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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 549 443
Rank change year-on-year +52 -106 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 288 93 309
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 218 41 160
10th Percentile £63,480 £52,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £88,750 £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 95,827 38,694 63,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 90.38% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,436 23,178 38,147
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £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 23 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 23 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 +22 103 £77,500 +10.71% 42
North West +8 53 £77,500 +10.71% 31
Midlands -12 49 £70,000 - 15
South East -10 46 £90,000 +12.50% 23
London -69 41 £90,000 +4.35% 107
South West -58 30 £75,000 +38.89% 19
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 11
Yorkshire -19 25 £70,000 - 5
North East -45 25 £74,655 -0.46% 6
West Midlands -21 23 £80,000 +14.29% 4
East of England -36 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 23 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.

1 288 (100.00%) DevOps
2 123 (42.71%) CI/CD
3 106 (36.81%) Azure
4 78 (27.08%) Terraform
5 68 (23.61%) AWS
6 65 (22.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (22.57%) Kubernetes
7 59 (20.49%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (19.10%) Agile
9 48 (16.67%) Linux
9 48 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 45 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (14.24%) Test Automation
12 39 (13.54%) Python
13 38 (13.19%) Containerisation
14 35 (12.15%) AI
14 35 (12.15%) GitLab
14 35 (12.15%) Java
14 35 (12.15%) Security Cleared
15 34 (11.81%) Coaching
15 34 (11.81%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (11.46%) Windows
17 32 (11.11%) Ansible
17 32 (11.11%) Docker
18 31 (10.76%) Scrum
18 31 (10.76%) Unix
19 30 (10.42%) Pega
20 27 (9.38%) Microservices
21 25 (8.68%) Azure AKS
22 24 (8.33%) GitHub

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 (1.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.69%) IIS
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 106 (36.81%) Azure
2 68 (23.61%) AWS
3 59 (20.49%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (8.68%) Azure AKS
5 24 (8.33%) GitHub
6 18 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (6.25%) GCP
6 18 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.90%) SaaS
8 10 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.78%) Serverless
10 7 (2.43%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.74%) Azure API Management
12 5 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.86%) Firewall
2 8 (2.78%) DNS
2 8 (2.78%) VPN
3 3 (1.04%) DHCP
3 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.69%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.29%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.69%) Power BI
4 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.35%) Metadata
5 1 (0.35%) MySQL
5 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 35 (12.15%) GitLab
2 12 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.43%) Git
3 7 (2.43%) JIRA
4 6 (2.08%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.69%) MSI
6 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 39 (13.54%) Public Sector
2 14 (4.86%) Finance
3 13 (4.51%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.43%) Retail
5 5 (1.74%) Banking
6 3 (1.04%) Law
7 2 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.69%) Legal
7 2 (0.69%) Marketing
8 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (27.08%) Terraform
2 24 (8.33%) Node.js
3 13 (4.51%) Spring
3 13 (4.51%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.08%) .NET
5 5 (1.74%) ADO
5 5 (1.74%) YAML
6 4 (1.39%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.04%) Kafka
7 3 (1.04%) React
7 3 (1.04%) XML
8 2 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.69%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.69%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.69%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.69%) RESTful
8 2 (0.69%) XSLT
9 1 (0.35%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.69%) Robotics
6 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.67%) Linux
2 33 (11.46%) Windows
3 31 (10.76%) Unix
4 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (100.00%) DevOps
2 123 (42.71%) CI/CD
3 65 (22.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (19.10%) Agile
5 48 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 45 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (14.24%) Test Automation
8 38 (13.19%) Containerisation
9 35 (12.15%) AI
10 34 (11.81%) Coaching
10 34 (11.81%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (10.76%) Scrum
12 27 (9.38%) Microservices
13 23 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (7.99%) DevSecOps
14 22 (7.64%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (6.60%) Observability
15 19 (6.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 18 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.54%) Python
2 35 (12.15%) Java
3 17 (5.90%) Bash
4 13 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.51%) SQL
5 11 (3.82%) Go
6 5 (1.74%) Bicep
7 4 (1.39%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.04%) C#
8 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.04%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.69%) XPath
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) Perl
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.90%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.43%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.43%) Degree
6 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.43%) QA
2 2 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (11.11%) Docker
2 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (22.57%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.11%) Ansible
3 21 (7.29%) Argo
4 14 (4.86%) Grafana
5 12 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.78%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.69%) Istio
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.35%) Packer
10 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.42%) Pega
2 24 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.17%) VMware
4 9 (3.13%) Google
5 5 (1.74%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.39%) Okta
7 3 (1.04%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.04%) Splunk
8 2 (0.69%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.69%) OpenText
9 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle