Senior DevOps Jobs

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £80,000 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 643 442 422
Rank change year-on-year -201 -20 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 289 670 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.72% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.79% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 221 489 617
10th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
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 within the UK 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
England -189 251 £80,000 -5.88% 60
UK excluding London -165 132 £77,500 - 40
London -119 123 £83,750 -1.47% 29
Work from Home -101 100 £75,000 -9.09% 39
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 289 (100.00%) DevOps
2 195 (67.47%) Terraform
3 181 (62.63%) AWS
4 173 (59.86%) Kubernetes
5 139 (48.10%) CI/CD
6 123 (42.56%) Containerisation
7 114 (39.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 106 (36.68%) Agile
9 99 (34.26%) Docker
10 97 (33.56%) Azure
11 85 (29.41%) Python
12 84 (29.07%) Mentoring
13 79 (27.34%) Public Sector
14 74 (25.61%) Observability
15 70 (24.22%) Prometheus
16 67 (23.18%) Linux
17 66 (22.84%) Test Automation
18 64 (22.15%) Amazon S3
18 64 (22.15%) Ansible
19 61 (21.11%) GCP
20 60 (20.76%) Coaching
21 59 (20.42%) Amazon EKS
22 56 (19.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 52 (17.99%) Social Skills
24 51 (17.65%) Jenkins
24 51 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
25 50 (17.30%) Amazon RDS
26 49 (16.96%) IBM
27 48 (16.61%) Secrets Management
28 46 (15.92%) Blockchain

Senior DevOps 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 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.04%) Apache
2 3 (1.04%) nginx
3 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.69%) Drupal
3 2 (0.69%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.69%) WordPress
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 181 (62.63%) AWS
2 97 (33.56%) Azure
3 64 (22.15%) Amazon S3
4 61 (21.11%) GCP
5 59 (20.42%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (15.57%) OCI
7 44 (15.22%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (15.22%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (15.22%) Route 53
8 38 (13.15%) GitHub
9 22 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (7.27%) Serverless
11 20 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.23%) OpenShift
13 15 (5.19%) Datadog
13 15 (5.19%) IaaS
14 14 (4.84%) PaaS
15 13 (4.50%) Power Platform
16 11 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.54%) Firewall
2 13 (4.50%) DNS
3 11 (3.81%) Internet
3 11 (3.81%) Network Security
4 9 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.77%) SNMP
5 8 (2.77%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.38%) IPv4
6 4 (1.38%) VPN
7 2 (0.69%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.30%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (6.23%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.15%) Power BI
4 11 (3.81%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.46%) MySQL
6 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (2.77%) DB2
7 8 (2.77%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.77%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.38%) Big Data
10 3 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.69%) Flink
12 1 (0.35%) Presto
Development Applications
1 51 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.92%) GitLab
3 14 (4.84%) CircleCI
3 14 (4.84%) Git
4 7 (2.42%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.73%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (1.73%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 79 (27.34%) Public Sector
2 56 (19.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 52 (17.99%) Social Skills
4 33 (11.42%) Finance
5 19 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.84%) Tech for Good
7 11 (3.81%) Banking
8 9 (3.11%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.77%) Retail
10 6 (2.08%) Legal
10 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.38%) Games
11 4 (1.38%) Law
12 3 (1.04%) Advertising
12 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.35%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (4.50%) Node.js
2 12 (4.15%) ARM Templates
3 11 (3.81%) .NET
4 8 (2.77%) Spring
4 8 (2.77%) Spring XD
4 8 (2.77%) YAML
5 7 (2.42%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.08%) JSON
6 6 (2.08%) Kafka
7 5 (1.73%) RESTful
7 5 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (1.38%) React
8 4 (1.38%) XML
9 3 (1.04%) REST
10 2 (0.69%) ADO
11 1 (0.35%) CSS
11 1 (0.35%) HTML
11 1 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.92%) Blockchain
2 44 (15.22%) e-Learning
2 44 (15.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (7.96%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.11%) Clustering
5 9 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.38%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.69%) FMCG
9 2 (0.69%) Genomics
9 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.69%) PropTech
10 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.18%) Linux
2 21 (7.27%) Windows
3 7 (2.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (100.00%) DevOps
2 139 (48.10%) CI/CD
3 123 (42.56%) Containerisation
4 114 (39.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (36.68%) Agile
6 84 (29.07%) Mentoring
7 74 (25.61%) Observability
8 66 (22.84%) Test Automation
9 60 (20.76%) Coaching
10 51 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (16.61%) Secrets Management
12 36 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (10.38%) Migration
15 29 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (9.69%) DevSecOps
17 23 (7.96%) Fintech
18 22 (7.61%) Continuous Integration
19 21 (7.27%) Open Source
20 20 (6.92%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (29.41%) Python
2 38 (13.15%) Bash
3 30 (10.38%) Java
4 26 (9.00%) PowerShell
4 26 (9.00%) SQL
5 15 (5.19%) Go
6 14 (4.84%) Perl
6 14 (4.84%) Ruby
7 9 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (3.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.11%) U-SQL
8 6 (2.08%) PHP
9 5 (1.73%) Bicep
9 5 (1.73%) Groovy
10 4 (1.38%) Lua
10 4 (1.38%) Tcl
11 3 (1.04%) C#
11 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (7.96%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.81%) Degree
4 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.73%) GDPR
2 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (34.26%) Docker
2 12 (4.15%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.04%) KVM
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 195 (67.47%) Terraform
2 173 (59.86%) Kubernetes
3 70 (24.22%) Prometheus
4 64 (22.15%) Ansible
5 35 (12.11%) Puppet
6 30 (10.38%) Grafana
7 29 (10.03%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.46%) Nagios
9 8 (2.77%) Consul
9 8 (2.77%) Graphite
9 8 (2.77%) HAProxy
9 8 (2.77%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.08%) Argo
10 6 (2.08%) Istio
11 4 (1.38%) vRealize
12 3 (1.04%) Packer
13 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.35%) Rancher
13 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (16.96%) IBM
2 46 (15.92%) Red Hat
3 44 (15.22%) Dynatrace
4 27 (9.34%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.81%) VMware
6 10 (3.46%) Databricks
6 10 (3.46%) Google
7 9 (3.11%) Oracle
8 8 (2.77%) Sybase
9 5 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.38%) Cisco
10 4 (1.38%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.38%) Splunk
11 3 (1.04%) New Relic
12 2 (0.69%) Remedy
13 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.35%) F5
13 1 (0.35%) xMatters