DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Development Operations Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the City of London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 116 64
Rank change year-on-year +19 -52 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 31 55 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.98% 2.00% 4.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 2.14% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 29 50 114
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,250 £61,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £82,500 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,478 2,570 3,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 93.59% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,208 1,703 2,694
10th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 City of London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (90.32%) CI/CD
3 25 (80.65%) Azure
4 20 (64.52%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (58.06%) Terraform
6 17 (54.84%) Python
7 14 (45.16%) PowerShell
8 13 (41.94%) Agile
8 13 (41.94%) Ansible
8 13 (41.94%) Software Delivery
9 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
10 11 (35.48%) GitHub
11 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (32.26%) Observability
11 10 (32.26%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (29.03%) AWS
12 9 (29.03%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (29.03%) Java
12 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
12 9 (29.03%) Migration
13 8 (25.81%) .NET
13 8 (25.81%) AI
13 8 (25.81%) Linux
13 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (25.81%) SQL
13 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
14 7 (22.58%) Build Automation
14 7 (22.58%) DevSecOps
14 7 (22.58%) Git
14 7 (22.58%) Intelligent Automation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Azure
2 20 (64.52%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (35.48%) GitHub
4 9 (29.03%) AWS
4 9 (29.03%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.23%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (19.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
1 7 (22.58%) Octopus Deploy
1 7 (22.58%) SonarQube
2 6 (19.35%) TeamCity
3 4 (12.90%) GitLab
4 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
4 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Banking
2 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Advertising
3 1 (3.23%) Law
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 7 (22.58%) React
3 3 (9.68%) YAML
4 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.23%) Playwright
4 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.23%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (19.35%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (19.35%) Virtual Team
3 3 (9.68%) Private Cloud
3 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.45%) CentOS
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (90.32%) CI/CD
3 13 (41.94%) Agile
3 13 (41.94%) Software Delivery
4 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
5 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (32.26%) Observability
5 10 (32.26%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (29.03%) Migration
7 8 (25.81%) AI
7 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Build Automation
8 7 (22.58%) DevSecOps
8 7 (22.58%) Intelligent Automation
8 7 (22.58%) Release Automation
8 7 (22.58%) Release Management
9 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (9.68%) Fintech
11 2 (6.45%) API Development
11 2 (6.45%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) Python
2 14 (45.16%) PowerShell
3 9 (29.03%) Java
4 8 (25.81%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Ruby
6 2 (6.45%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (3.23%) Bicep
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) PHP
7 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Terraform
2 13 (41.94%) Ansible
3 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
4 5 (16.13%) Grafana
5 4 (12.90%) Progress Chef
6 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.23%) Argo
7 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Splunk
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics