DevOps Engineer Jobs 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 £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 121 45
Rank change year-on-year +19 -76 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 45 55 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.30% 1.69% 5.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 1.77% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 233
10th Percentile £70,625 £59,750 £55,950
25th Percentile £72,188 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £95,313 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,250 - £110,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +5.88% -

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 1,850 3,109 4,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 95.75% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 2,415 3,541
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £119,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,372
% change year-on-year - -2.52% +2.58%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer 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 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 City of London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (93.33%) CI/CD
3 33 (73.33%) Azure
4 28 (62.22%) GitHub
4 28 (62.22%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (57.78%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (53.33%) Terraform
6 24 (53.33%) Release Management
6 24 (53.33%) Python
7 23 (51.11%) Agile
7 23 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (44.44%) Finance
9 19 (42.22%) Migration
10 18 (40.00%) Java
11 17 (37.78%) DevSecOps
11 17 (37.78%) Observability
11 17 (37.78%) Cloud Native
11 17 (37.78%) Software Delivery
11 17 (37.78%) Intelligent Automation
12 16 (35.56%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (35.56%) Ansible
13 15 (33.33%) Build Automation
13 15 (33.33%) Release Automation
13 15 (33.33%) React
14 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
15 12 (26.67%) PowerShell
15 12 (26.67%) AWS
16 11 (24.44%) Bash
17 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
17 10 (22.22%) Roadmaps

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.22%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 33 (73.33%) Azure
2 28 (62.22%) Azure DevOps
2 28 (62.22%) GitHub
3 26 (57.78%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (26.67%) AWS
5 9 (20.00%) Datadog
6 8 (17.78%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (17.78%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (17.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (17.78%) npm
7 2 (4.44%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 2 (4.44%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Bitbucket
1 8 (17.78%) SonarQube
2 6 (13.33%) Git
3 3 (6.67%) GitLab
4 2 (4.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) React
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) .NET
3 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.22%) Loki
3 1 (2.22%) Middleware
3 1 (2.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) CentOS
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (93.33%) CI/CD
3 24 (53.33%) Release Management
4 23 (51.11%) Agile
4 23 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (42.22%) Migration
6 17 (37.78%) DevSecOps
6 17 (37.78%) Intelligent Automation
6 17 (37.78%) Observability
6 17 (37.78%) Software Delivery
7 16 (35.56%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (33.33%) Build Automation
8 15 (33.33%) Release Automation
9 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
10 10 (22.22%) Roadmaps
11 8 (17.78%) BCP
11 8 (17.78%) Data Engineering
12 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 3 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
13 3 (6.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) Python
2 18 (40.00%) Java
3 12 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 11 (24.44%) Bash
5 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.44%) Ruby
6 2 (4.44%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) PHP
7 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Terraform
2 16 (35.56%) Ansible
3 8 (17.78%) Prometheus
4 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
5 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) SAP