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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 538 608
Rank change year-on-year -18 +70 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 163 105 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.28% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 145 87 218
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £58,381
25th Percentile £65,500 £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 £106,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 81,705 37,434 89,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 89.27% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 52,263 23,569 66,364
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
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 23 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 23 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 +6 152 £80,000 -5.88% 19
UK excluding London -16 103 £70,000 -3.45% 16
Work from Home +22 60 £80,000 -5.88% 13
London -6 48 £100,000 -3.61% 5
North of England -36 36 £70,000 - 4
Midlands -10 29 £70,000 -15.15% 6
East Midlands -27 23 £70,000 - 5
South West -47 16 £80,000 +23.79% 3
North West -13 14 £80,000 - 2
South East -31 14 £90,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire -48 13 £69,310 -0.99% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -20 6 £90,000 +9.09% 1
East of England -42 4 £90,000 +38.46% 1
Wales - 4 £53,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 163 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (41.10%) Azure
3 63 (38.65%) Terraform
4 59 (36.20%) CI/CD
5 51 (31.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (29.45%) AWS
7 44 (26.99%) Linux
8 40 (24.54%) Kubernetes
9 37 (22.70%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (20.25%) Docker
11 32 (19.63%) Windows
12 28 (17.18%) Microservices
13 27 (16.56%) Containerisation
14 25 (15.34%) Python
15 23 (14.11%) Bash
15 23 (14.11%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (14.11%) GitLab
15 23 (14.11%) Node.js
15 23 (14.11%) Test Automation
16 21 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
17 20 (12.27%) Agile
17 20 (12.27%) Security Cleared
18 19 (11.66%) Mentoring
18 19 (11.66%) PowerShell
19 16 (9.82%) Java
19 16 (9.82%) MongoDB
20 15 (9.20%) Ansible
20 15 (9.20%) Argo
20 15 (9.20%) Azure AKS
20 15 (9.20%) PostgreSQL

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 (5.52%) IIS
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.10%) Azure
2 48 (29.45%) AWS
3 37 (22.70%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (9.20%) Azure AKS
5 14 (8.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (7.98%) GCP
7 10 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (6.13%) Serverless
8 9 (5.52%) GitHub
9 8 (4.91%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.91%) npm
9 8 (4.91%) NuGet
9 8 (4.91%) SonarCloud
10 7 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.07%) CloudFront
12 5 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.91%) Firewall
2 7 (4.29%) DNS
3 6 (3.68%) DHCP
3 6 (3.68%) Network Security
4 4 (2.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.82%) MongoDB
2 15 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.13%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (14.11%) GitLab
2 14 (8.59%) Git
3 12 (7.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.52%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.84%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.23%) JIRA
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (20.86%) Finance
2 28 (17.18%) Public Sector
3 13 (7.98%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.75%) Banking
5 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.11%) Node.js
2 11 (6.75%) .NET
3 10 (6.13%) YAML
4 8 (4.91%) React
5 7 (4.29%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.68%) Kafka
7 5 (3.07%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.45%) ADO
9 2 (1.23%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.23%) AWS SAM
9 2 (1.23%) Next.js
9 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.61%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.61%) REST
10 1 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.29%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.84%) Web3
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 44 (26.99%) Linux
2 32 (19.63%) Windows
3 13 (7.98%) Unix
4 7 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (36.20%) CI/CD
3 51 (31.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (17.18%) Microservices
5 27 (16.56%) Containerisation
6 23 (14.11%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (14.11%) Test Automation
7 21 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (12.27%) Agile
9 19 (11.66%) Mentoring
10 14 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.98%) Scrum
12 12 (7.36%) DevSecOps
12 12 (7.36%) E-Commerce
13 11 (6.75%) Coaching
13 11 (6.75%) High Availability
14 9 (5.52%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (4.91%) Analytics
15 8 (4.91%) Identity Access Management
15 8 (4.91%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.34%) Python
2 23 (14.11%) Bash
3 19 (11.66%) PowerShell
4 16 (9.82%) Java
5 9 (5.52%) C#
6 8 (4.91%) Go
7 7 (4.29%) SQL
8 6 (3.68%) Bicep
9 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.23%) PHP
10 1 (0.61%) Groovy
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.23%) GDPR
1 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.23%) QA
1 2 (1.23%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (20.25%) Docker
2 6 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.45%) iptables
3 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.23%) vSphere
5 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (38.65%) Terraform
2 40 (24.54%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.20%) Ansible
3 15 (9.20%) Argo
4 11 (6.75%) Grafana
5 9 (5.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.29%) Istio
7 6 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.45%) Puppet
9 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.23%) SCCM
10 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (6.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.91%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (3.68%) Okta
3 6 (3.68%) OneLogin
4 5 (3.07%) VMware
5 4 (2.45%) Confluent
6 3 (1.84%) Google
7 2 (1.23%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.61%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.61%) F5
8 1 (0.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle
8 1 (0.61%) SolarWinds