Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £72,435 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 328 345
Rank change year-on-year +16 +17 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 9 66 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.082% 0.38% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.40% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8 29 44
10th Percentile - £48,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £56,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,435 £70,576 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £76,840 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £83,330 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,108 16,430 15,642
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 94.95% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,820 12,704 8,302
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,658 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +70 8 £72,435 +2.63% 4
North West -29 1 - - 6
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
3 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (77.78%) Terraform
3 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 7 (77.78%) GitHub
3 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
4 6 (66.67%) Docker
5 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
5 5 (55.56%) AWS
5 5 (55.56%) Python
5 5 (55.56%) IBM
5 5 (55.56%) Finance
5 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
6 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (44.44%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (44.44%) Banking
6 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
7 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (33.33%) Flask
7 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
7 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (33.33%) Grafana
7 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (33.33%) Ansible
7 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) CICS
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
3 7 (77.78%) GitHub
4 5 (55.56%) AWS
5 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (33.33%) CircleCI
3 3 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Banking
4 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Automotive
5 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Django
1 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 3 (33.33%) Flask
1 3 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
2 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Life Science
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Batch Management
7 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) Digital Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) OCP
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Argo
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Istio
2 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) Hitachi
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft