Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 535 600
Rank change year-on-year +19 +65 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 159 90 234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 140 74 173
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £60,175
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,313 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £126,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +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 74,665 33,869 78,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 89.15% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49,095 21,316 60,150
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%

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 3 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 3 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
London 0 49 £100,000 -2.44% 11
North of England -30 38 £69,310 -4.31% 3
Midlands -7 31 £70,000 -15.15% 5
East Midlands -13 27 £70,000 - 2
South West -53 16 £80,000 +23.79% 3
North West -3 15 £80,000 - 2
South East -21 14 £90,000 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire -53 14 £69,310 -4.31%
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -18 4 £80,000 -3.03% 3
East of England -25 4 £90,000 +38.46%
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (44.65%) Azure
3 64 (40.25%) CI/CD
4 63 (39.62%) Terraform
5 48 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (27.67%) AWS
7 42 (26.42%) Linux
8 41 (25.79%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (25.16%) Kubernetes
10 35 (22.01%) Windows
11 33 (20.75%) Microservices
12 28 (17.61%) Docker
12 28 (17.61%) Node.js
13 27 (16.98%) GitLab
14 24 (15.09%) Containerisation
14 24 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (15.09%) Test Automation
15 23 (14.47%) Mentoring
16 22 (13.84%) Agile
17 21 (13.21%) Bash
18 20 (12.58%) Java
19 19 (11.95%) Argo
19 19 (11.95%) Azure AKS
19 19 (11.95%) MongoDB
19 19 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
19 19 (11.95%) Python
20 18 (11.32%) Azure Service Bus
20 18 (11.32%) PowerShell
21 16 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
22 15 (9.43%) Scrum

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 (6.29%) IIS
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 71 (44.65%) Azure
2 44 (27.67%) AWS
3 41 (25.79%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (11.95%) Azure AKS
5 18 (11.32%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (8.81%) GCP
7 9 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.66%) npm
7 9 (5.66%) NuGet
7 9 (5.66%) SonarCloud
8 8 (5.03%) Serverless
9 7 (4.40%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.40%) GitHub
10 6 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.14%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.40%) DNS
1 7 (4.40%) Firewall
2 6 (3.77%) DHCP
2 6 (3.77%) Network Security
3 4 (2.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.95%) MongoDB
1 19 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.92%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (16.98%) GitLab
2 12 (7.55%) Git
2 12 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.66%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.89%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.26%) JIRA
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (21.38%) Finance
2 29 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.55%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.92%) Banking
5 2 (1.26%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.61%) Node.js
2 10 (6.29%) YAML
3 9 (5.66%) .NET
3 9 (5.66%) React
4 8 (5.03%) .NET Framework
5 7 (4.40%) Kafka
6 5 (3.14%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.52%) ADO
8 3 (1.89%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.63%) AWS SAM
9 1 (0.63%) JSON
9 1 (0.63%) Next.js
9 1 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.63%) REST
9 1 (0.63%) RESTful
9 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.40%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.89%) Web3
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (26.42%) Linux
2 35 (22.01%) Windows
3 15 (9.43%) Unix
4 7 (4.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 64 (40.25%) CI/CD
3 48 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (20.75%) Microservices
5 24 (15.09%) Containerisation
5 24 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (15.09%) Test Automation
6 23 (14.47%) Mentoring
7 22 (13.84%) Agile
8 16 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (9.43%) Scrum
10 14 (8.81%) Coaching
11 13 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (8.18%) DevSecOps
12 10 (6.29%) E-Commerce
12 10 (6.29%) High Availability
13 9 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (5.03%) Analytics
14 8 (5.03%) Observability
15 7 (4.40%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.21%) Bash
2 20 (12.58%) Java
3 19 (11.95%) Python
4 18 (11.32%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.66%) C#
6 8 (5.03%) SQL
7 7 (4.40%) Go
8 4 (2.52%) Bicep
9 1 (0.63%) Groovy
9 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (2.52%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.26%) Degree
5 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.89%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) GDPR
2 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.26%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (17.61%) Docker
2 6 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.52%) iptables
3 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (39.62%) Terraform
2 40 (25.16%) Kubernetes
3 19 (11.95%) Argo
4 13 (8.18%) Ansible
5 11 (6.92%) Grafana
6 9 (5.66%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.40%) Istio
8 6 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.52%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.52%) Puppet
10 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.26%) SCCM
11 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (5.66%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (5.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.40%) Okta
4 6 (3.77%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.52%) Confluent
5 4 (2.52%) Google
5 4 (2.52%) VMware
6 2 (1.26%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.63%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.63%) F5
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce