Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 443 450
Rank change year-on-year -207 +7 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 271 662 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.74% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 211 467 521
10th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £64,750 £73,750 £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 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £77,500 £76,000
% change year-on-year -8.93% +1.97% +16.92%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 28 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 28 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 -175 235 £79,875 -6.03% 50
UK excluding London -109 130 £70,576 -8.93% 34
Work from Home -76 113 £75,000 -11.76% 36
London -89 107 £87,500 +2.94% 23
North of England +37 74 £70,576 -5.90% 14
North West +3 56 £82,500 +6.45% 10
South West -38 24 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +76 17 £65,465 -13.10% 2
East of England -12 8 £72,500 -12.12% 2
Scotland -63 8 £71,538 -18.24% 3
Midlands -23 7 £66,482 -12.81% 3
South East -34 5 £87,500 - 3
West Midlands -3 4 £65,465 -15.53% 3
Wales -6 3 £70,576 -8.93%
East Midlands -20 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Northern Ireland +11 1 £70,000 - 4
North East -11 1 £65,465 -9.70% 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 271 (100.00%) DevOps
2 198 (73.06%) Terraform
3 175 (64.58%) AWS
4 163 (60.15%) Kubernetes
5 121 (44.65%) CI/CD
6 119 (43.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 111 (40.96%) Containerisation
8 110 (40.59%) Agile
9 99 (36.53%) Azure
10 94 (34.69%) Mentoring
11 90 (33.21%) Docker
12 88 (32.47%) Python
13 78 (28.78%) Linux
14 77 (28.41%) Ansible
15 74 (27.31%) GCP
16 73 (26.94%) Observability
17 71 (26.20%) Prometheus
18 70 (25.83%) Public Sector
19 66 (24.35%) Test Automation
20 64 (23.62%) Amazon S3
21 61 (22.51%) IBM
22 60 (22.14%) Coaching
23 59 (21.77%) Amazon EKS
24 56 (20.66%) Social Skills
25 55 (20.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 53 (19.56%) Jenkins
27 51 (18.82%) Artificial Intelligence
28 50 (18.45%) Amazon RDS
29 48 (17.71%) Secrets Management
30 46 (16.97%) 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 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.11%) Apache
2 3 (1.11%) Drupal
2 3 (1.11%) nginx
2 3 (1.11%) WordPress
3 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 175 (64.58%) AWS
2 99 (36.53%) Azure
3 74 (27.31%) GCP
4 64 (23.62%) Amazon S3
5 59 (21.77%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (16.61%) OCI
7 44 (16.24%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (16.24%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (16.24%) Route 53
8 36 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (13.28%) GitHub
9 30 (11.07%) OpenShift
10 20 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (6.64%) Serverless
12 15 (5.54%) Datadog
12 15 (5.54%) IaaS
13 14 (5.17%) PaaS
14 13 (4.80%) Power Platform
15 11 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.27%) Firewall
2 14 (5.17%) DNS
3 12 (4.43%) Internet
4 11 (4.06%) Network Security
5 10 (3.69%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.32%) SNMP
6 9 (3.32%) tcpdump
7 4 (1.48%) IPv4
7 4 (1.48%) VPN
8 2 (0.74%) HTTP
9 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.37%) SSL
9 1 (0.37%) VSAN
9 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.45%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (7.01%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.43%) Power BI
4 11 (4.06%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.69%) MySQL
6 9 (3.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (2.95%) DB2
7 8 (2.95%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.48%) Big Data
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.74%) Flink
11 1 (0.37%) Presto
Development Applications
1 53 (19.56%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.75%) GitLab
3 17 (6.27%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (5.54%) Git
5 12 (4.43%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.95%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.37%) JIRA
9 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (25.83%) Public Sector
2 56 (20.66%) Social Skills
3 55 (20.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (12.55%) Finance
5 23 (8.49%) Banking
6 21 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.64%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (5.17%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.69%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.21%) Legal
11 4 (1.48%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.48%) Games
11 4 (1.48%) Law
12 3 (1.11%) Advertising
12 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.43%) Node.js
3 11 (4.06%) .NET
4 9 (3.32%) YAML
5 8 (2.95%) Spring
5 8 (2.95%) Spring XD
6 7 (2.58%) AWS CDK
7 6 (2.21%) JSON
7 6 (2.21%) Kafka
8 5 (1.85%) RESTful
8 5 (1.85%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.48%) XML
10 3 (1.11%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.11%) React
10 3 (1.11%) REST
11 2 (0.74%) ADO
12 1 (0.37%) CSS
12 1 (0.37%) HTML
12 1 (0.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.97%) Blockchain
2 44 (16.24%) e-Learning
2 44 (16.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (11.81%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.69%) Clustering
5 9 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.48%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.74%) FMCG
8 2 (0.74%) Genomics
8 2 (0.74%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.74%) PropTech
9 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 78 (28.78%) Linux
2 34 (12.55%) Windows
3 7 (2.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) VMS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (100.00%) DevOps
2 121 (44.65%) CI/CD
3 119 (43.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (40.96%) Containerisation
5 110 (40.59%) Agile
6 94 (34.69%) Mentoring
7 73 (26.94%) Observability
8 66 (24.35%) Test Automation
9 60 (22.14%) Coaching
10 51 (18.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (17.71%) Secrets Management
12 33 (12.18%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (11.44%) Migration
14 30 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (8.49%) Fintech
16 23 (8.49%) ITIL
17 22 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (8.12%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (8.12%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 88 (32.47%) Python
2 41 (15.13%) Bash
3 38 (14.02%) SQL
4 28 (10.33%) Java
5 27 (9.96%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.27%) Groovy
7 15 (5.54%) Go
7 15 (5.54%) Perl
8 14 (5.17%) Ruby
9 9 (3.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (3.32%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.32%) U-SQL
10 7 (2.58%) PHP
11 4 (1.48%) Bicep
11 4 (1.48%) Lua
11 4 (1.48%) Tcl
12 3 (1.11%) C#
13 2 (0.74%) C
13 2 (0.74%) C++
13 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (6.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.06%) Degree
3 10 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (3.69%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.21%) GDPR
2 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (33.21%) Docker
2 13 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.48%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 198 (73.06%) Terraform
2 163 (60.15%) Kubernetes
3 77 (28.41%) Ansible
4 71 (26.20%) Prometheus
5 41 (15.13%) Progress Chef
6 37 (13.65%) Puppet
7 32 (11.81%) Grafana
8 11 (4.06%) Nagios
9 9 (3.32%) Graphite
9 9 (3.32%) HAProxy
9 9 (3.32%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.21%) Argo
10 6 (2.21%) Istio
11 4 (1.48%) vRealize
12 3 (1.11%) Packer
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.37%) Podman
13 1 (0.37%) Rancher
13 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (22.51%) IBM
2 46 (16.97%) Red Hat
3 44 (16.24%) Dynatrace
4 27 (9.96%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.75%) Google
6 11 (4.06%) VMware
7 10 (3.69%) Databricks
8 8 (2.95%) Oracle
8 8 (2.95%) Sybase
9 5 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.48%) Cisco
10 4 (1.48%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.48%) Splunk
11 3 (1.11%) New Relic
12 2 (0.74%) Remedy
13 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.37%) F5
13 1 (0.37%) xMatters