Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 590 509
Rank change year-on-year +66 -81 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 294 83 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.19% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 224 51 152
10th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -7.49%

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 108,269 43,856 72,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.61% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,176 25,746 43,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £74,100
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 16 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 22 September 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 +54 263 £80,000 +6.67% 189
UK excluding London +56 230 £75,000 +7.14% 109
North of England +22 97 £75,000 +7.14% 33
Work from Home +11 91 £80,000 - 87
Midlands +1 49 £70,000 - 10
North West +7 47 £76,250 +8.93% 25
London -71 36 £91,250 +5.80% 82
South East -14 35 £95,000 +11.76% 21
South West -59 29 £75,000 +38.89% 16
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 7
Yorkshire -23 25 £70,000 - 5
North East -40 25 £74,655 -0.46% 3
West Midlands -29 23 £80,000 +14.29% 3
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +8 3 £100,000 - 12
East of England -26 3 £51,000 -40.87% 5

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 294 (100.00%) DevOps
2 130 (44.22%) CI/CD
3 116 (39.46%) Azure
4 76 (25.85%) Terraform
5 73 (24.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (21.77%) Kubernetes
7 63 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
8 62 (21.09%) AWS
9 56 (19.05%) Agile
10 55 (18.71%) Mentoring
11 44 (14.97%) Test Automation
12 42 (14.29%) Security Cleared
13 40 (13.61%) Containerisation
14 39 (13.27%) Linux
15 37 (12.59%) GitLab
16 36 (12.24%) Coaching
16 36 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
17 34 (11.56%) Java
17 34 (11.56%) Python
18 33 (11.22%) Docker
18 33 (11.22%) Windows
19 31 (10.54%) GCP
20 30 (10.20%) Pega
20 30 (10.20%) Scrum
21 28 (9.52%) Unix
22 27 (9.18%) AI
22 27 (9.18%) Microservices
23 25 (8.50%) Azure AKS
24 23 (7.82%) Microsoft

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 2 (0.68%) IIS
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 116 (39.46%) Azure
2 63 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (21.09%) AWS
4 31 (10.54%) GCP
5 25 (8.50%) Azure AKS
6 18 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (5.78%) SaaS
8 15 (5.10%) GitHub
9 14 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.72%) Serverless
12 7 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (1.70%) Azure API Management
14 4 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.36%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.02%) Amazon S3
15 3 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (1.02%) Datadog
15 3 (1.02%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.40%) DNS
2 8 (2.72%) Firewall
3 3 (1.02%) DHCP
3 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.34%) Metadata
5 1 (0.34%) MySQL
5 1 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (12.59%) GitLab
2 12 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.72%) Git
4 6 (2.04%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.36%) JIRA
6 2 (0.68%) MSI
7 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) Snyk
7 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (13.27%) Public Sector
2 24 (8.16%) Finance
3 12 (4.08%) Social Skills
4 6 (2.04%) Banking
5 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.68%) Marketing
6 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (25.85%) Terraform
2 23 (7.82%) Node.js
3 13 (4.42%) Spring
3 13 (4.42%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.38%) ADO
5 6 (2.04%) .NET
5 6 (2.04%) YAML
6 3 (1.02%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.68%) OpenTofu
7 2 (0.68%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.68%) React
7 2 (0.68%) RESTful
8 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.34%) Kafka
8 1 (0.34%) Next.js
8 1 (0.34%) Playwright
8 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.04%) Private Cloud
3 5 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.34%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.27%) Linux
2 33 (11.22%) Windows
3 28 (9.52%) Unix
4 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (100.00%) DevOps
2 130 (44.22%) CI/CD
3 73 (24.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 56 (19.05%) Agile
6 55 (18.71%) Mentoring
7 44 (14.97%) Test Automation
8 40 (13.61%) Containerisation
9 36 (12.24%) Coaching
9 36 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (10.20%) Scrum
11 27 (9.18%) AI
11 27 (9.18%) Microservices
12 22 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (7.48%) DevSecOps
13 21 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (6.46%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (5.78%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (5.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.56%) Java
1 34 (11.56%) Python
2 15 (5.10%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.08%) Bash
4 6 (2.04%) SQL
5 5 (1.70%) Bicep
6 4 (1.36%) C#
7 3 (1.02%) Go
8 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) Groovy
9 1 (0.34%) Perl
9 1 (0.34%) Ruby
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.10%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.38%) Degree
5 6 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (11.22%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.14%) Ansible
2 21 (7.14%) Argo
3 4 (1.36%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.02%) Grafana
5 2 (0.68%) Istio
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) Packer
6 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.20%) Pega
2 23 (7.82%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.46%) Google
4 6 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.70%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.36%) Okta
6 4 (1.36%) VMware
7 3 (1.02%) Intel
7 3 (1.02%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle