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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 626 520
Rank change year-on-year +114 -106 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 59 139 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.19% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 39 95 152
10th Percentile £56,500 £48,250 £56,150
25th Percentile £62,218 £64,125 £68,497
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £93,695 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -8.82% +3.03%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
North of England -17 16 £72,435 +2.63% 83
South West +108 14 £64,627 -19.22% 53
South East +93 10 £82,500 +3.13% 126
Yorkshire +55 10 £72,435 +10.65% 35
East of England +45 10 £65,000 -10.34% 71
North West -49 6 - - 38
Midlands +57 5 £70,000 +3.70% 74
Scotland +114 4 £97,500 +25.81% 15
West Midlands +62 3 £70,000 -9.95% 42
East Midlands +38 2 - - 27
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (59.32%) CI/CD
3 31 (52.54%) AWS
4 29 (49.15%) Azure
5 28 (47.46%) Kubernetes
6 25 (42.37%) Terraform
7 23 (38.98%) Docker
8 22 (37.29%) Mentoring
8 22 (37.29%) Agile
9 16 (27.12%) GCP
10 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (23.73%) Containerisation
12 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
12 13 (22.03%) Python
12 13 (22.03%) IBM
13 12 (20.34%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
15 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
15 10 (16.95%) Finance
15 10 (16.95%) Architectural Design
15 10 (16.95%) Microservices
16 9 (15.25%) Ansible
16 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
16 9 (15.25%) Software Delivery
16 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
16 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
17 8 (13.56%) GitHub
17 8 (13.56%) Banking
17 8 (13.56%) E-Commerce
17 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps

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 6 (10.17%) Confluence
2 4 (6.78%) nginx
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Solr
4 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.69%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 31 (52.54%) AWS
2 29 (49.15%) Azure
3 16 (27.12%) GCP
4 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.56%) GitHub
5 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.78%) CloudFront
7 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (5.08%) SaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.39%) IaaS
8 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.39%) Serverless
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
1 3 (5.08%) HTTPS
1 3 (5.08%) IPsec
1 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.08%) VPN
2 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) LAN
2 2 (3.39%) Network Security
2 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.39%) WAN
3 1 (1.69%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.47%) MySQL
4 3 (5.08%) Couchbase
4 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.69%) DB2
6 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.86%) JIRA
3 4 (6.78%) GitLab
3 4 (6.78%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (5.08%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.08%) Git
4 3 (5.08%) Selenium
4 3 (5.08%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (16.95%) Finance
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.78%) Retail
6 2 (3.39%) Automotive
6 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.69%) Front Office
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) Django
1 3 (5.08%) FastAPI
1 3 (5.08%) Flask
1 3 (5.08%) Playwright
1 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.39%) Node.js
2 2 (3.39%) React
2 2 (3.39%) Vue
3 1 (1.69%) .NET
3 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.69%) Kafka
3 1 (1.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.69%) NumPy
3 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.69%) Pandas
3 1 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.47%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) e-Learning
3 4 (6.78%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.78%) PKI
3 4 (6.78%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
1 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (59.32%) CI/CD
3 22 (37.29%) Agile
3 22 (37.29%) Mentoring
4 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (23.73%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (16.95%) Architectural Design
7 10 (16.95%) Microservices
8 9 (15.25%) Software Delivery
8 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.56%) Coaching
9 8 (13.56%) E-Commerce
9 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.86%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (11.86%) High Availability
10 7 (11.86%) Migration
11 6 (10.17%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) Python
2 7 (11.86%) SQL
3 6 (10.17%) Java
4 5 (8.47%) C#
5 4 (6.78%) Go
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.08%) Groovy
6 3 (5.08%) PHP
7 2 (3.39%) Bash
7 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.69%) JCL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) AWS Certification
3 7 (11.86%) Azure Certification
4 6 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.08%) OCP
6 3 (5.08%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) GDPR
1 5 (8.47%) HIPAA
1 5 (8.47%) NIST
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (38.98%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (47.46%) Kubernetes
2 25 (42.37%) Terraform
3 9 (15.25%) Ansible
4 4 (6.78%) Grafana
4 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) Argo
5 3 (5.08%) Istio
5 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.69%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) IBM
2 6 (10.17%) VMware
3 5 (8.47%) Google
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) Hitachi