Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs 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 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 620 409
Rank change year-on-year +16 -211 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 89 230 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.25% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.26% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 54 166 439
10th Percentile £61,605 £48,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,313 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -7.35% -
75th Percentile £100,001 £91,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.06% -8.82% -

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 47,258 87,857 71,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 94.68% 91.19%
Number of salaries quoted 26,026 63,700 49,065
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +60 49 £100,001 +14.29% 28
South West +94 11 £64,627 -19.22% 4
North of England -20 9 £74,870 +14.37% 19
South East +69 7 £85,000 +13.33% 6
Yorkshire +48 7 £70,000 +41.41% 3
East of England +35 7 £68,750 -5.17% 2
Midlands +75 4 £80,000 +23.08% 5
West Midlands +67 2 £80,000 +22.20% 5
East Midlands +48 2 - -
North East +44 1 £75,000 +14.57%
North West -49 1 £75,000 -11.76% 16
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (68.54%) AWS
3 50 (56.18%) CI/CD
4 44 (49.44%) Terraform
5 33 (37.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (32.58%) Mentoring
6 29 (32.58%) Python
6 29 (32.58%) Finance
7 28 (31.46%) Kubernetes
8 27 (30.34%) Agile
9 26 (29.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (29.21%) Ansible
10 25 (28.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (28.09%) Azure
11 24 (26.97%) IBM
12 20 (22.47%) Docker
13 19 (21.35%) Coaching
14 18 (20.22%) Public Sector
14 18 (20.22%) Banking
15 17 (19.10%) e-Learning
15 17 (19.10%) Red Hat
15 17 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (19.10%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (16.85%) Go
16 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
16 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (16.85%) GitHub
16 15 (16.85%) Jenkins
17 13 (14.61%) High Availability
17 13 (14.61%) Social Skills

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.12%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 61 (68.54%) AWS
2 25 (28.09%) Azure
3 17 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (16.85%) GitHub
5 12 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (12.36%) GCP
7 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (7.87%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.49%) Apigee
10 4 (4.49%) CloudFront
10 4 (4.49%) Kong
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (3.37%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.37%) IaaS
11 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) Firewall
2 3 (3.37%) Network Security
3 2 (2.25%) LAN
3 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.25%) VPN
3 2 (2.25%) WAN
4 1 (1.12%) DNS
4 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.12%) IPsec
4 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.49%) KDB
2 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) MySQL
4 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.12%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.12%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.12%) Redis
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (16.85%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.24%) Bitbucket
3 8 (8.99%) JIRA
4 5 (5.62%) Git
4 5 (5.62%) GitLab
5 4 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.37%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (3.37%) Selenium
6 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.25%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.12%) Maven
8 1 (1.12%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.12%) TestRail
General
1 29 (32.58%) Finance
2 26 (29.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (20.22%) Banking
3 18 (20.22%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.99%) Law
6 2 (2.25%) Legal
6 2 (2.25%) Retail
7 1 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Front Office
7 1 (1.12%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.62%) OpenAPI
2 5 (5.62%) RESTful
2 5 (5.62%) Swagger
3 4 (4.49%) Kafka
3 4 (4.49%) YAML
4 3 (3.37%) Django
4 3 (3.37%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.37%) Flask
4 3 (3.37%) Playwright
5 2 (2.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.12%) JSON
6 1 (1.12%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.12%) Node.js
6 1 (1.12%) NumPy
6 1 (1.12%) Pandas
6 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.12%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) e-Learning
1 17 (19.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.49%) Equities
4 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.37%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.37%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.37%) PKI
6 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Linux
2 8 (8.99%) Unix
3 3 (3.37%) Windows
4 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (56.18%) CI/CD
3 33 (37.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (32.58%) Mentoring
5 27 (30.34%) Agile
6 25 (28.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 19 (21.35%) Coaching
8 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.61%) High Availability
10 11 (12.36%) Containerisation
10 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
11 10 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (8.99%) Continuous Delivery
13 8 (8.99%) Machine Learning
13 8 (8.99%) Microservices
13 8 (8.99%) SDLC
14 7 (7.87%) Configuration Management
14 7 (7.87%) Deployment Automation
14 7 (7.87%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.58%) Python
2 15 (16.85%) Go
3 10 (11.24%) Bash
3 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.49%) Lua
6 3 (3.37%) Groovy
6 3 (3.37%) Ruby
7 2 (2.25%) Java
7 2 (2.25%) PHP
7 2 (2.25%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.12%) C#
8 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.37%) OCP
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) GDPR
2 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (22.47%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 44 (49.44%) Terraform
2 28 (31.46%) Kubernetes
3 26 (29.21%) Ansible
4 10 (11.24%) Grafana
5 8 (8.99%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.74%) Istio
6 6 (6.74%) Prometheus
7 5 (5.62%) Argo
8 2 (2.25%) Puppet
9 1 (1.12%) Check_MK
9 1 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.12%) Kibana
9 1 (1.12%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.12%) logstash
9 1 (1.12%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.12%) Packer
9 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (26.97%) IBM
2 17 (19.10%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.49%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.49%) MKS
3 4 (4.49%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.37%) Confluent
4 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Splunk
4 3 (3.37%) VMware
5 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.12%) Imperva
5 1 (1.12%) Okta
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle
5 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.12%) Snow