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 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 638 435 437
Rank change year-on-year -203 +2 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 281 744 1,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.72% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.79% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 218 518 570
10th Percentile £58,381 £65,000 £62,375
25th Percentile £68,718 £72,813 £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 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +13.28%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 16 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 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
England -187 241 £80,000 -5.88% 50
UK excluding London -133 128 £72,500 -9.38% 27
London -102 122 £88,750 +4.41% 27
Work from Home -85 111 £75,000 -11.76% 40
North of England +9 66 £70,576 -5.90% 8
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
Scotland -71 12 £77,500 -11.43% 5
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% 4
Wales +8 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands -15 3 £70,000 +1.82% 3
East Midlands -18 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Northern Ireland +17 1 £70,000 - 1

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

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 featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 281 (100.00%) DevOps
2 198 (70.46%) Terraform
3 171 (60.85%) AWS
4 166 (59.07%) Kubernetes
5 125 (44.48%) CI/CD
6 123 (43.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 112 (39.86%) Agile
8 110 (39.15%) Containerisation
9 101 (35.94%) Azure
10 95 (33.81%) Docker
11 91 (32.38%) Python
12 87 (30.96%) Mentoring
13 85 (30.25%) Linux
14 81 (28.83%) Ansible
15 73 (25.98%) GCP
16 71 (25.27%) Observability
17 70 (24.91%) Prometheus
18 66 (23.49%) Public Sector
19 64 (22.78%) Test Automation
20 62 (22.06%) Amazon S3
21 61 (21.71%) IBM
22 59 (21.00%) Social Skills
23 58 (20.64%) Amazon EKS
24 57 (20.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 57 (20.28%) Coaching
25 56 (19.93%) Jenkins
26 52 (18.51%) Artificial Intelligence
27 48 (17.08%) Amazon RDS
27 48 (17.08%) Blockchain
27 48 (17.08%) 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 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.42%) Drupal
1 4 (1.42%) WordPress
2 2 (0.71%) Apache
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.71%) CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 171 (60.85%) AWS
2 101 (35.94%) Azure
3 73 (25.98%) GCP
4 62 (22.06%) Amazon S3
5 58 (20.64%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (15.66%) Amazon ECR
6 44 (15.66%) IBM Cloud
6 44 (15.66%) OCI
6 44 (15.66%) Route 53
7 38 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (12.46%) GitHub
9 31 (11.03%) OpenShift
10 20 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (5.69%) Datadog
11 16 (5.69%) Serverless
12 14 (4.98%) IaaS
13 13 (4.63%) PaaS
14 12 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (3.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.41%) Firewall
2 17 (6.05%) DNS
3 14 (4.98%) Internet
4 13 (4.63%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.56%) SNMP
5 10 (3.56%) tcpdump
6 8 (2.85%) Network Security
7 4 (1.42%) IPv4
7 4 (1.42%) VPN
8 3 (1.07%) HTTP
9 1 (0.36%) DHCP
9 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.36%) VSAN
9 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.08%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.47%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.91%) MySQL
5 10 (3.56%) Power BI
6 9 (3.20%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.85%) DB2
7 8 (2.85%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.85%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 6 (2.14%) Big Data
10 5 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.71%) Flink
12 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 56 (19.93%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.05%) IBM UrbanCode
3 15 (5.34%) GitLab
4 12 (4.27%) CircleCI
4 12 (4.27%) Git
5 9 (3.20%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.71%) JIRA
8 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.71%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (23.49%) Public Sector
2 59 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 57 (20.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (16.01%) Finance
5 24 (8.54%) Banking
6 21 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.98%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.56%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.78%) Legal
11 4 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.07%) Advertising
12 3 (1.07%) Games
12 3 (1.07%) Law
12 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.63%) .NET
1 13 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.27%) Node.js
3 10 (3.56%) YAML
4 8 (2.85%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.85%) Kafka
4 8 (2.85%) Spring
4 8 (2.85%) Spring XD
5 7 (2.49%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.14%) JSON
7 5 (1.78%) RESTful
7 5 (1.78%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (1.42%) XML
9 3 (1.07%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.07%) REST
10 2 (0.71%) ADO
10 2 (0.71%) React
11 1 (0.36%) HTML
11 1 (0.36%) SAML
11 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.08%) Blockchain
2 44 (15.66%) e-Learning
2 44 (15.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (13.17%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.56%) Clustering
5 7 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.78%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.78%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.07%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.71%) Genomics
8 2 (0.71%) PropTech
9 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.25%) Linux
2 35 (12.46%) Windows
3 2 (0.71%) Unix
3 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (44.48%) CI/CD
3 123 (43.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (39.86%) Agile
5 110 (39.15%) Containerisation
6 87 (30.96%) Mentoring
7 71 (25.27%) Observability
8 64 (22.78%) Test Automation
9 57 (20.28%) Coaching
10 52 (18.51%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (17.08%) Secrets Management
12 32 (11.39%) Migration
13 30 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (9.25%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (8.54%) ITIL
17 23 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (8.19%) Fintech
18 21 (7.47%) Configuration Management
19 20 (7.12%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 91 (32.38%) Python
2 40 (14.23%) Bash
3 38 (13.52%) Java
4 36 (12.81%) SQL
5 27 (9.61%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.05%) Go
6 17 (6.05%) Groovy
7 16 (5.69%) Perl
8 15 (5.34%) Ruby
9 8 (2.85%) PHP
10 7 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.49%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.49%) U-SQL
11 5 (1.78%) Bicep
11 5 (1.78%) C#
12 4 (1.42%) Lua
12 4 (1.42%) Tcl
13 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.71%) C
14 2 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (7.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.27%) Degree
4 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.49%) GDPR
2 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (33.81%) Docker
2 14 (4.98%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.07%) KVM
6 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 198 (70.46%) Terraform
2 166 (59.07%) Kubernetes
3 81 (28.83%) Ansible
4 70 (24.91%) Prometheus
5 41 (14.59%) Progress Chef
6 37 (13.17%) Puppet
7 32 (11.39%) Grafana
8 11 (3.91%) Nagios
9 10 (3.56%) Graphite
9 10 (3.56%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.56%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.14%) Argo
10 6 (2.14%) Istio
11 4 (1.42%) vRealize
12 3 (1.07%) Packer
13 1 (0.36%) Consul
13 1 (0.36%) Kibana
13 1 (0.36%) Podman
13 1 (0.36%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (21.71%) IBM
2 45 (16.01%) Red Hat
3 44 (15.66%) Dynatrace
4 25 (8.90%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.47%) Google
6 11 (3.91%) VMware
7 8 (2.85%) Databricks
7 8 (2.85%) Oracle
7 8 (2.85%) Sybase
8 4 (1.42%) Cisco
8 4 (1.42%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.07%) Splunk
10 2 (0.71%) New Relic
10 2 (0.71%) Remedy
11 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.36%) F5
11 1 (0.36%) xMatters