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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 573 643
Rank change year-on-year +43 +70 -206
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 221 98 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 177 62 200
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,992 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £66,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £101,875 £91,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £74,870 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% -0.17% -0.88%

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 90,996 42,434 99,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 89.80% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62,462 24,678 72,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -5.66%

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 July 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 July 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 +48 201 £75,000 -9.09% 54
UK excluding London +51 156 £72,500 -3.16% 38
Work from Home +53 89 £80,000 - 30
North of England +24 68 £75,000 +0.17% 14
Midlands +12 38 £70,000 -12.50% 3
London -36 38 £90,000 -11.11% 22
North West +21 30 £77,500 +3.33% 12
Yorkshire -16 24 £69,655 -0.49% 2
East Midlands +7 23 £70,000 - 3
South West -56 21 £75,000 +16.05% 3
South East -13 19 £85,000 - 14
West Midlands -9 15 £80,000 -
North East -35 14 £69,308 -7.59%
Wales - 6 £53,085 - 2
East of England -14 4 £51,000 -25.82% 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (45.25%) CI/CD
3 95 (42.99%) Azure
4 74 (33.48%) Terraform
5 64 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (28.05%) AWS
7 52 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (22.17%) Kubernetes
8 49 (22.17%) Linux
9 45 (20.36%) Mentoring
10 41 (18.55%) Agile
10 41 (18.55%) Windows
11 39 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (17.65%) Test Automation
12 36 (16.29%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 34 (15.38%) Docker
14 31 (14.03%) Python
15 30 (13.57%) Microservices
15 30 (13.57%) Pega
16 29 (13.12%) Coaching
16 29 (13.12%) GitLab
16 29 (13.12%) Security Cleared
17 28 (12.67%) Scrum
18 26 (11.76%) Unix
19 24 (10.86%) Java
19 24 (10.86%) Node.js
20 23 (10.41%) GCP
21 22 (9.95%) Argo
21 22 (9.95%) Azure AKS

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 (2.71%) IIS
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.99%) Azure
2 62 (28.05%) AWS
3 52 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (10.41%) GCP
5 22 (9.95%) Azure AKS
6 18 (8.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.33%) GitHub
8 13 (5.88%) SaaS
9 10 (4.52%) Serverless
10 8 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.71%) npm
12 6 (2.71%) NuGet
12 6 (2.71%) SonarCloud
13 5 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.26%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.07%) DNS
1 9 (4.07%) Firewall
2 6 (2.71%) Network Security
3 4 (1.81%) DHCP
3 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.60%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.62%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (13.12%) GitLab
2 12 (5.43%) Git
2 12 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.26%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.36%) JIRA
5 2 (0.90%) MSI
6 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (19.91%) Public Sector
2 26 (11.76%) Finance
3 11 (4.98%) Banking
4 10 (4.52%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.86%) Node.js
2 10 (4.52%) YAML
3 8 (3.62%) .NET
4 7 (3.17%) ADO
4 7 (3.17%) Kafka
5 6 (2.71%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.71%) React
6 4 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.81%) Spring
6 4 (1.81%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.36%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.36%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.36%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.45%) JSON
8 1 (0.45%) Next.js
8 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.45%) RESTful
8 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.81%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.17%) Linux
2 41 (18.55%) Windows
3 26 (11.76%) Unix
4 4 (1.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (45.25%) CI/CD
3 64 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (20.36%) Mentoring
5 41 (18.55%) Agile
6 39 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
6 39 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 36 (16.29%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 30 (13.57%) Microservices
10 29 (13.12%) Coaching
11 28 (12.67%) Scrum
12 22 (9.95%) DevSecOps
13 16 (7.24%) AI
14 15 (6.79%) Case Management
14 15 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (5.43%) Observability
16 12 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.03%) Python
2 24 (10.86%) Java
3 22 (9.95%) Bash
3 22 (9.95%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.62%) SQL
5 7 (3.17%) C#
6 6 (2.71%) Go
7 5 (2.26%) Bicep
8 2 (0.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.45%) Groovy
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (13.12%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.71%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.26%) Degree
4 5 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.81%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.17%) QA
2 2 (0.90%) GDPR
2 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (15.38%) Docker
2 6 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.81%) iptables
5 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (33.48%) Terraform
2 49 (22.17%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.95%) Argo
4 15 (6.79%) Ansible
5 10 (4.52%) Grafana
6 9 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.17%) Istio
8 4 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.81%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.81%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (13.57%) Pega
2 11 (4.98%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.07%) Google
4 6 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.26%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.26%) Okta
5 5 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.26%) VMware
6 4 (1.81%) Confluent
6 4 (1.81%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.45%) IBM
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle