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 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 565 555
Rank change year-on-year +50 -10 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 223 81 235
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 180 46 158
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,632 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £109,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -11.76%

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 84,621 39,389 73,475
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 90.67% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,428 23,865 52,103
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,925 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +39 84 £75,000 +0.17% 12
North West +39 40 £75,000 - 10
Midlands +1 40 £70,000 -12.50% 2
London -37 39 £90,000 -10.00% 32
Yorkshire -18 26 £69,655 -0.49%
East Midlands -9 25 £70,000 -
South West -52 23 £75,000 +36.36% 1
South East -17 19 £85,000 - 6
North East -32 18 £69,310 -7.59% 2
West Midlands -7 15 £80,000 - 2
East of England -14 4 £51,000 -43.33%
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 223 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (44.84%) CI/CD
3 94 (42.15%) Azure
4 71 (31.84%) Terraform
5 61 (27.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (26.91%) AWS
7 49 (21.97%) Mentoring
8 46 (20.63%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (20.18%) Kubernetes
10 43 (19.28%) Agile
10 43 (19.28%) Linux
11 41 (18.39%) Windows
12 38 (17.04%) Test Automation
13 33 (14.80%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (14.35%) Coaching
14 32 (14.35%) Containerisation
14 32 (14.35%) Platform Engineering
15 30 (13.45%) Docker
15 30 (13.45%) Pega
15 30 (13.45%) Python
16 29 (13.00%) GitLab
16 29 (13.00%) Microservices
16 29 (13.00%) Scrum
17 28 (12.56%) Java
17 28 (12.56%) Unix
18 24 (10.76%) DevSecOps
18 24 (10.76%) Node.js
19 22 (9.87%) Argo
19 22 (9.87%) Azure AKS
19 22 (9.87%) Security Cleared

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 (2.24%) IIS
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 94 (42.15%) Azure
2 60 (26.91%) AWS
3 46 (20.63%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.87%) Azure AKS
5 19 (8.52%) GCP
6 18 (8.07%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (6.73%) SaaS
8 13 (5.83%) GitHub
9 9 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.04%) Serverless
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.69%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.24%) Datadog
12 5 (2.24%) npm
12 5 (2.24%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.14%) DNS
1 7 (3.14%) Firewall
2 5 (2.24%) Network Security
3 4 (1.79%) DHCP
3 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.52%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.14%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (13.00%) GitLab
2 13 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.59%) Git
4 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.35%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.35%) JIRA
6 2 (0.90%) MSI
6 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
General
1 41 (18.39%) Public Sector
2 19 (8.52%) Finance
3 11 (4.93%) Banking
3 11 (4.93%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.76%) Node.js
2 8 (3.59%) Spring
2 8 (3.59%) Spring Boot
2 8 (3.59%) YAML
3 7 (3.14%) Kafka
4 6 (2.69%) ADO
5 5 (2.24%) .NET
5 5 (2.24%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.24%) React
6 4 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.35%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.45%) JSON
9 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.45%) REST
9 1 (0.45%) RESTful
9 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (19.28%) Linux
2 41 (18.39%) Windows
3 28 (12.56%) Unix
4 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (44.84%) CI/CD
3 61 (27.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (21.97%) Mentoring
5 43 (19.28%) Agile
6 38 (17.04%) Test Automation
7 33 (14.80%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (14.35%) Coaching
8 32 (14.35%) Containerisation
8 32 (14.35%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (13.00%) Microservices
9 29 (13.00%) Scrum
10 24 (10.76%) DevSecOps
11 21 (9.42%) AI
12 20 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (7.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (6.73%) Case Management
15 13 (5.83%) Machine Learning
16 11 (4.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (4.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.45%) Python
2 28 (12.56%) Java
3 17 (7.62%) Bash
3 17 (7.62%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.14%) Go
4 7 (3.14%) SQL
5 5 (2.24%) C#
6 4 (1.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.45%) Groovy
7 1 (0.45%) Perl
7 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.93%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.24%) Degree
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.14%) QA
2 2 (0.90%) GDPR
2 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (13.45%) Docker
2 6 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.35%) iptables
6 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (31.84%) Terraform
2 45 (20.18%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.87%) Argo
4 19 (8.52%) Ansible
5 9 (4.04%) Grafana
6 8 (3.59%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.14%) Istio
8 4 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.35%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (13.45%) Pega
2 10 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.14%) Google
4 5 (2.24%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (2.24%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.24%) Okta
4 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.24%) VMware
5 4 (1.79%) Confluent
5 4 (1.79%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.45%) IBM
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle