DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 November 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 229 101
Rank change year-on-year +8 -128 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 164 249 632
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.36% 1.44% 3.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.51% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 111 173 555
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,003 16,490 18,677
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 95.08% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,157 10,129 15,268
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.81%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% -4.17% -

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 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
Central London +11 35 £75,000 -16.67% 22
South London +32 5 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London +3 1 £120,000 +128.57% 2
East London - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (67.07%) CI/CD
3 91 (55.49%) Terraform
4 88 (53.66%) AWS
5 82 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 82 (50.00%) Python
6 69 (42.07%) Azure
7 65 (39.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 52 (31.71%) Docker
9 48 (29.27%) Containerisation
10 46 (28.05%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (28.05%) Bash
10 46 (28.05%) GitHub
11 45 (27.44%) Linux
12 43 (26.22%) PowerShell
13 41 (25.00%) Ansible
14 39 (23.78%) AI
15 37 (22.56%) Agile
16 34 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (19.51%) Jenkins
18 31 (18.90%) Git
19 29 (17.68%) Prometheus
20 28 (17.07%) Mentoring
20 28 (17.07%) Red Hat
20 28 (17.07%) Windows
21 26 (15.85%) Software Engineering
22 25 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
23 24 (14.63%) Grafana
24 23 (14.02%) Observability
25 21 (12.80%) Amazon EKS

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 (2.44%) IIS
2 2 (1.22%) Apache
2 2 (1.22%) Confluence
2 2 (1.22%) JBoss
2 2 (1.22%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 88 (53.66%) AWS
2 69 (42.07%) Azure
3 46 (28.05%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (28.05%) GitHub
4 25 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (12.80%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (7.93%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (7.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (6.10%) Azure AKS
8 10 (6.10%) Serverless
9 9 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.49%) GCP
10 8 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.88%) Apigee
10 8 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.88%) Datadog
10 8 (4.88%) Kong
11 7 (4.27%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.54%) Firewall
2 11 (6.71%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.10%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (6.10%) LAN
3 10 (6.10%) WAN
4 4 (2.44%) DNS
4 4 (2.44%) SSH
4 4 (2.44%) SSL
5 3 (1.83%) HTTP
6 2 (1.22%) Broadband
6 2 (1.22%) FTP
6 2 (1.22%) SMTP
6 2 (1.22%) VPN
7 1 (0.61%) DHCP
7 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.27%) BigQuery
3 6 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.44%) KDB
5 3 (1.83%) GIS
5 3 (1.83%) Power BI
6 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.22%) Flink
6 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.22%) Redis
6 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) DB2
7 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.61%) MySQL
7 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 31 (18.90%) Git
3 18 (10.98%) GitLab
4 12 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (6.71%) SonarQube
6 10 (6.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (6.10%) TeamCity
7 8 (4.88%) Artifactory
7 8 (4.88%) JIRA
8 4 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.44%) Maven
9 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.22%) Ant
10 2 (1.22%) Gradle
10 2 (1.22%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.22%) JUnit
10 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.22%) Subversion
10 2 (1.22%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
General
1 53 (32.32%) Finance
2 32 (19.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (17.07%) Social Skills
4 19 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.76%) Banking
6 13 (7.93%) Law
7 3 (1.83%) Marketing
7 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Electronics
8 2 (1.22%) Front Office
8 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.61%) Advertising
9 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Aviation
9 1 (0.61%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.20%) .NET
2 14 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (6.10%) RESTful
4 9 (5.49%) YAML
5 8 (4.88%) ARM Templates
5 8 (4.88%) OpenAPI
5 8 (4.88%) Swagger
6 7 (4.27%) React
7 6 (3.66%) Kafka
8 4 (2.44%) REST
9 3 (1.83%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.83%) Node.js
10 2 (1.22%) Middleware
10 2 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.22%) pytest
10 2 (1.22%) Web Services
11 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.61%) AWS SAM
11 1 (0.61%) Semantic Kernel
11 1 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.41%) Cloud Native
1 22 (13.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (10.98%) Management Information System
3 14 (8.54%) e-Learning
4 7 (4.27%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Equities
6 4 (2.44%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.22%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.22%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.22%) PKI
9 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.44%) Linux
2 28 (17.07%) Windows
3 14 (8.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (5.49%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.88%) Unix
6 6 (3.66%) VMS
7 2 (1.22%) CentOS
7 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.61%) Android
8 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.61%) Debian
8 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (67.07%) CI/CD
3 65 (39.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (29.27%) Containerisation
5 39 (23.78%) AI
6 37 (22.56%) Agile
7 34 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (17.07%) Mentoring
9 26 (15.85%) Software Engineering
10 23 (14.02%) Observability
11 19 (11.59%) Coaching
11 19 (11.59%) SDLC
12 18 (10.98%) Software Delivery
13 17 (10.37%) Machine Learning
13 17 (10.37%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (9.76%) DevSecOps
14 16 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (9.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 13 (7.93%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 82 (50.00%) Python
2 46 (28.05%) Bash
3 43 (26.22%) PowerShell
4 17 (10.37%) SQL
5 16 (9.76%) Go
6 15 (9.15%) Java
7 10 (6.10%) C#
7 10 (6.10%) Groovy
8 8 (4.88%) Lua
9 7 (4.27%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.27%) Ruby
10 6 (3.66%) Bicep
10 6 (3.66%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.44%) C++
12 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.22%) Perl
13 2 (1.22%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.61%) C
14 1 (0.61%) PHP
14 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.88%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.44%) Degree
6 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) GDPR
2 8 (4.88%) QA
3 7 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.83%) SLA
6 2 (1.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (31.71%) Docker
2 16 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.10%) NFS
3 10 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (55.49%) Terraform
2 82 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 41 (25.00%) Ansible
4 29 (17.68%) Prometheus
5 24 (14.63%) Grafana
6 6 (3.66%) Argo
7 4 (2.44%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.83%) Nagios
8 3 (1.83%) Puppet
9 2 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.22%) Podman
10 1 (0.61%) Cilium
10 1 (0.61%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.61%) Kibana
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (17.07%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.15%) IBM
4 14 (8.54%) VMware
5 11 (6.71%) Commvault
6 10 (6.10%) Cisco
6 10 (6.10%) Pure Storage
7 8 (4.88%) MKS
7 8 (4.88%) MuleSoft
8 7 (4.27%) Google
9 5 (3.05%) Oracle
9 5 (3.05%) Splunk
10 3 (1.83%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.83%) Sonatype
11 2 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.22%) SAP
11 2 (1.22%) Thales
12 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.61%) Planview
12 1 (0.61%) Salesforce