Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £79,875 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 430 428
Rank change year-on-year -192 -2 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 287 728 1,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.72% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.79% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 224 510 571
10th Percentile £58,938 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,875 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £94,063 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +15.38%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -162 246 £80,000 -5.88% 48
UK excluding London -112 135 £72,500 -9.38% 29
London -103 120 £87,500 +2.94% 21
Work from Home -93 109 £73,750 -13.24% 42
North of England +29 68 £70,576 -5.90% 10
North West 0 52 £85,000 +6.25% 7
South West -30 24 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +84 15 £70,576 -0.95% 2
Scotland -71 13 £77,500 -11.43% 4
South East -35 9 £72,500 -15.94% 2
East of England +10 8 £72,500 -12.12% 1
Midlands -43 8 £67,500 -1.82% 6
West Midlands -16 5 £77,732 +15.16% 4
Wales -1 4 £70,576 -16.97%
East Midlands -21 3 £67,500 -10.00% 2
Northern Ireland +18 1 £70,000 - 1
North East -9 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 287 (100.00%) DevOps
2 203 (70.73%) Terraform
3 176 (61.32%) AWS
4 167 (58.19%) Kubernetes
5 132 (45.99%) CI/CD
6 127 (44.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 119 (41.46%) Agile
8 114 (39.72%) Containerisation
9 105 (36.59%) Azure
10 96 (33.45%) Docker
11 92 (32.06%) Mentoring
11 92 (32.06%) Python
12 89 (31.01%) Linux
13 82 (28.57%) Ansible
14 73 (25.44%) GCP
14 73 (25.44%) Prometheus
15 72 (25.09%) Public Sector
16 71 (24.74%) Observability
17 64 (22.30%) Test Automation
18 63 (21.95%) Amazon S3
19 61 (21.25%) Coaching
19 61 (21.25%) IBM
19 61 (21.25%) Social Skills
20 58 (20.21%) Amazon EKS
21 57 (19.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 57 (19.86%) Jenkins
22 52 (18.12%) Artificial Intelligence
23 49 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
24 48 (16.72%) Secrets Management
24 48 (16.72%) Blockchain

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 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.05%) Apache
2 3 (1.05%) Drupal
2 3 (1.05%) WordPress
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.70%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 176 (61.32%) AWS
2 105 (36.59%) Azure
3 73 (25.44%) GCP
4 63 (21.95%) Amazon S3
5 58 (20.21%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (15.68%) OCI
7 44 (15.33%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (15.33%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (15.33%) Route 53
8 40 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (12.20%) GitHub
10 31 (10.80%) OpenShift
11 20 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (5.57%) Datadog
12 16 (5.57%) Serverless
13 14 (4.88%) IaaS
14 13 (4.53%) PaaS
15 12 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (3.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.27%) Firewall
2 17 (5.92%) DNS
3 14 (4.88%) Internet
4 13 (4.53%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.48%) Network Security
5 10 (3.48%) SNMP
5 10 (3.48%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.39%) IPv4
6 4 (1.39%) VPN
7 3 (1.05%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.32%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.83%) MySQL
4 11 (3.83%) Power BI
5 10 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.79%) DB2
7 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (2.79%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.74%) Big Data
8 5 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.70%) Flink
9 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (19.86%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.62%) GitLab
3 17 (5.92%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (4.53%) Git
5 12 (4.18%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.39%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.70%) JIRA
10 2 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.70%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (25.09%) Public Sector
2 61 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 57 (19.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (14.98%) Finance
5 23 (8.01%) Banking
6 22 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.88%) Tech for Good
9 11 (3.83%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.74%) Legal
11 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.39%) Law
12 3 (1.05%) Advertising
12 3 (1.05%) Games
12 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.35%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (4.53%) .NET
3 12 (4.18%) Node.js
4 10 (3.48%) YAML
5 9 (3.14%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.79%) Spring
6 8 (2.79%) Spring XD
7 7 (2.44%) AWS CDK
7 7 (2.44%) Kafka
8 6 (2.09%) JSON
9 5 (1.74%) RESTful
9 5 (1.74%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (1.39%) XML
11 3 (1.05%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.05%) React
11 3 (1.05%) REST
12 2 (0.70%) ADO
12 2 (0.70%) HTML
12 2 (0.70%) OpenID
13 1 (0.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.72%) Blockchain
2 44 (15.33%) e-Learning
2 44 (15.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (12.54%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.48%) Clustering
5 8 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.74%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.05%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.70%) Genomics
9 2 (0.70%) PropTech
10 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 89 (31.01%) Linux
2 35 (12.20%) Windows
3 7 (2.44%) Unix
4 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (45.99%) CI/CD
3 127 (44.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (41.46%) Agile
5 114 (39.72%) Containerisation
6 92 (32.06%) Mentoring
7 71 (24.74%) Observability
8 64 (22.30%) Test Automation
9 61 (21.25%) Coaching
10 52 (18.12%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (16.72%) Secrets Management
12 36 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (11.15%) Migration
14 28 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (8.36%) Continuous Integration
16 23 (8.01%) DevSecOps
16 23 (8.01%) Fintech
16 23 (8.01%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 92 (32.06%) Python
2 40 (13.94%) Bash
3 37 (12.89%) SQL
4 36 (12.54%) Java
5 27 (9.41%) PowerShell
6 17 (5.92%) Go
6 17 (5.92%) Groovy
7 16 (5.57%) Perl
8 15 (5.23%) Ruby
9 8 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.79%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.79%) U-SQL
10 7 (2.44%) PHP
11 5 (1.74%) Bicep
11 5 (1.74%) C#
12 4 (1.39%) Lua
12 4 (1.39%) Tcl
13 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.70%) C
14 2 (0.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (7.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.18%) Degree
4 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.09%) GDPR
2 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (33.45%) Docker
2 14 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.09%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.05%) KVM
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 203 (70.73%) Terraform
2 167 (58.19%) Kubernetes
3 82 (28.57%) Ansible
4 73 (25.44%) Prometheus
5 42 (14.63%) Progress Chef
6 38 (13.24%) Puppet
7 35 (12.20%) Grafana
8 12 (4.18%) Nagios
9 10 (3.48%) Graphite
9 10 (3.48%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.48%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.09%) Argo
10 6 (2.09%) Istio
11 4 (1.39%) vRealize
12 3 (1.05%) Packer
13 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
13 1 (0.35%) Salt
13 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (21.25%) IBM
2 46 (16.03%) Red Hat
3 44 (15.33%) Dynatrace
4 26 (9.06%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.32%) Google
6 11 (3.83%) VMware
7 9 (3.14%) Databricks
8 8 (2.79%) Oracle
8 8 (2.79%) Sybase
9 4 (1.39%) Cisco
9 4 (1.39%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.39%) Splunk
10 3 (1.05%) New Relic
11 2 (0.70%) Remedy
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.35%) F5
12 1 (0.35%) xMatters