitHub
18 10 (8.85%) High Availability
18 10 (8.85%) Microservices
18 10 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
18 10 (8.85%) PowerShell

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 (5.31%) IIS
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.20%) AWS
2 28 (24.78%) Azure
3 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (8.85%) GitHub
7 9 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.31%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.42%) npm
9 5 (4.42%) NuGet
9 5 (4.42%) Serverless
9 5 (4.42%) SonarCloud
10 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.65%) GCP
11 3 (2.65%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.65%) Rubrik
11 3 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) Firewall
2 6 (5.31%) VPN
3 5 (4.42%) Network Security
4 3 (2.65%) DHCP
4 3 (2.65%) DNS
5 1 (0.88%) AMQP
5 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.42%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.65%) MySQL
4 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Git
2 7 (6.19%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) git-flow
5 1 (0.88%) Gradle
5 1 (0.88%) JIRA
5 1 (0.88%) Maven
General
1 21 (18.58%) Finance
2 8 (7.08%) Public Sector
2 8 (7.08%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.31%) Retail
4 1 (0.88%) Automotive
4 1 (0.88%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) .NET
2 7 (6.19%) Node.js
2 7 (6.19%) React
3 6 (5.31%) YAML
4 4 (3.54%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.65%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.77%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.77%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.77%) WCF
7 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.88%) J2EE
7 1 (0.88%) Kafka
7 1 (0.88%) Next.js
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
7 1 (0.88%) Spring
7 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.31%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.31%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.65%) Web3
5 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.88%) Derivative
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.88%) PKI
5 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (30.09%) Linux
2 14 (12.39%) Windows
3 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.77%) Unix
4 2 (1.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (37.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (32.74%) CI/CD
4 14 (12.39%) Containerisation
5 13 (11.50%) Configuration Management
5 13 (11.50%) Observability
6 10 (8.85%) E-Commerce
6 10 (8.85%) High Availability
6 10 (8.85%) Microservices
6 10 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (7.96%) AI
7 9 (7.96%) Cloud Security
8 8 (7.08%) DevSecOps
8 8 (7.08%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (6.19%) Integration Testing
10 6 (5.31%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.58%) Bash
2 17 (15.04%) Python
3 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.96%) Go
5 5 (4.42%) C#
6 4 (3.54%) Bicep
6 4 (3.54%) SQL
7 2 (1.77%) Java
7 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.85%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Degree
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) Docker
2 3 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) iptables
3 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (34.51%) Terraform
2 31 (27.43%) Kubernetes
3 21 (18.58%) Ansible
4 19 (16.81%) Grafana
5 14 (12.39%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.31%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.65%) Puppet
7 3 (2.65%) SCCM
8 2 (1.77%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (10.62%) VMware
2 5 (4.42%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.65%) Okta
4 3 (2.65%) OneLogin
4 3 (2.65%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.88%) Duck Creek
5 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.88%) F5
5 1 (0.88%) Google
5 1 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds