Senior DevOps Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Development Operations
England > North of England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the North of England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 256 311
Rank change year-on-year -4 +55 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 8 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.064% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 24
10th Percentile £63,375 - £60,354
25th Percentile £63,750 £48,250 £61,232
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £49,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -29.86% -5.90%
75th Percentile £86,250 £75,920 £76,429
90th Percentile £93,000 £76,840 £86,314
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 11,107 7,401 11,798
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.36% 92.94% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,756 3,677 9,680
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,620 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,900 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of 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 the North of England.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the North of England

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the North of England

Senior DevOps
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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 West +13 5 £67,500 - 6
North East - 2 £82,500 -
Yorkshire -40 1 £70,000 +41.41% 2
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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 North of England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) GitOps
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 2 (25.00%) VMS

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) git-flow
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) GitOps
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Security Hardening
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 1 (12.50%) FinOps
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Runbook
5 1 (12.50%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Duck Creek
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft