Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 January 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 439 394
Rank change year-on-year -73 -45 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 90 250 289
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.55% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 76 127 266
10th Percentile £63,750 £48,250 £61,180
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,125 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,625 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% +1.56% -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 47,263 45,179 44,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.74% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,682 23,829 34,798
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -2.50%

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 5 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 5 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 +2 37 £100,000 - 15
Midlands +26 17 £70,000 - 17
East Midlands +5 12 £70,000 - 8
South West +10 11 £80,000 +14.59% 16
North of England -10 10 £75,000 +51.52% 22
South East -53 10 £90,000 +20.00% 24
North West -3 7 £67,500 +28.57% 7
West Midlands +18 5 £85,000 +21.43% 8
East of England +24 3 £90,000 +38.46% 12
North East - 2 £82,500 - 6
Yorkshire -20 1 £70,000 +41.41% 9
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 33 (36.67%) Terraform
4 29 (32.22%) AWS
5 28 (31.11%) Kubernetes
6 26 (28.89%) Azure
7 25 (27.78%) Docker
8 24 (26.67%) Linux
9 15 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 15 (16.67%) Grafana
9 15 (16.67%) Python
10 14 (15.56%) Ansible
10 14 (15.56%) Bash
11 11 (12.22%) High Availability
11 11 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (11.11%) E-Commerce
12 10 (11.11%) Windows
13 9 (10.00%) Agile
13 9 (10.00%) Microservices
13 9 (10.00%) Observability
13 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (10.00%) Prometheus
14 8 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
14 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
14 8 (8.89%) Security Cleared
15 7 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement

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 4 (4.44%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) AWS
2 26 (28.89%) Azure
3 15 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.67%) GitHub
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.56%) Serverless
8 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.44%) GCP
8 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.33%) Mimecast
9 3 (3.33%) npm
9 3 (3.33%) Rubrik
9 3 (3.33%) SaaS
9 3 (3.33%) SonarCloud
9 3 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 3 (3.33%) DHCP
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
3 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.22%) VPN
4 1 (1.11%) AMQP
4 1 (1.11%) Network Security
4 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.33%) MySQL
4 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.11%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Git
2 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.44%) Artifactory
3 4 (4.44%) GitLab
3 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.22%) JIRA
5 1 (1.11%) git-flow
5 1 (1.11%) Gradle
5 1 (1.11%) Maven
5 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (24.44%) Finance
2 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.11%) Automotive
4 1 (1.11%) Banking
4 1 (1.11%) Games
4 1 (1.11%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) .NET
1 6 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.56%) Node.js
2 5 (5.56%) React
2 5 (5.56%) YAML
3 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.22%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.22%) WCF
5 1 (1.11%) J2EE
5 1 (1.11%) Kafka
5 1 (1.11%) Next.js
5 1 (1.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.33%) Web3
4 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.11%) Derivative
5 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.11%) Online Games
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Linux
2 10 (11.11%) Windows
3 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
4 2 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (36.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 11 (12.22%) High Availability
5 11 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 9 (10.00%) Agile
7 9 (10.00%) Microservices
7 9 (10.00%) Observability
7 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
9 7 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (7.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (6.67%) DevSecOps
11 5 (5.56%) FinOps
11 5 (5.56%) GitOps
11 5 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.67%) Python
2 14 (15.56%) Bash
3 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.67%) SQL
5 5 (5.56%) C#
5 5 (5.56%) Java
6 4 (4.44%) Bicep
6 4 (4.44%) Go
7 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.11%) Ruby
8 1 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) GDPR
1 2 (2.22%) HIPAA
1 2 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (27.78%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.22%) vSphere
4 1 (1.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (36.67%) Terraform
2 28 (31.11%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.67%) Grafana
4 14 (15.56%) Ansible
5 9 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.33%) Argo
6 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.33%) SCCM
7 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (6.67%) VMware
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (3.33%) Google
3 3 (3.33%) Okta
3 3 (3.33%) OneLogin
3 3 (3.33%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.11%) Duck Creek
4 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.11%) F5
4 1 (1.11%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle
4 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.11%) Splunk