Head of DevOps Jobs in London

Head of Development Operations
England > London

The median Head of Development Operations salary in London is £135,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 506 612
Rank change year-on-year +112 +106 +257
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of DevOps 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.008% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.009% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £132,500 £150,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £160,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +60.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £137,500 £170,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £135,000 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +42.11% -5.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Head of DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of DevOps in London

Head of DevOps
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of DevOps in London.

Salary trend for Head of DevOps in London

Head of DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Head of 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 London region featuring Head of DevOps in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Finance

Head of DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform