Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 633 513 574
Rank change year-on-year -120 +61 -176
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 125 230 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.41% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 81 139 221
10th Percentile £48,250 £63,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £68,770 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% - +19.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £79,875 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.03% +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 72,584 50,145 71,219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.91% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,010 29,573 42,922
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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +15 71 £70,576 -5.90% 12
North West -13 55 £85,000 +9.68% 8
South West -38 24 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Yorkshire +58 15 £49,500 -34.29% 3
East of England -16 8 £72,500 -12.12% 2
Midlands -36 7 £66,482 -12.81% 4
Scotland -81 7 £72,500 -17.14% 2
South East -23 5 £87,500 +1.45% 3
West Midlands -18 4 £65,465 -15.53% 3
East Midlands -16 3 £67,500 -10.00% 1
Wales -2 2 £70,576 -8.93%
Northern Ireland +10 1 £70,000 - 4
North East -18 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 92 (73.60%) AWS
3 91 (72.80%) Terraform
4 83 (66.40%) Kubernetes
5 66 (52.80%) Mentoring
6 62 (49.60%) Containerisation
7 61 (48.80%) Agile
8 55 (44.00%) Prometheus
9 54 (43.20%) Public Sector
10 51 (40.80%) Observability
11 47 (37.60%) IBM
12 46 (36.80%) Test Automation
13 43 (34.40%) Coaching
14 41 (32.80%) Linux
14 41 (32.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 41 (32.80%) CI/CD
15 40 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 40 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (32.00%) Artificial Intelligence
16 39 (31.20%) GCP
17 38 (30.40%) Amazon RDS
17 38 (30.40%) Amazon S3
17 38 (30.40%) Secrets Management
18 37 (29.60%) OCI
18 37 (29.60%) Docker
19 36 (28.80%) Hybrid Cloud
19 36 (28.80%) Route 53
19 36 (28.80%) e-Learning
19 36 (28.80%) Red Hat
19 36 (28.80%) Amazon ECR

Senior DevOps Engineer 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 (0.80%) Apache
1 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 92 (73.60%) AWS
2 40 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
3 39 (31.20%) GCP
4 38 (30.40%) Amazon S3
5 37 (29.60%) OCI
6 36 (28.80%) Amazon ECR
6 36 (28.80%) IBM Cloud
6 36 (28.80%) Route 53
7 29 (23.20%) Azure
8 20 (16.00%) GitHub
9 14 (11.20%) OpenShift
10 13 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (9.60%) Datadog
12 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.40%) IaaS
14 3 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) DNS
1 4 (3.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.80%) Network Security
2 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.80%) VSAN
2 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.40%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.40%) Big Data
3 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.80%) Flink
3 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.80%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.60%) GitLab
2 11 (8.80%) CircleCI
2 11 (8.80%) IBM UrbanCode
3 10 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.20%) Git
5 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (43.20%) Public Sector
2 41 (32.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Finance
4 13 (10.40%) Tech for Good
5 12 (9.60%) Banking
5 12 (9.60%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.20%) Law
7 3 (2.40%) Advertising
7 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.60%) Games
8 2 (1.60%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.20%) JSON
1 4 (3.20%) RESTful
1 4 (3.20%) XML
2 3 (2.40%) Node.js
3 2 (1.60%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.80%) .NET
4 1 (0.80%) Kafka
4 1 (0.80%) Next.js
4 1 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.80%) Blockchain
1 36 (28.80%) e-Learning
1 36 (28.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (19.20%) Public Cloud
3 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.60%) FMCG
5 2 (1.60%) Genomics
6 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 41 (32.80%) Linux
2 17 (13.60%) Windows
3 4 (3.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (52.80%) Mentoring
3 62 (49.60%) Containerisation
4 61 (48.80%) Agile
5 51 (40.80%) Observability
6 46 (36.80%) Test Automation
7 43 (34.40%) Coaching
8 41 (32.80%) CI/CD
9 40 (32.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 40 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (30.40%) Secrets Management
11 13 (10.40%) Software Delivery
12 11 (8.80%) Customer Service
12 11 (8.80%) ITIL
12 11 (8.80%) Problem Management
12 11 (8.80%) Service Management
12 11 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (8.00%) Open Source
14 9 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.80%) Python
2 11 (8.80%) Groovy
2 11 (8.80%) SQL
3 8 (6.40%) Bash
3 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.20%) Lua
4 4 (3.20%) Perl
4 4 (3.20%) PHP
4 4 (3.20%) Ruby
4 4 (3.20%) Tcl
5 3 (2.40%) Java
5 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.80%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (4.80%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.20%) Degree
2 4 (3.20%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (29.60%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.40%) KVM
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 91 (72.80%) Terraform
2 83 (66.40%) Kubernetes
3 55 (44.00%) Prometheus
4 30 (24.00%) Ansible
5 24 (19.20%) Progress Chef
6 15 (12.00%) Grafana
7 13 (10.40%) Puppet
8 4 (3.20%) Istio
8 4 (3.20%) vRealize
9 2 (1.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (37.60%) IBM
2 36 (28.80%) Dynatrace
2 36 (28.80%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.80%) Google
4 10 (8.00%) VMware
5 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.20%) Cisco
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.20%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.80%) F5