DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 223 228
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 226 172 254
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 1.44% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.58% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 172 112 161
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,219 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £117,500 £110,556
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -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 23,446 10,900 18,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.21% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,105 7,112 11,567
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,313 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -2 30 £100,000 +29.03% 33
South London 0 3 £80,000 - 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 226 (100.00%) DevOps
2 128 (56.64%) CI/CD
3 121 (53.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (48.23%) Terraform
5 100 (44.25%) AWS
6 99 (43.81%) Azure
7 77 (34.07%) Security Cleared
8 73 (32.30%) Kubernetes
9 69 (30.53%) SC Cleared
10 66 (29.20%) Python
11 60 (26.55%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (23.89%) Linux
13 52 (23.01%) Docker
14 47 (20.80%) Git
15 45 (19.91%) Jenkins
16 43 (19.03%) Ansible
17 42 (18.58%) Bash
17 42 (18.58%) Platform Engineering
18 39 (17.26%) Agile
18 39 (17.26%) GitHub
18 39 (17.26%) Observability
19 38 (16.81%) Containerisation
19 38 (16.81%) Infrastructure Automation
20 34 (15.04%) GitLab
20 34 (15.04%) Grafana
21 32 (14.16%) Deployment Automation
21 32 (14.16%) PowerShell
21 32 (14.16%) Serverless
22 31 (13.72%) AWS CloudFormation
23 28 (12.39%) YAML

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 (1.77%) SAS
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.25%) AWS
2 99 (43.81%) Azure
3 60 (26.55%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (17.26%) GitHub
5 32 (14.16%) Serverless
6 31 (13.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (11.50%) GCP
8 23 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (6.64%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.19%) Datadog
13 13 (5.75%) SaaS
14 12 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.42%) Azure AKS
15 10 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (3.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.54%) Firewall
2 4 (1.77%) DNS
2 4 (1.77%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.77%) NAS
2 4 (1.77%) SSH
3 3 (1.33%) DHCP
3 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.88%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) Network Security
5 1 (0.44%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (4.42%) Redis
5 9 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.54%) MySQL
7 6 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.44%) Big Data
10 1 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (20.80%) Git
2 45 (19.91%) Jenkins
3 34 (15.04%) GitLab
4 11 (4.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.21%) Maven
6 4 (1.77%) Gradle
6 4 (1.77%) JIRA
7 3 (1.33%) Snyk
7 3 (1.33%) Subversion
8 2 (0.88%) MLflow
9 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.44%) git-flow
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.29%) Finance
3 15 (6.64%) Banking
4 12 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.77%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (1.33%) Retail
9 1 (0.44%) Advertising
9 1 (0.44%) Aviation
9 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Front Office
9 1 (0.44%) Military
9 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (48.23%) Terraform
2 28 (12.39%) YAML
3 14 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.75%) ADO
5 11 (4.87%) JSON
6 10 (4.42%) Kafka
7 9 (3.98%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.65%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.21%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.77%) Node.js
10 4 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.33%) AWS CDK
11 3 (1.33%) web3js
12 2 (0.88%) OpenTofu
13 1 (0.44%) .NET
13 1 (0.44%) React
13 1 (0.44%) REST
13 1 (0.44%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.78%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.98%) Replication
3 7 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.77%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.33%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.33%) Web3
8 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.89%) Linux
2 17 (7.52%) CentOS
2 17 (7.52%) Windows
3 14 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.42%) VMS
5 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.77%) Unix
7 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (100.00%) DevOps
2 128 (56.64%) CI/CD
3 121 (53.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (18.58%) Platform Engineering
5 39 (17.26%) Agile
5 39 (17.26%) Observability
6 38 (16.81%) Containerisation
6 38 (16.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 32 (14.16%) Deployment Automation
8 26 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (10.18%) Software Engineering
11 22 (9.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (9.29%) AI
12 21 (9.29%) Cloud Security
12 21 (9.29%) Test Automation
13 20 (8.85%) Analytics
13 20 (8.85%) High Availability
14 18 (7.96%) Roadmaps
15 17 (7.52%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (29.20%) Python
2 42 (18.58%) Bash
3 32 (14.16%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.75%) SQL
5 11 (4.87%) Groovy
6 6 (2.65%) Go
7 5 (2.21%) C#
7 5 (2.21%) Java
7 5 (2.21%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.77%) Bicep
9 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 77 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 69 (30.53%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.08%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.64%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.21%) Degree
6 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.33%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.41%) QA
2 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (23.01%) Docker
2 15 (6.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 73 (32.30%) Kubernetes
2 43 (19.03%) Ansible
3 34 (15.04%) Grafana
4 25 (11.06%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.75%) Argo
6 12 (5.31%) Rancher
7 10 (4.42%) Nagios
8 5 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.21%) Puppet
9 3 (1.33%) Kibana
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.42%) Splunk
3 9 (3.98%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.98%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.98%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.54%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.21%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.77%) Google
7 4 (1.77%) New Relic
7 4 (1.77%) Okta
8 3 (1.33%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.33%) VMware
9 2 (0.88%) Commvault
9 2 (0.88%) Databricks
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle
9 2 (0.88%) SAP
10 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.44%) Cognizant