Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
20 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 368 273
Rank change year-on-year +28 -95 +103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 36 80 207
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.46% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.48% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 13 74 172
10th Percentile £55,250 £54,625 £61,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £76,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £116,500 £118,750 £116,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £84,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.71% -1.18%

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 10,662 16,696 19,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 95.19% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,944 10,425 15,926
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +5.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,688 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.63% -4.17% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Central London +14 4 £90,000 -10.00% 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer 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 London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (91.67%) AWS
3 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 21 (58.33%) AI
5 16 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 16 (44.44%) Terraform
6 14 (38.89%) Coaching
6 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (36.11%) IBM
7 13 (36.11%) Red Hat
8 12 (33.33%) Agile
9 11 (30.56%) Python
10 10 (27.78%) Grafana
10 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
11 9 (25.00%) Ansible
12 8 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (22.22%) Go
12 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
12 8 (22.22%) Machine Learning
12 8 (22.22%) SDLC
13 7 (19.44%) Docker
13 7 (19.44%) Unix
14 6 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (16.67%) Linux
15 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (13.89%) Analytics
15 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (13.89%) Bash
15 5 (13.89%) Configuration Management

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 33 (91.67%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.11%) Apigee
5 4 (11.11%) Azure
5 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Kong
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) Logz.io
7 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.78%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) SSL
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) KDB
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Gradle
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 21 (58.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
3 12 (33.33%) Finance
4 10 (27.78%) Banking
5 8 (22.22%) Law
6 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 4 (11.11%) RESTful
2 4 (11.11%) Swagger
3 3 (8.33%) YAML
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (36.11%) e-Learning
3 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (11.11%) Equities
4 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Unix
2 6 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 21 (58.33%) AI
4 16 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 14 (38.89%) Coaching
5 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (33.33%) Agile
7 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
8 8 (22.22%) Machine Learning
8 8 (22.22%) SDLC
9 5 (13.89%) Analytics
9 5 (13.89%) Configuration Management
9 5 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (13.89%) Observability
10 4 (11.11%) API Management
10 4 (11.11%) Architectural Design
10 4 (11.11%) Community of Practice
10 4 (11.11%) Operational Stability
10 4 (11.11%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Go
3 5 (13.89%) Bash
4 4 (11.11%) Lua
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.56%) Ruby
6 2 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) SQL
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) Terraform
2 10 (27.78%) Grafana
3 9 (25.00%) Ansible
4 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.78%) Argo
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) IBM
1 13 (36.11%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.11%) MKS
2 4 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Okta
4 1 (2.78%) OneLogin
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Zscaler
12 Senior DevOps Engineer jobs in London