Senior DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 647 482 553
Rank change year-on-year -165 +71 -153
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 132 246 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.44% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.50% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 88 156 247
10th Percentile £48,250 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,656 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +11 70 £70,576 -5.90% 12
North West -6 56 £85,000 +9.68% 8
South West -41 25 £80,000 +3.23% 7
Yorkshire +53 13 £49,500 -26.70% 3
Scotland -69 12 £78,750 -10.00% 1
East of England -18 8 £72,500 -9.38% 1
Midlands -60 8 £67,500 -6.90% 10
South East -42 7 £80,000 -5.88% 2
West Midlands -35 5 £77,732 +9.10% 6
East Midlands -37 3 £67,500 -10.00% 4
Northern Ireland +11 1 £70,000 - 4
Wales +1 1 £70,576 -8.93% 3
North East -20 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior DevOps 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 132 (100.00%) DevOps
2 96 (72.73%) AWS
3 86 (65.15%) Terraform
4 83 (62.88%) Kubernetes
5 63 (47.73%) Containerisation
6 60 (45.45%) Mentoring
7 55 (41.67%) Prometheus
7 55 (41.67%) Agile
8 54 (40.91%) Public Sector
9 51 (38.64%) Observability
10 50 (37.88%) CI/CD
11 46 (34.85%) Test Automation
12 43 (32.58%) Coaching
13 41 (31.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (31.06%) IBM
14 40 (30.30%) Artificial Intelligence
14 40 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (29.55%) Amazon S3
16 38 (28.79%) Amazon RDS
16 38 (28.79%) Secrets Management
17 37 (28.03%) OCI
17 37 (28.03%) Docker
17 37 (28.03%) Linux
18 36 (27.27%) Red Hat
18 36 (27.27%) e-Learning
18 36 (27.27%) Route 53
18 36 (27.27%) Amazon ECR
18 36 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
18 36 (27.27%) Blockchain
18 36 (27.27%) Dynatrace

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (0.76%) Apache
1 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 96 (72.73%) AWS
2 40 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
3 39 (29.55%) Amazon S3
4 37 (28.03%) OCI
5 36 (27.27%) Amazon ECR
5 36 (27.27%) IBM Cloud
5 36 (27.27%) Route 53
6 33 (25.00%) GCP
7 24 (18.18%) Azure
8 21 (15.91%) GitHub
9 14 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (9.09%) Datadog
11 8 (6.06%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (3.03%) Serverless
15 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (2.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) DNS
1 4 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.76%) VSAN
2 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (28.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.76%) Flink
3 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) CircleCI
1 12 (9.09%) GitLab
2 10 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.79%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (3.03%) Git
5 1 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 41 (31.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (15.91%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.85%) Tech for Good
5 10 (7.58%) Finance
6 7 (5.30%) Banking
7 6 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.03%) Law
9 3 (2.27%) Advertising
9 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.52%) Games
10 2 (1.52%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.03%) JSON
1 4 (3.03%) Node.js
1 4 (3.03%) RESTful
1 4 (3.03%) XML
2 2 (1.52%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.76%) .NET
3 1 (0.76%) Kafka
3 1 (0.76%) Next.js
3 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.27%) Blockchain
1 36 (27.27%) e-Learning
1 36 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (15.15%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.52%) FMCG
5 2 (1.52%) Genomics
6 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.03%) Linux
2 11 (8.33%) Windows
3 4 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (47.73%) Containerisation
3 60 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 55 (41.67%) Agile
5 51 (38.64%) Observability
6 50 (37.88%) CI/CD
7 46 (34.85%) Test Automation
8 43 (32.58%) Coaching
9 40 (30.30%) Artificial Intelligence
10 38 (28.79%) Secrets Management
11 34 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (10.61%) DevSecOps
12 14 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (7.58%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (7.58%) Open Source
14 9 (6.82%) Configuration Management
14 9 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (6.82%) Roadmaps
15 7 (5.30%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (5.30%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.67%) Python
2 8 (6.06%) Bash
2 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.79%) Groovy
3 5 (3.79%) Java
3 5 (3.79%) SQL
4 4 (3.03%) Lua
4 4 (3.03%) Perl
4 4 (3.03%) PHP
4 4 (3.03%) Ruby
4 4 (3.03%) Tcl
5 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.76%) Go
6 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.03%) Degree
2 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (28.03%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 86 (65.15%) Terraform
2 83 (62.88%) Kubernetes
3 55 (41.67%) Prometheus
4 24 (18.18%) Ansible
5 18 (13.64%) Progress Chef
6 15 (11.36%) Grafana
7 13 (9.85%) Puppet
8 4 (3.03%) Istio
8 4 (3.03%) vRealize
9 2 (1.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 41 (31.06%) IBM
2 36 (27.27%) Dynatrace
2 36 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 10 (7.58%) VMware
4 5 (3.79%) Google
4 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.03%) Cisco
5 4 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.03%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.76%) F5