Senior DevOps Jobs

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2024.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 372 432
Rank change year-on-year -114 +60 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 339 487 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.80% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.84% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 183 380 603
10th Percentile £48,250 £61,062 £63,750
25th Percentile £63,125 £66,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,875 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 75,029 58,132 138,175
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.62% 95.77% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 39,968 42,027 78,927
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 10 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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 -97 319 £75,000 -6.25% 33
UK excluding London -34 221 £70,000 -6.67% 24
Work from Home -65 136 £85,000 +9.68% 21
London -78 108 £95,000 +5.56% 16
North of England +19 90 £49,500 -34.58% 1
South East -2 81 £75,000 -3.23% 5
North West +21 69 £80,000 +6.67% 1
Yorkshire +16 20 £49,500 -34.58%
Midlands -49 18 £70,000 +3.70% 7
South West -36 13 £75,000 -5.82% 4
Scotland -9 12 £80,000 +6.67% 1
West Midlands -35 12 £70,000 +3.70% 4
East Midlands -34 6 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East of England -48 4 £77,500 -8.82%
Wales +21 3 £55,000 -19.70% 3
North East -35 1 £65,465 +24.69%

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 339 (100.00%) DevOps
2 214 (63.13%) Terraform
3 188 (55.46%) Agile
4 182 (53.69%) AWS
5 173 (51.03%) Mentoring
6 171 (50.44%) Kubernetes
7 152 (44.84%) Containerisation
8 134 (39.53%) CI/CD
9 130 (38.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 108 (31.86%) Public Sector
11 104 (30.68%) Social Skills
12 101 (29.79%) Finance
13 98 (28.91%) Coaching
14 96 (28.32%) Amazon S3
15 95 (28.02%) Test Automation
16 94 (27.73%) Observability
17 88 (25.96%) Azure
17 88 (25.96%) Amazon RDS
18 83 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
18 83 (24.48%) Amazon EKS
19 82 (24.19%) Prometheus
20 80 (23.60%) Software Engineering
20 80 (23.60%) Red Hat
21 79 (23.30%) Artificial Intelligence
22 76 (22.42%) IBM
22 76 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
23 73 (21.53%) e-Learning
23 73 (21.53%) Docker
24 72 (21.24%) Analytics
24 72 (21.24%) Secrets Management

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 59 (17.40%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (0.59%) nginx
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 59 (17.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 182 (53.69%) AWS
2 96 (28.32%) Amazon S3
3 88 (25.96%) Azure
4 83 (24.48%) Amazon EKS
5 72 (21.24%) Amazon ECR
5 72 (21.24%) OCI
6 71 (20.94%) IBM Cloud
6 71 (20.94%) Route 53
7 41 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (9.73%) GitHub
9 32 (9.44%) Serverless
10 31 (9.14%) GCP
11 25 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (4.42%) IaaS
16 14 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (3.83%) PaaS
18 11 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.77%) Network Security
2 5 (1.47%) Firewall
2 5 (1.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.29%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (25.96%) Amazon RDS
2 62 (18.29%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (17.99%) RDBMS
3 61 (17.99%) Relational Database
4 57 (16.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (2.95%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.06%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.18%) DB2
10 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (0.88%) Power BI
11 2 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
12 1 (0.29%) Big Data
12 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (9.73%) Jenkins
2 28 (8.26%) Git
3 27 (7.96%) GitLab
4 21 (6.19%) CircleCI
5 14 (4.13%) Artifactory
6 13 (3.83%) Selenium
6 13 (3.83%) TeamCity
7 11 (3.24%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.36%) Maven
9 7 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (1.47%) IntelliJ
10 5 (1.47%) JUnit
10 5 (1.47%) Mockito
11 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.88%) Chocolatey
12 3 (0.88%) GoCD
13 2 (0.59%) Flyway
14 1 (0.29%) Cactus
14 1 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 130 (38.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 108 (31.86%) Public Sector
3 104 (30.68%) Social Skills
4 101 (29.79%) Finance
5 67 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (17.11%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (16.81%) Influencing Skills
7 57 (16.81%) Military
8 14 (4.13%) Banking
9 10 (2.95%) Front Office
9 10 (2.95%) Retail
10 8 (2.36%) Games
11 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Law
13 1 (0.29%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.95%) Spring
2 9 (2.65%) .NET
2 9 (2.65%) Node.js
2 9 (2.65%) React
3 7 (2.06%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.06%) JSON
3 7 (2.06%) RESTful
4 5 (1.47%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (1.47%) JMS
4 5 (1.47%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.18%) OAuth
5 4 (1.18%) Spring XD
6 3 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.59%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.29%) Angular 2
8 1 (0.29%) CSS
8 1 (0.29%) HTML
8 1 (0.29%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.29%) Next.js
8 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (21.53%) e-Learning
2 71 (20.94%) Blockchain
2 71 (20.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (18.58%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (7.67%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.06%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.47%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.88%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.59%) FMCG
12 2 (0.59%) IoT
12 2 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
13 1 (0.29%) 3D Printing
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.39%) Linux
2 9 (2.65%) Windows
3 8 (2.36%) Unix
4 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.59%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (100.00%) DevOps
2 188 (55.46%) Agile
3 173 (51.03%) Mentoring
4 152 (44.84%) Containerisation
5 134 (39.53%) CI/CD
6 98 (28.91%) Coaching
7 95 (28.02%) Test Automation
8 94 (27.73%) Observability
9 83 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 80 (23.60%) Software Engineering
11 79 (23.30%) Artificial Intelligence
12 76 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (21.24%) Analytics
13 72 (21.24%) Secrets Management
14 67 (19.76%) Customer Experience
15 62 (18.29%) Software Delivery
16 60 (17.70%) Data Modelling
17 58 (17.11%) Integration Testing
17 58 (17.11%) ITIL
17 58 (17.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (18.58%) Python
2 31 (9.14%) Bash
3 26 (7.67%) Java
3 26 (7.67%) PowerShell
4 23 (6.78%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.72%) SQL
6 5 (1.47%) C++
7 3 (0.88%) C#
7 3 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.88%) Go
7 3 (0.88%) Groovy
7 3 (0.88%) U-SQL
8 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.59%) Ruby
8 2 (0.59%) Scala
8 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.29%) AWK
9 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.29%) PHP
9 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (16.81%) DBS Check
2 16 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.06%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.06%) Degree
5 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.65%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (21.53%) Docker
2 6 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 214 (63.13%) Terraform
2 171 (50.44%) Kubernetes
3 82 (24.19%) Prometheus
4 37 (10.91%) Ansible
5 18 (5.31%) Puppet
6 17 (5.01%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.95%) Grafana
8 7 (2.06%) Consul
9 4 (1.18%) Istio
9 4 (1.18%) Packer
9 4 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.88%) Argo
10 3 (0.88%) Fortio
10 3 (0.88%) Kiali
11 2 (0.59%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.29%) Nagios
12 1 (0.29%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 80 (23.60%) Red Hat
2 76 (22.42%) IBM
3 71 (20.94%) Dynatrace
4 67 (19.76%) Oracle
5 11 (3.24%) Microsoft
6 10 (2.95%) Veracode
7 9 (2.65%) Databricks
8 6 (1.77%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.77%) VMware
9 4 (1.18%) Google
9 4 (1.18%) Sybase
10 3 (0.88%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.88%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.59%) Splunk
12 1 (0.29%) F5
12 1 (0.29%) New Relic