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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 579 616
Rank change year-on-year +58 +37 -211
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 242 92 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 194 56 192
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £72,899 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £84,688 £105,313 £90,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

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 94,139 44,347 91,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.90% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,646 26,264 64,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +69 217 £75,000 -11.76% 49
UK excluding London +52 173 £75,000 - 27
Work from Home +48 92 £80,000 - 22
North of England +45 78 £75,000 +0.17% 12
London -34 40 £90,000 -11.11% 29
Midlands +7 39 £70,000 -12.50% 3
North West +29 37 £76,250 +1.67% 7
Yorkshire -6 25 £69,310 -0.99%
East Midlands +2 24 £70,000 - 3
South West -47 22 £75,000 - 2
South East -8 19 £85,000 - 7
North East -30 16 £69,310 -7.59% 5
West Midlands -5 15 £80,000 -
Wales - 11 £70,000 - 2
East of England -16 4 £51,000 -40.00%

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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.

1 242 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (46.28%) CI/CD
3 107 (44.21%) Azure
4 80 (33.06%) Terraform
5 70 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (26.86%) AWS
7 56 (23.14%) Kubernetes
8 55 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (21.90%) Mentoring
10 46 (19.01%) Agile
10 46 (19.01%) Linux
11 45 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (16.94%) Windows
13 40 (16.53%) Test Automation
14 37 (15.29%) Containerisation
15 35 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
15 35 (14.46%) Docker
16 34 (14.05%) Python
17 32 (13.22%) Coaching
18 31 (12.81%) GitLab
18 31 (12.81%) Scrum
19 30 (12.40%) Microservices
19 30 (12.40%) Pega
19 30 (12.40%) Security Cleared
20 28 (11.57%) GCP
20 28 (11.57%) Unix
21 27 (11.16%) Java
22 24 (9.92%) DevSecOps
22 24 (9.92%) Node.js
23 22 (9.09%) Argo

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 5 (2.07%) IIS
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 107 (44.21%) Azure
2 65 (26.86%) AWS
3 55 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (11.57%) GCP
5 22 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 18 (7.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (6.61%) GitHub
7 16 (6.61%) SaaS
8 10 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (3.72%) Serverless
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.07%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.07%) Datadog
12 5 (2.07%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.72%) DNS
1 9 (3.72%) Firewall
2 5 (2.07%) Network Security
3 4 (1.65%) DHCP
3 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.83%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.85%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.89%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (12.81%) GitLab
2 13 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.96%) Git
4 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.65%) JIRA
5 3 (1.24%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.83%) MSI
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (17.77%) Public Sector
2 29 (11.98%) Finance
3 11 (4.55%) Banking
3 11 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.92%) Node.js
2 9 (3.72%) YAML
3 7 (2.89%) .NET
3 7 (2.89%) ADO
3 7 (2.89%) Kafka
3 7 (2.89%) Spring
3 7 (2.89%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.07%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.07%) React
5 4 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.24%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.83%) RESTful
7 2 (0.83%) Web Services
8 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.41%) JSON
8 1 (0.41%) Next.js
8 1 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
3 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.01%) Linux
2 41 (16.94%) Windows
3 28 (11.57%) Unix
4 4 (1.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (46.28%) CI/CD
3 70 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (21.90%) Mentoring
5 46 (19.01%) Agile
6 45 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (16.53%) Test Automation
8 37 (15.29%) Containerisation
9 35 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (13.22%) Coaching
11 31 (12.81%) Scrum
12 30 (12.40%) Microservices
13 24 (9.92%) DevSecOps
14 21 (8.68%) AI
15 19 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (6.61%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (6.20%) Case Management
17 15 (6.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 14 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (5.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.05%) Python
2 27 (11.16%) Java
3 20 (8.26%) Bash
3 20 (8.26%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.89%) Go
4 7 (2.89%) SQL
5 6 (2.48%) C#
6 5 (2.07%) Bicep
7 2 (0.83%) PHP
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Perl
8 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.31%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.48%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.48%) Degree
5 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.89%) QA
2 2 (0.83%) GDPR
2 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (14.46%) Docker
2 6 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.24%) iptables
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (33.06%) Terraform
2 56 (23.14%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.09%) Argo
4 19 (7.85%) Ansible
5 9 (3.72%) Grafana
6 8 (3.31%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.89%) Istio
8 4 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.24%) Puppet
10 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.40%) Pega
2 14 (5.79%) Google
3 12 (4.96%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (2.07%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.07%) Okta
4 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.07%) VMware
5 4 (1.65%) Confluent
5 4 (1.65%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.41%) IBM
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle