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 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 125 63
Rank change year-on-year +30 -62 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 34 43 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.79% 1.53% 4.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.66% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33 38 112
10th Percentile £53,250 £56,000 £64,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £100,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £112,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% -5.71% +9.38%

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 1,781 2,598 2,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 92.69% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 1,735 2,603
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% -2.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025, 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 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (67.65%) Azure
3 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
4 17 (50.00%) Terraform
5 15 (44.12%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
7 12 (35.29%) Ansible
7 12 (35.29%) Python
8 10 (29.41%) AWS
8 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (23.53%) AI
10 8 (23.53%) GitHub
10 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
10 8 (23.53%) Software Delivery
11 7 (20.59%) .NET
11 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
11 7 (20.59%) Linux
11 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
11 7 (20.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (20.59%) SQL
11 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
12 6 (17.65%) Grafana
12 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (17.65%) TeamCity
13 5 (14.71%) Agile
13 5 (14.71%) Docker
13 5 (14.71%) Git
13 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 (2.94%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) AWS
4 8 (23.53%) GitHub
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (11.76%) SaaS
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.82%) Serverless
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (5.88%) Apigee
7 2 (5.88%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.88%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.88%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (17.65%) TeamCity
3 5 (14.71%) Git
4 4 (11.76%) GitLab
5 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.88%) JIRA
7 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Advertising
2 3 (8.82%) Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) YAML
3 2 (5.88%) JWT
3 2 (5.88%) Node.js
3 2 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Private Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) CentOS
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (23.53%) AI
5 8 (23.53%) Software Delivery
6 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
7 5 (14.71%) Agile
7 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) Observability
7 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Analytics
8 4 (11.76%) Resource Management
9 3 (8.82%) Fintech
9 3 (8.82%) Microservices
10 2 (5.88%) API Development
10 2 (5.88%) Dashboard Development
10 2 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
2 12 (35.29%) Python
3 7 (20.59%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) Ruby
5 2 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.94%) Bicep
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (50.00%) Terraform
2 12 (35.29%) Ansible
3 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 6 (17.65%) Grafana
5 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.88%) Argo
8 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics