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 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 584 630
Rank change year-on-year +47 +46 -206
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 224 98 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 179 62 194
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,875 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £68,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +8.06% -8.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £101,875 £91,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £74,870 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% -0.17% -3.23%

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 91,659 43,150 98,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 89.93% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62,930 25,242 71,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,360 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -5.66%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +35 202 £75,000 -10.45% 54
UK excluding London +57 162 £72,500 -3.16% 38
Work from Home +33 87 £80,000 - 30
North of England +20 69 £75,000 +0.17% 14
Midlands +11 38 £70,000 -12.50% 3
London -40 35 £90,000 -10.00% 22
North West +15 31 £76,250 +1.67% 12
Yorkshire -8 24 £69,655 -0.49% 2
East Midlands -2 23 £70,000 - 3
South West -51 23 £75,000 +16.05% 3
South East -9 20 £85,000 - 14
West Midlands -9 15 £80,000 -
North East -33 14 £69,308 -7.59%
Wales - 8 £61,585 - 2
East of England -14 4 £51,000 -25.82% 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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.

1 224 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 96 (42.86%) Azure
4 77 (34.38%) Terraform
5 64 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (27.68%) AWS
7 53 (23.66%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (23.66%) Kubernetes
8 47 (20.98%) Mentoring
9 46 (20.54%) Linux
10 41 (18.30%) Agile
10 41 (18.30%) Windows
11 39 (17.41%) Test Automation
12 38 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
13 36 (16.07%) Containerisation
13 36 (16.07%) Docker
14 35 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (14.73%) Python
16 31 (13.84%) Security Cleared
17 30 (13.39%) Coaching
17 30 (13.39%) Microservices
17 30 (13.39%) Pega
18 29 (12.95%) GitLab
19 28 (12.50%) Scrum
20 26 (11.61%) Java
20 26 (11.61%) Unix
21 25 (11.16%) GCP
22 24 (10.71%) Node.js
23 23 (10.27%) DevSecOps
24 22 (9.82%) Argo

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 (2.68%) IIS
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 96 (42.86%) Azure
2 62 (27.68%) AWS
3 53 (23.66%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (11.16%) GCP
5 22 (9.82%) Azure AKS
6 18 (8.04%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.25%) GitHub
7 14 (6.25%) SaaS
8 10 (4.46%) Serverless
9 8 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (2.68%) npm
11 6 (2.68%) NuGet
11 6 (2.68%) SonarCloud
12 5 (2.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.02%) DNS
1 9 (4.02%) Firewall
2 6 (2.68%) Network Security
3 4 (1.79%) DHCP
3 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.48%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (12.95%) GitLab
2 12 (5.36%) Git
2 12 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.23%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.34%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.34%) JIRA
5 2 (0.89%) MSI
6 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (19.64%) Public Sector
2 26 (11.61%) Finance
3 11 (4.91%) Banking
4 10 (4.46%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.71%) Node.js
2 10 (4.46%) YAML
3 8 (3.57%) .NET
4 7 (3.13%) ADO
4 7 (3.13%) Kafka
5 6 (2.68%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.68%) React
5 6 (2.68%) Spring
5 6 (2.68%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.34%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.34%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.45%) JSON
8 1 (0.45%) Next.js
8 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.45%) RESTful
8 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (0.89%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.54%) Linux
2 41 (18.30%) Windows
3 26 (11.61%) Unix
4 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 64 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (20.98%) Mentoring
5 41 (18.30%) Agile
6 39 (17.41%) Test Automation
7 38 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
8 36 (16.07%) Containerisation
9 35 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (13.39%) Coaching
10 30 (13.39%) Microservices
11 28 (12.50%) Scrum
12 23 (10.27%) DevSecOps
13 17 (7.59%) AI
14 15 (6.70%) Case Management
14 15 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (5.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.73%) Python
2 26 (11.61%) Java
3 22 (9.82%) Bash
3 22 (9.82%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.57%) SQL
5 7 (3.13%) C#
6 6 (2.68%) Go
7 5 (2.23%) Bicep
8 2 (0.89%) PHP
9 1 (0.45%) Groovy
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.23%) Degree
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.13%) QA
2 2 (0.89%) GDPR
2 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (16.07%) Docker
2 6 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.79%) iptables
5 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (34.38%) Terraform
2 53 (23.66%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.82%) Argo
4 17 (7.59%) Ansible
5 10 (4.46%) Grafana
6 9 (4.02%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.13%) Istio
8 4 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.79%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (13.39%) Pega
2 11 (4.91%) Google
2 11 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (2.23%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.23%) Okta
4 5 (2.23%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.23%) VMware
5 4 (1.79%) Confluent
5 4 (1.79%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.45%) IBM
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle