Senior DevOps Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 337 267
Rank change year-on-year -10 -70 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 29 92 187
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.21% 0.58% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.62% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23 70 170
10th Percentile £65,500 £71,500 £62,375
25th Percentile £81,875 £85,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £116,000 £130,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - -3.03% -2.94%

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 12,280 14,911 16,682
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 93.49% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,134 8,812 13,509
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in London

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in London

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 22 December 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 +20 7 £95,000 -5.00% 9
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) AWS
3 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (44.83%) Terraform
5 9 (31.03%) Grafana
6 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
7 7 (24.14%) Ansible
7 7 (24.14%) Docker
7 7 (24.14%) Python
8 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (20.69%) Linux
9 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (17.24%) Azure
9 5 (17.24%) Bash
9 5 (17.24%) Observability
9 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.79%) Agile
10 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
10 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
10 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
10 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (13.79%) High Availability
11 3 (10.34%) AI
11 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (10.34%) Cryptography
11 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation

Senior DevOps 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 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (17.24%) Azure
4 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Serverless
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Logz.io
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.90%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) Gradle
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (10.34%) YAML
3 2 (6.90%) AWS SAM
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) Next.js
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Web3
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (17.24%) Observability
3 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
4 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
4 4 (13.79%) High Availability
5 3 (10.34%) AI
5 3 (10.34%) Cryptography
5 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Key Management
5 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
5 3 (10.34%) Scrum
5 3 (10.34%) Use Case
6 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
3 3 (10.34%) Go
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) Ruby
4 2 (6.90%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) Grafana
3 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
4 7 (24.14%) Ansible
5 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.45%) Argo
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Okta
2 1 (3.45%) OneLogin
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) VMware
2 1 (3.45%) Zscaler