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 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 181 197
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 225 260 368
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 2.04% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 2.26% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 186 211 296
10th Percentile £56,875 £70,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £83,615
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +31.56% +1.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £116,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 18,476 11,505 21,962
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 90.27% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,487 7,468 16,670
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
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 £102,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 4 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 4 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 +30 70 £85,000 +3.03% 16
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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
2 114 (50.67%) Terraform
3 104 (46.22%) CI/CD
3 104 (46.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (44.44%) Azure
5 93 (41.33%) Kubernetes
6 84 (37.33%) AWS
7 76 (33.78%) Python
8 59 (26.22%) Docker
9 56 (24.89%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (22.22%) Linux
11 49 (21.78%) Ansible
11 49 (21.78%) Containerisation
12 43 (19.11%) GitHub
13 42 (18.67%) Bash
14 37 (16.44%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (16.44%) Security Cleared
15 36 (16.00%) GCP
15 36 (16.00%) High Availability
15 36 (16.00%) Jenkins
16 33 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
18 28 (12.44%) Prometheus
19 26 (11.56%) AI
19 26 (11.56%) Datadog
19 26 (11.56%) Kafka
20 25 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
20 25 (11.11%) Observability
20 25 (11.11%) PowerShell
20 25 (11.11%) Problem-Solving

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 2 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.89%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.44%) Azure
2 84 (37.33%) AWS
3 56 (24.89%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (19.11%) GitHub
5 37 (16.44%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (16.00%) GCP
7 33 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (11.56%) Datadog
9 23 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (9.33%) Serverless
11 18 (8.00%) Azure AKS
12 12 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.44%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.44%) SaaS
14 9 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (4.00%) Cloud Functions
14 9 (4.00%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.78%) 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 14 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 9 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.00%) MySQL
2 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.56%) Flink
4 6 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.78%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.67%) GitLab
3 22 (9.78%) Git
4 11 (4.89%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (3.56%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.67%) Maven
8 5 (2.22%) Gradle
9 4 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.89%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.89%) git-flow
10 2 (0.89%) JMeter
10 2 (0.89%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.89%) Subversion
11 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 79 (35.11%) Finance
2 37 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.11%) Banking
4 11 (4.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.56%) Front Office
6 5 (2.22%) Retail
6 5 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.78%) Electronics
7 4 (1.78%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.78%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.78%) Marketing
8 3 (1.33%) Advertising
8 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.56%) Kafka
2 17 (7.56%) YAML
3 15 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (5.33%) ADO
5 10 (4.44%) .NET
5 10 (4.44%) OAuth
6 8 (3.56%) SAML
7 6 (2.67%) JSON
8 4 (1.78%) React
8 4 (1.78%) web3js
9 3 (1.33%) Node.js
10 2 (0.89%) JWT
10 2 (0.89%) LAMP
10 2 (0.89%) OpenID
10 2 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.44%) AWS SAM
11 1 (0.44%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.44%) Next.js
11 1 (0.44%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.11%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.11%) Web3
4 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.78%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.78%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.89%) PKI
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 50 (22.22%) Linux
2 21 (9.33%) Windows
3 15 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.00%) CentOS
5 8 (3.56%) VMS
6 5 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.78%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (46.22%) CI/CD
2 104 (46.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (21.78%) Containerisation
4 36 (16.00%) High Availability
5 31 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (11.56%) AI
7 25 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (11.11%) Observability
7 25 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 20 (8.89%) Agile
9 20 (8.89%) Analytics
9 20 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (8.00%) Identity Management
10 18 (8.00%) Software Engineering
11 17 (7.56%) Incident Management
11 17 (7.56%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.78%) Python
2 42 (18.67%) Bash
3 25 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 25 (11.11%) SQL
4 23 (10.22%) Go
5 16 (7.11%) Java
6 10 (4.44%) Bicep
7 8 (3.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.78%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.11%) Degree
5 4 (1.78%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) GDPR
2 17 (7.56%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.33%) QA
4 11 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (26.22%) Docker
2 18 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 114 (50.67%) Terraform
2 93 (41.33%) Kubernetes
3 49 (21.78%) Ansible
4 28 (12.44%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.67%) Grafana
6 17 (7.56%) Argo
7 9 (4.00%) Istio
8 8 (3.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.11%) Nagios
10 4 (1.78%) logstash
11 2 (0.89%) Kibana
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.89%) Puppet
11 2 (0.89%) Rancher
11 2 (0.89%) SCCM
12 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.44%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.00%) Google
3 9 (4.00%) Splunk
4 8 (3.56%) Confluent
4 8 (3.56%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.11%) Okta
6 6 (2.67%) OneLogin
6 6 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.67%) VMware
7 5 (2.22%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.22%) SAP
8 3 (1.33%) Oracle
9 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.89%) Commvault
9 2 (0.89%) Pega
9 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft