Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the Midlands is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 305 299
Rank change year-on-year +58 -6 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 4 6 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.057% 0.051% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.054% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 20
10th Percentile £80,250 £54,350 £62,375
25th Percentile £80,625 £60,875 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £67,500 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -13.46% +20.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 - £100,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £84,000 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,427 11,047 8,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 94.29% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,858 8,256 4,765
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
West Midlands +53 2 £82,500 +17.86% 4
East Midlands +39 2 - - 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Management

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Control
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft