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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 344 385
Rank change year-on-year -44 +41 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 40 43 79
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.17% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.39% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 38 21 64
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £48,625
25th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +1.47%
75th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%

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 22,240 11,116 18,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 91.66% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,208 7,206 12,693
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.11% -2.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 19 August 2026.

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 19 August 2026. 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 -3 8 £102,500 -6.82% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, 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 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (72.50%) Azure
3 24 (60.00%) Terraform
4 22 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
7 16 (40.00%) AWS
8 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
9 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (27.50%) Python
10 10 (25.00%) Docker
11 9 (22.50%) GCP
11 9 (22.50%) GitLab
12 8 (20.00%) Go
12 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 7 (17.50%) GitHub
13 7 (17.50%) Kafka
13 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
13 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 6 (15.00%) Ansible
14 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (15.00%) Incident Management
14 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
14 6 (15.00%) QA
14 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
14 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership

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 29 (72.50%) Azure
2 16 (40.00%) AWS
3 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) GCP
5 7 (17.50%) GitHub
6 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 4 (10.00%) Serverless
9 3 (7.50%) Azure API Management
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (7.50%) Datadog
10 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.00%) SaaS
11 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DHCP
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
1 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) GitLab
2 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Banking
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) ADO
3 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
1 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
5 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (12.50%) Agile
7 5 (12.50%) AI
7 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.00%) Microservices
8 4 (10.00%) Observability
8 4 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Go
3 5 (12.50%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) Bash
5 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.50%) Bicep
6 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (60.00%) Terraform
2 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.00%) Ansible
4 5 (12.50%) Istio
5 4 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (10.00%) Grafana
6 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
6 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.50%) Argo
7 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 5 (12.50%) Okta
2 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.00%) Confluent
3 4 (10.00%) OneLogin
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle