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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 475 521
Rank change year-on-year -47 +46 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 116 179 239
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.46% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 98 117 221
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £61,180
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -4.48%

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 55,872 38,823 63,368
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 91.19% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 36,054 20,919 50,547
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -26 41 £100,000 -2.44% 11
Midlands +9 21 £70,000 - 1
South East -30 21 £65,000 -13.33% 17
South West -6 20 £80,000 +23.79% 1
East Midlands -10 16 £70,000 -
North of England -21 9 £70,000 +41.41% 11
West Midlands +9 5 £85,000 +13.33% 1
North West +7 5 £67,500 - 4
East of England 0 3 £90,000 +38.46% 5
Yorkshire -40 2 £67,500 +36.36% 1
North East - 2 £82,500 - 6
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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.

1 116 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (34.48%) Terraform
4 38 (32.76%) CI/CD
5 36 (31.03%) AWS
6 34 (29.31%) Linux
7 33 (28.45%) Kubernetes
8 29 (25.00%) Azure
9 27 (23.28%) Docker
10 23 (19.83%) Bash
11 22 (18.97%) Ansible
12 20 (17.24%) Grafana
13 19 (16.38%) Python
14 16 (13.79%) Containerisation
15 15 (12.93%) Prometheus
16 14 (12.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (12.07%) Configuration Management
16 14 (12.07%) Windows
17 13 (11.21%) Observability
18 12 (10.34%) PowerShell
18 12 (10.34%) VMware
19 11 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
19 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
20 10 (8.62%) AWS Certification
20 10 (8.62%) E-Commerce
20 10 (8.62%) GitHub
20 10 (8.62%) High Availability
20 10 (8.62%) Microservices
20 10 (8.62%) 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 6 (5.17%) IIS
2 1 (0.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.03%) AWS
2 29 (25.00%) Azure
3 14 (12.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.62%) GitHub
6 9 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.17%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.31%) npm
8 5 (4.31%) NuGet
8 5 (4.31%) Serverless
8 5 (4.31%) SonarCloud
9 4 (3.45%) GCP
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.59%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.59%) Rubrik
10 3 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) Firewall
2 6 (5.17%) VPN
3 5 (4.31%) Network Security
4 3 (2.59%) DHCP
4 3 (2.59%) DNS
5 1 (0.86%) AMQP
5 1 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.59%) MySQL
4 2 (1.72%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Git
2 7 (6.03%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.86%) git-flow
5 1 (0.86%) Gradle
5 1 (0.86%) JIRA
5 1 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 23 (19.83%) Finance
2 9 (7.76%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.17%) Retail
5 1 (0.86%) Automotive
5 1 (0.86%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) .NET
2 7 (6.03%) Node.js
2 7 (6.03%) React
3 6 (5.17%) YAML
4 4 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.72%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.72%) WCF
7 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.86%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.86%) J2EE
7 1 (0.86%) Kafka
7 1 (0.86%) Next.js
7 1 (0.86%) RESTful
7 1 (0.86%) Spring
7 1 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.17%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.17%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Web3
5 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.86%) Derivative
5 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.86%) PKI
5 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.31%) Linux
2 14 (12.07%) Windows
3 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 2 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (32.76%) CI/CD
4 16 (13.79%) Containerisation
5 14 (12.07%) Configuration Management
6 13 (11.21%) Observability
7 10 (8.62%) E-Commerce
7 10 (8.62%) High Availability
7 10 (8.62%) Microservices
7 10 (8.62%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (7.76%) AI
8 9 (7.76%) Cloud Security
8 9 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (6.90%) DevSecOps
9 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (6.90%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.03%) Integration Testing
11 6 (5.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.83%) Bash
2 19 (16.38%) Python
3 12 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.76%) Go
5 5 (4.31%) C#
6 4 (3.45%) Bicep
6 4 (3.45%) SQL
7 2 (1.72%) Java
7 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.62%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.72%) Degree
4 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 27 (23.28%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.59%) iptables
3 2 (1.72%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (34.48%) Terraform
2 33 (28.45%) Kubernetes
3 22 (18.97%) Ansible
4 20 (17.24%) Grafana
5 15 (12.93%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.17%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.59%) Puppet
7 3 (2.59%) SCCM
8 2 (1.72%) Argo
9 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 12 (10.34%) VMware
2 5 (4.31%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.59%) Okta
3 3 (2.59%) OneLogin
3 3 (2.59%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.86%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.86%) F5
4 1 (0.86%) Google
4 1 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.86%) SolarWinds