Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 419 450
Rank change year-on-year -218 +31 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 228 570 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.69% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.75% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 169 427 500
10th Percentile £56,250 £66,250 £63,800
25th Percentile £63,750 £73,125 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 88,935 75,643 138,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 91.23% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 65,011 49,623 75,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
London -126 104 £87,500 +2.94% 26
North of England +2 70 £70,576 -5.90% 12
North West -5 56 £85,000 +9.68% 8
South West -45 24 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Yorkshire +60 13 £49,500 -30.54% 3
East of England -18 8 £72,500 -9.38% 1
Midlands -54 7 £66,482 -12.81% 8
South East -44 5 £87,500 +2.94% 2
West Midlands -17 4 £65,465 -15.53% 5
East Midlands -36 3 £67,500 -10.00% 3
North East -21 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Senior DevOps Engineer 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 across the England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 228 (100.00%) DevOps
2 163 (71.49%) Terraform
3 159 (69.74%) AWS
4 152 (66.67%) Kubernetes
5 105 (46.05%) Containerisation
6 102 (44.74%) CI/CD
7 87 (38.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 83 (36.40%) Docker
9 82 (35.96%) Agile
10 75 (32.89%) Mentoring
11 74 (32.46%) Observability
12 70 (30.70%) Public Sector
12 70 (30.70%) Prometheus
12 70 (30.70%) Python
13 66 (28.95%) Test Automation
13 66 (28.95%) Azure
14 62 (27.19%) Amazon S3
15 57 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
16 54 (23.68%) Coaching
17 52 (22.81%) GCP
17 52 (22.81%) Ansible
18 50 (21.93%) Amazon RDS
18 50 (21.93%) Artificial Intelligence
18 50 (21.93%) Linux
19 49 (21.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 47 (20.61%) Secrets Management
20 47 (20.61%) IBM
21 46 (20.18%) Red Hat
21 46 (20.18%) Jenkins
21 46 (20.18%) Blockchain

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.88%) Drupal
2 2 (0.88%) nginx
2 2 (0.88%) WordPress
3 1 (0.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) JBoss
3 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 159 (69.74%) AWS
2 66 (28.95%) Azure
3 62 (27.19%) Amazon S3
4 57 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 52 (22.81%) GCP
6 45 (19.74%) OCI
7 44 (19.30%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (19.30%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (19.30%) Route 53
8 27 (11.84%) GitHub
9 25 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (7.02%) OpenShift
13 14 (6.14%) Datadog
14 13 (5.70%) Power Platform
15 12 (5.26%) Serverless
16 10 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.70%) DNS
2 12 (5.26%) Firewall
3 11 (4.82%) Network Security
4 9 (3.95%) Internet
4 9 (3.95%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.51%) SNMP
5 8 (3.51%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.88%) HTTP
7 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.44%) SSL
7 1 (0.44%) VSAN
7 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.93%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.89%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.26%) Power BI
4 10 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.39%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 9 (3.95%) MySQL
6 8 (3.51%) DB2
6 8 (3.51%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.32%) Big Data
9 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (20.18%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.33%) GitLab
3 14 (6.14%) CircleCI
3 14 (6.14%) Git
4 7 (3.07%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.19%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.32%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.44%) JIRA
7 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (30.70%) Public Sector
2 49 (21.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (17.11%) Social Skills
4 19 (8.33%) Finance
5 17 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.14%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.51%) Banking
9 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.75%) Law
9 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Advertising
10 3 (1.32%) Games
10 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.82%) .NET
3 8 (3.51%) Spring
3 8 (3.51%) Spring XD
3 8 (3.51%) YAML
4 6 (2.63%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.63%) JSON
4 6 (2.63%) Node.js
5 5 (2.19%) RESTful
6 4 (1.75%) Kafka
6 4 (1.75%) React
6 4 (1.75%) XML
7 3 (1.32%) REST
8 2 (0.88%) ADO
9 1 (0.44%) CSS
9 1 (0.44%) CSS3
9 1 (0.44%) HTML
9 1 (0.44%) OAuth
9 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.18%) Blockchain
2 44 (19.30%) e-Learning
2 44 (19.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (7.46%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.95%) Clustering
4 9 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.88%) FMCG
6 2 (0.88%) Genomics
6 2 (0.88%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.88%) PropTech
7 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.93%) Linux
2 19 (8.33%) Windows
3 5 (2.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (46.05%) Containerisation
3 102 (44.74%) CI/CD
4 87 (38.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (35.96%) Agile
6 75 (32.89%) Mentoring
7 74 (32.46%) Observability
8 66 (28.95%) Test Automation
9 54 (23.68%) Coaching
10 50 (21.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (20.61%) Secrets Management
12 29 (12.72%) Migration
13 27 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (10.09%) Fintech
16 20 (8.77%) DevSecOps
17 19 (8.33%) Configuration Management
18 16 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
19 15 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
19 15 (6.58%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 70 (30.70%) Python
2 29 (12.72%) Bash
3 24 (10.53%) Java
4 20 (8.77%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.33%) SQL
6 14 (6.14%) Perl
7 9 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.95%) Ruby
7 9 (3.95%) U-SQL
8 8 (3.51%) Go
9 6 (2.63%) PHP
10 4 (1.75%) Lua
10 4 (1.75%) Tcl
11 3 (1.32%) C#
11 3 (1.32%) Groovy
11 3 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.88%) C
12 2 (0.88%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.75%) Degree
6 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (36.40%) Docker
2 12 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.32%) KVM
5 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 163 (71.49%) Terraform
2 152 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 70 (30.70%) Prometheus
4 52 (22.81%) Ansible
5 34 (14.91%) Puppet
6 30 (13.16%) Grafana
7 25 (10.96%) Progress Chef
8 10 (4.39%) Nagios
9 8 (3.51%) Graphite
9 8 (3.51%) HAProxy
9 8 (3.51%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.63%) Istio
11 5 (2.19%) Argo
12 4 (1.75%) vRealize
13 2 (0.88%) Packer
14 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.44%) Consul
14 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.44%) Rancher
14 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (20.61%) IBM
2 46 (20.18%) Red Hat
3 44 (19.30%) Dynatrace
4 20 (8.77%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.82%) VMware
6 10 (4.39%) Databricks
7 8 (3.51%) Oracle
7 8 (3.51%) Sybase
8 7 (3.07%) Google
9 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.75%) Cisco
10 4 (1.75%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.32%) New Relic
11 3 (1.32%) Splunk
12 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.44%) F5
12 1 (0.44%) xMatters