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 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 485 563
Rank change year-on-year -40 +78 -127
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 166 126 257
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.38% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 145 87 200
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,612 £61,213
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,250 £112,072
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 71,777 33,354 77,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 89.28% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,086 21,349 59,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -13 53 £100,000 -2.44% 11
North of England -39 31 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Midlands -11 29 £70,000 -12.50% 8
South East -29 28 £65,000 -16.13% 2
East Midlands -31 23 £70,000 - 7
South West -40 19 £80,000 +23.79% 3
North West -16 12 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -60 10 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -28 6 £90,000 +12.50% 1
East of England -40 3 £90,000 +38.46% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 April 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.

1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (36.14%) Terraform
3 57 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (33.13%) CI/CD
5 52 (31.33%) Azure
6 48 (28.92%) AWS
7 45 (27.11%) Kubernetes
8 43 (25.90%) Linux
9 30 (18.07%) Docker
10 29 (17.47%) Python
11 28 (16.87%) Bash
12 26 (15.66%) Windows
13 25 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (15.06%) Containerisation
14 24 (14.46%) Ansible
15 20 (12.05%) Microservices
16 19 (11.45%) Grafana
17 18 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (10.24%) Prometheus
19 16 (9.64%) GitHub
19 16 (9.64%) Go
19 16 (9.64%) Observability
20 15 (9.04%) Configuration Management
20 15 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
20 15 (9.04%) Firewall
20 15 (9.04%) Node.js
20 15 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
20 15 (9.04%) PowerShell
20 15 (9.04%) Test Automation
21 14 (8.43%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 9 (5.42%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 52 (31.33%) Azure
2 48 (28.92%) AWS
3 25 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (9.64%) GitHub
6 14 (8.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (7.83%) GCP
8 12 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.42%) Serverless
10 8 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.82%) npm
10 8 (4.82%) NuGet
10 8 (4.82%) SonarCloud
11 7 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.22%) Azure AKS
12 6 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (3.01%) CloudFront
13 5 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.04%) Firewall
2 8 (4.82%) VPN
3 6 (3.61%) DHCP
3 6 (3.61%) DNS
3 6 (3.61%) Network Security
4 4 (2.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.82%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (8.43%) GitLab
2 13 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.23%) Git
4 9 (5.42%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.81%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.20%) JIRA
7 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (19.88%) Finance
2 20 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 13 (7.83%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.63%) Banking
5 8 (4.82%) Retail
6 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.04%) Node.js
2 9 (5.42%) .NET
2 9 (5.42%) YAML
3 8 (4.82%) React
4 7 (4.22%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.61%) Kafka
6 5 (3.01%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.41%) ADO
8 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.20%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.60%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.60%) Next.js
9 1 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.60%) REST
9 1 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.82%) Private Cloud
3 7 (4.22%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.81%) Web3
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.90%) Linux
2 26 (15.66%) Windows
3 7 (4.22%) Unix
3 7 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (33.13%) CI/CD
4 25 (15.06%) Containerisation
5 20 (12.05%) Microservices
6 16 (9.64%) Observability
7 15 (9.04%) Configuration Management
7 15 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (9.04%) Test Automation
8 13 (7.83%) DevSecOps
9 12 (7.23%) AI
9 12 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.23%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (7.23%) Mentoring
10 11 (6.63%) Cloud Security
10 11 (6.63%) High Availability
11 10 (6.02%) E-Commerce
12 9 (5.42%) Agile
13 8 (4.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.47%) Python
2 28 (16.87%) Bash
3 16 (9.64%) Go
4 15 (9.04%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.82%) C#
5 8 (4.82%) Java
6 7 (4.22%) SQL
7 5 (3.01%) Bicep
8 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
9 1 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.23%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.01%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.20%) Degree
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.20%) GDPR
1 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.20%) QA
1 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (18.07%) Docker
2 6 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.41%) iptables
3 4 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.20%) vSphere
5 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (36.14%) Terraform
2 45 (27.11%) Kubernetes
3 24 (14.46%) Ansible
4 19 (11.45%) Grafana
5 17 (10.24%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.82%) Proxmox
7 7 (4.22%) Argo
7 7 (4.22%) Istio
8 6 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.41%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.41%) Puppet
10 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.20%) SCCM
11 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (7.83%) VMware
2 8 (4.82%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.61%) Okta
3 6 (3.61%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.41%) Confluent
5 3 (1.81%) Google
6 2 (1.20%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.60%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.60%) F5
7 1 (0.60%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds