Senior DevOps Jobs in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations salary in London is £100,001 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 388 285
Rank change year-on-year +54 -103 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 62 120 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.51% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.54% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 39 102 306
10th Percentile £67,000 £62,500 £71,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £72,813 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,001 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £118,750 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £129,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in London.

Salary trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in London over the 6 months to 9 May 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 9 May 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 -1 11 £110,000 +15.79% 5
East London - 2 £100,000 -
Senior DevOps
England

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (87.10%) CI/CD
3 52 (83.87%) AWS
4 42 (67.74%) Finance
4 42 (67.74%) Terraform
5 35 (56.45%) Ansible
6 31 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (45.16%) Python
8 26 (41.94%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (40.32%) Kubernetes
9 25 (40.32%) Jenkins
9 25 (40.32%) Amazon S3
10 24 (38.71%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (38.71%) Serverless
11 23 (37.10%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (37.10%) Docker
11 23 (37.10%) Software Engineering
12 20 (32.26%) Java
13 19 (30.65%) Linux
13 19 (30.65%) Agile
14 18 (29.03%) IBM
15 17 (27.42%) GitLab
15 17 (27.42%) Management Information System
16 16 (25.81%) Banking
16 16 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (25.81%) Deployment Automation
17 15 (24.19%) Datadog
17 15 (24.19%) Git
18 14 (22.58%) Azure
18 14 (22.58%) Mockito

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 52 (83.87%) AWS
2 26 (41.94%) Amazon EKS
3 25 (40.32%) Amazon S3
4 24 (38.71%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (38.71%) Serverless
5 23 (37.10%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (24.19%) Datadog
8 14 (22.58%) Azure
9 10 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (14.52%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (14.52%) GitHub
11 7 (11.29%) GCP
12 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (4.84%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (4.84%) Azure AKS
13 3 (4.84%) OpenShift
14 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
15 1 (1.61%) AWS Direct Connect
15 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (14.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (40.32%) Jenkins
2 17 (27.42%) GitLab
3 15 (24.19%) Git
4 14 (22.58%) Cucumber
4 14 (22.58%) IntelliJ
4 14 (22.58%) JUnit
4 14 (22.58%) Maven
4 14 (22.58%) Mockito
5 8 (12.90%) Bitbucket
6 7 (11.29%) JIRA
7 2 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.61%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.61%) TestRail
General
1 42 (67.74%) Finance
2 16 (25.81%) Banking
3 10 (16.13%) Front Office
4 8 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Games
8 1 (1.61%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (22.58%) JMS
1 14 (22.58%) Spring
1 14 (22.58%) Spring Boot
2 7 (11.29%) YAML
3 5 (8.06%) Kafka
4 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.61%) .NET
5 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.61%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.61%) JSON
5 1 (1.61%) Node.js
5 1 (1.61%) React
5 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Management Information System
2 14 (22.58%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (22.58%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) e-Learning
6 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (30.65%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (87.10%) CI/CD
3 31 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (37.10%) Software Engineering
5 19 (30.65%) Agile
6 16 (25.81%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (22.58%) Analytics
7 14 (22.58%) SDLC
7 14 (22.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (17.74%) Fintech
9 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
10 9 (14.52%) Asset Management
11 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.68%) Microservices
11 6 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (8.06%) Coaching
12 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (8.06%) High Availability
12 5 (8.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.16%) Python
2 20 (32.26%) Java
3 14 (22.58%) C++
4 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.68%) Bash
7 5 (8.06%) Go
7 5 (8.06%) Ruby
8 4 (6.45%) C#
8 4 (6.45%) SQL
9 2 (3.23%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) GDPR
1 3 (4.84%) HIPAA
1 3 (4.84%) NIST
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 23 (37.10%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (67.74%) Terraform
2 35 (56.45%) Ansible
3 25 (40.32%) Kubernetes
4 7 (11.29%) Progress Chef
5 4 (6.45%) Grafana
6 3 (4.84%) Istio
7 2 (3.23%) Argo
7 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.23%) Puppet
8 1 (1.61%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.61%) Kibana
8 1 (1.61%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.61%) logstash
8 1 (1.61%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) IBM
2 4 (6.45%) Splunk
3 3 (4.84%) Confluent
3 3 (4.84%) Google
3 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.23%) Snow
5 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.61%) Imperva
5 1 (1.61%) Meraki
5 1 (1.61%) Okta
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) VMware