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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 569 465
Rank change year-on-year +92 -104 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 305 66 284
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.15% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.17% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 237 38 150
10th Percentile £63,626 £54,100 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,688 £102,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £103,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

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 96,332 38,980 61,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 90.58% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 67,219 23,193 35,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +43 120 £75,000 +7.14% 50
North West +40 66 £75,000 +11.11% 30
Midlands -3 51 £70,000 - 11
South East -11 39 £95,000 +26.67% 26
London -52 39 £90,000 +9.09% 92
South West -41 38 £75,000 +38.89% 12
Yorkshire -19 28 £69,655 -0.49% 12
North East -42 26 £80,000 +6.67% 8
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 8
West Midlands -29 25 £80,000 +14.29% 3
East of England -40 4 £50,663 -41.26% 8
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 305 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (42.95%) CI/CD
3 111 (36.39%) Azure
4 78 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (23.61%) Terraform
6 71 (23.28%) AWS
7 67 (21.97%) Kubernetes
8 63 (20.66%) Agile
9 57 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
10 53 (17.38%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (16.72%) Mentoring
12 43 (14.10%) Security Cleared
13 42 (13.77%) Linux
14 41 (13.44%) Test Automation
15 39 (12.79%) Containerisation
16 38 (12.46%) Coaching
17 37 (12.13%) Microsoft
18 35 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (11.48%) Docker
19 34 (11.15%) GitLab
20 33 (10.82%) AI
21 31 (10.16%) Scrum
22 30 (9.84%) Pega
22 30 (9.84%) Unix
23 29 (9.51%) Java
24 28 (9.18%) Python
24 28 (9.18%) Windows
25 27 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
26 25 (8.20%) DevSecOps
27 24 (7.87%) Ansible

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 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 111 (36.39%) Azure
2 71 (23.28%) AWS
3 53 (17.38%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (7.87%) Azure AKS
5 20 (6.56%) SaaS
6 16 (5.25%) GCP
7 15 (4.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (4.26%) GitHub
9 9 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (2.30%) Serverless
11 5 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.64%) Azure API Management
12 4 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.31%) PaaS
12 4 (1.31%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.30%) DNS
2 4 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.66%) SAN
4 1 (0.33%) DHCP
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.92%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) Db2
5 1 (0.33%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (11.15%) GitLab
2 9 (2.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.31%) JIRA
5 3 (0.98%) Git
6 2 (0.66%) MSI
7 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.33%) Snyk
7 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (14.43%) Public Sector
2 11 (3.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.62%) Finance
4 3 (0.98%) Banking
5 2 (0.66%) Marketing
6 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.33%) Local Government
6 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (23.61%) Terraform
2 19 (6.23%) Node.js
3 14 (4.59%) Spring
3 14 (4.59%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.64%) .NET
5 4 (1.31%) ADO
5 4 (1.31%) YAML
6 3 (0.98%) RESTful
7 2 (0.66%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.66%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.33%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.33%) Kafka
8 1 (0.33%) React
8 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (1.64%) Robotics
3 4 (1.31%) Culture of Ownership
3 4 (1.31%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.66%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.33%) Blog
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.33%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.77%) Linux
2 30 (9.84%) Unix
3 28 (9.18%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (42.95%) CI/CD
3 78 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (20.66%) Agile
5 57 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
6 51 (16.72%) Mentoring
7 41 (13.44%) Test Automation
8 39 (12.79%) Containerisation
9 38 (12.46%) Coaching
10 35 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (10.82%) AI
12 31 (10.16%) Scrum
13 27 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (8.20%) DevSecOps
15 24 (7.87%) Microservices
16 23 (7.54%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
18 19 (6.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 15 (4.92%) Case Management
19 15 (4.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.51%) Java
2 28 (9.18%) Python
3 14 (4.59%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.28%) Bash
5 6 (1.97%) Bicep
6 5 (1.64%) SQL
7 4 (1.31%) Go
8 3 (0.98%) C#
8 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (5.90%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.25%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.97%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.97%) Degree
5 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.64%) QA
2 1 (0.33%) NCSC
2 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (11.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.87%) Ansible
3 18 (5.90%) Argo
4 4 (1.31%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.98%) Grafana
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.33%) Opsview
7 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.84%) Pega
3 8 (2.62%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.64%) VMware
5 2 (0.66%) Okta
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle
6 1 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.33%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.33%) YouTube