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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 510 573
Rank change year-on-year -12 +63 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 148 92 237
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 132 80 181
10th Percentile £62,613 £60,686 £60,875
25th Percentile £67,250 £69,063 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £93,125 £109,375 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £123,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +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 72,301 33,434 77,817
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 89.22% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,276 21,446 59,559
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +4 48 £100,000 -3.61% 8
North of England -28 34 £72,500 +3.57% 5
Midlands -22 29 £70,000 -15.15% 5
East Midlands -26 23 £70,000 - 4
South West -49 16 £80,000 +23.79% 3
North West -14 13 £80,000 - 3
South East -40 13 £90,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire -57 12 £69,655 -0.49% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -21 6 £90,000 +9.09% 1
East of England -33 4 £90,000 +38.46% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 April 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.

1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (37.84%) Azure
3 55 (37.16%) Terraform
4 50 (33.78%) CI/CD
5 48 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (28.38%) AWS
7 38 (25.68%) Linux
8 37 (25.00%) Kubernetes
9 29 (19.59%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (19.59%) Docker
9 29 (19.59%) Windows
10 24 (16.22%) Containerisation
10 24 (16.22%) Microservices
11 21 (14.19%) Python
12 20 (13.51%) Bash
13 19 (12.84%) Node.js
14 18 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (12.16%) GitLab
15 17 (11.49%) Test Automation
16 16 (10.81%) Ansible
17 15 (10.14%) Mentoring
17 15 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
17 15 (10.14%) PowerShell
18 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
19 13 (8.78%) Agile
19 13 (8.78%) SQL Server
20 12 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
20 12 (8.11%) DevSecOps
20 12 (8.11%) GCP
20 12 (8.11%) Java

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 9 (6.08%) IIS
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (37.84%) Azure
2 42 (28.38%) AWS
3 29 (19.59%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (8.11%) GCP
5 11 (7.43%) Azure AKS
6 10 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (6.08%) Serverless
8 8 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.41%) GitHub
8 8 (5.41%) npm
8 8 (5.41%) NuGet
8 8 (5.41%) SonarCloud
9 7 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.38%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.73%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) DHCP
2 6 (4.05%) DNS
2 6 (4.05%) Network Security
3 4 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.76%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (12.16%) GitLab
2 12 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.43%) Git
4 9 (6.08%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.03%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (22.30%) Finance
2 23 (15.54%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.78%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Banking
5 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.68%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.84%) Node.js
2 9 (6.08%) .NET
2 9 (6.08%) YAML
3 8 (5.41%) React
4 7 (4.73%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.05%) Kafka
6 5 (3.38%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.70%) ADO
8 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.35%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.68%) JSON
9 1 (0.68%) Next.js
9 1 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.68%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.73%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.03%) Web3
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (25.68%) Linux
2 29 (19.59%) Windows
3 10 (6.76%) Unix
4 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (33.78%) CI/CD
3 48 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (16.22%) Containerisation
4 24 (16.22%) Microservices
5 18 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (11.49%) Test Automation
7 15 (10.14%) Mentoring
7 15 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (8.78%) Agile
9 12 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (8.11%) DevSecOps
10 11 (7.43%) High Availability
11 10 (6.76%) E-Commerce
12 9 (6.08%) Scrum
13 8 (5.41%) Analytics
13 8 (5.41%) Coaching
13 8 (5.41%) Identity Access Management
14 7 (4.73%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.19%) Python
2 20 (13.51%) Bash
3 15 (10.14%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.11%) Java
5 8 (5.41%) C#
5 8 (5.41%) Go
5 8 (5.41%) SQL
6 5 (3.38%) Bicep
7 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.68%) Groovy
8 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.35%) Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.35%) GDPR
1 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.35%) QA
1 2 (1.35%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (19.59%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.70%) iptables
3 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.35%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.35%) vSphere
5 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (37.16%) Terraform
2 37 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.81%) Ansible
4 11 (7.43%) Argo
4 11 (7.43%) Grafana
5 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.73%) Istio
7 6 (4.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.70%) Puppet
9 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.35%) SCCM
10 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.41%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (4.05%) Okta
3 6 (4.05%) OneLogin
4 5 (3.38%) VMware
5 4 (2.70%) Confluent
6 3 (2.03%) Google
7 2 (1.35%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.68%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.68%) F5
8 1 (0.68%) IBM
8 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle
8 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds