Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 511 580
Rank change year-on-year -35 +69 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 107 116 222
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 92 105 196
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,686 £60,438
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +10.77% -4.41%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £125,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -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 60,673 34,988 70,427
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 90.44% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,568 21,209 55,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 16 March 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 16 March 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
London -21 42 £100,000 -2.44% 14
Midlands +1 22 £70,000 -15.15% 6
East Midlands -21 18 £70,000 - 2
South West -27 17 £80,000 +23.79% 3
South East -7 12 £90,000 +20.00% 7
North of England -42 10 £68,750 +10.56% 12
West Midlands -1 4 £92,500 +12.12% 4
North West -13 4 £78,750 - 1
North East - 4 £70,000 - 8
East of England -12 3 £90,000 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -50 2 £67,500 +8.55% 3
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 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.

1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (33.64%) Terraform
4 34 (31.78%) CI/CD
5 33 (30.84%) Azure
6 30 (28.04%) AWS
7 29 (27.10%) Linux
8 28 (26.17%) Kubernetes
9 26 (24.30%) Docker
10 18 (16.82%) Bash
10 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
11 17 (15.89%) Windows
12 16 (14.95%) Python
13 15 (14.02%) Ansible
14 14 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (12.15%) PowerShell
16 12 (11.21%) Grafana
16 12 (11.21%) Microservices
17 11 (10.28%) High Availability
17 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
18 10 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 10 (9.35%) DevSecOps
18 10 (9.35%) E-Commerce
19 9 (8.41%) Bitbucket
19 9 (8.41%) Continuous Integration
19 9 (8.41%) Jenkins
19 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
19 9 (8.41%) SQL Server
20 8 (7.48%) .NET

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 (6.54%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.84%) Azure
2 30 (28.04%) AWS
3 14 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.48%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (6.54%) Serverless
6 6 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.61%) npm
6 6 (5.61%) NuGet
6 6 (5.61%) SonarCloud
7 5 (4.67%) CloudFront
7 5 (4.67%) GCP
7 5 (4.67%) GitHub
8 4 (3.74%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.80%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) Network Security
2 4 (3.74%) DHCP
2 4 (3.74%) DNS
2 4 (3.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) AMQP
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.80%) MySQL
4 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.87%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.93%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Bitbucket
1 9 (8.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.48%) Git
3 6 (5.61%) GitLab
4 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 27 (25.23%) Finance
2 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.28%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.74%) Banking
4 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.93%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) .NET
2 7 (6.54%) Node.js
2 7 (6.54%) React
3 6 (5.61%) YAML
4 5 (4.67%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.74%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.80%) Kafka
7 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.87%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.87%) WCF
8 1 (0.93%) ADO
8 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.93%) J2EE
8 1 (0.93%) Next.js
8 1 (0.93%) RESTful
8 1 (0.93%) Spring
8 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.54%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.80%) Web3
5 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.10%) Linux
2 17 (15.89%) Windows
3 5 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.87%) Unix
4 2 (1.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (31.78%) CI/CD
4 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
5 13 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (11.21%) Microservices
7 11 (10.28%) High Availability
8 10 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (9.35%) DevSecOps
8 10 (9.35%) E-Commerce
9 9 (8.41%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (6.54%) Configuration Management
11 7 (6.54%) Integration Testing
11 7 (6.54%) Mentoring
12 6 (5.61%) Analytics
12 6 (5.61%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (5.61%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (5.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.82%) Bash
2 16 (14.95%) Python
3 13 (12.15%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.61%) C#
4 6 (5.61%) SQL
5 5 (4.67%) Bicep
6 4 (3.74%) Go
7 3 (2.80%) Java
8 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) Degree
3 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) GDPR
1 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.93%) QA
1 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (24.30%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.74%) iptables
3 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.87%) vSphere
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (33.64%) Terraform
2 28 (26.17%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.02%) Ansible
4 12 (11.21%) Grafana
5 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.74%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.74%) Puppet
7 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.80%) SCCM
8 2 (1.87%) Istio
9 1 (0.93%) Argo
9 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 6 (5.61%) CrowdStrike
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
1 6 (5.61%) VMware
2 4 (3.74%) Okta
2 4 (3.74%) OneLogin
3 3 (2.80%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.93%) Confluent
4 1 (0.93%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.93%) F5
4 1 (0.93%) Google
4 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle
4 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds