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 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 507 594
Rank change year-on-year -28 +87 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 131 99 222
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.30% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 115 90 186
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,686 £59,380
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,625 £68,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £95,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -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 67,528 32,934 74,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 89.81% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,445 21,275 58,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -9 46 £100,000 -4.76% 15
Midlands -16 26 £70,000 -15.15% 9
North of England -42 25 £80,000 +28.65% 15
East Midlands -29 21 £70,000 - 3
South West -41 16 £80,000 +23.79% 2
South East -36 13 £90,000 +20.00% 10
North West -20 10 £80,000 - 4
North East - 8 £60,000 - 9
Yorkshire -58 7 £80,000 +28.65% 2
West Midlands -8 5 £100,000 +21.21% 6
East of England -32 3 £90,000 +38.46%
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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.

1 131 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (34.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (32.06%) Terraform
4 41 (31.30%) Azure
5 38 (29.01%) CI/CD
6 33 (25.19%) AWS
6 33 (25.19%) Kubernetes
7 30 (22.90%) Linux
8 28 (21.37%) Docker
9 23 (17.56%) Containerisation
10 21 (16.03%) Python
11 20 (15.27%) Bash
12 19 (14.50%) Windows
13 16 (12.21%) Ansible
13 16 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (11.45%) PowerShell
15 14 (10.69%) Microservices
16 12 (9.16%) Jenkins
16 12 (9.16%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (9.16%) Security Cleared
17 11 (8.40%) DevSecOps
17 11 (8.40%) Git
17 11 (8.40%) Grafana
17 11 (8.40%) High Availability
18 10 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 10 (7.63%) Continuous Integration
18 10 (7.63%) E-Commerce
18 10 (7.63%) GCP
18 10 (7.63%) NoSQL

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 9 (6.87%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.30%) Azure
2 33 (25.19%) AWS
3 16 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (7.63%) GCP
5 9 (6.87%) Serverless
6 8 (6.11%) Amazon S3
6 8 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (6.11%) GitHub
6 8 (6.11%) npm
6 8 (6.11%) NuGet
6 8 (6.11%) SonarCloud
7 7 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.82%) CloudFront
9 5 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) Network Security
2 5 (3.82%) Firewall
3 4 (3.05%) DHCP
3 4 (3.05%) DNS
4 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
1 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.40%) Git
3 9 (6.87%) Bitbucket
4 8 (6.11%) GitLab
5 3 (2.29%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.53%) JIRA
7 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (23.66%) Finance
2 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.40%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.87%) Banking
5 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.87%) .NET
1 9 (6.87%) Node.js
1 9 (6.87%) YAML
2 8 (6.11%) React
3 7 (5.34%) .NET Framework
4 6 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (4.58%) Kafka
5 5 (3.82%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.53%) ADO
6 2 (1.53%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.53%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.53%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.76%) JSON
7 1 (0.76%) Next.js
7 1 (0.76%) REST
7 1 (0.76%) RESTful
7 1 (0.76%) WCF
7 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.34%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.34%) Hedge funds
2 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.29%) Web3
4 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.90%) Linux
2 19 (14.50%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (34.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (29.01%) CI/CD
4 23 (17.56%) Containerisation
5 14 (10.69%) Microservices
6 12 (9.16%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (8.40%) DevSecOps
7 11 (8.40%) High Availability
8 10 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (7.63%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (7.63%) E-Commerce
9 9 (6.87%) Test Automation
10 7 (5.34%) Configuration Management
10 7 (5.34%) Integration Testing
10 7 (5.34%) Mentoring
10 7 (5.34%) Observability
10 7 (5.34%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (5.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (4.58%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.03%) Python
2 20 (15.27%) Bash
3 15 (11.45%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.11%) C#
4 8 (6.11%) Go
5 7 (5.34%) SQL
6 4 (3.05%) Bicep
7 2 (1.53%) Java
7 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.76%) Groovy
8 1 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (9.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.53%) Degree
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.53%) GDPR
1 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.53%) QA
1 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (21.37%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.05%) iptables
2 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.53%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (32.06%) Terraform
2 33 (25.19%) Kubernetes
3 16 (12.21%) Ansible
4 11 (8.40%) Grafana
5 9 (6.87%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.34%) Istio
7 4 (3.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.05%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.05%) Puppet
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.53%) SCCM
9 1 (0.76%) Argo
9 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (6.11%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.82%) VMware
4 4 (3.05%) Confluent
4 4 (3.05%) Okta
4 4 (3.05%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.53%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.76%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.76%) F5
6 1 (0.76%) Google
6 1 (0.76%) IBM
6 1 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds