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 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 457 371
Rank change year-on-year -100 -86 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 93 322 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.47% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.49% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 41 163 366
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,625 £97,188
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 39,014 65,405 51,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.19% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,405 39,738 39,633
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +10 44 £86,250 -4.17% 23
North of England -40 20 £70,000 +41.41% 14
North West -46 14 £70,000 -12.50% 11
South West +66 10 £52,500 -34.38% 1
South East -19 9 £85,000 +13.33% 16
Yorkshire 0 5 £70,000 +41.41% 2
West Midlands +42 4 £70,000 - 4
Midlands +38 4 £70,000 - 4
East of England -4 2 £86,250 +11.29% 4
North East +19 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 17 September 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 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (76.34%) AWS
3 61 (65.59%) CI/CD
4 44 (47.31%) Terraform
5 40 (43.01%) Agile
6 38 (40.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (38.71%) Kubernetes
8 35 (37.63%) Python
9 33 (35.48%) Azure
10 31 (33.33%) Docker
11 28 (30.11%) Cloud Native
12 26 (27.96%) Mentoring
12 26 (27.96%) IBM
13 25 (26.88%) Artificial Intelligence
13 25 (26.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (24.73%) Containerisation
14 23 (24.73%) Finance
15 22 (23.66%) Ansible
16 21 (22.58%) GCP
16 21 (22.58%) Management Information System
17 19 (20.43%) Disaster Recovery
17 19 (20.43%) Software Engineering
17 19 (20.43%) Coaching
17 19 (20.43%) Public Sector
18 18 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (19.35%) Java
19 17 (18.28%) Red Hat
19 17 (18.28%) Linux
19 17 (18.28%) e-Learning
19 17 (18.28%) AWS Certification

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 2 (2.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 71 (76.34%) AWS
2 33 (35.48%) Azure
3 21 (22.58%) GCP
4 18 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.83%) GitHub
7 10 (10.75%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.60%) Serverless
10 7 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.38%) Datadog
12 4 (4.30%) Apigee
12 4 (4.30%) CloudFront
12 4 (4.30%) Kong
13 3 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Firewall
2 2 (2.15%) DNS
2 2 (2.15%) Network Security
2 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.15%) VPN
3 1 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.30%) KDB
3 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.15%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.83%) GitLab
3 10 (10.75%) Git
4 7 (7.53%) Maven
5 6 (6.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.38%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.38%) IntelliJ
6 5 (5.38%) JIRA
6 5 (5.38%) JUnit
6 5 (5.38%) Mockito
7 2 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.08%) git-flow
8 1 (1.08%) Gradle
8 1 (1.08%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (26.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (24.73%) Finance
3 19 (20.43%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.90%) Banking
5 8 (8.60%) Law
6 7 (7.53%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.38%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (5.38%) JMS
2 5 (5.38%) Spring
2 5 (5.38%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.30%) OpenAPI
3 4 (4.30%) RESTful
3 4 (4.30%) Swagger
4 3 (3.23%) YAML
5 2 (2.15%) .NET
5 2 (2.15%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.15%) Kafka
5 2 (2.15%) Node.js
5 2 (2.15%) React
6 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.11%) Cloud Native
2 21 (22.58%) Management Information System
3 17 (18.28%) e-Learning
3 17 (18.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.38%) Credit Derivative
4 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.30%) Equities
6 3 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.08%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.08%) Online Games
8 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.28%) Linux
2 7 (7.53%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (65.59%) CI/CD
3 40 (43.01%) Agile
4 38 (40.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (27.96%) Mentoring
6 25 (26.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 23 (24.73%) Containerisation
8 19 (20.43%) Coaching
8 19 (20.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (20.43%) Software Engineering
9 16 (17.20%) Architectural Design
9 16 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (15.05%) Microservices
11 13 (13.98%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (13.98%) SDLC
12 12 (12.90%) Data Management
12 12 (12.90%) Data Privacy
12 12 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (12.90%) Technology Roadmap
12 12 (12.90%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.63%) Python
2 18 (19.35%) Java
3 15 (16.13%) Go
4 14 (15.05%) SQL
5 13 (13.98%) C#
6 11 (11.83%) Bash
7 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.38%) C++
10 4 (4.30%) Lua
11 2 (2.15%) Ruby
11 2 (2.15%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) AWS Certification
2 15 (16.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 15 (16.13%) Azure Certification
3 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.98%) GDPR
1 13 (13.98%) HIPAA
2 12 (12.90%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.08%) iptables
Systems Management
1 44 (47.31%) Terraform
2 36 (38.71%) Kubernetes
3 22 (23.66%) Ansible
4 15 (16.13%) Grafana
5 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.23%) Argo
6 3 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.15%) Istio
8 1 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) IBM
2 17 (18.28%) Red Hat
3 12 (12.90%) Google
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.30%) MKS
4 4 (4.30%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.15%) Confluent
5 2 (2.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle