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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 573 505
Rank change year-on-year +72 -68 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 249 74 271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.17% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.19% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 196 41 146
10th Percentile £61,375 £57,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%

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 89,484 39,616 68,834
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.59% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62,877 23,853 46,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +57 98 £75,000 +7.14% 6
North West +30 46 £75,000 - 4
Midlands +15 44 £70,000 -12.50% 1
London -52 41 £90,000 - 7
Yorkshire -10 26 £69,655 -0.49%
North East -34 26 £69,310 -7.59% 2
South West -55 25 £75,000 +36.36% 6
East Midlands -3 24 £70,000 -
South East -15 24 £85,000 - 8
West Midlands -10 20 £80,000 - 1
East of England -19 3 £51,000 -40.87% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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.

1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (43.37%) CI/CD
3 101 (40.56%) Azure
4 75 (30.12%) Terraform
5 66 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (24.90%) AWS
7 52 (20.88%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (20.48%) Kubernetes
9 50 (20.08%) Mentoring
10 49 (19.68%) Agile
11 42 (16.87%) Linux
12 40 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (16.06%) Test Automation
13 38 (15.26%) GitLab
13 38 (15.26%) Windows
14 36 (14.46%) Containerisation
14 36 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (13.25%) Coaching
15 33 (13.25%) Docker
15 33 (13.25%) Python
16 31 (12.45%) Java
17 30 (12.05%) Pega
17 30 (12.05%) Security Cleared
18 29 (11.65%) Scrum
19 28 (11.24%) Microservices
19 28 (11.24%) Unix
20 24 (9.64%) Azure AKS
20 24 (9.64%) DevSecOps
20 24 (9.64%) Node.js
21 23 (9.24%) AI

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 4 (1.61%) IIS
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 101 (40.56%) Azure
2 62 (24.90%) AWS
3 52 (20.88%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.64%) Azure AKS
5 18 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (7.23%) GCP
6 15 (6.02%) SaaS
7 14 (5.62%) GitHub
8 10 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (4.02%) Serverless
9 7 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.41%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.01%) Azure API Management
11 5 (2.01%) Datadog
12 4 (1.61%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.61%) SonarCloud
12 4 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) DNS
1 7 (2.81%) Firewall
2 4 (1.61%) DHCP
2 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.80%) SAN
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (15.26%) GitLab
2 15 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.81%) Git
4 5 (2.01%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.20%) JIRA
6 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.80%) MSI
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
General
1 40 (16.06%) Public Sector
2 18 (7.23%) Finance
3 14 (5.62%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.42%) Banking
5 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
5 2 (0.80%) Marketing
6 1 (0.40%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.12%) Terraform
2 24 (9.64%) Node.js
3 11 (4.42%) Spring
3 11 (4.42%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.81%) Kafka
4 7 (2.81%) YAML
5 6 (2.41%) ADO
6 4 (1.61%) .NET
6 4 (1.61%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.61%) React
7 2 (0.80%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.80%) OpenTofu
8 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.40%) JSON
8 1 (0.40%) REST
8 1 (0.40%) RESTful
8 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
3 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.87%) Linux
2 38 (15.26%) Windows
3 28 (11.24%) Unix
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (43.37%) CI/CD
3 66 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (20.08%) Mentoring
5 49 (19.68%) Agile
6 40 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
6 40 (16.06%) Test Automation
7 36 (14.46%) Containerisation
7 36 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
8 33 (13.25%) Coaching
9 29 (11.65%) Scrum
10 28 (11.24%) Microservices
11 24 (9.64%) DevSecOps
12 23 (9.24%) AI
13 21 (8.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 20 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (7.23%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (6.02%) Case Management
18 14 (5.62%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.25%) Python
2 31 (12.45%) Java
3 16 (6.43%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.02%) Bash
5 9 (3.61%) SQL
6 8 (3.21%) Go
7 4 (1.61%) Bicep
7 4 (1.61%) C#
8 1 (0.40%) Groovy
8 1 (0.40%) Perl
8 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.62%) DV Cleared
3 13 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.41%) Degree
5 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.81%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) GDPR
2 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (13.25%) Docker
2 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.61%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.40%) iptables
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (20.48%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.84%) Ansible
2 22 (8.84%) Argo
3 7 (2.81%) Grafana
3 7 (2.81%) Istio
4 6 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.80%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.05%) Pega
2 13 (5.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.81%) Google
4 5 (2.01%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.01%) Okta
4 5 (2.01%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.01%) VMware
5 4 (1.61%) Confluent
5 4 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.61%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle
7 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.40%) IBM