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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 503 583
Rank change year-on-year -35 +80 -119
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 140 95 232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 124 83 189
10th Percentile £62,838 £60,686 £59,752
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £101,750 £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 70,451 33,096 77,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 89.30% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 46,116 21,213 59,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.51% -9.51%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

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 16 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 16 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 0 48 £100,000 -3.61% 5
North of England -38 29 £80,000 +28.65% 4
Midlands -17 28 £70,000 -15.15% 3
East Midlands -30 23 £70,000 - 3
South West -54 16 £80,000 +23.79% 1
South East -38 13 £90,000 +16.13% 2
North West -18 11 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -51 9 £80,000 +28.65%
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -10 5 £100,000 +21.21%
East of England -36 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 16 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.

1 140 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (35.00%) Azure
2 49 (35.00%) Terraform
3 48 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (31.43%) CI/CD
5 37 (26.43%) AWS
6 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
7 33 (23.57%) Linux
8 29 (20.71%) Docker
9 24 (17.14%) Containerisation
9 24 (17.14%) Windows
10 22 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (15.00%) Python
12 20 (14.29%) Bash
13 18 (12.86%) Microservices
14 16 (11.43%) Ansible
15 15 (10.71%) PowerShell
16 14 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
17 13 (9.29%) Continuous Integration
17 13 (9.29%) Node.js
17 13 (9.29%) Security Cleared
18 12 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 12 (8.57%) DevSecOps
18 12 (8.57%) GitLab
18 12 (8.57%) Jenkins
18 12 (8.57%) SQL Server
18 12 (8.57%) Test Automation
19 11 (7.86%) GCP
19 11 (7.86%) Git
19 11 (7.86%) Grafana

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 (6.43%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.00%) Azure
2 37 (26.43%) AWS
3 22 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.86%) GCP
5 10 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.43%) Serverless
7 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (5.71%) GitHub
7 8 (5.71%) npm
7 8 (5.71%) NuGet
7 8 (5.71%) SonarCloud
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.57%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.57%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) Firewall
2 6 (4.29%) DHCP
2 6 (4.29%) DNS
2 6 (4.29%) Network Security
3 4 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.57%) GitLab
1 12 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.86%) Git
3 9 (6.43%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.14%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.43%) JIRA
6 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (23.57%) Finance
2 18 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.29%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.86%) Banking
5 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.71%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) Node.js
2 9 (6.43%) .NET
2 9 (6.43%) YAML
3 8 (5.71%) React
4 7 (5.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.29%) Kafka
6 5 (3.57%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.86%) ADO
8 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.43%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.71%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.71%) Next.js
9 1 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.71%) REST
9 1 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.00%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Web3
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.57%) Linux
2 24 (17.14%) Windows
3 7 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 24 (17.14%) Containerisation
5 18 (12.86%) Microservices
6 14 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (9.29%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (8.57%) DevSecOps
8 12 (8.57%) Test Automation
9 11 (7.86%) High Availability
10 10 (7.14%) E-Commerce
10 10 (7.14%) Mentoring
11 8 (5.71%) Analytics
11 8 (5.71%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (5.00%) Configuration Management
12 7 (5.00%) Integration Testing
12 7 (5.00%) Observability
12 7 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.00%) Python
2 20 (14.29%) Bash
3 15 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.71%) C#
4 8 (5.71%) Go
5 7 (5.00%) SQL
6 6 (4.29%) Java
7 5 (3.57%) Bicep
8 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.71%) Groovy
9 1 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (9.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) Degree
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.43%) GDPR
1 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.43%) QA
1 2 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (20.71%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.86%) iptables
3 4 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.43%) vSphere
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (35.00%) Terraform
2 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.43%) Ansible
4 11 (7.86%) Grafana
5 9 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.00%) Istio
7 6 (4.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (3.57%) Argo
9 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.86%) Puppet
10 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.43%) SCCM
11 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (5.71%) CrowdStrike
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.29%) Okta
2 6 (4.29%) OneLogin
3 5 (3.57%) VMware
4 4 (2.86%) Confluent
5 2 (1.43%) Google
5 2 (1.43%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.71%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.71%) F5
6 1 (0.71%) IBM
6 1 (0.71%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds