Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 638 447
Rank change year-on-year +47 -191 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 99 269 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.27% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.29% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 78 207 477
10th Percentile £60,686 £58,256 £67,500
25th Percentile £67,188 £66,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £105,313 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,875 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,576 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% -11.78% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

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 9 May 2025. 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 +19 90 £85,000 +6.25% 88
UK excluding London +111 53 £72,500 +2.73% 64
Work from Home +81 46 £85,000 +15.25% 55
London +42 42 £102,500 +13.89% 50
South West +104 14 £64,627 -19.22% 6
South East +99 10 £82,500 -5.71% 24
East of England +39 10 £65,000 -10.34% 4
North of England -9 9 £72,435 +2.63% 11
Yorkshire +54 8 £72,435 +2.63% 6
Scotland +124 6 £71,991 +0.63% 2
Midlands +60 4 £82,500 +24.09% 7
West Midlands +57 2 £82,500 +26.02% 7
East Midlands +44 2 - -
North West -38 1 - - 5

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 60 (60.61%) Terraform
4 58 (58.59%) AWS
5 47 (47.47%) Kubernetes
6 45 (45.45%) Finance
7 39 (39.39%) Docker
8 34 (34.34%) Python
9 33 (33.33%) Agile
9 33 (33.33%) Azure
9 33 (33.33%) Ansible
9 33 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (30.30%) Mentoring
11 27 (27.27%) Banking
12 23 (23.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (18.18%) Jenkins
15 17 (17.17%) IBM
16 16 (16.16%) JavaScript
16 16 (16.16%) GitHub
16 16 (16.16%) GCP
16 16 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (16.16%) Social Skills
17 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
18 14 (14.14%) JIRA
18 14 (14.14%) High Availability
18 14 (14.14%) Serverless
18 14 (14.14%) Containerisation
19 13 (13.13%) Amazon EKS
19 13 (13.13%) AWS Lambda

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.08%) Confluence
2 7 (7.07%) nginx
3 6 (6.06%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.01%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 58 (58.59%) AWS
2 33 (33.33%) Azure
3 19 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (16.16%) GCP
4 16 (16.16%) GitHub
5 14 (14.14%) Serverless
6 13 (13.13%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.10%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (7.07%) SaaS
12 4 (4.04%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.04%) CloudFront
12 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (3.03%) IaaS
13 3 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) DNS
1 6 (6.06%) Firewall
1 6 (6.06%) HTTPS
1 6 (6.06%) IPsec
1 6 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.04%) HTTP
3 3 (3.03%) VPN
4 2 (2.02%) LAN
4 2 (2.02%) Network Security
4 2 (2.02%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.02%) WAN
5 1 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (7.07%) MySQL
3 7 (7.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.06%) Couchbase
4 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.01%) DB2
7 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.01%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.01%) Power BI
7 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.14%) JIRA
3 8 (8.08%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.06%) GitLab
5 4 (4.04%) Git
5 4 (4.04%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (3.03%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.03%) Selenium
6 3 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.01%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.01%) TestRail
General
1 45 (45.45%) Finance
2 27 (27.27%) Banking
3 16 (16.16%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.11%) Front Office
5 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.04%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.01%) Automotive
9 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.01%) Games
9 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (7.07%) YAML
2 6 (6.06%) Kafka
2 6 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.03%) AWS SAM
3 3 (3.03%) Django
3 3 (3.03%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.03%) Flask
3 3 (3.03%) Playwright
4 2 (2.02%) .NET
4 2 (2.02%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.01%) JSON
5 1 (1.01%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.01%) Node.js
5 1 (1.01%) NumPy
5 1 (1.01%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.01%) Pandas
5 1 (1.01%) React
5 1 (1.01%) RESTful
5 1 (1.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.07%) e-Learning
3 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.04%) Mainframe
4 4 (4.04%) PKI
4 4 (4.04%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.01%) Life Science
6 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Linux
2 5 (5.05%) Unix
3 3 (3.03%) Windows
4 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.01%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 33 (33.33%) Agile
3 33 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (30.30%) Mentoring
5 23 (23.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.14%) Containerisation
7 14 (14.14%) High Availability
8 13 (13.13%) Software Delivery
8 13 (13.13%) Software Engineering
9 12 (12.12%) Coaching
9 12 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.12%) E-Commerce
10 11 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (11.11%) Fintech
11 9 (9.09%) Asset Management
11 9 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
12 8 (8.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.34%) Python
2 16 (16.16%) JavaScript
3 13 (13.13%) Go
4 10 (10.10%) Bash
4 10 (10.10%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.07%) PHP
6 5 (5.05%) Ruby
7 4 (4.04%) Java
8 3 (3.03%) Groovy
9 2 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.01%) JCL
10 1 (1.01%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.03%) OCP
5 3 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (39.39%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.01%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (60.61%) Terraform
2 47 (47.47%) Kubernetes
3 33 (33.33%) Ansible
4 10 (10.10%) Grafana
4 10 (10.10%) Progress Chef
5 6 (6.06%) Istio
5 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.05%) Argo
7 2 (2.02%) Puppet
8 1 (1.01%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (1.01%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.01%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.01%) Kibana
8 1 (1.01%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.01%) logstash
8 1 (1.01%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.01%) Packer
8 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (17.17%) IBM
2 7 (7.07%) Red Hat
2 7 (7.07%) VMware
3 4 (4.04%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) Splunk
4 3 (3.03%) Confluent
4 3 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.02%) Snow
6 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.01%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.01%) Imperva
6 1 (1.01%) Meraki
6 1 (1.01%) Okta
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle