Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 530 594
Rank change year-on-year +28 +64 -184
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 204 121 261
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 166 62 186
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,800 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £84,688 £100,000 £90,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%

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 79,299 36,015 90,144
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.94% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 55,805 21,039 66,729
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 June 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 23 June 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 +5 53 £73,750 -1.50% 8
London -52 45 £96,250 -3.75% 12
South East +3 35 £65,000 -23.53% 12
Midlands -7 34 £70,000 +19.15% 4
East Midlands -3 22 £70,000 - 2
North West +21 21 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -21 20 £69,655 -6.96% 3
South West -51 20 £65,000 +0.58% 2
West Midlands -12 12 £80,000 +36.17% 2
North East - 12 £69,308 - 2
East of England -21 5 £54,250 -16.54% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 204 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.73%) Azure
4 75 (36.76%) Terraform
5 64 (31.37%) AWS
6 62 (30.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (26.96%) Kubernetes
8 52 (25.49%) Linux
9 47 (23.04%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (18.63%) Windows
11 34 (16.67%) Agile
12 33 (16.18%) Mentoring
12 33 (16.18%) Python
12 33 (16.18%) Test Automation
13 32 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
14 31 (15.20%) Containerisation
15 30 (14.71%) Microservices
16 29 (14.22%) Docker
17 27 (13.24%) Bash
17 27 (13.24%) GitLab
18 26 (12.75%) Platform Engineering
19 25 (12.25%) Java
19 25 (12.25%) Node.js
20 24 (11.76%) Ansible
20 24 (11.76%) Scrum
21 23 (11.27%) Unix
22 22 (10.78%) Argo
22 22 (10.78%) Azure AKS
22 22 (10.78%) Coaching
22 22 (10.78%) Grafana

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 (2.94%) IIS
2 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.73%) Azure
2 64 (31.37%) AWS
3 47 (23.04%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.78%) Azure AKS
5 20 (9.80%) GCP
6 19 (9.31%) GitHub
7 18 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (6.37%) SaaS
11 12 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.90%) Serverless
13 8 (3.92%) Amazon S3
14 7 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.94%) npm
15 6 (2.94%) NuGet
15 6 (2.94%) SonarCloud
16 5 (2.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.37%) Firewall
2 9 (4.41%) DNS
3 8 (3.92%) VPN
4 6 (2.94%) DHCP
4 6 (2.94%) Network Security
5 4 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.78%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.37%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) Metadata
7 1 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (13.24%) GitLab
2 13 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.88%) Git
4 5 (2.45%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.45%) JIRA
5 3 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.98%) MSI
7 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (18.63%) Public Sector
2 23 (11.27%) Finance
3 11 (5.39%) Banking
4 10 (4.90%) Social Skills
5 8 (3.92%) Retail
6 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.25%) Node.js
2 9 (4.41%) Kafka
2 9 (4.41%) YAML
3 7 (3.43%) React
4 6 (2.94%) .NET
4 6 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.94%) ADO
5 4 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.47%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.47%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.98%) Spring
7 2 (0.98%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.49%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.49%) JSON
8 1 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.92%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.94%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.49%) Linux
2 38 (18.63%) Windows
3 23 (11.27%) Unix
4 6 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 62 (30.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (16.67%) Agile
5 33 (16.18%) Mentoring
5 33 (16.18%) Test Automation
6 32 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
7 31 (15.20%) Containerisation
8 30 (14.71%) Microservices
9 26 (12.75%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (11.76%) Scrum
11 22 (10.78%) Coaching
12 21 (10.29%) DevSecOps
13 19 (9.31%) Observability
14 18 (8.82%) AI
15 13 (6.37%) Configuration Management
15 13 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
17 11 (5.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.18%) Python
2 27 (13.24%) Bash
3 25 (12.25%) Java
4 17 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.86%) Go
6 11 (5.39%) SQL
7 7 (3.43%) C#
8 4 (1.96%) Bicep
9 3 (1.47%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.49%) Groovy
10 1 (0.49%) Perl
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 10 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.94%) Degree
5 5 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.43%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) GDPR
2 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.98%) PMO
2 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (14.22%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.96%) iptables
4 3 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (36.76%) Terraform
2 55 (26.96%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.76%) Ansible
4 22 (10.78%) Argo
4 22 (10.78%) Grafana
5 21 (10.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.92%) Proxmox
7 7 (3.43%) Istio
8 6 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.96%) Puppet
10 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.98%) SCCM
11 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (8.33%) Pega
2 13 (6.37%) VMware
3 12 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.43%) Google
4 7 (3.43%) Okta
5 6 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.94%) OneLogin
6 4 (1.96%) Confluent
6 4 (1.96%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.98%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.98%) OpenText
7 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.98%) Splunk
7 2 (0.98%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.49%) IBM
8 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle