DevOps Job Trends in the City of London

DevOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 227 339 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.84% 12.77% 13.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.40% 13.35% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 191 259 348
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £58,755 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 2,540 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.35% 95.67% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 1,620 2,368
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the City of London

DevOps
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
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 6 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.88%) Confluence
3 2 (0.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.88%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (65.20%) Azure
2 102 (44.93%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (23.35%) AWS
4 31 (13.66%) Power Platform
5 22 (9.69%) GitHub
6 21 (9.25%) Serverless
7 17 (7.49%) Datadog
8 16 (7.05%) GCP
9 15 (6.61%) PaaS
10 14 (6.17%) SaaS
10 14 (6.17%) Snowflake
11 13 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 12 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (4.85%) Azure Functions
13 11 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (4.85%) dbt
14 10 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) DNS
1 3 (1.32%) Firewall
1 3 (1.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.44%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.01%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.25%) Power BI
3 18 (7.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (7.49%) Relational Database
5 15 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.08%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.64%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.76%) Metadata
10 4 (1.76%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.76%) Tableau
11 3 (1.32%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.32%) SQLite
12 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (11.45%) Git
2 13 (5.73%) Octopus Deploy
3 12 (5.29%) TeamCity
4 11 (4.85%) Eclipse
5 9 (3.96%) JIRA
6 7 (3.08%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.32%) ESLint
7 3 (1.32%) GitLab
7 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.88%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.88%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.88%) ERwin
8 2 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.44%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.44%) NUnit
9 1 (0.44%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (27.75%) Finance
2 48 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.29%) Banking
5 10 (4.41%) Legal
6 7 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.20%) Front Office
8 4 (1.76%) Advertising
8 4 (1.76%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.76%) Marketing
9 3 (1.32%) International Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.32%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (23.35%) Developer
2 50 (22.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (17.62%) Lead
4 38 (16.74%) Senior
5 15 (6.61%) Data Engineer
5 15 (6.61%) Senior Developer
6 14 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (5.73%) Software Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) Architect
8 11 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.96%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.52%) Service Manager
12 7 (3.08%) Analyst
12 7 (3.08%) Support Engineer
13 6 (2.64%) Applications Support
13 6 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.64%) Java Developer
13 6 (2.64%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.42%) .NET
2 11 (4.85%) CSS
3 10 (4.41%) React
4 9 (3.96%) Node.js
5 8 (3.52%) HTML
5 8 (3.52%) WPF
6 7 (3.08%) YAML
7 6 (2.64%) Django
8 5 (2.20%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.76%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.32%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.32%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.32%) PySpark
10 3 (1.32%) RESTful
10 3 (1.32%) WebAssembly
10 3 (1.32%) XML
11 2 (0.88%) JSON
11 2 (0.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.49%) Reinsurance
3 15 (6.61%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (5.29%) Data Structures
6 12 (5.29%) Virtual Team
7 10 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.41%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.08%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.64%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.20%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.20%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.76%) Derivative
11 4 (1.76%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.76%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.32%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.17%) Windows
2 13 (5.73%) Linux
3 4 (1.76%) Unix
4 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (51.10%) CI/CD
2 71 (31.28%) Agile
3 50 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (18.94%) AI
5 41 (18.06%) Test Automation
6 40 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (13.66%) Observability
8 29 (12.78%) Mentoring
8 29 (12.78%) Migration
9 28 (12.33%) Analytics
9 28 (12.33%) Scrum
10 27 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (11.45%) Requirements Gathering
12 25 (11.01%) Software Engineering
13 23 (10.13%) Containerisation
14 21 (9.25%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (9.25%) Microservices
15 19 (8.37%) Document Management
16 18 (7.93%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.48%) Python
2 75 (33.04%) SQL
3 43 (18.94%) C#
4 36 (15.86%) PowerShell
5 31 (13.66%) Java
6 12 (5.29%) Bicep
7 11 (4.85%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.41%) Bash
9 8 (3.52%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.32%) C++
10 3 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.88%) Ruby
11 2 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Go
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (9.25%) Degree
2 17 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.73%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.64%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.76%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.32%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.88%) MCP
8 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.88%) PMP
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.44%) ISEB
9 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.64%) GDPR
3 5 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.76%) NCSC
4 4 (1.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.76%) QA
5 1 (0.44%) Basel III
5 1 (0.44%) MiFID
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) PMO
5 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (11.01%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (25.11%) Terraform
2 28 (12.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.37%) Ansible
3 19 (8.37%) Grafana
4 9 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.64%) Kibana
6 4 (1.76%) Argo
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.88%) Puppet
7 2 (0.88%) SCOM
8 1 (0.44%) Ambari
8 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.44%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.93%) Guidewire
3 14 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.52%) Databricks
4 8 (3.52%) Google
5 4 (1.76%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.76%) Oracle
6 3 (1.32%) New Relic
6 3 (1.32%) Pega
6 3 (1.32%) Splunk
7 2 (0.88%) Anaplan
7 2 (0.88%) IBM
7 2 (0.88%) Informatica
7 2 (0.88%) Intapp
7 2 (0.88%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.88%) Syncfusion
7 2 (0.88%) Telerik
7 2 (0.88%) VMware
8 1 (0.44%) Tagetik
8 1 (0.44%) Workday