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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 526 592
Rank change year-on-year +34 +66 -185
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 226 116 261
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 184 57 188
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,300 £49,475
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £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 80,861 37,451 87,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.30% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,940 22,195 64,587
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -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 2 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 2 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 +2 67 £75,000 +3.54% 17
London -48 43 £90,000 -10.00% 22
Midlands +4 38 £70,000 - 3
South East +2 35 £65,000 -23.53% 15
North West +19 29 £77,500 +3.33% 14
Yorkshire -23 24 £69,655 -0.49% 2
South West -50 24 £65,000 +0.58% 3
East Midlands +1 23 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -15 15 £80,000 +14.29%
North East - 14 £69,308 - 1
East of England -19 5 £54,250 -21.09% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 226 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (44.69%) CI/CD
3 85 (37.61%) Azure
4 78 (34.51%) Terraform
5 70 (30.97%) AWS
6 67 (29.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (24.78%) Linux
8 55 (24.34%) Kubernetes
9 48 (21.24%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (18.58%) Mentoring
11 41 (18.14%) Windows
12 40 (17.70%) Agile
13 38 (16.81%) Test Automation
14 37 (16.37%) Continuous Integration
14 37 (16.37%) Python
15 31 (13.72%) Containerisation
15 31 (13.72%) Docker
16 30 (13.27%) Microservices
16 30 (13.27%) Pega
16 30 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
17 29 (12.83%) Scrum
18 28 (12.39%) Coaching
18 28 (12.39%) Unix
19 27 (11.95%) Bash
19 27 (11.95%) GitLab
19 27 (11.95%) Java
20 26 (11.50%) Ansible
21 25 (11.06%) Node.js
22 24 (10.62%) AI
23 23 (10.18%) 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 6 (2.65%) IIS
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.61%) Azure
2 70 (30.97%) AWS
3 48 (21.24%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.73%) Azure AKS
5 21 (9.29%) GitHub
6 20 (8.85%) GCP
7 18 (7.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (5.75%) SaaS
11 12 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.42%) Serverless
13 8 (3.54%) Amazon S3
14 7 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.65%) npm
15 6 (2.65%) NuGet
15 6 (2.65%) SonarCloud
16 5 (2.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.64%) Firewall
2 8 (3.54%) VPN
3 7 (3.10%) DNS
4 6 (2.65%) Network Security
5 4 (1.77%) DHCP
5 4 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.73%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.87%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (11.95%) GitLab
2 13 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.31%) Git
4 5 (2.21%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.21%) JIRA
5 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.88%) MSI
7 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (19.47%) Public Sector
2 22 (9.73%) Finance
3 11 (4.87%) Banking
4 10 (4.42%) Social Skills
5 8 (3.54%) Retail
6 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.06%) Node.js
2 9 (3.98%) Kafka
2 9 (3.98%) YAML
3 7 (3.10%) React
4 6 (2.65%) .NET
4 6 (2.65%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.65%) ADO
5 4 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.77%) Spring
5 4 (1.77%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.33%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.33%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.44%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.54%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.21%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (24.78%) Linux
2 41 (18.14%) Windows
3 28 (12.39%) Unix
4 4 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (44.69%) CI/CD
3 67 (29.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (18.58%) Mentoring
5 40 (17.70%) Agile
6 38 (16.81%) Test Automation
7 37 (16.37%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (13.72%) Containerisation
9 30 (13.27%) Microservices
9 30 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (12.83%) Scrum
11 28 (12.39%) Coaching
12 24 (10.62%) AI
13 23 (10.18%) DevSecOps
14 19 (8.41%) Observability
15 15 (6.64%) Case Management
16 13 (5.75%) Configuration Management
16 13 (5.75%) Cybersecurity
17 12 (5.31%) Infrastructure Automation
17 12 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.37%) Python
2 27 (11.95%) Bash
2 27 (11.95%) Java
3 19 (8.41%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.19%) Go
5 11 (4.87%) SQL
6 7 (3.10%) C#
7 4 (1.77%) Bicep
8 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) Perl
9 1 (0.44%) PHP
9 1 (0.44%) Scala
9 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.31%) AWS Certification
3 11 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.10%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.65%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.65%) Degree
6 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.54%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) GDPR
2 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.88%) PMO
2 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (13.72%) Docker
2 6 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.77%) iptables
5 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (34.51%) Terraform
2 55 (24.34%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.50%) Ansible
4 22 (9.73%) Argo
5 20 (8.85%) Grafana
6 19 (8.41%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.54%) Proxmox
8 7 (3.10%) Istio
9 4 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.77%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (13.27%) Pega
2 13 (5.75%) VMware
3 10 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.10%) Google
5 6 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.21%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.21%) Okta
6 5 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.77%) Confluent
7 4 (1.77%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.88%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.88%) OpenText
8 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.88%) Splunk
9 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.44%) IBM
9 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle