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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 550 600
Rank change year-on-year +37 +50 -159
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 165 91 229
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 142 70 169
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £58,938
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £123,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £79,125
% change year-on-year -8.82% +7.42% -6.91%

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 74,648 34,765 79,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 89.48% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 50,252 20,835 60,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -14 48 £98,750 -3.66% 16
North of England +7 40 £69,310 -4.31% 5
Midlands -5 32 £70,000 -15.15% 5
East Midlands +4 28 £70,000 - 2
North West +16 17 £80,000 - 2
South West -44 17 £80,000 +23.79% 6
South East -6 16 £85,000 +3.03% 6
Yorkshire -54 14 £69,310 -4.31% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 2
East of England -18 5 £73,750 +13.46% 1
West Midlands -20 4 £80,000 -3.03% 3
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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.

1 165 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (45.45%) Azure
3 66 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 64 (38.79%) Terraform
5 49 (29.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (26.67%) AWS
7 43 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (25.45%) Kubernetes
9 41 (24.85%) Linux
10 35 (21.21%) Windows
11 33 (20.00%) Microservices
12 29 (17.58%) Docker
13 28 (16.97%) Node.js
14 27 (16.36%) GitLab
15 25 (15.15%) Containerisation
15 25 (15.15%) Test Automation
16 24 (14.55%) Agile
16 24 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
17 23 (13.94%) Bash
17 23 (13.94%) Mentoring
18 21 (12.73%) Python
19 20 (12.12%) Argo
19 20 (12.12%) Azure AKS
19 20 (12.12%) Java
19 20 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
19 20 (12.12%) PowerShell
20 19 (11.52%) MongoDB
20 19 (11.52%) PostgreSQL
21 18 (10.91%) Azure Service Bus
22 16 (9.70%) 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 10 (6.06%) IIS
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 75 (45.45%) Azure
2 44 (26.67%) AWS
3 43 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (12.12%) Azure AKS
5 18 (10.91%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (9.70%) GCP
7 10 (6.06%) Serverless
8 9 (5.45%) GitHub
8 9 (5.45%) npm
8 9 (5.45%) NuGet
8 9 (5.45%) SaaS
8 9 (5.45%) SonarCloud
9 8 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.24%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.85%) DNS
2 7 (4.24%) Firewall
3 6 (3.64%) DHCP
3 6 (3.64%) Network Security
4 4 (2.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.52%) MongoDB
1 19 (11.52%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (16.36%) GitLab
2 12 (7.27%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.64%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.21%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.61%) MSI
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (17.58%) Public Sector
2 27 (16.36%) Finance
3 12 (7.27%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.97%) Node.js
2 11 (6.67%) YAML
3 9 (5.45%) .NET
3 9 (5.45%) React
4 8 (4.85%) .NET Framework
5 7 (4.24%) Kafka
6 5 (3.03%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.03%) ADO
6 5 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.82%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.61%) AWS SAM
8 1 (0.61%) JSON
8 1 (0.61%) Next.js
8 1 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.61%) REST
8 1 (0.61%) RESTful
8 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.24%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.82%) Web3
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.85%) Linux
2 35 (21.21%) Windows
3 15 (9.09%) Unix
4 7 (4.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 49 (29.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (20.00%) Microservices
5 25 (15.15%) Containerisation
5 25 (15.15%) Test Automation
6 24 (14.55%) Agile
6 24 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (13.94%) Mentoring
8 20 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (9.70%) DevSecOps
10 15 (9.09%) Scrum
11 14 (8.48%) Coaching
11 14 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (6.06%) High Availability
12 10 (6.06%) Observability
12 10 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (5.45%) Analytics
14 8 (4.85%) AI
14 8 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.94%) Bash
2 21 (12.73%) Python
3 20 (12.12%) Java
3 20 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.45%) C#
5 8 (4.85%) SQL
6 7 (4.24%) Go
7 4 (2.42%) Bicep
8 1 (0.61%) Groovy
8 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.42%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.82%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.42%) QA
2 2 (1.21%) GDPR
2 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (17.58%) Docker
2 6 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.42%) iptables
3 4 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (38.79%) Terraform
2 42 (25.45%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.12%) Argo
4 13 (7.88%) Ansible
5 12 (7.27%) Grafana
6 10 (6.06%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.24%) Istio
8 6 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.42%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.42%) Puppet
10 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.21%) SCCM
11 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (5.45%) CrowdStrike
1 9 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.24%) Okta
3 6 (3.64%) Google
3 6 (3.64%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.42%) Confluent
4 4 (2.42%) VMware
5 2 (1.21%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.21%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.61%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.61%) F5
6 1 (0.61%) IBM
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle