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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 591 483
Rank change year-on-year +108 -108 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 347 76 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.15% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.17% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 266 48 159
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £63,750 £60,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £102,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £107,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.33%

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 109,503 44,040 68,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,366 25,685 38,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +84 311 £80,000 +14.29% 198
UK excluding London +91 281 £75,000 +7.14% 128
North of England +48 122 £75,000 +7.14% 44
Work from Home +30 113 £80,000 +6.67% 102
North West +30 66 £75,000 +11.11% 26
Midlands -6 52 £70,000 - 9
South East -5 40 £95,000 +26.67% 27
South West -40 40 £80,000 +48.15% 12
London -52 39 £90,000 +9.09% 95
Yorkshire -9 29 £69,655 -0.49% 10
North East -43 27 £80,000 +6.67% 8
East Midlands - 27 £70,000 - 6
West Midlands -21 25 £80,000 +14.29% 3
Wales - 15 £70,000 - 7
Scotland +11 8 £75,000 -25.00% 13
East of England -34 4 £50,663 -41.26% 6

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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.

1 347 (100.00%) DevOps
2 159 (45.82%) CI/CD
3 134 (38.62%) Azure
4 98 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (23.92%) Kubernetes
6 82 (23.63%) AWS
6 82 (23.63%) Terraform
7 78 (22.48%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (19.60%) Agile
9 62 (17.87%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (17.29%) Mentoring
11 55 (15.85%) Security Cleared
12 48 (13.83%) Microsoft
13 46 (13.26%) Containerisation
14 45 (12.97%) Linux
15 44 (12.68%) Test Automation
16 40 (11.53%) Coaching
16 40 (11.53%) Docker
17 39 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
18 36 (10.37%) AI
18 36 (10.37%) GitLab
19 35 (10.09%) Python
20 33 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
21 32 (9.22%) Java
21 32 (9.22%) Scrum
22 31 (8.93%) Unix
23 30 (8.65%) Pega
24 28 (8.07%) GCP
24 28 (8.07%) Windows
25 26 (7.49%) Ansible

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 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.29%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 134 (38.62%) Azure
2 82 (23.63%) AWS
3 62 (17.87%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (8.07%) GCP
5 24 (6.92%) Azure AKS
6 22 (6.34%) SaaS
7 15 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (3.75%) GitHub
9 12 (3.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.31%) Serverless
12 7 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.44%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.44%) PaaS
13 5 (1.44%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.59%) DNS
2 6 (1.73%) Firewall
3 2 (0.58%) SAN
4 1 (0.29%) DHCP
4 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.32%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.44%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.58%) Db2
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.29%) Metadata
5 1 (0.29%) MySQL
5 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (10.37%) GitLab
2 9 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.73%) Git
4 5 (1.44%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.15%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) MSI
6 2 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.29%) Snyk
General
1 53 (15.27%) Public Sector
2 22 (6.34%) Finance
3 13 (3.75%) Social Skills
4 4 (1.15%) Banking
5 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
5 2 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.58%) Marketing
6 1 (0.29%) Local Government
6 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (23.63%) Terraform
2 19 (5.48%) Node.js
3 15 (4.32%) Spring
3 15 (4.32%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.02%) .NET
5 6 (1.73%) ADO
6 5 (1.44%) YAML
7 3 (0.86%) RESTful
8 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.58%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.58%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.29%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.29%) CSS
9 1 (0.29%) HTML
9 1 (0.29%) Kafka
9 1 (0.29%) Playwright
9 1 (0.29%) React
9 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (1.73%) Private Cloud
3 5 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (1.44%) Robotics
4 4 (1.15%) Culture of Ownership
4 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.58%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.58%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.58%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.29%) Blog
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.29%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.29%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.29%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.97%) Linux
2 31 (8.93%) Unix
3 28 (8.07%) Windows
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (100.00%) DevOps
2 159 (45.82%) CI/CD
3 98 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (22.48%) Platform Engineering
5 68 (19.60%) Agile
6 60 (17.29%) Mentoring
7 46 (13.26%) Containerisation
8 44 (12.68%) Test Automation
9 40 (11.53%) Coaching
10 39 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (10.37%) AI
12 33 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (9.22%) Scrum
14 26 (7.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 25 (7.20%) DevSecOps
16 24 (6.92%) Microservices
16 24 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
18 21 (6.05%) Problem-Solving
19 18 (5.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.09%) Python
2 32 (9.22%) Java
3 16 (4.61%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.46%) Bash
5 7 (2.02%) Bicep
6 5 (1.44%) C#
6 5 (1.44%) SQL
7 4 (1.15%) Go
8 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.29%) Ruby
9 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 23 (6.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.90%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.02%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.02%) Degree
5 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.73%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) NCSC
2 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (11.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (23.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.49%) Ansible
3 18 (5.19%) Argo
4 4 (1.15%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.86%) Grafana
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.29%) Opsview
7 1 (0.29%) Packer
7 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.65%) Pega
3 17 (4.90%) Google
4 6 (1.73%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.44%) Intel
5 5 (1.44%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.44%) VMware
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle
7 2 (0.58%) Okta
7 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.29%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.29%) YouTube