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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 588 585
Rank change year-on-year +56 -3 -196
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 249 91 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 200 55 175
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £72,899 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £103,750 £89,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -4.84%

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 95,592 44,533 83,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.08% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,383 26,478 58,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 27 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 27 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 +62 223 £75,000 -11.76% 52
UK excluding London +79 181 £75,000 - 28
Work from Home +38 97 £80,000 - 20
North of England +45 84 £75,000 +0.17% 12
North West +33 40 £75,000 - 10
Midlands +6 40 £70,000 -12.50% 2
London -23 40 £90,000 -10.00% 31
Yorkshire -14 26 £69,655 -0.49%
East Midlands -4 25 £70,000 -
South West -47 23 £75,000 +36.36% 1
South East -9 19 £85,000 - 7
North East -33 18 £69,310 -7.59% 2
West Midlands -12 15 £80,000 - 2
Wales - 12 £70,000 - 2
East of England -12 3 £51,000 -43.33% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (46.18%) CI/CD
3 108 (43.37%) Azure
4 80 (32.13%) Terraform
5 71 (28.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (25.70%) AWS
7 58 (23.29%) Kubernetes
8 55 (22.09%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (21.69%) Mentoring
10 48 (19.28%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (18.88%) Linux
12 46 (18.47%) Agile
13 41 (16.47%) Test Automation
13 41 (16.47%) Windows
14 38 (15.26%) Containerisation
15 36 (14.46%) Docker
16 35 (14.06%) Python
17 34 (13.65%) Continuous Integration
18 33 (13.25%) Coaching
19 32 (12.85%) Security Cleared
20 31 (12.45%) GitLab
21 30 (12.05%) Pega
21 30 (12.05%) Scrum
22 29 (11.65%) GCP
22 29 (11.65%) Microservices
23 28 (11.24%) Java
23 28 (11.24%) Unix
24 24 (9.64%) DevSecOps
24 24 (9.64%) Node.js
25 23 (9.24%) Azure AKS

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 5 (2.01%) IIS
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 108 (43.37%) Azure
2 64 (25.70%) AWS
3 55 (22.09%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (11.65%) GCP
5 23 (9.24%) Azure AKS
6 18 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (6.43%) SaaS
8 15 (6.02%) GitHub
9 10 (4.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (4.02%) Serverless
10 9 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.81%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.01%) Datadog
13 5 (2.01%) npm
13 5 (2.01%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.61%) DNS
1 9 (3.61%) Firewall
2 5 (2.01%) Network Security
3 4 (1.61%) DHCP
3 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.81%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (12.45%) GitLab
2 13 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.42%) Git
4 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.20%) JIRA
6 2 (0.80%) MSI
6 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (17.27%) Public Sector
2 29 (11.65%) Finance
3 12 (4.82%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.42%) Banking
5 2 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.64%) Node.js
2 9 (3.61%) YAML
3 8 (3.21%) Spring
3 8 (3.21%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.81%) .NET
4 7 (2.81%) ADO
4 7 (2.81%) Kafka
5 5 (2.01%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.01%) React
6 4 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.20%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.40%) JSON
9 1 (0.40%) Next.js
9 1 (0.40%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.40%) RESTful
9 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
3 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.40%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.88%) Linux
2 41 (16.47%) Windows
3 28 (11.24%) Unix
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (46.18%) CI/CD
3 71 (28.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (21.69%) Mentoring
5 48 (19.28%) Platform Engineering
6 46 (18.47%) Agile
7 41 (16.47%) Test Automation
8 38 (15.26%) Containerisation
9 34 (13.65%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (13.25%) Coaching
11 30 (12.05%) Scrum
12 29 (11.65%) Microservices
13 24 (9.64%) DevSecOps
14 22 (8.84%) AI
15 21 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
16 17 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 15 (6.02%) Case Management
17 15 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (6.02%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (5.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.06%) Python
2 28 (11.24%) Java
3 21 (8.43%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.03%) Bash
5 8 (3.21%) SQL
6 7 (2.81%) Go
7 6 (2.41%) C#
8 5 (2.01%) Bicep
9 2 (0.80%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.02%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.01%) Degree
6 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.81%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) GDPR
2 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (14.46%) Docker
2 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.61%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.20%) iptables
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (32.13%) Terraform
2 58 (23.29%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.84%) Argo
4 19 (7.63%) Ansible
5 9 (3.61%) Grafana
6 8 (3.21%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.81%) Istio
8 4 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.20%) Puppet
10 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.05%) Pega
2 15 (6.02%) Google
3 13 (5.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (2.01%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.01%) Okta
4 5 (2.01%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.01%) VMware
5 4 (1.61%) Confluent
5 4 (1.61%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.40%) IBM
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle