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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 486 582
Rank change year-on-year -38 +96 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 159 129 236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 138 92 200
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,686 £60,788
25th Percentile £65,000 £69,375 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £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 68,398 32,714 75,749
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 89.52% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 45,036 21,221 58,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 10 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 10 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 -29 52 £100,000 -2.44% 15
South East -18 28 £65,000 -13.33% 13
North of England -52 28 £80,000 +28.65% 16
Midlands -27 27 £70,000 -15.15% 9
East Midlands -33 22 £70,000 - 3
South West -41 19 £80,000 +23.79% 2
North West -23 10 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire -55 9 £80,000 +28.65% 3
North East - 9 £60,000 - 9
West Midlands -13 5 £100,000 +21.21% 6
East of England -45 3 £90,000 +38.46%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (35.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 56 (35.22%) Terraform
3 51 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 47 (29.56%) Azure
5 46 (28.93%) AWS
6 43 (27.04%) Kubernetes
7 41 (25.79%) Linux
8 30 (18.87%) Docker
9 29 (18.24%) Python
10 28 (17.61%) Bash
11 25 (15.72%) Containerisation
12 24 (15.09%) Ansible
13 23 (14.47%) Windows
14 21 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (11.95%) Grafana
16 18 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (10.69%) Microservices
17 17 (10.69%) Prometheus
18 16 (10.06%) GitHub
18 16 (10.06%) Go
18 16 (10.06%) Observability
19 15 (9.43%) Configuration Management
19 15 (9.43%) PowerShell
20 14 (8.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 14 (8.81%) Firewall
21 13 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
21 13 (8.18%) DevSecOps
21 13 (8.18%) Jenkins
21 13 (8.18%) Platform Engineering

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 (5.66%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.56%) Azure
2 46 (28.93%) AWS
3 21 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (10.06%) GitHub
6 14 (8.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.92%) GCP
9 9 (5.66%) Serverless
10 8 (5.03%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.03%) npm
10 8 (5.03%) NuGet
10 8 (5.03%) SonarCloud
11 7 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.14%) CloudFront
12 5 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.81%) Firewall
2 8 (5.03%) VPN
3 6 (3.77%) Network Security
4 5 (3.14%) DHCP
4 5 (3.14%) DNS
5 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.55%) Git
3 11 (6.92%) GitLab
4 9 (5.66%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.89%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.26%) JIRA
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (20.13%) Finance
2 18 (11.32%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.55%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.29%) Banking
5 8 (5.03%) Retail
6 2 (1.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.55%) Node.js
2 9 (5.66%) .NET
2 9 (5.66%) YAML
3 8 (5.03%) React
4 7 (4.40%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.77%) Kafka
6 5 (3.14%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.89%) ADO
8 2 (1.26%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.26%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.63%) Next.js
9 1 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.63%) REST
9 1 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.03%) Private Cloud
3 7 (4.40%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.89%) Web3
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.79%) Linux
2 23 (14.47%) Windows
3 6 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (35.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 25 (15.72%) Containerisation
5 17 (10.69%) Microservices
6 16 (10.06%) Observability
7 15 (9.43%) Configuration Management
8 13 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (8.18%) DevSecOps
8 13 (8.18%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (8.18%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.55%) AI
9 12 (7.55%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (6.92%) Cloud Security
10 11 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (6.92%) High Availability
11 10 (6.29%) E-Commerce
11 10 (6.29%) Mentoring
12 7 (4.40%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.24%) Python
2 28 (17.61%) Bash
3 16 (10.06%) Go
4 15 (9.43%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.03%) C#
6 7 (4.40%) SQL
7 5 (3.14%) Bicep
7 5 (3.14%) Java
8 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.63%) Groovy
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (7.55%) AWS Certification
1 12 (7.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (2.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.26%) Degree
5 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.26%) GDPR
1 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.26%) QA
1 2 (1.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (18.87%) Docker
2 5 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.52%) iptables
3 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.26%) vSphere
5 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (35.22%) Terraform
2 43 (27.04%) Kubernetes
3 24 (15.09%) Ansible
4 19 (11.95%) Grafana
5 17 (10.69%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.03%) Proxmox
7 7 (4.40%) Istio
8 5 (3.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.52%) Argo
9 4 (2.52%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.52%) Puppet
10 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.26%) SCCM
11 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (8.18%) VMware
2 8 (5.03%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.14%) Okta
4 5 (3.14%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.52%) Confluent
6 2 (1.26%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.63%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.63%) F5
7 1 (0.63%) Google
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle
7 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds