Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 452 388
Rank change year-on-year -83 -64 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 72 288 353
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.47% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.50% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 52 154 312
10th Percentile £56,375 £48,250 £57,625
25th Percentile £64,688 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £77,500 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% -7.74% -0.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,870 58,044 44,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 94.37% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27,008 32,905 34,377
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,955 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,828 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -19 30 £90,000 -10.00% 35
North of England +1 17 £72,500 +46.46% 8
North West +23 12 £67,500 -15.63% 7
Midlands +52 8 £80,000 +14.29% 5
West Midlands +52 6 £87,500 +25.00% 3
South West +27 6 £72,500 -3.33% 8
South East -29 6 £82,500 +10.00% 13
North East - 3 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands +26 2 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Yorkshire +1 2 £59,750 +20.71%
East of England +30 1 £82,500 +6.45% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, 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 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (65.28%) AWS
3 44 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 37 (51.39%) Terraform
5 33 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (45.83%) Kubernetes
6 29 (40.28%) Docker
6 29 (40.28%) Python
7 22 (30.56%) Agile
7 22 (30.56%) Azure
8 19 (26.39%) Containerisation
9 18 (25.00%) Ansible
10 17 (23.61%) Linux
11 16 (22.22%) Grafana
12 14 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (18.06%) Bash
13 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (16.67%) Microservices
15 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (15.28%) AWS Certification
15 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (15.28%) GCP
15 11 (15.28%) GitHub
15 11 (15.28%) Mentoring
16 10 (13.89%) Architectural Design
16 10 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification
16 10 (13.89%) Go
16 10 (13.89%) Java
16 10 (13.89%) Observability

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 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 47 (65.28%) AWS
2 22 (30.56%) Azure
3 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.28%) GCP
3 11 (15.28%) GitHub
4 9 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.72%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.94%) Serverless
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (4.17%) Apigee
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (4.17%) Kong
9 3 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
3 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) AMQP
4 1 (1.39%) DHCP
4 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.17%) KDB
3 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.78%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 6 (8.33%) GitLab
3 5 (6.94%) Artifactory
3 5 (6.94%) Git
4 3 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.39%) git-flow
6 1 (1.39%) Gradle
6 1 (1.39%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (31.94%) Finance
2 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Banking
3 8 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.33%) Law
5 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Games
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (5.56%) .NET
3 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.17%) OpenAPI
3 3 (4.17%) RESTful
3 3 (4.17%) Swagger
3 3 (4.17%) YAML
4 2 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.78%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.78%) React
4 2 (2.78%) WCF
5 1 (1.39%) J2EE
5 1 (1.39%) Kafka
5 1 (1.39%) Node.js
5 1 (1.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.89%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Equities
3 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.78%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.78%) Web3
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Derivative
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.39%) Online Games
5 1 (1.39%) PKI
5 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Unix
3 4 (5.56%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 33 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (30.56%) Agile
5 19 (26.39%) Containerisation
6 14 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.67%) Microservices
9 11 (15.28%) Mentoring
10 10 (13.89%) Architectural Design
10 10 (13.89%) Observability
10 10 (13.89%) Software Engineering
11 9 (12.50%) High Availability
12 8 (11.11%) AI
12 8 (11.11%) E-Commerce
12 8 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 7 (9.72%) Data Management
13 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Architecture
13 7 (9.72%) Technology Roadmap
13 7 (9.72%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.28%) Python
2 13 (18.06%) Bash
3 10 (13.89%) Go
3 10 (13.89%) Java
3 10 (13.89%) SQL
4 8 (11.11%) C#
5 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.17%) Lua
7 2 (2.78%) Bicep
7 2 (2.78%) Ruby
7 2 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) AWS Certification
2 10 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification
3 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) GDPR
1 8 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 7 (9.72%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (40.28%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.78%) vSphere
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) iptables
Systems Management
1 37 (51.39%) Terraform
2 33 (45.83%) Kubernetes
3 18 (25.00%) Ansible
4 16 (22.22%) Grafana
5 8 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.17%) Argo
6 3 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.39%) Puppet
7 1 (1.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Google
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.17%) MKS
3 3 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.17%) VMware
4 2 (2.78%) IBM
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.39%) Okta
5 1 (1.39%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.39%) Zscaler