Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 564 635
Rank change year-on-year +8 +71 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 180 105 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 141 68 201
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,218
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +4.69% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,626 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -6.45%

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 87,567 39,822 102,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.41% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 60,055 22,546 73,745
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 15 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 June 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 -10 164 £75,000 -9.09% 37
UK excluding London +19 120 £70,000 -3.45% 33
Work from Home +33 64 £80,000 - 22
North of England +1 44 £70,000 -3.36% 10
London -33 41 £97,500 -2.50% 9
Midlands +8 34 £70,000 - 7
East Midlands +5 25 £70,000 - 3
North West +15 20 £80,000 - 3
South East -8 17 £85,000 - 12
South West -56 17 £75,000 +16.05% 2
Yorkshire -24 15 £69,310 -4.31% 4
West Midlands -10 9 £80,000 +14.29% 4
North East - 9 £60,000 - 3
East of England -26 4 £51,000 -21.54% 2
Wales - 4 £53,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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.

1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 86 (47.78%) Azure
3 74 (41.11%) CI/CD
4 71 (39.44%) Terraform
5 55 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (27.22%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (26.67%) Kubernetes
8 47 (26.11%) AWS
9 40 (22.22%) Linux
10 34 (18.89%) Docker
11 33 (18.33%) Containerisation
11 33 (18.33%) Windows
12 32 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (17.22%) Microservices
14 28 (15.56%) GitLab
14 28 (15.56%) Test Automation
15 27 (15.00%) Python
16 26 (14.44%) Agile
16 26 (14.44%) Mentoring
16 26 (14.44%) Node.js
17 25 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
18 24 (13.33%) Bash
19 23 (12.78%) Security Cleared
20 22 (12.22%) Argo
20 22 (12.22%) Java
20 22 (12.22%) PowerShell
21 21 (11.67%) Azure AKS
22 20 (11.11%) DevSecOps
22 20 (11.11%) GCP
22 20 (11.11%) PostgreSQL

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 8 (4.44%) IIS
2 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (47.78%) Azure
2 49 (27.22%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (26.11%) AWS
4 21 (11.67%) Azure AKS
5 20 (11.11%) GCP
6 18 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.67%) GitHub
7 12 (6.67%) SaaS
8 10 (5.56%) Serverless
9 8 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.89%) npm
10 7 (3.89%) NuGet
10 7 (3.89%) SonarCloud
10 7 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) DNS
2 7 (3.89%) Firewall
3 6 (3.33%) DHCP
3 6 (3.33%) Network Security
4 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.56%) MongoDB
3 13 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (15.56%) GitLab
2 13 (7.22%) Git
3 12 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.67%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.67%) JIRA
6 2 (1.11%) MSI
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (16.11%) Public Sector
2 24 (13.33%) Finance
3 11 (6.11%) Banking
3 11 (6.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.44%) Node.js
2 11 (6.11%) YAML
3 9 (5.00%) .NET
4 7 (3.89%) .NET Framework
4 7 (3.89%) Kafka
4 7 (3.89%) React
5 6 (3.33%) ADO
6 4 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.67%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.11%) Next.js
8 2 (1.11%) Spring
8 2 (1.11%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.56%) JSON
9 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.56%) REST
9 1 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.33%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.22%) Linux
2 33 (18.33%) Windows
3 14 (7.78%) Unix
4 7 (3.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 74 (41.11%) CI/CD
3 55 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (18.33%) Containerisation
5 32 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
6 31 (17.22%) Microservices
7 28 (15.56%) Test Automation
8 26 (14.44%) Agile
8 26 (14.44%) Mentoring
9 25 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (11.11%) DevSecOps
11 16 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.89%) Scrum
12 15 (8.33%) Coaching
13 14 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (7.22%) AI
15 11 (6.11%) Analytics
15 11 (6.11%) Observability
15 11 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 9 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.00%) Python
2 24 (13.33%) Bash
3 22 (12.22%) Java
3 22 (12.22%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.44%) C#
4 8 (4.44%) SQL
5 6 (3.33%) Go
6 4 (2.22%) Bicep
7 2 (1.11%) PHP
8 1 (0.56%) Groovy
8 1 (0.56%) Perl
8 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.78%) Degree
5 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) GDPR
2 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.11%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (18.89%) Docker
2 6 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.22%) iptables
4 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (39.44%) Terraform
2 48 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 22 (12.22%) Argo
4 13 (7.22%) Ansible
5 12 (6.67%) Grafana
6 11 (6.11%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.89%) Istio
8 6 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.22%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.22%) Puppet
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.11%) SCCM
11 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.89%) CrowdStrike
2 7 (3.89%) Google
2 7 (3.89%) Okta
3 6 (3.33%) OneLogin
3 6 (3.33%) VMware
4 4 (2.22%) Confluent
5 3 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.11%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.56%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.56%) F5
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle