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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 236 223
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 236 161 260
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.91% 1.37% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.50% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 161 108 172
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -14.71% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £103,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -9.33%

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 23,956 10,704 17,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.04% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,991 6,970 10,799
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,596
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.49% -1.87%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -4 24 £100,000 +33.33% 30
South London -2 3 £80,000 +14.29% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 236 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (55.51%) CI/CD
3 121 (51.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (47.46%) Terraform
5 100 (42.37%) Azure
6 98 (41.53%) AWS
7 75 (31.78%) Security Cleared
8 73 (30.93%) Kubernetes
9 64 (27.12%) Python
10 63 (26.69%) SC Cleared
11 62 (26.27%) Azure DevOps
12 50 (21.19%) Docker
12 50 (21.19%) Linux
13 49 (20.76%) Platform Engineering
14 46 (19.49%) Jenkins
15 44 (18.64%) Bash
15 44 (18.64%) Git
15 44 (18.64%) GitHub
16 43 (18.22%) Agile
17 42 (17.80%) Ansible
18 41 (17.37%) Observability
19 37 (15.68%) Containerisation
20 36 (15.25%) Infrastructure Automation
21 34 (14.41%) Serverless
22 33 (13.98%) GitLab
22 33 (13.98%) Grafana
22 33 (13.98%) PowerShell
23 32 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
24 30 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
24 30 (12.71%) GCP

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 (1.69%) SAS
2 2 (0.85%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 100 (42.37%) Azure
2 98 (41.53%) AWS
3 62 (26.27%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (18.64%) GitHub
5 34 (14.41%) Serverless
6 30 (12.71%) GCP
7 29 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.36%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (5.93%) SaaS
12 13 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.08%) Azure AKS
13 12 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (4.24%) Datadog
16 9 (3.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 9 (3.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) Firewall
2 4 (1.69%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.69%) NAS
2 4 (1.69%) SSH
3 3 (1.27%) DNS
3 3 (1.27%) VPN
4 2 (0.85%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) Internet
5 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.24%) Redis
5 9 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.81%) MySQL
6 8 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.42%) Big Data
9 1 (0.42%) Metadata
9 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (19.49%) Jenkins
2 44 (18.64%) Git
3 33 (13.98%) GitLab
4 9 (3.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.69%) JIRA
6 3 (1.27%) Gradle
6 3 (1.27%) Maven
6 3 (1.27%) Snyk
6 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.85%) MLflow
7 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.85%) Subversion
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (16.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.90%) Finance
3 11 (4.66%) Banking
4 10 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.27%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.42%) Aviation
7 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.42%) Front Office
7 1 (0.42%) German Language
7 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.42%) Military
7 1 (0.42%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (47.46%) Terraform
2 28 (11.86%) YAML
3 14 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.66%) ADO
5 10 (4.24%) JSON
5 10 (4.24%) Kafka
6 9 (3.81%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.54%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.54%) Pulumi
8 4 (1.69%) Node.js
8 4 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.27%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.27%) SLSA
10 2 (0.85%) .NET
10 2 (0.85%) OpenTofu
10 2 (0.85%) React
10 2 (0.85%) REST
11 1 (0.42%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 63 (26.69%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.81%) Replication
3 8 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.12%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.19%) Linux
2 15 (6.36%) CentOS
3 10 (4.24%) VMS
3 10 (4.24%) Windows
4 7 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.97%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.69%) Unix
7 2 (0.85%) Rocky
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (55.51%) CI/CD
3 121 (51.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (20.76%) Platform Engineering
5 43 (18.22%) Agile
6 41 (17.37%) Observability
7 37 (15.68%) Containerisation
8 36 (15.25%) Infrastructure Automation
9 32 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
10 30 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (12.29%) AI
12 28 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (11.44%) Software Engineering
14 25 (10.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (9.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (9.32%) Mentoring
17 21 (8.90%) Test Automation
18 20 (8.47%) Cloud Security
19 19 (8.05%) Analytics
20 18 (7.63%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 64 (27.12%) Python
2 44 (18.64%) Bash
3 33 (13.98%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.51%) SQL
5 11 (4.66%) Groovy
6 8 (3.39%) Java
7 6 (2.54%) C#
7 6 (2.54%) Go
7 6 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.54%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.69%) Bicep
9 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) C
10 1 (0.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 75 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 63 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.66%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.20%) QA
2 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.42%) NIST
2 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (21.19%) Docker
2 13 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 73 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 42 (17.80%) Ansible
3 33 (13.98%) Grafana
4 24 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.93%) Argo
6 11 (4.66%) Rancher
7 8 (3.39%) Nagios
8 4 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.69%) Puppet
9 3 (1.27%) Kibana
10 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.42%) Istio
11 1 (0.42%) logstash
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
11 1 (0.42%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 21 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.81%) Dynatrace
2 9 (3.81%) Red Hat
2 9 (3.81%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.39%) Splunk
4 7 (2.97%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.12%) Google
6 5 (2.12%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.69%) New Relic
8 3 (1.27%) VMware
9 2 (0.85%) Databricks
9 2 (0.85%) Okta
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle
9 2 (0.85%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.42%) Commvault
10 1 (0.42%) OneLogin