Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 574 483
Rank change year-on-year +65 -91 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 310 106 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.21% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.24% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 238 54 179
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,375 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -7.08%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 106,506 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,200 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 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
England +58 279 £79,000 +5.33% 271
UK excluding London +62 241 £75,000 +3.45% 158
North of England +15 101 £75,000 +7.14% 47
Work from Home +11 97 £77,500 -3.13% 130
North West +19 51 £76,250 +8.93% 33
Midlands +14 49 £70,000 - 18
South East -18 44 £85,000 - 31
London -57 40 £90,000 +4.35% 121
South West -55 26 £75,000 +42.86% 25
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 12
Yorkshire -13 25 £70,000 - 10
North East -39 25 £74,655 -0.46% 4
West Midlands -21 23 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Wales - 15 £70,000 - 5
East of England -30 4 £54,250 -37.10% 8
Scotland +7 2 £100,000 -2.44% 22

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 310 (100.00%) DevOps
2 136 (43.87%) CI/CD
3 121 (39.03%) Azure
4 82 (26.45%) Terraform
5 73 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 72 (23.23%) Kubernetes
7 71 (22.90%) AWS
8 67 (21.61%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 56 (18.06%) Agile
10 56 (18.06%) Mentoring
11 52 (16.77%) Linux
12 44 (14.19%) Python
13 43 (13.87%) Test Automation
14 41 (13.23%) Security Cleared
15 39 (12.58%) Containerisation
16 38 (12.26%) Continuous Integration
16 38 (12.26%) GitLab
17 35 (11.29%) AI
17 35 (11.29%) Coaching
17 35 (11.29%) Java
17 35 (11.29%) Windows
18 33 (10.65%) Docker
19 32 (10.32%) Scrum
20 31 (10.00%) Ansible
20 31 (10.00%) Unix
21 30 (9.68%) GCP
21 30 (9.68%) Pega
22 26 (8.39%) Microservices
23 25 (8.06%) Node.js

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (0.97%) IIS
1 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 121 (39.03%) Azure
2 71 (22.90%) AWS
3 67 (21.61%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (9.68%) GCP
5 24 (7.74%) Azure AKS
6 23 (7.42%) GitHub
7 18 (5.81%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (5.48%) SaaS
9 12 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.23%) Serverless
11 8 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.26%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.61%) Azure API Management
15 4 (1.29%) Datadog
15 4 (1.29%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.16%) Firewall
2 8 (2.58%) DNS
2 8 (2.58%) VPN
3 3 (0.97%) DHCP
3 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.65%) SAN
5 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.77%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.97%) Power BI
6 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.65%) Metadata
6 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.32%) MySQL
7 1 (0.32%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (12.26%) GitLab
2 13 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.55%) Git
4 7 (2.26%) JIRA
5 5 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.65%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (13.55%) Public Sector
2 27 (8.71%) Finance
3 15 (4.84%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.26%) Retail
5 5 (1.61%) Banking
6 4 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.97%) Law
8 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.65%) Legal
8 2 (0.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (26.45%) Terraform
2 25 (8.06%) Node.js
3 11 (3.55%) Spring
3 11 (3.55%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.90%) .NET
5 7 (2.26%) ADO
5 7 (2.26%) YAML
6 5 (1.61%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.29%) Kafka
7 4 (1.29%) React
8 3 (0.97%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.97%) XML
9 2 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.65%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.65%) OpenTofu
9 2 (0.65%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.65%) XSLT
10 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.32%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.52%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.32%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.32%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.77%) Linux
2 35 (11.29%) Windows
3 31 (10.00%) Unix
4 3 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (100.00%) DevOps
2 136 (43.87%) CI/CD
3 73 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 56 (18.06%) Agile
5 56 (18.06%) Mentoring
6 43 (13.87%) Test Automation
7 39 (12.58%) Containerisation
8 38 (12.26%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (11.29%) AI
9 35 (11.29%) Coaching
10 32 (10.32%) Scrum
11 26 (8.39%) Microservices
12 24 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (7.74%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (7.42%) Observability
14 22 (7.10%) DevSecOps
15 19 (6.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 19 (6.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.19%) Python
2 35 (11.29%) Java
3 21 (6.77%) Bash
4 16 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 14 (4.52%) SQL
6 12 (3.87%) Go
7 6 (1.94%) C#
8 4 (1.29%) Bicep
8 4 (1.29%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.97%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.65%) XPath
11 1 (0.32%) Groovy
11 1 (0.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) Ruby
11 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.16%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.90%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.58%) Degree
6 5 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.58%) QA
2 2 (0.65%) PMO
3 1 (0.32%) GDPR
3 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (10.65%) Docker
2 6 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.00%) Ansible
3 21 (6.77%) Argo
4 15 (4.84%) Grafana
5 13 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.58%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.29%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.65%) Istio
10 1 (0.32%) Packer
10 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (9.68%) Pega
2 23 (7.42%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.48%) Google
4 13 (4.19%) VMware
5 6 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.29%) Okta
8 3 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.97%) OneLogin
8 3 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.97%) Splunk
9 2 (0.65%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.65%) Intel
9 2 (0.65%) OpenText
10 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.32%) IBM
10 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle