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 £71,991 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 526 612 506
Rank change year-on-year +86 -106 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 60 136 257
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 40 92 156
10th Percentile £57,000 £48,425 £56,125
25th Percentile £62,984 £66,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £72,500 £79,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -8.52% +5.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £89,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +4.94%

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
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 12 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 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
North of England +8 15 £72,435 +2.63% 11
South West +96 14 £64,627 -19.22% 6
South East +99 11 £80,000 +10.34% 30
Yorkshire +65 10 £72,435 +2.63% 5
East of England +48 10 £65,000 -10.34% 5
Scotland +104 5 £83,496 +7.74% 2
Midlands +67 5 £80,000 +18.52% 10
North West -46 5 - - 6
West Midlands +59 3 £80,000 +2.92% 10
East Midlands +41 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 12 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 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 28 (46.67%) Terraform
3 28 (46.67%) Azure
3 28 (46.67%) AWS
4 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
5 24 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 24 (40.00%) Agile
6 23 (38.33%) Docker
7 15 (25.00%) GCP
8 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
9 13 (21.67%) Finance
9 13 (21.67%) IBM
9 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
10 12 (20.00%) Python
11 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
12 10 (16.67%) NoSQL
13 9 (15.00%) JIRA
13 9 (15.00%) Banking
13 9 (15.00%) E-Commerce
13 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
13 9 (15.00%) Architectural Design
13 9 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (15.00%) Microservices
13 9 (15.00%) Software Delivery
13 9 (15.00%) Ansible
14 8 (13.33%) 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 8 (13.33%) Confluence
2 5 (8.33%) nginx
3 4 (6.67%) Apache Solr
4 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) AWS
1 28 (46.67%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) GCP
3 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (13.33%) GitHub
4 6 (10.00%) SaaS
5 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.67%) CloudFront
7 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.33%) IaaS
8 2 (3.33%) PaaS
8 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.33%) Serverless
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) DNS
1 4 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 4 (6.67%) IPsec
1 4 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.00%) HTTP
2 3 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) Firewall
3 2 (3.33%) LAN
3 2 (3.33%) Network Security
3 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.33%) WAN
4 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.00%) MySQL
2 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.67%) Couchbase
5 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.67%) DB2
7 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.00%) Git
4 3 (5.00%) GitLab
4 3 (5.00%) Selenium
4 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (21.67%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Banking
2 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Automotive
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Front Office
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.00%) Django
2 3 (5.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (5.00%) Flask
2 3 (5.00%) Playwright
3 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.33%) Node.js
3 2 (3.33%) React
3 2 (3.33%) Vue
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.67%) NumPy
4 1 (1.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.67%) Pandas
4 1 (1.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.67%) e-Learning
3 4 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.67%) PKI
3 4 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
1 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 24 (40.00%) Agile
3 24 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
6 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (15.00%) Architectural Design
7 9 (15.00%) E-Commerce
7 9 (15.00%) Microservices
7 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (15.00%) Software Delivery
8 8 (13.33%) Coaching
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.67%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (11.67%) High Availability
9 7 (11.67%) Migration
9 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 5 (8.33%) Go
3 5 (8.33%) Java
4 4 (6.67%) C#
4 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.67%) PHP
5 3 (5.00%) Groovy
6 2 (3.33%) Bash
6 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) OCP
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 4 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (38.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (46.67%) Terraform
2 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.00%) Ansible
4 4 (6.67%) Grafana
4 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.00%) Argo
5 3 (5.00%) Istio
5 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.67%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (1.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) IBM
2 6 (10.00%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.67%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.67%) Hitachi