Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 633 428 460
Rank change year-on-year -205 +32 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 233 581 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.69% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.76% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 174 434 486
10th Percentile £56,625 £67,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £64,063 £73,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,188
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £79,750 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.18% +3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London -86 107 £88,750 +4.41% 29
North of England +22 72 £70,576 -5.90% 11
North West -6 55 £85,000 +9.68% 7
South West -38 24 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Yorkshire +59 16 £49,500 -34.29% 3
East of England -9 8 £72,500 -12.12% 2
Midlands -30 7 £66,482 -12.81% 4
South East -45 5 £87,500 +1.45% 4
West Midlands -27 4 £65,465 -15.53% 3
East Midlands -22 3 £67,500 -10.00% 1
North East -15 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 233 (100.00%) DevOps
2 169 (72.53%) Terraform
3 158 (67.81%) AWS
4 154 (66.09%) Kubernetes
5 103 (44.21%) Containerisation
6 101 (43.35%) CI/CD
7 94 (40.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 87 (37.34%) Agile
9 84 (36.05%) Docker
10 80 (34.33%) Mentoring
11 73 (31.33%) Observability
12 72 (30.90%) Azure
12 72 (30.90%) Python
13 71 (30.47%) Prometheus
14 70 (30.04%) Public Sector
15 66 (28.33%) Test Automation
16 61 (26.18%) Amazon S3
17 58 (24.89%) GCP
17 58 (24.89%) Ansible
18 57 (24.46%) Amazon EKS
19 56 (24.03%) Linux
20 54 (23.18%) Coaching
21 52 (22.32%) IBM
22 50 (21.46%) Artificial Intelligence
22 50 (21.46%) Amazon RDS
23 49 (21.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 48 (20.60%) Jenkins
25 47 (20.17%) Secrets Management
26 46 (19.74%) Blockchain
26 46 (19.74%) Red Hat

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.29%) Drupal
1 3 (1.29%) WordPress
2 2 (0.86%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) JBoss
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 158 (67.81%) AWS
2 72 (30.90%) Azure
3 61 (26.18%) Amazon S3
4 58 (24.89%) GCP
5 57 (24.46%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (19.31%) OCI
7 44 (18.88%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (18.88%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (18.88%) Route 53
8 26 (11.16%) GitHub
9 25 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (9.01%) OpenShift
11 19 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (6.01%) Datadog
14 13 (5.58%) Power Platform
15 11 (4.72%) Serverless
16 10 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.58%) DNS
2 12 (5.15%) Firewall
3 11 (4.72%) Network Security
4 9 (3.86%) Internet
4 9 (3.86%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.43%) SNMP
5 8 (3.43%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.86%) HTTP
7 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.43%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) VSAN
7 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.46%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.15%) Power BI
4 10 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.29%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 9 (3.86%) MySQL
6 8 (3.43%) DB2
6 8 (3.43%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.43%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.29%) Big Data
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 48 (20.60%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.58%) GitLab
3 15 (6.44%) Git
4 13 (5.58%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.43%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.43%) IBM UrbanCode
6 5 (2.15%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.43%) JIRA
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (30.04%) Public Sector
2 49 (21.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (19.31%) Social Skills
4 23 (9.87%) Finance
5 18 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.01%) Banking
6 14 (6.01%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.72%) Law
9 3 (1.29%) Advertising
9 3 (1.29%) Games
9 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.86%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.58%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.72%) .NET
3 8 (3.43%) Spring
3 8 (3.43%) Spring XD
3 8 (3.43%) YAML
4 6 (2.58%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.58%) JSON
5 5 (2.15%) Node.js
5 5 (2.15%) RESTful
6 4 (1.72%) Kafka
6 4 (1.72%) XML
7 3 (1.29%) React
7 3 (1.29%) REST
8 2 (0.86%) ADO
9 1 (0.43%) CSS
9 1 (0.43%) CSS3
9 1 (0.43%) HTML
9 1 (0.43%) OAuth
9 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.74%) Blockchain
2 44 (18.88%) e-Learning
2 44 (18.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (9.44%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.86%) Clustering
4 9 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.29%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.86%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.86%) FMCG
6 2 (0.86%) Genomics
6 2 (0.86%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.86%) PropTech
7 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 56 (24.03%) Linux
2 24 (10.30%) Windows
3 5 (2.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (44.21%) Containerisation
3 101 (43.35%) CI/CD
4 94 (40.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (37.34%) Agile
6 80 (34.33%) Mentoring
7 73 (31.33%) Observability
8 66 (28.33%) Test Automation
9 54 (23.18%) Coaching
10 50 (21.46%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (20.17%) Secrets Management
12 30 (12.88%) Migration
13 26 (11.16%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (9.87%) Fintech
16 20 (8.58%) Configuration Management
17 19 (8.15%) DevSecOps
18 18 (7.73%) Technical Leadership
19 17 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
20 15 (6.44%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 72 (30.90%) Python
2 31 (13.30%) Bash
3 25 (10.73%) SQL
4 24 (10.30%) Java
5 20 (8.58%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.01%) Perl
7 9 (3.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (3.86%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.86%) Ruby
7 9 (3.86%) U-SQL
8 8 (3.43%) Go
8 8 (3.43%) Groovy
9 7 (3.00%) PHP
10 4 (1.72%) Lua
10 4 (1.72%) Tcl
11 3 (1.29%) C#
12 2 (0.86%) C
12 2 (0.86%) C++
12 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (7.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (4.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.72%) Degree
5 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.43%) GDPR
2 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (36.05%) Docker
2 12 (5.15%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 169 (72.53%) Terraform
2 154 (66.09%) Kubernetes
3 71 (30.47%) Prometheus
4 58 (24.89%) Ansible
5 35 (15.02%) Puppet
6 31 (13.30%) Grafana
7 30 (12.88%) Progress Chef
8 10 (4.29%) Nagios
9 8 (3.43%) Graphite
9 8 (3.43%) HAProxy
9 8 (3.43%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.58%) Istio
11 5 (2.15%) Argo
12 4 (1.72%) vRealize
13 2 (0.86%) Packer
14 1 (0.43%) Consul
14 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.43%) Kibana
14 1 (0.43%) Rancher
14 1 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 52 (22.32%) IBM
2 46 (19.74%) Red Hat
3 44 (18.88%) Dynatrace
4 20 (8.58%) Microsoft
5 12 (5.15%) Google
6 11 (4.72%) VMware
7 10 (4.29%) Databricks
8 8 (3.43%) Oracle
8 8 (3.43%) Sybase
9 5 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco
10 4 (1.72%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.29%) New Relic
11 3 (1.29%) Splunk
12 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.43%) F5
12 1 (0.43%) xMatters