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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 635 520 558
Rank change year-on-year -115 +38 -175
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 125 235 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.44% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 81 136 215
10th Percentile £48,250 £63,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,938 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

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 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £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 8 May 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 8 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
North of England +15 68 £70,576 -5.90% 10
North West -9 52 £85,000 +6.25% 6
South West -31 24 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Yorkshire +74 15 £70,576 -0.95% 3
East of England +2 8 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Scotland -66 8 £71,538 -18.24% 2
Midlands -15 7 £66,482 -14.22% 4
South East -22 5 £87,500 - 2
Wales +4 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands -1 4 £65,465 -16.61% 2
East Midlands -19 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Northern Ireland +18 1 £70,000 - 2
North East -7 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 8 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (75.20%) Terraform
3 86 (68.80%) AWS
4 79 (63.20%) Kubernetes
5 68 (54.40%) Mentoring
5 68 (54.40%) Agile
6 57 (45.60%) Prometheus
6 57 (45.60%) Containerisation
7 53 (42.40%) IBM
8 51 (40.80%) Observability
9 50 (40.00%) Public Sector
9 50 (40.00%) Linux
10 47 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 44 (35.20%) Coaching
12 42 (33.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 42 (33.60%) Test Automation
13 41 (32.80%) Artificial Intelligence
13 41 (32.80%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (32.80%) GCP
14 38 (30.40%) Secrets Management
14 38 (30.40%) Amazon RDS
15 37 (29.60%) Amazon S3
15 37 (29.60%) OCI
15 37 (29.60%) Blockchain
16 36 (28.80%) IBM Cloud
16 36 (28.80%) Hybrid Cloud
16 36 (28.80%) Dynatrace
16 36 (28.80%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (28.80%) Route 53
16 36 (28.80%) e-Learning

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
1 1 (0.80%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 86 (68.80%) AWS
2 41 (32.80%) Amazon EKS
2 41 (32.80%) GCP
3 37 (29.60%) Amazon S3
3 37 (29.60%) OCI
4 36 (28.80%) Amazon ECR
4 36 (28.80%) IBM Cloud
4 36 (28.80%) Route 53
5 33 (26.40%) Azure
6 20 (16.00%) OpenShift
7 16 (12.80%) GitHub
8 12 (9.60%) Datadog
9 10 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.40%) IaaS
12 3 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) DNS
2 4 (3.20%) Firewall
3 2 (1.60%) HTTP
3 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) DHCP
4 1 (0.80%) Internet
4 1 (0.80%) Network Security
4 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.80%) VSAN
4 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.40%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.40%) Big Data
3 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.80%) Flink
4 1 (0.80%) MySQL
4 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.80%) Redis
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) IBM UrbanCode
2 9 (7.20%) GitLab
2 9 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.40%) CircleCI
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 50 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 42 (33.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 21 (16.80%) Finance
5 18 (14.40%) Banking
5 18 (14.40%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (10.40%) Tech for Good
7 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.20%) Law
8 3 (2.40%) Advertising
8 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Games
10 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 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%) HTML
4 1 (0.80%) Kafka
4 1 (0.80%) Next.js
4 1 (0.80%) OpenID
4 1 (0.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.60%) Blockchain
2 36 (28.80%) e-Learning
2 36 (28.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (21.60%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.60%) Genomics
7 1 (0.80%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.80%) FMCG
7 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (40.00%) Linux
2 24 (19.20%) Windows
3 4 (3.20%) Unix
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 68 (54.40%) Agile
2 68 (54.40%) Mentoring
3 57 (45.60%) Containerisation
4 51 (40.80%) Observability
5 47 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (35.20%) Coaching
7 42 (33.60%) Test Automation
8 41 (32.80%) Artificial Intelligence
9 38 (30.40%) Secrets Management
10 32 (25.60%) CI/CD
11 18 (14.40%) Software Delivery
11 18 (14.40%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (13.60%) Customer Service
12 17 (13.60%) ITIL
12 17 (13.60%) Problem Management
12 17 (13.60%) Service Management
13 10 (8.00%) Configuration Management
14 9 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (6.40%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.00%) Python
2 17 (13.60%) Groovy
2 17 (13.60%) SQL
3 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.60%) Bash
5 4 (3.20%) Lua
5 4 (3.20%) Perl
5 4 (3.20%) PHP
5 4 (3.20%) Ruby
5 4 (3.20%) Tcl
6 3 (2.40%) Java
6 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (5.60%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.20%) Degree
4 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 35 (28.00%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.40%) KVM
5 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 94 (75.20%) Terraform
2 79 (63.20%) Kubernetes
3 57 (45.60%) Prometheus
4 35 (28.00%) Ansible
5 29 (23.20%) Progress Chef
6 17 (13.60%) Grafana
7 13 (10.40%) Puppet
8 4 (3.20%) Istio
8 4 (3.20%) vRealize
9 2 (1.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 53 (42.40%) IBM
2 36 (28.80%) Dynatrace
2 36 (28.80%) Red Hat
3 17 (13.60%) Google
4 10 (8.00%) VMware
5 4 (3.20%) Cisco
5 4 (3.20%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.20%) SaltStack
5 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) F5