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 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 169 142
Rank change year-on-year -40 -27 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 189 313 456
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 2.14% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 2.34% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 161 247 415
10th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £66,875
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 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -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 14,619 13,373 19,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 91.28% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,729 7,832 15,977
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,813 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -0.20%
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 26 February 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 26 February 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 65 £70,000 -28.21% 13
South London +35 2 £70,000 - 3
West London -6 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 26 February 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.

1 189 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (58.73%) CI/CD
3 102 (53.97%) Terraform
4 95 (50.26%) Azure
5 86 (45.50%) Kubernetes
6 85 (44.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (34.92%) AWS
8 65 (34.39%) Python
9 63 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (25.93%) Docker
11 47 (24.87%) GitHub
12 42 (22.22%) Ansible
12 42 (22.22%) Bash
12 42 (22.22%) Linux
13 39 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (20.11%) PowerShell
15 36 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (17.99%) AI
17 32 (16.93%) Prometheus
17 32 (16.93%) SQL
18 30 (15.87%) Jenkins
19 29 (15.34%) Containerisation
20 25 (13.23%) Agile
20 25 (13.23%) High Availability
21 24 (12.70%) GCP
21 24 (12.70%) Observability
21 24 (12.70%) Security Cleared
22 23 (12.17%) Microsoft
23 22 (11.64%) AWS CloudFormation
23 22 (11.64%) Infrastructure 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 (2.65%) IIS
2 2 (1.06%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (50.26%) Azure
2 66 (34.92%) AWS
3 63 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (24.87%) GitHub
5 39 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (12.70%) GCP
7 22 (11.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (10.58%) Azure AKS
9 19 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (10.05%) Datadog
10 12 (6.35%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (6.35%) Cloud Run
10 12 (6.35%) Google Compute Engine
11 11 (5.82%) Serverless
12 10 (5.29%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.76%) Entra ID
14 8 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (4.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.82%) Firewall
2 9 (4.76%) WAN
3 8 (4.23%) VPN
4 3 (1.59%) DHCP
4 3 (1.59%) DNS
5 2 (1.06%) Network Security
5 2 (1.06%) SSL
6 1 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.53%) HTTP
6 1 (0.53%) LAN
6 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.35%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (5.29%) Flink
4 6 (3.17%) MySQL
5 5 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.59%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.59%) GIS
6 3 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.59%) Power BI
7 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.06%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (15.87%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.99%) Octopus Deploy
3 16 (8.47%) Git
3 16 (8.47%) TeamCity
4 14 (7.41%) GitLab
5 11 (5.82%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.70%) CircleCI
7 6 (3.17%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.59%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.59%) Gradle
9 3 (1.59%) JMeter
9 3 (1.59%) Maven
9 3 (1.59%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.06%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.06%) JIRA
10 2 (1.06%) JUnit
10 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (35.98%) Finance
2 23 (12.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.94%) Banking
4 10 (5.29%) Front Office
5 8 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.12%) Electronics
6 4 (2.12%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.12%) Marketing
6 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.59%) Advertising
7 3 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Aviation
8 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.99%) .NET
1 17 (8.99%) Kafka
2 16 (8.47%) YAML
3 15 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (5.29%) OAuth
5 8 (4.23%) ADO
5 8 (4.23%) SAML
6 4 (2.12%) React
7 3 (1.59%) Node.js
7 3 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.06%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.06%) JWT
8 2 (1.06%) LAMP
8 2 (1.06%) OpenID
8 2 (1.06%) pytest
8 2 (1.06%) Semantic Kernel
9 1 (0.53%) JSON
9 1 (0.53%) Loki
9 1 (0.53%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.35%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.17%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.17%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.59%) Web3
7 2 (1.06%) PKI
7 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.22%) Linux
2 18 (9.52%) Windows
3 10 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.76%) VMS
5 2 (1.06%) CentOS
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.53%) Debian
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (58.73%) CI/CD
3 85 (44.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (17.99%) AI
6 29 (15.34%) Containerisation
7 25 (13.23%) Agile
7 25 (13.23%) High Availability
8 24 (12.70%) Observability
9 22 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.05%) Software Delivery
13 18 (9.52%) Identity Management
14 16 (8.47%) Analytics
14 16 (8.47%) Investment Management
15 14 (7.41%) Customer Experience
15 14 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.39%) Python
2 42 (22.22%) Bash
3 38 (20.11%) PowerShell
4 32 (16.93%) SQL
5 16 (8.47%) Java
6 13 (6.88%) Go
7 8 (4.23%) Bicep
7 8 (4.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (3.17%) C#
8 6 (3.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.06%) Groovy
9 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.88%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.23%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.59%) Degree
6 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.05%) GDPR
2 13 (6.88%) SOC 2
3 12 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.76%) QA
5 5 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (2.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (25.93%) Docker
2 16 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) NFS
5 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (53.97%) Terraform
2 86 (45.50%) Kubernetes
3 42 (22.22%) Ansible
4 32 (16.93%) Prometheus
5 21 (11.11%) Grafana
6 16 (8.47%) Argo
7 4 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.12%) logstash
8 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.59%) Nagios
8 3 (1.59%) SCCM
9 2 (1.06%) Puppet
10 1 (0.53%) Cilium
10 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.53%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.53%) Kibana
10 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.35%) Google
3 11 (5.82%) Zscaler
4 9 (4.76%) VMware
5 8 (4.23%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.70%) Splunk
7 4 (2.12%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.12%) SAP
8 3 (1.59%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.59%) Okta
8 3 (1.59%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.59%) Oracle
9 2 (1.06%) Commvault
9 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.06%) Pega
9 2 (1.06%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco
10 1 (0.53%) Pure Storage
10 1 (0.53%) Rackspace