Senior DevOps Jobs in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in London is £100,001 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 392 276
Rank change year-on-year +41 -116 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 63 113 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.48% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.51% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 28 89 299
10th Percentile £66,750 £62,500 £68,790
25th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,001 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £115,625 £105,000 £101,875
90th Percentile £127,500 - £113,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -8.82% +3.03%

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 12,127 22,129 27,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 94.40% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,424 16,081 21,650
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in London over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 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 +11 11 £110,000 +10.00% 1
East London - 1 £100,000 -
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (88.89%) AWS
3 44 (69.84%) CI/CD
4 35 (55.56%) Finance
5 34 (53.97%) Terraform
6 30 (47.62%) Ansible
7 29 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (36.51%) IBM
10 22 (34.92%) Python
10 22 (34.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
12 18 (28.57%) Software Engineering
12 18 (28.57%) Linux
12 18 (28.57%) SDLC
13 17 (26.98%) Management Information System
14 16 (25.40%) Agile
14 16 (25.40%) Jenkins
15 15 (23.81%) Banking
15 15 (23.81%) Java
15 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
16 14 (22.22%) Mentoring
16 14 (22.22%) Analytics
17 13 (20.63%) Docker
17 13 (20.63%) Red Hat
17 13 (20.63%) e-Learning
17 13 (20.63%) Coaching
17 13 (20.63%) Hybrid Cloud
17 13 (20.63%) Cloud Native
17 13 (20.63%) Public Sector

Senior DevOps 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 (1.59%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 56 (88.89%) AWS
2 27 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (17.46%) Amazon S3
4 11 (17.46%) Azure
4 11 (17.46%) Datadog
5 10 (15.87%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (15.87%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (15.87%) Serverless
6 6 (9.52%) GCP
6 6 (9.52%) GitHub
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.35%) Apigee
7 4 (6.35%) Kong
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) KDB
1 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.59%) InfluxDB
2 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.59%) MySQL
2 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Jenkins
2 12 (19.05%) GitLab
3 11 (17.46%) Git
4 10 (15.87%) Bitbucket
4 10 (15.87%) Cucumber
4 10 (15.87%) IntelliJ
4 10 (15.87%) JUnit
4 10 (15.87%) Maven
4 10 (15.87%) Mockito
5 5 (7.94%) JIRA
6 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.59%) TestRail
General
1 35 (55.56%) Finance
2 22 (34.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (23.81%) Banking
4 13 (20.63%) Public Sector
5 8 (12.70%) Law
6 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Front Office
7 1 (1.59%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) ActiveMQ
1 10 (15.87%) JMS
1 10 (15.87%) Spring
1 10 (15.87%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.94%) RESTful
4 4 (6.35%) Kafka
4 4 (6.35%) OpenAPI
4 4 (6.35%) Swagger
4 4 (6.35%) YAML
5 1 (1.59%) .NET
5 1 (1.59%) JSON
5 1 (1.59%) Node.js
5 1 (1.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Management Information System
2 13 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.63%) e-Learning
2 13 (20.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (15.87%) Credit Derivative
3 10 (15.87%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.35%) Equities
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (12.70%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (69.84%) CI/CD
3 29 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 18 (28.57%) SDLC
5 18 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 16 (25.40%) Agile
7 14 (22.22%) Analytics
7 14 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 13 (20.63%) Coaching
9 11 (17.46%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
12 7 (11.11%) Architectural Design
12 7 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (9.52%) Microservices
14 5 (7.94%) Configuration Management
14 5 (7.94%) Decision-Making
14 5 (7.94%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) Python
2 15 (23.81%) Java
3 11 (17.46%) Go
4 10 (15.87%) C++
5 8 (12.70%) Bash
6 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.35%) Lua
7 4 (6.35%) SQL
8 3 (4.76%) C#
8 3 (4.76%) Ruby
9 2 (3.17%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) GDPR
1 3 (4.76%) HIPAA
1 3 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (53.97%) Terraform
2 30 (47.62%) Ansible
3 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.52%) Grafana
5 5 (7.94%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.76%) Istio
7 2 (3.17%) Argo
7 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.17%) Puppet
8 1 (1.59%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.59%) Kibana
8 1 (1.59%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.59%) logstash
8 1 (1.59%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (36.51%) IBM
2 13 (20.63%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.35%) MKS
3 4 (6.35%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.76%) Confluent
4 3 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.59%) Imperva
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.59%) Okta
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Snow