Senior DevOps Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 336 257
Rank change year-on-year -8 -79 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 38 101 220
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.58% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.61% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13 78 187
10th Percentile £57,750 £59,125 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £75,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £116,500 £118,750 £116,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -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 11,007 16,542 18,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 95.12% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,168 10,207 15,402
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +4 3 £90,000 -10.00% 5
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (94.74%) AWS
3 24 (63.16%) CI/CD
4 21 (55.26%) AI
5 18 (47.37%) Terraform
6 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (42.11%) Mentoring
7 15 (39.47%) IBM
8 14 (36.84%) Coaching
9 13 (34.21%) Red Hat
10 12 (31.58%) Agile
10 12 (31.58%) Python
10 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
11 11 (28.95%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (28.95%) Ansible
11 11 (28.95%) Grafana
11 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (26.32%) SDLC
13 9 (23.68%) Go
13 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
13 9 (23.68%) Linux
14 8 (21.05%) Docker
14 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
14 8 (21.05%) Unix
15 7 (18.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (18.42%) Analytics
16 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (15.79%) Bash
16 6 (15.79%) Configuration Management
16 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery

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 36 (94.74%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (10.53%) Apigee
6 4 (10.53%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.53%) Kong
6 4 (10.53%) Serverless
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.89%) Azure
7 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) GitHub
8 2 (5.26%) Datadog
9 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
9 1 (2.63%) PaaS
9 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) SSL
3 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) KDB
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) Maven
3 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.26%) IntelliJ
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) JUnit
3 2 (5.26%) Mockito
4 1 (2.63%) Gradle
General
1 21 (55.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (36.84%) Finance
3 13 (34.21%) Public Sector
4 10 (26.32%) Banking
5 8 (21.05%) Law
6 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (10.53%) OpenAPI
2 4 (10.53%) RESTful
2 4 (10.53%) Swagger
3 3 (7.89%) YAML
4 2 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (5.26%) JMS
4 2 (5.26%) Spring
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.63%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (34.21%) e-Learning
3 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
4 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
5 4 (10.53%) Equities
6 2 (5.26%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 21 (55.26%) AI
4 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (42.11%) Mentoring
5 14 (36.84%) Coaching
6 12 (31.58%) Agile
6 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
7 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (26.32%) SDLC
9 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
10 7 (18.42%) Analytics
11 6 (15.79%) Configuration Management
11 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (15.79%) Observability
12 5 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (13.16%) High Availability
12 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
13 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
13 4 (10.53%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) Go
3 6 (15.79%) Bash
4 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.53%) Lua
5 3 (7.89%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) Ruby
6 2 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.63%) SQL
7 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Terraform
2 11 (28.95%) Ansible
2 11 (28.95%) Grafana
3 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.63%) Argo
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) IBM
2 13 (34.21%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.53%) MKS
3 4 (10.53%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Okta
5 1 (2.63%) OneLogin
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Zscaler