Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £78,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 634 449 472
Rank change year-on-year -185 +23 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 265 676 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.68% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.74% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 206 481 502
10th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £63,938 £73,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.78% +6.67% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 17 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 18 May 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
England -172 228 £80,000 -5.88% 47
UK excluding London -124 127 £70,576 -11.78% 33
Work from Home -83 108 £72,500 -14.71% 41
London -110 105 £88,750 +4.41% 25
North of England +39 72 £70,576 -5.90% 9
North West +1 55 £85,000 +6.25% 6
South West -36 23 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +79 16 £68,020 +0.77% 2
Scotland -69 8 £71,538 -18.24% 3
East of England -7 7 £70,000 -15.15% 1
Midlands -26 7 £66,482 -14.22% 5
South East -36 5 £87,500 -1.41% 8
Wales 0 4 £70,576 -8.93%
West Midlands 0 4 £65,465 -15.53% 5
East Midlands -13 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Northern Ireland +12 1 £70,000 - 2
North East -11 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 194 (73.21%) Terraform
3 170 (64.15%) AWS
4 158 (59.62%) Kubernetes
5 118 (44.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (44.15%) CI/CD
7 110 (41.51%) Agile
8 109 (41.13%) Containerisation
9 97 (36.60%) Azure
10 92 (34.72%) Mentoring
11 88 (33.21%) Docker
12 87 (32.83%) Python
13 80 (30.19%) Linux
14 77 (29.06%) Ansible
15 72 (27.17%) GCP
16 71 (26.79%) Observability
16 71 (26.79%) Prometheus
17 68 (25.66%) Public Sector
18 64 (24.15%) Test Automation
19 62 (23.40%) Amazon S3
20 61 (23.02%) Coaching
20 61 (23.02%) IBM
21 59 (22.26%) Amazon EKS
22 55 (20.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 54 (20.38%) Social Skills
24 52 (19.62%) Jenkins
25 51 (19.25%) Artificial Intelligence
26 49 (18.49%) Amazon RDS
27 48 (18.11%) Secrets Management
28 47 (17.74%) Blockchain

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 4 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.13%) Apache
2 3 (1.13%) Drupal
2 3 (1.13%) WordPress
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 170 (64.15%) AWS
2 97 (36.60%) Azure
3 72 (27.17%) GCP
4 62 (23.40%) Amazon S3
5 59 (22.26%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (16.98%) OCI
7 44 (16.60%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (16.60%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (16.60%) Route 53
8 36 (13.58%) GitHub
9 35 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (11.32%) OpenShift
11 20 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (6.04%) Serverless
13 15 (5.66%) Datadog
14 14 (5.28%) IaaS
15 13 (4.91%) PaaS
16 12 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (4.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.42%) Firewall
2 15 (5.66%) DNS
3 13 (4.91%) Internet
4 11 (4.15%) Network Security
4 11 (4.15%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.40%) SNMP
5 9 (3.40%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.51%) IPv4
6 4 (1.51%) VPN
7 2 (0.75%) HTTP
8 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.38%) SSL
8 1 (0.38%) VSAN
8 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.49%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (7.55%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.53%) Power BI
4 11 (4.15%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.77%) MySQL
6 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 9 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.02%) DB2
7 8 (3.02%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.51%) Big Data
10 2 (0.75%) Flink
10 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.38%) Apache Pinot
11 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (19.62%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.17%) GitLab
3 17 (6.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (4.91%) Git
5 11 (4.15%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.02%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.51%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.38%) JIRA
9 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 68 (25.66%) Public Sector
2 55 (20.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (20.38%) Social Skills
4 34 (12.83%) Finance
5 23 (8.68%) Banking
6 21 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (5.28%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.77%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
11 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.51%) Games
11 4 (1.51%) Law
12 3 (1.13%) Advertising
12 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.53%) .NET
2 12 (4.53%) Node.js
3 9 (3.40%) YAML
4 8 (3.02%) Spring
4 8 (3.02%) Spring XD
5 7 (2.64%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.26%) JSON
6 6 (2.26%) Kafka
7 5 (1.89%) RESTful
7 5 (1.89%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (1.51%) XML
9 3 (1.13%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.13%) React
9 3 (1.13%) REST
10 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.75%) ADO
11 1 (0.38%) CSS
11 1 (0.38%) OAuth
11 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.74%) Blockchain
2 44 (16.60%) e-Learning
2 44 (16.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (11.70%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.40%) Clustering
4 9 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.51%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.51%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.75%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.75%) Genomics
9 2 (0.75%) PropTech
10 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (30.19%) Linux
2 34 (12.83%) Windows
3 7 (2.64%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (44.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 117 (44.15%) CI/CD
4 110 (41.51%) Agile
5 109 (41.13%) Containerisation
6 92 (34.72%) Mentoring
7 71 (26.79%) Observability
8 64 (24.15%) Test Automation
9 61 (23.02%) Coaching
10 51 (19.25%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (18.11%) Secrets Management
12 30 (11.32%) Migration
12 30 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (8.68%) ITIL
15 22 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (8.30%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (8.30%) Fintech
16 21 (7.92%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 87 (32.83%) Python
2 38 (14.34%) Bash
2 38 (14.34%) SQL
3 28 (10.57%) Java
4 26 (9.81%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.42%) Groovy
6 15 (5.66%) Go
6 15 (5.66%) Perl
7 14 (5.28%) Ruby
8 9 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.40%) U-SQL
9 8 (3.02%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.64%) PHP
11 4 (1.51%) Bicep
11 4 (1.51%) C#
11 4 (1.51%) Lua
11 4 (1.51%) Tcl
12 2 (0.75%) C
12 2 (0.75%) C++
12 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.15%) Degree
3 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.26%) GDPR
2 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (33.21%) Docker
2 13 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.13%) KVM
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 194 (73.21%) Terraform
2 158 (59.62%) Kubernetes
3 77 (29.06%) Ansible
4 71 (26.79%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.85%) Progress Chef
6 38 (14.34%) Puppet
7 32 (12.08%) Grafana
8 11 (4.15%) Nagios
9 9 (3.40%) Graphite
9 9 (3.40%) HAProxy
9 9 (3.40%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.26%) Argo
10 6 (2.26%) Istio
11 4 (1.51%) vRealize
12 3 (1.13%) Packer
13 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) Kibana
13 1 (0.38%) Podman
13 1 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (23.02%) IBM
2 46 (17.36%) Red Hat
3 44 (16.60%) Dynatrace
4 26 (9.81%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.92%) Google
6 10 (3.77%) Databricks
6 10 (3.77%) VMware
7 8 (3.02%) Oracle
7 8 (3.02%) Sybase
8 4 (1.51%) Cisco
8 4 (1.51%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.51%) Splunk
9 3 (1.13%) New Relic
10 2 (0.75%) Remedy
11 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.38%) F5
11 1 (0.38%) xMatters