Senior DevOps Jobs in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations salary in England is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 602 432 424
Rank change year-on-year -170 -8 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 251 618 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.73% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.80% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 188 467 551
10th Percentile £58,381 £65,000 £63,800
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £94,063 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.82% +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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 June 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 2 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 -90 122 £82,500 -2.94% 38
North of England +21 72 £70,576 -5.90% 11
North West -14 55 £85,000 +9.68% 7
South West -42 24 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire +56 16 £49,500 -34.29% 3
East of England -13 8 £72,500 -12.12% 2
Midlands -41 8 £67,500 -5.26% 5
South East -49 7 £80,000 -5.88% 4
West Midlands -36 5 £77,732 +11.05% 4
East Midlands -19 3 £67,500 -10.00% 1
North East -16 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 2 June 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.

1 251 (100.00%) DevOps
2 179 (71.31%) Terraform
3 165 (65.74%) Kubernetes
4 162 (64.54%) AWS
5 113 (45.02%) Containerisation
6 112 (44.62%) CI/CD
7 103 (41.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 96 (38.25%) Agile
9 94 (37.45%) Docker
10 83 (33.07%) Azure
11 81 (32.27%) Mentoring
12 78 (31.08%) Public Sector
13 73 (29.08%) Observability
14 72 (28.69%) Python
15 71 (28.29%) Prometheus
16 66 (26.29%) Test Automation
17 61 (24.30%) Amazon S3
18 59 (23.51%) Ansible
18 59 (23.51%) Linux
19 58 (23.11%) GCP
20 57 (22.71%) Amazon EKS
21 54 (21.51%) Social Skills
21 54 (21.51%) Coaching
22 52 (20.72%) IBM
23 50 (19.92%) Artificial Intelligence
23 50 (19.92%) Amazon RDS
23 50 (19.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 49 (19.52%) Jenkins
25 47 (18.73%) Secrets Management
26 46 (18.33%) 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 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.20%) Drupal
1 3 (1.20%) WordPress
2 2 (0.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
3 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 162 (64.54%) AWS
2 83 (33.07%) Azure
3 61 (24.30%) Amazon S3
4 58 (23.11%) GCP
5 57 (22.71%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (17.93%) OCI
7 44 (17.53%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (17.53%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (17.53%) Route 53
8 34 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (10.36%) GitHub
10 21 (8.37%) OpenShift
11 19 (7.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (5.58%) Datadog
14 13 (5.18%) Power Platform
15 12 (4.78%) Serverless
16 10 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.18%) DNS
2 12 (4.78%) Firewall
3 11 (4.38%) Network Security
4 9 (3.59%) Internet
4 9 (3.59%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.19%) SNMP
5 8 (3.19%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.80%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) VSAN
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.92%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.17%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.78%) Power BI
4 10 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (3.98%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.98%) MySQL
5 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (3.19%) DB2
6 8 (3.19%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 49 (19.52%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.97%) GitLab
3 15 (5.98%) Git
4 13 (5.18%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.19%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.19%) IBM UrbanCode
6 5 (1.99%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) JIRA
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (31.08%) Public Sector
2 54 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 50 (19.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (11.55%) Finance
5 18 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.58%) Banking
6 14 (5.58%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.59%) Law
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 3 (1.20%) Advertising
9 3 (1.20%) Games
9 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.38%) .NET
3 9 (3.59%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.19%) Spring
4 8 (3.19%) Spring XD
4 8 (3.19%) YAML
5 6 (2.39%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.39%) JSON
6 5 (1.99%) Node.js
6 5 (1.99%) RESTful
7 4 (1.59%) Kafka
7 4 (1.59%) XML
8 3 (1.20%) React
8 3 (1.20%) REST
9 2 (0.80%) ADO
10 1 (0.40%) CSS
10 1 (0.40%) HTML
10 1 (0.40%) HTML5
10 1 (0.40%) OpenID
10 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.33%) Blockchain
2 44 (17.53%) e-Learning
2 44 (17.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (9.56%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.59%) Clustering
4 9 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.99%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.80%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.80%) FMCG
7 2 (0.80%) Genomics
7 2 (0.80%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.80%) PropTech
8 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (23.51%) Linux
2 24 (9.56%) Windows
3 5 (1.99%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (45.02%) Containerisation
3 112 (44.62%) CI/CD
4 103 (41.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (38.25%) Agile
6 81 (32.27%) Mentoring
7 73 (29.08%) Observability
8 66 (26.29%) Test Automation
9 54 (21.51%) Coaching
10 50 (19.92%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (18.73%) Secrets Management
12 33 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (12.35%) Migration
14 26 (10.36%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.16%) Fintech
16 20 (7.97%) Configuration Management
16 20 (7.97%) DevSecOps
17 18 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
18 17 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (28.69%) Python
2 31 (12.35%) Bash
3 26 (10.36%) Java
3 26 (10.36%) SQL
4 20 (7.97%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.58%) Perl
6 9 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (3.59%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.59%) Ruby
6 9 (3.59%) U-SQL
7 8 (3.19%) Go
7 8 (3.19%) Groovy
8 7 (2.79%) PHP
9 4 (1.59%) Lua
9 4 (1.59%) Tcl
10 3 (1.20%) C#
11 2 (0.80%) Bicep
11 2 (0.80%) C
11 2 (0.80%) C++
11 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.59%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.59%) Degree
7 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.40%) GDPR
2 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (37.45%) Docker
2 12 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.20%) KVM
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 179 (71.31%) Terraform
2 165 (65.74%) Kubernetes
3 71 (28.29%) Prometheus
4 59 (23.51%) Ansible
5 35 (13.94%) Puppet
6 31 (12.35%) Grafana
7 30 (11.95%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.98%) Nagios
9 8 (3.19%) Graphite
9 8 (3.19%) HAProxy
9 8 (3.19%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.39%) Istio
11 5 (1.99%) Argo
12 4 (1.59%) Consul
12 4 (1.59%) vRealize
13 2 (0.80%) Packer
14 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.40%) Kibana
14 1 (0.40%) Rancher
14 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 52 (20.72%) IBM
2 46 (18.33%) Red Hat
3 44 (17.53%) Dynatrace
4 20 (7.97%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.18%) Google
6 11 (4.38%) VMware
7 10 (3.98%) Databricks
8 9 (3.59%) Oracle
9 8 (3.19%) Sybase
10 5 (1.99%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.59%) Cisco
11 4 (1.59%) SaltStack
12 3 (1.20%) New Relic
12 3 (1.20%) Splunk
13 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.40%) F5
13 1 (0.40%) xMatters