Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 574 477
Rank change year-on-year +60 -97 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 255 71 294
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.16% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.18% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 198 39 144
10th Percentile £63,626 £62,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £67,500 £61,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,313
90th Percentile £97,375 £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 91,197 39,586 67,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 90.45% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64,443 24,001 43,893
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 1 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 1 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 +45 97 £75,000 +7.14% 16
Midlands +1 47 £70,000 - 3
North West +27 46 £75,000 - 9
London -50 40 £90,000 - 73
South East -19 27 £87,500 +2.94% 19
South West -57 27 £75,000 +36.36% 10
North East -35 26 £69,310 -7.59% 2
Yorkshire -17 25 £70,000 - 5
East Midlands - 25 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands -4 22 £80,000 +14.29% 1
East of England -19 3 £51,000 -40.87% 4
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 255 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 104 (40.78%) Azure
4 74 (29.02%) Terraform
5 63 (24.71%) AWS
5 63 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (20.39%) Kubernetes
8 51 (20.00%) Agile
9 50 (19.61%) Mentoring
10 44 (17.25%) Platform Engineering
11 42 (16.47%) Linux
12 39 (15.29%) GitLab
13 38 (14.90%) Test Automation
14 37 (14.51%) Containerisation
14 37 (14.51%) Windows
15 35 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (12.94%) Coaching
16 33 (12.94%) Docker
17 32 (12.55%) Python
18 31 (12.16%) Java
19 30 (11.76%) Pega
19 30 (11.76%) Security Cleared
20 29 (11.37%) Scrum
21 28 (10.98%) Microservices
21 28 (10.98%) Unix
22 25 (9.80%) AI
23 24 (9.41%) Azure AKS
23 24 (9.41%) Node.js
24 23 (9.02%) 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 (1.18%) IIS
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 104 (40.78%) Azure
2 63 (24.71%) AWS
3 54 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.41%) Azure AKS
5 18 (7.06%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (7.06%) GCP
6 16 (6.27%) GitHub
7 15 (5.88%) SaaS
8 11 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.92%) Serverless
10 7 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.96%) Azure API Management
12 5 (1.96%) Datadog
13 4 (1.57%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.57%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) DNS
1 7 (2.75%) Firewall
2 4 (1.57%) DHCP
2 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.45%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (15.29%) GitLab
2 16 (6.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.75%) Git
4 5 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.57%) JIRA
6 3 (1.18%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.78%) MSI
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 39 (15.29%) Public Sector
2 16 (6.27%) Finance
3 14 (5.49%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.31%) 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 74 (29.02%) Terraform
2 24 (9.41%) Node.js
3 11 (4.31%) Spring
3 11 (4.31%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.75%) Kafka
5 6 (2.35%) ADO
5 6 (2.35%) YAML
6 3 (1.18%) .NET
6 3 (1.18%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.18%) React
7 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.78%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.78%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.39%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.39%) JSON
8 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.39%) RESTful
8 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.18%) 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 42 (16.47%) Linux
2 37 (14.51%) Windows
3 28 (10.98%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 63 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (20.00%) Agile
5 50 (19.61%) Mentoring
6 44 (17.25%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (14.90%) Test Automation
8 37 (14.51%) Containerisation
9 35 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.94%) Coaching
11 29 (11.37%) Scrum
12 28 (10.98%) Microservices
13 25 (9.80%) AI
14 23 (9.02%) DevSecOps
15 21 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 17 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (5.88%) Case Management
17 15 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.55%) Python
2 31 (12.16%) Java
3 13 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.71%) Bash
5 9 (3.53%) Go
5 9 (3.53%) SQL
6 4 (1.57%) Bicep
7 3 (1.18%) C#
8 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) Groovy
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.49%) DV Cleared
3 13 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.35%) Degree
5 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.35%) 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 33 (12.94%) Docker
2 6 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.39%) iptables
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (20.39%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.63%) Ansible
2 22 (8.63%) Argo
3 7 (2.75%) Istio
4 6 (2.35%) Grafana
5 5 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.78%) Puppet
8 1 (0.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (11.76%) Pega
2 15 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.75%) Google
4 5 (1.96%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.96%) Okta
4 5 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.96%) VMware
5 4 (1.57%) Confluent
5 4 (1.57%) OneLogin
6 3 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle
8 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.39%) IBM