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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 503 559
Rank change year-on-year -135 +56 -174
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 126 233 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.44% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 83 138 215
10th Percentile £48,250 £63,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £61,063 £70,313 £63,875
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 £89,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £78,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +3.03% +3.13%

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 67,294 52,879 68,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.14% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,576 30,026 42,521
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 15 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 15 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 +23 71 £70,576 -5.90% 13
North West -4 54 £85,000 +6.25% 8
South West -35 23 £80,000 +3.23% 3
Yorkshire +84 16 £68,020 -4.53% 2
Scotland -61 8 £71,538 -18.24% 2
East of England -7 7 £70,000 -15.15%
Midlands -23 7 £66,482 -14.22% 5
South East -37 5 £87,500 - 3
Wales +6 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands +5 4 £65,465 -15.53% 5
East Midlands -22 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Northern Ireland +18 1 £70,000 - 4
North East -8 1 £65,465 -9.70% 3
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 15 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.

1 126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (74.60%) Terraform
3 87 (69.05%) AWS
4 80 (63.49%) Kubernetes
5 69 (54.76%) Mentoring
6 67 (53.17%) Agile
7 59 (46.83%) Containerisation
8 56 (44.44%) Prometheus
9 53 (42.06%) IBM
10 51 (40.48%) Public Sector
10 51 (40.48%) Observability
11 49 (38.89%) Linux
12 46 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (34.92%) Coaching
14 43 (34.13%) Test Automation
15 42 (33.33%) GCP
16 41 (32.54%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (32.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 40 (31.75%) Artificial Intelligence
18 38 (30.16%) Amazon RDS
18 38 (30.16%) Secrets Management
19 37 (29.37%) OCI
19 37 (29.37%) Amazon S3
20 36 (28.57%) Route 53
20 36 (28.57%) Ansible
20 36 (28.57%) Docker
20 36 (28.57%) e-Learning
20 36 (28.57%) Red Hat
20 36 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
20 36 (28.57%) Dynatrace

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 (0.79%) Apache
1 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.79%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 87 (69.05%) AWS
2 42 (33.33%) GCP
3 41 (32.54%) Amazon EKS
4 37 (29.37%) Amazon S3
4 37 (29.37%) OCI
5 36 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
5 36 (28.57%) IBM Cloud
5 36 (28.57%) Route 53
6 34 (26.98%) Azure
7 20 (15.87%) OpenShift
8 18 (14.29%) GitHub
9 12 (9.52%) Datadog
10 11 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.38%) IaaS
13 3 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) DNS
2 4 (3.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) HTTP
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) VSAN
3 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.16%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.38%) Big Data
3 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.79%) Flink
4 1 (0.79%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Redis
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (13.49%) IBM UrbanCode
2 10 (7.94%) GitLab
3 9 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 9 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.17%) Git
5 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (40.48%) Public Sector
2 41 (32.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 19 (15.08%) Finance
5 18 (14.29%) Banking
5 18 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (10.32%) Tech for Good
7 4 (3.17%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.17%) Law
8 3 (2.38%) Advertising
8 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.59%) Games
9 2 (1.59%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.17%) JSON
1 4 (3.17%) RESTful
1 4 (3.17%) XML
2 3 (2.38%) Node.js
3 2 (1.59%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.79%) .NET
4 1 (0.79%) Kafka
4 1 (0.79%) Next.js
4 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.57%) Blockchain
1 36 (28.57%) e-Learning
1 36 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (22.22%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.59%) Genomics
6 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.79%) FMCG
6 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (38.89%) Linux
2 24 (19.05%) Windows
3 4 (3.17%) Unix
4 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 69 (54.76%) Mentoring
3 67 (53.17%) Agile
4 59 (46.83%) Containerisation
5 51 (40.48%) Observability
6 46 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (34.92%) Coaching
8 43 (34.13%) Test Automation
9 40 (31.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 38 (30.16%) Secrets Management
11 34 (26.98%) CI/CD
12 18 (14.29%) Software Delivery
13 17 (13.49%) Customer Service
13 17 (13.49%) ITIL
13 17 (13.49%) Problem Management
13 17 (13.49%) Service Management
13 17 (13.49%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (7.94%) Configuration Management
15 9 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.08%) Python
2 17 (13.49%) Groovy
2 17 (13.49%) SQL
3 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.56%) Bash
5 4 (3.17%) Lua
5 4 (3.17%) Perl
5 4 (3.17%) PHP
5 4 (3.17%) Ruby
5 4 (3.17%) Tcl
6 3 (2.38%) Java
6 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.17%) Degree
2 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.38%) KVM
5 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 94 (74.60%) Terraform
2 80 (63.49%) Kubernetes
3 56 (44.44%) Prometheus
4 36 (28.57%) Ansible
5 30 (23.81%) Progress Chef
6 16 (12.70%) Grafana
7 14 (11.11%) Puppet
8 4 (3.17%) Istio
8 4 (3.17%) vRealize
9 2 (1.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 53 (42.06%) IBM
2 36 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 36 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 17 (13.49%) Google
4 10 (7.94%) VMware
5 4 (3.17%) Cisco
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.17%) SaltStack
5 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) F5