Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 462 378
Rank change year-on-year -73 -84 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 74 279 331
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.49% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.52% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 57 147 297
10th Percentile £59,250 £48,250 £58,250
25th Percentile £65,750 £66,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -4.76% -1.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,297 53,374 42,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 93.93% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28,035 29,684 33,018
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,490 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -5 29 £90,000 -10.00% 24
North of England +7 16 £72,500 +46.46% 2
Midlands +45 11 £70,000 - 8
North West +20 11 £67,500 - 2
South East -35 7 £85,000 +13.33% 24
West Midlands +42 6 £87,500 +25.00% 3
South West +17 6 £72,500 -3.33% 12
East Midlands +17 5 £70,000 +7.69% 5
North East - 3 £80,000 -
East of England +25 2 £86,250 -3.09% 4
Yorkshire -6 2 £59,750 +20.71%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, 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 74 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (56.76%) AWS
3 41 (55.41%) CI/CD
4 35 (47.30%) Terraform
5 33 (44.59%) Kubernetes
6 32 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (40.54%) Docker
8 26 (35.14%) Python
9 25 (33.78%) Azure
10 19 (25.68%) Agile
11 18 (24.32%) Containerisation
12 17 (22.97%) Linux
13 16 (21.62%) Ansible
14 15 (20.27%) Bash
14 15 (20.27%) Grafana
15 14 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (17.57%) Disaster Recovery
16 13 (17.57%) Microservices
17 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
19 10 (13.51%) AWS Certification
19 10 (13.51%) GCP
19 10 (13.51%) GitHub
19 10 (13.51%) SQL
20 9 (12.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 9 (12.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 9 (12.16%) Azure Certification
20 9 (12.16%) C#
20 9 (12.16%) E-Commerce
20 9 (12.16%) 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 2 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 42 (56.76%) AWS
2 25 (33.78%) Azure
3 14 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.51%) GCP
4 10 (13.51%) GitHub
5 9 (12.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.76%) Serverless
10 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (4.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (4.05%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.70%) Kong
12 2 (2.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Firewall
2 3 (4.05%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) Network Security
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.70%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) AMQP
4 1 (1.35%) DHCP
4 1 (1.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.05%) MySQL
3 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.70%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.70%) KDB
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Git
1 7 (9.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.76%) Artifactory
2 5 (6.76%) GitLab
3 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.05%) JIRA
5 2 (2.70%) Maven
5 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.35%) git-flow
6 1 (1.35%) Gradle
6 1 (1.35%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (27.03%) Finance
2 8 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Banking
3 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.41%) Law
6 1 (1.35%) Automotive
6 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Games
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (8.11%) .NET
3 5 (6.76%) YAML
4 4 (5.41%) React
5 3 (4.05%) AWS CDK
5 3 (4.05%) Node.js
6 2 (2.70%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.70%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.70%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.70%) RESTful
6 2 (2.70%) Swagger
6 2 (2.70%) WCF
7 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.35%) J2EE
7 1 (1.35%) Kafka
7 1 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.70%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.70%) Equities
4 2 (2.70%) Web3
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Derivative
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Online Games
5 1 (1.35%) PKI
5 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.97%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) Windows
3 5 (6.76%) Unix
4 2 (2.70%) VMS
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 32 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (25.68%) Agile
5 18 (24.32%) Containerisation
6 13 (17.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (17.57%) Microservices
7 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
9 9 (12.16%) E-Commerce
9 9 (12.16%) Observability
10 8 (10.81%) Architectural Design
10 8 (10.81%) High Availability
10 8 (10.81%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
12 6 (8.11%) Configuration Management
12 6 (8.11%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (8.11%) Scrum
12 6 (8.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.14%) Python
2 15 (20.27%) Bash
3 10 (13.51%) SQL
4 9 (12.16%) C#
4 9 (12.16%) Go
4 9 (12.16%) Java
5 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.70%) Bicep
7 2 (2.70%) Lua
7 2 (2.70%) Ruby
7 2 (2.70%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) AWS Certification
2 9 (12.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 9 (12.16%) Azure Certification
2 9 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) GDPR
1 7 (9.46%) HIPAA
2 6 (8.11%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (40.54%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.70%) vSphere
3 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (47.30%) Terraform
2 33 (44.59%) Kubernetes
3 16 (21.62%) Ansible
4 15 (20.27%) Grafana
5 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.05%) Argo
6 3 (4.05%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.35%) Puppet
7 1 (1.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Google
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.05%) VMware
4 2 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.70%) IBM
4 2 (2.70%) MKS
4 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.35%) Okta
5 1 (1.35%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.35%) Zscaler