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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 204 237
Rank change year-on-year -27 +33 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 216 201 271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.93% 1.64% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.78% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 167 132 186
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £48,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,370
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 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £110,556
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.62% -9.33%

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 21,627 11,270 19,026
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.76% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14,841 7,358 13,378
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,175 £39,188
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
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 £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 1 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 1 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 -17 40 £90,000 +14.29% 13
South London -4 1 £80,000 - 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 216 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (52.78%) Azure
3 112 (51.85%) CI/CD
4 108 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 102 (47.22%) Terraform
6 101 (46.76%) AWS
7 81 (37.50%) Kubernetes
8 72 (33.33%) Python
9 59 (27.31%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (26.39%) Security Cleared
11 54 (25.00%) Linux
12 52 (24.07%) Docker
12 52 (24.07%) SC Cleared
13 50 (23.15%) Containerisation
14 45 (20.83%) Ansible
15 39 (18.06%) GitLab
15 39 (18.06%) Jenkins
16 38 (17.59%) Bash
17 36 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
18 34 (15.74%) Git
19 33 (15.28%) GCP
19 33 (15.28%) Grafana
20 29 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
21 28 (12.96%) PowerShell
21 28 (12.96%) Serverless
21 28 (12.96%) YAML
22 27 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
22 27 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
23 26 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
23 26 (12.04%) GitHub

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 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 114 (52.78%) Azure
2 101 (46.76%) AWS
3 59 (27.31%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (15.28%) GCP
6 28 (12.96%) Serverless
7 26 (12.04%) GitHub
8 20 (9.26%) Datadog
9 17 (7.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (6.48%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (6.02%) OpenShift
13 12 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (5.09%) SaaS
15 10 (4.63%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (4.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.17%) Firewall
2 4 (1.85%) DHCP
2 4 (1.85%) DNS
2 4 (1.85%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.85%) NAS
2 4 (1.85%) SSH
2 4 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (4.63%) MySQL
4 7 (3.24%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.39%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.46%) Big Data
8 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.46%) Metadata
8 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (18.06%) GitLab
1 39 (18.06%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.74%) Git
3 9 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 5 (2.31%) Maven
6 4 (1.85%) Gradle
6 4 (1.85%) JIRA
7 3 (1.39%) Subversion
8 2 (0.93%) git-flow
8 2 (0.93%) MLflow
9 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.46%) Snyk
9 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.74%) Finance
3 30 (13.89%) Banking
4 9 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.31%) Retail
6 4 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.85%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.85%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.93%) 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 28 (12.96%) YAML
2 16 (7.41%) Kafka
3 14 (6.48%) ADO
4 12 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (5.09%) JSON
6 5 (2.31%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.85%) web3js
8 3 (1.39%) Node.js
9 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.46%) .NET
10 1 (0.46%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.85%) Blockchain
4 4 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.85%) Web3
5 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.46%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.46%) PKI
7 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 54 (25.00%) Linux
2 19 (8.80%) Windows
3 17 (7.87%) CentOS
3 17 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.63%) VMS
5 9 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 108 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (23.15%) Containerisation
5 29 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
6 27 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 27 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
8 25 (11.57%) High Availability
8 25 (11.57%) Software Engineering
9 23 (10.65%) Observability
10 22 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (9.72%) Agile
12 20 (9.26%) Analytics
12 20 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (8.80%) Cloud Security
14 17 (7.87%) Configuration Management
14 17 (7.87%) Incident Management
15 16 (7.41%) Mentoring
15 16 (7.41%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.33%) Python
2 38 (17.59%) Bash
3 28 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 21 (9.72%) Go
5 20 (9.26%) SQL
6 7 (3.24%) Java
7 6 (2.78%) C#
8 4 (1.85%) Bicep
8 4 (1.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 57 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.78%) Degree
6 4 (1.85%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.80%) QA
2 8 (3.70%) SOC 2
3 7 (3.24%) GDPR
3 7 (3.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (24.07%) Docker
2 16 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (47.22%) Terraform
2 81 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.83%) Ansible
4 33 (15.28%) Grafana
5 24 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.48%) Argo
7 12 (5.56%) Nagios
8 9 (4.17%) Istio
9 7 (3.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.39%) Kibana
10 3 (1.39%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.39%) Puppet
10 3 (1.39%) Rancher
11 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 20 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.56%) Splunk
3 10 (4.63%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.17%) Rapid7
5 8 (3.70%) Confluent
6 6 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.31%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.31%) Okta
8 4 (1.85%) New Relic
8 4 (1.85%) OneLogin
8 4 (1.85%) VMware
9 3 (1.39%) Commvault
10 2 (0.93%) Databricks
11 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle
11 1 (0.46%) SAP