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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 540 455
Rank change year-on-year +64 -85 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 299 91 313
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.21% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.23% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 229 40 162
10th Percentile £63,626 £51,800 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,063 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £92,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +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 96,260 39,089 64,754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 90.45% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,768 23,344 38,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 26 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 26 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 +31 110 £77,500 +10.71% 47
North West +17 58 £76,250 +8.93% 34
Midlands -5 49 £70,000 - 14
South East +5 48 £95,000 +26.67% 23
London -65 41 £90,000 +9.09% 115
South West -55 32 £75,000 +38.89% 23
Yorkshire -20 27 £80,000 +14.29% 7
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 9
North East -38 25 £80,000 +6.67% 6
West Midlands -20 23 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -27 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 26 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.

1 299 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (41.81%) CI/CD
3 107 (35.79%) Azure
4 79 (26.42%) Terraform
5 71 (23.75%) AWS
6 68 (22.74%) Kubernetes
7 66 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 59 (19.73%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (19.40%) Agile
10 50 (16.72%) Linux
11 49 (16.39%) Mentoring
12 46 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
13 42 (14.05%) Test Automation
14 40 (13.38%) Python
15 39 (13.04%) Containerisation
16 36 (12.04%) GitLab
16 36 (12.04%) Security Cleared
17 35 (11.71%) AI
17 35 (11.71%) Java
18 34 (11.37%) Coaching
18 34 (11.37%) Continuous Integration
19 33 (11.04%) Windows
20 32 (10.70%) Ansible
20 32 (10.70%) Docker
21 31 (10.37%) Scrum
21 31 (10.37%) Unix
22 30 (10.03%) Pega
23 27 (9.03%) Microservices
24 26 (8.70%) Microsoft
25 25 (8.36%) Azure AKS

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 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.67%) IIS
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 107 (35.79%) Azure
2 71 (23.75%) AWS
3 59 (19.73%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (8.36%) Azure AKS
4 25 (8.36%) GitHub
5 18 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (6.02%) GCP
5 18 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (6.02%) SaaS
6 11 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (2.68%) Serverless
8 7 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (2.01%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.67%) Azure API Management
10 5 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.68%) Firewall
2 8 (2.68%) DNS
2 8 (2.68%) VPN
3 3 (1.00%) DHCP
3 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.67%) SAN
5 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.67%) Power BI
4 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) Metadata
5 1 (0.33%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 36 (12.04%) GitLab
2 12 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.34%) Git
3 7 (2.34%) JIRA
4 6 (2.01%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.67%) MSI
6 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 39 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 14 (4.68%) Finance
3 13 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.34%) Retail
5 5 (1.67%) Banking
6 3 (1.00%) Law
7 2 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.67%) Legal
7 2 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (26.42%) Terraform
2 24 (8.03%) Node.js
3 13 (4.35%) Spring
3 13 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.01%) .NET
5 5 (1.67%) ADO
5 5 (1.67%) YAML
6 4 (1.34%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.00%) Kafka
7 3 (1.00%) React
7 3 (1.00%) XML
8 2 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.67%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.67%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.67%) RESTful
8 2 (0.67%) XSLT
9 1 (0.33%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.01%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.67%) Robotics
6 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (16.72%) Linux
2 33 (11.04%) Windows
3 31 (10.37%) Unix
4 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (41.81%) CI/CD
3 66 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (19.40%) Agile
5 49 (16.39%) Mentoring
6 46 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (14.05%) Test Automation
8 39 (13.04%) Containerisation
9 35 (11.71%) AI
10 34 (11.37%) Coaching
10 34 (11.37%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (10.37%) Scrum
12 27 (9.03%) Microservices
13 24 (8.03%) DevSecOps
14 23 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (7.36%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (6.69%) Observability
16 20 (6.69%) Technical Leadership
17 19 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.38%) Python
2 35 (11.71%) Java
3 18 (6.02%) Bash
4 14 (4.68%) PowerShell
5 13 (4.35%) SQL
6 11 (3.68%) Go
7 5 (1.67%) Bicep
8 4 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.00%) C#
9 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.00%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.67%) XPath
11 1 (0.33%) Groovy
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) PHP
11 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.69%) DV Cleared
3 14 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.34%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.34%) Degree
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.34%) QA
2 2 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (10.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (22.74%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.70%) Ansible
3 21 (7.02%) Argo
4 14 (4.68%) Grafana
5 12 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.68%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.34%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.67%) Istio
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.33%) Packer
10 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.03%) Pega
2 26 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.01%) VMware
4 9 (3.01%) Google
5 5 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.34%) Okta
7 3 (1.00%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.00%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.00%) Splunk
8 2 (0.67%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.67%) OpenText
9 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.33%) IBM
9 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle