DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 219 226
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 229 164 257
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 1.39% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.52% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 161 110 166
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -13.24% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -9.33%

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 23,956 10,760 17,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.02% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,153 6,964 11,017
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -12 27 £100,000 +35.59% 30
South London +2 3 £80,000 +14.29% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 229 (100.00%) DevOps
2 129 (56.33%) CI/CD
3 119 (51.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (46.72%) Terraform
5 98 (42.79%) Azure
6 97 (42.36%) AWS
7 77 (33.62%) Security Cleared
8 70 (30.57%) Kubernetes
9 67 (29.26%) SC Cleared
10 61 (26.64%) Python
11 60 (26.20%) Azure DevOps
12 50 (21.83%) Docker
12 50 (21.83%) Linux
13 47 (20.52%) Jenkins
14 45 (19.65%) Git
14 45 (19.65%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (17.90%) Ansible
16 40 (17.47%) Agile
16 40 (17.47%) GitHub
17 39 (17.03%) Bash
17 39 (17.03%) Observability
18 35 (15.28%) Infrastructure Automation
19 34 (14.85%) Containerisation
20 33 (14.41%) Grafana
20 33 (14.41%) Serverless
21 32 (13.97%) GitLab
21 32 (13.97%) PowerShell
22 31 (13.54%) Deployment Automation
23 30 (13.10%) YAML
24 29 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.75%) SAS
2 2 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 98 (42.79%) Azure
2 97 (42.36%) AWS
3 60 (26.20%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (17.47%) GitHub
5 33 (14.41%) Serverless
6 29 (12.66%) GCP
7 28 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (6.11%) SaaS
12 13 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.80%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.80%) Datadog
15 10 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (3.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 7 (3.06%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.06%) Firewall
2 4 (1.75%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.75%) NAS
2 4 (1.75%) SSH
3 3 (1.31%) DNS
3 3 (1.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) DHCP
4 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) Internet
5 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.37%) Redis
5 9 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.06%) MySQL
8 5 (2.18%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.44%) Big Data
11 1 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (20.52%) Jenkins
2 45 (19.65%) Git
3 32 (13.97%) GitLab
4 9 (3.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.75%) Gradle
5 4 (1.75%) JIRA
5 4 (1.75%) Maven
6 3 (1.31%) Snyk
6 3 (1.31%) Subversion
6 3 (1.31%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.87%) MLflow
8 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.86%) Finance
3 12 (5.24%) Banking
4 11 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.44%) Aviation
9 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Front Office
9 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.44%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (46.72%) Terraform
2 30 (13.10%) YAML
3 14 (6.11%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (5.24%) ADO
5 11 (4.80%) JSON
6 10 (4.37%) Kafka
7 9 (3.93%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.62%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.62%) Pulumi
9 4 (1.75%) Node.js
9 4 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.31%) SLSA
11 2 (0.87%) .NET
11 2 (0.87%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.87%) OpenTofu
11 2 (0.87%) React
11 2 (0.87%) REST
12 1 (0.44%) SAP Basis
12 1 (0.44%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.93%) Replication
3 7 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.83%) Linux
2 14 (6.11%) CentOS
3 13 (5.68%) Windows
4 10 (4.37%) VMS
5 9 (3.93%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.75%) Unix
9 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (100.00%) DevOps
2 129 (56.33%) CI/CD
3 119 (51.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (19.65%) Platform Engineering
5 40 (17.47%) Agile
6 39 (17.03%) Observability
7 35 (15.28%) Infrastructure Automation
8 34 (14.85%) Containerisation
9 31 (13.54%) Deployment Automation
10 29 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (10.04%) AI
13 23 (10.04%) Software Engineering
14 21 (9.17%) Cloud Security
14 21 (9.17%) Mentoring
15 20 (8.73%) Analytics
15 20 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (8.73%) Test Automation
16 19 (8.30%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 61 (26.64%) Python
2 39 (17.03%) Bash
3 32 (13.97%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.68%) SQL
5 11 (4.80%) Groovy
6 8 (3.49%) Java
7 6 (2.62%) C#
7 6 (2.62%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.18%) Go
8 5 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.75%) Bicep
10 1 (0.44%) C
10 1 (0.44%) C++
10 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (33.62%) Security Cleared
2 67 (29.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.55%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.68%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.31%) Degree
6 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.86%) QA
2 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.44%) NIST
2 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (21.83%) Docker
2 14 (6.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (30.57%) Kubernetes
2 41 (17.90%) Ansible
3 33 (14.41%) Grafana
4 24 (10.48%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.11%) Argo
6 12 (5.24%) Rancher
7 8 (3.49%) Nagios
8 5 (2.18%) Puppet
9 4 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.31%) Kibana
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.93%) Dynatrace
2 9 (3.93%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.49%) Splunk
4 7 (3.06%) Rapid7
4 7 (3.06%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.18%) Google
6 5 (2.18%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.75%) New Relic
8 3 (1.31%) Okta
8 3 (1.31%) VMware
9 2 (0.87%) Databricks
9 2 (0.87%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle
9 2 (0.87%) SAP
10 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.44%) Commvault