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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 184 212
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 227 237 348
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.97% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 2.18% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 175 177 270
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £104,688
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 19,445 10,857 22,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 90.16% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,292 6,878 16,909
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £99,413 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +14 68 £87,500 +9.38% 19
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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.

1 227 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (49.78%) CI/CD
3 112 (49.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (48.46%) Azure
5 109 (48.02%) Terraform
6 80 (35.24%) AWS
7 77 (33.92%) Kubernetes
8 69 (30.40%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (29.52%) Python
10 47 (20.70%) Docker
10 47 (20.70%) Linux
10 47 (20.70%) Security Cleared
11 45 (19.82%) Containerisation
12 43 (18.94%) Ansible
13 38 (16.74%) Jenkins
13 38 (16.74%) SC Cleared
14 37 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (16.30%) High Availability
15 36 (15.86%) SQL
16 34 (14.98%) YAML
17 33 (14.54%) Bash
17 33 (14.54%) GCP
17 33 (14.54%) PowerShell
18 28 (12.33%) GitHub
18 28 (12.33%) GitLab
19 27 (11.89%) Analytics
19 27 (11.89%) Git
19 27 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
20 26 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
20 26 (11.45%) Grafana

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 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (48.46%) Azure
2 80 (35.24%) AWS
3 69 (30.40%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (14.54%) GCP
6 28 (12.33%) GitHub
7 24 (10.57%) Datadog
7 24 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (10.57%) Serverless
8 20 (8.81%) Azure Monitor
9 19 (8.37%) Azure Key Vault
10 17 (7.49%) Azure AKS
11 15 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (6.17%) Entra ID
13 12 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (4.41%) SaaS
15 9 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (3.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.49%) Firewall
2 9 (3.96%) VPN
3 8 (3.52%) WAN
4 6 (2.64%) DHCP
4 6 (2.64%) DNS
5 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.08%) MySQL
5 6 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.88%) Flink
8 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.44%) Metadata
9 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (16.74%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.33%) GitLab
3 27 (11.89%) Git
4 11 (4.85%) CircleCI
5 7 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (3.08%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.64%) Maven
7 5 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.20%) Gradle
8 4 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.88%) git-flow
9 2 (0.88%) Subversion
10 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.44%) JMeter
10 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (26.43%) Finance
2 40 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.33%) Banking
4 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.20%) Retail
6 4 (1.76%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.76%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.88%) Front Office
7 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.44%) Advertising
8 1 (0.44%) Aviation
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 34 (14.98%) YAML
2 22 (9.69%) ADO
3 19 (8.37%) Kafka
4 13 (5.73%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.29%) JSON
6 9 (3.96%) .NET
7 8 (3.52%) OAuth
7 8 (3.52%) SAML
8 5 (2.20%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.76%) web3js
10 2 (0.88%) LAMP
10 2 (0.88%) React
11 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.44%) Next.js
11 1 (0.44%) Node.js
11 1 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.44%) SAP Basis
11 1 (0.44%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.64%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.64%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.20%) Web3
6 4 (1.76%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.88%) PKI
8 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
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 47 (20.70%) Linux
2 18 (7.93%) VMS
3 17 (7.49%) Windows
4 14 (6.17%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.96%) CentOS
6 5 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.76%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (49.78%) CI/CD
3 112 (49.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (19.82%) Containerisation
5 37 (16.30%) High Availability
6 27 (11.89%) Analytics
6 27 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (11.01%) Observability
9 23 (10.13%) AI
9 23 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (7.93%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (7.93%) Log Analytics
11 18 (7.93%) Software Engineering
12 17 (7.49%) Infrastructure Management
13 16 (7.05%) Fintech
13 16 (7.05%) Incident Management
14 15 (6.61%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (6.61%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (29.52%) Python
2 36 (15.86%) SQL
3 33 (14.54%) Bash
3 33 (14.54%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.81%) Go
5 11 (4.85%) Java
6 8 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.08%) Bicep
7 7 (3.08%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.44%) Groovy
8 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.05%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.64%) Degree
6 4 (1.76%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.93%) GDPR
2 17 (7.49%) SOC 2
3 13 (5.73%) QA
4 9 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 47 (20.70%) Docker
2 22 (9.69%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.05%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (48.02%) Terraform
2 77 (33.92%) Kubernetes
3 43 (18.94%) Ansible
4 26 (11.45%) Grafana
5 25 (11.01%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.73%) Argo
7 9 (3.96%) Istio
8 8 (3.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.08%) Nagios
10 2 (0.88%) Kibana
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.88%) Puppet
10 2 (0.88%) Rancher
10 2 (0.88%) SCCM
11 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.44%) logstash
11 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.41%) Zscaler
3 8 (3.52%) Confluent
3 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.52%) Splunk
4 7 (3.08%) Okta
5 6 (2.64%) OneLogin
5 6 (2.64%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.20%) Google
6 5 (2.20%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.20%) VMware
7 4 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.32%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.88%) Commvault
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle
9 2 (0.88%) SAP
10 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.44%) Pega