Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 542 562
Rank change year-on-year +59 +20 -182
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 240 113 263
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.29% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 194 51 185
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £67,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £103,126 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £83,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +8.06% -8.82%

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 83,530 39,318 79,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 90.44% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 58,858 23,754 57,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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
North of England +33 80 £75,000 +0.17% 14
London -44 43 £90,000 -10.00% 32
North West +19 39 £76,250 +1.67% 8
Midlands +6 39 £70,000 - 3
South East +3 32 £65,000 -23.53% 7
Yorkshire -8 25 £69,310 -0.99% 1
South West -45 25 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East Midlands +2 24 £70,000 - 3
North East -30 16 £69,310 -7.59% 5
West Midlands -6 15 £80,000 +14.29%
East of England -15 5 £54,250 -36.18%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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.

1 240 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 97 (40.42%) Azure
4 80 (33.33%) Terraform
5 71 (29.58%) AWS
6 69 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (22.92%) Kubernetes
8 51 (21.25%) Linux
9 49 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 45 (18.75%) Agile
12 41 (17.08%) Windows
13 39 (16.25%) Python
13 39 (16.25%) Test Automation
14 35 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
15 34 (14.17%) Containerisation
16 32 (13.33%) Docker
16 32 (13.33%) Scrum
17 31 (12.92%) Coaching
17 31 (12.92%) Platform Engineering
17 31 (12.92%) Unix
18 30 (12.50%) Java
18 30 (12.50%) Microservices
18 30 (12.50%) Pega
19 29 (12.08%) GitLab
20 28 (11.67%) AI
20 28 (11.67%) Ansible
21 25 (10.42%) DevSecOps
21 25 (10.42%) Node.js
22 23 (9.58%) Bash

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 5 (2.08%) IIS
2 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 97 (40.42%) Azure
2 71 (29.58%) AWS
3 49 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.17%) Azure AKS
5 21 (8.75%) GitHub
6 20 (8.33%) GCP
7 18 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.67%) SaaS
9 13 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (3.75%) Serverless
11 7 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.08%) Azure API Management
13 5 (2.08%) Datadog
13 5 (2.08%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.42%) Firewall
2 7 (2.92%) DNS
3 6 (2.50%) VPN
4 5 (2.08%) Network Security
5 4 (1.67%) DHCP
5 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.83%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.17%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) Metadata
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 29 (12.08%) GitLab
2 14 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.00%) Git
4 7 (2.92%) JIRA
5 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.25%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.83%) MSI
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (17.92%) Public Sector
2 20 (8.33%) Finance
3 12 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.58%) Banking
5 6 (2.50%) Retail
6 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.42%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.42%) Node.js
2 9 (3.75%) Kafka
3 8 (3.33%) YAML
4 7 (2.92%) Spring
4 7 (2.92%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.50%) ADO
5 6 (2.50%) React
6 5 (2.08%) .NET
6 5 (2.08%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.25%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.83%) RESTful
9 2 (0.83%) Web Services
10 1 (0.42%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.42%) Middleware
10 1 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.42%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.42%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.25%) Linux
2 41 (17.08%) Windows
3 31 (12.92%) Unix
4 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 69 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 45 (18.75%) Agile
6 39 (16.25%) Test Automation
7 35 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (14.17%) Containerisation
9 32 (13.33%) Scrum
10 31 (12.92%) Coaching
10 31 (12.92%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (12.50%) Microservices
12 28 (11.67%) AI
13 25 (10.42%) DevSecOps
14 20 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (7.50%) Observability
16 16 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 15 (6.25%) Case Management
18 13 (5.42%) Machine Learning
19 12 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (16.25%) Python
2 30 (12.50%) Java
3 23 (9.58%) Bash
4 18 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.42%) Go
6 11 (4.58%) SQL
7 6 (2.50%) C#
8 4 (1.67%) Bicep
9 3 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) Scala
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.75%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.92%) Degree
6 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (0.83%) GDPR
2 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.83%) PMO
2 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (13.33%) Docker
2 6 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.25%) iptables
6 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (33.33%) Terraform
2 55 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.67%) Ansible
4 22 (9.17%) Argo
5 18 (7.50%) Grafana
6 16 (6.67%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.92%) Istio
8 6 (2.50%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.67%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.25%) Puppet
11 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.50%) Pega
2 11 (4.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.58%) VMware
3 7 (2.92%) Google
4 5 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (2.08%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.08%) Okta
4 5 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.67%) Confluent
5 4 (1.67%) OneLogin
6 3 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.25%) Splunk
7 2 (0.83%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.83%) OpenText
8 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) IBM
8 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle