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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 448 365
Rank change year-on-year -85 -83 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 72 287 356
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.48% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.51% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 50 154 314
10th Percentile £56,125 £48,250 £57,875
25th Percentile £64,063 £66,063 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £83,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -6.91% -2.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £106,289
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 41,786 56,812 44,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.37% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 26,790 31,820 34,128
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,292 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,048 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.74% -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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -30 31 £90,000 -10.00% 37
North of England +5 17 £72,500 +46.46% 9
North West +10 12 £67,500 -15.63% 7
Midlands +56 8 £80,000 +14.29% 8
West Midlands +42 6 £87,500 +25.00% 4
South East -36 6 £82,500 +10.00% 14
South West +21 5 £55,000 -26.67% 12
North East - 3 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands +20 2 £72,500 +11.54% 4
Yorkshire -7 2 £59,750 +20.71% 1
East of England +21 1 £82,500 +6.45% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (68.06%) AWS
3 46 (63.89%) CI/CD
4 38 (52.78%) Terraform
5 33 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (45.83%) Kubernetes
6 30 (41.67%) Python
7 29 (40.28%) Docker
8 24 (33.33%) Agile
9 22 (30.56%) Azure
10 19 (26.39%) Containerisation
11 18 (25.00%) Ansible
12 17 (23.61%) Linux
13 16 (22.22%) Grafana
14 14 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (18.06%) Bash
16 12 (16.67%) Microservices
16 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
17 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (15.28%) Architectural Design
17 11 (15.28%) AWS Certification
17 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (15.28%) GCP
17 11 (15.28%) GitHub
17 11 (15.28%) Go
17 11 (15.28%) Mentoring
18 10 (13.89%) AI
18 10 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification

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 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (68.06%) AWS
2 22 (30.56%) Azure
3 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.28%) GCP
3 11 (15.28%) GitHub
4 9 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.56%) Apigee
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.56%) Kong
8 4 (5.56%) Serverless
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
3 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) AMQP
4 1 (1.39%) DHCP
4 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.56%) KDB
3 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.78%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 6 (8.33%) GitLab
3 5 (6.94%) Artifactory
3 5 (6.94%) Git
4 3 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.39%) git-flow
6 1 (1.39%) Gradle
6 1 (1.39%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (31.94%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Banking
2 10 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Law
5 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Games
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (5.56%) .NET
2 4 (5.56%) OpenAPI
2 4 (5.56%) RESTful
2 4 (5.56%) Swagger
3 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.17%) YAML
4 2 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.78%) React
4 2 (2.78%) WCF
5 1 (1.39%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.39%) J2EE
5 1 (1.39%) Kafka
5 1 (1.39%) Node.js
5 1 (1.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.94%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.28%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.56%) Equities
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.78%) Web3
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Derivative
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.39%) Online Games
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
2 7 (9.72%) Unix
3 4 (5.56%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (63.89%) CI/CD
3 33 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (33.33%) Agile
5 19 (26.39%) Containerisation
6 14 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.67%) Microservices
7 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 11 (15.28%) Architectural Design
8 11 (15.28%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.89%) AI
9 10 (13.89%) Observability
10 9 (12.50%) High Availability
11 8 (11.11%) Machine Learning
11 8 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 8 (11.11%) SDLC
12 7 (9.72%) Data Privacy
12 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Architecture
12 7 (9.72%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.67%) Python
2 13 (18.06%) Bash
3 11 (15.28%) Go
4 10 (13.89%) Java
4 10 (13.89%) SQL
5 8 (11.11%) C#
6 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.56%) Lua
8 2 (2.78%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Ruby
8 2 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) AWS Certification
2 10 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification
3 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) GDPR
1 8 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 7 (9.72%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (40.28%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.78%) vSphere
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) iptables
Systems Management
1 38 (52.78%) Terraform
2 33 (45.83%) Kubernetes
3 18 (25.00%) Ansible
4 16 (22.22%) Grafana
5 8 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.17%) Argo
6 3 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.39%) Puppet
7 1 (1.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Google
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) MKS
2 4 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.17%) VMware
4 2 (2.78%) IBM
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.39%) Okta
5 1 (1.39%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.39%) Zscaler