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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 554 615
Rank change year-on-year +40 +61 -193
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 202 88 231
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 164 53 167
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £82,813 £100,001 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.35%

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 80,861 37,451 87,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.30% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,940 22,195 64,587
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 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +13 67 £75,000 +3.54% 15
London -38 39 £90,000 -11.11% 21
Midlands +5 38 £70,000 -12.50% 3
North West +28 29 £77,500 +3.33% 12
Yorkshire -21 24 £69,655 -0.49% 2
East Midlands +1 23 £70,000 - 3
South West -52 21 £75,000 +16.05% 3
South East -12 20 £85,000 - 14
West Midlands -14 15 £80,000 -
North East - 14 £69,308 - 1
East of England -20 4 £51,000 -25.82% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 202 (100.00%) DevOps
2 91 (45.05%) CI/CD
3 83 (41.09%) Azure
4 68 (33.66%) Terraform
5 58 (28.71%) AWS
6 57 (28.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (22.77%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (22.77%) Linux
8 43 (21.29%) Kubernetes
9 42 (20.79%) Mentoring
10 41 (20.30%) Windows
11 38 (18.81%) Agile
12 36 (17.82%) Continuous Integration
12 36 (17.82%) Test Automation
13 30 (14.85%) Microservices
13 30 (14.85%) Pega
13 30 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (14.36%) Containerisation
14 29 (14.36%) Docker
15 28 (13.86%) Coaching
16 27 (13.37%) GitLab
16 27 (13.37%) Scrum
17 26 (12.87%) Python
17 26 (12.87%) Unix
18 24 (11.88%) Java
18 24 (11.88%) Node.js
19 22 (10.89%) Argo
19 22 (10.89%) Azure AKS
19 22 (10.89%) DevSecOps
20 20 (9.90%) PostgreSQL

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 (2.97%) IIS
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 83 (41.09%) Azure
2 58 (28.71%) AWS
3 46 (22.77%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.89%) Azure AKS
5 19 (9.41%) GCP
6 18 (8.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (5.94%) GitHub
7 12 (5.94%) SaaS
8 9 (4.46%) Serverless
9 8 (3.96%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.97%) npm
11 6 (2.97%) NuGet
11 6 (2.97%) SonarCloud
12 5 (2.48%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) DNS
1 7 (3.47%) Firewall
2 6 (2.97%) Network Security
3 4 (1.98%) DHCP
3 4 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.41%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (13.37%) GitLab
2 12 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.46%) Git
4 5 (2.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.49%) JIRA
6 2 (0.99%) MSI
7 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (20.79%) Public Sector
2 22 (10.89%) Finance
3 11 (5.45%) Banking
4 10 (4.95%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.88%) Node.js
2 9 (4.46%) YAML
3 7 (3.47%) Kafka
4 6 (2.97%) .NET
4 6 (2.97%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.97%) ADO
4 6 (2.97%) React
5 4 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.98%) Spring
5 4 (1.98%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.49%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.50%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.50%) REST
7 1 (0.50%) RESTful
7 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.48%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (22.77%) Linux
2 41 (20.30%) Windows
3 26 (12.87%) Unix
4 4 (1.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (100.00%) DevOps
2 91 (45.05%) CI/CD
3 57 (28.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (20.79%) Mentoring
5 38 (18.81%) Agile
6 36 (17.82%) Continuous Integration
6 36 (17.82%) Test Automation
7 30 (14.85%) Microservices
7 30 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (14.36%) Containerisation
9 28 (13.86%) Coaching
10 27 (13.37%) Scrum
11 22 (10.89%) DevSecOps
12 15 (7.43%) AI
12 15 (7.43%) Case Management
13 12 (5.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (4.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.87%) Python
2 24 (11.88%) Java
3 19 (9.41%) Bash
3 19 (9.41%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.96%) SQL
5 6 (2.97%) C#
5 6 (2.97%) Go
6 4 (1.98%) Bicep
7 1 (0.50%) Groovy
7 1 (0.50%) Perl
7 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.97%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.48%) Degree
4 5 (2.48%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.98%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.47%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
2 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (14.36%) Docker
2 6 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.98%) iptables
5 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (33.66%) Terraform
2 43 (21.29%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.89%) Argo
4 15 (7.43%) Ansible
5 10 (4.95%) Grafana
6 9 (4.46%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.47%) Istio
8 4 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.98%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.98%) Puppet
9 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (14.85%) Pega
2 9 (4.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.47%) Google
4 6 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.48%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.48%) Okta
5 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.48%) VMware
6 4 (1.98%) Confluent
6 4 (1.98%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.50%) IBM
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle