DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Croydon

Development Operations Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Croydon is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 5 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 6.76% 3.70% 5.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.14% 3.74% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £81,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% - +6.45%
75th Percentile - £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -12.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 70 107 144
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 99.07% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 31 22 84
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,900 £38,088
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,587 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £83,750 £78,750
South London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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 Croydon.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Croydon

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Croydon.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Croydon

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Coulsdon - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
South London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 3 November 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 Croydon region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) SSH
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) C#
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) FTP
4 2 (40.00%) GIS
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 2 (40.00%) Groovy

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SSH
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) FTP
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 1 (20.00%) Broadband
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (40.00%) GIS
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Key Management
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Thales