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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 131 69
Rank change year-on-year +50 -62 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 54 32 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.13% 1.23% 3.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 1.34% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 48 28 98
10th Percentile £55,125 £56,000 £62,125
25th Percentile £61,875 £70,000 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,385 2,389 2,905
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 91.88% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 1,535 2,595
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -2.03%

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 29 January 2026.

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 29 January 2026, 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 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (68.52%) Azure
3 28 (51.85%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (48.15%) CI/CD
5 23 (42.59%) Terraform
6 17 (31.48%) AI
7 16 (29.63%) PowerShell
7 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (25.93%) .NET
10 13 (24.07%) Octopus Deploy
10 13 (24.07%) Software Delivery
10 13 (24.07%) SQL
10 13 (24.07%) SQL Server
11 12 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (22.22%) TeamCity
12 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
13 8 (14.81%) AWS
14 7 (12.96%) Ansible
15 6 (11.11%) Identity Management
15 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 6 (11.11%) Investment Management
15 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
15 6 (11.11%) Python
16 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (9.26%) Docker
16 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
16 5 (9.26%) Linux
16 5 (9.26%) SaaS
16 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared

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 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 37 (68.52%) Azure
2 28 (51.85%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.81%) AWS
4 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (9.26%) SaaS
5 4 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.41%) GitHub
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.56%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.70%) Apigee
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.70%) Serverless
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.85%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) SQL Server
2 12 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (22.22%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.70%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (5.56%) Advertising
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) .NET
2 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) JWT
3 2 (3.70%) OAuth
3 2 (3.70%) Semantic Kernel
3 2 (3.70%) YAML
4 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.85%) Next.js
4 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 12 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Web3
4 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 17 (31.48%) AI
4 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (24.07%) Software Delivery
7 6 (11.11%) Identity Management
7 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) Investment Management
8 4 (7.41%) Analytics
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (7.41%) Observability
8 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (7.41%) Resource Management
9 3 (5.56%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (5.56%) Cryptography
9 3 (5.56%) Key Management
9 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (5.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 13 (24.07%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (1.85%) Bicep
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (42.59%) Terraform
2 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.96%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Grafana
4 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.85%) Argo
5 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
2 1 (1.85%) Splunk