Senior DevOps Jobs in Leeds

Senior Development Operations
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Development Operations salary in Leeds is £59,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 123 168
Rank change year-on-year +49 +45 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 6 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.77% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.50% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile - - £60,875
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £49,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -20.80% -21.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,212 £78,125
90th Percentile - £72,433 £80,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,435 £68,020 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.49% +0.77% -15.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 734 2,181 2,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 96.04% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 499 1,582 1,675
10th Percentile £28,400 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,324 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,056 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +6.80%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in Leeds

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in Leeds

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Confluence
3 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform