Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 362 281
Rank change year-on-year +12 -81 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 29 76 163
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.21% 0.48% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.52% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 25 69 150
10th Percentile £67,250 £76,250 £62,375
25th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -1.49% -1.47% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 12,433 14,742 16,770
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 93.00% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,215 8,650 13,551
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +17 7 £95,000 -5.00% 11
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 December 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 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (51.72%) AWS
3 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
4 14 (48.28%) Terraform
5 10 (34.48%) Grafana
6 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
7 7 (24.14%) Ansible
7 7 (24.14%) Docker
7 7 (24.14%) Linux
7 7 (24.14%) Python
8 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (20.69%) Azure
9 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (17.24%) Bash
9 5 (17.24%) High Availability
9 5 (17.24%) Observability
9 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.79%) Agile
10 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
10 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
10 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
10 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
11 3 (10.34%) AI
11 3 (10.34%) Analytics

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 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Serverless
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
6 2 (6.90%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Logz.io
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.90%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) Gradle
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (10.34%) YAML
3 2 (6.90%) AWS SAM
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) Next.js
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Web3
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
2 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) High Availability
4 5 (17.24%) Observability
4 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
5 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
5 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (10.34%) AI
6 3 (10.34%) Analytics
6 3 (10.34%) Cryptography
6 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (10.34%) Scrum
6 3 (10.34%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
3 3 (10.34%) Go
4 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) Ruby
4 2 (6.90%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Grafana
3 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
4 7 (24.14%) Ansible
5 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
6 2 (6.90%) SCCM
7 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) Okta
1 2 (6.90%) OneLogin
1 2 (6.90%) Splunk
1 2 (6.90%) VMware
1 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
2 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle