DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 194 107
Rank change year-on-year -33 -87 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 151 290 556
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.72% 3.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.82% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 120 210 495
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £74,063 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £124,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -

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 11,974 15,946 17,493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.34% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,907 9,635 14,280
10th Percentile £35,900 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +26 37 £70,000 -15.15% 15
South London +39 4 £70,000 - 5
West London -6 1 £120,000 +128.57% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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.

1 151 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (66.89%) CI/CD
3 91 (60.26%) Terraform
4 83 (54.97%) Kubernetes
5 77 (50.99%) Python
6 69 (45.70%) AWS
6 69 (45.70%) Azure
7 68 (45.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (35.10%) GitHub
9 49 (32.45%) Bash
9 49 (32.45%) Docker
10 45 (29.80%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (29.80%) PowerShell
11 43 (28.48%) Linux
12 38 (25.17%) Containerisation
13 36 (23.84%) Ansible
14 34 (22.52%) Jenkins
15 33 (21.85%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (21.19%) Prometheus
17 31 (20.53%) Agile
18 28 (18.54%) Git
19 25 (16.56%) Windows
20 23 (15.23%) AI
21 22 (14.57%) Amazon EKS
21 22 (14.57%) Grafana
22 19 (12.58%) Observability
23 18 (11.92%) Microsoft
23 18 (11.92%) Security Cleared
23 18 (11.92%) Site Reliability 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 4 (2.65%) IIS
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) JBoss
2 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.70%) AWS
1 69 (45.70%) Azure
2 53 (35.10%) GitHub
3 45 (29.80%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (21.85%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (14.57%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (9.93%) GCP
7 12 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (7.28%) Cloud Functions
8 11 (7.28%) Cloud Run
8 11 (7.28%) Google Compute Engine
9 10 (6.62%) Azure AKS
9 10 (6.62%) Datadog
9 10 (6.62%) Serverless
10 8 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.30%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.96%) Firewall
2 8 (5.30%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.64%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (4.64%) LAN
3 7 (4.64%) WAN
4 4 (2.65%) DNS
5 3 (1.99%) HTTP
6 2 (1.32%) FTP
6 2 (1.32%) SMTP
6 2 (1.32%) SSH
6 2 (1.32%) SSL
7 1 (0.66%) DHCP
7 1 (0.66%) Network Security
7 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.93%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.28%) BigQuery
3 8 (5.30%) Flink
4 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.99%) GIS
7 3 (1.99%) MySQL
7 3 (1.99%) Power BI
8 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.32%) Redis
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.66%) KDB
9 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (22.52%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.54%) Git
3 13 (8.61%) GitLab
4 10 (6.62%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (5.96%) TeamCity
6 8 (5.30%) Artifactory
6 8 (5.30%) JIRA
6 8 (5.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (4.64%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.65%) Maven
9 3 (1.99%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.32%) Gradle
10 2 (1.32%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.32%) JMeter
10 2 (1.32%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.32%) Subversion
10 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
General
1 56 (37.09%) Finance
2 24 (15.89%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.27%) Banking
4 11 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.30%) Front Office
7 5 (3.31%) Marketing
8 4 (2.65%) Electronics
8 4 (2.65%) Law
8 4 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.99%) Advertising
9 3 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.66%) Aviation
11 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.26%) .NET
2 13 (8.61%) Kafka
3 12 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (5.96%) YAML
5 8 (5.30%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.31%) Node.js
7 3 (1.99%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.99%) React
8 2 (1.32%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.32%) JWT
8 2 (1.32%) Middleware
8 2 (1.32%) OAuth
8 2 (1.32%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.32%) OpenID
8 2 (1.32%) pytest
8 2 (1.32%) RESTful
8 2 (1.32%) Swagger
9 1 (0.66%) Semantic Kernel
9 1 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.95%) Cloud Native
1 12 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (6.62%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.97%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.97%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.65%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.99%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.99%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.99%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.32%) Web3
7 1 (0.66%) Equities
7 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (28.48%) Linux
2 25 (16.56%) Windows
3 11 (7.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.64%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.31%) VMS
6 3 (1.99%) Unix
7 2 (1.32%) CentOS
7 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.66%) Debian
8 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (66.89%) CI/CD
3 68 (45.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (25.17%) Containerisation
5 32 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (20.53%) Agile
7 23 (15.23%) AI
8 19 (12.58%) Observability
9 18 (11.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (11.26%) Cloud Security
10 17 (11.26%) Software Delivery
11 16 (10.60%) Software Engineering
12 15 (9.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (9.27%) Mentoring
14 11 (7.28%) Configuration Management
14 11 (7.28%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (6.62%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (6.62%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (50.99%) Python
2 49 (32.45%) Bash
3 45 (29.80%) PowerShell
4 16 (10.60%) Java
5 15 (9.93%) SQL
6 9 (5.96%) Bicep
6 9 (5.96%) C#
6 9 (5.96%) Go
6 9 (5.96%) Groovy
7 7 (4.64%) Ruby
8 6 (3.97%) T-SQL
9 5 (3.31%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.65%) C++
11 3 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.32%) Lua
12 2 (1.32%) Perl
12 2 (1.32%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.66%) C
13 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.28%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.96%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.65%) Degree
6 3 (1.99%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.62%) GDPR
2 8 (5.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (5.30%) QA
3 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (32.45%) Docker
2 11 (7.28%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.64%) NFS
4 7 (4.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (60.26%) Terraform
2 83 (54.97%) Kubernetes
3 36 (23.84%) Ansible
4 32 (21.19%) Prometheus
5 22 (14.57%) Grafana
6 13 (8.61%) Argo
7 3 (1.99%) logstash
7 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.99%) Puppet
8 2 (1.32%) Nagios
8 2 (1.32%) Podman
9 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.66%) Cilium
9 1 (0.66%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.61%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.28%) Google
3 11 (7.28%) VMware
4 7 (4.64%) Cisco
4 7 (4.64%) Commvault
4 7 (4.64%) Pure Storage
5 5 (3.31%) Oracle
5 5 (3.31%) Splunk
6 4 (2.65%) SAP
7 3 (1.99%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.99%) IBM
7 3 (1.99%) Sonatype
8 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.32%) MKS
8 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.66%) Pega
9 1 (0.66%) Rackspace