Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 630 539 567
Rank change year-on-year -91 +28 -169
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 121 236 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.43% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 77 137 211
10th Percentile £48,250 £63,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,742 54,869 68,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,250 31,160 43,040
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +24 67 £70,576 -5.90% 8
North West -9 52 £85,000 +6.25% 4
South West -28 23 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Yorkshire +73 14 £70,576 +4.56% 3
Scotland -71 8 £71,538 -18.24% 2
East of England +5 7 £70,000 -17.65%
Midlands -7 6 £67,500 -13.46% 3
South East -30 5 £87,500 +2.94% 2
Wales +2 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands +2 3 £70,000 -10.83% 2
East Midlands -11 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Northern Ireland +20 1 £70,000 - 1
North East -9 1 £67,500 -6.90% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 90 (74.38%) Terraform
3 82 (67.77%) AWS
4 78 (64.46%) Kubernetes
5 65 (53.72%) Mentoring
6 64 (52.89%) Agile
7 57 (47.11%) Containerisation
8 54 (44.63%) Prometheus
9 53 (43.80%) IBM
10 51 (42.15%) Observability
11 46 (38.02%) Public Sector
11 46 (38.02%) Linux
12 44 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (34.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 42 (34.71%) Test Automation
14 41 (33.88%) Coaching
14 41 (33.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 41 (33.88%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (33.06%) GCP
16 38 (31.40%) Secrets Management
17 37 (30.58%) Blockchain
17 37 (30.58%) Amazon RDS
18 36 (29.75%) Route 53
18 36 (29.75%) Amazon S3
18 36 (29.75%) e-Learning
18 36 (29.75%) Red Hat
18 36 (29.75%) Hybrid Cloud
18 36 (29.75%) Dynatrace
18 36 (29.75%) IBM Cloud
18 36 (29.75%) Amazon ECR

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (0.83%) Apache
1 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.83%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 82 (67.77%) AWS
2 41 (33.88%) Amazon EKS
3 40 (33.06%) GCP
4 36 (29.75%) Amazon ECR
4 36 (29.75%) Amazon S3
4 36 (29.75%) IBM Cloud
4 36 (29.75%) OCI
4 36 (29.75%) Route 53
5 32 (26.45%) Azure
6 20 (16.53%) OpenShift
7 16 (13.22%) GitHub
8 12 (9.92%) Datadog
9 10 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.31%) Serverless
14 3 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.48%) IaaS
15 2 (1.65%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.96%) DNS
2 4 (3.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.65%) HTTP
3 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
4 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.83%) VSAN
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.58%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.48%) Big Data
3 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.83%) Flink
4 1 (0.83%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Redis
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (14.05%) IBM UrbanCode
2 8 (6.61%) CircleCI
2 8 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.13%) GitLab
4 4 (3.31%) Git
5 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (38.02%) Public Sector
2 42 (34.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
4 21 (17.36%) Finance
5 18 (14.88%) Banking
6 17 (14.05%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (10.74%) Tech for Good
8 4 (3.31%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.48%) Advertising
9 3 (2.48%) Law
9 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.65%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.83%) Games
11 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.31%) JSON
1 4 (3.31%) RESTful
1 4 (3.31%) XML
2 3 (2.48%) Node.js
3 2 (1.65%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.83%) .NET
4 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.83%) HTML
4 1 (0.83%) Kafka
4 1 (0.83%) Next.js
4 1 (0.83%) OpenID
4 1 (0.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (30.58%) Blockchain
2 36 (29.75%) e-Learning
2 36 (29.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (22.31%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.65%) Genomics
7 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.02%) Linux
2 24 (19.83%) Windows
3 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (53.72%) Mentoring
3 64 (52.89%) Agile
4 57 (47.11%) Containerisation
5 51 (42.15%) Observability
6 44 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (34.71%) Test Automation
8 41 (33.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 41 (33.88%) Coaching
9 38 (31.40%) Secrets Management
10 28 (23.14%) CI/CD
11 18 (14.88%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (14.05%) Customer Service
12 17 (14.05%) ITIL
12 17 (14.05%) Problem Management
12 17 (14.05%) Service Management
12 17 (14.05%) Software Delivery
13 10 (8.26%) Configuration Management
14 8 (6.61%) DevSecOps
15 7 (5.79%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.53%) Python
2 17 (14.05%) Groovy
2 17 (14.05%) SQL
3 9 (7.44%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.96%) Bash
5 4 (3.31%) Java
5 4 (3.31%) Lua
5 4 (3.31%) Perl
5 4 (3.31%) PHP
5 4 (3.31%) Ruby
5 4 (3.31%) Tcl
6 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.13%) Degree
2 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 34 (28.10%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.48%) KVM
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 90 (74.38%) Terraform
2 78 (64.46%) Kubernetes
3 54 (44.63%) Prometheus
4 33 (27.27%) Ansible
5 29 (23.97%) Progress Chef
6 14 (11.57%) Grafana
7 13 (10.74%) Puppet
8 4 (3.31%) Istio
8 4 (3.31%) vRealize
9 2 (1.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 53 (43.80%) IBM
2 36 (29.75%) Dynatrace
2 36 (29.75%) Red Hat
3 17 (14.05%) Google
4 9 (7.44%) VMware
5 4 (3.31%) Cisco
5 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.31%) SaltStack
5 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) F5