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 26 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
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 612 429
Rank change year-on-year +62 -183 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 137 296 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.30% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.32% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 91 232 526
10th Percentile £60,686 £60,088 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,625 £68,718 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £104,375 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,576 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.01% -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 46,426 92,901 96,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 94.63% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 27,313 66,762 60,428
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,956 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -11.74% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £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 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 14 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 26 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 +63 128 £85,000 +6.25% 120
Work from Home +110 71 £85,000 +13.33% 62
UK excluding London +151 69 £71,991 +2.01% 69
London +44 63 £102,500 +13.89% 65
South East +118 17 £80,000 +10.34% 23
South West +111 16 £64,627 -19.22% 7
North of England +27 15 £70,000 -0.82% 12
Yorkshire +70 11 £70,000 -0.82% 3
East of England +67 10 £65,000 +12.07% 10
Scotland +127 6 £71,991 -0.70% 4
Midlands +71 5 £80,000 +18.52% 6
North West -16 4 - - 7
West Midlands +68 3 £80,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands +56 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (71.53%) CI/CD
3 85 (62.04%) AWS
4 83 (60.58%) Terraform
5 66 (48.18%) Finance
6 64 (46.72%) Kubernetes
7 55 (40.15%) Docker
8 49 (35.77%) Ansible
9 47 (34.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (34.31%) Agile
10 45 (32.85%) Python
11 44 (32.12%) Azure
12 34 (24.82%) IBM
13 33 (24.09%) Serverless
14 32 (23.36%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (23.36%) Banking
14 32 (23.36%) Jenkins
15 31 (22.63%) Software Engineering
16 30 (21.90%) Amazon S3
16 30 (21.90%) Mentoring
16 30 (21.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 29 (21.17%) Amazon EC2
18 27 (19.71%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (18.98%) GCP
20 25 (18.25%) Deployment Automation
21 24 (17.52%) Containerisation
21 24 (17.52%) AWS CloudFormation
21 24 (17.52%) Java
22 22 (16.06%) JavaScript
22 22 (16.06%) Linux

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 (7.30%) Confluence
2 9 (6.57%) nginx
3 8 (5.84%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.73%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 85 (62.04%) AWS
2 44 (32.12%) Azure
3 33 (24.09%) Serverless
4 32 (23.36%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (21.90%) Amazon S3
6 29 (21.17%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (19.71%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (18.98%) GCP
9 24 (17.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (13.14%) GitHub
11 16 (11.68%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (10.95%) Datadog
13 14 (10.22%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (5.11%) SaaS
17 6 (4.38%) IBM Cloud
18 4 (2.92%) CloudFront
18 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
19 3 (2.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) DNS
1 8 (5.84%) HTTPS
1 8 (5.84%) IPsec
1 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.38%) Firewall
3 4 (2.92%) HTTP
4 3 (2.19%) VPN
5 2 (1.46%) LAN
5 2 (1.46%) Network Security
5 2 (1.46%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.46%) WAN
6 1 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.41%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (12.41%) NoSQL
2 14 (10.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (8.03%) MySQL
4 8 (5.84%) Couchbase
4 8 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.73%) DB2
8 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.73%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.73%) Power BI
8 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (23.36%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.60%) GitLab
3 18 (13.14%) Git
4 17 (12.41%) JIRA
5 14 (10.22%) Cucumber
5 14 (10.22%) IntelliJ
5 14 (10.22%) JUnit
5 14 (10.22%) Maven
5 14 (10.22%) Mockito
6 7 (5.11%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.65%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.92%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (2.19%) Selenium
9 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.46%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.73%) Liquibase
General
1 66 (48.18%) Finance
2 32 (23.36%) Banking
3 19 (13.87%) Social Skills
4 16 (11.68%) Front Office
5 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.92%) Retail
8 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Automotive
9 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.73%) Games
9 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Law
9 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.22%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (10.22%) JMS
1 14 (10.22%) Spring
1 14 (10.22%) Spring Boot
2 8 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.11%) YAML
4 6 (4.38%) Kafka
5 3 (2.19%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.19%) AWS SAM
5 3 (2.19%) Django
5 3 (2.19%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.19%) Flask
5 3 (2.19%) Node.js
5 3 (2.19%) Playwright
5 3 (2.19%) React
6 2 (1.46%) .NET
6 2 (1.46%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.46%) Vue
7 1 (0.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.22%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (10.22%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (7.30%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.38%) Blockchain
6 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.92%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.92%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.92%) PKI
7 4 (2.92%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.73%) Life Science
9 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.06%) Linux
2 5 (3.65%) Unix
3 3 (2.19%) Windows
4 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (71.53%) CI/CD
3 47 (34.31%) Agile
3 47 (34.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (22.63%) Software Engineering
5 30 (21.90%) Mentoring
5 30 (21.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 25 (18.25%) Deployment Automation
7 24 (17.52%) Containerisation
8 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (11.68%) Fintech
10 16 (11.68%) SDLC
10 16 (11.68%) Software Delivery
11 15 (10.95%) Analytics
12 14 (10.22%) Asset Management
12 14 (10.22%) E-Commerce
12 14 (10.22%) High Availability
12 14 (10.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (32.85%) Python
2 24 (17.52%) Java
3 22 (16.06%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.22%) C++
5 12 (8.76%) Go
6 10 (7.30%) Bash
6 10 (7.30%) PowerShell
7 9 (6.57%) PHP
7 9 (6.57%) SQL
8 7 (5.11%) C#
9 5 (3.65%) Ruby
10 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.19%) Groovy
12 2 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.73%) JCL
Qualifications
1 18 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.03%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.84%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.19%) OCP
7 3 (2.19%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.73%) Degree
8 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) GDPR
1 6 (4.38%) HIPAA
1 6 (4.38%) NIST
1 6 (4.38%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (40.15%) Docker
2 5 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (60.58%) Terraform
2 64 (46.72%) Kubernetes
3 49 (35.77%) Ansible
4 10 (7.30%) Grafana
4 10 (7.30%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.38%) Istio
5 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.65%) Argo
7 2 (1.46%) Puppet
8 1 (0.73%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.73%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.73%) Kibana
8 1 (0.73%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.73%) logstash
8 1 (0.73%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.73%) Packer
8 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (24.82%) IBM
2 7 (5.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.11%) VMware
3 6 (4.38%) Google
4 5 (3.65%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.92%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.92%) Splunk
6 3 (2.19%) Confluent
6 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.46%) Snow
8 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.73%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.73%) Imperva
8 1 (0.73%) Meraki
8 1 (0.73%) Okta
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle