Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 615 425 452
Rank change year-on-year -190 +27 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 290 760 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.73% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.79% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 226 525 562
10th Percentile £59,380 £65,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £68,718 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £100,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,538 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.58% +10.34% +16.00%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -173 250 £80,000 -5.88% 43
London -93 132 £90,000 +5.88% 23
UK excluding London -112 126 £71,538 -10.58% 25
Work from Home -73 118 £75,000 -11.76% 41
North of England +24 66 £70,576 -5.90% 6
North West -4 52 £85,000 +6.25% 3
South West -9 22 £80,000 +3.23% 8
Yorkshire +87 13 £70,576 +6.53% 3
Scotland -70 12 £75,000 -14.29% 5
South East -9 9 £72,500 -17.14% 3
East of England +1 6 £58,000 -31.76%
Midlands -30 6 £67,500 -1.82% 2
Wales +8 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands -5 3 £70,000 +1.82% 1
East Midlands -21 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Northern Ireland +22 1 £70,000 - 1
North East -7 1 £67,500 -6.90%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 290 (100.00%) DevOps
2 202 (69.66%) Terraform
3 176 (60.69%) AWS
4 174 (60.00%) Kubernetes
5 131 (45.17%) CI/CD
6 127 (43.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 116 (40.00%) Agile
8 112 (38.62%) Containerisation
9 102 (35.17%) Azure
10 99 (34.14%) Docker
10 99 (34.14%) Python
11 89 (30.69%) Mentoring
12 85 (29.31%) Linux
13 84 (28.97%) Ansible
14 74 (25.52%) GCP
15 73 (25.17%) Observability
16 72 (24.83%) Prometheus
17 65 (22.41%) Public Sector
18 64 (22.07%) Test Automation
19 62 (21.38%) Amazon S3
20 61 (21.03%) IBM
21 59 (20.34%) Jenkins
22 58 (20.00%) Coaching
22 58 (20.00%) Social Skills
22 58 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
23 57 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 52 (17.93%) Artificial Intelligence
25 48 (16.55%) Finance
25 48 (16.55%) Amazon RDS
25 48 (16.55%) Secrets Management

Senior DevOps 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 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.38%) Drupal
1 4 (1.38%) WordPress
2 2 (0.69%) Apache
2 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.69%) CMS
2 2 (0.69%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) IIS
3 1 (0.34%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 176 (60.69%) AWS
2 102 (35.17%) Azure
3 74 (25.52%) GCP
4 62 (21.38%) Amazon S3
5 58 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (15.17%) Amazon ECR
6 44 (15.17%) IBM Cloud
6 44 (15.17%) OCI
6 44 (15.17%) Route 53
7 40 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (12.41%) GitHub
9 32 (11.03%) OpenShift
10 22 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (6.21%) Serverless
13 17 (5.86%) Datadog
14 15 (5.17%) IaaS
15 14 (4.83%) PaaS
16 12 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.21%) DNS
1 18 (6.21%) Firewall
2 14 (4.83%) Internet
3 13 (4.48%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.45%) SNMP
4 10 (3.45%) tcpdump
5 8 (2.76%) Network Security
6 4 (1.38%) IPv4
6 4 (1.38%) VPN
7 3 (1.03%) HTTP
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
8 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.55%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.24%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.79%) MySQL
5 10 (3.45%) Power BI
5 10 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.10%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.76%) DB2
7 8 (2.76%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.41%) Big Data
8 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.69%) Flink
11 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.34%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 59 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.21%) IBM UrbanCode
3 15 (5.17%) GitLab
4 13 (4.48%) Git
5 12 (4.14%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.72%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.03%) JIRA
9 3 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.03%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.03%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.34%) Mocha
11 1 (0.34%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (22.41%) Public Sector
2 58 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 57 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (16.55%) Finance
5 27 (9.31%) Banking
6 21 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.86%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.48%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.72%) Legal
11 4 (1.38%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.03%) Advertising
12 3 (1.03%) Games
12 3 (1.03%) Law
12 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.34%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.83%) .NET
2 13 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (4.14%) Node.js
4 10 (3.45%) ARM Templates
4 10 (3.45%) YAML
5 9 (3.10%) Kafka
6 8 (2.76%) Spring
6 8 (2.76%) Spring XD
7 7 (2.41%) AWS CDK
8 6 (2.07%) JSON
9 5 (1.72%) RESTful
9 5 (1.72%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (1.38%) XML
11 3 (1.03%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.03%) REST
12 2 (0.69%) ADO
12 2 (0.69%) React
13 1 (0.34%) HTML
13 1 (0.34%) SAML
13 1 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.55%) Blockchain
2 44 (15.17%) e-Learning
2 44 (15.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (12.76%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.45%) Clustering
5 7 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.72%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.03%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.69%) Genomics
9 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.69%) PropTech
10 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 85 (29.31%) Linux
2 35 (12.07%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (45.17%) CI/CD
3 127 (43.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (40.00%) Agile
5 112 (38.62%) Containerisation
6 89 (30.69%) Mentoring
7 73 (25.17%) Observability
8 64 (22.07%) Test Automation
9 58 (20.00%) Coaching
10 52 (17.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (16.55%) Secrets Management
12 33 (11.38%) Migration
12 33 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (9.31%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (8.62%) Fintech
15 25 (8.62%) ITIL
16 23 (7.93%) Configuration Management
16 23 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (7.24%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 99 (34.14%) Python
2 44 (15.17%) Bash
3 42 (14.48%) Java
4 38 (13.10%) SQL
5 29 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.55%) Groovy
7 18 (6.21%) Go
8 16 (5.52%) Perl
8 16 (5.52%) Ruby
9 8 (2.76%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.41%) PHP
10 7 (2.41%) U-SQL
11 6 (2.07%) Bicep
11 6 (2.07%) C#
12 4 (1.38%) Lua
12 4 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.38%) Tcl
13 2 (0.69%) C++
13 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (7.24%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.17%) Degree
3 14 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.41%) GDPR
2 6 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 99 (34.14%) Docker
2 14 (4.83%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.07%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.03%) KVM
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 202 (69.66%) Terraform
2 174 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 84 (28.97%) Ansible
4 72 (24.83%) Prometheus
5 42 (14.48%) Progress Chef
6 39 (13.45%) Puppet
7 33 (11.38%) Grafana
8 12 (4.14%) Nagios
9 10 (3.45%) Graphite
9 10 (3.45%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.45%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.41%) Istio
11 6 (2.07%) Argo
12 4 (1.38%) vRealize
13 3 (1.03%) Packer
14 2 (0.69%) Kibana
15 1 (0.34%) Consul
15 1 (0.34%) Podman
15 1 (0.34%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (21.03%) IBM
2 46 (15.86%) Dynatrace
3 45 (15.52%) Red Hat
4 26 (8.97%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.24%) Google
6 12 (4.14%) VMware
7 8 (2.76%) Databricks
7 8 (2.76%) Oracle
7 8 (2.76%) Sybase
8 5 (1.72%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.38%) Cisco
9 4 (1.38%) New Relic
9 4 (1.38%) Splunk
10 2 (0.69%) Remedy
11 1 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.34%) Veracode
11 1 (0.34%) xMatters