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 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 560 612
Rank change year-on-year +37 +52 -201
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 203 88 227
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 165 53 163
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,299 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £66,250 £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 £80,000 £100,001 £91,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £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 81,543 38,467 85,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.45% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57,406 23,001 62,519
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 8 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 8 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 +18 69 £75,000 +0.17% 14
Midlands +11 39 £70,000 -12.50% 3
London -42 36 £90,000 -10.00% 8
North West +21 31 £76,250 +1.67% 10
East Midlands -3 24 £70,000 - 3
Yorkshire -11 24 £69,655 -0.49% 2
South West -44 23 £75,000 +16.05% 2
South East -15 19 £85,000 - 4
West Midlands -2 15 £80,000 -
North East -32 14 £69,308 -7.59% 2
East of England -25 4 £51,000 -29.66% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 203 (100.00%) DevOps
2 95 (46.80%) CI/CD
3 86 (42.36%) Azure
4 71 (34.98%) Terraform
5 58 (28.57%) AWS
6 57 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (22.66%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (22.17%) Kubernetes
9 44 (21.67%) Mentoring
10 42 (20.69%) Linux
11 41 (20.20%) Windows
12 39 (19.21%) Agile
13 36 (17.73%) Test Automation
14 33 (16.26%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (15.27%) Containerisation
15 31 (15.27%) Docker
16 30 (14.78%) Microservices
16 30 (14.78%) Pega
17 29 (14.29%) Coaching
18 28 (13.79%) Python
19 27 (13.30%) GitLab
19 27 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
19 27 (13.30%) Scrum
20 26 (12.81%) Java
20 26 (12.81%) Unix
21 24 (11.82%) Node.js
22 23 (11.33%) DevSecOps
23 22 (10.84%) Argo
23 22 (10.84%) Azure AKS
24 21 (10.34%) 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 6 (2.96%) IIS
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.36%) Azure
2 58 (28.57%) AWS
3 46 (22.66%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.84%) Azure AKS
5 19 (9.36%) GCP
6 18 (8.87%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.40%) SaaS
8 12 (5.91%) GitHub
9 9 (4.43%) Serverless
10 8 (3.94%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.96%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.96%) npm
12 6 (2.96%) NuGet
12 6 (2.96%) SonarCloud
13 5 (2.46%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) DNS
1 7 (3.45%) Firewall
2 6 (2.96%) Network Security
3 4 (1.97%) DHCP
3 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.36%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (13.30%) GitLab
2 12 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.43%) Git
4 5 (2.46%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.48%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.48%) JIRA
6 2 (0.99%) MSI
7 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 19 (9.36%) Finance
3 11 (5.42%) Banking
4 10 (4.93%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.82%) Node.js
2 9 (4.43%) YAML
3 7 (3.45%) Kafka
4 6 (2.96%) .NET
4 6 (2.96%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.96%) ADO
4 6 (2.96%) React
4 6 (2.96%) Spring
4 6 (2.96%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.48%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.48%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.48%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.49%) JSON
7 1 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.49%) REST
7 1 (0.49%) RESTful
7 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.42%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (20.69%) Linux
2 41 (20.20%) Windows
3 26 (12.81%) Unix
4 4 (1.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (100.00%) DevOps
2 95 (46.80%) CI/CD
3 57 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (21.67%) Mentoring
5 39 (19.21%) Agile
6 36 (17.73%) Test Automation
7 33 (16.26%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (15.27%) Containerisation
9 30 (14.78%) Microservices
10 29 (14.29%) Coaching
11 27 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (13.30%) Scrum
12 23 (11.33%) DevSecOps
13 16 (7.88%) AI
14 15 (7.39%) Case Management
15 14 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
17 11 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (5.42%) Machine Learning
17 11 (5.42%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.79%) Python
2 26 (12.81%) Java
3 19 (9.36%) Bash
3 19 (9.36%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.94%) SQL
5 6 (2.96%) C#
5 6 (2.96%) Go
6 4 (1.97%) Bicep
7 1 (0.49%) Groovy
7 1 (0.49%) Perl
7 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.46%) Degree
6 4 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.45%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
2 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (15.27%) Docker
2 6 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.97%) iptables
5 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (34.98%) Terraform
2 45 (22.17%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.84%) Argo
4 17 (8.37%) Ansible
5 10 (4.93%) Grafana
6 9 (4.43%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.45%) Istio
8 4 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.97%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.97%) Puppet
9 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (14.78%) Pega
2 9 (4.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.45%) Google
4 6 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.46%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.46%) Okta
5 5 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.46%) VMware
6 4 (1.97%) Confluent
6 4 (1.97%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.49%) IBM
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle