Senior DevOps Job Trends in Central London

Senior Development Operations
London > Central London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in Central London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 145 98
Rank change year-on-year +11 -47 +129
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 3 39 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.16% 1.22% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 1.30% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3 35 72
10th Percentile - £47,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £112,500 £121,750
London median annual salary £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,777 3,011 3,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 93.83% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 1,962 2,901
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,100 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,719 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.17%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in Central London

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Central London

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in Central London

Senior DevOps
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
City of London +17 3 £90,000 -10.00% 7
Senior DevOps
London

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) YAML
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
1 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk