Senior DevOps Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in London is £96,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 328 394
Rank change year-on-year -29 +66 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 51 64 114
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.25% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.57% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 40 37 98
10th Percentile £69,000 £66,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,875 £85,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £100,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +15.94% +1.47%
75th Percentile £121,250 £117,500 £104,375
90th Percentile £127,750 £127,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £79,750
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.58% -6.18%

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 18,970 11,175 22,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 90.10% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,976 7,268 16,637
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 18 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 18 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 -7 10 £100,000 -9.09% 8
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 26 (50.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (47.06%) Azure
4 23 (45.10%) Terraform
5 20 (39.22%) AWS
6 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
7 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
9 11 (21.57%) Linux
10 10 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (19.61%) Docker
10 10 (19.61%) High Availability
10 10 (19.61%) Python
11 9 (17.65%) GCP
12 8 (15.69%) Analytics
12 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (13.73%) Go
13 7 (13.73%) Grafana
13 7 (13.73%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (13.73%) Kafka
13 7 (13.73%) Okta
14 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
14 6 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
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%) Incident Management

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 7 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (9.80%) GitHub
7 5 (9.80%) Serverless
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
9 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.88%) Datadog
9 3 (5.88%) SaaS
10 2 (3.92%) Mimecast
10 2 (3.92%) Rubrik
11 1 (1.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.96%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) DHCP
1 6 (11.76%) DNS
2 5 (9.80%) Firewall
3 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) GitLab
2 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.92%) Git
General
1 20 (39.22%) Finance
2 11 (21.57%) Banking
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Kafka
2 4 (7.84%) ADO
2 4 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.96%) AWS SAM
3 1 (1.96%) Next.js
3 1 (1.96%) Node.js
3 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%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (50.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 10 (19.61%) High Availability
6 8 (15.69%) Analytics
6 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (11.76%) Incident Management
8 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (9.80%) Observability
10 4 (7.84%) DevSecOps
10 4 (7.84%) Event-Driven
10 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (7.84%) Product Roadmap
10 4 (7.84%) Project Delivery
10 4 (7.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) Python
2 7 (13.73%) Go
3 5 (9.80%) Bash
4 3 (5.88%) Bicep
4 3 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (1.96%) Java
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
3 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 10 (19.61%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (45.10%) Terraform
2 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.73%) Grafana
4 6 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (9.80%) Ansible
5 5 (9.80%) Istio
5 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
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%) Oracle