Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £78,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 426 432
Rank change year-on-year -161 +6 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 247 637 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.73% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.79% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 187 469 538
10th Percentile £58,867 £65,000 £63,800
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £93,125 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £100,750
UK median annual salary £78,000 £85,000 £81,000
% change year-on-year -8.24% +4.94% +1.25%

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 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London -104 116 £83,750 -1.47% 39
North of England +30 75 £70,576 -5.90% 9
North West -1 57 £85,000 +6.25% 7
South West -27 24 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +79 17 £65,465 -13.10% 1
East of England -2 8 £72,500 -12.12% 2
Midlands -40 8 £67,500 -5.26% 3
South East -26 7 £80,000 -8.57% 16
West Midlands -18 5 £77,732 +11.05% 3
East Midlands -11 3 £67,500 -10.00%
North East -11 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 247 (100.00%) DevOps
2 181 (73.28%) Terraform
3 161 (65.18%) Kubernetes
4 160 (64.78%) AWS
5 113 (45.75%) Containerisation
6 110 (44.53%) CI/CD
7 105 (42.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 99 (40.08%) Agile
9 92 (37.25%) Docker
10 83 (33.60%) Mentoring
10 83 (33.60%) Azure
11 76 (30.77%) Public Sector
12 73 (29.55%) Python
13 72 (29.15%) Observability
13 72 (29.15%) Prometheus
14 66 (26.72%) Test Automation
15 65 (26.32%) Linux
16 64 (25.91%) Ansible
17 62 (25.10%) Amazon S3
18 61 (24.70%) GCP
19 58 (23.48%) Amazon EKS
20 56 (22.67%) Social Skills
21 55 (22.27%) IBM
22 54 (21.86%) Coaching
23 51 (20.65%) Amazon RDS
24 50 (20.24%) Jenkins
24 50 (20.24%) Artificial Intelligence
24 50 (20.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 47 (19.03%) Secrets Management
26 46 (18.62%) Blockchain

Senior DevOps 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 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.21%) Drupal
1 3 (1.21%) WordPress
2 2 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
3 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 160 (64.78%) AWS
2 83 (33.60%) Azure
3 62 (25.10%) Amazon S3
4 61 (24.70%) GCP
5 58 (23.48%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (18.22%) OCI
7 44 (17.81%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (17.81%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (17.81%) Route 53
8 32 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (10.53%) GitHub
10 24 (9.72%) OpenShift
11 20 (8.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (5.67%) Datadog
14 12 (4.86%) Power Platform
15 10 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (4.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.07%) DNS
2 13 (5.26%) Firewall
3 11 (4.45%) Internet
3 11 (4.45%) Network Security
3 11 (4.45%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.64%) SNMP
4 9 (3.64%) tcpdump
5 3 (1.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.40%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) VSAN
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.65%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.86%) Power BI
4 11 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.05%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.05%) MySQL
6 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (3.24%) DB2
7 8 (3.24%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.24%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.21%) Big Data
11 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 50 (20.24%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.10%) GitLab
3 14 (5.67%) Git
4 12 (4.86%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.45%) IBM UrbanCode
6 8 (3.24%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.40%) JIRA
9 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 76 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 56 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 50 (20.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (11.74%) Finance
5 19 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.88%) Banking
7 14 (5.67%) Tech for Good
8 12 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.05%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.62%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.62%) Law
11 3 (1.21%) Advertising
11 3 (1.21%) Games
11 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.45%) .NET
3 9 (3.64%) YAML
4 8 (3.24%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.24%) Spring
4 8 (3.24%) Spring XD
5 6 (2.43%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.43%) JSON
6 5 (2.02%) Node.js
6 5 (2.02%) RESTful
7 4 (1.62%) Kafka
7 4 (1.62%) XML
8 3 (1.21%) React
8 3 (1.21%) REST
9 2 (0.81%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.81%) ADO
10 1 (0.40%) CSS
10 1 (0.40%) CSS3
10 1 (0.40%) OAuth
10 1 (0.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.62%) Blockchain
2 44 (17.81%) e-Learning
2 44 (17.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.05%) Clustering
5 9 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.81%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.81%) FMCG
10 2 (0.81%) Genomics
10 2 (0.81%) PropTech
11 1 (0.40%) Derivative
11 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.32%) Linux
2 27 (10.93%) Windows
3 5 (2.02%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (45.75%) Containerisation
3 110 (44.53%) CI/CD
4 105 (42.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 99 (40.08%) Agile
6 83 (33.60%) Mentoring
7 72 (29.15%) Observability
8 66 (26.72%) Test Automation
9 54 (21.86%) Coaching
10 50 (20.24%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (19.03%) Secrets Management
12 34 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (12.96%) Migration
14 25 (10.12%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.31%) Fintech
16 21 (8.50%) Technical Leadership
17 20 (8.10%) Configuration Management
18 18 (7.29%) DevSecOps
19 17 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (29.55%) Python
2 31 (12.55%) Bash
3 28 (11.34%) SQL
4 26 (10.53%) Java
5 20 (8.10%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.07%) Perl
7 11 (4.45%) Groovy
8 9 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.64%) Ruby
8 9 (3.64%) U-SQL
9 8 (3.24%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.83%) Go
10 7 (2.83%) PHP
11 4 (1.62%) Lua
11 4 (1.62%) Tcl
12 3 (1.21%) C#
13 2 (0.81%) Bicep
13 2 (0.81%) C
13 2 (0.81%) C++
13 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.24%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.62%) Degree
7 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.40%) GDPR
2 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (37.25%) Docker
2 13 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.21%) KVM
5 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 181 (73.28%) Terraform
2 161 (65.18%) Kubernetes
3 72 (29.15%) Prometheus
4 64 (25.91%) Ansible
5 36 (14.57%) Puppet
6 34 (13.77%) Progress Chef
7 33 (13.36%) Grafana
8 11 (4.45%) Nagios
9 9 (3.64%) Graphite
9 9 (3.64%) HAProxy
9 9 (3.64%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.43%) Istio
11 5 (2.02%) Argo
12 4 (1.62%) vRealize
13 2 (0.81%) Packer
14 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.40%) Consul
14 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.40%) Podman
14 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (22.27%) IBM
2 46 (18.62%) Red Hat
3 44 (17.81%) Dynatrace
4 19 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.07%) Google
6 11 (4.45%) VMware
7 10 (4.05%) Databricks
8 8 (3.24%) Oracle
8 8 (3.24%) Sybase
9 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.62%) Cisco
10 4 (1.62%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.21%) New Relic
11 3 (1.21%) Splunk
12 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.40%) F5
12 1 (0.40%) xMatters