Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 445 462
Rank change year-on-year -193 +17 -97
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 269 690 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.68% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.75% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 208 484 493
10th Percentile £58,381 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £75,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £104,250 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.78% +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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 -169 233 £80,000 -5.88% 36
UK excluding London -116 126 £70,576 -11.78% 19
London -94 111 £90,000 +5.88% 18
Work from Home -90 108 £73,750 -13.24% 31
North of England +24 69 £70,576 -5.90% 8
North West -10 53 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South West -28 24 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Yorkshire +82 15 £70,576 -0.95% 2
East of England +8 8 £72,500 -12.12% 1
Scotland -66 8 £71,538 -18.24% 1
Midlands -34 7 £66,482 -14.22% 4
South East -30 5 £87,500 +1.45% 2
Wales +2 4 £70,576 -16.97%
West Midlands -14 4 £65,465 -16.07% 2
East Midlands -20 3 £67,500 -10.00% 2
Northern Ireland +13 1 £70,000 - 2
North East -11 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 269 (100.00%) DevOps
2 196 (72.86%) Terraform
3 172 (63.94%) AWS
4 159 (59.11%) Kubernetes
5 121 (44.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 120 (44.61%) CI/CD
7 113 (42.01%) Agile
8 108 (40.15%) Containerisation
9 98 (36.43%) Azure
10 91 (33.83%) Mentoring
10 91 (33.83%) Python
11 90 (33.46%) Docker
12 83 (30.86%) Linux
13 81 (30.11%) Ansible
14 73 (27.14%) GCP
14 73 (27.14%) Prometheus
15 71 (26.39%) Observability
16 67 (24.91%) Public Sector
17 64 (23.79%) Test Automation
18 63 (23.42%) Amazon S3
19 61 (22.68%) Coaching
19 61 (22.68%) IBM
20 58 (21.56%) Amazon EKS
21 56 (20.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 55 (20.45%) Social Skills
22 55 (20.45%) Jenkins
23 52 (19.33%) Artificial Intelligence
24 49 (18.22%) Amazon RDS
25 48 (17.84%) Blockchain
25 48 (17.84%) Secrets Management

Senior DevOps Engineer 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 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.12%) Apache
2 3 (1.12%) Drupal
2 3 (1.12%) WordPress
3 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.74%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 172 (63.94%) AWS
2 98 (36.43%) Azure
3 73 (27.14%) GCP
4 63 (23.42%) Amazon S3
5 58 (21.56%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (16.73%) OCI
7 44 (16.36%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (16.36%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (16.36%) Route 53
8 35 (13.01%) GitHub
9 34 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (11.52%) OpenShift
11 20 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (5.95%) Datadog
13 15 (5.58%) Serverless
14 14 (5.20%) IaaS
15 13 (4.83%) PaaS
16 12 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (4.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.69%) Firewall
2 17 (6.32%) DNS
3 14 (5.20%) Internet
4 13 (4.83%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.72%) Network Security
5 10 (3.72%) SNMP
5 10 (3.72%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.49%) IPv4
6 4 (1.49%) VPN
7 3 (1.12%) HTTP
8 1 (0.37%) DHCP
8 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.37%) SSL
8 1 (0.37%) VSAN
8 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.22%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.81%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.09%) MySQL
4 11 (4.09%) Power BI
5 10 (3.72%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.97%) DB2
7 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (2.97%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.86%) Big Data
8 5 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.74%) Flink
9 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.37%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 55 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.06%) GitLab
3 17 (6.32%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (4.83%) Git
5 11 (4.09%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.35%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.49%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.74%) JIRA
10 2 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.37%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (24.91%) Public Sector
2 56 (20.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 38 (14.13%) Finance
5 23 (8.55%) Banking
6 22 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.69%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (5.20%) Tech for Good
9 11 (4.09%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.86%) Legal
11 4 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.49%) Law
12 3 (1.12%) Advertising
12 3 (1.12%) Games
12 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (4.83%) .NET
3 12 (4.46%) Node.js
4 10 (3.72%) YAML
5 8 (2.97%) Spring
5 8 (2.97%) Spring XD
6 7 (2.60%) AWS CDK
6 7 (2.60%) Kafka
7 6 (2.23%) JSON
8 5 (1.86%) RESTful
8 5 (1.86%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.49%) XML
10 3 (1.12%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.12%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.12%) React
10 3 (1.12%) REST
11 2 (0.74%) ADO
11 2 (0.74%) HTML
11 2 (0.74%) OpenID
12 1 (0.37%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.84%) Blockchain
2 44 (16.36%) e-Learning
2 44 (16.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (11.52%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.72%) Clustering
5 8 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.23%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.86%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.74%) Genomics
10 2 (0.74%) PropTech
11 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.86%) Linux
2 35 (13.01%) Windows
3 7 (2.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (100.00%) DevOps
2 121 (44.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (44.61%) CI/CD
4 113 (42.01%) Agile
5 108 (40.15%) Containerisation
6 91 (33.83%) Mentoring
7 71 (26.39%) Observability
8 64 (23.79%) Test Automation
9 61 (22.68%) Coaching
10 52 (19.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (17.84%) Secrets Management
12 31 (11.52%) Migration
12 31 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (10.41%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (8.55%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (8.55%) Fintech
14 23 (8.55%) ITIL
15 21 (7.81%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (33.83%) Python
2 40 (14.87%) Bash
3 37 (13.75%) SQL
4 31 (11.52%) Java
5 27 (10.04%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.32%) Go
6 17 (6.32%) Groovy
7 16 (5.95%) Perl
8 15 (5.58%) Ruby
9 8 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.97%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.97%) U-SQL
10 7 (2.60%) PHP
11 5 (1.86%) C#
12 4 (1.49%) Bicep
12 4 (1.49%) Lua
12 4 (1.49%) Tcl
13 2 (0.74%) C
13 2 (0.74%) C++
13 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (7.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.46%) Degree
3 11 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.23%) GDPR
2 5 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (33.46%) Docker
2 14 (5.20%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.12%) KVM
6 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 196 (72.86%) Terraform
2 159 (59.11%) Kubernetes
3 81 (30.11%) Ansible
4 73 (27.14%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.61%) Progress Chef
6 38 (14.13%) Puppet
7 35 (13.01%) Grafana
8 12 (4.46%) Nagios
9 10 (3.72%) Graphite
9 10 (3.72%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.72%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.23%) Argo
10 6 (2.23%) Istio
11 4 (1.49%) vRealize
12 3 (1.12%) Packer
13 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Podman
13 1 (0.37%) Salt
13 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (22.68%) IBM
2 46 (17.10%) Red Hat
3 44 (16.36%) Dynatrace
4 26 (9.67%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.81%) Google
6 11 (4.09%) VMware
7 9 (3.35%) Databricks
8 8 (2.97%) Oracle
8 8 (2.97%) Sybase
9 4 (1.49%) Cisco
9 4 (1.49%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.49%) Splunk
10 3 (1.12%) New Relic
11 2 (0.74%) Remedy
12 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.37%) F5
12 1 (0.37%) xMatters