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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 128 71
Rank change year-on-year +43 -57 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 49 35 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.17% 1.32% 3.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 1.44% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 43 31 98
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £94,375 £111,250 £109,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £115,750
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £97,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -28.21% +14.71% +6.25%

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 2,127 2,435 2,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 92.13% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,590 1,583 2,431
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £73,360 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -2.19% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -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 12 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 12 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 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (63.27%) Azure
3 27 (55.10%) CI/CD
4 25 (51.02%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (48.98%) Terraform
6 18 (36.73%) PowerShell
7 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (30.61%) AI
8 15 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (26.53%) .NET
9 13 (26.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 13 (26.53%) Software Delivery
9 13 (26.53%) SQL
9 13 (26.53%) SQL Server
10 12 (24.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (24.49%) TeamCity
11 10 (20.41%) Ansible
11 10 (20.41%) AWS
12 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
12 9 (18.37%) Python
13 7 (14.29%) Linux
13 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
14 6 (12.24%) Docker
14 6 (12.24%) GitHub
14 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
15 5 (10.20%) Grafana
15 5 (10.20%) Identity Management
15 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure 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 1 (2.04%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 31 (63.27%) Azure
2 25 (51.02%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (20.41%) AWS
4 6 (12.24%) GitHub
5 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.20%) SaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.12%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.08%) Apigee
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.08%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) SQL Server
2 12 (24.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (24.49%) TeamCity
3 3 (6.12%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (4.08%) GitLab
4 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 3 (6.12%) Advertising
2 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) .NET
2 3 (6.12%) Node.js
3 2 (4.08%) JWT
3 2 (4.08%) OAuth
3 2 (4.08%) YAML
4 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.04%) Next.js
4 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.04%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Hybrid Cloud
1 12 (24.49%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Virtual Team
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (55.10%) CI/CD
3 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (30.61%) AI
4 15 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (26.53%) Software Delivery
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Identity Management
7 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (10.20%) Investment Management
7 5 (10.20%) Observability
8 4 (8.16%) Analytics
8 4 (8.16%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (8.16%) Resource Management
9 3 (6.12%) High Availability
9 3 (6.12%) Key Management
9 3 (6.12%) Microservices
9 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (6.12%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) PowerShell
2 13 (26.53%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) Python
4 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Ruby
5 1 (2.04%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
1 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) Terraform
2 10 (20.41%) Ansible
3 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.20%) Grafana
5 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.08%) Argo
6 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) AppDynamics