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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 577 485
Rank change year-on-year +63 -92 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 256 71 288
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.16% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.18% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 199 39 145
10th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 94,011 39,021 65,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 90.42% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66,359 23,411 39,739
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 16 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 16 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 +23 96 £75,000 +7.14% 34
Midlands +15 49 £70,000 - 14
North West +26 46 £75,000 +7.14% 24
London -57 35 £90,000 +4.35% 102
South East -26 33 £95,000 +11.76% 24
South West -55 26 £75,000 +42.86% 23
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 11
Yorkshire -12 25 £70,000 - 8
North East -39 25 £74,655 -0.46% 2
West Midlands -20 23 £80,000 +14.29% 3
East of England -31 3 £51,000 -40.87% 5
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 256 (100.00%) DevOps
2 107 (41.80%) CI/CD
3 99 (38.67%) Azure
4 65 (25.39%) Terraform
5 58 (22.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (21.48%) AWS
7 54 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (19.92%) Agile
9 49 (19.14%) Kubernetes
10 47 (18.36%) Mentoring
11 44 (17.19%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (15.23%) Linux
13 38 (14.84%) Test Automation
14 36 (14.06%) GitLab
15 35 (13.67%) Windows
16 34 (13.28%) Continuous Integration
17 33 (12.89%) Coaching
18 32 (12.50%) Containerisation
19 30 (11.72%) Java
19 30 (11.72%) Pega
20 29 (11.33%) Docker
20 29 (11.33%) Scrum
20 29 (11.33%) Security Cleared
21 28 (10.94%) Unix
22 26 (10.16%) Microservices
23 25 (9.77%) Python
24 24 (9.38%) AI
24 24 (9.38%) Azure AKS
24 24 (9.38%) Node.js
25 22 (8.59%) 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 3 (1.17%) IIS
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 99 (38.67%) Azure
2 55 (21.48%) AWS
3 54 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.38%) Azure AKS
5 18 (7.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (6.64%) GCP
7 15 (5.86%) SaaS
8 14 (5.47%) GitHub
9 10 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.13%) Serverless
11 6 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.95%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.56%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.56%) Datadog
14 3 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.17%) npm
14 3 (1.17%) NuGet
14 3 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.34%) DNS
1 6 (2.34%) Firewall
2 3 (1.17%) DHCP
2 3 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.03%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (14.06%) GitLab
2 13 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.34%) Git
4 5 (1.95%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.56%) JIRA
6 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.78%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 36 (14.06%) Public Sector
2 12 (4.69%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.52%) Finance
4 4 (1.56%) Banking
5 2 (0.78%) Marketing
6 1 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (25.39%) Terraform
2 24 (9.38%) Node.js
3 11 (4.30%) Spring
3 11 (4.30%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.34%) YAML
5 5 (1.95%) ADO
6 3 (1.17%) .NET
6 3 (1.17%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.17%) React
7 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.78%) Kafka
7 2 (0.78%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.78%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.39%) JSON
8 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.39%) REST
8 1 (0.39%) RESTful
8 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.23%) Linux
2 35 (13.67%) Windows
3 28 (10.94%) Unix
4 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (100.00%) DevOps
2 107 (41.80%) CI/CD
3 58 (22.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (19.92%) Agile
5 47 (18.36%) Mentoring
6 44 (17.19%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (14.84%) Test Automation
8 34 (13.28%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (12.89%) Coaching
10 32 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 29 (11.33%) Scrum
12 26 (10.16%) Microservices
13 24 (9.38%) AI
14 22 (8.59%) DevSecOps
15 21 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
16 17 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (6.64%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 15 (5.86%) Case Management
18 15 (5.86%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.72%) Java
2 25 (9.77%) Python
3 12 (4.69%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.91%) Bash
5 7 (2.73%) SQL
6 4 (1.56%) Go
7 3 (1.17%) Bicep
7 3 (1.17%) C#
8 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) Groovy
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (11.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.08%) DV Cleared
2 13 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.34%) Degree
4 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.78%) 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 (2.34%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) GDPR
2 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.39%) PMO
2 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (11.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (19.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.20%) Argo
3 20 (7.81%) Ansible
4 4 (1.56%) Grafana
4 4 (1.56%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.78%) Istio
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.72%) Pega
2 16 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.73%) Google
4 5 (1.95%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.95%) VMware
5 4 (1.56%) Okta
6 3 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.17%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.39%) IBM
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle