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 15 September 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 499 398
Rank change year-on-year -88 -101 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 83 301 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.39% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.41% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 51 155 378
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,719 £68,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -3.13%

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 44,026 73,874 58,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,758 44,964 44,983
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -83 70 £78,750 +5.00% 48
London +45 39 £86,250 -9.21% 15
Work from Home -2 37 £80,000 +1.59% 30
UK excluding London -85 29 £75,000 +7.14% 38
South West +71 10 £52,500 -34.38% 4
North of England -70 7 £70,000 +41.41% 16
South East -28 5 £85,000 +13.33% 13
Yorkshire +1 4 £70,000 +41.41% 4
West Midlands +47 3 £70,000 - 2
Midlands +38 3 £70,000 +1.82% 2
Scotland +53 2 £102,500 +36.67%
East of England -7 2 £86,250 +11.29% 3
North West -65 2 £70,000 -15.15% 10
North East +13 1 £75,000 +14.57% 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 64 (77.11%) AWS
3 53 (63.86%) CI/CD
4 41 (49.40%) Terraform
5 34 (40.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (33.73%) Kubernetes
6 28 (33.73%) Python
7 27 (32.53%) Agile
8 26 (31.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 26 (31.33%) Mentoring
9 25 (30.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (26.51%) Docker
11 21 (25.30%) Ansible
11 21 (25.30%) IBM
12 20 (24.10%) Public Sector
13 19 (22.89%) Go
13 19 (22.89%) GitHub
13 19 (22.89%) Azure
14 18 (21.69%) Coaching
14 18 (21.69%) Finance
15 17 (20.48%) e-Learning
15 17 (20.48%) Red Hat
15 17 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (20.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (20.48%) Grafana
16 16 (19.28%) Bash
17 15 (18.07%) Linux
17 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
17 15 (18.07%) Cloud Native

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.20%) Confluence
1 1 (1.20%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 64 (77.11%) AWS
2 19 (22.89%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) GitHub
3 17 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (13.25%) GCP
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 6 (7.23%) AWS Control Tower
7 6 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (7.23%) Serverless
8 4 (4.82%) Apigee
8 4 (4.82%) CloudFront
8 4 (4.82%) Kong
8 4 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Firewall
2 2 (2.41%) DNS
2 2 (2.41%) Network Security
2 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (4.82%) KDB
2 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.43%) TeamCity
3 6 (7.23%) Bitbucket
3 6 (7.23%) GitLab
4 5 (6.02%) Git
5 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.61%) JIRA
6 2 (2.41%) Maven
6 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.20%) git-flow
7 1 (1.20%) Gradle
7 1 (1.20%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (30.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (24.10%) Public Sector
3 18 (21.69%) Finance
4 14 (16.87%) Banking
5 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
6 8 (9.64%) Law
7 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Front Office
9 1 (1.20%) Games
9 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (9.64%) Node.js
3 5 (6.02%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.82%) OpenAPI
4 4 (4.82%) RESTful
4 4 (4.82%) Swagger
5 3 (3.61%) AWS SAM
5 3 (3.61%) YAML
6 2 (2.41%) .NET
6 2 (2.41%) Kafka
7 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) e-Learning
1 17 (20.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (18.07%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.82%) Equities
5 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.20%) Online Games
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Linux
2 10 (12.05%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (63.86%) CI/CD
3 34 (40.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (32.53%) Agile
5 26 (31.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 26 (31.33%) Mentoring
6 22 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (21.69%) Coaching
8 15 (18.07%) SDLC
9 14 (16.87%) Software Engineering
10 13 (15.66%) Observability
11 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
12 11 (13.25%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (13.25%) Computer Science
12 11 (13.25%) Containerisation
12 11 (13.25%) High Availability
13 10 (12.05%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (10.84%) Machine Learning
15 8 (9.64%) Configuration Management
15 8 (9.64%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.73%) Python
2 19 (22.89%) Go
3 16 (19.28%) Bash
4 11 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.82%) Lua
6 4 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.41%) Ruby
7 2 (2.41%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.20%) C#
8 1 (1.20%) Java
8 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.43%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
2 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (26.51%) Docker
2 9 (10.84%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.43%) vSphere
4 1 (1.20%) iptables
Systems Management
1 41 (49.40%) Terraform
2 28 (33.73%) Kubernetes
3 21 (25.30%) Ansible
4 17 (20.48%) Grafana
5 7 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.82%) Argo
7 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.41%) Istio
9 1 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) IBM
2 17 (20.48%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.43%) VMware
4 4 (4.82%) MKS
4 4 (4.82%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.41%) Confluent
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.41%) Splunk
6 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle