Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

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

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 589 428
Rank change year-on-year +26 -161 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 120 246 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.29% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 78 184 476
10th Percentile £60,630 £58,938 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,001 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £119,875 £108,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £79,875 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.42% -6.03% +6.25%

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 43,739 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,774 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,531 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +50 63 £100,001 +14.29% 55
South West +102 15 £64,627 -19.22% 6
North of England +6 15 £72,435 +2.63% 12
South East +101 11 £80,000 +10.34% 24
Yorkshire +56 10 £72,435 +2.63% 7
East of England +45 10 £65,000 -10.34% 6
Midlands +66 5 £80,000 +18.52% 8
North West -34 5 - - 5
West Midlands +54 3 £80,000 +2.92% 8
East Midlands +44 2 - -
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 89 (74.17%) CI/CD
3 80 (66.67%) AWS
4 68 (56.67%) Terraform
5 53 (44.17%) Kubernetes
5 53 (44.17%) Finance
6 46 (38.33%) Ansible
7 45 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (35.00%) Docker
8 42 (35.00%) Azure
9 40 (33.33%) Agile
10 39 (32.50%) Python
11 31 (25.83%) IBM
11 31 (25.83%) Jenkins
12 27 (22.50%) Mentoring
12 27 (22.50%) Software Engineering
13 26 (21.67%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (20.83%) Serverless
14 25 (20.83%) Java
14 25 (20.83%) Amazon S3
15 24 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (19.17%) GCP
16 23 (19.17%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (18.33%) Deployment Automation
18 21 (17.50%) Containerisation
18 21 (17.50%) Linux
18 21 (17.50%) Management Information System
19 20 (16.67%) Banking
20 18 (15.00%) Git

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 7 (5.83%) nginx
2 6 (5.00%) Apache Solr
2 6 (5.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 80 (66.67%) AWS
2 42 (35.00%) Azure
3 26 (21.67%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (20.83%) Amazon S3
4 25 (20.83%) Serverless
5 24 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (19.17%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (19.17%) GCP
7 17 (14.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (14.17%) GitHub
8 15 (12.50%) Datadog
9 12 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.33%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.33%) CloudFront
13 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (2.50%) PaaS
13 3 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) DNS
1 6 (5.00%) HTTPS
1 6 (5.00%) IPsec
1 6 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.17%) Firewall
3 3 (2.50%) VPN
4 2 (1.67%) LAN
4 2 (1.67%) Network Security
4 2 (1.67%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.67%) WAN
5 1 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (7.50%) MySQL
4 8 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.00%) Couchbase
5 6 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.83%) DB2
8 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.83%) Power BI
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (25.83%) Jenkins
2 18 (15.00%) Git
2 18 (15.00%) GitLab
3 14 (11.67%) Cucumber
3 14 (11.67%) IntelliJ
3 14 (11.67%) JUnit
3 14 (11.67%) Maven
3 14 (11.67%) Mockito
4 13 (10.83%) JIRA
5 8 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.33%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (2.50%) Selenium
7 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.67%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.67%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.83%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.83%) TestRail
General
1 53 (44.17%) Finance
2 20 (16.67%) Banking
3 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.33%) Front Office
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.33%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Automotive
9 1 (0.83%) Games
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.67%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (11.67%) JMS
1 14 (11.67%) Spring
1 14 (11.67%) Spring Boot
2 7 (5.83%) YAML
3 6 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (4.17%) Kafka
5 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.50%) Django
5 3 (2.50%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.50%) Flask
5 3 (2.50%) Node.js
5 3 (2.50%) Playwright
5 3 (2.50%) React
6 2 (1.67%) .NET
6 2 (1.67%) Vue
7 1 (0.83%) AWS SAM
7 1 (0.83%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.50%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.67%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.83%) e-Learning
6 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.33%) Mainframe
6 4 (3.33%) PKI
6 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Life Science
8 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.50%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Unix
3 3 (2.50%) Windows
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 89 (74.17%) CI/CD
3 45 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (33.33%) Agile
5 27 (22.50%) Mentoring
5 27 (22.50%) Software Engineering
6 24 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 22 (18.33%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (17.50%) Containerisation
9 18 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (14.17%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (12.50%) Analytics
11 15 (12.50%) SDLC
12 14 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.67%) Microservices
12 14 (11.67%) Software Delivery
13 13 (10.83%) Coaching
13 13 (10.83%) High Availability
14 12 (10.00%) Architectural Design
14 12 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.50%) Python
2 25 (20.83%) Java
3 17 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.67%) C++
5 10 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.33%) SQL
6 8 (6.67%) C#
6 8 (6.67%) Go
7 7 (5.83%) Bash
7 7 (5.83%) PHP
8 5 (4.17%) Ruby
9 3 (2.50%) Groovy
10 2 (1.67%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.83%) JCL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.50%) OCP
7 3 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) Degree
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) GDPR
1 7 (5.83%) HIPAA
1 7 (5.83%) NIST
2 6 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (35.00%) Docker
2 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (56.67%) Terraform
2 53 (44.17%) Kubernetes
3 46 (38.33%) Ansible
4 10 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 8 (6.67%) Grafana
6 6 (5.00%) Istio
7 5 (4.17%) Argo
7 5 (4.17%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.67%) Puppet
9 1 (0.83%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.83%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.83%) Kibana
9 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.83%) logstash
9 1 (0.83%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.83%) Packer
9 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (25.83%) IBM
2 8 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.83%) Google
3 7 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) VMware
4 4 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.33%) Splunk
5 3 (2.50%) Confluent
5 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.67%) Snow
7 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.83%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.83%) Imperva
7 1 (0.83%) Meraki
7 1 (0.83%) Okta
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle