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 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 486 508
Rank change year-on-year -66 +22 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 101 214 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.44% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 92 128 241
10th Percentile £59,127 £54,825 £61,180
25th Percentile £69,375 £65,938 £68,718
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 £118,750 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +7.14% -0.82% -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 56,506 49,067 60,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 92.30% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35,084 25,365 47,305
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.94%

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 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 23 January 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 -49 91 £81,250 -4.41% 34
UK excluding London -43 57 £75,000 +7.14% 26
London +5 33 £100,000 -2.44% 11
Work from Home -20 32 £80,000 -11.11% 20
Midlands +31 20 £70,000 - 2
South West +9 15 £80,000 +23.79% 7
East Midlands +9 15 £70,000 - 1
South East -40 11 £90,000 +20.00% 8
North of England -4 8 £75,000 +51.52% 5
West Midlands +18 5 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West +9 5 £67,500 - 3
East of England +14 3 £90,000 +38.46% 3
North East - 2 £82,500 - 1
Yorkshire -24 1 £70,000 +41.41% 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 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.

1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (40.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (37.62%) CI/CD
4 35 (34.65%) AWS
4 35 (34.65%) Terraform
5 30 (29.70%) Linux
6 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
7 26 (25.74%) Azure
7 26 (25.74%) Docker
8 19 (18.81%) Bash
9 16 (15.84%) Grafana
9 16 (15.84%) Python
9 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
10 15 (14.85%) Ansible
10 15 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (14.85%) Windows
11 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
11 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.87%) High Availability
13 12 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (10.89%) Observability
15 10 (9.90%) E-Commerce
15 10 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (9.90%) PowerShell
16 9 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (8.91%) GitHub
16 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 9 (8.91%) Node.js
16 9 (8.91%) Prometheus

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 5 (4.95%) IIS
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.65%) AWS
2 26 (25.74%) Azure
3 15 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (8.91%) GitHub
6 8 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.92%) Serverless
7 7 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (3.96%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (3.96%) npm
10 4 (3.96%) NuGet
10 4 (3.96%) SonarCloud
11 3 (2.97%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) DNS
2 3 (2.97%) DHCP
2 3 (2.97%) Firewall
3 2 (1.98%) Network Security
3 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.98%) VPN
4 1 (0.99%) AMQP
4 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.97%) MySQL
4 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.98%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.99%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Git
2 6 (5.94%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.97%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.99%) git-flow
5 1 (0.99%) Gradle
5 1 (0.99%) JIRA
5 1 (0.99%) Maven
General
1 21 (20.79%) Finance
2 13 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.99%) Automotive
5 1 (0.99%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) Node.js
2 7 (6.93%) .NET
2 7 (6.93%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.94%) React
4 5 (4.95%) AWS CDK
4 5 (4.95%) YAML
5 4 (3.96%) AWS SAM
6 3 (2.97%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.97%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.98%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.98%) WCF
8 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.99%) J2EE
8 1 (0.99%) Kafka
8 1 (0.99%) Next.js
8 1 (0.99%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.94%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.97%) Web3
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.99%) Derivative
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (29.70%) Linux
2 15 (14.85%) Windows
3 4 (3.96%) Unix
3 4 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (40.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (37.62%) CI/CD
4 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
4 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
5 13 (12.87%) High Availability
6 12 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (10.89%) Observability
8 10 (9.90%) E-Commerce
8 10 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (8.91%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (8.91%) Test Automation
10 8 (7.92%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.92%) Microservices
11 7 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.93%) DevSecOps
11 7 (6.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (5.94%) Configuration Management
12 6 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.81%) Bash
2 16 (15.84%) Python
3 10 (9.90%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.94%) Go
5 5 (4.95%) Bicep
5 5 (4.95%) SQL
6 4 (3.96%) C#
6 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.97%) Java
8 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) Degree
5 3 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (25.74%) Docker
2 5 (4.95%) vSphere
3 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.98%) iptables
4 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (34.65%) Terraform
2 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.84%) Grafana
4 15 (14.85%) Ansible
5 9 (8.91%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.97%) Argo
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.97%) SCCM
7 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.91%) VMware
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.96%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (2.97%) Okta
4 3 (2.97%) OneLogin
4 3 (2.97%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.99%) Duck Creek
5 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.99%) F5
5 1 (0.99%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds