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 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 160 138
Rank change year-on-year -51 -22 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 186 308 452
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 2.14% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 2.35% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 159 245 411
10th Percentile £56,000 £73,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 14,691 13,123 20,319
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 91.16% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,758 7,779 16,305
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,450 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +42 64 £70,000 -28.21% 13
South London +33 2 £70,000 - 6
West London -11 1 £120,000 +118.18% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 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.

1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (58.60%) CI/CD
3 100 (53.76%) Terraform
4 94 (50.54%) Azure
5 83 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (44.62%) Kubernetes
6 64 (34.41%) AWS
6 64 (34.41%) Python
7 62 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (25.27%) Docker
9 44 (23.66%) GitHub
10 41 (22.04%) Bash
11 40 (21.51%) Linux
12 39 (20.97%) Ansible
13 38 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (20.43%) PowerShell
14 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (18.28%) AI
16 32 (17.20%) SQL
17 31 (16.67%) Prometheus
18 29 (15.59%) Jenkins
19 27 (14.52%) Containerisation
20 25 (13.44%) High Availability
21 24 (12.90%) Agile
21 24 (12.90%) GCP
22 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
22 23 (12.37%) Observability
22 23 (12.37%) Security Cleared
23 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 21 (11.29%) Platform Engineering

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 5 (2.69%) IIS
2 2 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (50.54%) Azure
2 64 (34.41%) AWS
3 62 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (23.66%) GitHub
5 38 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (12.90%) GCP
7 20 (10.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (10.75%) Azure AKS
8 19 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (10.22%) Datadog
9 12 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
9 12 (6.45%) Cloud Run
9 12 (6.45%) Google Compute Engine
10 11 (5.91%) Serverless
11 10 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (4.84%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (4.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.38%) Firewall
2 8 (4.30%) VPN
2 8 (4.30%) WAN
3 3 (1.61%) DHCP
3 3 (1.61%) DNS
4 2 (1.08%) Network Security
4 2 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.45%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (5.38%) Flink
4 6 (3.23%) MySQL
5 5 (2.69%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.61%) GIS
6 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.61%) Power BI
7 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.08%) Redis
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (15.59%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 16 (8.60%) TeamCity
4 14 (7.53%) Git
5 12 (6.45%) GitLab
6 11 (5.91%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.76%) CircleCI
8 6 (3.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.61%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.61%) Gradle
10 3 (1.61%) JMeter
10 3 (1.61%) Maven
10 3 (1.61%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.08%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.08%) JIRA
11 2 (1.08%) JUnit
11 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (35.48%) Finance
2 23 (12.37%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.06%) Banking
4 10 (5.38%) Front Office
5 8 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.15%) Electronics
6 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.15%) Marketing
6 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Aviation
9 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.14%) .NET
1 17 (9.14%) Kafka
2 16 (8.60%) YAML
3 15 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (5.38%) OAuth
5 8 (4.30%) ADO
5 8 (4.30%) SAML
6 4 (2.15%) React
7 3 (1.61%) Node.js
7 3 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.08%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.08%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.08%) JWT
8 2 (1.08%) LAMP
8 2 (1.08%) OpenID
8 2 (1.08%) pytest
8 2 (1.08%) Semantic Kernel
9 1 (0.54%) JSON
9 1 (0.54%) Loki
9 1 (0.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Web3
7 2 (1.08%) PKI
7 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.51%) Linux
2 18 (9.68%) Windows
3 10 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.84%) VMS
5 2 (1.08%) CentOS
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.54%) Debian
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (58.60%) CI/CD
3 83 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.28%) AI
6 27 (14.52%) Containerisation
7 25 (13.44%) High Availability
8 24 (12.90%) Agile
9 23 (12.37%) Observability
10 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (9.68%) Identity Management
13 18 (9.68%) Software Delivery
14 16 (8.60%) Analytics
14 16 (8.60%) Investment Management
15 14 (7.53%) Customer Experience
15 14 (7.53%) Deployment Automation
16 13 (6.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.41%) Python
2 41 (22.04%) Bash
3 38 (20.43%) PowerShell
4 32 (17.20%) SQL
5 16 (8.60%) Java
6 13 (6.99%) Go
7 8 (4.30%) Bicep
7 8 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (3.23%) C#
8 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.08%) Groovy
9 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.45%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.30%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.61%) Degree
6 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.68%) GDPR
2 13 (6.99%) SOC 2
3 12 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.84%) QA
5 5 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (2.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (25.27%) Docker
2 16 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (53.76%) Terraform
2 83 (44.62%) Kubernetes
3 39 (20.97%) Ansible
4 31 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 20 (10.75%) Grafana
6 16 (8.60%) Argo
7 4 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.15%) logstash
8 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.61%) Nagios
8 3 (1.61%) SCCM
9 1 (0.54%) Cilium
9 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.54%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.54%) Kibana
9 1 (0.54%) Puppet
9 1 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.45%) Google
3 11 (5.91%) Zscaler
4 8 (4.30%) Palo Alto
4 8 (4.30%) VMware
5 6 (3.23%) Splunk
6 4 (2.15%) SAP
7 3 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.61%) Okta
7 3 (1.61%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.61%) Oracle
7 3 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.08%) Pega
8 2 (1.08%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.54%) Commvault
9 1 (0.54%) Rackspace