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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 227 233
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 -133
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 213 177 254
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 1.47% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.60% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 163 115 163
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,250 £117,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -10.00%

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 22,402 11,032 18,397
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.40% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,383 7,195 12,238
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -14 31 £100,000 +29.03% 10
South London -3 3 £80,000 - 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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
2 114 (53.52%) CI/CD
3 108 (50.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (50.23%) Azure
5 103 (48.36%) Terraform
6 99 (46.48%) AWS
7 78 (36.62%) Kubernetes
8 67 (31.46%) Python
9 62 (29.11%) Security Cleared
10 56 (26.29%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (26.29%) SC Cleared
11 54 (25.35%) Linux
12 53 (24.88%) Docker
13 50 (23.47%) Containerisation
14 44 (20.66%) Ansible
15 39 (18.31%) Git
16 37 (17.37%) GitLab
16 37 (17.37%) Jenkins
17 36 (16.90%) Bash
17 36 (16.90%) Platform Engineering
18 34 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (15.49%) GitHub
20 32 (15.02%) Infrastructure Automation
21 31 (14.55%) Grafana
22 30 (14.08%) GCP
23 29 (13.62%) Deployment Automation
23 29 (13.62%) PowerShell
24 28 (13.15%) Agile
24 28 (13.15%) YAML
25 27 (12.68%) Observability

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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 107 (50.23%) Azure
2 99 (46.48%) AWS
3 56 (26.29%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (15.49%) GitHub
6 30 (14.08%) GCP
7 27 (12.68%) Serverless
8 18 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (8.45%) Datadog
9 17 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (6.57%) OpenShift
13 13 (6.10%) SaaS
14 12 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.69%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (4.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.23%) 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 1 (0.47%) Network Security
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (4.69%) MySQL
4 7 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.94%) Metadata
7 2 (0.94%) Redis
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.47%) Big Data
8 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (18.31%) Git
2 37 (17.37%) GitLab
2 37 (17.37%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.35%) Maven
5 4 (1.88%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.88%) Gradle
5 4 (1.88%) JIRA
6 3 (1.41%) Subversion
7 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.94%) git-flow
7 2 (0.94%) MLflow
7 2 (0.94%) Snyk
8 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.55%) Finance
3 29 (13.62%) Banking
4 11 (5.16%) 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%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Aviation
8 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Front Office
8 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (48.36%) Terraform
2 28 (13.15%) YAML
3 14 (6.57%) ADO
3 14 (6.57%) Kafka
4 11 (5.16%) JSON
5 10 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.35%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.35%) Pulumi
7 4 (1.88%) web3js
8 3 (1.41%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.41%) Node.js
9 2 (0.94%) OpenTofu
10 1 (0.47%) .NET
10 1 (0.47%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.47%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
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%) Cyber Threat
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
6 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (25.35%) Linux
2 18 (8.45%) CentOS
2 18 (8.45%) Windows
3 16 (7.51%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.69%) VMS
5 6 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.88%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (53.52%) CI/CD
3 108 (50.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (23.47%) Containerisation
5 36 (16.90%) Platform Engineering
6 32 (15.02%) Infrastructure Automation
7 29 (13.62%) Deployment Automation
8 28 (13.15%) Agile
9 27 (12.68%) Observability
9 27 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (12.21%) Software Engineering
11 25 (11.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.80%) High Availability
13 21 (9.86%) Cloud Security
14 20 (9.39%) Analytics
15 18 (8.45%) Configuration Management
16 17 (7.98%) Mentoring
17 15 (7.04%) Incident Management
17 15 (7.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 67 (31.46%) Python
2 36 (16.90%) Bash
3 29 (13.62%) PowerShell
4 18 (8.45%) SQL
5 17 (7.98%) Go
6 5 (2.35%) Java
7 4 (1.88%) Bicep
7 4 (1.88%) C#
7 4 (1.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.94%) Groovy
8 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 62 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 56 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.57%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.82%) Degree
6 4 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.88%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.92%) QA
2 5 (2.35%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.88%) GDPR
3 4 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 53 (24.88%) Docker
2 16 (7.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 44 (20.66%) Ansible
3 31 (14.55%) Grafana
4 20 (9.39%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.57%) Argo
6 11 (5.16%) Nagios
7 9 (4.23%) Istio
8 6 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.88%) Puppet
9 4 (1.88%) Rancher
10 2 (0.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Splunk
3 10 (4.69%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.23%) Rapid7
5 8 (3.76%) Confluent
6 7 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.35%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.35%) Okta
8 4 (1.88%) New Relic
8 4 (1.88%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.41%) VMware
10 2 (0.94%) Commvault
10 2 (0.94%) Databricks
10 2 (0.94%) Oracle
10 2 (0.94%) SAP
11 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow