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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 209 239
Rank change year-on-year -30 +30 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 213 186 255
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 1.53% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.67% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 163 121 169
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,500 £117,500 £106,111
England median annual salary £70,000 £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 22,178 11,126 18,556
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 91.63% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,153 7,234 12,776
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,528
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.80% -2.72%
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 15 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 15 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 -15 34 £100,000 +29.03% 14
South London +1 2 £80,000 - 8
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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
2 112 (52.58%) CI/CD
3 109 (51.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (50.23%) Azure
5 104 (48.83%) Terraform
6 100 (46.95%) AWS
7 80 (37.56%) Kubernetes
8 68 (31.92%) Python
9 59 (27.70%) Security Cleared
10 55 (25.82%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (25.82%) Linux
11 54 (25.35%) SC Cleared
12 52 (24.41%) Docker
13 50 (23.47%) Containerisation
14 45 (21.13%) Ansible
15 38 (17.84%) GitLab
16 37 (17.37%) Jenkins
17 36 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (16.90%) Git
18 35 (16.43%) Bash
19 33 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
20 32 (15.02%) Grafana
21 31 (14.55%) GCP
21 31 (14.55%) Infrastructure Automation
22 30 (14.08%) GitHub
23 29 (13.62%) PowerShell
24 28 (13.15%) YAML
25 27 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
25 27 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
25 27 (12.68%) Serverless

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
2 100 (46.95%) AWS
3 55 (25.82%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (14.55%) GCP
6 30 (14.08%) GitHub
7 27 (12.68%) Serverless
8 19 (8.92%) Datadog
9 17 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (6.57%) OpenShift
12 12 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (5.63%) SaaS
13 10 (4.69%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 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%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) Big Data
8 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.47%) Metadata
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (17.84%) GitLab
2 37 (17.37%) Jenkins
3 36 (16.90%) Git
4 10 (4.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.82%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.35%) Maven
7 4 (1.88%) Gradle
7 4 (1.88%) JIRA
8 3 (1.41%) Subversion
9 2 (0.94%) git-flow
9 2 (0.94%) MLflow
9 2 (0.94%) Snyk
10 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.96%) Finance
3 30 (14.08%) 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%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Aviation
8 1 (0.47%) Front Office
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.15%) YAML
2 14 (6.57%) ADO
2 14 (6.57%) Kafka
3 11 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.16%) JSON
4 5 (2.35%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.88%) web3js
6 3 (1.41%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.41%) Node.js
7 1 (0.47%) .NET
7 1 (0.47%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 47 (22.07%) 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%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.88%) Web3
6 3 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (25.82%) 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
2 112 (52.58%) CI/CD
3 109 (51.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (23.47%) Containerisation
5 33 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
6 31 (14.55%) Infrastructure Automation
7 27 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
7 27 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (12.21%) Observability
8 26 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 25 (11.74%) Agile
9 25 (11.74%) Software Engineering
10 23 (10.80%) High Availability
11 22 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (9.86%) Cloud Security
13 20 (9.39%) Analytics
14 17 (7.98%) Configuration Management
15 15 (7.04%) AI
15 15 (7.04%) Incident Management
15 15 (7.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.92%) Python
2 35 (16.43%) Bash
3 29 (13.62%) PowerShell
4 19 (8.92%) SQL
5 18 (8.45%) Go
6 5 (2.35%) Java
7 4 (1.88%) Bicep
7 4 (1.88%) C#
7 4 (1.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 59 (27.70%) Security Cleared
2 54 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.57%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.82%) Degree
6 4 (1.88%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.92%) QA
2 6 (2.82%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.35%) GDPR
3 5 (2.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (24.41%) Docker
2 16 (7.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (48.83%) Terraform
2 80 (37.56%) Kubernetes
3 45 (21.13%) Ansible
4 32 (15.02%) Grafana
5 21 (9.86%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.04%) Argo
7 11 (5.16%) Nagios
8 9 (4.23%) Istio
9 6 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.41%) Puppet
10 3 (1.41%) Rancher
11 2 (0.94%) Kibana
12 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
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 6 (2.82%) 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
11 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle
11 1 (0.47%) SAP