DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 179 209
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 225 234 353
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 1.97% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 2.19% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 175 178 276
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,001 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 19,313 10,704 22,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 90.00% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 13,233 6,837 16,746
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,108
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,200 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.52% -13.65%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 London.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
Central London +13 69 £90,000 +9.09% 7
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 225 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (49.33%) CI/CD
3 110 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (48.89%) Terraform
4 107 (47.56%) Azure
5 80 (35.56%) AWS
6 78 (34.67%) Kubernetes
7 68 (30.22%) Python
8 66 (29.33%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (21.78%) Docker
9 49 (21.78%) Linux
10 46 (20.44%) Security Cleared
11 45 (20.00%) Ansible
11 45 (20.00%) Containerisation
12 38 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (16.89%) Jenkins
13 36 (16.00%) High Availability
13 36 (16.00%) SC Cleared
14 33 (14.67%) Bash
14 33 (14.67%) SQL
15 32 (14.22%) GCP
16 31 (13.78%) GitHub
16 31 (13.78%) PowerShell
16 31 (13.78%) YAML
17 27 (12.00%) Git
17 27 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (12.00%) GitLab
18 26 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (11.56%) Grafana
18 26 (11.56%) Platform Engineering

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (47.56%) Azure
2 80 (35.56%) AWS
3 66 (29.33%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (14.22%) GCP
6 31 (13.78%) GitHub
7 27 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (10.67%) Datadog
8 24 (10.67%) Serverless
9 17 (7.56%) Azure AKS
9 17 (7.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 17 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.78%) Entra ID
12 11 (4.89%) SaaS
13 9 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (4.00%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.11%) Firewall
2 9 (4.00%) VPN
3 8 (3.56%) WAN
4 6 (2.67%) DHCP
4 6 (2.67%) DNS
5 4 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.11%) MySQL
5 6 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.78%) Flink
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (16.89%) Jenkins
2 27 (12.00%) Git
2 27 (12.00%) GitLab
3 11 (4.89%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (3.11%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.67%) Maven
6 5 (2.22%) Gradle
7 4 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.89%) git-flow
8 2 (0.89%) Subversion
9 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (28.00%) Finance
2 41 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.33%) Banking
4 8 (3.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.22%) Retail
6 4 (1.78%) Front Office
6 4 (1.78%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.78%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.44%) Advertising
8 1 (0.44%) Electronics
8 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.78%) YAML
2 21 (9.33%) Kafka
3 20 (8.89%) ADO
4 13 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.33%) JSON
6 9 (4.00%) .NET
7 8 (3.56%) OAuth
7 8 (3.56%) SAML
8 4 (1.78%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.78%) React
8 4 (1.78%) web3js
9 2 (0.89%) LAMP
10 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.44%) Next.js
10 1 (0.44%) Node.js
10 1 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.44%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.44%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.11%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.22%) Web3
6 4 (1.78%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.89%) PKI
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.78%) Linux
2 17 (7.56%) Windows
3 16 (7.11%) VMS
4 14 (6.22%) Windows Server
5 9 (4.00%) CentOS
6 5 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.78%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (49.33%) CI/CD
3 110 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 36 (16.00%) High Availability
6 26 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (11.56%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (11.11%) Analytics
7 25 (11.11%) Observability
8 23 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (9.78%) AI
10 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (8.00%) Incident Management
11 18 (8.00%) Software Engineering
12 17 (7.56%) Infrastructure Management
13 16 (7.11%) Agile
13 16 (7.11%) Identity Management
13 16 (7.11%) Log Analytics
13 16 (7.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (30.22%) Python
2 33 (14.67%) Bash
2 33 (14.67%) SQL
3 31 (13.78%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.78%) Go
5 12 (5.33%) Java
6 8 (3.56%) Bicep
6 8 (3.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.44%) Groovy
8 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.11%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.67%) Degree
6 4 (1.78%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.00%) GDPR
2 17 (7.56%) SOC 2
3 13 (5.78%) QA
4 9 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 49 (21.78%) Docker
2 21 (9.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (48.89%) Terraform
2 78 (34.67%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.00%) Ansible
4 26 (11.56%) Grafana
5 25 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.22%) Argo
7 9 (4.00%) Istio
8 8 (3.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.11%) Nagios
10 2 (0.89%) Kibana
10 2 (0.89%) logstash
10 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 2 (0.89%) Rancher
10 2 (0.89%) SCCM
11 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.44%) Zscaler
3 8 (3.56%) Confluent
3 8 (3.56%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.56%) Splunk
4 7 (3.11%) Okta
5 6 (2.67%) OneLogin
5 6 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.22%) Google
6 5 (2.22%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.22%) VMware
7 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.33%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.89%) Commvault
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle
9 2 (0.89%) SAP
10 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.44%) Pega