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 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 513 563
Rank change year-on-year -21 +50 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 106 121 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.34% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 90 109 197
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £61,100
25th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £123,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%

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 58,500 35,914 69,536
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 90.72% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 38,046 21,101 55,004
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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
London -13 40 £100,000 -2.44% 13
Midlands +4 22 £70,000 -6.67% 5
East Midlands -9 18 £70,000 - 2
South West -15 17 £80,000 +23.79% 6
South East -16 12 £90,000 +20.00% 14
North of England -24 11 £67,500 +8.55% 14
North West -7 5 £67,500 - 4
West Midlands +7 4 £92,500 +15.63% 3
North East - 4 £70,000 - 8
East of England -5 3 £90,000 +38.46% 7
Yorkshire -45 2 £67,500 +8.55% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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.

1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (34.91%) Terraform
4 34 (32.08%) CI/CD
5 32 (30.19%) Azure
6 31 (29.25%) AWS
7 29 (27.36%) Docker
7 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
7 29 (27.36%) Linux
8 19 (17.92%) Bash
9 17 (16.04%) Containerisation
10 16 (15.09%) Ansible
10 16 (15.09%) Windows
11 15 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (14.15%) Grafana
11 15 (14.15%) Python
12 14 (13.21%) PowerShell
13 12 (11.32%) Microservices
14 11 (10.38%) Security Cleared
15 10 (9.43%) E-Commerce
15 10 (9.43%) High Availability
15 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
16 9 (8.49%) .NET
16 9 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (8.49%) Configuration Management
16 9 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (8.49%) DevSecOps
16 9 (8.49%) Git
16 9 (8.49%) Problem-Solving

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 7 (6.60%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.19%) Azure
2 31 (29.25%) AWS
3 15 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.66%) npm
7 6 (5.66%) NuGet
7 6 (5.66%) Serverless
7 6 (5.66%) SonarCloud
8 5 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.72%) CloudFront
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.77%) GCP
9 4 (3.77%) GitHub
9 4 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) Network Security
2 3 (2.83%) DHCP
2 3 (2.83%) DNS
2 3 (2.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.94%) AMQP
3 1 (0.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.83%) MySQL
4 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Git
2 8 (7.55%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.83%) GitLab
5 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.94%) git-flow
5 1 (0.94%) Gradle
5 1 (0.94%) JIRA
5 1 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 24 (22.64%) Finance
2 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.49%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (0.94%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) .NET
2 8 (7.55%) Node.js
2 8 (7.55%) React
3 7 (6.60%) YAML
4 5 (4.72%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.77%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.89%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.89%) Kafka
6 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.89%) WCF
7 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.94%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.94%) J2EE
7 1 (0.94%) Next.js
7 1 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.66%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Web3
5 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.94%) Derivative
5 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) PKI
5 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.36%) Linux
2 16 (15.09%) Windows
3 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) Unix
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 17 (16.04%) Containerisation
5 12 (11.32%) Microservices
6 10 (9.43%) E-Commerce
6 10 (9.43%) High Availability
6 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (8.49%) Configuration Management
7 9 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (8.49%) DevSecOps
7 9 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (7.55%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.60%) Integration Testing
9 7 (6.60%) Observability
10 6 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (5.66%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (5.66%) Test Automation
11 5 (4.72%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.92%) Bash
2 15 (14.15%) Python
3 14 (13.21%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.66%) C#
5 4 (3.77%) Bicep
5 4 (3.77%) Go
5 4 (3.77%) SQL
6 2 (1.89%) Java
6 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.89%) Degree
4 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 29 (27.36%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) iptables
3 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.89%) vSphere
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (34.91%) Terraform
2 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.09%) Ansible
4 15 (14.15%) Grafana
5 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.77%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.77%) Puppet
7 3 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.83%) Argo
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.83%) SCCM
8 2 (1.89%) Istio
9 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 6 (5.66%) CrowdStrike
1 6 (5.66%) VMware
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.83%) Okta
3 3 (2.83%) OneLogin
3 3 (2.83%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.94%) Confluent
4 1 (0.94%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.94%) F5
4 1 (0.94%) Google
4 1 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle
4 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds