Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK is £78,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 614 432 428
Rank change year-on-year -182 -4 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 283 718 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.72% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.79% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 223 511 584
10th Percentile £57,752 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £85,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +4.94% +1.25%
75th Percentile £93,125 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 17 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 17 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 -167 240 £79,750 -6.18% 55
UK excluding London -122 136 £72,500 -6.45% 34
London -106 114 £86,250 +1.47% 29
Work from Home -102 108 £72,500 -14.71% 44
North of England +31 72 £70,576 -5.90% 9
North West -9 55 £85,000 +6.25% 6
South West -28 23 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Yorkshire +68 16 £68,020 -4.53% 2
Scotland -60 14 £77,500 -11.43% 2
Midlands -38 8 £67,500 - 6
East of England +1 7 £70,000 -15.15% 1
South East -40 7 £80,000 -8.57% 8
West Midlands -12 5 £77,732 +19.59% 6
Wales +9 4 £70,576 -16.97%
East Midlands -15 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Northern Ireland +14 1 £70,000 - 2
North East -8 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 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
2 202 (71.38%) Terraform
3 173 (61.13%) AWS
4 166 (58.66%) Kubernetes
5 131 (46.29%) CI/CD
6 125 (44.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 117 (41.34%) Containerisation
7 117 (41.34%) Agile
8 105 (37.10%) Azure
9 95 (33.57%) Docker
10 93 (32.86%) Mentoring
11 87 (30.74%) Python
12 83 (29.33%) Linux
13 78 (27.56%) Ansible
14 74 (26.15%) Public Sector
15 72 (25.44%) GCP
16 71 (25.09%) Observability
16 71 (25.09%) Prometheus
17 64 (22.61%) Test Automation
18 62 (21.91%) Amazon S3
19 61 (21.55%) Coaching
19 61 (21.55%) IBM
19 61 (21.55%) Social Skills
20 59 (20.85%) Amazon EKS
21 56 (19.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 53 (18.73%) Jenkins
23 51 (18.02%) Artificial Intelligence
24 49 (17.31%) Amazon RDS
25 48 (16.96%) Secrets Management
26 47 (16.61%) 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%) Apache
2 3 (1.06%) Drupal
2 3 (1.06%) WordPress
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.71%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 173 (61.13%) AWS
2 105 (37.10%) Azure
3 72 (25.44%) GCP
4 62 (21.91%) Amazon S3
5 59 (20.85%) 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 42 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (12.72%) GitHub
10 30 (10.60%) OpenShift
11 20 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.01%) Serverless
13 15 (5.30%) Datadog
14 14 (4.95%) IaaS
15 13 (4.59%) PaaS
16 12 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (4.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.01%) Firewall
2 15 (5.30%) DNS
3 13 (4.59%) Internet
4 11 (3.89%) Network Security
4 11 (3.89%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.18%) SNMP
5 9 (3.18%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.41%) IPv4
6 4 (1.41%) VPN
7 2 (0.71%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.31%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (7.07%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.24%) Power BI
4 11 (3.89%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.53%) MySQL
6 9 (3.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 9 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.83%) DB2
7 8 (2.83%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.41%) Big Data
10 2 (0.71%) Flink
10 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.35%) Apache Pinot
11 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (18.73%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.71%) GitLab
3 17 (6.01%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (4.59%) Git
5 11 (3.89%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.83%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.41%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.35%) JIRA
9 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 74 (26.15%) Public Sector
2 61 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 56 (19.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (13.07%) Finance
5 23 (8.13%) Banking
6 21 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.95%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.77%) Legal
11 4 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.41%) Games
11 4 (1.41%) Law
12 3 (1.06%) Advertising
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%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.24%) .NET
2 12 (4.24%) Node.js
3 10 (3.53%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.18%) YAML
5 8 (2.83%) Spring
5 8 (2.83%) Spring XD
6 7 (2.47%) AWS CDK
7 6 (2.12%) JSON
7 6 (2.12%) Kafka
8 5 (1.77%) RESTful
8 5 (1.77%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.41%) XML
10 3 (1.06%) React
10 3 (1.06%) REST
11 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.71%) ADO
12 1 (0.35%) CSS
12 1 (0.35%) HTML
12 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.61%) Blockchain
2 44 (15.55%) e-Learning
2 44 (15.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (11.66%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.18%) Clustering
4 9 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.12%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.41%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.71%) Genomics
10 2 (0.71%) PropTech
11 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (29.33%) Linux
2 34 (12.01%) Windows
3 7 (2.47%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (46.29%) CI/CD
3 125 (44.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (41.34%) Agile
4 117 (41.34%) Containerisation
5 93 (32.86%) Mentoring
6 71 (25.09%) Observability
7 64 (22.61%) Test Automation
8 61 (21.55%) Coaching
9 51 (18.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 48 (16.96%) Secrets Management
11 36 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (10.95%) Migration
13 30 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (8.48%) DevSecOps
17 23 (8.13%) ITIL
18 22 (7.77%) Continuous Integration
18 22 (7.77%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 87 (30.74%) Python
2 38 (13.43%) Bash
2 38 (13.43%) SQL
3 30 (10.60%) Java
4 26 (9.19%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.01%) Groovy
6 15 (5.30%) Go
6 15 (5.30%) Perl
7 14 (4.95%) Ruby
8 9 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.18%) U-SQL
9 8 (2.83%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.47%) PHP
11 5 (1.77%) Bicep
12 4 (1.41%) C#
12 4 (1.41%) Lua
12 4 (1.41%) Tcl
13 2 (0.71%) C
13 2 (0.71%) C++
13 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (7.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.89%) Degree
4 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) 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 13 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.06%) KVM
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 202 (71.38%) Terraform
2 166 (58.66%) Kubernetes
3 78 (27.56%) Ansible
4 71 (25.09%) Prometheus
5 42 (14.84%) Progress Chef
6 38 (13.43%) Puppet
7 32 (11.31%) Grafana
8 11 (3.89%) Nagios
9 9 (3.18%) Graphite
9 9 (3.18%) HAProxy
9 9 (3.18%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
13 1 (0.35%) Salt
13 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (21.55%) IBM
2 46 (16.25%) Red Hat
3 44 (15.55%) Dynatrace
4 26 (9.19%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.42%) Google
6 10 (3.53%) Databricks
6 10 (3.53%) VMware
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
8 4 (1.41%) Splunk
9 3 (1.06%) New Relic
10 2 (0.71%) Remedy
11 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.35%) F5
11 1 (0.35%) xMatters