DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 159 178
Rank change year-on-year -48 +19 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 208 285 392
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 2.22% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 2.45% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 179 231 340
10th Percentile £55,500 £70,000 £56,200
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £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% -6.45%

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 16,674 11,654 21,039
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 90.78% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11,198 7,515 16,527
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 3 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 3 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 +29 63 £75,000 -9.09% 13
South London +25 1 £70,000 - 3
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 208 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (52.88%) Terraform
3 108 (51.92%) CI/CD
4 100 (48.08%) Azure
5 97 (46.63%) Kubernetes
6 91 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 84 (40.38%) AWS
8 78 (37.50%) Python
9 59 (28.37%) Docker
10 52 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (23.08%) Ansible
12 47 (22.60%) Linux
13 45 (21.63%) GitHub
14 44 (21.15%) Bash
14 44 (21.15%) Containerisation
15 38 (18.27%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (17.31%) GCP
17 33 (15.87%) Jenkins
18 32 (15.38%) High Availability
19 30 (14.42%) PowerShell
19 30 (14.42%) Prometheus
20 29 (13.94%) AI
20 29 (13.94%) AWS CloudFormation
20 29 (13.94%) Kafka
20 29 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
20 29 (13.94%) SQL
21 28 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
21 28 (13.46%) Security Cleared
22 27 (12.98%) Amazon EKS
23 26 (12.50%) 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 3 (1.44%) IIS
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (48.08%) Azure
2 84 (40.38%) AWS
3 52 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (21.63%) GitHub
5 38 (18.27%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (17.31%) GCP
7 29 (13.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (12.98%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (12.02%) Datadog
10 19 (9.13%) Azure AKS
11 16 (7.69%) Serverless
12 12 (5.77%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.81%) Cloud Functions
13 10 (4.81%) Cloud Run
13 10 (4.81%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.77%) Firewall
2 8 (3.85%) VPN
2 8 (3.85%) WAN
3 4 (1.92%) DHCP
3 4 (1.92%) DNS
4 2 (0.96%) Network Security
4 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.21%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.81%) BigQuery
2 10 (4.81%) Flink
3 9 (4.33%) MySQL
3 9 (4.33%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.96%) Redis
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.48%) GIS
9 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.48%) Metadata
9 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (15.87%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.06%) GitLab
3 16 (7.69%) Git
4 12 (5.77%) Bitbucket
4 12 (5.77%) TeamCity
5 11 (5.29%) CircleCI
5 11 (5.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.44%) JMeter
7 3 (1.44%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.96%) git-flow
8 2 (0.96%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.96%) JUnit
8 2 (0.96%) Maven
General
1 80 (38.46%) Finance
2 33 (15.87%) Banking
3 30 (14.42%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.81%) Front Office
4 10 (4.81%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.92%) Electronics
6 4 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.92%) Marketing
7 3 (1.44%) Advertising
7 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.44%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
8 2 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.94%) Kafka
2 17 (8.17%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (6.25%) .NET
4 11 (5.29%) YAML
5 10 (4.81%) ADO
5 10 (4.81%) OAuth
6 8 (3.85%) SAML
7 4 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.92%) React
8 3 (1.44%) Node.js
8 3 (1.44%) web3js
9 2 (0.96%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.96%) JWT
9 2 (0.96%) LAMP
9 2 (0.96%) OpenID
9 2 (0.96%) pytest
9 2 (0.96%) Semantic Kernel
10 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.48%) JSON
10 1 (0.48%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.37%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.88%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.88%) Web3
6 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.44%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.96%) PKI
9 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 47 (22.60%) Linux
2 22 (10.58%) Windows
3 15 (7.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.85%) VMS
5 7 (3.37%) CentOS
6 4 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.96%) Unix
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) Debian
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (51.92%) CI/CD
3 91 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (21.15%) Containerisation
5 32 (15.38%) High Availability
6 29 (13.94%) AI
6 29 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
8 26 (12.50%) Observability
9 23 (11.06%) Agile
10 22 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (10.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (9.13%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (8.65%) Identity Management
14 17 (8.17%) Analytics
14 17 (8.17%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (8.17%) Fintech
14 17 (8.17%) Infrastructure Management
15 16 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.50%) Python
2 44 (21.15%) Bash
3 30 (14.42%) PowerShell
4 29 (13.94%) SQL
5 24 (11.54%) Go
6 17 (8.17%) Java
7 8 (3.85%) Bicep
7 8 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.40%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) Groovy
10 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.73%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.40%) Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.62%) GDPR
2 17 (8.17%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.33%) PCI DSS
4 9 (4.33%) QA
5 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (28.37%) Docker
2 17 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (52.88%) Terraform
2 97 (46.63%) Kubernetes
3 48 (23.08%) Ansible
4 30 (14.42%) Prometheus
5 22 (10.58%) Grafana
6 17 (8.17%) Argo
7 9 (4.33%) Istio
8 6 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (2.88%) Nagios
9 4 (1.92%) logstash
10 2 (0.96%) Kibana
10 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.96%) SCCM
11 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.48%) Puppet
11 1 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.81%) Google
2 10 (4.81%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.33%) Splunk
4 8 (3.85%) Confluent
4 8 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.85%) VMware
5 6 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.92%) Okta
6 4 (1.92%) OneLogin
6 4 (1.92%) Oracle
6 4 (1.92%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.92%) SAP
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.96%) Commvault
8 2 (0.96%) Pega
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce