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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 535 610
Rank change year-on-year -3 +75 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 164 96 234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 131 60 169
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £55,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +4.69% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 78,266 35,581 89,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.96% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 55,070 20,653 66,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +5 46 £70,000 -6.50% 16
London -47 40 £98,750 -1.25% 25
Midlands +9 32 £70,000 - 11
East Midlands -8 23 £70,000 - 5
North West +17 20 £80,000 - 6
South East -5 18 £85,000 - 14
Yorkshire -32 17 £69,310 -7.43% 6
South West -49 17 £75,000 +16.05% 5
West Midlands -9 9 £80,000 +14.29% 6
North East - 9 £60,000 - 4
East of England -19 4 £51,000 -21.54% 5
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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.

1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 76 (46.34%) Azure
3 69 (42.07%) CI/CD
4 64 (39.02%) Terraform
5 50 (30.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (26.83%) AWS
6 44 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (26.22%) Kubernetes
8 36 (21.95%) Linux
9 33 (20.12%) Windows
10 30 (18.29%) Microservices
11 29 (17.68%) Containerisation
12 27 (16.46%) Docker
12 27 (16.46%) GitLab
13 26 (15.85%) Mentoring
13 26 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (15.24%) Agile
14 25 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
14 25 (15.24%) Test Automation
15 24 (14.63%) Node.js
16 22 (13.41%) Argo
16 22 (13.41%) Java
16 22 (13.41%) Python
17 21 (12.80%) Azure AKS
18 20 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
19 19 (11.59%) Bash
19 19 (11.59%) DevSecOps
19 19 (11.59%) GCP
19 19 (11.59%) MongoDB
20 18 (10.98%) Azure Service Bus

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 7 (4.27%) IIS
2 2 (1.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 76 (46.34%) Azure
2 44 (26.83%) AWS
2 44 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (12.80%) Azure AKS
4 19 (11.59%) GCP
5 18 (10.98%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (6.71%) SaaS
7 10 (6.10%) GitHub
8 9 (5.49%) Serverless
9 8 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.66%) npm
11 6 (3.66%) NuGet
11 6 (3.66%) SonarCloud
12 5 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.49%) DNS
2 6 (3.66%) DHCP
2 6 (3.66%) Firewall
2 6 (3.66%) Network Security
3 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.59%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (16.46%) GitLab
2 12 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.49%) Git
4 5 (3.05%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.83%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.83%) JIRA
6 2 (1.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (17.07%) Public Sector
2 23 (14.02%) Finance
3 11 (6.71%) Banking
4 10 (6.10%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.63%) Node.js
2 9 (5.49%) YAML
3 7 (4.27%) Kafka
4 6 (3.66%) .NET
4 6 (3.66%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.66%) ADO
4 6 (3.66%) React
5 4 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.83%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.83%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.83%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.22%) Spring
7 2 (1.22%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.61%) JSON
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 12 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.66%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.95%) Linux
2 33 (20.12%) Windows
3 15 (9.15%) Unix
4 7 (4.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 69 (42.07%) CI/CD
3 50 (30.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (18.29%) Microservices
5 29 (17.68%) Containerisation
6 26 (15.85%) Mentoring
6 26 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (15.24%) Agile
7 25 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (15.24%) Test Automation
8 19 (11.59%) DevSecOps
9 16 (9.76%) Coaching
9 16 (9.76%) Scrum
10 13 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (6.71%) AI
12 11 (6.71%) Analytics
13 10 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (5.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.41%) Java
1 22 (13.41%) Python
2 19 (11.59%) Bash
3 18 (10.98%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.88%) SQL
5 6 (3.66%) C#
5 6 (3.66%) Go
6 4 (2.44%) Bicep
7 1 (0.61%) Groovy
7 1 (0.61%) Perl
7 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.54%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.05%) Degree
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.05%) QA
2 2 (1.22%) GDPR
2 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.22%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (16.46%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.44%) iptables
4 3 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (39.02%) Terraform
2 43 (26.22%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.41%) Argo
4 13 (7.93%) Ansible
5 12 (7.32%) Grafana
6 11 (6.71%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.27%) Istio
8 6 (3.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.44%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.44%) Puppet
10 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.22%) SCCM
11 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.27%) Google
2 7 (4.27%) Okta
3 6 (3.66%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (3.66%) OneLogin
3 6 (3.66%) VMware
4 4 (2.44%) Confluent
5 3 (1.83%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.22%) Pega
6 2 (1.22%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.61%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.61%) F5
7 1 (0.61%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle