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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 560 634
Rank change year-on-year +14 +74 -176
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 182 95 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.24% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 152 72 206
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £63,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +8.97% -8.24%
75th Percentile £90,000 £103,438 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £70,576
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.01% -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 85,613 39,653 91,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 89.71% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,627 23,002 67,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +17 166 £75,000 -11.76% 41
UK excluding London +22 117 £70,000 -2.77% 27
Work from Home +71 66 £80,000 -4.48% 16
London -13 46 £96,250 -4.94% 18
North of England -7 41 £69,655 -3.84% 5
Midlands 0 34 £70,000 -9.68% 6
East Midlands -5 29 £70,000 - 2
North West +26 18 £80,000 - 3
South West -55 18 £80,000 +23.79% 8
South East -9 15 £85,000 - 6
Yorkshire -36 14 £69,310 -4.31% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -17 5 £80,000 +3.23% 4
East of England -23 5 £73,750 +13.46% 1
Wales - 4 £53,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 182 (100.00%) DevOps
2 85 (46.70%) Azure
3 71 (39.01%) CI/CD
4 69 (37.91%) Terraform
5 53 (29.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (25.27%) AWS
8 44 (24.18%) Kubernetes
9 43 (23.63%) Linux
10 35 (19.23%) Windows
11 34 (18.68%) Docker
12 33 (18.13%) Microservices
13 28 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 28 (15.38%) Node.js
13 28 (15.38%) Test Automation
14 27 (14.84%) GitLab
14 27 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (14.29%) Agile
15 26 (14.29%) Bash
15 26 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
16 24 (13.19%) Mentoring
16 24 (13.19%) PowerShell
16 24 (13.19%) Python
17 22 (12.09%) Security Cleared
18 20 (10.99%) Argo
18 20 (10.99%) Azure AKS
18 20 (10.99%) Java
19 19 (10.44%) MongoDB
19 19 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
20 18 (9.89%) Azure Service Bus

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 10 (5.49%) IIS
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 85 (46.70%) Azure
2 49 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (25.27%) AWS
4 20 (10.99%) Azure AKS
5 18 (9.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (9.34%) GCP
7 11 (6.04%) GitHub
7 11 (6.04%) Serverless
8 10 (5.49%) SaaS
9 9 (4.95%) npm
9 9 (4.95%) NuGet
9 9 (4.95%) SonarCloud
10 8 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.40%) DNS
2 7 (3.85%) Firewall
3 6 (3.30%) DHCP
3 6 (3.30%) Network Security
4 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.44%) MongoDB
1 19 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.04%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (14.84%) GitLab
2 15 (8.24%) Git
3 12 (6.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.65%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.10%) JIRA
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) MSI
7 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (17.03%) Public Sector
2 25 (13.74%) Finance
3 12 (6.59%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.04%) Banking
5 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.38%) Node.js
2 12 (6.59%) YAML
3 11 (6.04%) .NET
4 9 (4.95%) React
5 8 (4.40%) .NET Framework
6 7 (3.85%) Kafka
7 5 (2.75%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.75%) ADO
7 5 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.65%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.65%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.10%) Next.js
10 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.55%) AWS SAM
10 1 (0.55%) JSON
10 1 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.55%) REST
10 1 (0.55%) RESTful
10 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.85%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.55%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.63%) Linux
2 35 (19.23%) Windows
3 15 (8.24%) Unix
4 7 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (39.01%) CI/CD
3 53 (29.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (18.13%) Microservices
5 28 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 28 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 27 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (14.29%) Agile
7 26 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (13.19%) Mentoring
9 17 (9.34%) DevSecOps
10 16 (8.79%) Scrum
11 15 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.69%) Coaching
13 11 (6.04%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (5.49%) AI
14 10 (5.49%) High Availability
14 10 (5.49%) Observability
15 9 (4.95%) Analytics
16 8 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.29%) Bash
2 24 (13.19%) PowerShell
2 24 (13.19%) Python
3 20 (10.99%) Java
4 10 (5.49%) C#
5 8 (4.40%) SQL
6 7 (3.85%) Go
7 5 (2.75%) Bicep
8 2 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.75%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.65%) Degree
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.75%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) GDPR
2 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (18.68%) Docker
2 6 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.20%) iptables
3 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (37.91%) Terraform
2 44 (24.18%) Kubernetes
3 20 (10.99%) Argo
4 13 (7.14%) Ansible
5 12 (6.59%) Grafana
6 10 (5.49%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.85%) Istio
8 6 (3.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.20%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.20%) Puppet
10 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.10%) SCCM
11 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (6.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.95%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (3.85%) Google
3 7 (3.85%) Okta
4 6 (3.30%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.20%) Confluent
5 4 (2.20%) VMware
6 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.10%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.55%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.55%) F5
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle