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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 450 473
Rank change year-on-year -199 +23 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 265 685 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.67% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.74% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 203 478 495
10th Percentile £57,752 £67,500 £62,500
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 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £99,500
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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
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 £96,250
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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 -173 229 £80,000 -5.88% 42
UK excluding London -119 122 £70,576 -11.78% 21
London -96 112 £90,000 +2.86% 21
Work from Home -76 109 £75,000 -11.76% 28
North of England +16 66 £70,576 -5.90% 8
North West -1 52 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -36 24 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Yorkshire +74 14 £70,576 -0.95% 2
East of England +6 8 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Scotland -70 8 £71,538 -18.24%
Midlands -18 6 £67,500 -12.90% 4
South East -17 5 £87,500 - 2
Wales +7 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands +3 3 £70,000 -10.83% 2
East Midlands -21 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Northern Ireland +21 1 £70,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 193 (72.83%) Terraform
3 168 (63.40%) AWS
4 160 (60.38%) Kubernetes
5 118 (44.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (43.40%) CI/CD
7 108 (40.75%) Agile
8 106 (40.00%) Containerisation
9 96 (36.23%) Azure
10 90 (33.96%) Python
11 89 (33.58%) Docker
12 87 (32.83%) Mentoring
13 81 (30.57%) Ansible
14 79 (29.81%) Linux
15 73 (27.55%) GCP
16 71 (26.79%) Observability
17 69 (26.04%) Prometheus
18 64 (24.15%) Test Automation
19 63 (23.77%) Amazon S3
19 63 (23.77%) Public Sector
20 61 (23.02%) IBM
21 58 (21.89%) Amazon EKS
22 57 (21.51%) Coaching
23 56 (21.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 55 (20.75%) Jenkins
25 54 (20.38%) Social Skills
26 52 (19.62%) Artificial Intelligence
27 49 (18.49%) Amazon RDS
28 48 (18.11%) Secrets Management
28 48 (18.11%) 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 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.13%) Drupal
2 3 (1.13%) WordPress
3 2 (0.75%) Apache
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 168 (63.40%) AWS
2 96 (36.23%) Azure
3 73 (27.55%) GCP
4 63 (23.77%) Amazon S3
5 58 (21.89%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (16.98%) OCI
7 44 (16.60%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (16.60%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (16.60%) Route 53
8 35 (13.21%) GitHub
9 33 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (11.32%) OpenShift
11 20 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.66%) Datadog
12 15 (5.66%) Serverless
13 14 (5.28%) IaaS
14 13 (4.91%) PaaS
15 12 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (3.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.79%) Firewall
2 17 (6.42%) DNS
3 14 (5.28%) Internet
4 13 (4.91%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.77%) SNMP
5 10 (3.77%) tcpdump
6 9 (3.40%) Network Security
7 4 (1.51%) IPv4
7 4 (1.51%) VPN
8 3 (1.13%) HTTP
9 1 (0.38%) DHCP
9 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.38%) VSAN
9 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.49%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.92%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.15%) MySQL
5 10 (3.77%) Power BI
6 9 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.02%) DB2
7 8 (3.02%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.89%) Big Data
9 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.75%) Flink
10 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 55 (20.75%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.42%) IBM UrbanCode
3 15 (5.66%) GitLab
4 12 (4.53%) CircleCI
4 12 (4.53%) Git
5 9 (3.40%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.75%) JIRA
8 2 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.75%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (23.77%) Public Sector
2 56 (21.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (20.38%) Social Skills
4 39 (14.72%) Finance
5 24 (9.06%) Banking
6 22 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (5.28%) Tech for Good
9 11 (4.15%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
11 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.51%) Law
12 3 (1.13%) Advertising
12 3 (1.13%) Games
12 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (4.91%) .NET
3 12 (4.53%) Node.js
4 10 (3.77%) YAML
5 8 (3.02%) Spring
5 8 (3.02%) Spring XD
6 7 (2.64%) AWS CDK
6 7 (2.64%) Kafka
7 6 (2.26%) JSON
8 5 (1.89%) RESTful
8 5 (1.89%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.51%) XML
10 3 (1.13%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.13%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.13%) REST
11 2 (0.75%) ADO
11 2 (0.75%) React
12 1 (0.38%) HTML
12 1 (0.38%) SAML
12 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (18.11%) Blockchain
2 44 (16.60%) e-Learning
2 44 (16.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (12.08%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.77%) Clustering
5 7 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.89%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.75%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.75%) Genomics
9 2 (0.75%) PropTech
10 1 (0.38%) Derivative
10 1 (0.38%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 79 (29.81%) Linux
2 35 (13.21%) Windows
3 3 (1.13%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (44.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 115 (43.40%) CI/CD
4 108 (40.75%) Agile
5 106 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 87 (32.83%) Mentoring
7 71 (26.79%) Observability
8 64 (24.15%) Test Automation
9 57 (21.51%) Coaching
10 52 (19.62%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (18.11%) Secrets Management
12 32 (12.08%) Migration
13 28 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (9.06%) Fintech
16 23 (8.68%) ITIL
17 21 (7.92%) Software Delivery
18 20 (7.55%) Configuration Management
18 20 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 90 (33.96%) Python
2 39 (14.72%) Bash
3 36 (13.58%) SQL
4 32 (12.08%) Java
5 27 (10.19%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.42%) Go
6 17 (6.42%) Groovy
7 16 (6.04%) Perl
8 15 (5.66%) Ruby
9 7 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (2.64%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.64%) PHP
9 7 (2.64%) U-SQL
10 5 (1.89%) C#
11 4 (1.51%) Bicep
11 4 (1.51%) Lua
11 4 (1.51%) Tcl
12 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.75%) C
13 2 (0.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (6.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.53%) Degree
3 11 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.26%) GDPR
2 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (33.58%) Docker
2 14 (5.28%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.26%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 193 (72.83%) Terraform
2 160 (60.38%) Kubernetes
3 81 (30.57%) Ansible
4 69 (26.04%) Prometheus
5 41 (15.47%) Progress Chef
6 37 (13.96%) Puppet
7 31 (11.70%) Grafana
8 11 (4.15%) Nagios
9 10 (3.77%) Graphite
9 10 (3.77%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.77%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.26%) Argo
10 6 (2.26%) Istio
11 4 (1.51%) vRealize
12 3 (1.13%) Packer
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) Kibana
13 1 (0.38%) Podman
13 1 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (23.02%) IBM
2 45 (16.98%) Red Hat
3 44 (16.60%) Dynatrace
4 25 (9.43%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.92%) Google
6 11 (4.15%) VMware
7 8 (3.02%) Databricks
7 8 (3.02%) Oracle
7 8 (3.02%) Sybase
8 4 (1.51%) Cisco
8 4 (1.51%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.13%) Splunk
10 2 (0.75%) New Relic
10 2 (0.75%) Remedy
11 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.38%) F5
11 1 (0.38%) xMatters