Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 552 466
Rank change year-on-year +55 -86 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 292 93 311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.24% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 222 41 162
10th Percentile £63,626 £52,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £61,250 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

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 96,021 38,933 64,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 90.43% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,503 23,350 38,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,325 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +23 106 £77,500 +10.71% 40
North West +17 55 £77,500 +10.71% 29
Midlands -5 49 £70,000 - 15
South East -17 46 £90,000 +12.50% 23
London -58 41 £90,000 +4.35% 106
South West -58 31 £75,000 +38.89% 20
Yorkshire -18 26 £75,000 +7.14% 6
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 11
North East -41 25 £74,655 -0.46% 5
West Midlands -27 23 £80,000 +14.29% 4
East of England -31 4 £54,250 -37.10% 7
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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.

1 292 (100.00%) DevOps
2 124 (42.47%) CI/CD
3 107 (36.64%) Azure
4 78 (26.71%) Terraform
5 69 (23.63%) AWS
6 66 (22.60%) Kubernetes
7 65 (22.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 59 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (19.18%) Agile
10 49 (16.78%) Linux
11 48 (16.44%) Mentoring
12 45 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
13 41 (14.04%) Test Automation
14 39 (13.36%) Python
15 38 (13.01%) Containerisation
16 35 (11.99%) AI
16 35 (11.99%) GitLab
16 35 (11.99%) Java
16 35 (11.99%) Security Cleared
17 34 (11.64%) Coaching
17 34 (11.64%) Continuous Integration
18 33 (11.30%) Windows
19 32 (10.96%) Ansible
19 32 (10.96%) Docker
20 31 (10.62%) Scrum
20 31 (10.62%) Unix
21 30 (10.27%) Pega
22 27 (9.25%) Microservices
23 25 (8.56%) Azure AKS
23 25 (8.56%) Microsoft

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 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.68%) IIS
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 107 (36.64%) Azure
2 69 (23.63%) AWS
3 59 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (8.56%) Azure AKS
5 24 (8.22%) GitHub
6 18 (6.16%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (6.16%) GCP
6 18 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (6.16%) SaaS
7 10 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (2.74%) Serverless
9 7 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.05%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.71%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.79%) Firewall
2 8 (2.74%) DNS
2 8 (2.74%) VPN
3 3 (1.03%) DHCP
3 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.68%) SAN
5 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.19%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.68%) Power BI
4 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.34%) Metadata
5 1 (0.34%) MySQL
5 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 35 (11.99%) GitLab
2 12 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.40%) Git
3 7 (2.40%) JIRA
4 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.68%) MSI
6 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 39 (13.36%) Public Sector
2 14 (4.79%) Finance
3 13 (4.45%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.40%) Retail
5 5 (1.71%) Banking
6 3 (1.03%) Law
7 2 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.68%) Legal
7 2 (0.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (26.71%) Terraform
2 24 (8.22%) Node.js
3 13 (4.45%) Spring
3 13 (4.45%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.05%) .NET
5 5 (1.71%) ADO
5 5 (1.71%) YAML
6 4 (1.37%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.03%) Kafka
7 3 (1.03%) React
7 3 (1.03%) XML
8 2 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.68%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.68%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.68%) RESTful
8 2 (0.68%) XSLT
9 1 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.11%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.68%) Robotics
6 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.34%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (16.78%) Linux
2 33 (11.30%) Windows
3 31 (10.62%) Unix
4 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (100.00%) DevOps
2 124 (42.47%) CI/CD
3 65 (22.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (19.18%) Agile
5 48 (16.44%) Mentoring
6 45 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (14.04%) Test Automation
8 38 (13.01%) Containerisation
9 35 (11.99%) AI
10 34 (11.64%) Coaching
10 34 (11.64%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (10.62%) Scrum
12 27 (9.25%) Microservices
13 23 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (7.88%) DevSecOps
14 22 (7.53%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (6.51%) Observability
16 19 (6.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (6.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.36%) Python
2 35 (11.99%) Java
3 17 (5.82%) Bash
4 13 (4.45%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.45%) SQL
5 11 (3.77%) Go
6 5 (1.71%) Bicep
7 4 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.03%) C#
8 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.68%) XPath
10 1 (0.34%) Groovy
10 1 (0.34%) Perl
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (11.99%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.82%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.45%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.40%) Degree
6 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.40%) QA
2 2 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (10.96%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.96%) Ansible
3 21 (7.19%) Argo
4 14 (4.79%) Grafana
5 12 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.74%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.68%) Istio
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.27%) Pega
2 25 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.11%) VMware
4 9 (3.08%) Google
5 5 (1.71%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.37%) Okta
7 3 (1.03%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.03%) Splunk
8 2 (0.68%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.68%) OpenText
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle