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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 321 381
Rank change year-on-year -53 +60 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 44 63 117
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.20% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.56% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 36 27 93
10th Percentile £60,000 £66,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,001 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +21.21% -2.94%
75th Percentile £109,063 £116,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £127,500 £111,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +6.45% -8.82%

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 20,363 11,208 22,775
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 91.31% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,036 7,154 16,861
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,283
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -4 9 £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 1 July 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 25 (56.82%) Azure
3 24 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (47.73%) Terraform
5 18 (40.91%) AWS
5 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
6 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
7 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (25.00%) GCP
8 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (22.73%) Python
9 9 (20.45%) Kafka
9 9 (20.45%) Linux
10 8 (18.18%) Docker
11 7 (15.91%) Grafana
11 7 (15.91%) High Availability
11 7 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (13.64%) Analytics
12 6 (13.64%) GitLab
12 6 (13.64%) Go
12 6 (13.64%) Incident Management
12 6 (13.64%) Okta
12 6 (13.64%) Prometheus
12 6 (13.64%) QA
12 6 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
13 5 (11.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (11.36%) Ansible
13 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement

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 25 (56.82%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) AWS
3 11 (25.00%) GCP
4 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (11.36%) GitHub
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 4 (9.09%) Serverless
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (6.82%) Datadog
8 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.55%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.55%) SaaS
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.27%) CloudFront
9 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) DHCP
1 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) GitLab
2 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.09%) Git
4 3 (6.82%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.55%) JIRA
6 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (38.64%) Finance
2 11 (25.00%) Banking
3 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) Kafka
2 4 (9.09%) ADO
3 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Hedge funds
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 5 (11.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (15.91%) High Availability
5 7 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (13.64%) Analytics
6 6 (13.64%) Incident Management
6 6 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (9.09%) Agile
8 4 (9.09%) Application Packaging
8 4 (9.09%) Change Management
8 4 (9.09%) Microservices
8 4 (9.09%) Open Source
8 4 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) Go
3 5 (11.36%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) Terraform
2 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.91%) Grafana
4 6 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 5 (11.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (11.36%) Ansible
5 5 (11.36%) Istio
6 1 (2.27%) Argo
6 1 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Okta
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) MuleSoft
2 5 (11.36%) OneLogin
2 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.09%) Confluent
4 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.55%) OpenText
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) Zscaler