Senior DevOps Jobs

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 610 450
Rank change year-on-year +63 -160 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 138 276 758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.30% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.31% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 102 239 553
10th Percentile £60,686 £59,752 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,359 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £127,000 £110,349 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,576 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% -11.78% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 45,395 87,903 100,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 94.66% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,615 64,309 62,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,645 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -8.93% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,433 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 April 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
England +58 128 £87,500 +9.38% 83
Work from Home +125 76 £85,000 +13.33% 51
London +12 72 £102,500 +13.89% 62
UK excluding London +158 60 £72,500 +2.73% 32
South East +112 17 £75,000 +3.45% 14
North of England +62 12 £62,185 -11.89% 5
South West +89 10 £64,627 -16.61% 1
Yorkshire +79 10 £62,185 -11.89% 2
East of England +63 10 £65,000 +41.30% 2
Scotland +114 6 £71,991 +2.01% 6
Midlands +66 4 £82,500 +22.22% 3
East Midlands +52 2 - -
West Midlands +35 2 £82,500 +17.86% 3
North West +12 2 - - 2
Wales +39 1 £60,000 -14.98% 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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 featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 138 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (75.36%) CI/CD
3 94 (68.12%) Terraform
4 93 (67.39%) AWS
5 72 (52.17%) Kubernetes
6 71 (51.45%) Finance
7 61 (44.20%) Docker
8 53 (38.41%) Ansible
9 51 (36.96%) Python
10 47 (34.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 44 (31.88%) Agile
12 37 (26.81%) Banking
12 37 (26.81%) Azure
12 37 (26.81%) Serverless
13 36 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (25.36%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (25.36%) Amazon S3
14 35 (25.36%) Software Engineering
14 35 (25.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 30 (21.74%) Jenkins
16 29 (21.01%) Containerisation
17 28 (20.29%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (19.57%) Mentoring
18 27 (19.57%) JavaScript
19 26 (18.84%) Fintech
20 25 (18.12%) Deployment Automation
20 25 (18.12%) IBM
21 24 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
21 24 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
22 23 (16.67%) GCP

Senior DevOps 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 10 (7.25%) Confluence
2 9 (6.52%) nginx
3 8 (5.80%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.72%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 93 (67.39%) AWS
2 37 (26.81%) Azure
2 37 (26.81%) Serverless
3 36 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (25.36%) Amazon EC2
4 35 (25.36%) Amazon S3
5 28 (20.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (16.67%) GCP
8 22 (15.94%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (14.49%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (14.49%) GitHub
10 14 (10.14%) Datadog
11 10 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.80%) SaaS
13 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (4.35%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (2.90%) IaaS
14 4 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (2.17%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) DNS
1 8 (5.80%) HTTPS
1 8 (5.80%) IPsec
1 8 (5.80%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.35%) Firewall
3 4 (2.90%) HTTP
4 3 (2.17%) Network Security
4 3 (2.17%) VPN
5 2 (1.45%) LAN
5 2 (1.45%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (14.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (10.87%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.97%) MySQL
5 8 (5.80%) Couchbase
5 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.07%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.72%) DB2
9 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.72%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.72%) Power BI
9 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.77%) Git
2 19 (13.77%) GitLab
3 16 (11.59%) JIRA
4 13 (9.42%) Cucumber
4 13 (9.42%) IntelliJ
4 13 (9.42%) JUnit
4 13 (9.42%) Maven
4 13 (9.42%) Mockito
5 6 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.62%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.62%) Selenium
6 5 (3.62%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.62%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.90%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 71 (51.45%) Finance
2 37 (26.81%) Banking
3 22 (15.94%) Front Office
4 18 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.90%) Retail
7 3 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Games
8 2 (1.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Automotive
9 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.42%) ActiveMQ
1 13 (9.42%) JMS
1 13 (9.42%) Spring
1 13 (9.42%) Spring Boot
2 8 (5.80%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (5.07%) YAML
4 6 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (4.35%) Kafka
5 5 (3.62%) Node.js
6 4 (2.90%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.17%) Django
7 3 (2.17%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.17%) Flask
7 3 (2.17%) Playwright
7 3 (2.17%) React
8 2 (1.45%) .NET
8 2 (1.45%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.45%) Vue
9 1 (0.72%) Apache Cordova
9 1 (0.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Management Information System
2 13 (9.42%) Credit Derivative
2 13 (9.42%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.07%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.07%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.35%) Blockchain
6 5 (3.62%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.90%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.90%) PKI
7 4 (2.90%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.72%) Life Science
10 1 (0.72%) Online Games
10 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) Unix
3 3 (2.17%) Windows
4 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.72%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (75.36%) CI/CD
3 47 (34.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (31.88%) Agile
5 35 (25.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 35 (25.36%) Software Engineering
6 29 (21.01%) Containerisation
7 27 (19.57%) Mentoring
8 26 (18.84%) Fintech
9 25 (18.12%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (14.49%) Asset Management
11 19 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.32%) Software Delivery
13 16 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.59%) SDLC
14 14 (10.14%) Analytics
14 14 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (10.14%) High Availability
14 14 (10.14%) Microservices
15 12 (8.70%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.96%) Python
2 27 (19.57%) JavaScript
3 21 (15.22%) Java
4 14 (10.14%) Bash
5 13 (9.42%) C++
6 12 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 10 (7.25%) PHP
8 9 (6.52%) Go
9 7 (5.07%) SQL
10 5 (3.62%) C#
10 5 (3.62%) Ruby
11 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.17%) Groovy
13 2 (1.45%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.72%) JCL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) OCP
6 3 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) GDPR
2 4 (2.90%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.90%) NIST
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 61 (44.20%) Docker
2 5 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (68.12%) Terraform
2 72 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 53 (38.41%) Ansible
4 10 (7.25%) Progress Chef
5 9 (6.52%) Grafana
6 6 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.62%) Argo
7 5 (3.62%) Istio
8 2 (1.45%) Puppet
9 1 (0.72%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.72%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.72%) Kibana
9 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.72%) logstash
9 1 (0.72%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.72%) Packer
9 1 (0.72%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.12%) IBM
2 8 (5.80%) VMware
3 7 (5.07%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.62%) Google
4 5 (3.62%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.90%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.90%) Splunk
6 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.45%) Confluent
7 2 (1.45%) Snow
7 2 (1.45%) Veracode
8 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.72%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.72%) Imperva
8 1 (0.72%) Meraki
8 1 (0.72%) Okta
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle