Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 412 433
Rank change year-on-year -187 +21 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 241 670 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.79% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 179 482 522
10th Percentile £60,700 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £68,718 £73,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,688 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

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 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £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 4 May 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 4 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
London -102 122 £88,750 +4.41% 26
North of England +9 66 £70,576 -5.90% 9
North West -5 52 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -27 23 £80,000 +3.23% 7
Yorkshire +85 14 £70,576 +6.53% 2
South East -23 9 £72,500 -14.71% 2
East of England +11 7 £70,000 -17.65%
Midlands -20 6 £67,500 -1.82% 5
West Midlands -15 3 £70,000 +1.82% 4
East Midlands -18 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 241 (100.00%) DevOps
2 172 (71.37%) Terraform
3 157 (65.15%) Kubernetes
4 154 (63.90%) AWS
5 102 (42.32%) Containerisation
6 101 (41.91%) CI/CD
7 100 (41.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 93 (38.59%) Agile
9 88 (36.51%) Docker
10 76 (31.54%) Azure
10 76 (31.54%) Python
11 75 (31.12%) Mentoring
12 71 (29.46%) Observability
13 70 (29.05%) Prometheus
14 67 (27.80%) Linux
15 65 (26.97%) Ansible
15 65 (26.97%) Public Sector
16 64 (26.56%) Test Automation
17 60 (24.90%) Amazon S3
17 60 (24.90%) GCP
18 57 (23.65%) Amazon EKS
19 55 (22.82%) IBM
20 52 (21.58%) Jenkins
21 51 (21.16%) Artificial Intelligence
21 51 (21.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 51 (21.16%) Social Skills
22 50 (20.75%) Coaching
23 48 (19.92%) Amazon RDS
23 48 (19.92%) Blockchain
24 47 (19.50%) Secrets Management

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 4 (1.66%) Drupal
1 4 (1.66%) WordPress
2 3 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.83%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 154 (63.90%) AWS
2 76 (31.54%) Azure
3 60 (24.90%) Amazon S3
3 60 (24.90%) GCP
4 57 (23.65%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (18.26%) Amazon ECR
5 44 (18.26%) IBM Cloud
5 44 (18.26%) OCI
5 44 (18.26%) Route 53
6 27 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.37%) OpenShift
8 24 (9.96%) GitHub
9 19 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (6.22%) Datadog
10 15 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.15%) Power Platform
13 9 (3.73%) Serverless
14 8 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.05%) DNS
2 14 (5.81%) Firewall
3 13 (5.39%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.98%) Internet
5 10 (4.15%) SNMP
5 10 (4.15%) tcpdump
6 8 (3.32%) Network Security
7 3 (1.24%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) DHCP
8 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.41%) VSAN
8 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.92%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.30%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (4.56%) MySQL
4 10 (4.15%) Power BI
5 8 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.32%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.32%) DB2
5 8 (3.32%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.32%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.07%) Big Data
8 4 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 52 (21.58%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.81%) GitLab
3 12 (4.98%) CircleCI
3 12 (4.98%) Git
4 11 (4.56%) IBM UrbanCode
5 9 (3.73%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.83%) JIRA
8 2 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.83%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (26.97%) Public Sector
2 51 (21.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (21.16%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.35%) Finance
4 19 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.47%) Banking
6 14 (5.81%) Tech for Good
7 11 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.15%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.66%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.24%) Advertising
10 3 (1.24%) Law
10 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.83%) Games
11 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.39%) .NET
1 13 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (4.15%) YAML
3 8 (3.32%) Spring
3 8 (3.32%) Spring XD
4 6 (2.49%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.49%) JSON
4 6 (2.49%) Kafka
5 5 (2.07%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.07%) Node.js
5 5 (2.07%) RESTful
6 4 (1.66%) XML
7 3 (1.24%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.24%) REST
8 2 (0.83%) ADO
8 2 (0.83%) React
9 1 (0.41%) HTML
9 1 (0.41%) OpenID
9 1 (0.41%) SAML
9 1 (0.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.92%) Blockchain
2 44 (18.26%) e-Learning
2 44 (18.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (12.03%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.15%) Clustering
5 7 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.49%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.24%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.83%) Genomics
9 2 (0.83%) PropTech
10 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.41%) Derivative
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.80%) Linux
2 28 (11.62%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (42.32%) Containerisation
3 101 (41.91%) CI/CD
4 100 (41.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 93 (38.59%) Agile
6 75 (31.12%) Mentoring
7 71 (29.46%) Observability
8 64 (26.56%) Test Automation
9 51 (21.16%) Artificial Intelligence
10 50 (20.75%) Coaching
11 47 (19.50%) Secrets Management
12 32 (13.28%) Migration
13 26 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (9.54%) Fintech
15 22 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (8.30%) Configuration Management
17 19 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
18 17 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
19 16 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
20 15 (6.22%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.54%) Python
2 34 (14.11%) Java
3 31 (12.86%) Bash
4 26 (10.79%) SQL
5 20 (8.30%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.64%) Perl
7 11 (4.56%) Groovy
8 10 (4.15%) Go
8 10 (4.15%) Ruby
9 8 (3.32%) PHP
10 7 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.90%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.90%) U-SQL
11 5 (2.07%) C#
12 4 (1.66%) Lua
12 4 (1.66%) Tcl
13 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.83%) C
14 2 (0.83%) C++
14 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.07%) Degree
6 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (36.51%) Docker
2 14 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.24%) KVM
3 3 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 172 (71.37%) Terraform
2 157 (65.15%) Kubernetes
3 70 (29.05%) Prometheus
4 65 (26.97%) Ansible
5 35 (14.52%) Puppet
6 33 (13.69%) Progress Chef
7 32 (13.28%) Grafana
8 11 (4.56%) Nagios
9 10 (4.15%) Graphite
9 10 (4.15%) HAProxy
9 10 (4.15%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.49%) Istio
11 5 (2.07%) Argo
12 4 (1.66%) vRealize
13 2 (0.83%) Packer
14 1 (0.41%) Consul
14 1 (0.41%) Kibana
14 1 (0.41%) Podman
14 1 (0.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 55 (22.82%) IBM
2 45 (18.67%) Red Hat
3 44 (18.26%) Dynatrace
4 18 (7.47%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.22%) Google
6 10 (4.15%) VMware
7 8 (3.32%) Databricks
7 8 (3.32%) Oracle
7 8 (3.32%) Sybase
8 4 (1.66%) Cisco
8 4 (1.66%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.83%) New Relic
9 2 (0.83%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) F5
10 1 (0.41%) xMatters