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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 584 544
Rank change year-on-year +58 -40 -163
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 275 86 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.19% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 214 52 154
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,626 £89,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.45% +15.52% -6.45%

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 101,140 44,848 79,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 89.92% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 69,235 26,502 52,116
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,712 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.64% -4.63% -6.54%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +75 248 £75,000 -9.09% 23
UK excluding London +61 207 £75,000 -10.45% 22
Work from Home +32 98 £80,000 - 13
North of England +47 97 £75,000 +7.14% 3
North West +24 46 £75,000 - 2
Midlands +2 44 £70,000 -12.50% 1
London -60 41 £90,000 - 6
North East -29 26 £69,310 -7.59% 1
Yorkshire -18 25 £70,000 -
South West -53 25 £75,000 +36.36% 4
East Midlands +3 24 £70,000 -
South East -17 24 £85,000 - 9
West Midlands -16 20 £80,000 - 1
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 1
East of England -16 3 £51,000 -40.87% 2

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 275 (100.00%) DevOps
2 124 (45.09%) CI/CD
3 115 (41.82%) Azure
4 82 (29.82%) Terraform
5 76 (27.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (23.64%) AWS
7 62 (22.55%) Kubernetes
8 61 (22.18%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
10 56 (20.36%) Mentoring
11 52 (18.91%) Agile
12 44 (16.00%) Linux
13 43 (15.64%) Test Automation
14 40 (14.55%) Containerisation
14 40 (14.55%) GitLab
14 40 (14.55%) Security Cleared
15 38 (13.82%) Python
15 38 (13.82%) Windows
16 37 (13.45%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (12.73%) Docker
18 34 (12.36%) Coaching
19 32 (11.64%) Java
20 31 (11.27%) GCP
21 30 (10.91%) Pega
21 30 (10.91%) Scrum
22 28 (10.18%) Microservices
22 28 (10.18%) Unix
23 25 (9.09%) AI
24 24 (8.73%) Azure AKS
24 24 (8.73%) DevSecOps

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 4 (1.45%) IIS
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 115 (41.82%) Azure
2 65 (23.64%) AWS
3 61 (22.18%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (11.27%) GCP
5 24 (8.73%) Azure AKS
6 18 (6.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (5.82%) SaaS
8 14 (5.09%) GitHub
9 12 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (4.00%) Serverless
11 10 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.18%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.18%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.82%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.82%) Datadog
15 4 (1.45%) Amazon MSK
15 4 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.27%) DNS
1 9 (3.27%) Firewall
2 4 (1.45%) DHCP
2 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.73%) SAN
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.91%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.18%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (14.55%) GitLab
2 15 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.64%) Git
4 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.09%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.09%) JIRA
6 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) MSI
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (15.27%) Public Sector
2 32 (11.64%) Finance
3 14 (5.09%) Social Skills
4 12 (4.36%) Banking
5 2 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
5 2 (0.73%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (29.82%) Terraform
2 24 (8.73%) Node.js
3 11 (4.00%) Spring
3 11 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.91%) YAML
5 7 (2.55%) ADO
5 7 (2.55%) Kafka
6 6 (2.18%) .NET
7 4 (1.45%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.45%) React
8 2 (0.73%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.73%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.73%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.73%) OpenTofu
9 1 (0.36%) JSON
9 1 (0.36%) Next.js
9 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.36%) RESTful
9 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.18%) Private Cloud
3 4 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.00%) Linux
2 38 (13.82%) Windows
3 28 (10.18%) Unix
4 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (100.00%) DevOps
2 124 (45.09%) CI/CD
3 76 (27.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
5 56 (20.36%) Mentoring
6 52 (18.91%) Agile
7 43 (15.64%) Test Automation
8 40 (14.55%) Containerisation
9 37 (13.45%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (12.36%) Coaching
11 30 (10.91%) Scrum
12 28 (10.18%) Microservices
13 25 (9.09%) AI
14 24 (8.73%) DevSecOps
15 21 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (7.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 19 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (6.55%) Technical Leadership
18 17 (6.18%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (5.82%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.82%) Python
2 32 (11.64%) Java
3 18 (6.55%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.18%) Bash
5 9 (3.27%) SQL
6 8 (2.91%) Go
7 5 (1.82%) Bicep
7 5 (1.82%) C#
8 1 (0.36%) Groovy
8 1 (0.36%) Perl
8 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.09%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.18%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.18%) Degree
5 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) QA
2 2 (0.73%) GDPR
2 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (12.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.36%) iptables
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.00%) Ansible
2 22 (8.00%) Argo
3 7 (2.55%) Grafana
3 7 (2.55%) Istio
4 6 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.73%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (10.91%) Pega
2 17 (6.18%) Google
3 14 (5.09%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.82%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.82%) Okta
4 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.82%) VMware
5 4 (1.45%) Confluent
5 4 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.45%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle
7 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.36%) IBM