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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 558 621
Rank change year-on-year +31 +63 -196
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 179 93 234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 146 58 168
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £50,875
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,001 £91,563
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 79,299 36,015 90,144
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.94% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 55,805 21,039 66,729
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 23 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 23 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 +15 53 £73,750 -1.50% 8
London -42 40 £96,250 -3.75% 11
Midlands -6 34 £70,000 - 5
East Midlands -3 22 £70,000 - 2
North West - 21 £80,000 - 3
South East -11 20 £85,000 - 12
Yorkshire -19 20 £69,655 -6.96% 3
South West -53 17 £75,000 +16.05% 2
West Midlands -11 12 £80,000 +14.29% 3
North East - 12 £69,308 - 2
East of England -22 4 £51,000 -21.54% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 179 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (43.58%) CI/CD
3 77 (43.02%) Azure
4 65 (36.31%) Terraform
5 52 (29.05%) AWS
5 52 (29.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (25.14%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (24.02%) Kubernetes
8 42 (23.46%) Linux
9 38 (21.23%) Windows
10 33 (18.44%) Mentoring
11 32 (17.88%) Agile
12 31 (17.32%) Continuous Integration
12 31 (17.32%) Test Automation
13 30 (16.76%) Microservices
14 29 (16.20%) Containerisation
15 27 (15.08%) Docker
15 27 (15.08%) GitLab
16 26 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
17 24 (13.41%) Node.js
18 22 (12.29%) Argo
18 22 (12.29%) Azure AKS
18 22 (12.29%) Coaching
18 22 (12.29%) Java
18 22 (12.29%) Python
18 22 (12.29%) Scrum
19 21 (11.73%) Unix
20 20 (11.17%) DevSecOps
20 20 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
21 19 (10.61%) Bash

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 6 (3.35%) IIS
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 77 (43.02%) Azure
2 52 (29.05%) AWS
3 45 (25.14%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (12.29%) Azure AKS
5 19 (10.61%) GCP
6 18 (10.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.70%) SaaS
8 10 (5.59%) GitHub
9 9 (5.03%) Serverless
10 8 (4.47%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.35%) npm
12 6 (3.35%) NuGet
12 6 (3.35%) SonarCloud
13 5 (2.79%) CloudFront
13 5 (2.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.03%) DNS
2 6 (3.35%) DHCP
2 6 (3.35%) Network Security
3 5 (2.79%) Firewall
4 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.61%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (15.08%) GitLab
2 12 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.03%) Git
4 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.68%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.68%) JIRA
6 2 (1.12%) MSI
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (20.11%) Public Sector
2 23 (12.85%) Finance
3 11 (6.15%) Banking
4 10 (5.59%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.41%) Node.js
2 9 (5.03%) YAML
3 7 (3.91%) Kafka
4 6 (3.35%) .NET
4 6 (3.35%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.35%) ADO
4 6 (3.35%) React
5 4 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.68%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.12%) Spring
7 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.56%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.56%) REST
8 1 (0.56%) RESTful
8 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.35%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.46%) Linux
2 38 (21.23%) Windows
3 21 (11.73%) Unix
4 6 (3.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (43.58%) CI/CD
3 52 (29.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (18.44%) Mentoring
5 32 (17.88%) Agile
6 31 (17.32%) Continuous Integration
6 31 (17.32%) Test Automation
7 30 (16.76%) Microservices
8 29 (16.20%) Containerisation
9 26 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (12.29%) Coaching
10 22 (12.29%) Scrum
11 20 (11.17%) DevSecOps
12 13 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (6.15%) Analytics
13 11 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 9 (5.03%) AI
15 9 (5.03%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.29%) Java
1 22 (12.29%) Python
2 19 (10.61%) Bash
3 17 (9.50%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.47%) SQL
5 6 (3.35%) C#
5 6 (3.35%) Go
6 4 (2.23%) Bicep
7 1 (0.56%) Groovy
7 1 (0.56%) Perl
7 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.79%) Degree
5 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.35%) QA
2 2 (1.12%) GDPR
2 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (15.08%) Docker
2 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.23%) iptables
4 3 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (36.31%) Terraform
2 43 (24.02%) Kubernetes
3 22 (12.29%) Argo
4 13 (7.26%) Ansible
5 12 (6.70%) Grafana
6 11 (6.15%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.91%) Istio
8 6 (3.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.23%) Puppet
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.12%) SCCM
11 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (9.50%) Pega
2 11 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.91%) Google
3 7 (3.91%) Okta
4 6 (3.35%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (3.35%) OneLogin
5 5 (2.79%) VMware
6 4 (2.23%) Confluent
6 4 (2.23%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.12%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle