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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 171 196
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 216 266 374
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 2.06% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 2.28% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 180 216 311
10th Percentile £56,250 £70,625 £55,140
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% +4.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £129,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 17,908 11,690 21,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 90.54% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,031 7,579 16,559
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £53,662 £55,000 £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 £100,000 £93,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.45%

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 22 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 22 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 +30 66 £82,500 - 19
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 216 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (50.46%) Terraform
3 104 (48.15%) CI/CD
4 98 (45.37%) Azure
5 97 (44.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 97 (44.91%) Kubernetes
6 83 (38.43%) AWS
7 77 (35.65%) Python
8 59 (27.31%) Docker
9 53 (24.54%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (22.69%) Ansible
10 49 (22.69%) Linux
11 47 (21.76%) Containerisation
12 43 (19.91%) GitHub
13 42 (19.44%) Bash
14 37 (17.13%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (16.20%) GCP
15 35 (16.20%) High Availability
15 35 (16.20%) Security Cleared
16 33 (15.28%) Jenkins
17 32 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
18 31 (14.35%) AWS CloudFormation
19 28 (12.96%) PowerShell
19 28 (12.96%) Prometheus
20 27 (12.50%) Kafka
21 26 (12.04%) AI
21 26 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
21 26 (12.04%) Observability
21 26 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
21 26 (12.04%) SQL

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 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.39%) IIS
3 2 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (45.37%) Azure
2 83 (38.43%) AWS
3 53 (24.54%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (19.91%) GitHub
5 37 (17.13%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (16.20%) GCP
7 31 (14.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (11.57%) Datadog
10 18 (8.33%) Azure AKS
10 18 (8.33%) Serverless
11 10 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (4.63%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
12 9 (4.17%) Cloud Run
12 9 (4.17%) Google Compute Engine
13 8 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.48%) Firewall
2 8 (3.70%) VPN
2 8 (3.70%) WAN
3 6 (2.78%) DHCP
3 6 (2.78%) DNS
4 4 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.63%) Flink
3 9 (4.17%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.70%) MySQL
5 6 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (15.28%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.65%) GitLab
3 20 (9.26%) Git
4 11 (5.09%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.63%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (3.70%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.85%) Maven
9 3 (1.39%) Gradle
9 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.93%) git-flow
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
10 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.93%) Subversion
11 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (37.04%) Finance
2 35 (16.20%) Banking
3 33 (15.28%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.63%) Front Office
6 5 (2.31%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.85%) Electronics
7 4 (1.85%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.85%) Marketing
7 4 (1.85%) Retail
8 3 (1.39%) Advertising
8 3 (1.39%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.50%) Kafka
2 16 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (6.48%) YAML
4 12 (5.56%) ADO
5 10 (4.63%) .NET
5 10 (4.63%) OAuth
6 8 (3.70%) SAML
7 4 (1.85%) React
7 4 (1.85%) web3js
8 3 (1.39%) JSON
8 3 (1.39%) Node.js
9 2 (0.93%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.93%) JWT
9 2 (0.93%) LAMP
9 2 (0.93%) OpenID
9 2 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.46%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.46%) Next.js
10 1 (0.46%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.24%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.24%) Web3
4 6 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.85%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.39%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.93%) PKI
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.69%) Linux
2 24 (11.11%) Windows
3 18 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.70%) CentOS
4 8 (3.70%) VMS
5 5 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.93%) Unix
7 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 97 (44.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (21.76%) Containerisation
5 35 (16.20%) High Availability
6 32 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (12.04%) AI
7 26 (12.04%) Observability
7 26 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (10.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (10.19%) Agile
11 21 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (8.80%) Analytics
12 19 (8.80%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (8.80%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (8.33%) Identity Management
14 17 (7.87%) Incident Management
14 17 (7.87%) Infrastructure Management
15 16 (7.41%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.65%) Python
2 42 (19.44%) Bash
3 28 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 26 (12.04%) SQL
5 24 (11.11%) Go
6 18 (8.33%) Java
7 9 (4.17%) Bicep
8 8 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.85%) C#
10 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.24%) Degree
6 4 (1.85%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.80%) GDPR
2 17 (7.87%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.63%) QA
5 9 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (27.31%) Docker
2 19 (8.80%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (50.46%) Terraform
2 97 (44.91%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.69%) Ansible
4 28 (12.96%) Prometheus
5 23 (10.65%) Grafana
6 19 (8.80%) Argo
7 9 (4.17%) Istio
8 8 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (2.78%) Nagios
10 4 (1.85%) 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 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.63%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.17%) Google
4 8 (3.70%) Confluent
4 8 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.70%) Splunk
5 6 (2.78%) Okta
5 6 (2.78%) OneLogin
5 6 (2.78%) VMware
6 5 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.85%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.85%) SAP
8 3 (1.39%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Commvault
9 2 (0.93%) Pega
10 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.46%) Salesforce