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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 596 575
Rank change year-on-year +62 -21 -184
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 260 86 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 206 50 161
10th Percentile £60,000 £64,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £72,600 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +11.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £101,875 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -4.84%

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 98,814 44,648 79,271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.01% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,613 26,525 53,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.85% -0.80% -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 7 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 7 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 +61 234 £75,000 -11.76% 110
UK excluding London +80 195 £75,000 - 52
Work from Home +46 99 £80,000 - 42
North of England +34 92 £75,000 +3.54% 17
North West +32 43 £75,000 - 10
Midlands +3 41 £70,000 -12.50% 3
London -36 39 £90,000 -10.00% 67
Yorkshire -3 26 £69,655 -0.49% 3
East Midlands -5 24 £70,000 - 1
South West -49 24 £75,000 +36.36% 9
North East -30 23 £69,310 -7.59% 4
South East -9 21 £85,000 - 13
West Midlands -17 17 £80,000 - 2
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 1
East of England -25 3 £51,000 -43.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 260 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 112 (43.08%) Azure
4 80 (30.77%) Terraform
5 73 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (23.08%) AWS
6 60 (23.08%) Kubernetes
7 58 (22.31%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (21.15%) Mentoring
9 53 (20.38%) Platform Engineering
10 48 (18.46%) Agile
11 43 (16.54%) Linux
12 41 (15.77%) Test Automation
13 39 (15.00%) Containerisation
13 39 (15.00%) Windows
14 36 (13.85%) GitLab
14 36 (13.85%) Python
15 35 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
16 34 (13.08%) Docker
16 34 (13.08%) Security Cleared
17 33 (12.69%) Coaching
18 30 (11.54%) GCP
18 30 (11.54%) Pega
18 30 (11.54%) Scrum
19 29 (11.15%) Java
20 28 (10.77%) Microservices
20 28 (10.77%) Unix
21 24 (9.23%) AI
21 24 (9.23%) Azure AKS
21 24 (9.23%) 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 (1.54%) IIS
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 112 (43.08%) Azure
2 60 (23.08%) AWS
3 58 (22.31%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (11.54%) GCP
5 24 (9.23%) Azure AKS
6 18 (6.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (6.15%) SaaS
8 14 (5.38%) GitHub
9 12 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.85%) Serverless
11 7 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.31%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.31%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.92%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.92%) Datadog
13 5 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.54%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) DNS
1 9 (3.46%) Firewall
2 4 (1.54%) DHCP
2 4 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.77%) Network Security
3 2 (0.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.31%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.31%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (13.85%) GitLab
2 14 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.85%) Git
4 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.15%) JIRA
4 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.77%) MSI
6 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (16.15%) Public Sector
2 31 (11.92%) Finance
3 14 (5.38%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.23%) Banking
5 2 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
5 2 (0.77%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.23%) Node.js
2 9 (3.46%) Spring
2 9 (3.46%) Spring Boot
3 8 (3.08%) YAML
4 7 (2.69%) ADO
4 7 (2.69%) Kafka
5 6 (2.31%) .NET
6 4 (1.54%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.54%) React
7 2 (0.77%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.77%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.77%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.38%) JSON
8 1 (0.38%) Next.js
8 1 (0.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.38%) REST
8 1 (0.38%) RESTful
8 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (1.54%) Private Cloud
3 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (16.54%) Linux
2 39 (15.00%) Windows
3 28 (10.77%) Unix
4 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 73 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (21.15%) Mentoring
5 53 (20.38%) Platform Engineering
6 48 (18.46%) Agile
7 41 (15.77%) Test Automation
8 39 (15.00%) Containerisation
9 35 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.69%) Coaching
11 30 (11.54%) Scrum
12 28 (10.77%) Microservices
13 24 (9.23%) AI
13 24 (9.23%) DevSecOps
14 22 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
15 19 (7.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 17 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (5.77%) Case Management
18 15 (5.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.85%) Python
2 29 (11.15%) Java
3 20 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 18 (6.92%) Bash
5 9 (3.46%) SQL
6 8 (3.08%) Go
7 5 (1.92%) Bicep
7 5 (1.92%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) Groovy
8 1 (0.38%) Perl
8 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.23%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.92%) Degree
6 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.69%) QA
2 2 (0.77%) GDPR
2 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (13.08%) Docker
2 6 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.77%) iptables
6 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (30.77%) Terraform
2 60 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.46%) Argo
4 20 (7.69%) Ansible
5 8 (3.08%) Grafana
6 7 (2.69%) Istio
6 7 (2.69%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (11.54%) Pega
2 17 (6.54%) Google
3 15 (5.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.92%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.92%) Okta
4 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.92%) VMware
5 4 (1.54%) Confluent
5 4 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.54%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.38%) IBM
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle