Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £101,251 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 405 277
Rank change year-on-year +51 -128 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 48 100 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.41% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.44% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26 85 287
10th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,750
25th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £101,251 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £116,875 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £113,500 £113,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 11,918 22,981 28,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 94.44% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,250 16,886 21,759
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 July 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 July 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 +10 10 £110,000 +11.39% 16
East London - 1 £100,000 - 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (87.50%) AWS
3 29 (60.42%) CI/CD
4 24 (50.00%) Terraform
4 24 (50.00%) Finance
5 22 (45.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 19 (39.58%) Ansible
8 18 (37.50%) Python
8 18 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (35.42%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (29.17%) Banking
10 14 (29.17%) Mentoring
11 13 (27.08%) Coaching
11 13 (27.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (27.08%) IBM
11 13 (27.08%) Red Hat
11 13 (27.08%) e-Learning
11 13 (27.08%) Public Sector
12 12 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
13 11 (22.92%) Go
13 11 (22.92%) Agile
14 10 (20.83%) Docker
14 10 (20.83%) Bitbucket
14 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
15 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (16.67%) SDLC
16 8 (16.67%) Machine Learning
16 8 (16.67%) Bash

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 (2.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (87.50%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (14.58%) Azure
5 5 (10.42%) GitHub
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (8.33%) Apigee
6 4 (8.33%) Kong
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (6.25%) GCP
7 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (2.08%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) KDB
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Bitbucket
2 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) JIRA
4 2 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.08%) Git
5 1 (2.08%) TestRail
General
1 24 (50.00%) Finance
2 22 (45.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (29.17%) Banking
4 13 (27.08%) Public Sector
5 8 (16.67%) Law
6 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.08%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.42%) RESTful
3 4 (8.33%) Kafka
3 4 (8.33%) OpenAPI
3 4 (8.33%) Swagger
4 3 (6.25%) YAML
5 1 (2.08%) .NET
5 1 (2.08%) JSON
5 1 (2.08%) Node.js
5 1 (2.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) e-Learning
1 13 (27.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.33%) Equities
3 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
1 8 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (60.42%) CI/CD
3 21 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 18 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (29.17%) Mentoring
6 13 (27.08%) Coaching
7 11 (22.92%) Agile
8 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 8 (16.67%) SDLC
9 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
11 5 (10.42%) Configuration Management
11 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
11 5 (10.42%) High Availability
12 4 (8.33%) Data Analytics
12 4 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
12 4 (8.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) Go
3 8 (16.67%) Bash
4 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) Lua
5 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.17%) Java
6 2 (4.17%) Ruby
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
7 1 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (50.00%) Terraform
2 19 (39.58%) Ansible
3 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.42%) Grafana
5 4 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.25%) Istio
7 2 (4.17%) Argo
7 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.17%) Puppet
8 1 (2.08%) Check_MK
8 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.08%) Kibana
8 1 (2.08%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.08%) logstash
8 1 (2.08%) Opsgenie
8 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) IBM
1 13 (27.08%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.33%) MKS
2 4 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 3 (6.25%) Confluent
4 2 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) Imperva
5 1 (2.08%) Okta
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Snow