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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 199 226
Rank change year-on-year -31 +27 -132
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 213 209 285
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.70% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.85% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 162 140 203
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £49,239
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,938 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,875 £127,500 £112,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.62% -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 21,116 11,281 19,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 91.78% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 14,515 7,345 14,117
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,649 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -16 43 £90,000 +14.29% 9
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 213 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (52.11%) Azure
3 108 (50.70%) CI/CD
4 105 (49.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 99 (46.48%) AWS
6 97 (45.54%) Terraform
7 75 (35.21%) Kubernetes
8 70 (32.86%) Python
9 58 (27.23%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (25.82%) Security Cleared
11 51 (23.94%) Linux
12 50 (23.47%) SC Cleared
13 48 (22.54%) Containerisation
13 48 (22.54%) Docker
14 43 (20.19%) Ansible
15 39 (18.31%) Jenkins
16 38 (17.84%) Bash
17 37 (17.37%) GitLab
18 35 (16.43%) GCP
19 34 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
20 32 (15.02%) Grafana
21 31 (14.55%) Git
22 29 (13.62%) YAML
23 28 (13.15%) Serverless
24 27 (12.68%) PowerShell
25 26 (12.21%) High Availability
26 25 (11.74%) Deployment Automation
26 25 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
26 25 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
27 24 (11.27%) Prometheus

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 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.88%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 111 (52.11%) Azure
2 99 (46.48%) AWS
3 58 (27.23%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (16.43%) GCP
5 34 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (13.15%) Serverless
7 22 (10.33%) GitHub
8 20 (9.39%) Datadog
9 17 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (7.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (6.10%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.63%) OpenShift
14 10 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (4.23%) SaaS
16 8 (3.76%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.69%) Firewall
2 4 (1.88%) DHCP
2 4 (1.88%) DNS
2 4 (1.88%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.88%) NAS
2 4 (1.88%) SSH
2 4 (1.88%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.41%) Network Security
4 2 (0.94%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (4.23%) MySQL
4 8 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) Big Data
8 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.47%) Metadata
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.37%) GitLab
3 31 (14.55%) Git
4 10 (4.69%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.35%) Maven
7 4 (1.88%) Gradle
7 4 (1.88%) JIRA
8 3 (1.41%) Subversion
9 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.94%) git-flow
9 2 (0.94%) MLflow
10 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.43%) Finance
3 29 (13.62%) Banking
4 8 (3.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.35%) Retail
6 4 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.88%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.88%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Aviation
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.62%) YAML
2 17 (7.98%) Kafka
3 15 (7.04%) ADO
4 12 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (5.16%) JSON
6 5 (2.35%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.88%) web3js
8 2 (0.94%) Node.js
9 1 (0.47%) .NET
9 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.47%) OAuth
9 1 (0.47%) SAML
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.88%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.88%) Web3
6 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.47%) PKI
8 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.94%) Linux
2 19 (8.92%) Windows
3 17 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.04%) CentOS
5 11 (5.16%) VMS
6 8 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (50.70%) CI/CD
3 105 (49.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (22.54%) Containerisation
5 26 (12.21%) High Availability
6 25 (11.74%) Deployment Automation
6 25 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (10.80%) Infrastructure Automation
7 23 (10.80%) Software Engineering
8 21 (9.86%) Analytics
8 21 (9.86%) Observability
9 19 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (8.45%) Agile
10 18 (8.45%) Incident Management
10 18 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (7.98%) Cloud Security
11 17 (7.98%) Mentoring
12 16 (7.51%) Fintech
12 16 (7.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 70 (32.86%) Python
2 38 (17.84%) Bash
3 27 (12.68%) PowerShell
4 21 (9.86%) Go
4 21 (9.86%) SQL
5 8 (3.76%) Java
6 5 (2.35%) C#
7 4 (1.88%) Bicep
7 4 (1.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.47%) Groovy
8 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 55 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.82%) Degree
6 4 (1.88%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) QA
2 9 (4.23%) GDPR
2 9 (4.23%) SOC 2
3 8 (3.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (22.54%) Docker
2 17 (7.98%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (45.54%) Terraform
2 75 (35.21%) Kubernetes
3 43 (20.19%) Ansible
4 32 (15.02%) Grafana
5 24 (11.27%) Prometheus
6 13 (6.10%) Argo
7 11 (5.16%) Nagios
8 9 (4.23%) Istio
9 7 (3.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.41%) Kibana
10 3 (1.41%) Puppet
10 3 (1.41%) Rancher
11 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 19 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Splunk
3 9 (4.23%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.76%) Confluent
4 8 (3.76%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.35%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.35%) Okta
7 4 (1.88%) New Relic
7 4 (1.88%) OneLogin
7 4 (1.88%) VMware
8 3 (1.41%) Commvault
9 2 (0.94%) Databricks
10 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle
10 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.47%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Zscaler