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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 595 527
Rank change year-on-year +65 -68 -138
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 281 83 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.17% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.18% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 216 50 153
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £118,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.62% -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 102,724 44,889 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.80% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,515 26,591 51,705
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +78 254 £77,500 -6.06% 122
UK excluding London +85 215 £75,000 -4.76% 67
North of England +44 98 £75,000 +7.14% 12
Work from Home +28 96 £80,000 - 41
North West +23 46 £75,000 - 7
Midlands +13 46 £70,000 - 5
London -42 39 £90,000 - 75
South East -23 27 £87,500 +2.94% 18
North East -27 27 £69,310 -7.59% 3
South West -56 27 £75,000 +36.36% 13
Yorkshire -20 25 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands - 24 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -10 22 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 4
East of England -23 3 £51,000 -40.87% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 281 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (44.48%) CI/CD
3 117 (41.64%) Azure
4 82 (29.18%) Terraform
5 74 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (23.13%) AWS
7 64 (22.78%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (22.42%) Kubernetes
9 62 (22.06%) Platform Engineering
10 56 (19.93%) Mentoring
11 53 (18.86%) Agile
12 45 (16.01%) Linux
13 42 (14.95%) Test Automation
14 40 (14.23%) Containerisation
14 40 (14.23%) GitLab
14 40 (14.23%) Security Cleared
15 38 (13.52%) Windows
16 37 (13.17%) Python
17 36 (12.81%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (12.46%) Docker
19 34 (12.10%) Coaching
20 32 (11.39%) Java
21 31 (11.03%) GCP
22 30 (10.68%) Pega
22 30 (10.68%) Scrum
23 29 (10.32%) Microservices
24 28 (9.96%) Unix
25 26 (9.25%) AI
26 24 (8.54%) Azure AKS
26 24 (8.54%) DevSecOps

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 4 (1.42%) IIS
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 117 (41.64%) Azure
2 65 (23.13%) AWS
3 64 (22.78%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (11.03%) GCP
5 24 (8.54%) Azure AKS
6 18 (6.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (5.69%) SaaS
8 15 (5.34%) GitHub
9 12 (4.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (3.91%) Serverless
11 10 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.78%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.78%) Datadog
15 4 (1.42%) Amazon MSK
15 4 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (1.42%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.20%) DNS
1 9 (3.20%) Firewall
2 4 (1.42%) DHCP
2 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.71%) SAN
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (14.23%) GitLab
2 15 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.91%) Git
4 5 (1.78%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.42%) JIRA
6 3 (1.07%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.71%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (14.95%) Public Sector
2 30 (10.68%) Finance
3 13 (4.63%) Social Skills
4 12 (4.27%) Banking
5 2 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (0.71%) Marketing
6 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (29.18%) Terraform
2 24 (8.54%) Node.js
3 11 (3.91%) Spring
3 11 (3.91%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.85%) YAML
5 7 (2.49%) ADO
5 7 (2.49%) Kafka
6 6 (2.14%) .NET
7 4 (1.42%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.42%) React
8 3 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.71%) OpenTofu
9 2 (0.71%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.36%) JSON
10 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.36%) RESTful
10 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
3 4 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.01%) Linux
2 38 (13.52%) Windows
3 28 (9.96%) Unix
4 4 (1.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (44.48%) CI/CD
3 74 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (22.06%) Platform Engineering
5 56 (19.93%) Mentoring
6 53 (18.86%) Agile
7 42 (14.95%) Test Automation
8 40 (14.23%) Containerisation
9 36 (12.81%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (12.10%) Coaching
11 30 (10.68%) Scrum
12 29 (10.32%) Microservices
13 26 (9.25%) AI
14 24 (8.54%) DevSecOps
15 21 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (7.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 17 (6.05%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (5.69%) Infrastructure Automation
17 16 (5.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.17%) Python
2 32 (11.39%) Java
3 17 (6.05%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.69%) Bash
5 9 (3.20%) SQL
6 8 (2.85%) Go
7 5 (1.78%) Bicep
7 5 (1.78%) C#
8 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.36%) Groovy
9 1 (0.36%) Perl
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (14.23%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.98%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.14%) Degree
5 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.14%) QA
2 2 (0.71%) GDPR
2 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (12.46%) Docker
2 6 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.42%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.36%) iptables
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (22.42%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.83%) Argo
3 21 (7.47%) Ansible
4 7 (2.49%) Istio
5 6 (2.14%) Grafana
6 5 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.71%) Puppet
9 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (10.68%) Pega
2 17 (6.05%) Google
3 14 (4.98%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.78%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.78%) Okta
4 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.78%) VMware
5 4 (1.42%) Confluent
5 4 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.42%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle
7 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.36%) IBM