Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £86,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 370 287
Rank change year-on-year +19 -83 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 39 79 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.41% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.43% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16 66 180
10th Percentile £55,625 £49,375 £61,250
25th Percentile £76,875 £68,438 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% +11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £115,125
England median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.25% -5.88%

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 10,839 18,237 21,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 95.46% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,060 11,508 17,593
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,936
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +11 6 £102,500 +2.50% 4
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (94.87%) AWS
3 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
4 21 (53.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (48.72%) Terraform
6 16 (41.03%) Mentoring
6 16 (41.03%) Finance
7 15 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (35.90%) Coaching
9 13 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (33.33%) e-Learning
9 13 (33.33%) Python
9 13 (33.33%) IBM
9 13 (33.33%) Red Hat
9 13 (33.33%) Public Sector
10 12 (30.77%) Agile
10 12 (30.77%) Banking
10 12 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (28.21%) Ansible
12 10 (25.64%) Go
12 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
13 9 (23.08%) Grafana
13 9 (23.08%) Docker
13 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
14 8 (20.51%) SDLC
14 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
14 8 (20.51%) Law
14 8 (20.51%) Machine Learning

Senior DevOps Engineer 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 37 (94.87%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (12.82%) Azure
6 4 (10.26%) Apigee
6 4 (10.26%) Kong
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.69%) GitHub
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (5.13%) GCP
8 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.56%) PaaS
9 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) KDB
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.13%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Gradle
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 21 (53.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (41.03%) Finance
3 13 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 12 (30.77%) Banking
5 8 (20.51%) Law
6 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (10.26%) OpenAPI
2 4 (10.26%) RESTful
2 4 (10.26%) Swagger
3 3 (7.69%) YAML
4 2 (5.13%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) e-Learning
1 13 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.26%) Equities
3 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
1 7 (17.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 21 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence
4 16 (41.03%) Mentoring
5 15 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (35.90%) Coaching
7 12 (30.77%) Agile
8 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
9 8 (20.51%) Machine Learning
9 8 (20.51%) SDLC
10 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
10 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (12.82%) Observability
11 4 (10.26%) API Management
11 4 (10.26%) Architectural Design
11 4 (10.26%) Community of Practice
11 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
11 4 (10.26%) Operational Stability
11 4 (10.26%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) Go
3 5 (12.82%) Bash
4 4 (10.26%) Lua
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
6 2 (5.13%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.56%) Java
7 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) SQL
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Terraform
2 11 (28.21%) Ansible
3 9 (23.08%) Grafana
3 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.13%) Istio
4 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) IBM
1 13 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.26%) MKS
2 4 (10.26%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.13%) Confluent
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle