Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 482 414
Rank change year-on-year -62 -68 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 63 250 314
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.41% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.43% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 52 143 275
10th Percentile £56,375 £48,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £65,625 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £81,250 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.84% -6.06% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,870 58,044 44,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 94.37% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27,008 32,905 34,377
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,955 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,828 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
London +4 30 £90,000 -10.00% 14
North of England -6 10 £72,500 +46.46% 3
Midlands +54 8 £80,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +54 6 £87,500 +25.00% 2
South West +29 6 £72,500 -3.33% 4
North West +16 5 £67,500 -15.63% 3
South East -20 4 £82,500 +10.00% 12
North East - 3 £80,000 -
East Midlands +26 2 £72,500 +11.54%
Yorkshire +1 2 £59,750 +20.71%
East of England +30 1 £82,500 +6.45% 3
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, 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 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (63.49%) AWS
3 35 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 35 (55.56%) Terraform
4 31 (49.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (41.27%) Kubernetes
6 22 (34.92%) Docker
6 22 (34.92%) Python
7 18 (28.57%) Ansible
8 17 (26.98%) Linux
9 16 (25.40%) Grafana
10 15 (23.81%) Agile
11 13 (20.63%) Azure
11 13 (20.63%) Bash
11 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
13 11 (17.46%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (17.46%) GitHub
13 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
14 10 (15.87%) Go
14 10 (15.87%) Observability
14 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
15 9 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (14.29%) High Availability
15 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
16 8 (12.70%) AI
16 8 (12.70%) E-Commerce
16 8 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (12.70%) Jenkins

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 1 (1.59%) Confluence
1 1 (1.59%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 40 (63.49%) AWS
2 13 (20.63%) Azure
3 11 (17.46%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (17.46%) GitHub
4 9 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
7 6 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.94%) Serverless
9 4 (6.35%) GCP
10 3 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (4.76%) Apigee
10 3 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (4.76%) Kong
10 3 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (3.17%) Network Security
3 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.17%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) AMQP
4 1 (1.59%) DHCP
4 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.76%) KDB
2 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.76%) MySQL
2 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
3 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.59%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.52%) Bitbucket
3 5 (7.94%) Git
4 4 (6.35%) GitLab
5 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.76%) JIRA
6 2 (3.17%) Maven
6 2 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.59%) git-flow
7 1 (1.59%) Gradle
7 1 (1.59%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (36.51%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Banking
3 8 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.52%) Law
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Automotive
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Games
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.35%) .NET
3 3 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.76%) OpenAPI
3 3 (4.76%) RESTful
3 3 (4.76%) Swagger
3 3 (4.76%) YAML
4 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (3.17%) AWS SAM
4 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.17%) React
4 2 (3.17%) WCF
5 1 (1.59%) J2EE
5 1 (1.59%) Kafka
5 1 (1.59%) Node.js
5 1 (1.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.76%) Equities
2 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.17%) e-Learning
3 2 (3.17%) Web3
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) Derivative
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.59%) Online Games
4 1 (1.59%) PKI
4 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.98%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Unix
3 4 (6.35%) Windows
4 2 (3.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 31 (49.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (23.81%) Agile
5 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
8 10 (15.87%) Observability
8 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
9 9 (14.29%) High Availability
10 8 (12.70%) AI
10 8 (12.70%) E-Commerce
11 7 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (9.52%) Configuration Management
12 6 (9.52%) Machine Learning
12 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (9.52%) Scrum
12 6 (9.52%) SDLC
13 5 (7.94%) Cloud Security
13 5 (7.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) Python
2 13 (20.63%) Bash
3 10 (15.87%) Go
4 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.76%) Java
5 3 (4.76%) Lua
5 3 (4.76%) SQL
6 2 (3.17%) Bicep
6 2 (3.17%) Ruby
6 2 (3.17%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.59%) C#
7 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) GDPR
1 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (34.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.17%) vSphere
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (55.56%) Terraform
2 26 (41.27%) Kubernetes
3 18 (28.57%) Ansible
4 16 (25.40%) Grafana
5 8 (12.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.76%) Argo
6 3 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
7 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) MKS
2 3 (4.76%) MuleSoft
2 3 (4.76%) VMware
3 2 (3.17%) IBM
3 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.17%) Splunk
4 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.59%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.59%) Okta
4 1 (1.59%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.59%) Zscaler