Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 625 442 482
Rank change year-on-year -183 +40 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 277 712 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.68% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.74% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 214 492 483
10th Percentile £57,878 £67,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.78% +6.67% +20.00%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 17 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 26 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
England -144 240 £80,000 -5.88% 37
London -68 125 £90,000 +2.86% 18
UK excluding London -114 120 £70,576 -11.78% 22
Work from Home -66 119 £75,000 -11.76% 36
North of England +18 66 £70,576 -5.90% 5
North West -9 52 £85,000 +6.25% 2
South West -30 22 £80,000 +3.23% 8
Yorkshire +90 13 £70,576 +6.53% 3
Scotland -67 9 £70,576 -19.34% 3
East of England +11 6 £58,000 -29.70%
South East -13 6 £87,500 - 3
Midlands -15 6 £67,500 -13.46% 2
Wales +3 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands +12 3 £70,000 -10.83% 1
East Midlands -24 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Northern Ireland +17 1 £70,000 - 1
North East -5 1 £67,500 -6.90%

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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.

1 277 (100.00%) DevOps
2 197 (71.12%) Terraform
3 173 (62.45%) AWS
4 168 (60.65%) Kubernetes
5 124 (44.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 123 (44.40%) CI/CD
7 111 (40.07%) Agile
8 107 (38.63%) Containerisation
9 100 (36.10%) Python
10 97 (35.02%) Azure
11 94 (33.94%) Docker
12 88 (31.77%) Mentoring
13 83 (29.96%) Ansible
14 79 (28.52%) Linux
15 73 (26.35%) GCP
15 73 (26.35%) Observability
16 72 (25.99%) Prometheus
17 64 (23.10%) Test Automation
18 62 (22.38%) Amazon S3
19 61 (22.02%) IBM
19 61 (22.02%) Public Sector
20 58 (20.94%) Amazon EKS
20 58 (20.94%) Jenkins
21 57 (20.58%) Coaching
22 56 (20.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 53 (19.13%) Social Skills
24 52 (18.77%) Artificial Intelligence
25 48 (17.33%) Amazon RDS
25 48 (17.33%) Blockchain
25 48 (17.33%) Secrets Management

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 4 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.44%) Drupal
1 4 (1.44%) WordPress
2 2 (0.72%) Apache
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.72%) CMS
2 2 (0.72%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 173 (62.45%) AWS
2 97 (35.02%) Azure
3 73 (26.35%) GCP
4 62 (22.38%) Amazon S3
5 58 (20.94%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (15.88%) Amazon ECR
6 44 (15.88%) IBM Cloud
6 44 (15.88%) OCI
6 44 (15.88%) Route 53
7 36 (13.00%) GitHub
8 34 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (11.55%) OpenShift
10 22 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.14%) Datadog
12 17 (6.14%) Serverless
13 15 (5.42%) IaaS
14 13 (4.69%) PaaS
15 12 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (3.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.50%) DNS
1 18 (6.50%) Firewall
2 14 (5.05%) Internet
3 13 (4.69%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.61%) SNMP
4 10 (3.61%) tcpdump
5 8 (2.89%) Network Security
6 4 (1.44%) IPv4
6 4 (1.44%) VPN
7 3 (1.08%) HTTP
8 1 (0.36%) DHCP
8 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.36%) VSAN
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.33%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.58%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.97%) MySQL
5 10 (3.61%) Power BI
6 9 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.89%) DB2
7 8 (2.89%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.89%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.53%) Big Data
8 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.72%) Flink
11 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 58 (20.94%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.50%) IBM UrbanCode
3 15 (5.42%) GitLab
4 12 (4.33%) CircleCI
4 12 (4.33%) Git
5 9 (3.25%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.44%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.08%) JIRA
8 3 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.08%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.36%) Mocha
10 1 (0.36%) Selenium
10 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 61 (22.02%) Public Sector
2 56 (20.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (19.13%) Social Skills
4 42 (15.16%) Finance
5 26 (9.39%) Banking
6 22 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (6.14%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.69%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.81%) Legal
11 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.08%) Advertising
12 3 (1.08%) Games
12 3 (1.08%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.08%) Law
12 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Marketing
14 1 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.69%) .NET
1 13 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.33%) Node.js
3 10 (3.61%) YAML
4 9 (3.25%) Kafka
5 8 (2.89%) Spring
5 8 (2.89%) Spring XD
6 7 (2.53%) AWS CDK
7 6 (2.17%) JSON
8 5 (1.81%) RESTful
8 5 (1.81%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.44%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.44%) XML
10 3 (1.08%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.08%) React
10 3 (1.08%) REST
11 2 (0.72%) ADO
12 1 (0.36%) HTML
12 1 (0.36%) SAML
12 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.33%) Blockchain
2 44 (15.88%) e-Learning
2 44 (15.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (11.55%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.61%) Clustering
5 7 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.81%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.08%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.72%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.72%) Genomics
9 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.72%) PropTech
10 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 79 (28.52%) Linux
2 36 (13.00%) Windows
3 2 (0.72%) Unix
3 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (100.00%) DevOps
2 124 (44.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (44.40%) CI/CD
4 111 (40.07%) Agile
5 107 (38.63%) Containerisation
6 88 (31.77%) Mentoring
7 73 (26.35%) Observability
8 64 (23.10%) Test Automation
9 57 (20.58%) Coaching
10 52 (18.77%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (17.33%) Secrets Management
12 31 (11.19%) Migration
12 31 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (9.39%) Fintech
16 25 (9.03%) ITIL
17 23 (8.30%) Configuration Management
18 21 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
19 20 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 100 (36.10%) Python
2 45 (16.25%) Bash
3 37 (13.36%) SQL
4 36 (13.00%) Java
5 28 (10.11%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.50%) Go
6 18 (6.50%) Groovy
7 17 (6.14%) Perl
7 17 (6.14%) Ruby
8 7 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.53%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.53%) PHP
8 7 (2.53%) U-SQL
9 6 (2.17%) C#
10 4 (1.44%) Bicep
10 4 (1.44%) Lua
10 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.44%) Tcl
11 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.42%) Degree
3 12 (4.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.89%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.53%) GDPR
2 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (33.94%) Docker
2 14 (5.05%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.08%) KVM
6 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 197 (71.12%) Terraform
2 168 (60.65%) Kubernetes
3 83 (29.96%) Ansible
4 72 (25.99%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.16%) Progress Chef
6 39 (14.08%) Puppet
7 33 (11.91%) Grafana
8 12 (4.33%) Nagios
9 10 (3.61%) Graphite
9 10 (3.61%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.61%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.17%) Argo
10 6 (2.17%) Istio
11 4 (1.44%) vRealize
12 3 (1.08%) Packer
13 2 (0.72%) Kibana
14 1 (0.36%) Consul
14 1 (0.36%) Podman
14 1 (0.36%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (22.02%) IBM
2 45 (16.25%) Dynatrace
2 45 (16.25%) Red Hat
3 25 (9.03%) Microsoft
4 21 (7.58%) Google
5 13 (4.69%) VMware
6 8 (2.89%) Databricks
6 8 (2.89%) Oracle
6 8 (2.89%) Sybase
7 5 (1.81%) New Relic
7 5 (1.81%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.44%) Cisco
8 4 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.44%) Splunk
9 2 (0.72%) Remedy
10 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Veracode
10 1 (0.36%) xMatters