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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 174 190
Rank change year-on-year -27 +16 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 217 273 385
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 2.12% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 2.33% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 182 220 324
10th Percentile £56,250 £71,125 £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 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -3.33%

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 17,537 11,698 21,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 90.65% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,755 7,546 16,654
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,322 £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 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.51% -9.51%

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 16 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 16 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 +36 66 £80,000 -3.03% 13
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (52.07%) Terraform
3 108 (49.77%) CI/CD
4 101 (46.54%) Azure
4 101 (46.54%) Kubernetes
5 98 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 87 (40.09%) AWS
7 79 (36.41%) Python
8 61 (28.11%) Docker
9 52 (23.96%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (23.96%) Linux
10 50 (23.04%) Ansible
11 47 (21.66%) Containerisation
12 43 (19.82%) Bash
13 42 (19.35%) GitHub
14 36 (16.59%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (16.13%) GCP
15 35 (16.13%) Jenkins
15 35 (16.13%) Security Cleared
16 34 (15.67%) High Availability
17 32 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
19 29 (13.36%) PowerShell
20 28 (12.90%) Kafka
20 28 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
20 28 (12.90%) Prometheus
21 27 (12.44%) AI
21 27 (12.44%) Observability
21 27 (12.44%) SQL
22 26 (11.98%) 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 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.38%) IIS
3 2 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (46.54%) Azure
2 87 (40.09%) AWS
3 52 (23.96%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (19.35%) GitHub
5 36 (16.59%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (16.13%) GCP
7 32 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (11.98%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (11.52%) Datadog
10 18 (8.29%) Azure AKS
10 18 (8.29%) Serverless
11 12 (5.53%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.61%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.15%) Cloud Functions
13 9 (4.15%) Cloud Run
13 9 (4.15%) Google Compute Engine
14 8 (3.69%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.45%) Firewall
2 8 (3.69%) VPN
2 8 (3.69%) WAN
3 6 (2.76%) DHCP
3 6 (2.76%) DNS
4 4 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.61%) Flink
3 9 (4.15%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.15%) MySQL
3 9 (4.15%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.84%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.84%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.46%) Metadata
9 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.06%) GitLab
3 20 (9.22%) Git
4 11 (5.07%) Bitbucket
4 11 (5.07%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.61%) Octopus Deploy
5 10 (4.61%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.84%) Maven
7 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.38%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.38%) Gradle
7 3 (1.38%) JMeter
7 3 (1.38%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.92%) git-flow
8 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.92%) Subversion
General
1 81 (37.33%) Finance
2 35 (16.13%) Banking
3 33 (15.21%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.61%) Front Office
6 5 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.84%) Electronics
7 4 (1.84%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.84%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.84%) Marketing
7 4 (1.84%) Retail
8 3 (1.38%) Advertising
8 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.90%) Kafka
2 18 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (6.45%) YAML
4 12 (5.53%) ADO
5 11 (5.07%) .NET
6 10 (4.61%) OAuth
7 8 (3.69%) SAML
8 4 (1.84%) React
8 4 (1.84%) web3js
9 3 (1.38%) JSON
9 3 (1.38%) Node.js
9 3 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.92%) AWS SAM
10 2 (0.92%) JWT
10 2 (0.92%) LAMP
10 2 (0.92%) OpenID
11 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.46%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.46%) Next.js
11 1 (0.46%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.23%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.23%) Web3
4 6 (2.76%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.84%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.92%) PKI
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (23.96%) Linux
2 26 (11.98%) Windows
3 18 (8.29%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.69%) CentOS
4 8 (3.69%) VMS
5 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.92%) Unix
6 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.46%) Debian
7 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (49.77%) CI/CD
3 98 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (21.66%) Containerisation
5 34 (15.67%) High Availability
6 31 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (12.44%) AI
8 27 (12.44%) Observability
9 26 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (10.60%) Agile
10 23 (10.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (8.76%) Analytics
12 19 (8.76%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (8.76%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (8.29%) Identity Management
14 17 (7.83%) Fintech
14 17 (7.83%) Incident Management
14 17 (7.83%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.41%) Python
2 43 (19.82%) Bash
3 29 (13.36%) PowerShell
4 27 (12.44%) SQL
5 24 (11.06%) Go
6 18 (8.29%) Java
7 9 (4.15%) Bicep
8 8 (3.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.84%) C#
10 2 (0.92%) Groovy
10 2 (0.92%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.83%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.45%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.23%) Degree
5 4 (1.84%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.76%) GDPR
2 17 (7.83%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.61%) QA
5 9 (4.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 61 (28.11%) Docker
2 19 (8.76%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (52.07%) Terraform
2 101 (46.54%) Kubernetes
3 50 (23.04%) Ansible
4 28 (12.90%) Prometheus
5 22 (10.14%) Grafana
6 19 (8.76%) Argo
7 9 (4.15%) Istio
8 8 (3.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (2.76%) Nagios
10 4 (1.84%) logstash
11 2 (0.92%) Kibana
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.92%) Puppet
11 2 (0.92%) Rancher
11 2 (0.92%) SCCM
12 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.61%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.15%) Google
3 9 (4.15%) Splunk
4 8 (3.69%) Confluent
4 8 (3.69%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.23%) VMware
6 6 (2.76%) Okta
6 6 (2.76%) OneLogin
6 6 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.84%) Oracle
7 4 (1.84%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.84%) SAP
8 3 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.92%) Commvault
9 2 (0.92%) Pega
10 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.46%) Salesforce