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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 541 613
Rank change year-on-year -20 +72 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 170 99 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.26% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 150 81 208
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,633 £70,000 £67,500
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 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £105,000
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 83,975 37,966 90,660
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 89.30% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,064 23,403 66,761
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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% -5.21%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +19 159 £80,000 -5.88% 24
UK excluding London -19 107 £70,000 -3.45% 14
Work from Home +28 63 £80,000 -5.88% 9
London 0 49 £100,000 -2.44% 11
North of England -30 38 £69,310 -4.31% 3
Midlands -7 31 £70,000 -15.15% 5
East Midlands -13 27 £70,000 - 2
South West -53 16 £80,000 +23.79% 3
North West -3 15 £80,000 - 2
South East -21 14 £90,000 +9.09% 3
Yorkshire -53 14 £69,310 -4.31%
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -18 4 £80,000 -3.03% 3
East of England -25 4 £90,000 +38.46%
Wales - 4 £53,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 170 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (45.88%) Azure
3 68 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 68 (40.00%) Terraform
4 52 (30.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (27.06%) AWS
5 46 (27.06%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (25.88%) Linux
7 42 (24.71%) Kubernetes
8 35 (20.59%) Windows
9 33 (19.41%) Docker
9 33 (19.41%) Microservices
10 28 (16.47%) Node.js
11 27 (15.88%) Containerisation
11 27 (15.88%) GitLab
11 27 (15.88%) Test Automation
12 26 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (14.12%) Agile
13 24 (14.12%) Bash
13 24 (14.12%) Mentoring
14 22 (12.94%) PowerShell
14 22 (12.94%) Python
15 21 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
16 20 (11.76%) Java
17 19 (11.18%) Argo
17 19 (11.18%) Azure AKS
17 19 (11.18%) MongoDB
17 19 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
18 18 (10.59%) Azure Service Bus
18 18 (10.59%) Security Cleared

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 10 (5.88%) IIS
2 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 78 (45.88%) Azure
2 46 (27.06%) AWS
2 46 (27.06%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (11.18%) Azure AKS
4 18 (10.59%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (8.24%) GCP
6 9 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (5.29%) GitHub
6 9 (5.29%) npm
6 9 (5.29%) NuGet
6 9 (5.29%) Serverless
6 9 (5.29%) SonarCloud
7 7 (4.12%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.94%) CloudFront
9 5 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) DNS
1 7 (4.12%) Firewall
2 6 (3.53%) DHCP
2 6 (3.53%) Network Security
3 4 (2.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.18%) MongoDB
1 19 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.65%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (15.88%) GitLab
2 15 (8.82%) Git
3 12 (7.06%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.76%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.18%) JIRA
7 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (20.00%) Finance
2 31 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.06%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.47%) Banking
5 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.47%) Node.js
2 11 (6.47%) .NET
2 11 (6.47%) YAML
3 9 (5.29%) React
4 8 (4.71%) .NET Framework
5 7 (4.12%) Kafka
6 5 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.35%) ADO
8 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.18%) Next.js
10 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.59%) AWS SAM
10 1 (0.59%) JSON
10 1 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.59%) REST
10 1 (0.59%) RESTful
10 1 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.12%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.76%) Web3
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 44 (25.88%) Linux
2 35 (20.59%) Windows
3 15 (8.82%) Unix
4 7 (4.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) DevOps
2 68 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 52 (30.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (19.41%) Microservices
5 27 (15.88%) Containerisation
5 27 (15.88%) Test Automation
6 26 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (14.12%) Agile
7 24 (14.12%) Mentoring
8 21 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (9.41%) Scrum
10 14 (8.24%) Coaching
10 14 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.65%) DevSecOps
12 12 (7.06%) E-Commerce
13 10 (5.88%) High Availability
13 10 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (4.71%) Analytics
14 8 (4.71%) Observability
15 7 (4.12%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.12%) Bash
2 22 (12.94%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.94%) Python
3 20 (11.76%) Java
4 10 (5.88%) C#
5 8 (4.71%) SQL
6 7 (4.12%) Go
7 5 (2.94%) Bicep
8 2 (1.18%) PHP
9 1 (0.59%) Groovy
9 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.47%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.18%) Degree
5 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.76%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) GDPR
2 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (19.41%) Docker
2 6 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.35%) iptables
3 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (40.00%) Terraform
2 42 (24.71%) Kubernetes
3 19 (11.18%) Argo
4 13 (7.65%) Ansible
5 11 (6.47%) Grafana
6 9 (5.29%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.12%) Istio
8 6 (3.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.35%) Puppet
10 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.18%) SCCM
11 1 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.29%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (4.12%) Okta
4 6 (3.53%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.35%) Confluent
5 4 (2.35%) Google
5 4 (2.35%) VMware
6 2 (1.18%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.59%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.59%) F5
7 1 (0.59%) IBM
7 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce