Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 593 402
Rank change year-on-year +19 -191 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 118 260 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.28% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.29% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 58 187 464
10th Percentile £59,600 £49,300 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -8.82% +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 47,172 88,198 71,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.68% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25,926 63,895 48,938
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in England.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +46 63 £100,001 +21.21% 124
North of England -5 21 £74,870 +14.37% 45
South West +82 12 £64,627 -19.22% 17
North West -48 11 £75,000 -11.76% 27
Yorkshire +42 9 £70,000 +41.41% 17
South East +58 8 £85,000 +13.33% 37
East of England +37 7 £68,750 -5.17% 17
Midlands +85 5 £70,000 +7.69% 21
West Midlands +65 3 £70,000 -9.95% 13
East Midlands +38 2 - - 8
North East +45 1 £75,000 +14.57% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (73.73%) AWS
3 76 (64.41%) CI/CD
4 55 (46.61%) Terraform
5 44 (37.29%) Kubernetes
6 43 (36.44%) Agile
6 43 (36.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (35.59%) Azure
7 42 (35.59%) Python
8 39 (33.05%) Finance
9 37 (31.36%) Ansible
10 36 (30.51%) Docker
11 34 (28.81%) IBM
12 29 (24.58%) Mentoring
13 28 (23.73%) Cloud Native
14 27 (22.88%) Management Information System
14 27 (22.88%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (22.03%) Containerisation
15 26 (22.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (22.03%) GCP
16 25 (21.19%) Jenkins
16 25 (21.19%) Java
16 25 (21.19%) Artificial Intelligence
17 23 (19.49%) Disaster Recovery
18 21 (17.80%) Software Engineering
18 21 (17.80%) Microservices
19 20 (16.95%) Linux
19 20 (16.95%) Architectural Design
20 19 (16.10%) Coaching
21 18 (15.25%) SDLC

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.08%) Confluence
2 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 87 (73.73%) AWS
2 42 (35.59%) Azure
3 27 (22.88%) Amazon EKS
4 26 (22.03%) GCP
5 15 (12.71%) GitHub
6 12 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.32%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.32%) Datadog
7 11 (9.32%) Serverless
8 10 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.39%) Apigee
11 4 (3.39%) CloudFront
11 4 (3.39%) Kong
12 3 (2.54%) IaaS
12 3 (2.54%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) Network Security
3 2 (1.69%) LAN
3 2 (1.69%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.69%) VPN
3 2 (1.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.85%) IPsec
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.41%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.39%) KDB
4 4 (3.39%) MySQL
5 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (21.19%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.71%) Git
2 15 (12.71%) GitLab
3 11 (9.32%) JIRA
3 11 (9.32%) Maven
4 10 (8.47%) Bitbucket
4 10 (8.47%) Cucumber
4 10 (8.47%) IntelliJ
4 10 (8.47%) JUnit
4 10 (8.47%) Mockito
5 4 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.54%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (2.54%) Selenium
6 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.85%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 39 (33.05%) Finance
2 26 (22.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (15.25%) Banking
3 18 (15.25%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.86%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.78%) Law
6 2 (1.69%) Legal
6 2 (1.69%) Retail
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Automotive
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Front Office
7 1 (0.85%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.47%) ActiveMQ
1 10 (8.47%) JMS
1 10 (8.47%) Spring
1 10 (8.47%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.24%) OpenAPI
3 5 (4.24%) RESTful
3 5 (4.24%) Swagger
4 4 (3.39%) Kafka
4 4 (3.39%) YAML
5 3 (2.54%) Django
5 3 (2.54%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.54%) Flask
5 3 (2.54%) Node.js
5 3 (2.54%) Playwright
5 3 (2.54%) React
6 2 (1.69%) .NET
6 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.69%) Vue
7 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 27 (22.88%) Management Information System
3 17 (14.41%) e-Learning
3 17 (14.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (8.47%) Credit Derivative
4 10 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.39%) Equities
6 4 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.54%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.54%) PKI
8 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.85%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.95%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Unix
3 3 (2.54%) Windows
4 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (100.00%) DevOps
2 76 (64.41%) CI/CD
3 43 (36.44%) Agile
3 43 (36.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (24.58%) Mentoring
5 26 (22.03%) Containerisation
6 25 (21.19%) Artificial Intelligence
7 23 (19.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (17.80%) Microservices
8 21 (17.80%) Software Engineering
9 20 (16.95%) Architectural Design
10 19 (16.10%) Coaching
11 18 (15.25%) SDLC
12 17 (14.41%) Deployment Automation
13 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.86%) Analytics
14 14 (11.86%) Data Management
14 14 (11.86%) Data Privacy
14 14 (11.86%) Roadmaps
15 13 (11.02%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.59%) Python
2 25 (21.19%) Java
3 16 (13.56%) SQL
4 15 (12.71%) Go
5 14 (11.86%) C#
6 12 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.47%) Bash
7 10 (8.47%) C++
8 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.39%) Lua
10 3 (2.54%) Groovy
10 3 (2.54%) Ruby
11 2 (1.69%) PHP
11 2 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) AWS Certification
2 15 (12.71%) Azure Certification
3 14 (11.86%) Security Cleared
4 13 (11.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.54%) OCP
7 3 (2.54%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) Degree
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) GDPR
1 14 (11.86%) HIPAA
2 13 (11.02%) NIST
3 4 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 36 (30.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 55 (46.61%) Terraform
2 44 (37.29%) Kubernetes
3 37 (31.36%) Ansible
4 10 (8.47%) Grafana
5 8 (6.78%) Progress Chef
6 6 (5.08%) Istio
6 6 (5.08%) Prometheus
7 5 (4.24%) Argo
8 2 (1.69%) Puppet
9 1 (0.85%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.85%) logstash
9 1 (0.85%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.85%) Packer
9 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (28.81%) IBM
2 18 (15.25%) Red Hat
3 13 (11.02%) Google
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.39%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.39%) MKS
5 4 (3.39%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.54%) Confluent
6 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.54%) Splunk
6 3 (2.54%) VMware
7 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.85%) Imperva
7 1 (0.85%) Okta
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) Snow