Senior DevOps Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in London is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 310 387
Rank change year-on-year -45 +77 -97
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 51 69 113
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.25% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.62% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 39 38 97
10th Percentile £68,000 £66,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £82,188 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £122,500 £116,875 £105,000
90th Percentile £128,000 £127,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £79,125
% change year-on-year -17.65% +7.42% -6.91%

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 19,110 11,052 22,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 90.06% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,058 7,184 16,617
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -13 10 £100,000 -9.09% 5
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (49.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (47.06%) Azure
4 22 (43.14%) Terraform
5 20 (39.22%) AWS
6 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
7 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
8 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
9 11 (21.57%) Linux
10 10 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (19.61%) Python
11 9 (17.65%) Docker
11 9 (17.65%) GCP
11 9 (17.65%) High Availability
12 8 (15.69%) Analytics
12 8 (15.69%) Kafka
12 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (13.73%) Grafana
13 7 (13.73%) Okta
14 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
14 6 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (11.76%) DHCP
14 6 (11.76%) DNS
14 6 (11.76%) GitLab
14 6 (11.76%) Go
14 6 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
14 6 (11.76%) Incident Management
14 6 (11.76%) Microsoft

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 24 (47.06%) Azure
2 20 (39.22%) AWS
3 10 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (17.65%) GCP
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.80%) GitHub
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.84%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) Datadog
8 3 (5.88%) SaaS
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.92%) Mimecast
9 2 (3.92%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.96%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) DHCP
1 6 (11.76%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) GitLab
2 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) CircleCI
3 3 (5.88%) Git
4 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 20 (39.22%) Finance
2 11 (21.57%) Banking
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) Kafka
2 4 (7.84%) ADO
3 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.96%) Next.js
4 1 (1.96%) Node.js
4 1 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Hedge funds
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (49.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
4 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 9 (17.65%) High Availability
6 8 (15.69%) Analytics
6 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (11.76%) Incident Management
7 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (7.84%) AI
8 4 (7.84%) Application Packaging
8 4 (7.84%) Change Management
8 4 (7.84%) DevSecOps
8 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Microservices
8 4 (7.84%) Open Source
8 4 (7.84%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) Python
2 6 (11.76%) Go
3 4 (7.84%) Bash
3 4 (7.84%) SQL
4 3 (5.88%) Bicep
5 2 (3.92%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (43.14%) Terraform
2 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.73%) Grafana
4 6 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.80%) Ansible
5 5 (9.80%) Istio
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.92%) SCCM
7 1 (1.96%) Argo
7 1 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Okta
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) OneLogin
3 4 (7.84%) Confluent
4 3 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 2 (3.92%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.96%) OpenText
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) Splunk