Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 463 410
Rank change year-on-year -67 -53 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 71 228 286
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.44% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.47% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 69 127 259
10th Percentile £63,500 £48,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.03%

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 46,413 48,190 41,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 93.64% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,005 26,207 32,361
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 December 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 16 December 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 -2 25 £90,000 -10.00% 11
Midlands +29 15 £70,000 - 3
South West +21 10 £80,000 +6.67% 11
North of England -13 10 £75,000 +51.52% 5
East Midlands +7 9 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands +20 6 £87,500 +25.00% 1
North West -2 6 £71,250 +35.71% 3
South East -41 6 £90,000 +20.00% 6
East of England +23 3 £90,000 +1.12% 2
North East - 3 £80,000 - 2
Yorkshire -22 1 £70,000 +41.41%
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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 71 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (43.66%) Terraform
3 30 (42.25%) AWS
4 29 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (39.44%) CI/CD
6 25 (35.21%) Kubernetes
7 23 (32.39%) Docker
8 19 (26.76%) Linux
9 17 (23.94%) Azure
10 16 (22.54%) Python
11 15 (21.13%) Ansible
12 14 (19.72%) Bash
12 14 (19.72%) Grafana
13 12 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
15 10 (14.08%) E-Commerce
16 9 (12.68%) Agile
16 9 (12.68%) Observability
16 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
17 8 (11.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (11.27%) GitHub
17 8 (11.27%) Mentoring
17 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
18 7 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
18 7 (9.86%) Git
18 7 (9.86%) Microservices
18 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
18 7 (9.86%) Windows
19 6 (8.45%) .NET

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 (4.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (42.25%) AWS
2 17 (23.94%) Azure
3 12 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (11.27%) GitHub
5 7 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.04%) Serverless
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.23%) GCP
9 3 (4.23%) npm
9 3 (4.23%) NuGet
9 3 (4.23%) SaaS
9 3 (4.23%) SonarCloud
9 3 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) VPN
3 1 (1.41%) AMQP
3 1 (1.41%) DHCP
3 1 (1.41%) Network Security
3 1 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.23%) MySQL
2 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.41%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) Bitbucket
2 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.23%) JIRA
4 2 (2.82%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.82%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) git-flow
5 1 (1.41%) Gradle
5 1 (1.41%) Maven
5 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (23.94%) Finance
2 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Automotive
5 1 (1.41%) Games
5 1 (1.41%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) .NET
1 6 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (8.45%) YAML
2 5 (7.04%) Node.js
2 5 (7.04%) React
3 3 (4.23%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.82%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.82%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.82%) WCF
5 1 (1.41%) J2EE
5 1 (1.41%) Kafka
5 1 (1.41%) Next.js
5 1 (1.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Web3
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) Derivative
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Online Games
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.76%) Linux
2 7 (9.86%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Unix
3 2 (2.82%) VMS
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (39.44%) CI/CD
4 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
5 10 (14.08%) E-Commerce
6 9 (12.68%) Agile
6 9 (12.68%) Observability
6 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.27%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.86%) Microservices
9 6 (8.45%) High Availability
9 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (8.45%) Scrum
10 5 (7.04%) Configuration Management
10 5 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (7.04%) GitOps
11 4 (5.63%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (5.63%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (5.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.54%) Python
2 14 (19.72%) Bash
3 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.45%) Go
5 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.63%) SQL
6 3 (4.23%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) Java
7 2 (2.82%) Bicep
7 2 (2.82%) Ruby
7 2 (2.82%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 23 (32.39%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.82%) vSphere
3 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (43.66%) Terraform
2 25 (35.21%) Kubernetes
3 15 (21.13%) Ansible
4 14 (19.72%) Grafana
5 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.23%) Argo
6 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.41%) Puppet
7 1 (1.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
1 3 (4.23%) VMware
2 2 (2.82%) Splunk
3 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.41%) Google
3 1 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (1.41%) Okta
3 1 (1.41%) OneLogin
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle
3 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.41%) Zscaler