Senior DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 624 507 528
Rank change year-on-year -117 +21 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 127 261 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.42% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.47% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 83 159 239
10th Percentile £51,250 £56,200 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £68,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% +10.34% +16.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £92,500 -
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 66,104 55,639 67,661
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.29% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,008 31,467 43,049
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,307
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,639 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +12 65 £70,576 -5.90% 6
North West -12 52 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -19 22 £80,000 +3.23% 8
Scotland -66 13 £72,500 -17.14% 6
Yorkshire +79 12 £70,576 +6.53% 1
South East -22 10 £72,500 -15.94% 4
East of England +20 6 £58,000 -29.70%
Midlands -18 6 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Wales -3 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands -1 3 £70,000 -
East Midlands -18 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Northern Ireland +13 1 £70,000 - 2
North East -2 1 £67,500 -6.90%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 127 (100.00%) DevOps
2 86 (67.72%) Terraform
3 83 (65.35%) AWS
4 74 (58.27%) Kubernetes
5 66 (51.97%) Agile
6 63 (49.61%) Mentoring
7 54 (42.52%) Prometheus
7 54 (42.52%) Containerisation
8 53 (41.73%) IBM
9 49 (38.58%) Linux
9 49 (38.58%) Observability
10 45 (35.43%) Public Sector
11 42 (33.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (32.28%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (32.28%) Coaching
12 41 (32.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 40 (31.50%) Test Automation
14 39 (30.71%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (29.92%) Secrets Management
15 38 (29.92%) Dynatrace
16 37 (29.13%) Blockchain
16 37 (29.13%) GCP
16 37 (29.13%) Amazon RDS
17 36 (28.35%) Route 53
17 36 (28.35%) Amazon S3
17 36 (28.35%) e-Learning
17 36 (28.35%) Red Hat
17 36 (28.35%) Hybrid Cloud
17 36 (28.35%) IBM Cloud
17 36 (28.35%) Amazon ECR

Senior DevOps 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 83 (65.35%) AWS
2 41 (32.28%) Amazon EKS
3 37 (29.13%) GCP
4 36 (28.35%) Amazon ECR
4 36 (28.35%) Amazon S3
4 36 (28.35%) IBM Cloud
4 36 (28.35%) OCI
4 36 (28.35%) Route 53
5 31 (24.41%) Azure
6 20 (15.75%) OpenShift
7 17 (13.39%) GitHub
8 10 (7.87%) Datadog
9 8 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.15%) IaaS
12 4 (3.15%) Serverless
13 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.51%) DNS
2 4 (3.15%) Firewall
3 2 (1.57%) HTTP
3 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) DHCP
4 1 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.79%) VSAN
4 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.13%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.36%) Big Data
3 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
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 19 (14.96%) IBM UrbanCode
2 10 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.72%) CircleCI
3 6 (4.72%) GitLab
4 3 (2.36%) Git
4 3 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.57%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.57%) JIRA
5 2 (1.57%) Mocha
5 2 (1.57%) Selenium
5 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.57%) Subversion
5 2 (1.57%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (35.43%) Public Sector
2 42 (33.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (22.05%) Finance
4 26 (20.47%) Social Skills
5 20 (15.75%) Banking
6 17 (13.39%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (8.66%) Tech for Good
8 4 (3.15%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.36%) Advertising
9 3 (2.36%) Law
9 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.57%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.15%) JSON
1 4 (3.15%) RESTful
1 4 (3.15%) XML
2 3 (2.36%) Node.js
3 2 (1.57%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.79%) .NET
4 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.79%) HTML
4 1 (0.79%) Kafka
4 1 (0.79%) OpenID
4 1 (0.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.13%) Blockchain
2 36 (28.35%) e-Learning
2 36 (28.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (22.83%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.36%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.57%) Genomics
7 1 (0.79%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.79%) IoT
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (38.58%) Linux
2 25 (19.69%) Windows
3 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (51.97%) Agile
3 63 (49.61%) Mentoring
4 54 (42.52%) Containerisation
5 49 (38.58%) Observability
6 41 (32.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 41 (32.28%) Coaching
7 40 (31.50%) Test Automation
8 39 (30.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (29.92%) Secrets Management
10 30 (23.62%) CI/CD
11 21 (16.54%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (14.17%) ITIL
13 17 (13.39%) Customer Service
13 17 (13.39%) Problem Management
13 17 (13.39%) Service Management
13 17 (13.39%) Software Delivery
14 11 (8.66%) DevSecOps
15 10 (7.87%) Configuration Management
16 9 (7.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.32%) Python
2 19 (14.96%) SQL
3 17 (13.39%) Groovy
4 9 (7.09%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.30%) Bash
6 7 (5.51%) Java
7 5 (3.94%) Perl
8 4 (3.15%) Lua
8 4 (3.15%) Ruby
8 4 (3.15%) Tcl
9 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.36%) PHP
10 2 (1.57%) Go
10 2 (1.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.51%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.94%) Degree
4 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (22.83%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.36%) KVM
5 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (67.72%) Terraform
2 74 (58.27%) Kubernetes
3 54 (42.52%) Prometheus
4 34 (26.77%) Ansible
5 29 (22.83%) Progress Chef
6 15 (11.81%) Puppet
7 12 (9.45%) Grafana
8 4 (3.15%) Istio
8 4 (3.15%) vRealize
9 2 (1.57%) Argo
9 2 (1.57%) Kibana
9 2 (1.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (41.73%) IBM
2 38 (29.92%) Dynatrace
3 36 (28.35%) Red Hat
4 17 (13.39%) Google
5 10 (7.87%) VMware
6 4 (3.15%) Cisco
6 4 (3.15%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.15%) SaltStack
6 4 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.57%) New Relic
7 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.57%) Splunk
7 2 (1.57%) Veracode
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle