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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 622 522
Rank change year-on-year +87 -100 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 51 126 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.18% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.19% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 37 82 138
10th Percentile £60,686 £48,250 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,813 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,576 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -11.78% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £89,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,502 67,301 53,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,783 47,644 30,431
10th Percentile £27,377 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
South West +95 13 £64,627 -19.22% 6
South East +102 10 £82,500 -5.71% 29
East of England +48 10 £65,000 -10.34% 6
North of England +2 9 £72,435 +2.63% 13
Yorkshire +63 8 £72,435 +2.63% 7
Scotland +109 5 £83,496 +16.72% 1
Midlands +67 4 £82,500 +24.09% 9
West Midlands +59 2 £82,500 +26.02% 8
East Midlands +41 2 - - 1
North West -50 1 - - 6
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 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
3 27 (52.94%) Terraform
4 24 (47.06%) Mentoring
5 21 (41.18%) Azure
5 21 (41.18%) AWS
6 20 (39.22%) Kubernetes
7 18 (35.29%) Agile
8 16 (31.37%) Docker
9 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (25.49%) Finance
10 13 (25.49%) IBM
11 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
12 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
12 9 (17.65%) GCP
12 9 (17.65%) Software Delivery
12 9 (17.65%) E-Commerce
12 9 (17.65%) Banking
12 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
13 8 (15.69%) Ansible
13 8 (15.69%) Python
13 8 (15.69%) Coaching
13 8 (15.69%) GitHub
13 8 (15.69%) Jenkins
14 7 (13.73%) High Availability
14 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
14 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
14 7 (13.73%) Migration

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 6 (11.76%) Confluence
2 5 (9.80%) nginx
3 4 (7.84%) Apache Solr
4 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.96%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) AWS
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) GCP
3 8 (15.69%) GitHub
4 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.76%) SaaS
6 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.84%) CloudFront
8 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (3.92%) IaaS
9 2 (3.92%) PaaS
9 2 (3.92%) Serverless
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) DNS
1 4 (7.84%) HTTPS
1 4 (7.84%) IPsec
1 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.88%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) VPN
3 2 (3.92%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) LAN
3 2 (3.92%) Network Security
3 2 (3.92%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.92%) WAN
4 1 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Couchbase
1 4 (7.84%) MySQL
1 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
1 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.76%) JIRA
3 4 (7.84%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (5.88%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.88%) Git
4 3 (5.88%) GitLab
4 3 (5.88%) Selenium
4 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (25.49%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Banking
3 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Retail
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Automotive
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Front Office
7 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.88%) Django
2 3 (5.88%) FastAPI
2 3 (5.88%) Flask
2 3 (5.88%) Playwright
3 1 (1.96%) .NET
3 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.96%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.96%) NumPy
3 1 (1.96%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.96%) Pandas
3 1 (1.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) e-Learning
2 4 (7.84%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.84%) PKI
2 4 (7.84%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Windows
1 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
3 24 (47.06%) Mentoring
4 18 (35.29%) Agile
5 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (17.65%) E-Commerce
6 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (17.65%) Software Delivery
7 8 (15.69%) Coaching
8 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.73%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (13.73%) High Availability
8 7 (13.73%) Migration
8 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (9.80%) Architectural Design
10 5 (9.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) Python
2 5 (9.80%) Go
3 4 (7.84%) PHP
4 3 (5.88%) Groovy
5 2 (3.92%) Bash
5 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.96%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) JCL
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) OCP
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (52.94%) Terraform
2 20 (39.22%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Ansible
4 4 (7.84%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.88%) Argo
5 3 (5.88%) Istio
5 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.96%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (1.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) IBM
2 6 (11.76%) VMware
3 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.96%) Hitachi