Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 450 456
Rank change year-on-year -158 +6 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 231 624 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.68% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.74% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 170 447 467
10th Percentile £59,876 £68,200 £62,500
25th Percentile £68,718 £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 £110,000 £105,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London -88 114 £90,000 +2.86% 23
North of England +27 66 £70,576 -5.90% 8
North West +2 52 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -38 24 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +90 14 £70,576 +4.56% 2
East of England +7 8 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Midlands -6 6 £67,500 -13.46% 4
South East -23 5 £87,500 - 2
West Midlands +11 3 £70,000 -10.83% 2
East Midlands -19 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 across the England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 231 (100.00%) DevOps
2 168 (72.73%) Terraform
3 153 (66.23%) Kubernetes
4 151 (65.37%) AWS
5 97 (41.99%) CI/CD
5 97 (41.99%) Containerisation
6 96 (41.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 89 (38.53%) Agile
8 85 (36.80%) Docker
9 77 (33.33%) Python
10 75 (32.47%) Mentoring
11 72 (31.17%) Azure
12 71 (30.74%) Observability
13 70 (30.30%) Prometheus
14 66 (28.57%) Ansible
15 64 (27.71%) Test Automation
16 62 (26.84%) Linux
16 62 (26.84%) Public Sector
17 61 (26.41%) Amazon S3
17 61 (26.41%) GCP
18 57 (24.68%) Amazon EKS
19 55 (23.81%) IBM
20 52 (22.51%) Jenkins
21 51 (22.08%) Artificial Intelligence
22 50 (21.65%) Coaching
22 50 (21.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 49 (21.21%) Amazon RDS
24 48 (20.78%) Blockchain
25 47 (20.35%) Secrets Management
25 47 (20.35%) Social Skills

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.73%) Drupal
1 4 (1.73%) WordPress
2 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.87%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 151 (65.37%) AWS
2 72 (31.17%) Azure
3 61 (26.41%) Amazon S3
3 61 (26.41%) GCP
4 57 (24.68%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (19.48%) OCI
6 44 (19.05%) Amazon ECR
6 44 (19.05%) IBM Cloud
6 44 (19.05%) Route 53
7 25 (10.82%) OpenShift
8 24 (10.39%) GitHub
9 22 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (6.49%) Datadog
11 15 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.33%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (3.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.36%) DNS
2 14 (6.06%) Firewall
3 13 (5.63%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.19%) Internet
5 10 (4.33%) SNMP
5 10 (4.33%) tcpdump
6 9 (3.90%) Network Security
7 3 (1.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.43%) DHCP
8 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.43%) VSAN
8 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.21%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.66%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (4.76%) MySQL
4 10 (4.33%) Power BI
5 8 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.46%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.46%) DB2
5 8 (3.46%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.46%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.46%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.16%) Big Data
8 4 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 52 (22.51%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.49%) GitLab
3 12 (5.19%) CircleCI
3 12 (5.19%) Git
4 11 (4.76%) IBM UrbanCode
5 9 (3.90%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.87%) JIRA
8 2 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.87%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (26.84%) Public Sector
2 50 (21.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (20.35%) Social Skills
4 31 (13.42%) Finance
5 20 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.79%) Banking
7 14 (6.06%) Tech for Good
8 12 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.76%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.73%) Law
11 3 (1.30%) Advertising
11 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.87%) Games
12 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (5.63%) .NET
3 10 (4.33%) YAML
4 8 (3.46%) Spring
4 8 (3.46%) Spring XD
5 6 (2.60%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.60%) JSON
5 6 (2.60%) Kafka
6 5 (2.16%) Node.js
6 5 (2.16%) RESTful
7 4 (1.73%) XML
8 3 (1.30%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.30%) REST
9 2 (0.87%) ADO
9 2 (0.87%) React
10 1 (0.43%) HTML
10 1 (0.43%) Next.js
10 1 (0.43%) OpenID
10 1 (0.43%) SAML
10 1 (0.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.78%) Blockchain
2 44 (19.05%) e-Learning
2 44 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (10.39%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.33%) Clustering
5 7 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.16%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.30%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.87%) Genomics
10 2 (0.87%) PropTech
11 1 (0.43%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.43%) Derivative
11 1 (0.43%) FMCG
11 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (26.84%) Linux
2 28 (12.12%) Windows
3 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (41.99%) CI/CD
2 97 (41.99%) Containerisation
3 96 (41.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (38.53%) Agile
5 75 (32.47%) Mentoring
6 71 (30.74%) Observability
7 64 (27.71%) Test Automation
8 51 (22.08%) Artificial Intelligence
9 50 (21.65%) Coaching
10 47 (20.35%) Secrets Management
11 32 (13.85%) Migration
12 23 (9.96%) Fintech
12 23 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (8.66%) Configuration Management
15 19 (8.23%) Platform Engineering
16 16 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (6.49%) ITIL
17 15 (6.49%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 77 (33.33%) Python
2 32 (13.85%) Bash
3 29 (12.55%) Java
4 26 (11.26%) SQL
5 20 (8.66%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.93%) Perl
7 11 (4.76%) Groovy
8 10 (4.33%) Go
8 10 (4.33%) Ruby
9 8 (3.46%) PHP
10 7 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (3.03%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.03%) U-SQL
11 5 (2.16%) C#
12 4 (1.73%) Lua
12 4 (1.73%) Tcl
13 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.87%) C
14 2 (0.87%) C++
14 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (8.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.16%) Degree
6 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (36.80%) Docker
2 14 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.30%) KVM
5 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 168 (72.73%) Terraform
2 153 (66.23%) Kubernetes
3 70 (30.30%) Prometheus
4 66 (28.57%) Ansible
5 35 (15.15%) Puppet
6 33 (14.29%) Progress Chef
7 32 (13.85%) Grafana
8 11 (4.76%) Nagios
9 10 (4.33%) Graphite
9 10 (4.33%) HAProxy
9 10 (4.33%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.60%) Istio
11 5 (2.16%) Argo
12 4 (1.73%) vRealize
13 2 (0.87%) Packer
14 1 (0.43%) Consul
14 1 (0.43%) Kibana
14 1 (0.43%) Podman
14 1 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 55 (23.81%) IBM
2 45 (19.48%) Red Hat
3 44 (19.05%) Dynatrace
4 18 (7.79%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.49%) Google
6 11 (4.76%) VMware
7 8 (3.46%) Databricks
7 8 (3.46%) Oracle
7 8 (3.46%) Sybase
8 4 (1.73%) Cisco
8 4 (1.73%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.87%) New Relic
9 2 (0.87%) Splunk
10 1 (0.43%) F5
10 1 (0.43%) xMatters