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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 346 362
Rank change year-on-year -46 +16 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 44 46 104
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.18% 0.38% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.42% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 41 18 74
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,875 £54,625
25th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +1.47%
75th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £127,500 £109,375
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% -6.25%

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 22,939 10,933 18,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 91.27% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15,845 7,135 11,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 12 September 2026.

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 September 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 +2 8 £85,000 -17.07% 8
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, 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 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (65.91%) Azure
3 20 (45.45%) Terraform
4 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
6 15 (34.09%) AWS
7 14 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
8 10 (22.73%) GCP
8 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
8 10 (22.73%) Python
9 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
9 9 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (18.18%) Agile
10 8 (18.18%) Docker
10 8 (18.18%) SQL
11 7 (15.91%) Ansible
11 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (15.91%) Go
11 7 (15.91%) Kafka
11 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
12 6 (13.64%) GitHub
12 6 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (11.36%) AI
13 5 (11.36%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (11.36%) GitLab
13 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
13 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
13 5 (11.36%) MuleSoft

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:

Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
3 14 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) GCP
5 6 (13.64%) GitHub
5 6 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (6.82%) Azure API Management
8 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.82%) Serverless
9 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.55%) Datadog
9 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) DHCP
1 3 (6.82%) DNS
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
1 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.55%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) GitLab
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
2 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) Terraform
2 7 (15.91%) Kafka
3 3 (6.82%) .NET
3 3 (6.82%) ADO
3 3 (6.82%) Node.js
3 3 (6.82%) XML
4 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.55%) Pulumi
4 2 (4.55%) XSLT
5 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
1 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
4 9 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (18.18%) Agile
6 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (11.36%) AI
8 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (9.09%) Incident Management
9 4 (9.09%) Observability
9 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
10 3 (6.82%) Analytics
10 3 (6.82%) High Availability
10 3 (6.82%) Open Source
10 3 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) Python
2 8 (18.18%) SQL
3 7 (15.91%) Go
4 3 (6.82%) VB.NET
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Ansible
3 4 (9.09%) Grafana
3 4 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (6.82%) Istio
4 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) MuleSoft
2 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.09%) Okta
4 3 (6.82%) Confluent
4 3 (6.82%) OneLogin
5 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.55%) OpenText
5 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.55%) Splunk
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle