Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 613 439
Rank change year-on-year +48 -174 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 90 234 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.27% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.29% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 74 173 444
10th Percentile £60,686 £60,175 £67,975
25th Percentile £65,313 £68,718 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £107,188 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £126,000 £110,000 £104,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 2025. 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
London +31 42 £102,500 +13.89% 33
South West +106 14 £64,627 -19.22% 4
South East +105 10 £82,500 -5.71% 16
East of England +52 10 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North of England +15 9 £72,435 +2.63% 9
Yorkshire +69 8 £72,435 +2.63% 4
Midlands +65 4 £82,500 +22.22% 5
West Midlands +50 2 £82,500 +17.86% 4
East Midlands +48 2 - - 1
North West -25 1 - - 5
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 54 (60.00%) Terraform
3 54 (60.00%) AWS
4 45 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 42 (46.67%) Finance
6 35 (38.89%) Docker
7 32 (35.56%) Python
8 31 (34.44%) Agile
9 30 (33.33%) Azure
9 30 (33.33%) Ansible
9 30 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (28.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 24 (26.67%) Mentoring
12 23 (25.56%) Banking
13 19 (21.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
15 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
15 16 (17.78%) GitHub
16 15 (16.67%) Jenkins
16 15 (16.67%) Software Engineering
17 14 (15.56%) IBM
17 14 (15.56%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (15.56%) Amazon S3
17 14 (15.56%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (15.56%) Serverless
17 14 (15.56%) Fintech
17 14 (15.56%) GCP
18 13 (14.44%) AWS Lambda

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.78%) nginx
2 6 (6.67%) Apache Solr
3 4 (4.44%) Confluence
4 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.11%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 54 (60.00%) AWS
2 30 (33.33%) Azure
3 19 (21.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (17.78%) GitHub
5 14 (15.56%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (15.56%) Amazon S3
5 14 (15.56%) GCP
5 14 (15.56%) Serverless
6 13 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.44%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.44%) CloudFront
11 3 (3.33%) IaaS
11 3 (3.33%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.33%) PaaS
11 3 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) DNS
1 6 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 6 (6.67%) IPsec
1 6 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
3 3 (3.33%) VPN
4 2 (2.22%) LAN
4 2 (2.22%) Network Security
4 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.22%) WAN
5 1 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (7.78%) MySQL
3 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.67%) Couchbase
4 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.11%) DB2
7 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.11%) Power BI
7 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.11%) JIRA
3 8 (8.89%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.44%) Git
4 4 (4.44%) GitLab
4 4 (4.44%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.33%) Selenium
5 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.11%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.11%) TestRail
General
1 42 (46.67%) Finance
2 23 (25.56%) Banking
3 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.44%) Front Office
5 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.44%) Retail
8 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.11%) Automotive
9 1 (1.11%) Games
9 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) YAML
2 6 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.56%) Kafka
4 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.33%) Django
5 3 (3.33%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.33%) Flask
5 3 (3.33%) Playwright
6 2 (2.22%) .NET
7 1 (1.11%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.11%) JSON
7 1 (1.11%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.11%) Node.js
7 1 (1.11%) NumPy
7 1 (1.11%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.11%) Pandas
7 1 (1.11%) React
7 1 (1.11%) RESTful
7 1 (1.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.44%) e-Learning
2 4 (4.44%) Mainframe
2 4 (4.44%) PKI
2 4 (4.44%) Private Cloud
2 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.11%) Life Science
5 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Unix
2 3 (3.33%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 31 (34.44%) Agile
4 30 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (28.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (26.67%) Mentoring
7 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 14 (15.56%) Fintech
10 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
10 13 (14.44%) Software Delivery
11 12 (13.33%) Asset Management
11 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (13.33%) E-Commerce
11 12 (13.33%) High Availability
12 9 (10.00%) Coaching
12 9 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
13 8 (8.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.56%) Python
2 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
3 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.78%) PHP
5 6 (6.67%) Bash
5 6 (6.67%) Go
6 5 (5.56%) Ruby
7 4 (4.44%) Java
8 3 (3.33%) Groovy
9 2 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.11%) JCL
10 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.33%) OCP
4 3 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (38.89%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (60.00%) Terraform
2 45 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 30 (33.33%) Ansible
4 10 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.78%) Grafana
6 6 (6.67%) Istio
7 5 (5.56%) Argo
7 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.22%) Puppet
9 1 (1.11%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (1.11%) Check_MK
9 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.11%) Kibana
9 1 (1.11%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.11%) logstash
9 1 (1.11%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.11%) Packer
9 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) IBM
2 7 (7.78%) VMware
3 4 (4.44%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.44%) Splunk
4 3 (3.33%) Confluent
4 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.22%) Snow
6 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.11%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.11%) Imperva
6 1 (1.11%) Meraki
6 1 (1.11%) Okta
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle