Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 465 476
Rank change year-on-year -52 +11 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 91 215 230
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.49% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 82 120 212
10th Percentile £62,625 £48,250 £60,905
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,125 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 48,978 44,004 51,101
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.41% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 30,978 22,939 40,279
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%

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 January 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 January 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
London +17 32 £100,000 -2.44% 10
Midlands +35 20 £70,000 - 9
South West +15 15 £80,000 +23.79% 10
East Midlands +5 15 £70,000 - 6
South East -36 11 £90,000 +20.00% 14
North of England -19 8 £75,000 +51.52% 12
West Midlands +24 5 £85,000 +21.43% 2
North West +4 5 £67,500 - 5
East of England +20 3 £90,000 +38.46% 9
North East - 2 £82,500 - 2
Yorkshire -22 1 £70,000 +41.41% 5
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 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 91 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (35.16%) CI/CD
3 32 (35.16%) Terraform
4 28 (30.77%) AWS
5 27 (29.67%) Kubernetes
6 26 (28.57%) Linux
7 25 (27.47%) Docker
8 24 (26.37%) Azure
9 16 (17.58%) Bash
9 16 (17.58%) Grafana
10 15 (16.48%) Ansible
11 14 (15.38%) Containerisation
11 14 (15.38%) Python
12 13 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (13.19%) Windows
14 11 (12.09%) High Availability
14 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (10.99%) E-Commerce
15 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
15 10 (10.99%) Prometheus
15 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
16 9 (9.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
16 9 (9.89%) Observability
16 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (8.79%) Git
17 8 (8.79%) Microservices
18 7 (7.69%) .NET
18 7 (7.69%) Agile

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 5 (5.49%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.77%) AWS
2 24 (26.37%) Azure
3 13 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (9.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.59%) GitHub
6 6 (6.59%) Serverless
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.40%) npm
7 4 (4.40%) NuGet
7 4 (4.40%) SonarCloud
7 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.30%) Mimecast
8 3 (3.30%) Rubrik
8 3 (3.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) DNS
2 3 (3.30%) DHCP
2 3 (3.30%) Firewall
3 2 (2.20%) Network Security
3 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.10%) AMQP
4 1 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.30%) MySQL
4 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.20%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.10%) git-flow
5 1 (1.10%) GitLab
5 1 (1.10%) Gradle
5 1 (1.10%) Maven
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (24.18%) Finance
2 10 (10.99%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.10%) Automotive
4 1 (1.10%) Banking
4 1 (1.10%) Games
4 1 (1.10%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.69%) .NET
2 6 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.59%) Node.js
2 6 (6.59%) React
2 6 (6.59%) YAML
3 3 (3.30%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.20%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.20%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.20%) WCF
5 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.10%) J2EE
5 1 (1.10%) Kafka
5 1 (1.10%) Next.js
5 1 (1.10%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.30%) Web3
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) Derivative
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) Online Games
5 1 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.57%) Linux
2 12 (13.19%) Windows
3 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Unix
4 2 (2.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (35.16%) CI/CD
4 14 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 11 (12.09%) High Availability
5 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (10.99%) E-Commerce
7 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
7 9 (9.89%) Observability
7 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.79%) Microservices
9 7 (7.69%) Agile
9 7 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (7.69%) DevSecOps
9 7 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (6.59%) Configuration Management
11 5 (5.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (5.49%) Integration Testing
11 5 (5.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.58%) Bash
2 14 (15.38%) Python
3 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.49%) SQL
5 4 (4.40%) Bicep
5 4 (4.40%) C#
5 4 (4.40%) Go
6 3 (3.30%) Java
7 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.10%) Ruby
8 1 (1.10%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 25 (27.47%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.20%) iptables
3 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (35.16%) Terraform
2 27 (29.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.58%) Grafana
4 15 (16.48%) Ansible
5 10 (10.99%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.30%) Argo
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.30%) SCCM
7 2 (2.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (6.59%) VMware
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (3.30%) Okta
4 3 (3.30%) OneLogin
4 3 (3.30%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.10%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.10%) F5
5 1 (1.10%) Google
5 1 (1.10%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk