Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 610 416 425
Rank change year-on-year -194 +9 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 250 603 1,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.72% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.79% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 185 456 568
10th Percentile £58,004 £65,000 £63,800
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,625
UK median annual salary £78,625 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +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 87,960 76,100 137,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.25% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 64,459 49,772 75,750
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,255 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,688 £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
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 -102 122 £82,500 -2.94% 35
North of England +6 71 £70,576 -5.90% 12
North West -12 55 £85,000 +9.68% 8
South West -46 24 £80,000 +3.23% 9
Yorkshire +63 15 £49,500 -34.29% 3
East of England -22 8 £72,500 -9.38% 1
Midlands -40 8 £67,500 -5.26% 8
South East -38 7 £80,000 -5.88% 2
West Midlands -49 5 £77,732 +11.05% 6
East Midlands -26 3 £67,500 -10.00% 2
North East -22 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 250 (100.00%) DevOps
2 176 (70.40%) Terraform
3 164 (65.60%) Kubernetes
4 162 (64.80%) AWS
5 114 (45.60%) Containerisation
6 112 (44.80%) CI/CD
7 100 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 94 (37.60%) Agile
9 93 (37.20%) Docker
10 81 (32.40%) Azure
11 79 (31.60%) Mentoring
12 78 (31.20%) Public Sector
13 74 (29.60%) Observability
14 72 (28.80%) Python
15 71 (28.40%) Prometheus
16 66 (26.40%) Test Automation
17 62 (24.80%) Amazon S3
18 57 (22.80%) Linux
18 57 (22.80%) Amazon EKS
19 56 (22.40%) Ansible
20 55 (22.00%) GCP
21 54 (21.60%) Coaching
22 52 (20.80%) Social Skills
23 50 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 50 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
23 50 (20.00%) IBM
23 50 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
24 48 (19.20%) Jenkins
25 47 (18.80%) Secrets Management
26 46 (18.40%) Blockchain

Senior DevOps 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 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.20%) Drupal
1 3 (1.20%) WordPress
2 2 (0.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
3 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 162 (64.80%) AWS
2 81 (32.40%) Azure
3 62 (24.80%) Amazon S3
4 57 (22.80%) Amazon EKS
5 55 (22.00%) GCP
6 45 (18.00%) OCI
7 44 (17.60%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (17.60%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (17.60%) Route 53
8 34 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (10.80%) GitHub
10 19 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (7.60%) OpenShift
11 17 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (5.60%) Datadog
13 13 (5.20%) Power Platform
13 13 (5.20%) Serverless
14 10 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.20%) DNS
2 12 (4.80%) Firewall
3 11 (4.40%) Network Security
4 9 (3.60%) Internet
4 9 (3.60%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.20%) SNMP
5 8 (3.20%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.80%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) VSAN
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.20%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.80%) Power BI
4 10 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (4.00%) MySQL
5 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (3.20%) DB2
6 8 (3.20%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 48 (19.20%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.00%) GitLab
3 14 (5.60%) CircleCI
3 14 (5.60%) Git
4 7 (2.80%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.40%) IBM UrbanCode
6 5 (2.00%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) JIRA
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (31.20%) Public Sector
2 52 (20.80%) Social Skills
3 50 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (11.60%) Finance
5 18 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.60%) Tech for Good
7 11 (4.40%) Banking
8 9 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.40%) Retail
11 4 (1.60%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.60%) Law
12 3 (1.20%) Advertising
12 3 (1.20%) Games
12 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.40%) Legal
14 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.40%) .NET
3 9 (3.60%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.20%) Spring
4 8 (3.20%) Spring XD
4 8 (3.20%) YAML
5 6 (2.40%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.40%) JSON
5 6 (2.40%) Node.js
6 5 (2.00%) RESTful
7 4 (1.60%) Kafka
7 4 (1.60%) React
7 4 (1.60%) XML
8 3 (1.20%) REST
9 2 (0.80%) ADO
10 1 (0.40%) CSS
10 1 (0.40%) HTML
10 1 (0.40%) HTML5
10 1 (0.40%) OpenID
10 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.40%) Blockchain
2 44 (17.60%) e-Learning
2 44 (17.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (8.80%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.60%) Clustering
4 9 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.80%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.80%) FMCG
7 2 (0.80%) Genomics
7 2 (0.80%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.80%) PropTech
8 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.80%) Linux
2 22 (8.80%) Windows
3 5 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (45.60%) Containerisation
3 112 (44.80%) CI/CD
4 100 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (37.60%) Agile
6 79 (31.60%) Mentoring
7 74 (29.60%) Observability
8 66 (26.40%) Test Automation
9 54 (21.60%) Coaching
10 50 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (18.80%) Secrets Management
12 33 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (12.00%) Migration
14 27 (10.80%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.20%) Fintech
16 21 (8.40%) DevSecOps
17 20 (8.00%) Configuration Management
18 16 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
18 16 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (28.80%) Python
2 30 (12.00%) Bash
3 26 (10.40%) Java
4 24 (9.60%) SQL
5 20 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.60%) Perl
7 9 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.60%) Ruby
7 9 (3.60%) U-SQL
8 8 (3.20%) Go
9 7 (2.80%) PHP
10 6 (2.40%) Groovy
11 4 (1.60%) Lua
11 4 (1.60%) Tcl
12 3 (1.20%) C#
12 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.80%) Bicep
13 2 (0.80%) C
13 2 (0.80%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (9.60%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.60%) Degree
7 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.40%) GDPR
2 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (37.20%) Docker
2 12 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.20%) KVM
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 176 (70.40%) Terraform
2 164 (65.60%) Kubernetes
3 71 (28.40%) Prometheus
4 56 (22.40%) Ansible
5 34 (13.60%) Puppet
6 31 (12.40%) Grafana
7 28 (11.20%) Progress Chef
8 10 (4.00%) Nagios
9 8 (3.20%) Graphite
9 8 (3.20%) HAProxy
9 8 (3.20%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.40%) Consul
10 6 (2.40%) Istio
11 5 (2.00%) Argo
12 4 (1.60%) vRealize
13 2 (0.80%) Packer
14 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.40%) Kibana
14 1 (0.40%) Rancher
14 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 50 (20.00%) IBM
2 46 (18.40%) Red Hat
3 44 (17.60%) Dynatrace
4 20 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.40%) Google
5 11 (4.40%) VMware
6 10 (4.00%) Databricks
7 9 (3.60%) Oracle
8 8 (3.20%) Sybase
9 5 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.60%) Cisco
10 4 (1.60%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.20%) New Relic
11 3 (1.20%) Splunk
12 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.40%) F5
12 1 (0.40%) xMatters