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 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 487 398
Rank change year-on-year -104 -89 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 77 284 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.40% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.42% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 49 154 338
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £60,826
25th Percentile £63,750 £58,938 £68,497
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £104,375
90th Percentile £106,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% -6.25%

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 43,959 67,207 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 95.34% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,826 38,508 41,480
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -85 66 £70,000 -6.67% 22
London +12 37 £82,500 -17.50% 7
Work from Home -32 34 £75,000 -16.67% 34
UK excluding London -91 26 £70,000 +3.70% 22
North of England -56 8 £70,000 +41.41% 6
South West +43 7 £54,000 -28.00% 1
West Midlands +36 5 £70,000 - 4
Midlands +30 5 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire +3 4 £70,000 +41.41%
South East -39 3 £75,000 - 5
North West -50 3 £67,500 -15.63% 3
East of England +5 2 £86,250 +11.29% 2
North East +11 1 £75,000 +14.57% 3
Scotland 0 1 £100,000 +33.33% 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (80.52%) AWS
3 54 (70.13%) CI/CD
4 39 (50.65%) Terraform
5 34 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (38.96%) Kubernetes
7 28 (36.36%) Mentoring
8 26 (33.77%) Python
8 26 (33.77%) AI
9 25 (32.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (29.87%) Docker
10 23 (29.87%) Agile
11 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (27.27%) Public Sector
13 20 (25.97%) Ansible
14 19 (24.68%) Coaching
14 19 (24.68%) GitHub
15 18 (23.38%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (23.38%) Grafana
16 17 (22.08%) Cloud Native
16 17 (22.08%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (22.08%) e-Learning
16 17 (22.08%) Linux
16 17 (22.08%) IBM
16 17 (22.08%) Red Hat
17 16 (20.78%) Finance
17 16 (20.78%) Go
17 16 (20.78%) Azure
17 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
18 15 (19.48%) Bash

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 (1.30%) Confluence
1 1 (1.30%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 62 (80.52%) AWS
2 19 (24.68%) GitHub
3 17 (22.08%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (20.78%) Azure
5 14 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (12.99%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (12.99%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (10.39%) GCP
9 5 (6.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.49%) AWS Control Tower
9 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.49%) Serverless
10 4 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.19%) Apigee
10 4 (5.19%) Kong
10 4 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.60%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) DNS
3 2 (2.60%) Network Security
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.60%) VPN
4 1 (1.30%) AMQP
4 1 (1.30%) DHCP
4 1 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.19%) KDB
2 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.60%) MySQL
3 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.30%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.49%) Git
3 5 (6.49%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.60%) Maven
5 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.30%) git-flow
6 1 (1.30%) Gradle
6 1 (1.30%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (32.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 16 (20.78%) Finance
4 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
5 11 (14.29%) Banking
6 8 (10.39%) Law
7 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Automotive
9 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Games
9 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.39%) Node.js
3 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
3 4 (5.19%) OpenAPI
3 4 (5.19%) RESTful
3 4 (5.19%) Swagger
4 3 (3.90%) .NET
4 3 (3.90%) YAML
5 2 (2.60%) AWS SAM
5 2 (2.60%) React
6 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.30%) J2EE
6 1 (1.30%) Kafka
6 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.30%) Spring
6 1 (1.30%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (22.08%) e-Learning
3 7 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.19%) Equities
5 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.30%) Derivative
7 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.30%) Online Games
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.08%) Linux
2 9 (11.69%) Unix
3 3 (3.90%) Windows
4 1 (1.30%) VMS
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (70.13%) CI/CD
3 34 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 26 (33.77%) AI
6 23 (29.87%) Agile
7 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (24.68%) Coaching
9 15 (19.48%) SDLC
10 14 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 13 (16.88%) Observability
11 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
12 11 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (14.29%) Computer Science
12 11 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 11 (14.29%) High Availability
13 9 (11.69%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (11.69%) Machine Learning
14 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
14 7 (9.09%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) Python
2 16 (20.78%) Go
3 15 (19.48%) Bash
4 10 (12.99%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.19%) Lua
6 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.90%) Java
8 2 (2.60%) Ruby
8 2 (2.60%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (2.60%) SQL
9 1 (1.30%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) C#
9 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (29.87%) Docker
2 8 (10.39%) vSphere
3 7 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.30%) iptables
4 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (50.65%) Terraform
2 30 (38.96%) Kubernetes
3 20 (25.97%) Ansible
4 18 (23.38%) Grafana
5 8 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.19%) Argo
7 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (22.08%) IBM
1 17 (22.08%) Red Hat
2 9 (11.69%) VMware
3 4 (5.19%) MKS
3 4 (5.19%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.60%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.30%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) Okta
6 1 (1.30%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) Zscaler