Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 549 478
Rank change year-on-year +66 -71 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 265 99 301
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.23% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.25% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 207 44 162
10th Percentile £60,150 £55,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 89,383 39,648 68,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 90.60% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62,829 23,898 46,485
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +42 100 £75,000 +7.14% 10
North West +23 48 £75,000 - 5
London -46 46 £90,000 - 27
Midlands +2 44 £70,000 - 2
South East -8 31 £85,000 - 8
Yorkshire -4 26 £69,655 -0.49% 2
North East -31 26 £69,310 -7.59% 3
South West -47 25 £75,000 +36.36% 7
East Midlands +4 24 £70,000 -
West Midlands -10 20 £80,000 +14.29% 2
East of England -24 4 £54,250 -37.10% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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.

1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (43.02%) CI/CD
3 107 (40.38%) Azure
4 80 (30.19%) Terraform
5 70 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 68 (25.66%) AWS
7 58 (21.89%) Kubernetes
8 57 (21.51%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (19.25%) Agile
10 50 (18.87%) Mentoring
11 48 (18.11%) Linux
12 42 (15.85%) Test Automation
13 40 (15.09%) Python
14 39 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
15 38 (14.34%) Containerisation
15 38 (14.34%) GitLab
15 38 (14.34%) Windows
16 37 (13.96%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (13.21%) Docker
18 34 (12.83%) Java
19 33 (12.45%) Coaching
20 32 (12.08%) Security Cleared
21 31 (11.70%) Scrum
21 31 (11.70%) Unix
22 30 (11.32%) Pega
23 28 (10.57%) AI
23 28 (10.57%) Ansible
23 28 (10.57%) Microservices
24 25 (9.43%) DevSecOps
24 25 (9.43%) Node.js

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 4 (1.51%) IIS
2 3 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 107 (40.38%) Azure
2 68 (25.66%) AWS
3 57 (21.51%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.06%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.17%) GCP
6 18 (6.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (6.79%) GitHub
7 16 (6.04%) SaaS
8 13 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.15%) Serverless
10 10 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.26%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.26%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.89%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.89%) Datadog
14 4 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.77%) Firewall
2 7 (2.64%) DNS
3 4 (1.51%) DHCP
3 4 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.13%) VPN
5 2 (0.75%) SAN
6 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.30%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.75%) Power BI
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) Metadata
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL
7 1 (0.38%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (14.34%) GitLab
2 16 (6.04%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.77%) Git
4 6 (2.26%) JIRA
5 5 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.13%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.75%) MSI
8 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
General
1 42 (15.85%) Public Sector
2 22 (8.30%) Finance
3 15 (5.66%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.15%) Banking
5 3 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.13%) Law
5 3 (1.13%) Retail
6 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.75%) Legal
6 2 (0.75%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.43%) Node.js
2 11 (4.15%) Spring
2 11 (4.15%) Spring Boot
3 9 (3.40%) Kafka
4 7 (2.64%) .NET
4 7 (2.64%) YAML
5 6 (2.26%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.26%) ADO
6 5 (1.89%) React
7 4 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.13%) XML
9 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.75%) XSLT
10 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.38%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.64%) Private Cloud
3 4 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.11%) Linux
2 38 (14.34%) Windows
3 31 (11.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (43.02%) CI/CD
3 70 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (19.25%) Agile
5 50 (18.87%) Mentoring
6 42 (15.85%) Test Automation
7 39 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
8 38 (14.34%) Containerisation
9 37 (13.96%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.45%) Coaching
11 31 (11.70%) Scrum
12 28 (10.57%) AI
12 28 (10.57%) Microservices
13 25 (9.43%) DevSecOps
14 22 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (8.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 19 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (6.79%) Technical Leadership
17 17 (6.42%) Infrastructure Automation
17 17 (6.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.09%) Python
2 34 (12.83%) Java
3 18 (6.79%) Bash
4 17 (6.42%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.04%) SQL
6 11 (4.15%) Go
7 5 (1.89%) C#
8 4 (1.51%) Bicep
9 3 (1.13%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.13%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.75%) XPath
11 1 (0.38%) Groovy
11 1 (0.38%) Perl
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) Scala
11 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.04%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.64%) Degree
5 6 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.02%) QA
2 2 (0.75%) GDPR
2 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.75%) PMO
2 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (13.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.51%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.38%) iptables
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (30.19%) Terraform
2 58 (21.89%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.57%) Ansible
4 22 (8.30%) Argo
5 13 (4.91%) Grafana
6 11 (4.15%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.64%) Istio
8 4 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.51%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.13%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.75%) Puppet
11 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (11.32%) Pega
2 16 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.02%) VMware
4 7 (2.64%) Google
5 5 (1.89%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.89%) Okta
5 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.51%) Confluent
6 4 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.51%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.13%) Splunk
8 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.75%) OpenText
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle
9 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.38%) IBM
9 1 (0.38%) OpenAI