Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 508 531
Rank change year-on-year -46 +23 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 106 193 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.42% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 93 129 244
10th Percentile £58,891 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.77% -4.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% -11.78%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 60,794 45,662 70,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 91.74% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 38,174 23,853 55,156
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 13 February 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
England -49 95 £80,000 -11.11% 36
UK excluding London -50 60 £70,000 - 32
London +4 34 £100,000 -3.61% 12
Work from Home -32 32 £80,000 -11.11% 21
Midlands +20 21 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands 0 16 £70,000 -
South West -4 16 £80,000 +23.79% 6
South East -28 12 £90,000 +20.00% 11
North of England -4 8 £75,000 +51.52% 12
West Midlands +14 5 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West +13 5 £67,500 - 6
East of England +6 3 £90,000 +38.46% 2
North East - 2 £82,500 - 3
Yorkshire -40 1 £70,000 +41.41% 3

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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 featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (34.91%) AWS
4 36 (33.96%) CI/CD
4 36 (33.96%) Terraform
5 35 (33.02%) Linux
6 29 (27.36%) Docker
6 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
7 28 (26.42%) Azure
8 17 (16.04%) Ansible
8 17 (16.04%) Bash
8 17 (16.04%) Windows
9 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
10 15 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (14.15%) Grafana
11 14 (13.21%) Containerisation
12 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.26%) Python
13 12 (11.32%) E-Commerce
13 12 (11.32%) High Availability
14 11 (10.38%) PowerShell
14 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (9.43%) Microservices
15 10 (9.43%) Node.js
15 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 9 (8.49%) GitHub
16 9 (8.49%) Observability
16 9 (8.49%) Root Cause Analysis

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.66%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) AWS
2 28 (26.42%) Azure
3 15 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (8.49%) GitHub
6 8 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.60%) Serverless
8 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.72%) npm
9 5 (4.72%) NuGet
9 5 (4.72%) SonarCloud
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (3.77%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.83%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) 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 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.83%) MySQL
4 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.83%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.94%) git-flow
5 1 (0.94%) GitLab
5 1 (0.94%) Gradle
5 1 (0.94%) JIRA
5 1 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 21 (19.81%) Finance
2 11 (10.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.94%) Automotive
5 1 (0.94%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.43%) Node.js
2 8 (7.55%) .NET
3 7 (6.60%) React
4 6 (5.66%) YAML
5 5 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.77%) AWS SAM
7 3 (2.83%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.89%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.89%) WCF
9 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.94%) J2EE
9 1 (0.94%) Kafka
9 1 (0.94%) RESTful
9 1 (0.94%) Spring
9 1 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.66%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.83%) 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 35 (33.02%) Linux
2 17 (16.04%) Windows
3 4 (3.77%) Unix
3 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (33.96%) CI/CD
4 14 (13.21%) Containerisation
5 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
6 12 (11.32%) E-Commerce
6 12 (11.32%) High Availability
7 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.43%) Microservices
8 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.49%) Observability
9 9 (8.49%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.55%) DevSecOps
10 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (6.60%) Configuration Management
11 7 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.60%) Integration Testing
12 6 (5.66%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.04%) Bash
2 13 (12.26%) Python
3 11 (10.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.72%) Bicep
4 5 (4.72%) C#
4 5 (4.72%) Go
5 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.77%) SQL
6 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.89%) Java
7 2 (1.89%) PHP
8 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.77%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (27.36%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) vSphere
3 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.83%) iptables
3 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (33.96%) Terraform
2 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.04%) Ansible
4 15 (14.15%) Grafana
5 8 (7.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.83%) Puppet
6 3 (2.83%) SCCM
7 2 (1.89%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (8.49%) VMware
2 5 (4.72%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.83%) Okta
3 3 (2.83%) OneLogin
3 3 (2.83%) Zscaler
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%) SolarWinds