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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 351 363
Rank change year-on-year -41 +12 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 44 48 101
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.18% 0.40% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.43% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 73
10th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £53,500
25th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%

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 22,318 11,101 18,592
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.57% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,285 7,225 12,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,840
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +9 9 £85,000 -22.73% 3
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 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 32 (72.73%) Azure
3 24 (54.55%) Terraform
4 20 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
6 17 (38.64%) AWS
7 15 (34.09%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
8 12 (27.27%) Python
9 10 (22.73%) Docker
9 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
9 10 (22.73%) SQL
10 9 (20.45%) GCP
10 9 (20.45%) Kafka
11 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (18.18%) GitLab
11 8 (18.18%) Go
11 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
12 7 (15.91%) Agile
12 7 (15.91%) Ansible
12 7 (15.91%) GitHub
12 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
12 7 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (13.64%) Incident Management
13 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
13 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
14 5 (11.36%) AI

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 32 (72.73%) Azure
2 17 (38.64%) AWS
3 15 (34.09%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) GCP
5 7 (15.91%) GitHub
6 6 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 4 (9.09%) Serverless
9 3 (6.82%) Azure API Management
9 3 (6.82%) Datadog
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
10 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) DHCP
1 4 (9.09%) DNS
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
1 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) GitLab
2 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.09%) Git
4 2 (4.55%) CircleCI
4 2 (4.55%) JIRA
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (31.82%) Finance
2 11 (25.00%) Banking
3 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (54.55%) Terraform
2 9 (20.45%) Kafka
3 4 (9.09%) ADO
4 3 (6.82%) .NET
4 3 (6.82%) XML
5 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.55%) Node.js
5 2 (4.55%) XSLT
6 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.27%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
1 4 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (15.91%) Agile
5 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
5 7 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (13.64%) Incident Management
6 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (11.36%) AI
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (11.36%) Observability
7 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
8 4 (9.09%) Analytics
8 4 (9.09%) Application Packaging
8 4 (9.09%) Change Management
8 4 (9.09%) High Availability
8 4 (9.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 8 (18.18%) Go
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) VB.NET
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.55%) XPath
6 1 (2.27%) Bicep
6 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) 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 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Docker
2 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Ansible
3 5 (11.36%) Grafana
3 5 (11.36%) Istio
4 4 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.27%) Argo
6 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) MuleSoft
2 5 (11.36%) Okta
2 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.09%) Confluent
3 4 (9.09%) OneLogin
4 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.55%) OpenText
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk