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 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 177 193
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 -99
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 221 262 373
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 2.04% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 2.27% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 185 213 304
10th Percentile £56,750 £71,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +30.95% +2.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 18,244 11,561 21,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 90.19% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,298 7,527 16,627
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,454
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.06%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +40 69 £85,000 +3.03% 14
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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.

1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (50.68%) Terraform
3 104 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 101 (45.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (45.25%) Azure
6 96 (43.44%) Kubernetes
7 83 (37.56%) AWS
8 77 (34.84%) Python
9 60 (27.15%) Docker
10 55 (24.89%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (22.62%) Ansible
11 50 (22.62%) Linux
12 49 (22.17%) Containerisation
13 43 (19.46%) Bash
13 43 (19.46%) GitHub
14 37 (16.74%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (16.29%) GCP
15 36 (16.29%) High Availability
15 36 (16.29%) Security Cleared
16 34 (15.38%) Jenkins
17 32 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
18 28 (12.67%) Prometheus
19 27 (12.22%) Kafka
19 27 (12.22%) PowerShell
20 26 (11.76%) AI
20 26 (11.76%) Datadog
20 26 (11.76%) Observability
20 26 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
20 26 (11.76%) SQL

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 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.36%) IIS
3 2 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (45.25%) Azure
2 83 (37.56%) AWS
3 55 (24.89%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (19.46%) GitHub
5 37 (16.74%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (16.29%) GCP
7 32 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (11.76%) Datadog
9 25 (11.31%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (8.60%) Serverless
11 18 (8.14%) Azure AKS
12 10 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.52%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.07%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (4.07%) Cloud Functions
13 9 (4.07%) Cloud Run
13 9 (4.07%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.33%) Firewall
2 8 (3.62%) VPN
2 8 (3.62%) WAN
3 6 (2.71%) DHCP
3 6 (2.71%) DNS
4 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.07%) BigQuery
2 9 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.07%) Flink
2 9 (4.07%) MySQL
2 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.81%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.86%) GitLab
3 21 (9.50%) Git
4 11 (4.98%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.52%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.07%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (3.62%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.26%) Maven
9 4 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.81%) Gradle
10 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.90%) git-flow
11 2 (0.90%) JMeter
11 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.90%) Subversion
11 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (36.20%) Finance
2 35 (15.84%) Banking
2 35 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.98%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.07%) Front Office
5 5 (2.26%) Retail
5 5 (2.26%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.81%) Electronics
6 4 (1.81%) Mandarin Language
6 4 (1.81%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.81%) Marketing
7 3 (1.36%) Advertising
7 3 (1.36%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.22%) Kafka
2 16 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (6.79%) YAML
4 12 (5.43%) ADO
5 10 (4.52%) .NET
5 10 (4.52%) OAuth
6 8 (3.62%) SAML
7 4 (1.81%) JSON
7 4 (1.81%) React
7 4 (1.81%) web3js
8 3 (1.36%) Node.js
9 2 (0.90%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.90%) JWT
9 2 (0.90%) LAMP
9 2 (0.90%) OpenID
9 2 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.45%) Next.js
10 1 (0.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.17%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.17%) Web3
4 6 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.71%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.26%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
8 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.62%) Linux
2 23 (10.41%) Windows
3 17 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.07%) CentOS
5 8 (3.62%) VMS
6 5 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.90%) Unix
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 101 (45.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (22.17%) Containerisation
5 36 (16.29%) High Availability
6 32 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (11.76%) AI
7 26 (11.76%) Observability
7 26 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (9.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (9.50%) Agile
10 21 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (9.05%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (8.60%) Analytics
12 19 (8.60%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (8.14%) Identity Management
14 17 (7.69%) Incident Management
14 17 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
15 16 (7.24%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 77 (34.84%) Python
2 43 (19.46%) Bash
3 27 (12.22%) PowerShell
4 26 (11.76%) SQL
5 24 (10.86%) Go
6 17 (7.69%) Java
7 9 (4.07%) Bicep
8 8 (3.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.81%) C#
10 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
11 1 (0.45%) Ruby
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.33%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.17%) Degree
6 4 (1.81%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.60%) GDPR
2 17 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.98%) QA
5 9 (4.07%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 60 (27.15%) Docker
2 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 112 (50.68%) Terraform
2 96 (43.44%) Kubernetes
3 50 (22.62%) Ansible
4 28 (12.67%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.31%) Grafana
6 18 (8.14%) Argo
7 9 (4.07%) Istio
8 8 (3.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.17%) Nagios
10 4 (1.81%) logstash
11 2 (0.90%) Kibana
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.90%) Puppet
11 2 (0.90%) Rancher
11 2 (0.90%) SCCM
12 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.52%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.07%) Google
3 9 (4.07%) Splunk
4 8 (3.62%) Confluent
4 8 (3.62%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.17%) Okta
6 6 (2.71%) OneLogin
6 6 (2.71%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.71%) VMware
7 5 (2.26%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.81%) SAP
9 3 (1.36%) Oracle
10 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.90%) Commvault
10 2 (0.90%) Pega
11 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.45%) Salesforce