Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £102,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 389 300
Rank change year-on-year +31 -89 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 42 118 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.50% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.53% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 39 101 298
10th Percentile £72,000 £62,500 £71,250
25th Percentile £86,875 £72,500 £76,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £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%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 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 3 May 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 -7 10 £110,000 +18.92% 6
East London - 2 £100,000 - 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (88.10%) CI/CD
3 34 (80.95%) AWS
4 31 (73.81%) Finance
5 30 (71.43%) Terraform
6 27 (64.29%) Python
7 25 (59.52%) Kubernetes
8 23 (54.76%) Docker
9 21 (50.00%) Ansible
10 19 (45.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (45.24%) Banking
11 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (40.48%) Agile
12 16 (38.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (35.71%) JavaScript
14 14 (33.33%) Amazon S3
14 14 (33.33%) Fintech
14 14 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (30.95%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (30.95%) Front Office
15 13 (30.95%) Serverless
15 13 (30.95%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (28.57%) Asset Management
16 12 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
16 12 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
18 9 (21.43%) Azure

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 13 (30.95%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (30.95%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (30.95%) Serverless
5 12 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (21.43%) Azure
7 8 (19.05%) GitHub
8 4 (9.52%) GCP
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
9 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.38%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (2.38%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.38%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) MySQL
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.05%) Bitbucket
3 7 (16.67%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.38%) Git
5 1 (2.38%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.38%) TestRail
General
1 31 (73.81%) Finance
2 19 (45.24%) Banking
3 13 (30.95%) Front Office
4 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Games
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) YAML
2 5 (11.90%) Kafka
3 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) AWS SAM
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (88.10%) CI/CD
3 17 (40.48%) Agile
3 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (38.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 14 (33.33%) Fintech
6 12 (28.57%) Asset Management
6 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.90%) High Availability
8 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.90%) Validation
9 4 (9.52%) API Development
9 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (9.52%) Dashboard Development
10 3 (7.14%) Configuration Management
10 3 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (7.14%) Microservices
10 3 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 6 (14.29%) Bash
5 5 (11.90%) Go
5 5 (11.90%) Ruby
6 3 (7.14%) Java
7 2 (4.76%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (2.38%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 23 (54.76%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (71.43%) Terraform
2 25 (59.52%) Kubernetes
3 21 (50.00%) Ansible
4 7 (16.67%) Progress Chef
5 4 (9.52%) Grafana
6 3 (7.14%) Istio
7 2 (4.76%) Argo
7 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.76%) Puppet
8 1 (2.38%) Check_MK
8 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.38%) Kibana
8 1 (2.38%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.38%) logstash
8 1 (2.38%) Opsgenie
8 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Splunk
2 3 (7.14%) Confluent
2 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.76%) Snow
4 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Imperva
4 1 (2.38%) Meraki
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) Okta
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) VMware