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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 584 493
Rank change year-on-year +89 -91 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 327 82 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.17% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.18% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 252 50 153
10th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £113,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -7.49%

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 109,727 44,495 71,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 89.76% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 74,858 25,632 41,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,554
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,349 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 16 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 3 October 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 +93 295 £80,000 +14.29% 234
UK excluding London +80 265 £77,500 +10.71% 174
North of England +46 118 £75,000 +7.14% 50
Work from Home +34 111 £80,000 +6.67% 137
North West +25 61 £75,000 +11.11% 34
Midlands -1 52 £70,000 - 14
South East -13 38 £95,000 +26.67% 20
London -66 36 £91,250 +10.61% 104
South West -51 35 £75,000 +38.89% 22
Yorkshire -15 29 £70,000 - 10
North East -35 28 £80,000 +6.67% 6
East Midlands - 28 £70,000 - 10
West Midlands -21 24 £80,000 +14.29% 4
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 9
Scotland +7 5 £100,000 - 35
East of England -39 3 £51,000 -40.87% 9

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 327 (100.00%) DevOps
2 144 (44.04%) CI/CD
3 123 (37.61%) Azure
4 80 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (24.46%) Terraform
5 76 (23.24%) AWS
6 73 (22.32%) Kubernetes
7 67 (20.49%) Platform Engineering
8 66 (20.18%) Agile
8 66 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (18.96%) Mentoring
10 49 (14.98%) Test Automation
11 47 (14.37%) Linux
12 46 (14.07%) Security Cleared
13 41 (12.54%) Coaching
13 41 (12.54%) Containerisation
13 41 (12.54%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (11.93%) GitLab
15 37 (11.31%) Docker
16 35 (10.70%) Scrum
17 33 (10.09%) Java
17 33 (10.09%) Python
17 33 (10.09%) Unix
17 33 (10.09%) Windows
18 32 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (9.79%) Microsoft
19 31 (9.48%) AI
20 30 (9.17%) Pega
21 29 (8.87%) GCP
22 27 (8.26%) Azure AKS

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 2 (0.61%) IIS
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 123 (37.61%) Azure
2 76 (23.24%) AWS
3 66 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (8.87%) GCP
5 27 (8.26%) Azure AKS
6 20 (6.12%) SaaS
7 18 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (4.28%) GitHub
9 12 (3.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.14%) Serverless
12 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.53%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.22%) PaaS
13 4 (1.22%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.92%) Datadog
14 3 (0.92%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.06%) DNS
2 7 (2.14%) Firewall
3 2 (0.61%) DHCP
3 2 (0.61%) SAN
3 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.50%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.31%) Db2
5 1 (0.31%) Metadata
5 1 (0.31%) MySQL
5 1 (0.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (11.93%) GitLab
2 9 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.14%) Git
4 5 (1.53%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.22%) JIRA
6 2 (0.61%) MSI
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) Snyk
7 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (13.15%) Public Sector
2 23 (7.03%) Finance
3 13 (3.98%) Social Skills
4 5 (1.53%) Banking
5 2 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.61%) Marketing
6 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (24.46%) Terraform
2 23 (7.03%) Node.js
3 13 (3.98%) Spring
3 13 (3.98%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.14%) .NET
5 6 (1.83%) ADO
5 6 (1.83%) YAML
6 3 (0.92%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.92%) RESTful
7 2 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.61%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.61%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.61%) React
8 1 (0.31%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.31%) CSS
8 1 (0.31%) Kafka
8 1 (0.31%) Next.js
8 1 (0.31%) Playwright
8 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (1.83%) Private Cloud
3 5 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.22%) Culture of Ownership
4 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.92%) Robotics
6 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.37%) Linux
2 33 (10.09%) Unix
2 33 (10.09%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (100.00%) DevOps
2 144 (44.04%) CI/CD
3 80 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (20.49%) Platform Engineering
5 66 (20.18%) Agile
6 62 (18.96%) Mentoring
7 49 (14.98%) Test Automation
8 41 (12.54%) Coaching
8 41 (12.54%) Containerisation
8 41 (12.54%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (10.70%) Scrum
10 32 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (9.48%) AI
12 27 (8.26%) Microservices
13 25 (7.65%) DevSecOps
14 24 (7.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
17 19 (5.81%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (4.89%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.09%) Java
1 33 (10.09%) Python
2 17 (5.20%) PowerShell
3 14 (4.28%) Bash
4 7 (2.14%) Bicep
5 6 (1.83%) SQL
6 4 (1.22%) C#
6 4 (1.22%) Go
7 3 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.31%) Ruby
9 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.59%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.14%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.14%) Degree
5 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.83%) QA
2 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (11.31%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (22.32%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.03%) Ansible
3 21 (6.42%) Argo
4 4 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.92%) Grafana
6 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Opsview
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.17%) Pega
3 18 (5.50%) Google
4 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.53%) Intel
5 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.53%) VMware
6 3 (0.92%) Okta
7 2 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.61%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.31%) YouTube