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 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 564 626
Rank change year-on-year +14 +62 -178
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 184 103 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 149 71 206
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £53,125
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £79,875
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.42% -6.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £101,251 £94,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.50% +6.08% -8.93%

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 86,819 39,086 97,392
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 89.49% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 58,219 21,927 70,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,550 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% +1.10% -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 4 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 4 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 +8 168 £75,000 -10.45% 50
UK excluding London +10 123 £70,000 -6.50% 31
Work from Home +41 66 £80,000 - 15
North of England -9 44 £72,500 +0.09% 2
London -30 42 £98,750 -1.25% 22
Midlands -10 34 £70,000 -9.68% 10
East Midlands -1 26 £70,000 -
North West +21 21 £80,000 -
South East -13 18 £85,000 - 10
South West -47 18 £75,000 +16.05% 6
Yorkshire -38 14 £69,310 -4.31% 2
North East - 9 £60,000 -
West Midlands -28 8 £80,000 +3.23% 10
East of England -30 5 £54,250 -16.54% 1
Wales - 4 £53,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 83 (45.11%) Azure
3 72 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 71 (38.59%) Terraform
5 55 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (25.54%) Kubernetes
8 46 (25.00%) AWS
9 39 (21.20%) Linux
10 34 (18.48%) Docker
11 33 (17.93%) Windows
12 32 (17.39%) Containerisation
13 31 (16.85%) Microservices
14 30 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (15.22%) Test Automation
16 27 (14.67%) GitLab
17 26 (14.13%) Agile
17 26 (14.13%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (14.13%) Mentoring
17 26 (14.13%) Node.js
17 26 (14.13%) Python
18 24 (13.04%) Bash
19 23 (12.50%) PowerShell
20 22 (11.96%) Argo
20 22 (11.96%) Java
20 22 (11.96%) Security Cleared
21 21 (11.41%) Azure AKS
22 20 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
23 19 (10.33%) GCP
23 19 (10.33%) MongoDB

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 (4.35%) IIS
2 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 83 (45.11%) Azure
2 48 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (25.00%) AWS
4 21 (11.41%) Azure AKS
5 19 (10.33%) GCP
6 18 (9.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.52%) GitHub
8 11 (5.98%) SaaS
9 10 (5.43%) Serverless
10 8 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.80%) npm
11 7 (3.80%) NuGet
11 7 (3.80%) SonarCloud
11 7 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) DNS
2 6 (3.26%) DHCP
2 6 (3.26%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) Network Security
3 4 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.33%) MongoDB
3 13 (7.07%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.89%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (14.67%) GitLab
2 13 (7.07%) Git
3 12 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.63%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.63%) JIRA
6 2 (1.09%) MSI
7 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (15.76%) Public Sector
2 24 (13.04%) Finance
3 11 (5.98%) Banking
3 11 (5.98%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.54%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.13%) Node.js
2 11 (5.98%) YAML
3 9 (4.89%) .NET
4 7 (3.80%) .NET Framework
4 7 (3.80%) Kafka
4 7 (3.80%) React
5 6 (3.26%) ADO
6 4 (2.17%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.63%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.09%) Next.js
8 2 (1.09%) Spring
8 2 (1.09%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.54%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.54%) JSON
9 1 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.26%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.54%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.20%) Linux
2 33 (17.93%) Windows
3 14 (7.61%) Unix
4 7 (3.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 55 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 31 (16.85%) Microservices
6 30 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (15.22%) Test Automation
8 26 (14.13%) Agile
8 26 (14.13%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (14.13%) Mentoring
9 18 (9.78%) DevSecOps
10 16 (8.70%) Scrum
11 15 (8.15%) Coaching
11 15 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (6.52%) AI
14 11 (5.98%) Analytics
14 11 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (5.43%) Observability
16 9 (4.89%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.13%) Python
2 24 (13.04%) Bash
3 23 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 22 (11.96%) Java
5 8 (4.35%) C#
5 8 (4.35%) SQL
6 6 (3.26%) Go
7 5 (2.72%) Bicep
8 2 (1.09%) PHP
9 1 (0.54%) Groovy
9 1 (0.54%) Perl
9 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.98%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.72%) Degree
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) GDPR
2 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (18.48%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.17%) iptables
4 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (38.59%) Terraform
2 47 (25.54%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.96%) Argo
4 13 (7.07%) Ansible
5 12 (6.52%) Grafana
6 11 (5.98%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.80%) Istio
8 6 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.17%) Puppet
10 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.09%) SCCM
11 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.80%) CrowdStrike
2 7 (3.80%) Google
2 7 (3.80%) Okta
3 6 (3.26%) OneLogin
3 6 (3.26%) VMware
4 4 (2.17%) Confluent
5 3 (1.63%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.54%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.54%) F5
7 1 (0.54%) IBM
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle