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 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 474 395
Rank change year-on-year -87 -79 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 73 283 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.41% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.43% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 41 148 327
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,610 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £113,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 38,954 65,648 51,127
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.19% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23,393 39,540 39,605
10th Percentile £28,325 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer 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 September 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 20 September 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 +44 40 £90,000 -5.26% 18
South West +74 11 £54,000 -32.50% 3
North of England -41 7 £70,000 +41.41% 12
South East -23 6 £85,000 +13.33% 15
Yorkshire +11 4 £70,000 +41.41% 2
West Midlands +44 3 £70,000 - 2
Midlands +29 3 £70,000 - 2
East of England -3 2 £86,250 +11.29% 4
North West -57 2 £70,000 -12.50% 9
North East +18 1 £75,000 +14.57% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (73.97%) AWS
3 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
4 39 (53.42%) Terraform
5 32 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (36.99%) Agile
7 26 (35.62%) Mentoring
8 25 (34.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 25 (34.25%) Kubernetes
8 25 (34.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (31.51%) Python
10 21 (28.77%) IBM
11 19 (26.03%) Finance
11 19 (26.03%) Coaching
11 19 (26.03%) Docker
11 19 (26.03%) Public Sector
12 18 (24.66%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (24.66%) Azure
13 17 (23.29%) Ansible
13 17 (23.29%) Red Hat
13 17 (23.29%) e-Learning
13 17 (23.29%) Cloud Native
14 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (21.92%) Grafana
15 15 (20.55%) Go
16 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
16 14 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (17.81%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (16.44%) Banking
18 12 (16.44%) Linux

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.37%) Confluence
1 1 (1.37%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 54 (73.97%) AWS
2 18 (24.66%) Azure
3 14 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (17.81%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (15.07%) GitHub
6 10 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (12.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (10.96%) GCP
9 7 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.48%) Apigee
10 4 (5.48%) CloudFront
10 4 (5.48%) Kong
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (4.11%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.11%) Serverless
11 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) Firewall
2 3 (4.11%) DNS
3 2 (2.74%) Network Security
3 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.74%) VPN
4 1 (1.37%) AMQP
4 1 (1.37%) DHCP
4 1 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.48%) KDB
2 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.85%) Git
4 4 (5.48%) GitLab
5 3 (4.11%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.11%) JIRA
6 2 (2.74%) Maven
6 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.37%) git-flow
7 1 (1.37%) Gradle
7 1 (1.37%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (34.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (26.03%) Finance
2 19 (26.03%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.44%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Law
5 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Automotive
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (5.48%) OpenAPI
2 4 (5.48%) RESTful
2 4 (5.48%) Swagger
3 3 (4.11%) Kafka
3 3 (4.11%) YAML
4 2 (2.74%) .NET
4 2 (2.74%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.37%) J2EE
5 1 (1.37%) Node.js
5 1 (1.37%) React
5 1 (1.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (23.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (23.29%) e-Learning
3 5 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Equities
4 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.37%) Online Games
6 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Unix
3 2 (2.74%) Windows
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
3 32 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (36.99%) Agile
5 26 (35.62%) Mentoring
6 25 (34.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 19 (26.03%) Coaching
8 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
10 11 (15.07%) Containerisation
11 10 (13.70%) Observability
12 8 (10.96%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (10.96%) High Availability
12 8 (10.96%) Machine Learning
12 8 (10.96%) SDLC
13 7 (9.59%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
14 6 (8.22%) Configuration Management
14 6 (8.22%) Scrum
15 5 (6.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.51%) Python
2 15 (20.55%) Go
3 11 (15.07%) Bash
4 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.48%) Lua
7 2 (2.74%) Java
7 2 (2.74%) Ruby
7 2 (2.74%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.74%) SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) GDPR
1 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) iptables
Systems Management
1 39 (53.42%) Terraform
2 25 (34.25%) Kubernetes
3 17 (23.29%) Ansible
4 16 (21.92%) Grafana
5 8 (10.96%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.11%) Argo
6 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.74%) Istio
8 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.37%) Puppet
8 1 (1.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (28.77%) IBM
2 17 (23.29%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.48%) MKS
3 4 (5.48%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) Confluent
5 2 (2.74%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.37%) Okta
6 1 (1.37%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) VMware
6 1 (1.37%) Zscaler