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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 576 477
Rank change year-on-year +78 -99 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 258 70 298
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.16% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.18% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 201 38 149
10th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £64,063 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +5.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
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 93,631 39,211 65,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.38% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 66,209 23,560 40,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +33 97 £75,000 +7.14% 9
Midlands -10 49 £70,000 - 5
North West +30 46 £75,000 +7.14% 9
London -46 38 £91,250 +5.80% 63
South East -14 31 £95,000 +11.76% 20
North East -35 26 £69,310 -7.59%
South West -53 26 £75,000 +42.86% 12
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire -23 25 £70,000 -
West Midlands -19 23 £80,000 +14.29% 1
East of England -29 3 £51,000 -40.87% 4
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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.

1 258 (100.00%) DevOps
2 107 (41.47%) CI/CD
3 102 (39.53%) Azure
4 68 (26.36%) Terraform
5 59 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (22.48%) AWS
7 54 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (19.77%) Agile
8 51 (19.77%) Kubernetes
9 47 (18.22%) Mentoring
10 44 (17.05%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (15.50%) Linux
12 38 (14.73%) Test Automation
13 36 (13.95%) GitLab
14 35 (13.57%) Containerisation
14 35 (13.57%) Windows
15 34 (13.18%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (12.79%) Coaching
17 32 (12.40%) Docker
18 30 (11.63%) Java
18 30 (11.63%) Pega
19 29 (11.24%) Scrum
19 29 (11.24%) Security Cleared
20 28 (10.85%) Python
20 28 (10.85%) Unix
21 26 (10.08%) Microservices
22 24 (9.30%) AI
22 24 (9.30%) Azure AKS
22 24 (9.30%) Node.js
23 22 (8.53%) DevSecOps

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 3 (1.16%) IIS
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 102 (39.53%) Azure
2 58 (22.48%) AWS
3 54 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.30%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.36%) GCP
6 18 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (5.81%) SaaS
8 14 (5.43%) GitHub
9 10 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.10%) Serverless
11 6 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.94%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.55%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.55%) Datadog
14 3 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.16%) NuGet
14 3 (1.16%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.33%) DNS
1 6 (2.33%) Firewall
2 3 (1.16%) DHCP
2 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (13.95%) GitLab
2 13 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.33%) Git
4 5 (1.94%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.55%) JIRA
6 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.78%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 37 (14.34%) Public Sector
2 13 (5.04%) Finance
3 12 (4.65%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.71%) Banking
5 2 (0.78%) Marketing
6 1 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (26.36%) Terraform
2 24 (9.30%) Node.js
3 11 (4.26%) Spring
3 11 (4.26%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.33%) YAML
5 5 (1.94%) ADO
5 5 (1.94%) Kafka
6 3 (1.16%) .NET
6 3 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.16%) React
7 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.78%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.78%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.39%) JSON
8 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.39%) REST
8 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.55%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.50%) Linux
2 35 (13.57%) Windows
3 28 (10.85%) Unix
4 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (100.00%) DevOps
2 107 (41.47%) CI/CD
3 59 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (19.77%) Agile
5 47 (18.22%) Mentoring
6 44 (17.05%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (14.73%) Test Automation
8 35 (13.57%) Containerisation
9 34 (13.18%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.79%) Coaching
11 29 (11.24%) Scrum
12 26 (10.08%) Microservices
13 24 (9.30%) AI
14 22 (8.53%) DevSecOps
15 21 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (7.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 17 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (6.59%) Technical Leadership
18 15 (5.81%) Case Management
18 15 (5.81%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.63%) Java
2 28 (10.85%) Python
3 12 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.88%) Bash
5 7 (2.71%) Go
5 7 (2.71%) SQL
6 3 (1.16%) Bicep
6 3 (1.16%) C#
7 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.39%) Groovy
8 1 (0.39%) Perl
8 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.04%) DV Cleared
2 13 (5.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.33%) Degree
4 5 (1.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) GDPR
2 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.39%) PMO
2 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (12.40%) Docker
2 5 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (19.77%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.14%) Argo
3 20 (7.75%) Ansible
4 5 (1.94%) Istio
5 4 (1.55%) Grafana
5 4 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.63%) Pega
2 16 (6.20%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.71%) Google
4 5 (1.94%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.94%) VMware
5 4 (1.55%) Okta
6 3 (1.16%) Confluent
6 3 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.16%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.39%) IBM
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle