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 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 494 563
Rank change year-on-year -27 +69 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 124 144 230
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 105 109 209
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,686 £61,175
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £123,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -5.88%

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 59,888 35,486 69,899
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 90.56% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 39,051 20,920 55,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,557
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -26 45 £100,000 0.00% 15
South East -13 23 £65,000 -13.33% 12
Midlands -4 22 £70,000 -15.15% 5
South West -12 20 £80,000 +23.79% 3
East Midlands -16 18 £70,000 - 2
North of England -39 10 £68,750 +10.56% 10
West Midlands -4 4 £92,500 +12.12% 3
North West -13 4 £78,750 - 1
North East - 4 £70,000 - 7
East of England -10 3 £90,000 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -58 2 £67,500 +8.55% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 March 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.

1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (37.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (34.68%) Terraform
4 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
5 37 (29.84%) AWS
6 35 (28.23%) Kubernetes
6 35 (28.23%) Linux
7 33 (26.61%) Azure
8 26 (20.97%) Docker
9 25 (20.16%) Bash
10 23 (18.55%) Python
11 22 (17.74%) Ansible
12 19 (15.32%) Grafana
13 18 (14.52%) Containerisation
14 17 (13.71%) Windows
15 16 (12.90%) Prometheus
16 14 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (11.29%) Configuration Management
17 13 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (10.48%) PowerShell
17 13 (10.48%) VMware
18 12 (9.68%) GitHub
18 12 (9.68%) Microservices
18 12 (9.68%) Observability
18 12 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
19 11 (8.87%) AI
19 11 (8.87%) AWS Certification
19 11 (8.87%) Firewall
19 11 (8.87%) Go

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 7 (5.65%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.84%) AWS
2 33 (26.61%) Azure
3 14 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (9.68%) GitHub
6 10 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.65%) Serverless
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.84%) npm
9 6 (4.84%) NuGet
9 6 (4.84%) SonarCloud
10 5 (4.03%) CloudFront
10 5 (4.03%) GCP
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.87%) Firewall
2 7 (5.65%) VPN
3 6 (4.84%) Network Security
4 4 (3.23%) DHCP
4 4 (3.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.81%) AMQP
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.65%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.42%) MySQL
4 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Bitbucket
1 9 (7.26%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.45%) Git
3 6 (4.84%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 26 (20.97%) Finance
2 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
2 11 (8.87%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.65%) Retail
4 4 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.81%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) .NET
2 7 (5.65%) Node.js
2 7 (5.65%) React
3 6 (4.84%) YAML
4 5 (4.03%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.42%) Kafka
7 2 (1.61%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.61%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.61%) WCF
8 1 (0.81%) ADO
8 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.81%) J2EE
8 1 (0.81%) RESTful
8 1 (0.81%) Spring
8 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.65%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.84%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.42%) Web3
7 2 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Derivative
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) PKI
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.23%) Linux
2 17 (13.71%) Windows
3 5 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (37.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
4 18 (14.52%) Containerisation
5 14 (11.29%) Configuration Management
6 12 (9.68%) Microservices
6 12 (9.68%) Observability
6 12 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (8.87%) AI
8 10 (8.06%) Cloud Security
8 10 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (8.06%) DevSecOps
8 10 (8.06%) E-Commerce
8 10 (8.06%) High Availability
9 9 (7.26%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (5.65%) Integration Testing
11 7 (5.65%) Mentoring
12 6 (4.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.16%) Bash
2 23 (18.55%) Python
3 13 (10.48%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.87%) Go
5 6 (4.84%) C#
5 6 (4.84%) SQL
6 5 (4.03%) Bicep
7 3 (2.42%) Java
8 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) AWS Certification
1 11 (8.87%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.61%) Degree
3 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.81%) GDPR
1 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.81%) QA
1 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (20.97%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.23%) iptables
3 2 (1.61%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.61%) vSphere
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (34.68%) Terraform
2 35 (28.23%) Kubernetes
3 22 (17.74%) Ansible
4 19 (15.32%) Grafana
5 16 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.65%) Proxmox
7 4 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.23%) Puppet
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.42%) SCCM
9 2 (1.61%) Istio
10 1 (0.81%) Argo
10 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (10.48%) VMware
2 6 (4.84%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.23%) Okta
3 4 (3.23%) OneLogin
4 3 (2.42%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.81%) Confluent
5 1 (0.81%) Duck Creek
5 1 (0.81%) F5
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds