DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 197 107
Rank change year-on-year -35 -90 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 155 286 556
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.65% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.75% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 119 206 493
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,813 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £118,125 £106,289
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £129,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -

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 11,843 16,345 17,638
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 94.56% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,711 9,943 14,399
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £119,067 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 30 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 30 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 +19 38 £70,000 -15.15% 11
South London +41 4 £70,000 - 4
West London -9 1 £120,000 +128.57%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 155 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 91 (58.71%) Terraform
4 84 (54.19%) Kubernetes
5 79 (50.97%) Python
6 72 (46.45%) AWS
7 71 (45.81%) Azure
8 69 (44.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 51 (32.90%) Docker
9 51 (32.90%) GitHub
10 50 (32.26%) Bash
11 45 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (29.03%) PowerShell
12 41 (26.45%) Containerisation
12 41 (26.45%) Linux
13 36 (23.23%) Ansible
14 34 (21.94%) Agile
14 34 (21.94%) Jenkins
14 34 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (20.65%) Prometheus
16 31 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
17 28 (18.06%) Git
18 27 (17.42%) AI
19 25 (16.13%) Windows
20 23 (14.84%) Grafana
21 22 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
22 20 (12.90%) Observability
22 20 (12.90%) Software Engineering
23 19 (12.26%) Security Cleared
24 18 (11.61%) .NET

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 (2.58%) IIS
2 2 (1.29%) Apache
2 2 (1.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.29%) JBoss
2 2 (1.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (46.45%) AWS
2 71 (45.81%) Azure
3 51 (32.90%) GitHub
4 45 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (9.68%) GCP
9 12 (7.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (7.10%) Cloud Functions
10 11 (7.10%) Cloud Run
10 11 (7.10%) Google Compute Engine
11 10 (6.45%) Azure AKS
11 10 (6.45%) Datadog
11 10 (6.45%) Serverless
12 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
12 8 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.52%) Apigee
14 6 (3.87%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.45%) Firewall
2 8 (5.16%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.52%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (4.52%) LAN
3 7 (4.52%) WAN
4 4 (2.58%) DNS
5 3 (1.94%) HTTP
6 2 (1.29%) FTP
6 2 (1.29%) SMTP
6 2 (1.29%) SSH
6 2 (1.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) Network Security
7 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.10%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.87%) Flink
4 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.58%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.94%) GIS
6 3 (1.94%) MySQL
6 3 (1.94%) Power BI
7 2 (1.29%) KDB
7 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.29%) Redis
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (21.94%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.06%) Git
3 14 (9.03%) GitLab
4 10 (6.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (5.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (5.81%) TeamCity
6 8 (5.16%) Artifactory
6 8 (5.16%) JIRA
7 6 (3.87%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.58%) Maven
10 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.29%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.29%) Gradle
11 2 (1.29%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.29%) JMeter
11 2 (1.29%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.29%) Subversion
11 2 (1.29%) Vagrant
General
1 59 (38.06%) Finance
2 24 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.32%) Banking
4 15 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.16%) Law
7 6 (3.87%) Front Office
8 5 (3.23%) Marketing
9 4 (2.58%) Electronics
9 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.58%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.94%) Advertising
10 3 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.65%) Aviation
12 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.61%) .NET
2 13 (8.39%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (7.10%) Kafka
4 9 (5.81%) YAML
5 8 (5.16%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.23%) Node.js
6 5 (3.23%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.23%) RESTful
6 5 (3.23%) Swagger
7 3 (1.94%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.29%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.29%) JWT
8 2 (1.29%) Middleware
8 2 (1.29%) OAuth
8 2 (1.29%) OpenID
8 2 (1.29%) pytest
8 2 (1.29%) React
9 1 (0.65%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.39%) Management Information System
3 12 (7.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.87%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.87%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.58%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.94%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.94%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.29%) Equities
7 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.29%) Web3
8 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (26.45%) Linux
2 25 (16.13%) Windows
3 11 (7.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.52%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.23%) Unix
5 5 (3.23%) VMS
6 2 (1.29%) CentOS
6 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.65%) Debian
7 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 69 (44.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (26.45%) Containerisation
5 34 (21.94%) Agile
5 34 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (17.42%) AI
7 20 (12.90%) Observability
7 20 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 17 (10.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (10.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 17 (10.97%) Software Delivery
9 16 (10.32%) Cloud Security
9 16 (10.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 15 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (9.03%) Machine Learning
12 13 (8.39%) SDLC
13 12 (7.74%) Configuration Management
14 11 (7.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.97%) Python
2 50 (32.26%) Bash
3 45 (29.03%) PowerShell
4 15 (9.68%) Java
4 15 (9.68%) SQL
5 11 (7.10%) Go
6 9 (5.81%) C#
6 9 (5.81%) Groovy
7 8 (5.16%) Bicep
8 7 (4.52%) Ruby
9 6 (3.87%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.87%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.23%) Lua
11 4 (2.58%) C++
12 3 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.29%) Perl
13 2 (1.29%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.45%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) Degree
6 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.45%) GDPR
2 8 (5.16%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (5.16%) QA
3 4 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (32.90%) Docker
2 13 (8.39%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.52%) NFS
4 7 (4.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (58.71%) Terraform
2 84 (54.19%) Kubernetes
3 36 (23.23%) Ansible
4 32 (20.65%) Prometheus
5 23 (14.84%) Grafana
6 11 (7.10%) Argo
7 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.94%) Puppet
8 2 (1.29%) logstash
8 2 (1.29%) Nagios
8 2 (1.29%) Podman
9 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.65%) Cilium
9 1 (0.65%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.39%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.10%) Google
3 11 (7.10%) VMware
4 7 (4.52%) Cisco
4 7 (4.52%) Commvault
4 7 (4.52%) Pure Storage
5 6 (3.87%) Oracle
6 5 (3.23%) MKS
6 5 (3.23%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.23%) Splunk
7 4 (2.58%) SAP
8 3 (1.94%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.94%) IBM
8 3 (1.94%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.29%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.65%) Planview
10 1 (0.65%) Rackspace