Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 433 489 509
Rank change year-on-year +56 +20 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 334 759 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 294 493 536
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £66,563 £68,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £106,279 £93,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.78% +10.34% +20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
England +75 296 £85,000 - 67
Work from Home +128 191 £79,632 -6.32% 29
London +77 184 £90,000 +2.86% 31
UK excluding London +150 129 £70,576 -11.78% 43
North of England +122 48 £79,632 -0.46% 21
Yorkshire +105 26 £79,632 +2.75% 7
South West +82 23 £75,000 - 2
South East +143 19 £62,500 -24.24% 12
Scotland +53 18 £70,576 -11.78% 2
North West +75 17 £79,632 -9.77% 10
Midlands +92 12 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West Midlands +113 6 £96,627 +17.12% 2
East Midlands +30 6 £70,000 - 1
Wales +18 6 £58,583 -9.87% 2
North East +38 5 £67,500 -10.00% 6
East of England +107 3 £61,750 -31.39% 2

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, 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 featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 334 (100.00%) DevOps
2 247 (73.95%) Terraform
3 204 (61.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 197 (58.98%) CI/CD
5 185 (55.39%) Kubernetes
6 160 (47.90%) Python
7 149 (44.61%) AWS
8 148 (44.31%) Ansible
8 148 (44.31%) Docker
9 142 (42.51%) Agile
10 119 (35.63%) Azure
11 110 (32.93%) Finance
12 109 (32.63%) Jenkins
13 94 (28.14%) Linux
14 72 (21.56%) Containerisation
15 70 (20.96%) Bash
16 69 (20.66%) GCP
17 68 (20.36%) Banking
18 65 (19.46%) Java
19 61 (18.26%) Configuration Management
19 61 (18.26%) PowerShell
20 55 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
21 54 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
22 50 (14.97%) Serverless
23 48 (14.37%) Social Skills
23 48 (14.37%) Mentoring
24 46 (13.77%) Prometheus
24 46 (13.77%) Puppet
25 44 (13.17%) Grafana
26 42 (12.57%) Cloud Native

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (9.28%) Confluence
2 5 (1.50%) nginx
3 4 (1.20%) Apache
4 3 (0.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) Drupal
5 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 149 (44.61%) AWS
2 119 (35.63%) Azure
3 69 (20.66%) GCP
4 55 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (14.97%) Serverless
6 40 (11.98%) GitHub
7 35 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (8.68%) Azure AKS
9 28 (8.38%) Datadog
10 25 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (5.99%) OpenShift
12 19 (5.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 19 (5.69%) SaaS
13 16 (4.79%) Pulumi
14 14 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (3.89%) Amazon S3
16 12 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (11.68%) Firewall
2 28 (8.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (8.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 18 (5.39%) Internet
4 10 (2.99%) DNS
5 8 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.80%) WAN
7 4 (1.20%) IPFIX
7 4 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.90%) HTTP
8 3 (0.90%) SNMP
8 3 (0.90%) tcpdump
8 3 (0.90%) VPN
9 1 (0.30%) DHCP
9 1 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.30%) LAN
9 1 (0.30%) Network Security
9 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 14 (4.19%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.19%) MySQL
3 12 (3.59%) Big Data
3 12 (3.59%) DynamoDB
4 11 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (2.99%) BigQuery
5 10 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.20%) ArangoDB
8 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.60%) Bigtable
10 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 109 (32.63%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.68%) Git
2 39 (11.68%) JIRA
3 33 (9.88%) GitLab
4 28 (8.38%) Bitbucket
5 25 (7.49%) IBM UrbanCode
5 25 (7.49%) SonarQube
6 18 (5.39%) Team Foundation Server
7 15 (4.49%) Artifactory
7 15 (4.49%) CircleCI
7 15 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.89%) TeamCity
9 9 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.69%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.69%) Maven
9 9 (2.69%) Selenium
10 7 (2.10%) Travis CI
11 6 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (1.50%) Mocha
12 5 (1.50%) Zephyr
General
1 110 (32.93%) Finance
2 68 (20.36%) Banking
3 48 (14.37%) Social Skills
4 42 (12.57%) Retail
5 15 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (4.19%) Retail Banking
7 13 (3.89%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.29%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.40%) Electronics
11 8 (2.40%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.50%) Marketing
14 3 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.60%) Aviation
15 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.60%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.38%) Spine.js
2 23 (6.89%) .NET
3 20 (5.99%) ARM Templates
4 14 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.19%) Kafka
5 13 (3.89%) Node.js
5 13 (3.89%) YAML
6 12 (3.59%) .NET Core
7 10 (2.99%) JSON
8 9 (2.69%) .NET Framework
9 7 (2.10%) Next.js
10 6 (1.80%) React
11 5 (1.50%) REST
12 4 (1.20%) LAMP
12 4 (1.20%) NETCONF
12 4 (1.20%) OpenID
12 4 (1.20%) SAML
12 4 (1.20%) YANG
13 3 (0.90%) ADO
14 2 (0.60%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.58%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.09%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (4.19%) Online Banking
4 14 (4.19%) Robotics
5 12 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (2.10%) Tandem
8 7 (2.10%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Clustering
10 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.60%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 94 (28.14%) Linux
2 22 (6.59%) Windows
3 6 (1.80%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.20%) Unix
4 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.90%) Debian
5 3 (0.90%) VMS
6 2 (0.60%) CentOS
6 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (100.00%) DevOps
2 204 (61.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 197 (58.98%) CI/CD
4 142 (42.51%) Agile
5 72 (21.56%) Containerisation
6 61 (18.26%) Configuration Management
7 54 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.37%) Mentoring
9 36 (10.78%) DevSecOps
9 36 (10.78%) Software Engineering
10 34 (10.18%) Analytics
10 34 (10.18%) Cloud Security
10 34 (10.18%) Problem Management
11 32 (9.58%) Fintech
11 32 (9.58%) Microservices
11 32 (9.58%) Software Delivery
12 31 (9.28%) SDLC
13 29 (8.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (8.08%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (8.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 160 (47.90%) Python
2 70 (20.96%) Bash
3 65 (19.46%) Java
4 61 (18.26%) PowerShell
5 31 (9.28%) Ruby
5 31 (9.28%) SQL
6 30 (8.98%) Groovy
7 26 (7.78%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.09%) C#
9 16 (4.79%) Bicep
9 16 (4.79%) Go
10 9 (2.69%) Perl
10 9 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.40%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.80%) PHP
13 5 (1.50%) SOQL
14 4 (1.20%) C++
14 4 (1.20%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.90%) Rust
15 3 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (8.38%) Degree
2 23 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.99%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.20%) CCNA
10 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.20%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.60%) MCSA
11 2 (0.60%) MCSE
11 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (2.10%) QA
2 6 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 148 (44.31%) Docker
2 14 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.20%) Ceph
6 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 247 (73.95%) Terraform
2 185 (55.39%) Kubernetes
3 148 (44.31%) Ansible
4 46 (13.77%) Prometheus
4 46 (13.77%) Puppet
5 44 (13.17%) Grafana
6 42 (12.57%) Progress Chef
7 15 (4.49%) Packer
8 13 (3.89%) Nagios
9 7 (2.10%) Argo
9 7 (2.10%) Istio
10 5 (1.50%) Kibana
11 4 (1.20%) Fortio
11 4 (1.20%) Kiali
12 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.60%) Graphite
13 2 (0.60%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.60%) SCOM
14 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (9.28%) ServiceNow
1 31 (9.28%) Splunk
2 29 (8.68%) Cisco
2 29 (8.68%) Fortinet
3 28 (8.38%) CheckPoint
3 28 (8.38%) F5
4 22 (6.59%) Google
4 22 (6.59%) New Relic
5 21 (6.29%) VMware
6 20 (5.99%) IBM
6 20 (5.99%) Microsoft
7 19 (5.69%) Veracode
8 13 (3.89%) SaltStack
9 9 (2.69%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.10%) Synopsys
11 6 (1.80%) Oracle
12 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.20%) Apple
13 4 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.90%) Red Hat