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 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 495 578
Rank change year-on-year -11 +83 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 194 119 245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 161 68 185
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,600 £58,831
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +5.10% -7.65%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,875 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £78,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +5.77% -8.24%

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 77,206 34,110 80,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 89.54% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 52,341 19,540 60,827
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,457 £57,560 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +8.09% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,349 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -36 50 £98,750 -1.25% 16
North of England -26 42 £70,000 -3.36% 3
Midlands -1 35 £70,000 - 8
South East 0 32 £65,000 -21.21% 12
East Midlands -5 29 £70,000 - 2
South West -47 21 £75,000 +16.05% 8
North West +9 19 £80,000 - 2
Yorkshire -38 14 £69,310 -4.31% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 -
East of England -13 6 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands -31 6 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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.

1 194 (100.00%) DevOps
2 80 (41.24%) Azure
3 77 (39.69%) CI/CD
4 75 (38.66%) Terraform
5 60 (30.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (28.35%) AWS
7 54 (27.84%) Kubernetes
8 49 (25.26%) Linux
9 47 (24.23%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (18.04%) Windows
11 33 (17.01%) Microservices
12 31 (15.98%) Bash
12 31 (15.98%) Python
13 30 (15.46%) Docker
14 29 (14.95%) Node.js
15 28 (14.43%) Containerisation
15 28 (14.43%) Test Automation
16 27 (13.92%) GitLab
17 26 (13.40%) Agile
18 25 (12.89%) Continuous Integration
19 24 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
20 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
21 22 (11.34%) Ansible
21 22 (11.34%) Java
22 21 (10.82%) Argo
22 21 (10.82%) Azure AKS
22 21 (10.82%) Grafana
22 21 (10.82%) MongoDB
22 21 (10.82%) PowerShell
23 20 (10.31%) DevSecOps

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 10 (5.15%) IIS
2 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.24%) Azure
2 55 (28.35%) AWS
3 47 (24.23%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.82%) Azure AKS
5 18 (9.28%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (9.28%) GCP
5 18 (9.28%) GitHub
6 15 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (6.19%) SaaS
9 10 (5.15%) Serverless
10 9 (4.64%) npm
10 9 (4.64%) NuGet
10 9 (4.64%) SonarCloud
11 7 (3.61%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.22%) Firewall
2 9 (4.64%) DNS
3 8 (4.12%) VPN
4 6 (3.09%) DHCP
4 6 (3.09%) Network Security
5 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.82%) MongoDB
2 20 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.73%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.67%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.52%) Metadata
6 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (13.92%) GitLab
2 14 (7.22%) Git
3 13 (6.70%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.09%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.55%) JIRA
6 2 (1.03%) MSI
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (15.46%) Public Sector
2 23 (11.86%) Finance
3 12 (6.19%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.67%) Banking
5 8 (4.12%) Retail
6 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.95%) Node.js
2 12 (6.19%) YAML
3 10 (5.15%) React
4 9 (4.64%) .NET
5 8 (4.12%) .NET Framework
5 8 (4.12%) Kafka
6 6 (3.09%) ADO
7 5 (2.58%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.52%) JSON
10 1 (0.52%) Next.js
10 1 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.52%) RESTful
10 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.12%) Private Cloud
4 7 (3.61%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.26%) Linux
2 35 (18.04%) Windows
3 15 (7.73%) Unix
4 7 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (100.00%) DevOps
2 77 (39.69%) CI/CD
3 60 (30.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (17.01%) Microservices
5 28 (14.43%) Containerisation
5 28 (14.43%) Test Automation
6 26 (13.40%) Agile
7 25 (12.89%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
10 20 (10.31%) DevSecOps
10 20 (10.31%) Observability
11 19 (9.79%) AI
12 16 (8.25%) Scrum
13 14 (7.22%) Coaching
13 14 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (6.70%) Configuration Management
15 12 (6.19%) Infrastructure Automation
16 11 (5.67%) Analytics
17 10 (5.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.98%) Bash
1 31 (15.98%) Python
2 22 (11.34%) Java
3 21 (10.82%) PowerShell
4 14 (7.22%) Go
5 10 (5.15%) C#
5 10 (5.15%) SQL
6 4 (2.06%) Bicep
7 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.52%) Groovy
8 1 (0.52%) Perl
8 1 (0.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.52%) Scala
8 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.19%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.58%) Degree
6 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.09%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) GDPR
2 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.03%) PMO
2 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (15.46%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.06%) iptables
5 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (38.66%) Terraform
2 54 (27.84%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.34%) Ansible
4 21 (10.82%) Argo
4 21 (10.82%) Grafana
5 20 (10.31%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.12%) Proxmox
7 7 (3.61%) Istio
8 6 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.06%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.06%) Puppet
10 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.03%) SCCM
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (6.70%) VMware
2 11 (5.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.64%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (3.61%) Google
4 7 (3.61%) Okta
5 6 (3.09%) OneLogin
6 4 (2.06%) Confluent
7 3 (1.55%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) F5
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.52%) OpenText
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle
9 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Splunk