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 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 486 386
Rank change year-on-year -98 -100 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 80 263 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.39% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.41% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 56 154 339
10th Percentile £56,875 £48,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.04%
75th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £106,289
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,625 £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 45,096 64,445 50,460
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.05% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,937 36,459 39,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,094 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 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 -68 66 £75,000 -3.23% 83
London +7 36 £82,500 -17.50% 42
Work from Home -27 33 £75,000 -16.67% 58
UK excluding London -67 27 £70,000 +3.70% 62
North of England -38 11 £70,000 +41.41% 16
Midlands +46 9 £75,000 +7.14% 4
West Midlands +47 7 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West -9 5 £67,500 -15.63% 11
South West +42 3 £54,000 -28.00% 8
North East +10 3 £80,000 +22.20% 1
Yorkshire -11 3 £70,000 +41.41% 4
East Midlands +13 2 £72,500 +11.54% 3
South East -28 2 £71,250 -5.00% 23
East of England +22 1 £82,500 +6.45% 4
Scotland -4 1 £100,000 +33.33% 5

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 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 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (83.75%) AWS
3 50 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 39 (48.75%) Terraform
5 37 (46.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (41.25%) Kubernetes
7 28 (35.00%) Python
8 27 (33.75%) Docker
8 27 (33.75%) Mentoring
9 23 (28.75%) Linux
10 22 (27.50%) AI
10 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (26.25%) Ansible
12 20 (25.00%) GitHub
13 19 (23.75%) Grafana
13 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
14 18 (22.50%) Agile
15 17 (21.25%) Bash
15 17 (21.25%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (20.00%) Go
17 15 (18.75%) Coaching
17 15 (18.75%) SDLC
18 14 (17.50%) Azure
18 14 (17.50%) Observability
19 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
19 13 (16.25%) IBM
19 13 (16.25%) Red Hat
19 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
19 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
19 13 (16.25%) Test Automation

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 (1.25%) Confluence
1 1 (1.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 67 (83.75%) AWS
2 20 (25.00%) GitHub
3 17 (21.25%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (17.50%) Azure
5 12 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (8.75%) GCP
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
10 6 (7.50%) AWS Control Tower
10 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.50%) Serverless
11 4 (5.00%) Apigee
11 4 (5.00%) Kong
11 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) Network Security
3 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) AMQP
4 1 (1.25%) DHCP
4 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.00%) KDB
2 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.75%) MySQL
2 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.25%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.75%) TeamCity
3 5 (6.25%) Git
3 5 (6.25%) GitLab
4 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.75%) JIRA
5 2 (2.50%) Maven
5 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.25%) git-flow
6 1 (1.25%) Gradle
6 1 (1.25%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (26.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (21.25%) Public Sector
3 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 14 (17.50%) Finance
5 11 (13.75%) Banking
6 8 (10.00%) Law
7 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Automotive
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Games
9 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.00%) Node.js
3 5 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.00%) .NET
4 4 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 4 (5.00%) RESTful
4 4 (5.00%) Swagger
5 3 (3.75%) AWS SAM
5 3 (3.75%) YAML
6 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.50%) React
6 2 (2.50%) WCF
7 1 (1.25%) J2EE
7 1 (1.25%) Kafka
7 1 (1.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (17.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (16.25%) e-Learning
4 7 (8.75%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.00%) Equities
6 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.25%) Derivative
8 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.25%) Online Games
8 1 (1.25%) PKI
8 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (28.75%) Linux
2 10 (12.50%) Unix
3 7 (8.75%) Windows
4 2 (2.50%) VMS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 37 (46.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (33.75%) Mentoring
5 22 (27.50%) AI
5 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (22.50%) Agile
7 15 (18.75%) Coaching
7 15 (18.75%) SDLC
8 14 (17.50%) Observability
9 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
9 13 (16.25%) Test Automation
10 12 (15.00%) High Availability
11 11 (13.75%) Computer Science
12 10 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
14 7 (8.75%) Configuration Management
14 7 (8.75%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.00%) Python
2 17 (21.25%) Bash
3 16 (20.00%) Go
4 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.00%) Lua
6 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.75%) Java
7 3 (3.75%) SQL
8 2 (2.50%) Bicep
8 2 (2.50%) Ruby
8 2 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.25%) C#
9 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Docker
2 9 (11.25%) vSphere
3 7 (8.75%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (8.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.25%) iptables
Systems Management
1 39 (48.75%) Terraform
2 33 (41.25%) Kubernetes
3 21 (26.25%) Ansible
4 19 (23.75%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.00%) Argo
7 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.25%) Puppet
8 1 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) IBM
1 13 (16.25%) Red Hat
2 10 (12.50%) VMware
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) MKS
3 4 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.25%) Okta
5 1 (1.25%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.25%) Zscaler