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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 107 98
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 62 36 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.78% 1.72% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.87% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 55 27 64
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £74,375 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,000 £113,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £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 3,316 1,925 3,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 91.80% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,369 1,469 2,575
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% - -3.33%

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 April 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 April 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 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (62.90%) Azure
3 24 (38.71%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (38.71%) Terraform
4 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
5 18 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
7 15 (24.19%) AI
8 11 (17.74%) AWS
8 11 (17.74%) PowerShell
8 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.74%) SQL Server
9 10 (16.13%) .NET
9 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
9 10 (16.13%) Python
10 9 (14.52%) Software Delivery
11 8 (12.90%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (12.90%) SQL
11 8 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (12.90%) TeamCity
12 7 (11.29%) Analytics
12 7 (11.29%) Ansible
12 7 (11.29%) Linux
13 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
13 6 (9.68%) Azure AKS
13 6 (9.68%) Azure Certification
13 6 (9.68%) Identity Management
13 6 (9.68%) Investment Management
13 6 (9.68%) Windows
13 6 (9.68%) Windows Server

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 (1.61%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 39 (62.90%) Azure
2 24 (38.71%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (17.74%) AWS
4 6 (9.68%) Azure AKS
5 5 (8.06%) SaaS
6 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.45%) GitHub
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.23%) Apigee
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.23%) Serverless
9 1 (1.61%) Datadog
9 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) DHCP
1 3 (4.84%) DNS
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
1 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Octopus Deploy
1 8 (12.90%) TeamCity
2 3 (4.84%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (24.19%) Finance
2 7 (11.29%) Banking
3 5 (8.06%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Advertising
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) .NET
2 3 (4.84%) ADO
2 3 (4.84%) Node.js
3 2 (3.23%) JWT
3 2 (3.23%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) Next.js
4 1 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.61%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (12.90%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
3 18 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (24.19%) AI
5 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.52%) Software Delivery
7 7 (11.29%) Analytics
8 6 (9.68%) Identity Management
8 6 (9.68%) Investment Management
9 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (6.45%) Resource Management
10 4 (6.45%) Roadmaps
11 3 (4.84%) Application Packaging
11 3 (4.84%) Change Management
11 3 (4.84%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (4.84%) Incident Management
11 3 (4.84%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.13%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) SQL
4 2 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (38.71%) Terraform
2 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.29%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.61%) Argo
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Okta
2 3 (4.84%) OneLogin