Senior DevOps Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 559 456
Rank change year-on-year +97 -103 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 322 90 313
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.21% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.23% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 246 41 162
10th Percentile £63,626 £52,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £78,250 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.19% +6.67% -6.25%

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 96,605 39,114 63,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 90.49% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67,796 23,044 36,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +44 127 £77,500 +10.71% 70
North West +23 70 £75,000 +11.11% 45
Midlands -2 52 £70,000 - 17
South East -6 48 £95,000 +33.33% 31
London -65 41 £90,000 +9.09% 116
South West -50 36 £75,000 +38.89% 22
Yorkshire -15 29 £70,000 - 12
North East -35 28 £80,000 +6.67% 13
East Midlands - 28 £70,000 - 11
West Midlands -22 24 £80,000 +14.29% 6
East of England -38 4 £54,250 -37.10% 10
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 322 (100.00%) DevOps
2 135 (41.93%) CI/CD
3 112 (34.78%) Azure
4 81 (25.16%) Terraform
5 79 (24.53%) AWS
6 72 (22.36%) Kubernetes
7 71 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 65 (20.19%) Agile
9 61 (18.94%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (17.39%) Linux
10 56 (17.39%) Mentoring
11 49 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
12 46 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 39 (12.11%) Coaching
13 39 (12.11%) Containerisation
13 39 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
13 39 (12.11%) Security Cleared
14 38 (11.80%) Python
15 37 (11.49%) AI
15 37 (11.49%) GitLab
16 36 (11.18%) Scrum
16 36 (11.18%) Unix
17 35 (10.87%) Docker
18 34 (10.56%) Ansible
18 34 (10.56%) Java
19 33 (10.25%) Windows
20 31 (9.63%) Microsoft
21 30 (9.32%) Pega
22 29 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
23 27 (8.39%) Azure AKS

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 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.62%) IIS
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 112 (34.78%) Azure
2 79 (24.53%) AWS
3 61 (18.94%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (8.39%) Azure AKS
5 23 (7.14%) GitHub
6 20 (6.21%) SaaS
7 18 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.97%) GCP
9 11 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.17%) Serverless
12 6 (1.86%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.55%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.93%) Datadog
14 3 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.04%) Firewall
2 8 (2.48%) DNS
2 8 (2.48%) VPN
3 2 (0.62%) DHCP
3 2 (0.62%) SAN
3 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.62%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.52%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.62%) Power BI
4 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.31%) Db2
5 1 (0.31%) Metadata
5 1 (0.31%) MySQL
5 1 (0.31%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 37 (11.49%) GitLab
2 9 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.17%) JIRA
4 6 (1.86%) Git
5 5 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.62%) MSI
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) Snyk
General
1 44 (13.66%) Public Sector
2 13 (4.04%) Finance
2 13 (4.04%) Social Skills
3 6 (1.86%) Retail
4 4 (1.24%) Banking
5 3 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (0.93%) Law
6 2 (0.62%) Legal
6 2 (0.62%) Marketing
7 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (25.16%) Terraform
2 24 (7.45%) Node.js
3 13 (4.04%) Spring
3 13 (4.04%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.17%) .NET
5 5 (1.55%) YAML
6 4 (1.24%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.24%) ADO
7 3 (0.93%) Kafka
7 3 (0.93%) React
7 3 (0.93%) RESTful
7 3 (0.93%) XML
8 2 (0.62%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.62%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.62%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.62%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.62%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.62%) XSLT
9 1 (0.31%) Middleware
9 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.73%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.24%) Culture of Ownership
5 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.93%) Robotics
7 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.62%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.62%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.39%) Linux
2 36 (11.18%) Unix
3 33 (10.25%) Windows
4 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (100.00%) DevOps
2 135 (41.93%) CI/CD
3 71 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (20.19%) Agile
5 56 (17.39%) Mentoring
6 49 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
7 46 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 39 (12.11%) Coaching
8 39 (12.11%) Containerisation
8 39 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (11.49%) AI
10 36 (11.18%) Scrum
11 29 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (8.39%) Microservices
13 25 (7.76%) DevSecOps
14 23 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (6.83%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (6.21%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (5.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.80%) Python
2 34 (10.56%) Java
3 19 (5.90%) Bash
4 15 (4.66%) PowerShell
5 13 (4.04%) SQL
6 12 (3.73%) Go
7 6 (1.86%) Bicep
8 5 (1.55%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.93%) C#
9 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.93%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.62%) XPath
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.28%) DV Cleared
3 16 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.17%) Degree
6 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.86%) QA
2 2 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (10.87%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (22.36%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.56%) Ansible
3 21 (6.52%) Argo
4 14 (4.35%) Grafana
5 12 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.48%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.31%) Opsview
9 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.32%) Pega
3 13 (4.04%) VMware
4 8 (2.48%) Google
5 5 (1.55%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.93%) Okta
6 3 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.93%) Splunk
7 2 (0.62%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.62%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.62%) OpenText
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle
8 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.31%) YouTube