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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 539 591
Rank change year-on-year +16 +52 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 173 91 233
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 144 63 174
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £56,625
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,001 £94,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.28% -7.65%

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 77,699 34,696 83,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.68% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 52,970 19,964 62,604
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,615 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -13.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -20 44 £72,500 +0.09% 2
London -36 43 £100,000 -1.24% 14
Midlands -3 36 £70,000 -9.68% 11
East Midlands +6 29 £70,000 - 1
North West +20 21 £80,000 - 2
South West -47 19 £80,000 +23.79% 7
South East -10 18 £85,000 - 8
Yorkshire -40 14 £69,310 -4.31%
North East - 9 £60,000 -
West Midlands -28 7 £80,000 +3.23% 10
East of England -19 6 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (45.09%) Azure
3 71 (41.04%) CI/CD
4 69 (39.88%) Terraform
5 54 (31.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (27.17%) Kubernetes
7 46 (26.59%) AWS
8 45 (26.01%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (23.12%) Linux
10 35 (20.23%) Windows
11 33 (19.08%) Microservices
12 31 (17.92%) Docker
13 30 (17.34%) Containerisation
14 28 (16.18%) Node.js
15 27 (15.61%) GitLab
16 26 (15.03%) Test Automation
17 25 (14.45%) Agile
17 25 (14.45%) Mentoring
17 25 (14.45%) Platform Engineering
18 24 (13.87%) Continuous Integration
19 23 (13.29%) Bash
19 23 (13.29%) Python
20 22 (12.72%) Argo
20 22 (12.72%) Java
21 21 (12.14%) Azure AKS
21 21 (12.14%) PowerShell
22 20 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
23 19 (10.98%) DevSecOps
23 19 (10.98%) MongoDB
24 18 (10.40%) 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 10 (5.78%) IIS
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 78 (45.09%) Azure
2 46 (26.59%) AWS
3 45 (26.01%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (12.14%) Azure AKS
5 18 (10.40%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (10.40%) GCP
6 10 (5.78%) GitHub
6 10 (5.78%) SaaS
7 9 (5.20%) npm
7 9 (5.20%) NuGet
7 9 (5.20%) Serverless
7 9 (5.20%) SonarCloud
8 8 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (4.62%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.89%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.20%) DNS
2 6 (3.47%) DHCP
2 6 (3.47%) Firewall
2 6 (3.47%) Network Security
3 4 (2.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.98%) MongoDB
3 14 (8.09%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.36%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (15.61%) GitLab
2 12 (6.94%) Git
2 12 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.47%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.73%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) MSI
6 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (16.76%) Public Sector
2 24 (13.87%) Finance
3 12 (6.94%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.36%) Banking
5 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.18%) Node.js
2 12 (6.94%) YAML
3 9 (5.20%) .NET
3 9 (5.20%) React
4 8 (4.62%) .NET Framework
5 7 (4.05%) Kafka
6 6 (3.47%) ADO
7 5 (2.89%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.73%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.73%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.16%) Spring
10 2 (1.16%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.58%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.58%) JSON
11 1 (0.58%) Next.js
11 1 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.58%) RESTful
11 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.05%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.58%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.12%) Linux
2 35 (20.23%) Windows
3 14 (8.09%) Unix
4 7 (4.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (41.04%) CI/CD
3 54 (31.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (19.08%) Microservices
5 30 (17.34%) Containerisation
6 26 (15.03%) Test Automation
7 25 (14.45%) Agile
7 25 (14.45%) Mentoring
7 25 (14.45%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (13.87%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (10.98%) DevSecOps
10 15 (8.67%) Coaching
10 15 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (8.67%) Scrum
11 12 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (6.36%) Analytics
12 11 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (5.78%) AI
13 10 (5.78%) Observability
14 9 (5.20%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.29%) Bash
1 23 (13.29%) Python
2 22 (12.72%) Java
3 21 (12.14%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.20%) C#
4 9 (5.20%) SQL
5 6 (3.47%) Go
6 4 (2.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.58%) Groovy
7 1 (0.58%) Perl
7 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.89%) Degree
5 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.89%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) GDPR
2 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (17.92%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.31%) iptables
4 3 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (39.88%) Terraform
2 47 (27.17%) Kubernetes
3 22 (12.72%) Argo
4 14 (8.09%) Ansible
5 12 (6.94%) Grafana
6 11 (6.36%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.05%) Istio
8 6 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.31%) Puppet
10 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.16%) SCCM
11 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (6.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.20%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (4.05%) Google
3 7 (4.05%) Okta
4 6 (3.47%) OneLogin
4 6 (3.47%) VMware
5 4 (2.31%) Confluent
6 3 (1.73%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.16%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.58%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.58%) F5
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle