Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 547 577
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 114 124 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.31% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 99 111 234
10th Percentile £59,778 £60,686 £59,131
25th Percentile £68,750 £70,048 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £70,576
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.01% -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 68,062 39,531 79,680
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.64% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 43,433 22,967 61,167
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,869 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -45 106 £85,000 -5.56% 34
UK excluding London -1 64 £70,000 -2.77% 26
London -13 41 £100,000 -2.44% 15
Work from Home -2 31 £85,000 -5.56% 16
Midlands -1 22 £70,000 -15.15% 4
East Midlands -16 18 £70,000 - 1
South West -24 17 £80,000 +23.79% 3
South East -7 12 £90,000 +20.00% 7
North of England -45 10 £68,750 +10.56% 10
West Midlands +8 4 £92,500 +12.12% 3
North West -8 4 £78,750 - 1
North East - 4 £70,000 - 7
East of England -1 3 £90,000 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -46 2 £67,500 +8.55% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 March 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.

1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (34.21%) Terraform
4 36 (31.58%) AWS
4 36 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 35 (30.70%) Azure
6 34 (29.82%) Linux
7 31 (27.19%) Kubernetes
8 29 (25.44%) Docker
9 20 (17.54%) Windows
10 19 (16.67%) Bash
11 18 (15.79%) Containerisation
12 17 (14.91%) Python
13 16 (14.04%) Ansible
13 16 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (12.28%) PowerShell
15 13 (11.40%) Grafana
16 12 (10.53%) E-Commerce
16 12 (10.53%) Microservices
16 12 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
17 11 (9.65%) High Availability
17 11 (9.65%) Mentoring
18 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 10 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
18 10 (8.77%) DevSecOps
19 9 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
19 9 (7.89%) Bitbucket
19 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 9 (7.89%) Jenkins

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 7 (6.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.58%) AWS
2 35 (30.70%) Azure
3 16 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (7.02%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (7.02%) Serverless
6 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.14%) GitHub
7 6 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.26%) npm
7 6 (5.26%) NuGet
7 6 (5.26%) SonarCloud
8 5 (4.39%) CloudFront
8 5 (4.39%) GCP
9 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Network Security
2 4 (3.51%) DHCP
2 4 (3.51%) DNS
2 4 (3.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) AMQP
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.14%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.63%) MySQL
4 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Bitbucket
1 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.75%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 26 (22.81%) Finance
2 12 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.65%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.51%) Banking
5 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.88%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.02%) .NET
2 7 (6.14%) Node.js
2 7 (6.14%) React
3 6 (5.26%) YAML
4 5 (4.39%) .NET Framework
4 5 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.51%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.63%) AWS SAM
6 3 (2.63%) Kafka
7 2 (1.75%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.75%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.75%) WCF
8 1 (0.88%) ADO
8 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.88%) J2EE
8 1 (0.88%) Next.js
8 1 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.63%) Web3
5 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) PKI
6 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.82%) Linux
2 20 (17.54%) Windows
3 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.63%) Unix
5 2 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 18 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 12 (10.53%) E-Commerce
5 12 (10.53%) Microservices
5 12 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (9.65%) High Availability
6 11 (9.65%) Mentoring
7 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (8.77%) DevSecOps
8 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (6.14%) Configuration Management
10 7 (6.14%) Integration Testing
10 7 (6.14%) Migration
10 7 (6.14%) Test Automation
11 6 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.67%) Bash
2 17 (14.91%) Python
3 14 (12.28%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.26%) Bicep
4 6 (5.26%) C#
4 6 (5.26%) SQL
5 5 (4.39%) Go
6 3 (2.63%) Java
6 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.75%) PHP
7 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.88%) GDPR
1 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.88%) QA
1 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (25.44%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.51%) iptables
3 2 (1.75%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.75%) vSphere
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (34.21%) Terraform
2 31 (27.19%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.04%) Ansible
4 13 (11.40%) Grafana
5 9 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.51%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.51%) Puppet
7 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.63%) SCCM
8 2 (1.75%) Istio
9 1 (0.88%) Argo
9 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (5.26%) VMware
3 4 (3.51%) Okta
3 4 (3.51%) OneLogin
4 3 (2.63%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.88%) Confluent
5 1 (0.88%) Duck Creek
5 1 (0.88%) F5
5 1 (0.88%) Google
5 1 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle
5 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds