Senior DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 615 478
Rank change year-on-year +86 -137 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 57 147 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.18% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 34 95 158
10th Percentile £58,400 £48,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £61,452 £59,469 £66,003
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -0.88% -2.05%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,681 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -8.82% +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,912 75,822 48,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.25% 94.93% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 18,661 53,027 28,931
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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 +16 19 £72,435 +10.65% 26
South West +83 14 £64,627 -19.22% 5
Yorkshire +54 10 £72,435 +46.33% 7
East of England +45 9 £65,000 -10.34% 6
North West -31 9 - - 17
South East +97 8 £85,000 +17.24% 9
Midlands +74 4 £58,750 -9.62% 7
Scotland +89 3 £100,000 +25.00% 2
West Midlands +72 2 £58,750 -24.42% 7
East Midlands +51 2 - -
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (59.65%) CI/CD
3 32 (56.14%) Azure
3 32 (56.14%) AWS
4 30 (52.63%) Kubernetes
5 26 (45.61%) Docker
5 26 (45.61%) Agile
6 21 (36.84%) Terraform
7 20 (35.09%) GCP
8 19 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 18 (31.58%) Python
10 17 (29.82%) Containerisation
11 16 (28.07%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (26.32%) Microservices
13 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (22.81%) Architectural Design
14 13 (22.81%) Cloud Native
15 12 (21.05%) IBM
15 12 (21.05%) NoSQL
15 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
16 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
16 11 (19.30%) SQL
16 11 (19.30%) Azure Certification
17 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
17 10 (17.54%) GDPR
17 10 (17.54%) AWS Certification
17 10 (17.54%) C#
17 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
17 10 (17.54%) HIPAA
18 9 (15.79%) Java

Senior DevOps 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 5 (8.77%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) CICS
3 1 (1.75%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (56.14%) AWS
1 32 (56.14%) Azure
2 20 (35.09%) GCP
3 9 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) GitHub
5 4 (7.02%) CloudFront
5 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.51%) IaaS
7 2 (3.51%) PaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Serverless
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Firewall
1 3 (5.26%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) LAN
2 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.51%) VPN
2 2 (3.51%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.75%) IPsec
3 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.26%) MySQL
4 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.75%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) JIRA
3 4 (7.02%) Git
3 4 (7.02%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (5.26%) Selenium
4 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.51%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.75%) Maven
6 1 (1.75%) MSBuild
General
1 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Banking
3 6 (10.53%) Finance
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.02%) Retail
6 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Automotive
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) Django
1 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
1 3 (5.26%) Flask
1 3 (5.26%) Playwright
2 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.51%) Node.js
2 2 (3.51%) React
2 2 (3.51%) Vue
3 1 (1.75%) .NET
3 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.75%) Kafka
3 1 (1.75%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.75%) NumPy
3 1 (1.75%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.75%) Pandas
3 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.02%) e-Learning
4 4 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) Mainframe
4 4 (7.02%) PKI
4 4 (7.02%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
1 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (59.65%) CI/CD
3 26 (45.61%) Agile
4 19 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 17 (29.82%) Containerisation
6 16 (28.07%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (26.32%) Microservices
8 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (22.81%) Architectural Design
10 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
11 9 (15.79%) Data Management
11 9 (15.79%) Data Privacy
11 9 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
11 9 (15.79%) TOGAF
12 8 (14.04%) Coaching
13 7 (12.28%) High Availability
13 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
14 6 (10.53%) E-Commerce
14 6 (10.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) Python
2 11 (19.30%) SQL
3 10 (17.54%) C#
4 9 (15.79%) Java
5 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.02%) Go
7 3 (5.26%) Bash
7 3 (5.26%) Groovy
7 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.75%) JCL
9 1 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) Azure Certification
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Certification
3 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
4 9 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.26%) OCP
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) GDPR
1 10 (17.54%) HIPAA
2 9 (15.79%) NIST
3 4 (7.02%) QA
System Software
1 26 (45.61%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 21 (36.84%) Terraform
3 7 (12.28%) Ansible
4 4 (7.02%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.26%) Argo
5 3 (5.26%) Istio
5 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.75%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (1.75%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) IBM
2 9 (15.79%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.02%) VMware
5 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.26%) Dynatrace
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