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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 202 221
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 218 220 327
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 1.75% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.92% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 161 153 241
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £127,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

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 20,623 11,468 22,011
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 91.39% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,201 7,384 16,161
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 51 £90,000 +16.13% 13
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 218 (100.00%) DevOps
2 116 (53.21%) Azure
3 113 (51.83%) CI/CD
4 110 (50.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 102 (46.79%) Terraform
6 93 (42.66%) AWS
7 78 (35.78%) Kubernetes
8 69 (31.65%) Python
9 62 (28.44%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (26.61%) Security Cleared
11 50 (22.94%) SC Cleared
12 49 (22.48%) Linux
13 48 (22.02%) Docker
14 47 (21.56%) Containerisation
15 45 (20.64%) Ansible
16 42 (19.27%) Jenkins
17 39 (17.89%) Bash
18 38 (17.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 35 (16.06%) GCP
20 34 (15.60%) GitLab
21 32 (14.68%) YAML
22 30 (13.76%) Git
23 29 (13.30%) Grafana
23 29 (13.30%) PowerShell
23 29 (13.30%) Serverless
24 28 (12.84%) High Availability
25 26 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
26 25 (11.47%) Prometheus
27 24 (11.01%) Analytics
27 24 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.83%) SAS
2 1 (0.46%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 116 (53.21%) Azure
2 93 (42.66%) AWS
3 62 (28.44%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (17.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (16.06%) GCP
6 29 (13.30%) Serverless
7 22 (10.09%) Datadog
7 22 (10.09%) GitHub
8 17 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (7.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.88%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.96%) Azure AKS
12 12 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (5.05%) OpenShift
14 10 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (4.13%) Entra ID
15 9 (4.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.50%) Firewall
2 4 (1.83%) DHCP
2 4 (1.83%) DNS
2 4 (1.83%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.83%) NAS
2 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.83%) VPN
3 3 (1.38%) Network Security
3 3 (1.38%) SSH
3 3 (1.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.67%) MySQL
4 5 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Big Data
8 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.46%) Metadata
8 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (19.27%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.60%) GitLab
3 30 (13.76%) Git
4 11 (5.05%) CircleCI
5 7 (3.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.75%) Maven
7 5 (2.29%) Gradle
8 4 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.83%) JIRA
9 3 (1.38%) Subversion
10 2 (0.92%) git-flow
10 2 (0.92%) MLflow
11 1 (0.46%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.46%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.97%) Finance
3 27 (12.39%) Banking
4 8 (3.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.29%) Retail
6 4 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.83%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.83%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Advertising
8 1 (0.46%) Aviation
8 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.68%) YAML
2 17 (7.80%) ADO
2 17 (7.80%) Kafka
3 14 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (5.50%) JSON
5 5 (2.29%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.83%) web3js
7 3 (1.38%) OAuth
7 3 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.38%) SAML
8 2 (0.92%) .NET
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.46%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.46%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.83%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.83%) Web3
7 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.46%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.46%) PKI
9 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.48%) Linux
2 20 (9.17%) Windows
3 17 (7.80%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.96%) VMS
5 12 (5.50%) CentOS
6 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (51.83%) CI/CD
3 110 (50.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (21.56%) Containerisation
5 28 (12.84%) High Availability
6 26 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.01%) Analytics
7 24 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (11.01%) Deployment Automation
8 23 (10.55%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (10.55%) Software Engineering
9 22 (10.09%) Infrastructure Automation
9 22 (10.09%) Observability
10 20 (9.17%) Agile
11 19 (8.72%) Incident Management
12 18 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (8.26%) Mentoring
13 17 (7.80%) Cloud Security
14 16 (7.34%) Microservices
14 16 (7.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.65%) Python
2 39 (17.89%) Bash
3 29 (13.30%) PowerShell
4 24 (11.01%) SQL
5 19 (8.72%) Go
6 9 (4.13%) Java
7 6 (2.75%) C#
8 4 (1.83%) Bicep
9 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.46%) Groovy
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.88%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.75%) Degree
6 4 (1.83%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.34%) QA
2 13 (5.96%) GDPR
3 12 (5.50%) SOC 2
4 9 (4.13%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 48 (22.02%) Docker
2 19 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (46.79%) Terraform
2 78 (35.78%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.64%) Ansible
4 29 (13.30%) Grafana
5 25 (11.47%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.96%) Argo
7 9 (4.13%) Istio
7 9 (4.13%) Nagios
8 7 (3.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.38%) Kibana
9 3 (1.38%) Puppet
9 3 (1.38%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.59%) Splunk
3 8 (3.67%) Confluent
4 7 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.75%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.29%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.29%) Okta
7 4 (1.83%) OneLogin
7 4 (1.83%) VMware
8 3 (1.38%) Commvault
8 3 (1.38%) New Relic
8 3 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.38%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.92%) Databricks
9 2 (0.92%) Google
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.46%) SAP