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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 532 631
Rank change year-on-year -3 +99 -200
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 170 94 233
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 137 59 168
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £54,750
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,001 £91,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 78,810 35,838 90,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.06% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 55,430 20,848 67,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,969 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 20 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 20 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 +18 51 £73,750 -1.50% 15
London -39 39 £98,750 -1.25% 10
Midlands +2 31 £70,000 - 6
East Midlands -13 21 £70,000 - 2
North West - 21 £80,000 - 6
South East -12 19 £85,000 - 12
Yorkshire -27 19 £69,310 -7.43% 6
South West -57 17 £75,000 +16.05% 4
North East - 11 £69,310 - 3
West Midlands -9 10 £80,000 +14.29% 4
East of England -17 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 20 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.

1 170 (100.00%) DevOps
2 73 (42.94%) Azure
3 72 (42.35%) CI/CD
4 64 (37.65%) Terraform
5 50 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (28.24%) AWS
7 44 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (25.29%) Kubernetes
9 39 (22.94%) Linux
10 35 (20.59%) Windows
11 30 (17.65%) Microservices
12 29 (17.06%) Containerisation
12 29 (17.06%) Mentoring
13 28 (16.47%) Agile
13 28 (16.47%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (16.47%) Test Automation
14 27 (15.88%) Docker
14 27 (15.88%) GitLab
15 26 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (14.12%) Node.js
17 22 (12.94%) Argo
17 22 (12.94%) Java
17 22 (12.94%) Python
18 21 (12.35%) Azure AKS
19 20 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
20 19 (11.18%) Bash
20 19 (11.18%) Coaching
20 19 (11.18%) DevSecOps
20 19 (11.18%) GCP
20 19 (11.18%) MongoDB

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 (3.53%) IIS
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 73 (42.94%) Azure
2 48 (28.24%) AWS
3 44 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (12.35%) Azure AKS
5 19 (11.18%) GCP
6 18 (10.59%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (6.47%) SaaS
8 10 (5.88%) GitHub
9 9 (5.29%) Serverless
10 8 (4.71%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.53%) npm
12 6 (3.53%) NuGet
12 6 (3.53%) SonarCloud
13 5 (2.94%) CloudFront
13 5 (2.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.29%) DNS
2 6 (3.53%) DHCP
2 6 (3.53%) Network Security
3 5 (2.94%) Firewall
4 4 (2.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.18%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.47%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (15.88%) GitLab
2 12 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.29%) Git
4 5 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.76%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.76%) JIRA
6 2 (1.18%) MSI
7 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (18.82%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.53%) Finance
3 11 (6.47%) Banking
4 10 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.12%) Node.js
2 9 (5.29%) YAML
3 7 (4.12%) Kafka
4 6 (3.53%) .NET
4 6 (3.53%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.53%) ADO
4 6 (3.53%) React
5 4 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.76%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.18%) Spring
7 2 (1.18%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.59%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.59%) JSON
8 1 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.59%) REST
8 1 (0.59%) RESTful
8 1 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.53%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.94%) Linux
2 35 (20.59%) Windows
3 18 (10.59%) Unix
4 6 (3.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (42.35%) CI/CD
3 50 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (17.65%) Microservices
5 29 (17.06%) Containerisation
5 29 (17.06%) Mentoring
6 28 (16.47%) Agile
6 28 (16.47%) Continuous Integration
6 28 (16.47%) Test Automation
7 26 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (11.18%) Coaching
8 19 (11.18%) DevSecOps
8 19 (11.18%) Scrum
9 13 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (6.47%) Analytics
10 11 (6.47%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (5.88%) AI
11 10 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (5.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.94%) Java
1 22 (12.94%) Python
2 19 (11.18%) Bash
3 17 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.71%) SQL
5 6 (3.53%) C#
5 6 (3.53%) Go
6 4 (2.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.59%) Groovy
7 1 (0.59%) Perl
7 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.94%) Degree
5 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.94%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) GDPR
2 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (15.88%) Docker
2 6 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.35%) iptables
4 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (37.65%) Terraform
2 43 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 22 (12.94%) Argo
4 13 (7.65%) Ansible
5 12 (7.06%) Grafana
6 11 (6.47%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.12%) Istio
8 6 (3.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.35%) Puppet
10 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.18%) SCCM
11 1 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (6.47%) Microsoft
1 11 (6.47%) Pega
2 7 (4.12%) Google
2 7 (4.12%) Okta
3 6 (3.53%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (3.53%) OneLogin
4 5 (2.94%) VMware
5 4 (2.35%) Confluent
6 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.18%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.59%) IBM
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle