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 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 331 352
Rank change year-on-year -64 +21 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 46 44 102
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.40% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 43 17 74
10th Percentile £60,000 £74,250 £54,625
25th Percentile £80,500 £81,250 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +1.47%
75th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £109,375
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% +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 22,747 10,881 18,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 91.26% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,701 7,078 11,941
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 6 September 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 6 September 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 +3 9 £85,000 -22.73% 5
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (69.57%) Azure
3 23 (50.00%) Terraform
4 21 (45.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
6 17 (36.96%) AWS
6 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
7 15 (32.61%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (26.09%) Python
9 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
9 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
10 10 (21.74%) GCP
10 10 (21.74%) SQL
11 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (19.57%) Docker
12 8 (17.39%) Agile
12 8 (17.39%) Ansible
12 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (17.39%) GitHub
12 8 (17.39%) GitLab
12 8 (17.39%) Go
12 8 (17.39%) Kafka
12 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
13 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
13 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
13 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
14 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
14 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation

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 (6.52%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 15 (32.61%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (21.74%) GCP
5 8 (17.39%) GitHub
6 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (10.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (8.70%) Serverless
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (6.52%) Azure API Management
10 3 (6.52%) Datadog
10 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
11 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
11 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
11 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
11 2 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DHCP
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
1 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) GitLab
2 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.70%) Git
4 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 2 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (28.26%) Finance
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Law
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Kafka
3 4 (8.70%) ADO
4 3 (6.52%) .NET
4 3 (6.52%) Node.js
4 3 (6.52%) XML
5 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.35%) Pulumi
5 2 (4.35%) XSLT
6 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
1 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (45.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
5 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (17.39%) Agile
6 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
7 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
8 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (10.87%) AI
9 5 (10.87%) Observability
9 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
10 4 (8.70%) Change Management
10 4 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
10 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) Go
4 3 (6.52%) Bash
4 3 (6.52%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) VB.NET
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.35%) XPath
6 1 (2.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
1 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.39%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) Grafana
4 4 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.52%) Istio
6 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) MuleSoft
2 5 (10.87%) Okta
2 5 (10.87%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.70%) OneLogin
4 3 (6.52%) Confluent
5 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.35%) OpenText
5 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.35%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle