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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 613 440 453
Rank change year-on-year -173 +13 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 228 612 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.69% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.76% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 169 452 477
10th Percentile £58,507 £67,525 £63,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £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 £95,313 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £98,750
UK median annual salary £78,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 20 May 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 20 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 -110 104 £87,500 +2.94% 29
North of England +23 73 £70,576 -5.90% 12
North West -5 56 £85,000 +6.25% 8
South West -33 23 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Yorkshire +78 16 £68,020 +0.77% 2
East of England -5 7 £70,000 -15.15% 2
Midlands -25 7 £66,482 -12.81% 7
South East -27 5 £87,500 -1.41% 8
West Midlands 0 4 £65,465 -15.53% 7
East Midlands -23 3 £67,500 -10.00%
North East -6 1 £65,465 -9.70% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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
2 167 (73.25%) Terraform
3 152 (66.67%) AWS
4 147 (64.47%) Kubernetes
5 101 (44.30%) Containerisation
6 97 (42.54%) CI/CD
7 95 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 91 (39.91%) Agile
9 81 (35.53%) Docker
10 80 (35.09%) Mentoring
11 72 (31.58%) Azure
12 71 (31.14%) Python
12 71 (31.14%) Observability
12 71 (31.14%) Prometheus
13 68 (29.82%) Public Sector
14 64 (28.07%) Test Automation
15 61 (26.75%) Linux
15 61 (26.75%) Ansible
16 60 (26.32%) Amazon S3
17 59 (25.88%) GCP
18 57 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
19 55 (24.12%) IBM
20 54 (23.68%) Coaching
21 50 (21.93%) Artificial Intelligence
22 49 (21.49%) Amazon RDS
22 49 (21.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 47 (20.61%) Secrets Management
23 47 (20.61%) Jenkins
23 47 (20.61%) Blockchain
24 46 (20.18%) Red Hat

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
1 3 (1.32%) Drupal
1 3 (1.32%) WordPress
2 1 (0.44%) Apache
2 1 (0.44%) CMS
2 1 (0.44%) JBoss
2 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 152 (66.67%) AWS
2 72 (31.58%) Azure
3 60 (26.32%) Amazon S3
4 59 (25.88%) GCP
5 57 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (19.74%) OCI
7 44 (19.30%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (19.30%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (19.30%) Route 53
8 25 (10.96%) GitHub
9 24 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (10.53%) OpenShift
10 19 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (6.14%) Datadog
13 12 (5.26%) Power Platform
14 10 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (3.95%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.58%) DNS
2 13 (5.70%) Firewall
3 11 (4.82%) Internet
3 11 (4.82%) Network Security
3 11 (4.82%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.95%) SNMP
4 9 (3.95%) tcpdump
5 2 (0.88%) HTTP
6 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.44%) SSL
6 1 (0.44%) VSAN
6 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.49%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.26%) Power BI
4 11 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.39%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.39%) MySQL
6 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (3.51%) DB2
7 8 (3.51%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.32%) Big Data
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.33%) GitLab
3 13 (5.70%) Git
4 11 (4.82%) CircleCI
4 11 (4.82%) IBM UrbanCode
5 8 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.44%) JIRA
8 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 68 (29.82%) Public Sector
2 49 (21.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 46 (20.18%) Social Skills
4 26 (11.40%) Finance
5 19 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.46%) Banking
7 14 (6.14%) Tech for Good
8 12 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.39%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.75%) Law
11 3 (1.32%) Advertising
11 3 (1.32%) Games
11 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.82%) .NET
3 9 (3.95%) YAML
4 8 (3.51%) Spring
4 8 (3.51%) Spring XD
5 6 (2.63%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.63%) JSON
6 5 (2.19%) Node.js
6 5 (2.19%) RESTful
7 4 (1.75%) Kafka
7 4 (1.75%) XML
8 3 (1.32%) React
8 3 (1.32%) REST
9 2 (0.88%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.88%) ADO
10 1 (0.44%) CSS
10 1 (0.44%) HTML5
10 1 (0.44%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.44%) Next.js
10 1 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (20.61%) Blockchain
2 44 (19.30%) e-Learning
2 44 (19.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (10.09%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.95%) Clustering
4 9 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.32%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.88%) Genomics
8 2 (0.88%) PropTech
9 1 (0.44%) Derivative
9 1 (0.44%) FMCG
9 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.75%) Linux
2 27 (11.84%) Windows
3 5 (2.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (44.30%) Containerisation
3 97 (42.54%) CI/CD
4 95 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (39.91%) Agile
6 80 (35.09%) Mentoring
7 71 (31.14%) Observability
8 64 (28.07%) Test Automation
9 54 (23.68%) Coaching
10 50 (21.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (20.61%) Secrets Management
12 30 (13.16%) Migration
13 26 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (10.09%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (9.65%) Fintech
16 21 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
17 20 (8.77%) Configuration Management
18 17 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
19 16 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
19 16 (7.02%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (31.14%) Python
2 29 (12.72%) Bash
3 28 (12.28%) SQL
4 24 (10.53%) Java
5 19 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.58%) Perl
7 11 (4.82%) Groovy
8 9 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.95%) Ruby
8 9 (3.95%) U-SQL
9 8 (3.51%) Go
9 8 (3.51%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.07%) PHP
11 4 (1.75%) Lua
11 4 (1.75%) Tcl
12 3 (1.32%) C#
13 2 (0.88%) C
13 2 (0.88%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (4.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.75%) Degree
5 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.44%) GDPR
2 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (35.53%) Docker
2 13 (5.70%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.32%) KVM
5 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 167 (73.25%) Terraform
2 147 (64.47%) Kubernetes
3 71 (31.14%) Prometheus
4 61 (26.75%) Ansible
5 36 (15.79%) Puppet
6 34 (14.91%) Progress Chef
7 32 (14.04%) Grafana
8 11 (4.82%) Nagios
9 9 (3.95%) Graphite
9 9 (3.95%) HAProxy
9 9 (3.95%) 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%) Podman
14 1 (0.44%) Salt
14 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (24.12%) IBM
2 46 (20.18%) Red Hat
3 44 (19.30%) Dynatrace
4 19 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.58%) Google
6 10 (4.39%) Databricks
7 9 (3.95%) VMware
8 8 (3.51%) Oracle
8 8 (3.51%) Sybase
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