Senior DevOps Job Trends in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 334 381
Rank change year-on-year -27 +47 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 49 64 122
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.23% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.59% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 37 32 103
10th Percentile £66,000 £65,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,001 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% +21.21% -2.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £128,500 £127,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £81,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.85% +4.84% -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 19,327 10,788 22,650
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 90.07% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,205 6,862 16,939
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,508 £37,500
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 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -11 11 £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 3 June 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 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (51.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (44.90%) Azure
3 22 (44.90%) Terraform
4 19 (38.78%) AWS
4 19 (38.78%) Kubernetes
5 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
6 12 (24.49%) Containerisation
7 11 (22.45%) GCP
7 11 (22.45%) Linux
8 10 (20.41%) Python
9 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (18.37%) Docker
9 9 (18.37%) High Availability
10 8 (16.33%) Kafka
10 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (14.29%) Analytics
11 7 (14.29%) Grafana
11 7 (14.29%) Okta
12 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
12 6 (12.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (12.24%) DHCP
12 6 (12.24%) DNS
12 6 (12.24%) GitLab
12 6 (12.24%) Go
12 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (12.24%) Incident Management
12 6 (12.24%) Microsoft

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 22 (44.90%) Azure
2 19 (38.78%) AWS
3 11 (22.45%) GCP
4 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (10.20%) GitHub
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
7 4 (8.16%) Serverless
8 3 (6.12%) Datadog
8 3 (6.12%) SaaS
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.08%) Mimecast
9 2 (4.08%) Rubrik
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.04%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) DHCP
1 6 (12.24%) DNS
2 4 (8.16%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) GitLab
2 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) CircleCI
3 3 (6.12%) Git
4 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 18 (36.73%) Finance
2 11 (22.45%) Banking
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) Kafka
2 4 (8.16%) ADO
3 3 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.04%) Next.js
4 1 (2.04%) Node.js
4 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (51.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 12 (24.49%) Containerisation
5 9 (18.37%) High Availability
6 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (14.29%) Analytics
8 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (12.24%) Incident Management
8 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.16%) AI
9 4 (8.16%) DevSecOps
9 4 (8.16%) Event-Driven
9 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.16%) Observability
9 4 (8.16%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (8.16%) Project Delivery
9 4 (8.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) Python
2 6 (12.24%) Go
3 4 (8.16%) Bash
3 4 (8.16%) SQL
4 3 (6.12%) Bicep
5 2 (4.08%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
2 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (44.90%) Terraform
2 19 (38.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.29%) Grafana
4 6 (12.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
5 5 (10.20%) Ansible
5 5 (10.20%) Istio
6 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.08%) SCCM
7 1 (2.04%) Argo
7 1 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Okta
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) OneLogin
3 4 (8.16%) Confluent
4 3 (6.12%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 2 (4.08%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.04%) OpenText
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Splunk