Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 516 595
Rank change year-on-year +27 +79 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 201 122 249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 165 68 187
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £58,256
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £81,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +4.84% -8.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -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 77,858 35,114 83,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.72% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,086 20,250 63,132
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -38 50 £98,750 -1.25% 25
North of England -6 44 £72,500 +0.09% 2
Midlands -1 36 £70,000 - 12
South East +7 33 £65,000 -21.21% 10
East Midlands -10 28 £70,000 - 2
South West -45 23 £75,000 +16.05% 9
North West +7 21 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -48 14 £69,310 -4.31% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 -
West Midlands -22 8 £80,000 +14.29% 10
East of England -22 7 £58,750 -9.62% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 201 (100.00%) DevOps
2 80 (39.80%) CI/CD
3 79 (39.30%) Azure
4 78 (38.81%) Terraform
5 63 (31.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (28.36%) AWS
6 57 (28.36%) Kubernetes
7 48 (23.88%) Linux
8 46 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (16.92%) Windows
10 33 (16.42%) Python
11 32 (15.92%) Docker
11 32 (15.92%) Microservices
12 31 (15.42%) Containerisation
13 30 (14.93%) Bash
14 28 (13.93%) Node.js
14 28 (13.93%) Test Automation
15 27 (13.43%) GitLab
16 25 (12.44%) Agile
16 25 (12.44%) Continuous Integration
16 25 (12.44%) Mentoring
16 25 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
17 24 (11.94%) Ansible
17 24 (11.94%) Java
18 22 (10.95%) Argo
19 21 (10.45%) Azure AKS
19 21 (10.45%) Grafana
19 21 (10.45%) MongoDB
19 21 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
20 20 (9.95%) AI

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 9 (4.48%) IIS
2 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (39.30%) Azure
2 57 (28.36%) AWS
3 46 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.45%) Azure AKS
5 20 (9.95%) GCP
6 19 (9.45%) GitHub
7 18 (8.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.47%) SaaS
12 10 (4.98%) Serverless
13 8 (3.98%) Amazon S3
13 8 (3.98%) npm
13 8 (3.98%) NuGet
13 8 (3.98%) SonarCloud
14 7 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.97%) Firewall
2 9 (4.48%) DNS
3 8 (3.98%) VPN
4 6 (2.99%) DHCP
4 6 (2.99%) Network Security
5 4 (1.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.45%) MongoDB
1 21 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.96%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (13.43%) GitLab
2 13 (6.47%) Git
2 13 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.99%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.99%) JIRA
5 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.00%) MSI
7 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (14.93%) Public Sector
2 24 (11.94%) Finance
3 12 (5.97%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.47%) Banking
5 8 (3.98%) Retail
6 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.93%) Node.js
2 11 (5.47%) YAML
3 9 (4.48%) React
4 8 (3.98%) .NET
4 8 (3.98%) .NET Framework
4 8 (3.98%) Kafka
5 6 (2.99%) ADO
6 5 (2.49%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.00%) Spring
9 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.50%) Next.js
10 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.47%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (3.98%) Private Cloud
3 7 (3.48%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.50%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 48 (23.88%) Linux
2 34 (16.92%) Windows
3 15 (7.46%) Unix
4 7 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (100.00%) DevOps
2 80 (39.80%) CI/CD
3 63 (31.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (15.92%) Microservices
5 31 (15.42%) Containerisation
6 28 (13.93%) Test Automation
7 25 (12.44%) Agile
7 25 (12.44%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (12.44%) Mentoring
7 25 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (9.95%) AI
8 20 (9.95%) DevSecOps
8 20 (9.95%) Observability
9 16 (7.96%) Scrum
10 15 (7.46%) Coaching
10 15 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.47%) Configuration Management
12 12 (5.97%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (5.97%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (5.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.42%) Python
2 30 (14.93%) Bash
3 24 (11.94%) Java
4 20 (9.95%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.97%) Go
6 10 (4.98%) SQL
7 9 (4.48%) C#
8 4 (1.99%) Bicep
9 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.50%) Groovy
10 1 (0.50%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (7.96%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.97%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.98%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.99%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.99%) Degree
5 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.99%) QA
2 2 (1.00%) GDPR
2 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.00%) PMO
2 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (15.92%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.99%) iptables
4 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (38.81%) Terraform
2 57 (28.36%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.94%) Ansible
4 22 (10.95%) Argo
5 21 (10.45%) Grafana
6 20 (9.95%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.98%) Proxmox
8 7 (3.48%) Istio
9 6 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.99%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.99%) Puppet
11 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.00%) SCCM
12 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (6.97%) VMware
2 12 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.98%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (3.48%) Google
4 7 (3.48%) Okta
5 6 (2.99%) OneLogin
6 4 (1.99%) Confluent
7 3 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.00%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.50%) F5
9 1 (0.50%) IBM
9 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.50%) OpenText
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle
9 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.50%) Splunk