Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 573 652
Rank change year-on-year +15 +79 -204
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 189 101 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 150 65 199
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,686 £48,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £93,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £73,685 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.75% -3.23%

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 88,903 40,378 103,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 89.46% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,009 23,013 74,813
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +31 173 £77,500 -8.82% 38
UK excluding London +18 130 £70,000 -5.00% 35
Work from Home +46 76 £80,000 - 19
North of England +12 52 £75,000 +0.17% 9
London -38 38 £98,750 -1.25% 11
Midlands +1 33 £70,000 - 6
East Midlands -2 22 £70,000 - 2
North West - 21 £80,000 - 4
South East -11 20 £85,000 - 12
Yorkshire -17 20 £69,655 -6.96% 4
South West -59 17 £75,000 +16.05% 3
West Midlands -8 11 £80,000 +14.29% 4
North East - 11 £69,310 - 1
East of England -20 4 £51,000 -21.54% 2
Wales - 4 £53,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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.

1 189 (100.00%) DevOps
2 83 (43.92%) Azure
3 76 (40.21%) CI/CD
4 69 (36.51%) Terraform
5 55 (29.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (26.98%) AWS
7 48 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (24.34%) Kubernetes
9 42 (22.22%) Linux
10 35 (18.52%) Windows
11 33 (17.46%) Containerisation
12 32 (16.93%) Docker
12 32 (16.93%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (16.40%) Test Automation
14 30 (15.87%) Agile
14 30 (15.87%) Mentoring
14 30 (15.87%) Microservices
15 29 (15.34%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (14.81%) GitLab
17 26 (13.76%) Python
18 24 (12.70%) Node.js
18 24 (12.70%) Security Cleared
19 22 (11.64%) Argo
19 22 (11.64%) Azure AKS
19 22 (11.64%) Bash
19 22 (11.64%) Java
20 20 (10.58%) DevSecOps
20 20 (10.58%) GCP
20 20 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
20 20 (10.58%) PowerShell

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 (3.17%) IIS
2 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 83 (43.92%) Azure
2 51 (26.98%) AWS
3 48 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (11.64%) Azure AKS
5 20 (10.58%) GCP
6 18 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.88%) SaaS
8 12 (6.35%) GitHub
9 10 (5.29%) Serverless
10 8 (4.23%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.17%) npm
12 6 (3.17%) NuGet
12 6 (3.17%) SonarCloud
13 5 (2.65%) CloudFront
13 5 (2.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.29%) DNS
2 6 (3.17%) DHCP
2 6 (3.17%) Firewall
2 6 (3.17%) Network Security
3 4 (2.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.05%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.82%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (14.81%) GitLab
2 12 (6.35%) Git
2 12 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.65%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.59%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.59%) JIRA
5 2 (1.06%) MSI
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (17.99%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.70%) Finance
3 11 (5.82%) Banking
4 10 (5.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.70%) Node.js
2 10 (5.29%) YAML
3 8 (4.23%) .NET
4 7 (3.70%) Kafka
5 6 (3.17%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.17%) ADO
5 6 (3.17%) React
6 4 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.59%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.59%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.06%) Spring
8 2 (1.06%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.53%) JSON
9 1 (0.53%) Next.js
9 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.53%) REST
9 1 (0.53%) RESTful
9 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.17%) Hedge funds
3 3 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.22%) Linux
2 35 (18.52%) Windows
3 18 (9.52%) Unix
4 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) DevOps
2 76 (40.21%) CI/CD
3 55 (29.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (17.46%) Containerisation
5 32 (16.93%) Platform Engineering
6 31 (16.40%) Test Automation
7 30 (15.87%) Agile
7 30 (15.87%) Mentoring
7 30 (15.87%) Microservices
8 29 (15.34%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (10.58%) DevSecOps
9 20 (10.58%) Scrum
10 19 (10.05%) Coaching
11 15 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (5.82%) Analytics
14 10 (5.29%) AI
14 10 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (5.29%) Observability
14 10 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.76%) Python
2 22 (11.64%) Bash
2 22 (11.64%) Java
3 20 (10.58%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.23%) SQL
5 7 (3.70%) C#
6 6 (3.17%) Go
7 4 (2.12%) Bicep
8 2 (1.06%) PHP
9 1 (0.53%) Groovy
9 1 (0.53%) Perl
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.65%) Degree
5 4 (2.12%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.65%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) GDPR
2 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (16.93%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.12%) iptables
4 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (36.51%) Terraform
2 46 (24.34%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.64%) Argo
4 13 (6.88%) Ansible
5 12 (6.35%) Grafana
6 11 (5.82%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.70%) Istio
8 6 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.12%) Puppet
10 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.06%) SCCM
11 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (6.88%) Pega
2 12 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.70%) Google
3 7 (3.70%) Okta
4 6 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (3.17%) OneLogin
5 5 (2.65%) VMware
6 4 (2.12%) Confluent
7 3 (1.59%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.06%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle