Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 334 346
Rank change year-on-year -33 +12 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 45 57 140
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.25% 0.44% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.49% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 39 52 125
10th Percentile £79,000 - £62,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £103,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +15.28% +5.88%
75th Percentile £101,250 £118,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £128,000 £134,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%

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 16,445 11,663 20,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 90.80% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11,024 7,552 16,476
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 March 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 31 March 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 -4 7 £100,000 -9.09% 6
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (46.67%) AWS
4 20 (44.44%) Terraform
5 16 (35.56%) Azure
6 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
7 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
8 13 (28.89%) Linux
9 11 (24.44%) High Availability
9 11 (24.44%) Python
10 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
10 10 (22.22%) Docker
11 9 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (17.78%) GCP
12 8 (17.78%) Go
12 8 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (15.56%) Ansible
13 7 (15.56%) Grafana
14 6 (13.33%) Bash
14 6 (13.33%) GitLab
14 6 (13.33%) Kafka
14 6 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 5 (11.11%) Analytics
15 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket
15 5 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
15 5 (11.11%) Istio
15 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving

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 21 (46.67%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (17.78%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.44%) Datadog
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub
7 2 (4.44%) Mimecast
7 2 (4.44%) Rubrik
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.22%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DHCP
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) GitLab
2 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 22 (48.89%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Kafka
2 5 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.44%) AWS SAM
4 1 (2.22%) ADO
4 1 (2.22%) Next.js
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Hedge funds
2 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Web3
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 11 (24.44%) High Availability
5 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 8 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Analytics
8 5 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.89%) AI
9 4 (8.89%) E-Commerce
9 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.89%) Observability
9 4 (8.89%) Open Source
10 3 (6.67%) Configuration Management
10 3 (6.67%) Cryptography
10 3 (6.67%) DevSecOps
10 3 (6.67%) Key Management
10 3 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) Go
3 6 (13.33%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Bicep
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) GDPR
1 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (44.44%) Terraform
2 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Ansible
3 7 (15.56%) Grafana
4 5 (11.11%) Istio
4 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.44%) SCCM
7 1 (2.22%) Argo
7 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Confluent
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Okta
2 3 (6.67%) OneLogin
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
3 2 (4.44%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle