Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 545 596
Rank change year-on-year -14 +51 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 157 102 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 140 88 228
10th Percentile £59,889 £60,686 £58,381
25th Percentile £65,750 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,563 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,875 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +2.73% -11.78%

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 80,529 37,301 89,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 89.33% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 51,589 23,381 66,338
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -16 143 £80,000 -5.88% 19
UK excluding London -13 96 £72,500 - 16
Work from Home -6 53 £80,000 -5.88% 13
London -1 48 £100,000 -3.61% 6
North of England -40 31 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Midlands -13 29 £70,000 -15.15% 4
East Midlands -34 23 £70,000 - 3
South West -48 16 £80,000 +23.79% 2
South East -48 13 £90,000 +12.50% 2
North West -10 12 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -49 10 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -20 6 £90,000 +9.09% 1
Wales - 4 £53,000 -
East of England -39 3 £90,000 +38.46% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 157 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (36.94%) Azure
3 56 (35.67%) Terraform
4 55 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (31.85%) CI/CD
6 44 (28.03%) AWS
7 40 (25.48%) Linux
8 38 (24.20%) Kubernetes
9 34 (21.66%) Docker
10 29 (18.47%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (18.47%) Windows
11 27 (17.20%) Containerisation
12 24 (15.29%) Python
13 23 (14.65%) Bash
14 20 (12.74%) Microservices
14 20 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (12.10%) PowerShell
16 17 (10.83%) Continuous Integration
16 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
16 17 (10.83%) Test Automation
17 16 (10.19%) Ansible
17 16 (10.19%) Mentoring
18 15 (9.55%) Node.js
19 14 (8.92%) Git
19 14 (8.92%) GitLab
20 13 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
21 12 (7.64%) DevSecOps
21 12 (7.64%) E-Commerce
21 12 (7.64%) GCP
21 12 (7.64%) Jenkins

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 (5.73%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.94%) Azure
2 44 (28.03%) AWS
3 29 (18.47%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.64%) GCP
5 10 (6.37%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (6.37%) GitHub
5 10 (6.37%) Serverless
6 8 (5.10%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (5.10%) npm
6 8 (5.10%) NuGet
6 8 (5.10%) SonarCloud
7 7 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.46%) Azure AKS
8 6 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.18%) CloudFront
9 5 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.46%) Firewall
2 6 (3.82%) DHCP
2 6 (3.82%) DNS
2 6 (3.82%) Network Security
3 4 (2.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.37%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.10%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Git
1 14 (8.92%) GitLab
2 12 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.73%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.91%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.27%) JIRA
6 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (21.02%) Finance
2 22 (14.01%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.28%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.01%) Banking
5 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.64%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.55%) Node.js
2 11 (7.01%) .NET
3 10 (6.37%) YAML
4 8 (5.10%) React
5 7 (4.46%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.82%) Kafka
7 5 (3.18%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.55%) ADO
9 2 (1.27%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.27%) AWS SAM
9 2 (1.27%) Next.js
9 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (0.64%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.64%) REST
10 1 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.46%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.91%) Web3
5 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (25.48%) Linux
2 29 (18.47%) Windows
3 7 (4.46%) Unix
3 7 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (31.85%) CI/CD
4 27 (17.20%) Containerisation
5 20 (12.74%) Microservices
5 20 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (10.83%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (10.83%) Test Automation
7 16 (10.19%) Mentoring
8 13 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.64%) DevSecOps
9 12 (7.64%) E-Commerce
10 11 (7.01%) Agile
10 11 (7.01%) High Availability
11 9 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (5.10%) Analytics
12 8 (5.10%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (5.10%) Migration
12 8 (5.10%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (5.10%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.29%) Python
2 23 (14.65%) Bash
3 19 (12.10%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.73%) C#
5 8 (5.10%) Go
5 8 (5.10%) Java
6 7 (4.46%) SQL
7 6 (3.82%) Bicep
8 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.27%) PHP
9 1 (0.64%) Groovy
9 1 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) GDPR
1 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.27%) QA
1 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (21.66%) Docker
2 6 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.55%) iptables
3 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (35.67%) Terraform
2 38 (24.20%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.19%) Ansible
4 11 (7.01%) Grafana
5 9 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.46%) Argo
6 7 (4.46%) Istio
7 6 (3.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.55%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.55%) Puppet
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.27%) SCCM
10 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (6.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.10%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (3.82%) Okta
3 6 (3.82%) OneLogin
4 5 (3.18%) VMware
5 4 (2.55%) Confluent
6 3 (1.91%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.64%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.64%) F5
8 1 (0.64%) IBM
8 1 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle
8 1 (0.64%) SolarWinds