DevOps Engineer Jobs in Central London

Development Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Central London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 126 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 -82 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 38 61 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.51% 1.62% 6.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.70% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 28 55 290
10th Percentile £68,125 £58,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £94,688
90th Percentile £115,750 £111,000 £106,375
London median annual salary £110,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +37.50% -3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,299 3,587 5,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 95.25% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,620 2,792 4,155
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,938 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £96,063 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 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
City of London +18 36 £82,500 -13.16% 24
Southwark -7 1 £55,000 -
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 Central London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (94.74%) CI/CD
3 27 (71.05%) Azure
4 23 (60.53%) GitHub
4 23 (60.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (57.89%) Terraform
5 22 (57.89%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (55.26%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (50.00%) Release Management
7 19 (50.00%) Python
7 19 (50.00%) Finance
8 17 (44.74%) Agile
9 14 (36.84%) Java
10 13 (34.21%) Migration
10 13 (34.21%) Software Delivery
10 13 (34.21%) Ansible
11 12 (31.58%) Cloud Native
11 12 (31.58%) DevSecOps
11 12 (31.58%) Observability
11 12 (31.58%) Bash
11 12 (31.58%) Intelligent Automation
12 11 (28.95%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (28.95%) AWS
12 11 (28.95%) React
13 10 (26.32%) Release Automation
13 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
13 10 (26.32%) Build Automation
13 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
14 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
14 9 (23.68%) Microsoft

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 27 (71.05%) Azure
2 23 (60.53%) GitHub
3 22 (57.89%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (55.26%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (28.95%) AWS
6 9 (23.68%) Datadog
7 8 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (21.05%) npm
8 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.26%) GCP
11 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.63%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (2.63%) PaaS
11 1 (2.63%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.16%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.89%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.26%) JIRA
6 1 (2.63%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) React
2 2 (5.26%) YAML
3 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) Loki
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) Playwright
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) CentOS
3 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (94.74%) CI/CD
3 23 (60.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (50.00%) Release Management
5 17 (44.74%) Agile
6 13 (34.21%) Migration
6 13 (34.21%) Software Delivery
7 12 (31.58%) DevSecOps
7 12 (31.58%) Intelligent Automation
7 12 (31.58%) Observability
8 11 (28.95%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (26.32%) Build Automation
9 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
9 10 (26.32%) Release Automation
10 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
11 8 (21.05%) BCP
11 8 (21.05%) Data Engineering
12 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (7.89%) Deployment Automation
12 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Python
2 14 (36.84%) Java
3 12 (31.58%) Bash
4 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
5 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) Ruby
6 2 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (57.89%) Terraform
2 13 (34.21%) Ansible
3 8 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
5 5 (13.16%) Grafana
6 4 (10.53%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.26%) Nagios
8 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) Databricks
3 4 (10.53%) Splunk
4 2 (5.26%) Rapid7
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.63%) SAP