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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 340 364
Rank change year-on-year -49 +24 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 43 44 106
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.17% 0.37% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.41% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 41 16 77
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,625 £58,000
25th Percentile £76,000 £76,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £86,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +5.88%
75th Percentile £96,250 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £125,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £79,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.33% - -6.25%

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 22,984 10,794 18,142
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 91.13% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,890 7,022 11,577
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £99,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 15 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 15 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 -4 8 £85,000 -17.07% 8
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (65.12%) Azure
3 19 (44.19%) Terraform
4 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
4 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (32.56%) AWS
6 13 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
7 10 (23.26%) GCP
7 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
7 10 (23.26%) Python
8 9 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (18.60%) Agile
9 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
9 8 (18.60%) SQL
10 7 (16.28%) Ansible
10 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (16.28%) Docker
10 7 (16.28%) Go
10 7 (16.28%) Kafka
10 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
11 6 (13.95%) GitHub
11 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (11.63%) AI
12 5 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (11.63%) GitLab
12 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
12 5 (11.63%) MuleSoft
12 5 (11.63%) QA

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 (6.98%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) AWS
3 13 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) GCP
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (6.98%) Azure API Management
8 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.98%) Serverless
9 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.65%) Datadog
9 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) DHCP
1 3 (6.98%) DNS
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
2 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Law
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (44.19%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Kafka
3 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 3 (6.98%) ADO
3 3 (6.98%) Node.js
3 3 (6.98%) XML
4 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.65%) Pulumi
4 2 (4.65%) XSLT
5 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
1 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
2 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (18.60%) Agile
4 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
5 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (11.63%) AI
7 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Incident Management
8 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
9 3 (6.98%) Fintech
9 3 (6.98%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (6.98%) Observability
9 3 (6.98%) Project Delivery
9 3 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Go
4 3 (6.98%) VB.NET
5 2 (4.65%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.28%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) Grafana
3 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (6.98%) Istio
4 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) MuleSoft
2 5 (11.63%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.30%) Okta
4 3 (6.98%) Confluent
4 3 (6.98%) OneLogin
5 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.65%) OpenText
5 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) Splunk
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle