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 13 April 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 169 186
Rank change year-on-year -34 +17 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 214 273 383
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 2.11% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 2.33% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 181 220 324
10th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £55,900
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% +5.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £131,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,250
% change year-on-year -15.15% +14.19% -3.67%

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 17,422 11,721 21,358
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 90.62% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,697 7,554 16,607
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £99,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,650
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -9.29%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +37 65 £80,000 -3.03% 15
South London +22 1 £70,000 - 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 April 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.

1 214 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (51.87%) Terraform
3 107 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 99 (46.26%) Azure
4 99 (46.26%) Kubernetes
5 95 (44.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (40.19%) AWS
7 78 (36.45%) Python
8 60 (28.04%) Docker
9 51 (23.83%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (23.36%) Linux
11 49 (22.90%) Ansible
12 46 (21.50%) Containerisation
13 43 (20.09%) Bash
13 43 (20.09%) GitHub
14 36 (16.82%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (16.36%) GCP
16 34 (15.89%) Jenkins
16 34 (15.89%) Security Cleared
17 33 (15.42%) High Availability
18 31 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
19 30 (14.02%) Platform Engineering
20 29 (13.55%) PowerShell
20 29 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
21 28 (13.08%) Kafka
21 28 (13.08%) SQL
22 27 (12.62%) AI
22 27 (12.62%) Observability
22 27 (12.62%) Prometheus
23 26 (12.15%) Amazon EKS

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 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.40%) IIS
3 2 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.26%) Azure
2 86 (40.19%) AWS
3 51 (23.83%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (20.09%) GitHub
5 36 (16.82%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (16.36%) GCP
7 31 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (11.68%) Datadog
10 18 (8.41%) Azure AKS
11 17 (7.94%) Serverless
12 12 (5.61%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (4.21%) Cloud Functions
14 9 (4.21%) Cloud Run
14 9 (4.21%) Google Compute Engine
15 8 (3.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 8 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.07%) Firewall
2 8 (3.74%) VPN
2 8 (3.74%) WAN
3 5 (2.34%) DHCP
3 5 (2.34%) DNS
4 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.67%) Flink
3 9 (4.21%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.21%) MySQL
3 9 (4.21%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.87%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.47%) GIS
9 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.47%) Metadata
9 1 (0.47%) Power BI
9 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (15.89%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.21%) GitLab
3 18 (8.41%) Git
4 11 (5.14%) Bitbucket
4 11 (5.14%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 10 (4.67%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.40%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.40%) JMeter
7 3 (1.40%) Maven
7 3 (1.40%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.93%) git-flow
8 2 (0.93%) Gradle
8 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 80 (37.38%) Finance
2 34 (15.89%) Banking
3 32 (14.95%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.14%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.67%) Front Office
6 5 (2.34%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.87%) Electronics
7 4 (1.87%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.87%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.87%) Marketing
7 4 (1.87%) Retail
8 3 (1.40%) Advertising
8 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.08%) Kafka
2 17 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (6.07%) YAML
4 11 (5.14%) .NET
4 11 (5.14%) ADO
5 10 (4.67%) OAuth
6 8 (3.74%) SAML
7 4 (1.87%) React
7 4 (1.87%) web3js
8 3 (1.40%) Node.js
8 3 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.93%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.93%) JSON
9 2 (0.93%) JWT
9 2 (0.93%) LAMP
9 2 (0.93%) OpenID
10 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.47%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.47%) Next.js
10 1 (0.47%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.01%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.27%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.27%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.27%) Web3
4 6 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.87%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.93%) PKI
8 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.36%) Linux
2 24 (11.21%) Windows
3 17 (7.94%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.74%) CentOS
4 8 (3.74%) VMS
5 5 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.93%) Unix
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Debian
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (100.00%) DevOps
2 107 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 95 (44.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (21.50%) Containerisation
5 33 (15.42%) High Availability
6 30 (14.02%) Platform Engineering
7 29 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (12.62%) AI
8 27 (12.62%) Observability
9 24 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (10.75%) Agile
10 23 (10.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (9.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (8.88%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (8.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (8.41%) Analytics
13 18 (8.41%) Identity Management
14 17 (7.94%) Fintech
14 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure Management
15 16 (7.48%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (36.45%) Python
2 43 (20.09%) Bash
3 29 (13.55%) PowerShell
4 28 (13.08%) SQL
5 24 (11.21%) Go
6 18 (8.41%) Java
7 8 (3.74%) Bicep
7 8 (3.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.87%) C#
9 2 (0.93%) Groovy
9 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.54%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.07%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.27%) Degree
6 4 (1.87%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.88%) GDPR
2 17 (7.94%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.14%) QA
5 9 (4.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 60 (28.04%) Docker
2 18 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 111 (51.87%) Terraform
2 99 (46.26%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.90%) Ansible
4 27 (12.62%) Prometheus
5 21 (9.81%) Grafana
6 19 (8.88%) Argo
7 9 (4.21%) Istio
8 7 (3.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (2.80%) Nagios
10 4 (1.87%) logstash
11 2 (0.93%) Kibana
11 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.93%) Puppet
11 2 (0.93%) Rancher
11 2 (0.93%) SCCM
12 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.67%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.21%) Google
3 9 (4.21%) Splunk
4 8 (3.74%) Confluent
4 8 (3.74%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.27%) VMware
6 6 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.34%) Okta
7 5 (2.34%) OneLogin
8 4 (1.87%) Oracle
8 4 (1.87%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.87%) SAP
9 3 (1.40%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.93%) Commvault
10 2 (0.93%) Pega
11 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.47%) Salesforce