Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Derby

Senior Development Operations Engineer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in Derby is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Derby 0.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median annual salary £70,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 184 264 206
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 99.25% 99.04%
Number of salaries quoted 120 141 92
10th Percentile £24,250 £29,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £37,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -7.77% +14.44%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,250 £62,500 £64,875
Derbyshire median annual salary £38,750 £44,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.41% -10.50% +11.11%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Derby.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Derby

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Derby

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Derby.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Derby

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Derby region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds