Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 642 511 551
Rank change year-on-year -131 +40 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 126 230 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.46% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 82 138 214
10th Percentile £48,250 £63,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £59,204 £68,760 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% - +19.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £79,750 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.18% +3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +22 72 £70,576 -5.90% 11
North West -6 55 £85,000 +9.68% 7
South West -38 24 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Yorkshire +59 16 £49,500 -34.29% 3
East of England -9 8 £72,500 -12.12% 2
Midlands -30 7 £66,482 -12.81% 4
Scotland -72 7 £72,500 -17.14% 2
South East -45 5 £87,500 +1.45% 4
West Midlands -27 4 £65,465 -15.53% 3
East Midlands -22 3 £67,500 -10.00% 1
Wales -2 2 £70,576 -8.93%
Northern Ireland +12 1 £70,000 - 5
North East -15 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 92 (73.02%) Terraform
2 92 (73.02%) AWS
3 83 (65.87%) Kubernetes
4 67 (53.17%) Mentoring
5 62 (49.21%) Agile
5 62 (49.21%) Containerisation
6 55 (43.65%) Prometheus
7 54 (42.86%) Public Sector
8 51 (40.48%) Observability
9 48 (38.10%) IBM
10 46 (36.51%) Test Automation
11 43 (34.13%) Coaching
12 42 (33.33%) Linux
13 41 (32.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (32.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (32.54%) CI/CD
14 40 (31.75%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (31.75%) Artificial Intelligence
14 40 (31.75%) GCP
15 38 (30.16%) Amazon RDS
15 38 (30.16%) Amazon S3
15 38 (30.16%) Secrets Management
16 37 (29.37%) OCI
16 37 (29.37%) Docker
17 36 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
17 36 (28.57%) Route 53
17 36 (28.57%) e-Learning
17 36 (28.57%) Red Hat
17 36 (28.57%) Amazon ECR

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (0.79%) Apache
1 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 92 (73.02%) AWS
2 40 (31.75%) Amazon EKS
2 40 (31.75%) GCP
3 38 (30.16%) Amazon S3
4 37 (29.37%) OCI
5 36 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
5 36 (28.57%) IBM Cloud
5 36 (28.57%) Route 53
6 30 (23.81%) Azure
7 20 (15.87%) GitHub
8 15 (11.90%) OpenShift
9 13 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (9.52%) Datadog
11 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.38%) IaaS
13 3 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) DNS
1 4 (3.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.79%) VSAN
2 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.16%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.79%) Flink
3 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) GitLab
1 12 (9.52%) IBM UrbanCode
2 11 (8.73%) CircleCI
3 10 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.17%) Git
5 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 41 (32.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.11%) Finance
5 13 (10.32%) Banking
5 13 (10.32%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (10.32%) Tech for Good
6 4 (3.17%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.17%) Law
7 3 (2.38%) Advertising
7 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.59%) Games
8 2 (1.59%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.17%) JSON
1 4 (3.17%) RESTful
1 4 (3.17%) XML
2 3 (2.38%) Node.js
3 2 (1.59%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.79%) .NET
4 1 (0.79%) Kafka
4 1 (0.79%) Next.js
4 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.57%) Blockchain
1 36 (28.57%) e-Learning
1 36 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (19.84%) Public Cloud
3 9 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.59%) FMCG
5 2 (1.59%) Genomics
6 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 42 (33.33%) Linux
2 18 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (3.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (53.17%) Mentoring
3 62 (49.21%) Agile
3 62 (49.21%) Containerisation
4 51 (40.48%) Observability
5 46 (36.51%) Test Automation
6 43 (34.13%) Coaching
7 41 (32.54%) CI/CD
7 41 (32.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (31.75%) Artificial Intelligence
9 38 (30.16%) Secrets Management
10 14 (11.11%) Software Delivery
11 12 (9.52%) Customer Service
11 12 (9.52%) ITIL
11 12 (9.52%) Problem Management
11 12 (9.52%) Service Management
11 12 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (7.94%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (7.94%) Open Source
13 9 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.67%) Python
2 12 (9.52%) Groovy
2 12 (9.52%) SQL
3 8 (6.35%) Bash
3 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.17%) Lua
4 4 (3.17%) Perl
4 4 (3.17%) PHP
4 4 (3.17%) Ruby
4 4 (3.17%) Tcl
5 3 (2.38%) Java
5 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.17%) Degree
2 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (29.37%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.38%) KVM
5 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 92 (73.02%) Terraform
2 83 (65.87%) Kubernetes
3 55 (43.65%) Prometheus
4 31 (24.60%) Ansible
5 25 (19.84%) Progress Chef
6 15 (11.90%) Grafana
7 13 (10.32%) Puppet
8 4 (3.17%) Istio
8 4 (3.17%) vRealize
9 2 (1.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 48 (38.10%) IBM
2 36 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 36 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 12 (9.52%) Google
4 10 (7.94%) VMware
5 5 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.17%) Cisco
6 4 (3.17%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.17%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.79%) F5