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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 504 609
Rank change year-on-year -5 +105 -195
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 196 122 258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 157 63 184
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,100 £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 £85,000 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +3.13% -5.88%

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 78,810 35,838 90,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.06% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 55,430 20,848 67,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,969 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%
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 20 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 20 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 +8 51 £73,750 -1.50% 16
London -48 45 £98,750 -1.25% 9
South East +2 34 £65,000 -23.53% 10
Midlands +1 31 £70,000 +19.15% 7
North West +16 21 £80,000 - 7
East Midlands -13 21 £70,000 - 2
South West -55 20 £65,000 +0.58% 4
Yorkshire -29 19 £69,310 -7.43% 6
North East - 11 £69,310 - 3
West Midlands -10 10 £80,000 +36.17% 5
East of England -16 5 £54,250 -16.54% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 196 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (41.84%) CI/CD
3 75 (38.27%) Azure
4 74 (37.76%) Terraform
5 60 (30.61%) AWS
5 60 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (28.06%) Kubernetes
7 49 (25.00%) Linux
8 46 (23.47%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (17.86%) Windows
10 33 (16.84%) Python
11 31 (15.82%) Containerisation
12 30 (15.31%) Agile
12 30 (15.31%) Microservices
12 30 (15.31%) Test Automation
13 29 (14.80%) Continuous Integration
13 29 (14.80%) Docker
13 29 (14.80%) Mentoring
14 27 (13.78%) Bash
14 27 (13.78%) GitLab
15 26 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
16 25 (12.76%) Java
16 25 (12.76%) Node.js
17 24 (12.24%) Ansible
18 22 (11.22%) Argo
18 22 (11.22%) Grafana
18 22 (11.22%) MongoDB
19 21 (10.71%) Azure AKS
19 21 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
19 21 (10.71%) Prometheus

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 (3.06%) IIS
2 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.27%) Azure
2 60 (30.61%) AWS
3 46 (23.47%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.71%) Azure AKS
5 20 (10.20%) GCP
6 19 (9.69%) GitHub
7 18 (9.18%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (6.12%) SaaS
11 10 (5.10%) Serverless
12 8 (4.08%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.06%) npm
14 6 (3.06%) NuGet
14 6 (3.06%) SonarCloud
15 5 (2.55%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.63%) Firewall
2 9 (4.59%) DNS
3 8 (4.08%) VPN
4 6 (3.06%) DHCP
4 6 (3.06%) Network Security
5 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.22%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata
7 1 (0.51%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (13.78%) GitLab
2 13 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.12%) Git
4 5 (2.55%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.55%) JIRA
5 3 (1.53%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.02%) MSI
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (17.35%) Public Sector
2 23 (11.73%) Finance
3 11 (5.61%) Banking
4 10 (5.10%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.08%) Retail
6 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.51%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.76%) Node.js
2 9 (4.59%) Kafka
2 9 (4.59%) YAML
3 7 (3.57%) React
4 6 (3.06%) .NET
4 6 (3.06%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.06%) ADO
5 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.53%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.53%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.02%) Spring
7 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.51%) JSON
8 1 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.51%) REST
8 1 (0.51%) RESTful
8 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.08%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.06%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.00%) Linux
2 35 (17.86%) Windows
3 20 (10.20%) Unix
4 6 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (41.84%) CI/CD
3 60 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (15.82%) Containerisation
5 30 (15.31%) Agile
5 30 (15.31%) Microservices
5 30 (15.31%) Test Automation
6 29 (14.80%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (14.80%) Mentoring
7 26 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (10.71%) Scrum
9 20 (10.20%) DevSecOps
10 19 (9.69%) AI
10 19 (9.69%) Coaching
10 19 (9.69%) Observability
11 13 (6.63%) Configuration Management
11 13 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.12%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (5.61%) Analytics
13 11 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.84%) Python
2 27 (13.78%) Bash
3 25 (12.76%) Java
4 17 (8.67%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.14%) Go
6 11 (5.61%) SQL
7 7 (3.57%) C#
8 4 (2.04%) Bicep
9 3 (1.53%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.51%) Groovy
10 1 (0.51%) Perl
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.12%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.06%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.06%) Degree
5 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.06%) QA
2 2 (1.02%) GDPR
2 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.02%) PMO
2 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (14.80%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.04%) iptables
4 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (37.76%) Terraform
2 55 (28.06%) Kubernetes
3 24 (12.24%) Ansible
4 22 (11.22%) Argo
4 22 (11.22%) Grafana
5 21 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.08%) Proxmox
7 7 (3.57%) Istio
8 6 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.04%) Puppet
10 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.02%) SCCM
11 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.51%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (6.63%) VMware
2 12 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.61%) Pega
4 7 (3.57%) Google
4 7 (3.57%) Okta
5 6 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (3.06%) OneLogin
6 4 (2.04%) Confluent
7 3 (1.53%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.02%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.02%) OpenText
8 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.02%) Splunk
8 2 (1.02%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.51%) IBM
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle