Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 641 452 473
Rank change year-on-year -189 +21 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 269 695 1,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.67% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.73% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 207 481 490
10th Percentile £57,000 £67,500 £62,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £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 £93,750 £92,188
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.78% +6.67% +15.38%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 3 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 3 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 -174 233 £80,000 -5.88% 44
UK excluding London -91 121 £70,576 -11.78% 25
London -94 116 £90,000 +4.35% 22
Work from Home -58 111 £75,000 -11.76% 32
North of England +24 67 £70,576 -5.90% 9
North West -9 52 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -28 23 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Yorkshire +73 14 £70,576 +4.56% 3
Scotland -71 8 £71,538 -18.24% 2
East of England +5 7 £70,000 -17.65%
Midlands -7 6 £67,500 -13.46% 4
South East -30 5 £87,500 +2.94% 2
Wales +2 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands +2 3 £70,000 -10.83% 3
East Midlands -11 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Northern Ireland +20 1 £70,000 - 2
North East -9 1 £67,500 -6.90% 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 269 (100.00%) DevOps
2 196 (72.86%) Terraform
3 170 (63.20%) AWS
4 164 (60.97%) Kubernetes
5 121 (44.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 118 (43.87%) CI/CD
7 108 (40.15%) Agile
8 107 (39.78%) Containerisation
9 97 (36.06%) Azure
10 94 (34.94%) Python
11 93 (34.57%) Docker
12 88 (32.71%) Mentoring
13 80 (29.74%) Ansible
14 79 (29.37%) Linux
15 74 (27.51%) GCP
16 72 (26.77%) Observability
17 70 (26.02%) Prometheus
18 64 (23.79%) Test Automation
19 62 (23.05%) Amazon S3
19 62 (23.05%) Public Sector
20 61 (22.68%) IBM
21 58 (21.56%) Amazon EKS
22 57 (21.19%) Coaching
23 56 (20.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 55 (20.45%) Jenkins
25 54 (20.07%) Social Skills
26 52 (19.33%) Artificial Intelligence
27 48 (17.84%) Amazon RDS
27 48 (17.84%) Secrets Management
27 48 (17.84%) 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 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.49%) Drupal
1 4 (1.49%) WordPress
2 2 (0.74%) Apache
2 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.74%) CMS
2 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) IIS
3 1 (0.37%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 170 (63.20%) AWS
2 97 (36.06%) Azure
3 74 (27.51%) GCP
4 62 (23.05%) Amazon S3
5 58 (21.56%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (16.36%) Amazon ECR
6 44 (16.36%) IBM Cloud
6 44 (16.36%) OCI
6 44 (16.36%) Route 53
7 35 (13.01%) GitHub
8 34 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (11.52%) OpenShift
10 22 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.32%) Serverless
13 16 (5.95%) Datadog
14 14 (5.20%) IaaS
15 13 (4.83%) PaaS
16 12 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (3.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.69%) Firewall
2 17 (6.32%) DNS
3 14 (5.20%) Internet
4 13 (4.83%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.72%) SNMP
5 10 (3.72%) tcpdump
6 8 (2.97%) Network Security
7 4 (1.49%) IPv4
7 4 (1.49%) VPN
8 3 (1.12%) HTTP
9 1 (0.37%) DHCP
9 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.37%) VSAN
9 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.84%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.81%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.09%) MySQL
5 10 (3.72%) Power BI
6 9 (3.35%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.97%) DB2
7 8 (2.97%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 6 (2.23%) Big Data
10 5 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.74%) Flink
12 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.32%) IBM UrbanCode
3 15 (5.58%) GitLab
4 13 (4.83%) Git
5 12 (4.46%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.35%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.74%) JIRA
9 2 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.74%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (23.05%) Public Sector
2 56 (20.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (20.07%) Social Skills
4 39 (14.50%) Finance
5 24 (8.92%) Banking
6 21 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (5.20%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.86%) Legal
11 4 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.12%) Advertising
12 3 (1.12%) Games
12 3 (1.12%) Law
12 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.83%) .NET
1 13 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.46%) Node.js
3 10 (3.72%) YAML
4 8 (2.97%) Kafka
4 8 (2.97%) Spring
4 8 (2.97%) Spring XD
5 7 (2.60%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.23%) JSON
7 5 (1.86%) RESTful
7 5 (1.86%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (1.49%) XML
9 3 (1.12%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.12%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.12%) REST
10 2 (0.74%) ADO
10 2 (0.74%) React
11 1 (0.37%) HTML
11 1 (0.37%) Next.js
11 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.84%) Blockchain
2 44 (16.36%) e-Learning
2 44 (16.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (11.90%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.72%) Clustering
5 7 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.23%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.86%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.86%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.74%) Genomics
9 2 (0.74%) PropTech
10 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (29.37%) Linux
2 35 (13.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.74%) Unix
3 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (100.00%) DevOps
2 121 (44.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (43.87%) CI/CD
4 108 (40.15%) Agile
5 107 (39.78%) Containerisation
6 88 (32.71%) Mentoring
7 72 (26.77%) Observability
8 64 (23.79%) Test Automation
9 57 (21.19%) Coaching
10 52 (19.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (17.84%) Secrets Management
12 31 (11.52%) Migration
13 28 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (8.92%) Fintech
15 24 (8.92%) ITIL
16 21 (7.81%) Configuration Management
17 20 (7.43%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (7.43%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 94 (34.94%) Python
2 40 (14.87%) Bash
3 36 (13.38%) SQL
4 35 (13.01%) Java
5 27 (10.04%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.32%) Go
6 17 (6.32%) Groovy
7 16 (5.95%) Perl
8 15 (5.58%) Ruby
9 8 (2.97%) PHP
10 7 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.60%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.60%) U-SQL
11 6 (2.23%) C#
12 4 (1.49%) Bicep
12 4 (1.49%) Lua
12 4 (1.49%) Tcl
13 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.74%) C
14 2 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (6.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.20%) Degree
3 11 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.60%) GDPR
2 6 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (34.57%) Docker
2 14 (5.20%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.12%) KVM
6 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 196 (72.86%) Terraform
2 164 (60.97%) Kubernetes
3 80 (29.74%) Ansible
4 70 (26.02%) Prometheus
5 41 (15.24%) Progress Chef
6 37 (13.75%) Puppet
7 32 (11.90%) Grafana
8 11 (4.09%) Nagios
9 10 (3.72%) Graphite
9 10 (3.72%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.72%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.23%) Argo
10 6 (2.23%) Istio
11 4 (1.49%) vRealize
12 3 (1.12%) Packer
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Kibana
13 1 (0.37%) Podman
13 1 (0.37%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (22.68%) IBM
2 45 (16.73%) Red Hat
3 44 (16.36%) Dynatrace
4 25 (9.29%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.81%) Google
6 11 (4.09%) VMware
7 8 (2.97%) Databricks
7 8 (2.97%) Oracle
7 8 (2.97%) Sybase
8 4 (1.49%) Cisco
8 4 (1.49%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.12%) Splunk
10 2 (0.74%) New Relic
10 2 (0.74%) Remedy
11 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.37%) F5
11 1 (0.37%) xMatters