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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 600 422 437
Rank change year-on-year -178 +15 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 249 658 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.73% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.80% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 187 478 529
10th Percentile £58,938 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £68,109 £73,750 £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 £94,688 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £103,250 £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 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
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 £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 8 May 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 8 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 -94 123 £87,500 +2.94% 27
North of England +15 68 £70,576 -5.90% 11
North West -9 52 £85,000 +6.25% 7
South West -32 24 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +74 15 £70,576 -0.95% 3
South East -19 9 £72,500 -17.14% 2
East of England +2 8 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Midlands -30 8 £67,500 - 5
West Midlands -16 5 £77,732 +15.16% 3
East Midlands -19 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
North East -7 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 179 (71.89%) Terraform
3 161 (64.66%) AWS
4 159 (63.86%) Kubernetes
5 107 (42.97%) CI/CD
6 106 (42.57%) Containerisation
6 106 (42.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 100 (40.16%) Agile
8 89 (35.74%) Docker
9 80 (32.13%) Mentoring
9 80 (32.13%) Azure
10 77 (30.92%) Python
11 73 (29.32%) Prometheus
12 72 (28.92%) Linux
13 71 (28.51%) Public Sector
13 71 (28.51%) Observability
14 67 (26.91%) Ansible
15 64 (25.70%) Test Automation
16 61 (24.50%) Amazon S3
17 60 (24.10%) GCP
18 57 (22.89%) Amazon EKS
19 55 (22.09%) IBM
20 54 (21.69%) Coaching
21 53 (21.29%) Jenkins
21 53 (21.29%) Social Skills
22 51 (20.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 51 (20.48%) Artificial Intelligence
23 49 (19.68%) Amazon RDS
24 48 (19.28%) Blockchain
25 47 (18.88%) Secrets Management

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 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.20%) Drupal
1 3 (1.20%) WordPress
2 1 (0.40%) Apache
2 1 (0.40%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) JBoss
2 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.40%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 161 (64.66%) AWS
2 80 (32.13%) Azure
3 61 (24.50%) Amazon S3
4 60 (24.10%) GCP
5 57 (22.89%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (18.07%) OCI
7 44 (17.67%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (17.67%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (17.67%) Route 53
8 29 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (10.04%) OpenShift
10 24 (9.64%) GitHub
11 19 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (6.02%) Datadog
12 15 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (4.42%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (3.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.83%) DNS
2 14 (5.62%) Firewall
3 13 (5.22%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.82%) Internet
5 10 (4.02%) Network Security
5 10 (4.02%) SNMP
5 10 (4.02%) tcpdump
6 3 (1.20%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) DHCP
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) VSAN
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (19.68%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.03%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (4.42%) MySQL
3 11 (4.42%) Power BI
4 9 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.61%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.21%) DB2
5 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 8 (3.21%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.21%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.21%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.61%) Big Data
7 4 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 53 (21.29%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.23%) GitLab
3 13 (5.22%) Git
4 12 (4.82%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.42%) IBM UrbanCode
6 10 (4.02%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.61%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.20%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.80%) JIRA
10 2 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.80%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (28.51%) Public Sector
2 53 (21.29%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (14.86%) Finance
5 20 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.23%) Banking
7 14 (5.62%) Tech for Good
8 12 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.42%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.61%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.61%) Law
11 3 (1.20%) Advertising
11 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.80%) Games
12 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (5.22%) .NET
3 10 (4.02%) YAML
4 8 (3.21%) Spring
4 8 (3.21%) Spring XD
5 6 (2.41%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.41%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.41%) JSON
6 5 (2.01%) Kafka
6 5 (2.01%) Node.js
6 5 (2.01%) RESTful
7 4 (1.61%) XML
8 3 (1.20%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.20%) React
8 3 (1.20%) REST
9 2 (0.80%) ADO
9 2 (0.80%) HTML
9 2 (0.80%) OpenID
10 1 (0.40%) CSS
10 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.28%) Blockchain
2 44 (17.67%) e-Learning
2 44 (17.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (11.65%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.02%) Clustering
5 8 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.81%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.80%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.80%) Genomics
10 2 (0.80%) PropTech
11 1 (0.40%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.40%) Derivative
11 1 (0.40%) FMCG
11 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 72 (28.92%) Linux
2 28 (11.24%) Windows
3 5 (2.01%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 107 (42.97%) CI/CD
3 106 (42.57%) Containerisation
3 106 (42.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (40.16%) Agile
5 80 (32.13%) Mentoring
6 71 (28.51%) Observability
7 64 (25.70%) Test Automation
8 54 (21.69%) Coaching
9 51 (20.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 47 (18.88%) Secrets Management
11 33 (13.25%) Migration
12 32 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.64%) Fintech
14 22 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (8.43%) Platform Engineering
16 20 (8.03%) Configuration Management
17 17 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
17 17 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.92%) Python
2 33 (13.25%) Java
3 31 (12.45%) Bash
4 27 (10.84%) SQL
5 20 (8.03%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.43%) Perl
7 11 (4.42%) Groovy
8 10 (4.02%) Go
8 10 (4.02%) Ruby
9 8 (3.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (3.21%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.21%) U-SQL
10 7 (2.81%) PHP
11 5 (2.01%) C#
12 4 (1.61%) Lua
12 4 (1.61%) Tcl
13 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.80%) Bicep
14 2 (0.80%) C++
14 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.01%) Degree
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.40%) GDPR
2 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (35.74%) Docker
2 14 (5.62%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.20%) KVM
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 179 (71.89%) Terraform
2 159 (63.86%) Kubernetes
3 73 (29.32%) Prometheus
4 67 (26.91%) Ansible
5 36 (14.46%) Puppet
6 35 (14.06%) Grafana
7 34 (13.65%) Progress Chef
8 12 (4.82%) Nagios
9 10 (4.02%) Graphite
9 10 (4.02%) HAProxy
9 10 (4.02%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.41%) Istio
11 5 (2.01%) Argo
12 4 (1.61%) vRealize
13 2 (0.80%) Packer
14 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.40%) Consul
14 1 (0.40%) Kibana
14 1 (0.40%) Podman
14 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 55 (22.09%) IBM
2 46 (18.47%) Red Hat
3 44 (17.67%) Dynatrace
4 19 (7.63%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.02%) Google
6 10 (4.02%) VMware
7 9 (3.61%) Databricks
8 8 (3.21%) Oracle
8 8 (3.21%) Sybase
9 4 (1.61%) Cisco
9 4 (1.61%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.20%) New Relic
10 3 (1.20%) Splunk
11 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.40%) F5
11 1 (0.40%) xMatters