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 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 589 654
Rank change year-on-year +52 +65 -216
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 214 97 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 171 61 194
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £92,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £74,870 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.27% -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 90,300 41,384 100,134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,954 23,849 72,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +41 195 £75,000 -9.09% 37
UK excluding London +33 149 £71,000 -5.17% 31
Work from Home +61 89 £80,000 - 13
North of England -2 64 £75,000 +3.54% 6
London -22 38 £92,500 -8.64% 15
Midlands -1 36 £70,000 -12.50% 2
North West +25 26 £80,000 +6.67% 5
Yorkshire -12 24 £69,655 -0.49% 1
East Midlands +2 22 £70,000 - 2
South East -14 20 £85,000 - 16
South West -61 20 £75,000 +16.05% 2
West Midlands -7 14 £80,000 -
North East - 14 £69,308 -
Wales - 5 £53,000 - 2
East of England -18 4 £51,000 -21.54% 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 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.

1 214 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (43.93%) CI/CD
3 89 (41.59%) Azure
4 73 (34.11%) Terraform
5 62 (28.97%) AWS
6 61 (28.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (23.83%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (23.36%) Linux
9 49 (22.90%) Kubernetes
10 43 (20.09%) Mentoring
11 42 (19.63%) Windows
12 40 (18.69%) Agile
13 39 (18.22%) Test Automation
14 37 (17.29%) Continuous Integration
15 35 (16.36%) Containerisation
15 35 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
16 34 (15.89%) Docker
17 30 (14.02%) Microservices
17 30 (14.02%) Python
18 29 (13.55%) Coaching
18 29 (13.55%) GitLab
18 29 (13.55%) Pega
18 29 (13.55%) Security Cleared
19 28 (13.08%) Scrum
20 26 (12.15%) Unix
21 24 (11.21%) Java
21 24 (11.21%) Node.js
22 22 (10.28%) Argo
22 22 (10.28%) Azure AKS
22 22 (10.28%) Bash

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 6 (2.80%) IIS
2 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 89 (41.59%) Azure
2 62 (28.97%) AWS
3 51 (23.83%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.28%) Azure AKS
4 22 (10.28%) GCP
5 18 (8.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (6.07%) GitHub
6 13 (6.07%) SaaS
7 10 (4.67%) Serverless
8 8 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.80%) npm
10 6 (2.80%) NuGet
10 6 (2.80%) SonarCloud
11 5 (2.34%) CloudFront
11 5 (2.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.67%) DNS
2 8 (3.74%) Firewall
3 6 (2.80%) Network Security
4 5 (2.34%) DHCP
5 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.88%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.74%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (13.55%) GitLab
2 12 (5.61%) Git
2 12 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.40%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.40%) JIRA
5 2 (0.93%) MSI
6 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (20.56%) Public Sector
2 26 (12.15%) Finance
3 11 (5.14%) Banking
4 10 (4.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.21%) Node.js
2 10 (4.67%) YAML
3 8 (3.74%) .NET
4 7 (3.27%) ADO
4 7 (3.27%) Kafka
5 6 (2.80%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.80%) React
6 4 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.87%) Spring
6 4 (1.87%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.47%) JSON
8 1 (0.47%) Next.js
8 1 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.47%) REST
8 1 (0.47%) RESTful
8 1 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.34%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.36%) Linux
2 42 (19.63%) Windows
3 26 (12.15%) Unix
4 5 (2.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (43.93%) CI/CD
3 61 (28.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (20.09%) Mentoring
5 40 (18.69%) Agile
6 39 (18.22%) Test Automation
7 37 (17.29%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (16.36%) Containerisation
8 35 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (14.02%) Microservices
10 29 (13.55%) Coaching
11 28 (13.08%) Scrum
12 22 (10.28%) DevSecOps
13 15 (7.01%) Case Management
13 15 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (7.01%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (6.54%) AI
15 12 (5.61%) Observability
15 12 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 11 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 30 (14.02%) Python
2 24 (11.21%) Java
3 22 (10.28%) Bash
4 21 (9.81%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.74%) SQL
6 7 (3.27%) C#
7 6 (2.80%) Go
8 5 (2.34%) Bicep
9 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.80%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.34%) Degree
4 5 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.80%) QA
2 2 (0.93%) GDPR
2 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (15.89%) Docker
2 6 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.87%) iptables
4 4 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (34.11%) Terraform
2 49 (22.90%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.28%) Argo
4 15 (7.01%) Ansible
5 11 (5.14%) Grafana
6 10 (4.67%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.27%) Istio
8 5 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.87%) Puppet
10 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
10 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (13.55%) Pega
2 12 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.74%) Google
4 6 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (2.80%) Okta
5 5 (2.34%) OneLogin
5 5 (2.34%) VMware
6 4 (1.87%) Confluent
6 4 (1.87%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.47%) IBM
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle
7 1 (0.47%) Zscaler