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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 556 467
Rank change year-on-year +58 -89 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 283 70 280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.16% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.18% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 220 38 148
10th Percentile £63,626 £54,100 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,563 £62,813 £61,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,875 £100,625
90th Percentile £97,750 £114,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +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 96,354 38,754 63,738
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 90.47% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,687 22,906 37,121
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 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 29 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 +29 108 £77,500 +10.71% 38
North West +28 55 £75,000 +7.14% 28
Midlands -8 49 £70,000 -9.68% 10
South East -15 38 £95,000 +18.75% 15
London -65 37 £92,500 +12.12% 93
South West -58 34 £75,000 +38.89% 18
Yorkshire -10 27 £80,000 +14.29% 6
North East -43 26 £80,000 +6.67% 4
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 8
West Midlands -26 23 £80,000 +3.23% 2
East of England -30 3 £51,000 -40.87% 6
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 283 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (41.70%) CI/CD
3 104 (36.75%) Azure
4 73 (25.80%) Terraform
5 65 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (21.91%) AWS
7 59 (20.85%) Kubernetes
8 58 (20.49%) Agile
9 56 (19.79%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (17.31%) Mentoring
11 48 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
12 42 (14.84%) Test Automation
13 41 (14.49%) Linux
14 37 (13.07%) Containerisation
14 37 (13.07%) GitLab
15 35 (12.37%) Security Cleared
16 34 (12.01%) Coaching
16 34 (12.01%) Continuous Integration
16 34 (12.01%) Windows
17 32 (11.31%) Docker
17 32 (11.31%) Java
18 30 (10.60%) Pega
18 30 (10.60%) Scrum
19 29 (10.25%) Unix
20 28 (9.89%) Microservices
20 28 (9.89%) Python
21 26 (9.19%) AI
21 26 (9.19%) Azure AKS
22 25 (8.83%) Microsoft
23 24 (8.48%) 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 2 (0.71%) IIS
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 104 (36.75%) Azure
2 62 (21.91%) AWS
3 56 (19.79%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (9.19%) Azure AKS
5 19 (6.71%) SaaS
6 18 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (6.36%) GCP
7 16 (5.65%) GitHub
8 10 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (2.47%) Serverless
10 5 (1.77%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.06%) Datadog
12 3 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.83%) DNS
2 6 (2.12%) Firewall
3 3 (1.06%) DHCP
3 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.36%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (13.07%) GitLab
2 12 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.12%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.77%) Git
5 4 (1.41%) JIRA
6 2 (0.71%) MSI
7 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 37 (13.07%) Public Sector
2 12 (4.24%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.53%) Finance
4 5 (1.77%) Banking
5 2 (0.71%) Marketing
6 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (25.80%) Terraform
2 23 (8.13%) Node.js
3 13 (4.59%) Spring
3 13 (4.59%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.12%) YAML
5 5 (1.77%) ADO
6 4 (1.41%) .NET
7 3 (1.06%) RESTful
8 2 (0.71%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.71%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.71%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.71%) React
9 1 (0.35%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.35%) JSON
9 1 (0.35%) Kafka
9 1 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.35%) REST
9 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.71%) Robotics
5 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.49%) Linux
2 34 (12.01%) Windows
3 29 (10.25%) Unix
4 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (41.70%) CI/CD
3 65 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (20.49%) Agile
5 49 (17.31%) Mentoring
6 48 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (14.84%) Test Automation
8 37 (13.07%) Containerisation
9 34 (12.01%) Coaching
9 34 (12.01%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (10.60%) Scrum
11 28 (9.89%) Microservices
12 26 (9.19%) AI
13 24 (8.48%) DevSecOps
14 22 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 15 (5.30%) Case Management
17 15 (5.30%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.31%) Java
2 28 (9.89%) Python
3 14 (4.95%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.53%) Bash
5 6 (2.12%) SQL
6 5 (1.77%) Bicep
7 3 (1.06%) Go
8 2 (0.71%) C#
8 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) Groovy
9 1 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.30%) DV Cleared
2 15 (5.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.12%) Degree
5 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.12%) QA
2 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (11.31%) Docker
2 4 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (20.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.13%) Ansible
3 21 (7.42%) Argo
4 4 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.06%) Grafana
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.60%) Pega
2 25 (8.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.18%) Google
4 5 (1.77%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.77%) VMware
5 4 (1.41%) Okta
6 3 (1.06%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle