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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 514 559
Rank change year-on-year -51 +45 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 107 193 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.42% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 94 129 243
10th Percentile £58,891 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £68,125 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% -11.78%

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 60,667 45,736 70,044
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 91.76% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 37,923 23,920 54,830
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,453 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 12 February 2026.

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 12 February 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 -53 95 £80,000 -11.11% 34
UK excluding London -23 60 £70,000 - 28
London -7 34 £100,000 -4.76% 14
Work from Home -46 33 £80,000 -11.11% 18
Midlands +5 21 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -2 16 £70,000 -
South West -5 16 £80,000 +23.79% 6
South East -38 12 £90,000 +20.00% 11
North of England -10 8 £75,000 +51.52% 8
North West +18 5 £67,500 - 6
West Midlands +13 5 £85,000 +21.43% 1
East of England +5 3 £90,000 +38.46% 2
North East - 2 £82,500 -
Yorkshire -43 1 £70,000 +41.41% 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 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.

1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (39.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (35.51%) AWS
4 37 (34.58%) CI/CD
4 37 (34.58%) Terraform
5 35 (32.71%) Linux
6 30 (28.04%) Kubernetes
7 29 (27.10%) Docker
8 28 (26.17%) Azure
9 18 (16.82%) Bash
10 17 (15.89%) Ansible
10 17 (15.89%) Windows
11 16 (14.95%) Security Cleared
12 15 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (14.02%) Grafana
13 14 (13.08%) Containerisation
13 14 (13.08%) Python
14 13 (12.15%) Mentoring
15 12 (11.21%) E-Commerce
15 12 (11.21%) High Availability
16 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
16 11 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (9.35%) GitHub
17 10 (9.35%) Microservices
17 10 (9.35%) Node.js
17 10 (9.35%) Observability
17 10 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
17 10 (9.35%) Test Automation
18 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 6 (5.61%) IIS
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.51%) AWS
2 28 (26.17%) Azure
3 15 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (9.35%) GitHub
5 8 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.54%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.54%) Serverless
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.67%) npm
8 5 (4.67%) NuGet
8 5 (4.67%) SonarCloud
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (3.74%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (3.74%) GCP
9 4 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Network Security
2 3 (2.80%) DHCP
2 3 (2.80%) DNS
2 3 (2.80%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) AMQP
3 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.80%) MySQL
4 2 (1.87%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.80%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.93%) git-flow
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) Gradle
5 1 (0.93%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 21 (19.63%) Finance
2 11 (10.28%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Automotive
5 1 (0.93%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) Node.js
2 8 (7.48%) .NET
3 7 (6.54%) React
4 6 (5.61%) YAML
5 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.74%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.74%) AWS SAM
7 3 (2.80%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.80%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.87%) WCF
9 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.93%) J2EE
9 1 (0.93%) Kafka
9 1 (0.93%) RESTful
9 1 (0.93%) Spring
9 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.61%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.80%) Web3
5 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (32.71%) Linux
2 17 (15.89%) Windows
3 4 (3.74%) Unix
3 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (39.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (34.58%) CI/CD
4 14 (13.08%) Containerisation
5 13 (12.15%) Mentoring
6 12 (11.21%) E-Commerce
6 12 (11.21%) High Availability
7 11 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.35%) Microservices
8 10 (9.35%) Observability
8 10 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (9.35%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (8.41%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.48%) DevSecOps
11 7 (6.54%) Configuration Management
11 7 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.54%) Integration Testing
12 6 (5.61%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.82%) Bash
2 14 (13.08%) Python
3 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.67%) Bicep
4 5 (4.67%) C#
4 5 (4.67%) Go
5 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.74%) SQL
6 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.87%) Java
7 2 (1.87%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.74%) Degree
4 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (27.10%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) vSphere
3 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.80%) iptables
3 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (34.58%) Terraform
2 30 (28.04%) Kubernetes
3 17 (15.89%) Ansible
4 15 (14.02%) Grafana
5 8 (7.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.80%) Argo
6 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.80%) Puppet
6 3 (2.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) VMware
2 5 (4.67%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.80%) Okta
3 3 (2.80%) OneLogin
3 3 (2.80%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.93%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.93%) F5
4 1 (0.93%) Google
4 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds