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 £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 114 115
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 66 36 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.64% 1.73% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 1.87% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 59 27 55
10th Percentile £62,500 £70,750 £59,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.16% +18.75%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - £116,000 £113,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +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 3,836 1,925 3,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 92.68% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,787 1,462 2,564
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,075
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% - -0.97%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (51.52%) Azure
3 22 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (30.30%) Terraform
5 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (24.24%) Kubernetes
7 13 (19.70%) AI
7 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
9 9 (13.64%) AWS
9 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
10 8 (12.12%) .NET
10 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
10 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
11 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.61%) SaaS
11 7 (10.61%) Software Delivery
12 6 (9.09%) Azure AKS
12 6 (9.09%) Azure Certification
12 6 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (9.09%) Identity Management
12 6 (9.09%) Investment Management
12 6 (9.09%) Linux
12 6 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (9.09%) Python
12 6 (9.09%) SQL
12 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (9.09%) TeamCity
12 6 (9.09%) Windows
13 5 (7.58%) Active Directory

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 1 (1.52%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 34 (51.52%) Azure
2 22 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.64%) AWS
4 7 (10.61%) SaaS
5 6 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.03%) GitHub
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.52%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) DHCP
1 4 (6.06%) DNS
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
1 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
1 6 (9.09%) TeamCity
2 2 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (19.70%) Finance
2 7 (10.61%) Banking
3 5 (7.58%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) .NET
2 4 (6.06%) ADO
3 2 (3.03%) YAML
4 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.52%) Next.js
4 1 (1.52%) Node.js
4 1 (1.52%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.55%) Web3
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Linux
1 6 (9.09%) Windows
2 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (19.70%) AI
3 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
4 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.61%) Software Delivery
5 6 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 6 (9.09%) Investment Management
6 5 (7.58%) Analytics
7 4 (6.06%) Application Packaging
7 4 (6.06%) Business Transformation
7 4 (6.06%) Change Management
7 4 (6.06%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (6.06%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (6.06%) Incident Management
7 4 (6.06%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (6.06%) Project Delivery
7 4 (6.06%) Roadmaps
7 4 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.09%) Python
2 6 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (1.52%) Bash
3 1 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (30.30%) Terraform
2 16 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (4.55%) Ansible
5 1 (1.52%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Okta
2 4 (6.06%) OneLogin