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 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 337 270
Rank change year-on-year -18 -67 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 31 104 210
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.60% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.63% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 19 79 179
10th Percentile £62,250 £62,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,875 £81,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £118,000 £122,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £84,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -7.74% +1.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,825 16,458 17,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 94.79% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,602 10,018 14,586
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +21 5 £100,000 - 12
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, 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 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (80.65%) AWS
3 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
4 18 (58.06%) Terraform
5 16 (51.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (38.71%) Agile
7 11 (35.48%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (35.48%) Python
8 10 (32.26%) AI
8 10 (32.26%) Grafana
8 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
9 9 (29.03%) Ansible
10 8 (25.81%) Go
10 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
10 8 (25.81%) Machine Learning
10 8 (25.81%) SDLC
11 7 (22.58%) Docker
11 7 (22.58%) Linux
11 7 (22.58%) Unix
12 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (16.13%) Analytics
13 5 (16.13%) Bash
13 5 (16.13%) Bitbucket
13 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
13 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (16.13%) Mentoring

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 (80.65%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (12.90%) Apigee
5 4 (12.90%) Kong
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.68%) Azure
6 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) Serverless
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Logz.io
7 1 (3.23%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) SSL
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) KDB
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Gradle
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Maven
General
1 17 (54.84%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Banking
2 10 (32.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (25.81%) Law
4 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (12.90%) OpenAPI
2 4 (12.90%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) Swagger
3 3 (9.68%) YAML
4 2 (6.45%) AWS SAM
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Equities
2 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) e-Learning
4 2 (6.45%) Web3
5 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
1 7 (22.58%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
3 16 (51.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (38.71%) Agile
5 10 (32.26%) AI
5 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
6 8 (25.81%) Machine Learning
6 8 (25.81%) SDLC
7 5 (16.13%) Analytics
7 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
7 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.13%) Observability
8 4 (12.90%) API Management
8 4 (12.90%) Architectural Design
8 4 (12.90%) Community of Practice
8 4 (12.90%) Mathematics
8 4 (12.90%) Operational Stability
8 4 (12.90%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) Go
3 5 (16.13%) Bash
4 4 (12.90%) Lua
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.45%) Ruby
6 2 (6.45%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (3.23%) Bicep
7 1 (3.23%) Java
7 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.23%) SQL
7 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Terraform
2 10 (32.26%) Grafana
3 9 (29.03%) Ansible
4 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
5 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.23%) Argo
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) MKS
1 4 (12.90%) MuleSoft
2 2 (6.45%) IBM
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Okta
3 1 (3.23%) OneLogin
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Zscaler