Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs

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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 666 453 453
Rank change year-on-year -213 0 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 260 634 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.75% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 200 458 540
10th Percentile £50,000 £66,250 £63,795
25th Percentile £63,617 £72,500 £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 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.59% +21.15%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 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
England -196 228 £80,000 -5.88% 55
UK excluding London -158 122 £75,000 -3.23% 39
London -134 104 £87,500 +2.94% 26
Work from Home -92 99 £75,000 -11.76% 38
North of England +13 70 £70,576 -5.90% 12
North West -6 56 £85,000 +9.68% 8
South West -41 24 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Yorkshire +55 13 £49,500 -30.54% 3
East of England -18 8 £72,500 -9.38% 2
Midlands -48 7 £66,482 -12.81% 9
Scotland -72 6 £75,000 -14.29% 1
South East -43 5 £87,500 +2.94% 2
West Midlands -23 4 £65,465 -15.53% 5
East Midlands -37 3 £67,500 -10.00% 4
Northern Ireland +11 1 £70,000 - 4
Wales +1 1 £70,576 -8.93% 3
North East -20 1 £65,465 -9.70% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 260 (100.00%) DevOps
2 185 (71.15%) Terraform
3 177 (68.08%) AWS
4 162 (62.31%) Kubernetes
5 122 (46.92%) CI/CD
6 113 (43.46%) Containerisation
7 105 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 97 (37.31%) Agile
9 89 (34.23%) Docker
10 86 (33.08%) Azure
11 85 (32.69%) Python
12 83 (31.92%) Mentoring
13 74 (28.46%) Observability
14 71 (27.31%) Public Sector
15 70 (26.92%) Prometheus
16 66 (25.38%) Test Automation
17 64 (24.62%) Amazon S3
17 64 (24.62%) Linux
18 63 (24.23%) Ansible
19 61 (23.46%) GCP
20 60 (23.08%) Coaching
21 59 (22.69%) Amazon EKS
22 55 (21.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 51 (19.62%) Artificial Intelligence
24 50 (19.23%) Jenkins
24 50 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
25 49 (18.85%) IBM
26 48 (18.46%) Secrets Management
27 46 (17.69%) Blockchain
27 46 (17.69%) Red Hat

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 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.15%) Apache
2 3 (1.15%) nginx
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.77%) Drupal
3 2 (0.77%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.77%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 177 (68.08%) AWS
2 86 (33.08%) Azure
3 64 (24.62%) Amazon S3
4 61 (23.46%) GCP
5 59 (22.69%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (17.31%) OCI
7 44 (16.92%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (16.92%) IBM Cloud
7 44 (16.92%) Route 53
8 38 (14.62%) GitHub
9 36 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (7.69%) Serverless
12 18 (6.92%) OpenShift
13 15 (5.77%) Datadog
13 15 (5.77%) IaaS
14 14 (5.38%) PaaS
15 13 (5.00%) Power Platform
16 11 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.15%) Firewall
2 13 (5.00%) DNS
3 11 (4.23%) Internet
3 11 (4.23%) Network Security
4 9 (3.46%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.08%) SNMP
5 8 (3.08%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.54%) IPv4
6 4 (1.54%) VPN
7 2 (0.77%) HTTP
8 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.38%) SSL
8 1 (0.38%) VSAN
8 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (6.92%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.62%) Power BI
4 11 (4.23%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 9 (3.46%) MySQL
7 8 (3.08%) DB2
7 8 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.54%) Big Data
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.77%) Flink
12 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 50 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.69%) GitLab
3 14 (5.38%) CircleCI
3 14 (5.38%) Git
4 7 (2.69%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.92%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (1.92%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.38%) JIRA
7 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (27.31%) Public Sector
2 55 (21.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (16.54%) Social Skills
4 23 (8.85%) Finance
5 19 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.38%) Tech for Good
7 10 (3.85%) Banking
8 9 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.31%) Legal
9 6 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.54%) Games
10 4 (1.54%) Law
11 3 (1.15%) Advertising
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (5.00%) Node.js
2 11 (4.23%) .NET
3 8 (3.08%) Spring
3 8 (3.08%) Spring XD
3 8 (3.08%) YAML
4 7 (2.69%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.31%) JSON
5 6 (2.31%) Kafka
6 5 (1.92%) RESTful
6 5 (1.92%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (1.54%) React
7 4 (1.54%) XML
8 3 (1.15%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.15%) REST
9 2 (0.77%) ADO
10 1 (0.38%) CSS
10 1 (0.38%) CSS3
10 1 (0.38%) HTML
10 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.69%) Blockchain
2 44 (16.92%) e-Learning
2 44 (16.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (8.08%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.46%) Clustering
5 9 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.54%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.77%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.77%) FMCG
8 2 (0.77%) Genomics
8 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.77%) PropTech
9 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 64 (24.62%) Linux
2 21 (8.08%) Windows
3 7 (2.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (100.00%) DevOps
2 122 (46.92%) CI/CD
3 113 (43.46%) Containerisation
4 105 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 97 (37.31%) Agile
6 83 (31.92%) Mentoring
7 74 (28.46%) Observability
8 66 (25.38%) Test Automation
9 60 (23.08%) Coaching
10 51 (19.62%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (18.46%) Secrets Management
12 34 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (11.15%) Migration
14 28 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (8.85%) Fintech
16 22 (8.46%) Continuous Integration
17 21 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (8.08%) DevSecOps
17 21 (8.08%) Open Source
18 20 (7.69%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (32.69%) Python
2 38 (14.62%) Bash
3 28 (10.77%) Java
4 26 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 25 (9.62%) SQL
6 15 (5.77%) Go
7 14 (5.38%) Perl
7 14 (5.38%) Ruby
8 9 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.46%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.46%) U-SQL
9 6 (2.31%) PHP
10 5 (1.92%) Groovy
11 4 (1.54%) Bicep
11 4 (1.54%) Lua
11 4 (1.54%) Tcl
12 3 (1.15%) C#
12 3 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.77%) C
13 2 (0.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.23%) Degree
3 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.92%) GDPR
2 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (34.23%) Docker
2 12 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 185 (71.15%) Terraform
2 162 (62.31%) Kubernetes
3 70 (26.92%) Prometheus
4 63 (24.23%) Ansible
5 35 (13.46%) Puppet
6 30 (11.54%) Grafana
7 29 (11.15%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.85%) Nagios
9 8 (3.08%) Graphite
9 8 (3.08%) HAProxy
9 8 (3.08%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.31%) Argo
10 6 (2.31%) Istio
11 4 (1.54%) vRealize
12 3 (1.15%) Packer
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.38%) Podman
13 1 (0.38%) Rancher
13 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (18.85%) IBM
2 46 (17.69%) Red Hat
3 44 (16.92%) Dynatrace
4 27 (10.38%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.23%) VMware
6 10 (3.85%) Databricks
7 9 (3.46%) Google
8 8 (3.08%) Oracle
8 8 (3.08%) Sybase
9 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.54%) Cisco
10 4 (1.54%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.54%) Splunk
11 3 (1.15%) New Relic
12 2 (0.77%) Remedy
13 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.38%) F5
13 1 (0.38%) xMatters