DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 231 103
Rank change year-on-year +1 -128 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 173 258 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.45% 1.34% 3.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.40% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 112 164 596
10th Percentile £49,125 £47,500 £61,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £106,289
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,556 £130,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -9.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +12 40 £77,500 -13.89% 18
South London +13 4 - - 1
West London +35 1 £120,000 +134.15%
East London - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (65.32%) CI/CD
3 99 (57.23%) Terraform
4 95 (54.91%) AWS
5 92 (53.18%) Python
6 86 (49.71%) Kubernetes
7 73 (42.20%) Azure
7 73 (42.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 64 (36.99%) Containerisation
8 64 (36.99%) Docker
9 58 (33.53%) Finance
10 48 (27.75%) GitHub
10 48 (27.75%) Bash
10 48 (27.75%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (26.59%) Ansible
12 45 (26.01%) Agile
13 44 (25.43%) Linux
14 34 (19.65%) Jenkins
14 34 (19.65%) Git
15 32 (18.50%) PowerShell
15 32 (18.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 31 (17.92%) Social Skills
16 31 (17.92%) Artificial Intelligence
17 30 (17.34%) GitHub Actions
18 29 (16.76%) Cloud Native
18 29 (16.76%) Mentoring
19 28 (16.18%) Red Hat
19 28 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
20 27 (15.61%) Prometheus
20 27 (15.61%) Software Engineering

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.47%) Apache
2 3 (1.73%) JBoss
2 3 (1.73%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Drupal
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 95 (54.91%) AWS
2 73 (42.20%) Azure
3 48 (27.75%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (27.75%) GitHub
4 30 (17.34%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (14.45%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (7.51%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (7.51%) GCP
9 12 (6.94%) Azure AKS
9 12 (6.94%) Serverless
10 11 (6.36%) Datadog
11 9 (5.20%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (4.62%) Apigee
12 8 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.62%) Kong
13 7 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.09%) Firewall
2 11 (6.36%) TCP/IP
3 10 (5.78%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (5.78%) LAN
3 10 (5.78%) WAN
4 5 (2.89%) DNS
4 5 (2.89%) SSH
5 4 (2.31%) SSL
6 3 (1.73%) HTTP
7 2 (1.16%) Broadband
7 2 (1.16%) FTP
7 2 (1.16%) SMTP
7 2 (1.16%) VPN
8 1 (0.58%) DHCP
8 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.89%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.31%) KDB
5 2 (1.16%) Big Data
5 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.58%) DB2
6 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (19.65%) Git
1 34 (19.65%) Jenkins
2 27 (15.61%) GitLab
3 16 (9.25%) SonarQube
4 15 (8.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (4.05%) JIRA
6 6 (3.47%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.89%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.31%) Maven
8 4 (2.31%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.73%) Ant
10 2 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.16%) Subversion
10 2 (1.16%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.58%) CMake
11 1 (0.58%) Gradle
11 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
General
1 58 (33.53%) Finance
2 32 (18.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (17.92%) Social Skills
4 22 (12.72%) Banking
5 20 (11.56%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.51%) Law
7 4 (2.31%) Marketing
7 4 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Electronics
8 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.16%) Games
9 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) Aviation
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.51%) React
2 12 (6.94%) .NET
3 11 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (5.78%) RESTful
5 8 (4.62%) OpenAPI
5 8 (4.62%) REST
5 8 (4.62%) Swagger
5 8 (4.62%) YAML
6 7 (4.05%) ARM Templates
6 7 (4.05%) Kafka
7 4 (2.31%) Middleware
8 3 (1.73%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.73%) Node.js
9 2 (1.16%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.16%) PySpark
9 2 (1.16%) Web Services
10 1 (0.58%) Blazor
10 1 (0.58%) Next.js
10 1 (0.58%) Playwright
10 1 (0.58%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.98%) Management Information System
3 16 (9.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (8.09%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.31%) Equities
5 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.16%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.16%) PKI
7 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.58%) Replication
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (25.43%) Linux
2 23 (13.29%) Windows
3 16 (9.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.05%) Unix
4 7 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.47%) VMS
6 2 (1.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.58%) Android
7 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.58%) Debian
7 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (65.32%) CI/CD
3 73 (42.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (36.99%) Containerisation
5 45 (26.01%) Agile
6 31 (17.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 29 (16.76%) Mentoring
8 28 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (15.61%) Software Engineering
10 26 (15.03%) Observability
11 24 (13.87%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (13.29%) Machine Learning
13 22 (12.72%) DevSecOps
14 21 (12.14%) Coaching
15 19 (10.98%) Release Management
15 19 (10.98%) Software Delivery
16 18 (10.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 17 (9.83%) SDLC
18 15 (8.67%) Infrastructure Automation
18 15 (8.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 92 (53.18%) Python
2 48 (27.75%) Bash
3 32 (18.50%) PowerShell
4 22 (12.72%) Java
5 18 (10.40%) Go
6 10 (5.78%) C#
7 9 (5.20%) Groovy
8 8 (4.62%) Lua
9 7 (4.05%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.05%) Ruby
9 7 (4.05%) SQL
10 5 (2.89%) Bicep
11 4 (2.31%) C++
11 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.73%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.16%) Perl
13 2 (1.16%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.58%) PHP
14 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (11.56%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.73%) Degree
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) GDPR
1 7 (4.05%) QA
2 5 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.31%) SLA
4 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (36.99%) Docker
2 17 (9.83%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.78%) NFS
3 10 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.78%) vSphere
4 5 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (57.23%) Terraform
2 86 (49.71%) Kubernetes
3 46 (26.59%) Ansible
4 27 (15.61%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.29%) Grafana
6 5 (2.89%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.31%) Istio
7 4 (2.31%) Nagios
7 4 (2.31%) Puppet
8 3 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.73%) Argo
8 3 (1.73%) Podman
9 2 (1.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.58%) Nessus
10 1 (0.58%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.58%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (16.18%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.67%) IBM
4 13 (7.51%) VMware
5 12 (6.94%) Commvault
6 10 (5.78%) Cisco
6 10 (5.78%) Pure Storage
7 8 (4.62%) MKS
7 8 (4.62%) MuleSoft
8 7 (4.05%) Databricks
9 6 (3.47%) Google
10 5 (2.89%) Splunk
11 4 (2.31%) Confluent
11 4 (2.31%) Oracle
12 3 (1.73%) Cribl.io
12 3 (1.73%) SAP
12 3 (1.73%) Sonatype
13 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
13 2 (1.16%) Thales
14 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media