DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 187 113
Rank change year-on-year -29 -74 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 173 272 491
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 1.76% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.90% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 145 207 442
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £84,375 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £102,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +20.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 12,711 14,325 17,400
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.74% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,434 8,290 14,022
10th Percentile £36,075 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,822 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -4.88%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +43 47 £70,000 -28.21% 19
South London - 4 £70,000 - 4
West London -3 1 £120,000 +128.57% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 January 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.

1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (64.16%) CI/CD
3 106 (61.27%) Terraform
4 84 (48.55%) Kubernetes
5 82 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (45.66%) Azure
7 74 (42.77%) Python
8 62 (35.84%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (34.68%) GitHub
10 58 (33.53%) AWS
11 51 (29.48%) Docker
12 48 (27.75%) Linux
13 46 (26.59%) PowerShell
14 44 (25.43%) Bash
15 43 (24.86%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (21.97%) Ansible
17 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (19.65%) Containerisation
19 33 (19.08%) Jenkins
20 32 (18.50%) Prometheus
21 29 (16.76%) Agile
22 28 (16.18%) AI
23 27 (15.61%) Git
23 27 (15.61%) SQL
24 25 (14.45%) Microsoft
25 24 (13.87%) SQL Server
25 24 (13.87%) Windows
26 22 (12.72%) Observability
27 21 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
27 21 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery

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 (2.31%) IIS
2 2 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) JBoss
3 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.66%) Azure
2 62 (35.84%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (34.68%) GitHub
4 58 (33.53%) AWS
5 43 (24.86%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (9.83%) GCP
8 15 (8.67%) Datadog
9 14 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (8.09%) Azure AKS
9 14 (8.09%) Cloud Functions
9 14 (8.09%) Cloud Run
9 14 (8.09%) Google Compute Engine
10 12 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (5.78%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (4.62%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.62%) Serverless
14 7 (4.05%) Amazon S3
14 7 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.51%) Firewall
2 11 (6.36%) WAN
3 7 (4.05%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.47%) DNS
4 6 (3.47%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (3.47%) LAN
4 6 (3.47%) VPN
5 3 (1.73%) DHCP
5 3 (1.73%) HTTP
6 2 (1.16%) FTP
6 2 (1.16%) SMTP
6 2 (1.16%) SSH
6 2 (1.16%) SSL
7 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.87%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.09%) BigQuery
3 12 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (5.78%) Flink
5 6 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.31%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.31%) MySQL
7 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.73%) GIS
7 3 (1.73%) Power BI
8 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.16%) Redis
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (19.08%) Jenkins
2 27 (15.61%) Git
3 17 (9.83%) Octopus Deploy
4 16 (9.25%) TeamCity
5 8 (4.62%) Artifactory
5 8 (4.62%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.62%) GitLab
6 5 (2.89%) JIRA
7 4 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.73%) Maven
8 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.16%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.16%) Gradle
9 2 (1.16%) JMeter
9 2 (1.16%) JUnit
9 2 (1.16%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.16%) Subversion
9 2 (1.16%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (38.15%) Finance
2 24 (13.87%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.51%) Banking
4 10 (5.78%) Front Office
5 7 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.89%) Marketing
7 4 (2.31%) Electronics
7 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.73%) Advertising
8 3 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Aviation
10 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.98%) .NET
2 14 (8.09%) Kafka
3 13 (7.51%) YAML
4 11 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.62%) ARM Templates
6 7 (4.05%) OAuth
7 5 (2.89%) ADO
7 5 (2.89%) SAML
8 4 (2.31%) Node.js
8 4 (2.31%) React
9 3 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.16%) AWS SAM
10 2 (1.16%) JWT
10 2 (1.16%) LAMP
10 2 (1.16%) OpenID
10 2 (1.16%) pytest
11 1 (0.58%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.58%) Middleware
11 1 (0.58%) Semantic Kernel
11 1 (0.58%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (8.09%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.94%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.47%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.47%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.73%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.73%) Web3
8 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.58%) PKI
9 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (27.75%) Linux
2 24 (13.87%) Windows
3 10 (5.78%) VMS
3 10 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.16%) Unix
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
6 1 (0.58%) Debian
6 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (64.16%) CI/CD
3 82 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (19.65%) Containerisation
6 29 (16.76%) Agile
7 28 (16.18%) AI
8 22 (12.72%) Observability
9 21 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (11.56%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (11.56%) Software Delivery
11 18 (10.40%) Cloud Security
11 18 (10.40%) High Availability
12 16 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (8.09%) Investment Management
15 13 (7.51%) Analytics
15 13 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.51%) Identity Management
15 13 (7.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.77%) Python
2 46 (26.59%) PowerShell
3 44 (25.43%) Bash
4 27 (15.61%) SQL
5 16 (9.25%) Java
6 11 (6.36%) Bicep
7 8 (4.62%) C#
7 8 (4.62%) Go
8 6 (3.47%) Groovy
8 6 (3.47%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.31%) Ruby
11 3 (1.73%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.16%) Perl
12 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.58%) C++
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.36%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.36%) DV Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) Degree
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) GDPR
2 9 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (4.62%) QA
4 5 (2.89%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (29.48%) Docker
2 16 (9.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.47%) NFS
4 6 (3.47%) vSphere
5 5 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (61.27%) Terraform
2 84 (48.55%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.97%) Ansible
4 32 (18.50%) Prometheus
5 20 (11.56%) Grafana
6 15 (8.67%) Argo
7 4 (2.31%) logstash
8 3 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.73%) Nagios
8 3 (1.73%) SCCM
9 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.16%) Puppet
10 1 (0.58%) Cilium
10 1 (0.58%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.58%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.09%) Google
3 13 (7.51%) VMware
4 8 (4.62%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.62%) Zscaler
5 6 (3.47%) Cisco
5 6 (3.47%) Commvault
5 6 (3.47%) Pure Storage
6 5 (2.89%) Oracle
6 5 (2.89%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.89%) Splunk
7 4 (2.31%) SAP
8 3 (1.73%) Okta
8 3 (1.73%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.16%) Pega
10 1 (0.58%) Rackspace
10 1 (0.58%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.58%) Sonatype