DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 199 112
Rank change year-on-year -29 -87 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 154 289 532
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.77% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.89% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 126 215 475
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £75,625 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £98,750 £118,750 £108,750
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 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 12,033 15,326 17,061
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 93.98% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,992 9,187 13,826
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +31 39 £70,000 -15.15% 17
South London +41 4 £70,000 - 7
West London -4 1 £120,000 +128.57% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 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.

1 154 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (67.53%) CI/CD
3 97 (62.99%) Terraform
4 88 (57.14%) Kubernetes
5 80 (51.95%) Python
6 73 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (46.75%) Azure
8 65 (42.21%) AWS
9 57 (37.01%) GitHub
10 53 (34.42%) Docker
11 52 (33.77%) Bash
12 49 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (31.17%) PowerShell
14 45 (29.22%) Linux
15 39 (25.32%) Containerisation
16 38 (24.68%) Ansible
17 37 (24.03%) GitHub Actions
18 36 (23.38%) Jenkins
19 33 (21.43%) Prometheus
20 32 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
21 31 (20.13%) Agile
22 29 (18.83%) Git
23 25 (16.23%) Windows
24 22 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
24 22 (14.29%) Grafana
25 20 (12.99%) Observability
25 20 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
26 19 (12.34%) AI
26 19 (12.34%) Microsoft
26 19 (12.34%) Security Cleared

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 (2.60%) IIS
2 2 (1.30%) Apache
2 2 (1.30%) Confluence
2 2 (1.30%) JBoss
2 2 (1.30%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (46.75%) Azure
2 65 (42.21%) AWS
3 57 (37.01%) GitHub
4 49 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (24.03%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (10.39%) GCP
8 15 (9.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (7.79%) Azure AKS
10 12 (7.79%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (7.79%) Cloud Run
10 12 (7.79%) Google Compute Engine
11 11 (7.14%) Datadog
12 10 (6.49%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (6.49%) Serverless
13 8 (5.19%) Amazon S3
13 8 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.49%) Firewall
2 8 (5.19%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.19%) WAN
3 7 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (4.55%) LAN
4 4 (2.60%) DNS
5 3 (1.95%) HTTP
6 2 (1.30%) FTP
6 2 (1.30%) SMTP
6 2 (1.30%) SSH
6 2 (1.30%) SSL
6 2 (1.30%) VPN
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.79%) BigQuery
3 10 (6.49%) Flink
4 7 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.95%) GIS
6 3 (1.95%) MySQL
6 3 (1.95%) Power BI
7 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.30%) Redis
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (23.38%) Jenkins
2 29 (18.83%) Git
3 13 (8.44%) GitLab
4 11 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 10 (6.49%) TeamCity
6 8 (5.19%) Artifactory
6 8 (5.19%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.19%) JIRA
6 8 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.60%) Maven
8 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.30%) Ant
9 2 (1.30%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.30%) Gradle
9 2 (1.30%) JMeter
9 2 (1.30%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.30%) Subversion
9 2 (1.30%) Vagrant
General
1 59 (38.31%) Finance
2 24 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.44%) Banking
4 10 (6.49%) Front Office
5 9 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Marketing
7 5 (3.25%) Electronics
7 5 (3.25%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.25%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.95%) Advertising
8 3 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Aviation
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.69%) .NET
2 15 (9.74%) Kafka
3 12 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.49%) YAML
5 8 (5.19%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.25%) Node.js
7 4 (2.60%) React
8 3 (1.95%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.95%) OAuth
8 3 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.30%) AWS SAM
9 2 (1.30%) JWT
9 2 (1.30%) Middleware
9 2 (1.30%) OpenID
9 2 (1.30%) pytest
10 1 (0.65%) ADO
10 1 (0.65%) Loki
10 1 (0.65%) SAML
10 1 (0.65%) Semantic Kernel
10 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.90%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.95%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) Web3
8 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) PKI
9 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (29.22%) Linux
2 25 (16.23%) Windows
3 11 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.90%) VMS
6 2 (1.30%) CentOS
6 2 (1.30%) Unix
6 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.65%) Debian
7 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (67.53%) CI/CD
3 73 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (25.32%) Containerisation
5 32 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (20.13%) Agile
7 20 (12.99%) Observability
7 20 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 19 (12.34%) AI
9 18 (11.69%) Cloud Security
9 18 (11.69%) Software Delivery
10 16 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (8.44%) Software Engineering
13 12 (7.79%) Configuration Management
13 12 (7.79%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (7.79%) Investment Management
14 11 (7.14%) High Availability
14 11 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 80 (51.95%) Python
2 52 (33.77%) Bash
3 48 (31.17%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.69%) Java
5 17 (11.04%) SQL
6 10 (6.49%) Bicep
6 10 (6.49%) C#
7 9 (5.84%) Go
7 9 (5.84%) Groovy
8 7 (4.55%) Ruby
9 6 (3.90%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.25%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.60%) C++
12 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.30%) Perl
13 2 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.79%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.84%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.60%) Degree
6 3 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.95%) 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 11 (7.14%) GDPR
2 8 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (5.19%) QA
3 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (34.42%) Docker
2 11 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.55%) NFS
4 7 (4.55%) vSphere
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (62.99%) Terraform
2 88 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 38 (24.68%) Ansible
4 33 (21.43%) Prometheus
5 22 (14.29%) Grafana
6 15 (9.74%) Argo
7 4 (2.60%) logstash
8 3 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.95%) Puppet
9 2 (1.30%) Nagios
9 2 (1.30%) Podman
10 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.65%) Cilium
10 1 (0.65%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.79%) Google
3 11 (7.14%) VMware
4 10 (6.49%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.55%) Cisco
5 7 (4.55%) Commvault
5 7 (4.55%) Pure Storage
6 5 (3.25%) Oracle
6 5 (3.25%) SAP
6 5 (3.25%) Splunk
7 3 (1.95%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.95%) Sonatype
8 2 (1.30%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.30%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.65%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.65%) Pega
9 1 (0.65%) Rackspace