Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 427 444
Rank change year-on-year -139 +17 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 257 683 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.79% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 200 494 516
10th Percentile £61,213 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £68,718 £73,750 £68,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,072 £102,500 £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 79,522 86,974 124,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.61% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,823 54,838 76,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,386
25th Percentile £38,087 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London -66 143 £90,000 +5.88% 36
North of England +26 58 £70,576 -5.90% 11
North West -5 45 £78,750 -1.56% 7
South West -9 24 £80,000 +3.23% 8
Yorkshire +94 12 £70,576 +6.53% 3
South East -35 10 £72,500 -14.71% 4
East of England +19 7 £46,000 -44.24%
Midlands -20 6 £67,500 -1.82% 3
West Midlands +3 3 £70,000 +1.82%
East Midlands -20 3 £67,500 -3.57% 3
North East -10 1 £67,500 -6.90% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 257 (100.00%) DevOps
2 179 (69.65%) Terraform
3 163 (63.42%) Kubernetes
4 162 (63.04%) AWS
5 114 (44.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 112 (43.58%) CI/CD
7 98 (38.13%) Containerisation
8 92 (35.80%) Docker
8 92 (35.80%) Python
8 92 (35.80%) Agile
9 81 (31.52%) Azure
10 77 (29.96%) Ansible
11 71 (27.63%) Mentoring
11 71 (27.63%) Linux
12 66 (25.68%) Observability
13 64 (24.90%) GCP
14 63 (24.51%) Prometheus
15 60 (23.35%) Test Automation
16 57 (22.18%) Jenkins
17 56 (21.79%) Public Sector
18 55 (21.40%) Amazon S3
19 51 (19.84%) Social Skills
20 50 (19.46%) Amazon EKS
21 48 (18.68%) IBM
22 46 (17.90%) Finance
23 45 (17.51%) Coaching
24 44 (17.12%) Artificial Intelligence
24 44 (17.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 42 (16.34%) Bash
25 42 (16.34%) Amazon RDS

Senior DevOps 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 (1.56%) Drupal
1 4 (1.56%) WordPress
2 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 162 (63.04%) AWS
2 81 (31.52%) Azure
3 64 (24.90%) GCP
4 55 (21.40%) Amazon S3
5 50 (19.46%) Amazon EKS
6 38 (14.79%) Route 53
7 37 (14.40%) Amazon ECR
7 37 (14.40%) IBM Cloud
7 37 (14.40%) OCI
8 29 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (10.12%) OpenShift
10 24 (9.34%) GitHub
11 22 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (5.84%) Datadog
13 13 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (4.67%) Serverless
15 9 (3.50%) Power Platform
16 8 (3.11%) IaaS
17 7 (2.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.17%) DNS
2 15 (5.84%) Firewall
3 14 (5.45%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.06%) Internet
5 11 (4.28%) SNMP
5 11 (4.28%) tcpdump
6 7 (2.72%) Network Security
7 3 (1.17%) HTTP
8 1 (0.39%) DHCP
8 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.39%) VSAN
8 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.34%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.17%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.06%) MySQL
4 12 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.89%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.50%) Power BI
7 7 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.72%) Big Data
7 7 (2.72%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.72%) DB2
7 7 (2.72%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.72%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (22.18%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.23%) GitLab
3 15 (5.84%) Git
4 14 (5.45%) Bitbucket
5 11 (4.28%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.28%) IBM UrbanCode
6 7 (2.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.17%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.78%) Gatling
9 2 (0.78%) JIRA
9 2 (0.78%) JUnit
9 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 56 (21.79%) Public Sector
2 51 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 46 (17.90%) Finance
4 44 (17.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (8.56%) Banking
6 21 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.67%) Tech for Good
7 12 (4.67%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.56%) Retail
10 3 (1.17%) Advertising
10 3 (1.17%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.17%) Law
10 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.45%) .NET
1 14 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.28%) YAML
3 8 (3.11%) Kafka
4 7 (2.72%) ARM Templates
4 7 (2.72%) Spring
4 7 (2.72%) Spring XD
5 6 (2.33%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.33%) JSON
6 5 (1.95%) Node.js
6 5 (1.95%) RESTful
7 4 (1.56%) React
7 4 (1.56%) XML
8 3 (1.17%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.17%) REST
9 2 (0.78%) ADO
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
10 1 (0.39%) HTML
10 1 (0.39%) OpenID
10 1 (0.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.95%) Blockchain
2 37 (14.40%) e-Learning
2 37 (14.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (10.89%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.28%) Clustering
5 6 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.17%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.78%) Genomics
8 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.78%) PKI
8 2 (0.78%) PropTech
9 1 (0.39%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 71 (27.63%) Linux
2 30 (11.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (44.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (43.58%) CI/CD
4 98 (38.13%) Containerisation
5 92 (35.80%) Agile
6 71 (27.63%) Mentoring
7 66 (25.68%) Observability
8 60 (23.35%) Test Automation
9 45 (17.51%) Coaching
10 44 (17.12%) Artificial Intelligence
11 40 (15.56%) Secrets Management
12 35 (13.62%) Migration
13 33 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (10.51%) Fintech
15 25 (9.73%) Configuration Management
16 23 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
17 20 (7.78%) Platform Engineering
18 18 (7.00%) ITIL
19 17 (6.61%) High Availability
19 17 (6.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (35.80%) Python
2 42 (16.34%) Bash
3 40 (15.56%) Java
4 28 (10.89%) SQL
5 24 (9.34%) PowerShell
6 18 (7.00%) Perl
7 14 (5.45%) Groovy
8 13 (5.06%) Go
9 12 (4.67%) Ruby
10 10 (3.89%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.72%) PHP
12 6 (2.33%) C#
12 6 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (2.33%) U-SQL
13 4 (1.56%) Bicep
13 4 (1.56%) Lua
13 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.56%) Tcl
13 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) Degree
4 8 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.78%) GDPR
2 2 (0.78%) SLA
3 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (35.80%) Docker
2 15 (5.84%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.17%) KVM
5 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 179 (69.65%) Terraform
2 163 (63.42%) Kubernetes
3 77 (29.96%) Ansible
4 63 (24.51%) Prometheus
5 37 (14.40%) Puppet
6 34 (13.23%) Progress Chef
7 32 (12.45%) Grafana
8 13 (5.06%) Nagios
9 11 (4.28%) vCenter Server
10 10 (3.89%) Graphite
10 10 (3.89%) HAProxy
11 8 (3.11%) Istio
12 5 (1.95%) Argo
13 4 (1.56%) vRealize
14 2 (0.78%) Packer
15 1 (0.39%) Consul
15 1 (0.39%) Kibana
15 1 (0.39%) Podman
15 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 48 (18.68%) IBM
2 39 (15.18%) Dynatrace
3 38 (14.79%) Red Hat
4 19 (7.39%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.61%) Google
6 13 (5.06%) VMware
7 9 (3.50%) Oracle
8 7 (2.72%) Databricks
8 7 (2.72%) Sybase
9 6 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.95%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.56%) Cisco
11 4 (1.56%) New Relic
12 2 (0.78%) Splunk
13 1 (0.39%) Okta
13 1 (0.39%) xMatters