Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 571 487
Rank change year-on-year +52 -84 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 259 73 280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.17% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.19% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 198 41 144
10th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £63,750 £61,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £97,375 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 95,470 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67,267 23,458 39,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +19 96 £75,000 +7.14% 32
Midlands -2 48 £70,000 - 12
North West +26 46 £75,000 +7.14% 26
London -74 36 £91,250 +1.39% 85
South East -19 35 £95,000 +11.76% 22
South West -59 27 £75,000 +38.89% 17
Yorkshire -22 25 £70,000 - 5
North East -44 25 £74,655 -0.46% 1
East Midlands - 25 £70,000 - 9
West Midlands -25 23 £80,000 +14.29% 3
East of England -25 3 £51,000 -40.87% 3
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, Senior DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 259 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 98 (37.84%) Azure
4 67 (25.87%) Terraform
5 60 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (21.24%) AWS
7 54 (20.85%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (19.69%) Agile
9 49 (18.92%) Kubernetes
10 46 (17.76%) Mentoring
11 45 (17.37%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (15.44%) Test Automation
13 37 (14.29%) Linux
14 35 (13.51%) GitLab
15 34 (13.13%) Coaching
16 33 (12.74%) Containerisation
16 33 (12.74%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (12.74%) Windows
17 31 (11.97%) Java
17 31 (11.97%) Security Cleared
18 30 (11.58%) Pega
19 29 (11.20%) Scrum
20 28 (10.81%) Docker
20 28 (10.81%) Unix
21 27 (10.42%) Microservices
22 26 (10.04%) Python
23 25 (9.65%) AI
23 25 (9.65%) Azure AKS
24 23 (8.88%) Node.js
25 22 (8.49%) DevSecOps

Senior DevOps Engineer 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 2 (0.77%) IIS
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 98 (37.84%) Azure
2 55 (21.24%) AWS
3 54 (20.85%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (9.65%) Azure AKS
5 18 (6.95%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (6.95%) GCP
6 15 (5.79%) GitHub
6 15 (5.79%) SaaS
7 10 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (2.70%) Serverless
9 5 (1.93%) Azure API Management
10 4 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.16%) Datadog
11 3 (1.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.09%) DNS
2 6 (2.32%) Firewall
3 3 (1.16%) DHCP
3 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.95%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (13.51%) GitLab
2 12 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.32%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.93%) Git
5 4 (1.54%) JIRA
6 2 (0.77%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 36 (13.90%) Public Sector
2 11 (4.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.86%) Finance
4 5 (1.93%) Banking
5 2 (0.77%) Marketing
6 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (25.87%) Terraform
2 23 (8.88%) Node.js
3 12 (4.63%) Spring
3 12 (4.63%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.93%) ADO
4 5 (1.93%) YAML
5 3 (1.16%) .NET
6 2 (0.77%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.77%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.77%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.77%) OpenTofu
6 2 (0.77%) Pulumi
6 2 (0.77%) React
6 2 (0.77%) RESTful
7 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.39%) JSON
7 1 (0.39%) Kafka
7 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.54%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.29%) Linux
2 33 (12.74%) Windows
3 28 (10.81%) Unix
4 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 60 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (19.69%) Agile
5 46 (17.76%) Mentoring
6 45 (17.37%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (15.44%) Test Automation
8 34 (13.13%) Coaching
9 33 (12.74%) Containerisation
9 33 (12.74%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (11.20%) Scrum
11 27 (10.42%) Microservices
12 25 (9.65%) AI
13 22 (8.49%) DevSecOps
14 21 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (6.56%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (5.79%) Case Management
17 15 (5.79%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (11.97%) Java
2 26 (10.04%) Python
3 12 (4.63%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.47%) Bash
5 6 (2.32%) SQL
6 4 (1.54%) Bicep
7 3 (1.16%) Go
8 2 (0.77%) C#
8 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) Groovy
9 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 13 (5.02%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.32%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.32%) Degree
5 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.32%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (10.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.11%) Argo
3 20 (7.72%) Ansible
4 4 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.16%) Grafana
6 2 (0.77%) Istio
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.58%) Pega
2 18 (6.95%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.47%) Google
4 5 (1.93%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.93%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.54%) Okta
5 4 (1.54%) VMware
6 3 (1.16%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.39%) IBM
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle