Senior DevOps Jobs in the South East

Senior Development Operations
England > South East

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the South East is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 384 348
Rank change year-on-year +96 -36 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 11 9 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.054% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.057% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 36
10th Percentile £63,750 £67,503 £71,875
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -15.94% +18.97%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile - - £100,000
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,004 15,797 13,153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.47% 93.98% 90.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,536 11,357 8,268
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the South East

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in the South East

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the South East

Senior DevOps
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Hampshire +64 5 £75,000 +3.45%
East Sussex - 4 £85,000 -
Berkshire - 2 £74,000 - 1
Thames Valley - 2 £74,000 - 4
Senior DevOps
England

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 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 South East region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) E-Commerce
2 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 4 (36.36%) Couchbase
4 4 (36.36%) Ansible
4 4 (36.36%) nginx
4 4 (36.36%) Apache Solr
4 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
4 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (36.36%) CloudFront
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (36.36%) PHP
4 4 (36.36%) MySQL
4 4 (36.36%) DNS
4 4 (36.36%) HTTPS
4 4 (36.36%) IPsec
4 4 (36.36%) Edge Computing
4 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (36.36%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Finance

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (36.36%) Apache Solr
1 4 (36.36%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) CloudFront
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) HTTPS
1 4 (36.36%) IPsec
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Couchbase
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) E-Commerce
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Edge Computing
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (9.09%) Community of Practice
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (9.09%) Product Management
5 1 (9.09%) SDLC
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) VMware