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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 537 518
Rank change year-on-year +43 -19 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 247 111 280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.26% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.28% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 199 50 173
10th Percentile £60,000 £54,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £68,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +8.06% -8.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,001 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.20% -10.29%

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 85,184 39,343 71,903
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 90.58% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 59,787 23,812 50,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +29 88 £75,000 +0.17% 14
London -44 43 £90,000 -10.00% 35
North West +14 42 £75,000 - 10
Midlands -2 39 £70,000 - 2
South East -11 31 £83,750 -1.47% 6
South West -43 27 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Yorkshire -12 26 £69,655 -0.49% 1
East Midlands -5 24 £70,000 -
North East -32 20 £69,310 -7.59% 3
West Midlands -17 15 £80,000 +14.29% 2
East of England -21 4 £54,250 -39.72% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 247 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (44.13%) CI/CD
3 98 (39.68%) Azure
4 79 (31.98%) Terraform
5 68 (27.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (27.13%) AWS
7 55 (22.27%) Kubernetes
8 49 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (19.84%) Mentoring
9 48 (19.43%) Linux
10 46 (18.62%) Agile
11 40 (16.19%) Python
12 39 (15.79%) Test Automation
12 39 (15.79%) Windows
13 35 (14.17%) Containerisation
14 34 (13.77%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (13.36%) Platform Engineering
16 32 (12.96%) Coaching
16 32 (12.96%) Docker
16 32 (12.96%) Java
17 31 (12.55%) GitLab
17 31 (12.55%) Scrum
17 31 (12.55%) Unix
18 30 (12.15%) AI
18 30 (12.15%) Pega
19 28 (11.34%) Ansible
19 28 (11.34%) Microservices
20 25 (10.12%) DevSecOps
20 25 (10.12%) Node.js
20 25 (10.12%) Security Cleared

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 (1.62%) IIS
2 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 98 (39.68%) Azure
2 67 (27.13%) AWS
3 49 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (9.31%) Azure AKS
5 20 (8.10%) GitHub
6 19 (7.69%) GCP
7 18 (7.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (6.48%) SaaS
9 15 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.64%) Serverless
12 7 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.43%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.43%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.02%) Azure API Management
14 5 (2.02%) Datadog
14 5 (2.02%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.86%) Firewall
2 7 (2.83%) DNS
3 5 (2.02%) VPN
4 4 (1.62%) DHCP
4 4 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.21%) Network Security
6 2 (0.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.91%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.43%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) MySQL
7 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.40%) Power BI
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (12.55%) GitLab
2 14 (5.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.05%) Git
4 6 (2.43%) JIRA
5 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.21%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.81%) MSI
6 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
General
1 42 (17.00%) Public Sector
2 20 (8.10%) Finance
3 14 (5.67%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.45%) Banking
5 5 (2.02%) Retail
6 2 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.40%) Law
7 1 (0.40%) Legal
7 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.12%) Node.js
2 9 (3.64%) Kafka
2 9 (3.64%) Spring
2 9 (3.64%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.83%) YAML
4 6 (2.43%) ADO
5 5 (2.02%) .NET
5 5 (2.02%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.02%) React
6 4 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.81%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.81%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.40%) JSON
8 1 (0.40%) Middleware
8 1 (0.40%) RESTful
8 1 (0.40%) Web Services
8 1 (0.40%) XML
8 1 (0.40%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.43%) Private Cloud
3 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.43%) Linux
2 39 (15.79%) Windows
3 31 (12.55%) Unix
4 4 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (44.13%) CI/CD
3 68 (27.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (19.84%) Mentoring
5 46 (18.62%) Agile
6 39 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 35 (14.17%) Containerisation
8 34 (13.77%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (13.36%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (12.96%) Coaching
11 31 (12.55%) Scrum
12 30 (12.15%) AI
13 28 (11.34%) Microservices
14 25 (10.12%) DevSecOps
15 23 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (7.29%) Observability
18 15 (6.07%) Case Management
19 14 (5.67%) Infrastructure Automation
19 14 (5.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.19%) Python
2 32 (12.96%) Java
3 20 (8.10%) Bash
4 17 (6.88%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.26%) Go
5 13 (5.26%) SQL
6 5 (2.02%) C#
7 4 (1.62%) Bicep
8 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.45%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.83%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.43%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.43%) Degree
6 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.24%) QA
2 2 (0.81%) GDPR
2 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.81%) PMO
2 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (12.96%) Docker
2 6 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.62%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.81%) iptables
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (31.98%) Terraform
2 55 (22.27%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.34%) Ansible
4 22 (8.91%) Argo
5 16 (6.48%) Grafana
6 14 (5.67%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.83%) Istio
8 5 (2.02%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.62%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.81%) Puppet
11 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.15%) Pega
2 14 (5.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.05%) VMware
4 7 (2.83%) Google
5 5 (2.02%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.02%) Okta
5 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.62%) Confluent
6 4 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.62%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.21%) Splunk
8 2 (0.81%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.81%) OpenText
9 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle