Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 505 402
Rank change year-on-year -72 -103 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 72 259 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.40% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.42% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63 148 296
10th Percentile £58,891 £48,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +7.14% -0.82% -11.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,887 61,129 48,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 94.26% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 30,843 33,997 37,695
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,656 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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
England -61 61 £85,000 +3.03% 56
UK excluding London -54 30 £75,000 +7.14% 48
London +2 28 £90,000 -10.00% 19
Work from Home -15 27 £75,000 -16.67% 23
North of England -14 10 £72,500 +46.46% 1
Midlands +45 8 £80,000 +14.29% 9
West Midlands +53 6 £87,500 +25.00% 2
South West +19 6 £72,500 -3.33% 11
North West +12 5 £67,500 - 1
South East -23 5 £85,000 +13.33% 19
North East - 3 £80,000 -
East Midlands +19 2 £72,500 +11.54% 7
Yorkshire -7 2 £59,750 +20.71%
East of England +27 1 £82,500 -7.30% 7

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (63.89%) AWS
3 39 (54.17%) CI/CD
4 34 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (47.22%) Terraform
5 28 (38.89%) Kubernetes
6 24 (33.33%) Docker
7 23 (31.94%) Python
8 20 (27.78%) Linux
9 18 (25.00%) Ansible
10 17 (23.61%) Grafana
10 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (22.22%) Bash
11 16 (22.22%) GitHub
11 16 (22.22%) Mentoring
11 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
12 14 (19.44%) Azure
13 13 (18.06%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (16.67%) Agile
14 12 (16.67%) Observability
15 11 (15.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
15 11 (15.28%) Go
16 10 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (13.89%) High Availability
17 9 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
17 9 (12.50%) E-Commerce
17 9 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
17 9 (12.50%) SDLC

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 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.89%) AWS
2 16 (22.22%) GitHub
3 14 (19.44%) Azure
4 13 (18.06%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (15.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (9.72%) Serverless
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (6.94%) AWS Control Tower
10 5 (6.94%) GCP
11 4 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (4.17%) Route 53
13 2 (2.78%) PaaS
13 2 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
3 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) AMQP
4 1 (1.39%) DHCP
4 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.17%) MySQL
2 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.78%) KDB
3 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.94%) Git
2 5 (6.94%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.17%) GitLab
4 3 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.39%) git-flow
6 1 (1.39%) Gradle
6 1 (1.39%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (27.78%) Finance
2 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Banking
3 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Games
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (8.33%) Node.js
3 5 (6.94%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.56%) .NET
4 4 (5.56%) AWS SAM
5 3 (4.17%) YAML
6 2 (2.78%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.78%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.78%) React
6 2 (2.78%) RESTful
6 2 (2.78%) Swagger
6 2 (2.78%) WCF
7 1 (1.39%) J2EE
7 1 (1.39%) Kafka
7 1 (1.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.78%) Equities
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.78%) Web3
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Derivative
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Online Games
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Linux
2 7 (9.72%) Unix
2 7 (9.72%) Windows
3 2 (2.78%) VMS
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 34 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 12 (16.67%) Agile
6 12 (16.67%) Observability
7 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
8 10 (13.89%) High Availability
9 9 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (12.50%) E-Commerce
9 9 (12.50%) SDLC
9 9 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.72%) AI
11 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
11 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (8.33%) GitOps
12 6 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) Python
2 16 (22.22%) Bash
3 11 (15.28%) Go
4 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.17%) Java
7 3 (4.17%) SQL
8 2 (2.78%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Lua
8 2 (2.78%) Ruby
8 2 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.39%) C#
9 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.94%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (9.72%) vSphere
3 5 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.39%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (47.22%) Terraform
2 28 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 18 (25.00%) Ansible
4 17 (23.61%) Grafana
5 7 (9.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.56%) Argo
7 3 (4.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.39%) Puppet
8 1 (1.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) VMware
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) IBM
3 2 (2.78%) MKS
3 2 (2.78%) MuleSoft
3 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.39%) Google
4 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.39%) Okta
4 1 (1.39%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle
4 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.39%) Zscaler