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 2 November 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 477 378
Rank change year-on-year -94 -99 +101
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 66 254 351
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.42% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.44% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 42 148 305
10th Percentile £55,125 £48,250 £60,472
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,438 £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -9.23% -1.18%
75th Percentile £86,875 £105,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 39,661 57,864 46,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 94.94% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 24,622 32,780 35,629
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,487
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 +38 36 £82,500 -17.50% 22
North of England -28 11 £70,000 +41.41% 5
Midlands +35 9 £75,000 +7.14% 1
West Midlands +40 7 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West -29 5 £67,500 -15.63% 4
South West +33 3 £54,000 -28.00% 4
North East +11 3 £80,000 +22.20% 1
Yorkshire +4 3 £70,000 +41.41%
East Midlands +21 2 £72,500 +11.54%
South East -33 2 £71,250 -5.00% 16
East of England +18 1 £82,500 +6.45% 5
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, 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 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (80.30%) AWS
3 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 36 (54.55%) Terraform
5 31 (46.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (43.94%) Kubernetes
7 25 (37.88%) Python
8 24 (36.36%) Docker
9 22 (33.33%) Mentoring
10 21 (31.82%) AI
11 19 (28.79%) Ansible
12 18 (27.27%) Agile
12 18 (27.27%) Linux
13 17 (25.76%) Grafana
14 15 (22.73%) Coaching
14 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (21.21%) Azure
15 14 (21.21%) Bash
16 13 (19.70%) Containerisation
16 13 (19.70%) Go
16 13 (19.70%) IBM
16 13 (19.70%) Red Hat
16 13 (19.70%) Software Engineering
17 12 (18.18%) GitHub
18 11 (16.67%) Observability
19 10 (15.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
19 10 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
19 10 (15.15%) High Availability
19 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared

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 1 (1.52%) Confluence
1 1 (1.52%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 53 (80.30%) AWS
2 14 (21.21%) Azure
3 12 (18.18%) GitHub
4 10 (15.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (9.09%) GCP
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (6.06%) Apigee
8 4 (6.06%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.06%) Kong
8 4 (6.06%) Serverless
9 3 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) Network Security
3 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) AMQP
4 1 (1.52%) DHCP
4 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (6.06%) KDB
2 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.55%) MySQL
2 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
3 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.52%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.58%) Git
3 4 (6.06%) GitLab
4 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) Maven
5 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.52%) git-flow
6 1 (1.52%) Gradle
6 1 (1.52%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (31.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 14 (21.21%) Finance
4 10 (15.15%) Banking
5 8 (12.12%) Law
5 8 (12.12%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Games
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.06%) .NET
2 4 (6.06%) OpenAPI
2 4 (6.06%) RESTful
2 4 (6.06%) Swagger
3 3 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.55%) YAML
4 2 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.03%) React
4 2 (3.03%) WCF
5 1 (1.52%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.52%) J2EE
5 1 (1.52%) Kafka
5 1 (1.52%) Node.js
5 1 (1.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 14 (21.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (19.70%) e-Learning
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Equities
4 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Derivative
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.52%) Online Games
6 1 (1.52%) PKI
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.27%) Linux
2 8 (12.12%) Unix
3 4 (6.06%) Windows
4 2 (3.03%) VMS
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 31 (46.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 21 (31.82%) AI
6 18 (27.27%) Agile
7 15 (22.73%) Coaching
7 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (19.70%) Containerisation
8 13 (19.70%) Software Engineering
9 11 (16.67%) Observability
10 10 (15.15%) High Availability
11 8 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (12.12%) Machine Learning
11 8 (12.12%) SDLC
12 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
13 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security
13 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (9.09%) Scrum
14 5 (7.58%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) Python
2 14 (21.21%) Bash
3 13 (19.70%) Go
4 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.06%) Lua
7 3 (4.55%) Java
7 3 (4.55%) SQL
8 2 (3.03%) Bicep
8 2 (3.03%) Ruby
8 2 (3.03%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.52%) C#
9 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) GDPR
1 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.03%) vSphere
3 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) iptables
Systems Management
1 36 (54.55%) Terraform
2 29 (43.94%) Kubernetes
3 19 (28.79%) Ansible
4 17 (25.76%) Grafana
5 8 (12.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.55%) Argo
6 3 (4.55%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.52%) Puppet
7 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) IBM
1 13 (19.70%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) MKS
2 4 (6.06%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.55%) VMware
4 2 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.52%) Okta
5 1 (1.52%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.52%) Zscaler