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 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 445 468
Rank change year-on-year -144 +23 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 240 642 967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.69% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.75% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 178 457 453
10th Percentile £60,613 £68,200 £61,500
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 £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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +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 26 April 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 26 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 -68 125 £90,000 +2.86% 18
North of England +18 66 £70,576 -5.90% 5
North West -9 52 £85,000 +6.25% 2
South West -30 22 £80,000 +3.23% 8
Yorkshire +90 13 £70,576 +6.53% 3
East of England +11 6 £58,000 -29.70%
South East -13 6 £87,500 - 3
Midlands -15 6 £67,500 -13.46% 2
West Midlands +12 3 £70,000 -10.83% 1
East Midlands -24 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
North East -5 1 £67,500 -6.90%
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 240 (100.00%) DevOps
2 171 (71.25%) Terraform
3 159 (66.25%) Kubernetes
4 156 (65.00%) AWS
5 102 (42.50%) CI/CD
6 101 (42.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 99 (41.25%) Containerisation
8 91 (37.92%) Agile
9 87 (36.25%) Docker
10 85 (35.42%) Python
11 76 (31.67%) Mentoring
12 73 (30.42%) Observability
13 72 (30.00%) Azure
14 71 (29.58%) Prometheus
15 67 (27.92%) Ansible
16 64 (26.67%) Test Automation
17 61 (25.42%) Linux
18 60 (25.00%) GCP
18 60 (25.00%) Amazon S3
18 60 (25.00%) Public Sector
19 57 (23.75%) Amazon EKS
20 55 (22.92%) IBM
21 53 (22.08%) Jenkins
22 51 (21.25%) Artificial Intelligence
23 50 (20.83%) Coaching
23 50 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 48 (20.00%) Blockchain
24 48 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
25 47 (19.58%) Secrets Management
26 45 (18.75%) 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 (1.67%) Drupal
1 4 (1.67%) WordPress
2 3 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.83%) CMS
4 1 (0.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 156 (65.00%) AWS
2 72 (30.00%) Azure
3 60 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 60 (25.00%) GCP
4 57 (23.75%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (18.33%) Amazon ECR
5 44 (18.33%) IBM Cloud
5 44 (18.33%) OCI
5 44 (18.33%) Route 53
6 26 (10.83%) OpenShift
7 24 (10.00%) GitHub
8 23 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (8.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.67%) Datadog
11 14 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.17%) Power Platform
13 10 (4.17%) Serverless
14 8 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.50%) DNS
2 14 (5.83%) Firewall
3 13 (5.42%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.00%) Internet
5 10 (4.17%) SNMP
5 10 (4.17%) tcpdump
6 8 (3.33%) Network Security
7 3 (1.25%) HTTP
8 1 (0.42%) DHCP
8 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.42%) VSAN
8 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (4.58%) MySQL
4 10 (4.17%) Power BI
5 8 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.33%) DB2
5 8 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 6 (2.50%) Big Data
8 5 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (22.08%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.83%) GitLab
3 12 (5.00%) CircleCI
3 12 (5.00%) Git
4 11 (4.58%) IBM UrbanCode
5 9 (3.75%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.25%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.25%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.25%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.25%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.83%) JIRA
8 2 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 60 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 50 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 33 (13.75%) Finance
5 20 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (7.92%) Banking
7 13 (5.42%) Tech for Good
8 11 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.17%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.25%) Advertising
11 3 (1.25%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.25%) Law
11 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.83%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.42%) .NET
1 13 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (4.17%) YAML
3 8 (3.33%) Spring
3 8 (3.33%) Spring XD
4 7 (2.92%) Kafka
5 6 (2.50%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.50%) JSON
6 5 (2.08%) Node.js
6 5 (2.08%) RESTful
7 4 (1.67%) XML
8 3 (1.25%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.25%) React
8 3 (1.25%) REST
9 2 (0.83%) ADO
10 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.42%) HTML
10 1 (0.42%) OpenID
10 1 (0.42%) SAML
10 1 (0.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.00%) Blockchain
2 44 (18.33%) e-Learning
2 44 (18.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.17%) Clustering
5 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.25%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.83%) Genomics
9 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.83%) PropTech
10 1 (0.42%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.42%) Derivative
10 1 (0.42%) IoT
10 1 (0.42%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 61 (25.42%) Linux
2 29 (12.08%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (42.50%) CI/CD
3 101 (42.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (41.25%) Containerisation
5 91 (37.92%) Agile
6 76 (31.67%) Mentoring
7 73 (30.42%) Observability
8 64 (26.67%) Test Automation
9 51 (21.25%) Artificial Intelligence
10 50 (20.83%) Coaching
11 47 (19.58%) Secrets Management
12 31 (12.92%) Migration
13 26 (10.83%) Fintech
13 26 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (9.17%) Configuration Management
16 21 (8.75%) Platform Engineering
17 17 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
18 16 (6.67%) ITIL
19 15 (6.25%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 85 (35.42%) Python
2 36 (15.00%) Bash
3 32 (13.33%) Java
4 26 (10.83%) SQL
5 21 (8.75%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.08%) Perl
7 12 (5.00%) Groovy
7 12 (5.00%) Ruby
8 11 (4.58%) Go
9 7 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (2.92%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.92%) PHP
9 7 (2.92%) U-SQL
10 6 (2.50%) C#
11 4 (1.67%) Lua
11 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.67%) Tcl
12 3 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.83%) C
13 2 (0.83%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (7.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.33%) Degree
3 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (36.25%) Docker
2 14 (5.83%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.25%) KVM
5 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 171 (71.25%) Terraform
2 159 (66.25%) Kubernetes
3 71 (29.58%) Prometheus
4 67 (27.92%) Ansible
5 36 (15.00%) Puppet
6 34 (14.17%) Progress Chef
7 33 (13.75%) Grafana
8 11 (4.58%) Nagios
9 10 (4.17%) Graphite
9 10 (4.17%) HAProxy
9 10 (4.17%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.50%) Istio
11 5 (2.08%) Argo
12 4 (1.67%) vRealize
13 2 (0.83%) Packer
14 1 (0.42%) Consul
14 1 (0.42%) Kibana
14 1 (0.42%) Podman
14 1 (0.42%) Salt
Vendors
1 55 (22.92%) IBM
2 45 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 44 (18.33%) Dynatrace
4 18 (7.50%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.25%) Google
6 12 (5.00%) VMware
7 8 (3.33%) Databricks
7 8 (3.33%) Oracle
7 8 (3.33%) Sybase
8 5 (2.08%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.67%) Cisco
9 4 (1.67%) New Relic
9 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.83%) Splunk
11 1 (0.42%) xMatters