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 £72,500 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 627 485 529
Rank change year-on-year -142 +44 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 137 254 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.48% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 94 156 244
10th Percentile £48,250 £56,125 £53,750
25th Percentile £63,938 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £79,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +5.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £81,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +4.94% +1.25%

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 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
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 15 May 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 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% 11
North West -4 54 £85,000 +6.25% 8
South West -36 23 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Yorkshire +84 16 £68,020 -4.53% 1
Scotland -58 14 £77,500 -11.43% 2
South East -34 9 £72,500 -17.14% 3
Midlands -38 8 £67,500 -1.82% 6
East of England -7 7 £70,000 -15.15%
West Midlands -10 5 £77,732 +15.16% 6
Wales +6 4 £70,576 -16.97%
East Midlands -22 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Northern Ireland +18 1 £70,000 - 2
North East -8 1 £65,465 -9.70% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (68.61%) Terraform
3 91 (66.42%) AWS
4 80 (58.39%) Kubernetes
5 69 (50.36%) Mentoring
6 67 (48.91%) Agile
7 59 (43.07%) Containerisation
8 56 (40.88%) Prometheus
9 53 (38.69%) Linux
9 53 (38.69%) IBM
10 51 (37.23%) Public Sector
10 51 (37.23%) Observability
11 46 (33.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (32.12%) Coaching
13 43 (31.39%) Test Automation
14 42 (30.66%) GCP
15 41 (29.93%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (29.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 40 (29.20%) CI/CD
16 40 (29.20%) Artificial Intelligence
17 38 (27.74%) Amazon RDS
17 38 (27.74%) Secrets Management
18 37 (27.01%) OCI
18 37 (27.01%) Amazon S3
19 36 (26.28%) Route 53
19 36 (26.28%) e-Learning
19 36 (26.28%) Red Hat
19 36 (26.28%) Amazon ECR
19 36 (26.28%) Ansible
19 36 (26.28%) Docker

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 (0.73%) Apache
1 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.73%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 91 (66.42%) AWS
2 42 (30.66%) GCP
3 41 (29.93%) Amazon EKS
4 37 (27.01%) Amazon S3
4 37 (27.01%) OCI
5 36 (26.28%) Amazon ECR
5 36 (26.28%) IBM Cloud
5 36 (26.28%) Route 53
6 35 (25.55%) Azure
7 20 (14.60%) OpenShift
8 18 (13.14%) GitHub
9 12 (8.76%) Datadog
10 11 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.19%) IaaS
13 3 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.65%) DNS
2 4 (2.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.73%) Internet
3 1 (0.73%) Network Security
3 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) VSAN
3 1 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.74%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.19%) Big Data
3 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.73%) Flink
4 1 (0.73%) MySQL
4 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Redis
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (12.41%) IBM UrbanCode
2 10 (7.30%) GitLab
3 9 (6.57%) CircleCI
3 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.92%) Git
5 1 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (37.23%) Public Sector
2 41 (29.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
4 23 (16.79%) Finance
5 18 (13.14%) Banking
5 18 (13.14%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (9.49%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.92%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.92%) Law
8 3 (2.19%) Advertising
8 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.46%) Games
9 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.92%) JSON
1 4 (2.92%) RESTful
1 4 (2.92%) XML
2 3 (2.19%) Node.js
3 2 (1.46%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.73%) .NET
4 1 (0.73%) Kafka
4 1 (0.73%) Next.js
4 1 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (26.28%) Blockchain
1 36 (26.28%) e-Learning
1 36 (26.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (23.36%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.19%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.46%) Genomics
6 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.73%) FMCG
6 1 (0.73%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (38.69%) Linux
2 24 (17.52%) Windows
3 4 (2.92%) Unix
4 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 69 (50.36%) Mentoring
3 67 (48.91%) Agile
4 59 (43.07%) Containerisation
5 51 (37.23%) Observability
6 46 (33.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (32.12%) Coaching
8 43 (31.39%) Test Automation
9 40 (29.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 40 (29.20%) CI/CD
10 38 (27.74%) Secrets Management
11 18 (13.14%) Software Delivery
12 17 (12.41%) Customer Service
12 17 (12.41%) ITIL
12 17 (12.41%) Problem Management
12 17 (12.41%) Service Management
12 17 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (10.22%) DevSecOps
14 13 (9.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (7.30%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.87%) Python
2 17 (12.41%) Groovy
2 17 (12.41%) SQL
3 9 (6.57%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.11%) Bash
4 7 (5.11%) Java
5 4 (2.92%) Lua
5 4 (2.92%) Perl
5 4 (2.92%) PHP
5 4 (2.92%) Ruby
5 4 (2.92%) Tcl
6 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.73%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (4.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.92%) Degree
2 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.46%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.73%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (26.28%) Docker
2 5 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.19%) KVM
5 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 94 (68.61%) Terraform
2 80 (58.39%) Kubernetes
3 56 (40.88%) Prometheus
4 36 (26.28%) Ansible
5 30 (21.90%) Progress Chef
6 16 (11.68%) Grafana
7 14 (10.22%) Puppet
8 4 (2.92%) Istio
8 4 (2.92%) vRealize
9 2 (1.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 53 (38.69%) IBM
2 36 (26.28%) Dynatrace
2 36 (26.28%) Red Hat
3 17 (12.41%) Google
4 10 (7.30%) VMware
5 4 (2.92%) Cisco
5 4 (2.92%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.92%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.73%) F5