Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 562 621
Rank change year-on-year +41 +59 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 195 89 229
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 159 54 165
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £84,375 £100,001 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.35%

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 80,360 36,827 87,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 90.00% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 56,528 21,708 64,688
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -2 64 £75,000 +3.54% 5
London -22 38 £92,500 -8.64% 15
Midlands -1 36 £70,000 -12.50% 2
North West +25 26 £80,000 +6.67% 5
Yorkshire -12 24 £69,655 -0.49%
East Midlands +2 22 £70,000 - 2
South East -14 20 £85,000 - 15
South West -61 20 £75,000 +16.05% 2
West Midlands -7 14 £80,000 -
North East - 14 £69,308 -
East of England -18 4 £51,000 -21.54% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 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.

1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (44.62%) CI/CD
3 78 (40.00%) Azure
4 67 (34.36%) Terraform
5 58 (29.74%) AWS
6 54 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (23.59%) Linux
8 45 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (22.56%) Kubernetes
10 42 (21.54%) Windows
11 40 (20.51%) Mentoring
12 37 (18.97%) Agile
13 36 (18.46%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (18.46%) Test Automation
14 30 (15.38%) Containerisation
14 30 (15.38%) Microservices
15 29 (14.87%) Docker
15 29 (14.87%) Pega
16 28 (14.36%) Coaching
17 27 (13.85%) GitLab
17 27 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (13.85%) Scrum
18 26 (13.33%) Unix
19 25 (12.82%) Python
20 24 (12.31%) Java
20 24 (12.31%) Node.js
21 22 (11.28%) Argo
21 22 (11.28%) Azure AKS
21 22 (11.28%) DevSecOps
22 20 (10.26%) PostgreSQL

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 6 (3.08%) IIS
2 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.00%) Azure
2 58 (29.74%) AWS
3 45 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (11.28%) Azure AKS
5 19 (9.74%) GCP
6 18 (9.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.15%) SaaS
8 11 (5.64%) GitHub
9 9 (4.62%) Serverless
10 8 (4.10%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.08%) npm
12 6 (3.08%) NuGet
12 6 (3.08%) SonarCloud
13 5 (2.56%) CloudFront
13 5 (2.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.10%) DNS
2 6 (3.08%) Firewall
2 6 (3.08%) Network Security
3 5 (2.56%) DHCP
4 4 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.74%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.10%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (13.85%) GitLab
2 12 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.62%) Git
4 5 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.54%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.54%) JIRA
6 2 (1.03%) MSI
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (21.54%) Public Sector
2 22 (11.28%) Finance
3 11 (5.64%) Banking
4 10 (5.13%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.51%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.31%) Node.js
2 9 (4.62%) YAML
3 7 (3.59%) Kafka
4 6 (3.08%) .NET
4 6 (3.08%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.08%) ADO
4 6 (3.08%) React
5 4 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.05%) Spring
5 4 (2.05%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.54%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.54%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.51%) JSON
7 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.51%) REST
7 1 (0.51%) RESTful
7 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.56%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (23.59%) Linux
2 42 (21.54%) Windows
3 26 (13.33%) Unix
4 5 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (44.62%) CI/CD
3 54 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (20.51%) Mentoring
5 37 (18.97%) Agile
6 36 (18.46%) Continuous Integration
6 36 (18.46%) Test Automation
7 30 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 30 (15.38%) Microservices
8 28 (14.36%) Coaching
9 27 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (13.85%) Scrum
10 22 (11.28%) DevSecOps
11 15 (7.69%) Case Management
12 13 (6.67%) AI
13 12 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (5.64%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (5.13%) Analytics
15 10 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.82%) Python
2 24 (12.31%) Java
3 19 (9.74%) Bash
4 18 (9.23%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.10%) SQL
6 6 (3.08%) C#
6 6 (3.08%) Go
7 4 (2.05%) Bicep
8 1 (0.51%) Groovy
8 1 (0.51%) Perl
8 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (9.74%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.08%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.56%) Degree
4 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.05%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) GDPR
2 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (14.87%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.05%) iptables
4 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (34.36%) Terraform
2 44 (22.56%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.28%) Argo
4 15 (7.69%) Ansible
5 11 (5.64%) Grafana
6 10 (5.13%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.59%) Istio
8 5 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.05%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.05%) Puppet
10 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.51%) Packer
10 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (14.87%) Pega
2 10 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.59%) Google
4 6 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (3.08%) Okta
5 5 (2.56%) OneLogin
5 5 (2.56%) VMware
6 4 (2.05%) Confluent
6 4 (2.05%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.51%) IBM
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) Zscaler