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 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 570 639
Rank change year-on-year +38 +69 -181
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 191 100 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 156 70 206
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £53,125
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £78,625
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £101,875 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.45% +2.73% -8.93%

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 87,195 39,235 96,338
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 89.39% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 58,141 22,113 70,235
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,378
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +33 175 £75,000 -11.76% 47
UK excluding London +38 128 £70,000 -3.45% 35
Work from Home +60 68 £80,000 - 14
North of England +2 44 £72,500 +0.09% 1
London -25 44 £98,750 -2.47% 19
Midlands 0 36 £70,000 -9.68% 10
East Midlands -10 28 £70,000 - 2
North West +13 21 £80,000 - 1
South West -47 20 £80,000 +23.79% 8
South East -7 18 £85,000 - 9
Yorkshire -46 14 £69,310 -4.31%
North East - 9 £60,000 -
West Midlands -21 8 £80,000 +3.23% 8
East of England -23 6 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Wales - 4 £53,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 85 (44.50%) Azure
3 74 (38.74%) CI/CD
4 73 (38.22%) Terraform
5 57 (29.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (25.65%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (25.13%) AWS
7 48 (25.13%) Kubernetes
8 41 (21.47%) Linux
9 35 (18.32%) Docker
10 34 (17.80%) Windows
11 32 (16.75%) Containerisation
11 32 (16.75%) Microservices
12 30 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (15.18%) Test Automation
14 27 (14.14%) GitLab
14 27 (14.14%) Node.js
15 26 (13.61%) Agile
15 26 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (13.61%) Mentoring
15 26 (13.61%) Python
16 25 (13.09%) Bash
17 24 (12.57%) PowerShell
18 23 (12.04%) Security Cleared
19 22 (11.52%) Argo
19 22 (11.52%) Java
20 21 (10.99%) Azure AKS
21 20 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
22 19 (9.95%) DevSecOps
22 19 (9.95%) GCP

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 9 (4.71%) IIS
2 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 85 (44.50%) Azure
2 49 (25.65%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (25.13%) AWS
4 21 (10.99%) Azure AKS
5 19 (9.95%) GCP
6 18 (9.42%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.28%) GitHub
8 11 (5.76%) SaaS
9 10 (5.24%) Serverless
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.19%) npm
10 8 (4.19%) NuGet
10 8 (4.19%) SonarCloud
11 7 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.71%) DNS
2 6 (3.14%) DHCP
2 6 (3.14%) Firewall
2 6 (3.14%) Network Security
3 4 (2.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.95%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.33%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (14.14%) GitLab
2 14 (7.33%) Git
3 12 (6.28%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.14%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.57%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.57%) JIRA
6 2 (1.05%) MSI
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (16.23%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.57%) Finance
3 12 (6.28%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.76%) Banking
5 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.14%) Node.js
2 12 (6.28%) YAML
3 10 (5.24%) .NET
4 8 (4.19%) .NET Framework
4 8 (4.19%) React
5 7 (3.66%) Kafka
6 6 (3.14%) ADO
7 5 (2.62%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.05%) Next.js
10 2 (1.05%) Spring
10 2 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.52%) JSON
11 1 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.66%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.52%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.47%) Linux
2 34 (17.80%) Windows
3 14 (7.33%) Unix
4 7 (3.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 74 (38.74%) CI/CD
3 57 (29.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (16.75%) Containerisation
4 32 (16.75%) Microservices
5 30 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
6 29 (15.18%) Test Automation
7 26 (13.61%) Agile
7 26 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
7 26 (13.61%) Mentoring
8 19 (9.95%) DevSecOps
9 16 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (8.38%) Scrum
10 15 (7.85%) Coaching
11 13 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (6.28%) AI
13 11 (5.76%) Analytics
13 11 (5.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (5.24%) Observability
15 9 (4.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.61%) Python
2 25 (13.09%) Bash
3 24 (12.57%) PowerShell
4 22 (11.52%) Java
5 9 (4.71%) C#
6 8 (4.19%) SQL
7 6 (3.14%) Go
8 5 (2.62%) Bicep
9 2 (1.05%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.14%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.62%) Degree
5 4 (2.09%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) GDPR
2 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (18.32%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.09%) iptables
4 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (38.22%) Terraform
2 48 (25.13%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.52%) Argo
4 14 (7.33%) Ansible
5 12 (6.28%) Grafana
6 11 (5.76%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.66%) Istio
8 6 (3.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.09%) Puppet
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.05%) SCCM
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.19%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (3.66%) Google
3 7 (3.66%) Okta
4 6 (3.14%) OneLogin
4 6 (3.14%) VMware
5 4 (2.09%) Confluent
6 3 (1.57%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.52%) F5
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle