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 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 494 410
Rank change year-on-year -73 -84 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 86 241 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.42% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.45% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 83 135 292
10th Percentile £59,363 £48,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% -11.78%

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 53,173 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,782 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,589 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% - -

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 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 19 December 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 -57 74 £82,500 - 104
UK excluding London -51 46 £77,500 +10.71% 99
Work from Home -26 29 £80,000 -11.11% 60
London +11 26 £90,000 -10.00% 11
Midlands +21 17 £70,000 - 19
East Midlands 0 11 £70,000 - 11
South West +22 10 £80,000 +6.67% 18
North of England -8 10 £75,000 +51.52% 21
West Midlands +28 6 £87,500 +25.00% 6
North West +6 6 £71,250 +35.71% 12
South East -34 6 £90,000 +20.00% 19
East of England +29 3 £90,000 +38.46% 18
North East - 3 £80,000 -
Yorkshire -29 1 £70,000 +41.41% 9

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 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 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (47.67%) AWS
3 37 (43.02%) CI/CD
4 36 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (39.53%) Terraform
6 28 (32.56%) Kubernetes
7 25 (29.07%) Docker
8 24 (27.91%) Linux
9 20 (23.26%) Azure
10 19 (22.09%) Python
11 17 (19.77%) Ansible
11 17 (19.77%) Bash
12 16 (18.60%) Grafana
12 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
13 14 (16.28%) GitHub
13 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
15 12 (13.95%) Observability
16 11 (12.79%) Containerisation
16 11 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (11.63%) Agile
17 10 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (11.63%) E-Commerce
17 10 (11.63%) Node.js
17 10 (11.63%) Test Automation
17 10 (11.63%) Windows
18 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
19 8 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
19 8 (9.30%) Elastic Stack

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 3 (3.49%) IIS
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 41 (47.67%) AWS
2 20 (23.26%) Azure
3 14 (16.28%) GitHub
4 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (8.14%) Serverless
9 6 (6.98%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (4.65%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (4.65%) GCP
10 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.49%) npm
11 3 (3.49%) NuGet
11 3 (3.49%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) DNS
2 2 (2.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.16%) AMQP
3 1 (1.16%) DHCP
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.49%) MySQL
2 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.16%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Git
2 5 (5.81%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.81%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.49%) JIRA
4 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.33%) GitLab
5 1 (1.16%) git-flow
5 1 (1.16%) Gradle
5 1 (1.16%) Maven
5 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (19.77%) Finance
2 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (1.16%) Automotive
5 1 (1.16%) Games
5 1 (1.16%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) Node.js
2 8 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.98%) .NET
3 6 (6.98%) YAML
4 5 (5.81%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.81%) React
5 4 (4.65%) AWS SAM
6 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.33%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.33%) WCF
8 1 (1.16%) J2EE
8 1 (1.16%) Kafka
8 1 (1.16%) Next.js
8 1 (1.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.49%) Web3
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Derivative
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Online Games
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.91%) Linux
2 10 (11.63%) Windows
3 4 (4.65%) Unix
4 2 (2.33%) VMS
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (43.02%) CI/CD
3 36 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
6 12 (13.95%) Observability
7 11 (12.79%) Containerisation
8 10 (11.63%) Agile
8 10 (11.63%) E-Commerce
8 10 (11.63%) Test Automation
9 8 (9.30%) High Availability
9 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (8.14%) Microservices
10 7 (8.14%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (6.98%) GitOps
11 6 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (6.98%) Scrum
12 5 (5.81%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.09%) Python
2 17 (19.77%) Bash
3 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.30%) Go
5 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.65%) SQL
6 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.49%) Bicep
7 3 (3.49%) C#
7 3 (3.49%) Java
8 2 (2.33%) Ruby
8 2 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.81%) Degree
4 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (29.07%) Docker
2 7 (8.14%) vSphere
3 5 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.16%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (39.53%) Terraform
2 28 (32.56%) Kubernetes
3 17 (19.77%) Ansible
4 16 (18.60%) Grafana
5 7 (8.14%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.65%) Argo
7 3 (3.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.16%) Puppet
8 1 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (9.30%) VMware
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.49%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.16%) Okta
5 1 (1.16%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle
5 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.16%) Zscaler