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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 600 503
Rank change year-on-year +71 -97 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 284 81 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.17% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.18% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 219 50 153
10th Percentile £60,200 £63,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £73,125 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £118,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.50% -9.68%

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 103,497 43,997 75,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 71,228 25,950 47,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,169 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,159
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 4 September 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 4 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 +79 257 £80,000 -3.03% 113
UK excluding London +77 217 £75,000 -4.76% 70
North of England +33 97 £75,000 +7.14% 12
Work from Home +14 96 £80,000 - 41
Midlands +9 49 £70,000 - 3
North West +27 46 £75,000 - 8
London -50 40 £90,000 - 65
South East -22 28 £90,000 +5.88% 21
North East -37 26 £69,310 -7.59% 1
South West -56 26 £75,000 +36.36% 10
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire -20 25 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -7 23 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 4
East of England -23 3 £51,000 -40.87% 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 284 (100.00%) DevOps
2 127 (44.72%) CI/CD
3 120 (42.25%) Azure
4 79 (27.82%) Terraform
5 74 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (22.18%) AWS
7 63 (22.18%) Kubernetes
7 63 (22.18%) Platform Engineering
8 56 (19.72%) Mentoring
9 54 (19.01%) Agile
10 43 (15.14%) Linux
11 42 (14.79%) Test Automation
12 41 (14.44%) Containerisation
12 41 (14.44%) GitLab
13 40 (14.08%) Security Cleared
14 37 (13.03%) Continuous Integration
15 36 (12.68%) Python
15 36 (12.68%) Windows
16 35 (12.32%) Docker
17 34 (11.97%) Coaching
18 32 (11.27%) GCP
18 32 (11.27%) Java
19 30 (10.56%) Pega
19 30 (10.56%) Scrum
20 28 (9.86%) Unix
21 27 (9.51%) Microservices
22 26 (9.15%) AI
23 24 (8.45%) Azure AKS
23 24 (8.45%) Node.js

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 (1.06%) IIS
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 120 (42.25%) Azure
2 64 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (22.18%) AWS
4 32 (11.27%) GCP
5 24 (8.45%) Azure AKS
6 18 (6.34%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (5.63%) GitHub
7 16 (5.63%) SaaS
8 12 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.52%) Serverless
11 7 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.76%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.76%) Datadog
14 4 (1.41%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.41%) SonarCloud
15 3 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.17%) DNS
1 9 (3.17%) Firewall
2 4 (1.41%) DHCP
2 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.34%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.35%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (14.44%) GitLab
2 15 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.52%) Git
4 5 (1.76%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.41%) JIRA
6 3 (1.06%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.70%) MSI
8 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (14.08%) Public Sector
2 29 (10.21%) Finance
3 14 (4.93%) Social Skills
4 10 (3.52%) Banking
5 2 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
5 2 (0.70%) Marketing
6 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (27.82%) Terraform
2 24 (8.45%) Node.js
3 11 (3.87%) Spring
3 11 (3.87%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.82%) ADO
5 7 (2.46%) YAML
6 6 (2.11%) Kafka
7 5 (1.76%) .NET
8 3 (1.06%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.06%) React
9 2 (0.70%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.70%) OpenTofu
9 2 (0.70%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.35%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.35%) JSON
10 1 (0.35%) Next.js
10 1 (0.35%) Playwright
10 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.11%) Private Cloud
3 5 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.35%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.14%) Linux
2 36 (12.68%) Windows
3 28 (9.86%) Unix
4 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (100.00%) DevOps
2 127 (44.72%) CI/CD
3 74 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (22.18%) Platform Engineering
5 56 (19.72%) Mentoring
6 54 (19.01%) Agile
7 42 (14.79%) Test Automation
8 41 (14.44%) Containerisation
9 37 (13.03%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (11.97%) Coaching
11 30 (10.56%) Scrum
12 27 (9.51%) Microservices
13 26 (9.15%) AI
14 23 (8.10%) DevSecOps
15 22 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (6.34%) Technical Leadership
18 17 (5.99%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.68%) Python
2 32 (11.27%) Java
3 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.93%) Bash
5 9 (3.17%) SQL
6 8 (2.82%) Go
7 5 (1.76%) Bicep
8 4 (1.41%) C#
9 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) Perl
10 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.11%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.11%) Degree
5 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.46%) QA
2 2 (0.70%) GDPR
2 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (12.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (22.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.39%) Ansible
2 21 (7.39%) Argo
3 5 (1.76%) Grafana
3 5 (1.76%) Istio
4 4 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.41%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Packer
5 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.56%) Pega
2 19 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.99%) Google
4 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.76%) Okta
5 5 (1.76%) VMware
6 4 (1.41%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.06%) Confluent
7 3 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle