Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 573 583
Rank change year-on-year +69 +10 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 217 82 236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 176 47 167
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £109,375 £91,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £119,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -8.82%

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 83,530 39,318 79,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 90.44% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 58,858 23,754 57,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +45 78 £75,000 +0.17% 12
London -34 40 £90,000 -11.11% 29
Midlands +7 39 £70,000 -12.50% 3
North West +29 37 £76,250 +1.67% 7
Yorkshire -6 25 £69,310 -0.99%
East Midlands +2 24 £70,000 - 3
South West -47 22 £75,000 - 2
South East -8 19 £85,000 - 7
North East -30 16 £69,310 -7.59% 5
West Midlands -5 15 £80,000 -
East of England -16 4 £51,000 -40.00%
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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.

1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (45.62%) CI/CD
3 94 (43.32%) Azure
4 72 (33.18%) Terraform
5 61 (28.11%) AWS
5 61 (28.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (22.12%) Mentoring
7 47 (21.66%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (20.74%) Kubernetes
9 43 (19.82%) Agile
10 42 (19.35%) Linux
11 41 (18.89%) Windows
12 37 (17.05%) Test Automation
13 34 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (14.75%) Containerisation
15 31 (14.29%) Coaching
15 31 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (13.82%) Docker
16 30 (13.82%) Microservices
16 30 (13.82%) Pega
16 30 (13.82%) Scrum
17 29 (13.36%) GitLab
17 29 (13.36%) Python
18 28 (12.90%) Unix
19 27 (12.44%) Java
20 24 (11.06%) DevSecOps
20 24 (11.06%) Node.js
21 22 (10.14%) Argo
21 22 (10.14%) Azure AKS
22 20 (9.22%) AI

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 5 (2.30%) IIS
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 94 (43.32%) Azure
2 61 (28.11%) AWS
3 47 (21.66%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.14%) Azure AKS
5 19 (8.76%) GCP
6 18 (8.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (6.91%) SaaS
8 14 (6.45%) GitHub
9 10 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.69%) Serverless
11 7 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.23%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.76%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.30%) Datadog
13 5 (2.30%) npm
13 5 (2.30%) NuGet
13 5 (2.30%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.23%) DNS
1 7 (3.23%) Firewall
2 5 (2.30%) Network Security
3 4 (1.84%) DHCP
3 4 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.76%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.15%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (13.36%) GitLab
2 13 (5.99%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.15%) Git
4 4 (1.84%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.84%) JIRA
5 3 (1.38%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.92%) MSI
7 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (18.89%) Public Sector
2 19 (8.76%) Finance
3 11 (5.07%) Banking
3 11 (5.07%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.46%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.06%) Node.js
2 8 (3.69%) YAML
3 7 (3.23%) Kafka
3 7 (3.23%) Spring
3 7 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.76%) ADO
5 5 (2.30%) .NET
5 5 (2.30%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.30%) React
6 4 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.38%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.92%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.92%) RESTful
8 2 (0.92%) Web Services
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.46%) JSON
9 1 (0.46%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.99%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.46%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.35%) Linux
2 41 (18.89%) Windows
3 28 (12.90%) Unix
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (45.62%) CI/CD
3 61 (28.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (22.12%) Mentoring
5 43 (19.82%) Agile
6 37 (17.05%) Test Automation
7 34 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (14.75%) Containerisation
9 31 (14.29%) Coaching
9 31 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (13.82%) Microservices
10 30 (13.82%) Scrum
11 24 (11.06%) DevSecOps
12 20 (9.22%) AI
13 18 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (6.91%) Case Management
14 15 (6.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (5.99%) Machine Learning
16 12 (5.53%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.36%) Python
2 27 (12.44%) Java
3 17 (7.83%) Bash
3 17 (7.83%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.23%) Go
4 7 (3.23%) SQL
5 5 (2.30%) C#
6 4 (1.84%) Bicep
7 1 (0.46%) Groovy
7 1 (0.46%) Perl
7 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (9.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.07%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.69%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.76%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.76%) Degree
5 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.23%) QA
2 2 (0.92%) GDPR
2 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (13.82%) Docker
2 6 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.84%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (33.18%) Terraform
2 45 (20.74%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.14%) Argo
4 19 (8.76%) Ansible
5 9 (4.15%) Grafana
6 8 (3.69%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.23%) Istio
8 4 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.38%) Puppet
10 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (13.82%) Pega
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.23%) Google
4 5 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (2.30%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.30%) Okta
4 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.30%) VMware
5 4 (1.84%) Confluent
5 4 (1.84%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.46%) IBM
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle