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 7 September 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 567 472
Rank change year-on-year +51 -95 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 258 70 294
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.16% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.18% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 201 39 145
10th Percentile £63,626 £57,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £66,250 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 92,899 39,179 66,615
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.31% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 65,710 23,601 42,371
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +30 97 £75,000 +7.14% 7
Midlands +8 49 £70,000 - 3
North West +30 46 £75,000 - 3
London -56 40 £90,000 - 73
South East -21 29 £92,500 +8.82% 20
North East -42 26 £69,310 -7.59% 1
South West -63 26 £75,000 +42.86% 8
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire -24 25 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -13 23 £80,000 +14.29% 1
East of England -30 3 £51,000 -40.87% 5
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 September 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.

1 258 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (42.25%) CI/CD
3 105 (40.70%) Azure
4 71 (27.52%) Terraform
5 62 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (23.26%) AWS
7 55 (21.32%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (20.16%) Kubernetes
9 51 (19.77%) Agile
10 49 (18.99%) Mentoring
11 45 (17.44%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (15.89%) Linux
13 39 (15.12%) GitLab
14 38 (14.73%) Test Automation
15 36 (13.95%) Containerisation
15 36 (13.95%) Windows
16 35 (13.57%) Continuous Integration
17 33 (12.79%) Coaching
18 32 (12.40%) Docker
19 31 (12.02%) Java
20 30 (11.63%) Pega
20 30 (11.63%) Python
20 30 (11.63%) Security Cleared
21 29 (11.24%) Scrum
22 28 (10.85%) Unix
23 27 (10.47%) Microservices
24 24 (9.30%) AI
24 24 (9.30%) Azure AKS
24 24 (9.30%) Node.js
25 23 (8.91%) 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 3 (1.16%) IIS
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 105 (40.70%) Azure
2 60 (23.26%) AWS
3 55 (21.32%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.30%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.36%) GCP
6 18 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (6.20%) GitHub
8 15 (5.81%) SaaS
9 11 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.49%) Serverless
11 7 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.94%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.94%) Datadog
14 4 (1.55%) Amazon S3
15 3 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (1.16%) NuGet
15 3 (1.16%) OpenShift
15 3 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.71%) DNS
1 7 (2.71%) Firewall
2 4 (1.55%) DHCP
2 4 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.94%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (15.12%) GitLab
2 15 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.71%) Git
4 5 (1.94%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.55%) JIRA
6 3 (1.16%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.78%) MSI
8 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 37 (14.34%) Public Sector
2 15 (5.81%) Finance
3 14 (5.43%) Social Skills
4 9 (3.49%) Banking
5 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
5 2 (0.78%) Marketing
6 1 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (27.52%) Terraform
2 24 (9.30%) Node.js
3 11 (4.26%) Spring
3 11 (4.26%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.33%) ADO
4 6 (2.33%) Kafka
4 6 (2.33%) YAML
5 3 (1.16%) .NET
5 3 (1.16%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.16%) React
6 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.78%) OpenTofu
6 2 (0.78%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.39%) JSON
7 1 (0.39%) REST
7 1 (0.39%) RESTful
7 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.55%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.89%) Linux
2 36 (13.95%) Windows
3 28 (10.85%) Unix
4 4 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (42.25%) CI/CD
3 62 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (19.77%) Agile
5 49 (18.99%) Mentoring
6 45 (17.44%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (14.73%) Test Automation
8 36 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 35 (13.57%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.79%) Coaching
11 29 (11.24%) Scrum
12 27 (10.47%) Microservices
13 24 (9.30%) AI
14 23 (8.91%) DevSecOps
15 21 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (7.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
18 15 (5.81%) Case Management
18 15 (5.81%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.02%) Java
2 30 (11.63%) Python
3 12 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.26%) Bash
5 9 (3.49%) SQL
6 8 (3.10%) Go
7 4 (1.55%) Bicep
8 3 (1.16%) C#
9 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) Perl
10 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.43%) DV Cleared
3 13 (5.04%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.33%) Degree
5 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.33%) QA
2 2 (0.78%) GDPR
2 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (12.40%) Docker
2 5 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.55%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (20.16%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.14%) Ansible
2 21 (8.14%) Argo
3 5 (1.94%) Grafana
3 5 (1.94%) Istio
4 4 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.55%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Packer
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.63%) Pega
2 16 (6.20%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.71%) Google
4 5 (1.94%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.94%) Okta
4 5 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.94%) VMware
5 4 (1.55%) OneLogin
6 3 (1.16%) Confluent
6 3 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.39%) IBM
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle