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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 586 501
Rank change year-on-year +59 -85 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 290 83 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.19% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 225 51 155
10th Percentile £60,100 £56,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £66,250 £60,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £98,500 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%

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 106,427 44,033 73,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.62% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,226 25,764 44,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 16 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 15 September 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 +59 260 £80,000 +1.59% 195
UK excluding London +86 224 £75,000 - 108
North of England +34 97 £75,000 +7.14% 26
Work from Home +16 93 £80,000 - 86
Midlands -3 49 £70,000 - 9
North West +24 46 £75,000 +7.14% 20
London -49 38 £91,250 +5.80% 88
South East -13 33 £95,000 +11.76% 24
North East -36 26 £69,310 -7.59% 1
South West -64 26 £75,000 +42.86% 24
East Midlands - 26 £70,000 - 6
Yorkshire -23 25 £70,000 - 5
West Midlands -19 23 £80,000 +14.29% 3
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 2
East of England -27 3 £51,000 -40.87% 5
Scotland +4 2 £100,000 -2.44% 16

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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.

1 290 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (43.45%) CI/CD
3 118 (40.69%) Azure
4 76 (26.21%) Terraform
5 70 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (22.07%) Kubernetes
7 63 (21.72%) AWS
7 63 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (21.38%) Platform Engineering
9 55 (18.97%) Mentoring
10 54 (18.62%) Agile
11 42 (14.48%) Test Automation
12 41 (14.14%) Linux
13 40 (13.79%) Containerisation
14 39 (13.45%) Security Cleared
15 38 (13.10%) GitLab
16 37 (12.76%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (12.07%) Coaching
17 35 (12.07%) Docker
17 35 (12.07%) Python
17 35 (12.07%) Windows
18 33 (11.38%) GCP
19 32 (11.03%) Java
20 30 (10.34%) Pega
20 30 (10.34%) Scrum
21 28 (9.66%) Unix
22 26 (8.97%) AI
22 26 (8.97%) Microservices
23 24 (8.28%) Azure AKS
23 24 (8.28%) Node.js

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 3 (1.03%) IIS
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 118 (40.69%) Azure
2 63 (21.72%) AWS
2 63 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (11.38%) GCP
4 24 (8.28%) Azure AKS
5 18 (6.21%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (5.52%) SaaS
7 14 (4.83%) GitHub
8 12 (4.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.10%) Serverless
11 6 (2.07%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.72%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.38%) Datadog
13 4 (1.38%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.38%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.76%) DNS
1 8 (2.76%) Firewall
2 3 (1.03%) DHCP
2 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) MySQL
6 1 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (13.10%) GitLab
2 13 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.10%) Git
4 5 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.38%) JIRA
6 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.69%) MSI
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 26 (8.97%) Finance
3 13 (4.48%) Social Skills
4 8 (2.76%) Banking
5 2 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.69%) Marketing
6 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (26.21%) Terraform
2 24 (8.28%) Node.js
3 11 (3.79%) Spring
3 11 (3.79%) Spring Boot
4 7 (2.41%) ADO
4 7 (2.41%) YAML
5 6 (2.07%) .NET
6 5 (1.72%) Kafka
7 3 (1.03%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.03%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.03%) React
8 2 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.69%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.69%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.34%) CSS
9 1 (0.34%) Next.js
9 1 (0.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.55%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.07%) Private Cloud
3 5 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.34%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.14%) Linux
2 35 (12.07%) Windows
3 28 (9.66%) Unix
4 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (43.45%) CI/CD
3 70 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (21.38%) Platform Engineering
5 55 (18.97%) Mentoring
6 54 (18.62%) Agile
7 42 (14.48%) Test Automation
8 40 (13.79%) Containerisation
9 37 (12.76%) Continuous Integration
10 35 (12.07%) Coaching
11 30 (10.34%) Scrum
12 26 (8.97%) AI
12 26 (8.97%) Microservices
13 22 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
13 22 (7.59%) DevSecOps
14 21 (7.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (5.86%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (5.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.07%) Python
2 32 (11.03%) Java
3 15 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.48%) Bash
5 7 (2.41%) Go
5 7 (2.41%) SQL
6 5 (1.72%) C#
7 4 (1.38%) Bicep
8 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) Groovy
9 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.34%) Perl
9 1 (0.34%) Ruby
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.52%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.41%) Degree
5 5 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.41%) QA
2 1 (0.34%) GDPR
2 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.34%) PMO
2 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (12.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (22.07%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.24%) Argo
3 20 (6.90%) Ansible
4 5 (1.72%) Istio
5 4 (1.38%) Grafana
5 4 (1.38%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.34%) Packer
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.34%) Pega
2 20 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.86%) Google
4 6 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.72%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.72%) VMware
6 4 (1.38%) Okta
7 3 (1.03%) Confluent
7 3 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.03%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.69%) Intel
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle