Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 633 436 438
Rank change year-on-year -197 +2 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 283 729 1,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.72% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.78% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 220 511 578
10th Percentile £59,876 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £68,718 £72,500 £67,500
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £100,225
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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
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 7 May 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 7 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 -173 243 £80,000 -5.88% 50
UK excluding London -125 131 £72,500 -9.38% 24
London -98 121 £87,500 +2.94% 27
Work from Home -90 110 £75,000 -11.76% 41
North of England +16 66 £70,576 -5.90% 8
North West -1 52 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -37 24 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +74 14 £70,576 -0.95% 2
Scotland -69 12 £77,500 -11.43% 2
South East -14 9 £72,500 -17.14% 2
East of England +6 8 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Midlands -33 7 £67,500 - 4
Wales +7 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands -12 4 £90,000 +33.33% 3
East Midlands -21 3 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Northern Ireland +21 1 £70,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 283 (100.00%) DevOps
2 200 (70.67%) Terraform
3 173 (61.13%) AWS
4 167 (59.01%) Kubernetes
5 126 (44.52%) CI/CD
6 124 (43.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 114 (40.28%) Agile
8 113 (39.93%) Containerisation
9 103 (36.40%) Azure
10 95 (33.57%) Docker
11 90 (31.80%) Python
12 88 (31.10%) Mentoring
13 85 (30.04%) Linux
14 82 (28.98%) Ansible
15 73 (25.80%) GCP
16 71 (25.09%) Observability
17 69 (24.38%) Prometheus
18 68 (24.03%) Public Sector
19 64 (22.61%) Test Automation
20 63 (22.26%) Amazon S3
21 61 (21.55%) IBM
22 60 (21.20%) Social Skills
23 58 (20.49%) Amazon EKS
24 57 (20.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 57 (20.14%) Coaching
25 56 (19.79%) Jenkins
26 52 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
27 49 (17.31%) Amazon RDS
28 48 (16.96%) Secrets Management
28 48 (16.96%) 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 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.06%) Drupal
2 3 (1.06%) WordPress
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 173 (61.13%) AWS
2 103 (36.40%) Azure
3 73 (25.80%) GCP
4 63 (22.26%) Amazon S3
5 58 (20.49%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (15.90%) OCI
7 44 (15.55%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (15.55%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (15.55%) Route 53
8 39 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (12.37%) GitHub
10 30 (10.60%) OpenShift
11 20 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (5.65%) Serverless
13 15 (5.30%) Datadog
14 14 (4.95%) IaaS
15 13 (4.59%) PaaS
16 12 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (3.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.36%) Firewall
2 17 (6.01%) DNS
3 14 (4.95%) Internet
4 13 (4.59%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.53%) SNMP
5 10 (3.53%) tcpdump
6 9 (3.18%) Network Security
7 4 (1.41%) IPv4
7 4 (1.41%) VPN
8 3 (1.06%) HTTP
9 1 (0.35%) DHCP
9 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.35%) VSAN
9 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.31%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.42%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.89%) MySQL
5 10 (3.53%) Power BI
6 9 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.83%) DB2
7 8 (2.83%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.77%) Big Data
9 5 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.71%) Flink
10 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (19.79%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.01%) IBM UrbanCode
3 15 (5.30%) GitLab
4 12 (4.24%) CircleCI
4 12 (4.24%) Git
5 9 (3.18%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.71%) JIRA
8 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.71%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 68 (24.03%) Public Sector
2 60 (21.20%) Social Skills
3 57 (20.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (15.90%) Finance
5 24 (8.48%) Banking
6 22 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.95%) Tech for Good
9 11 (3.89%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.77%) Legal
11 4 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.41%) Law
12 3 (1.06%) Advertising
12 3 (1.06%) Games
12 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.35%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (4.59%) .NET
3 12 (4.24%) Node.js
4 10 (3.53%) YAML
5 9 (3.18%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.83%) Spring
6 8 (2.83%) Spring XD
7 7 (2.47%) AWS CDK
7 7 (2.47%) Kafka
8 6 (2.12%) JSON
9 5 (1.77%) RESTful
9 5 (1.77%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (1.41%) XML
11 3 (1.06%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.06%) REST
12 2 (0.71%) ADO
12 2 (0.71%) React
13 1 (0.35%) HTML
13 1 (0.35%) SAML
13 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.96%) Blockchain
2 44 (15.55%) e-Learning
2 44 (15.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (13.07%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.53%) Clustering
5 8 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.77%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.71%) Genomics
9 2 (0.71%) PropTech
10 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.04%) Linux
2 35 (12.37%) Windows
3 3 (1.06%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (44.52%) CI/CD
3 124 (43.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (40.28%) Agile
5 113 (39.93%) Containerisation
6 88 (31.10%) Mentoring
7 71 (25.09%) Observability
8 64 (22.61%) Test Automation
9 57 (20.14%) Coaching
10 52 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (16.96%) Secrets Management
12 33 (11.66%) Migration
13 32 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (9.54%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (8.48%) Fintech
17 23 (8.13%) ITIL
18 22 (7.77%) DevSecOps
19 21 (7.42%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 90 (31.80%) Python
2 39 (13.78%) Bash
3 37 (13.07%) Java
4 36 (12.72%) SQL
5 27 (9.54%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.01%) Go
6 17 (6.01%) Groovy
7 16 (5.65%) Perl
8 15 (5.30%) Ruby
9 7 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.47%) PHP
9 7 (2.47%) U-SQL
10 5 (1.77%) Bicep
10 5 (1.77%) C#
11 4 (1.41%) Lua
11 4 (1.41%) Tcl
12 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.71%) C
13 2 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (7.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.24%) Degree
4 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.12%) GDPR
2 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (33.57%) Docker
2 14 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.12%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.06%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 200 (70.67%) Terraform
2 167 (59.01%) Kubernetes
3 82 (28.98%) Ansible
4 69 (24.38%) Prometheus
5 41 (14.49%) Progress Chef
6 37 (13.07%) Puppet
7 31 (10.95%) Grafana
8 11 (3.89%) Nagios
9 10 (3.53%) Graphite
9 10 (3.53%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.53%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.12%) Argo
10 6 (2.12%) Istio
11 4 (1.41%) vRealize
12 3 (1.06%) Packer
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
13 1 (0.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (21.55%) IBM
2 45 (15.90%) Red Hat
3 44 (15.55%) Dynatrace
4 25 (8.83%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.42%) Google
6 11 (3.89%) VMware
7 8 (2.83%) Databricks
7 8 (2.83%) Oracle
7 8 (2.83%) Sybase
8 4 (1.41%) Cisco
8 4 (1.41%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.06%) Splunk
10 2 (0.71%) New Relic
10 2 (0.71%) Remedy
11 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.35%) F5
11 1 (0.35%) xMatters