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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 337 367
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 43 59 104
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.52% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 37 25 79
10th Percentile £60,000 £68,500 £60,250
25th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £125,500 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 21,551 11,245 19,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.67% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,787 7,343 13,537
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 31 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 31 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 8 £102,500 -6.82% 3
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (69.77%) Azure
3 23 (53.49%) Terraform
4 21 (48.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
6 18 (41.86%) AWS
6 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
7 12 (27.91%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (27.91%) Python
8 11 (25.58%) Containerisation
9 10 (23.26%) GCP
10 9 (20.93%) Docker
10 9 (20.93%) Kafka
11 8 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (18.60%) GitLab
11 8 (18.60%) Go
11 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
12 7 (16.28%) Agile
12 7 (16.28%) Ansible
12 7 (16.28%) GitHub
12 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
12 7 (16.28%) SQL
13 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (13.95%) Grafana
13 6 (13.95%) Incident Management
13 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
13 6 (13.95%) QA
13 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 1 (2.33%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) AWS
3 12 (27.91%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) GCP
5 7 (16.28%) GitHub
6 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (9.30%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (9.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (9.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
8 4 (9.30%) Serverless
9 3 (6.98%) Azure API Management
9 3 (6.98%) Datadog
10 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.65%) SaaS
11 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.33%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DHCP
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
1 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) GitLab
2 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) Git
4 3 (6.98%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.65%) JIRA
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (32.56%) Finance
2 11 (25.58%) Banking
3 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Kafka
2 4 (9.30%) ADO
3 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.33%) XML
5 1 (2.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
1 4 (9.30%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (48.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.58%) Containerisation
5 8 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (16.28%) Agile
7 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.95%) Incident Management
7 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
7 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (11.63%) AI
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (9.30%) Analytics
9 4 (9.30%) Application Packaging
9 4 (9.30%) Change Management
9 4 (9.30%) Microservices
9 4 (9.30%) Open Source
9 4 (9.30%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) Go
3 7 (16.28%) SQL
4 3 (6.98%) Bash
4 3 (6.98%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) Terraform
2 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
4 6 (13.95%) Grafana
5 5 (11.63%) Istio
5 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 4 (9.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.33%) Argo
8 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) MuleSoft
2 5 (11.63%) Okta
2 5 (11.63%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.30%) Confluent
3 4 (9.30%) OneLogin
4 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.65%) OpenText
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle