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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 343 283
Rank change year-on-year +6 -60 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 36 91 173
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.58% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.63% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 28 68 160
10th Percentile £69,875 £76,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £123,000 £130,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £83,250
% change year-on-year - +2.10% -2.06%

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 12,497 14,461 16,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 92.76% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,279 8,384 13,705
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +19 6 £97,500 -2.50% 4
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (41.67%) Terraform
4 14 (38.89%) AWS
5 10 (27.78%) Grafana
5 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
5 10 (27.78%) Linux
6 8 (22.22%) High Availability
7 7 (19.44%) Azure
7 7 (19.44%) Docker
8 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (16.67%) Ansible
8 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (16.67%) Python
9 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (13.89%) Bash
9 5 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (13.89%) Observability
9 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
10 4 (11.11%) Analytics
10 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
10 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
10 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (11.11%) DNS
10 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
10 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack

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 14 (38.89%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.33%) Mimecast
6 3 (8.33%) Rubrik
6 3 (8.33%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.78%) Logz.io
8 1 (2.78%) PaaS
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (8.33%) DHCP
3 2 (5.56%) Firewall
4 1 (2.78%) SSL
4 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Gradle
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.56%) AWS SAM
2 2 (5.56%) YAML
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.78%) Next.js
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Hedge funds
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Web3
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 8 (22.22%) High Availability
5 5 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (13.89%) Observability
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.11%) Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (8.33%) Agile
7 3 (8.33%) AI
7 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.33%) Cryptography
7 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) Bash
3 3 (8.33%) Bicep
3 3 (8.33%) Go
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Ruby
5 1 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.78%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Terraform
2 10 (27.78%) Grafana
2 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.67%) Ansible
4 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (8.33%) SCCM
6 1 (2.78%) Argo
6 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.33%) Okta
1 3 (8.33%) OneLogin
1 3 (8.33%) VMware
1 3 (8.33%) Zscaler
2 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Splunk