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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 166 148
Rank change year-on-year -47 -18 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 186 305 448
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.15% 2.16% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 2.37% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 159 242 406
10th Percentile £56,250 £73,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £66,250
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 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -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 14,818 12,861 20,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 91.12% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,859 7,652 16,273
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -
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% -9.84%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +44 64 £70,000 -28.21% 16
South London +32 2 £70,000 - 6
West London -8 1 £120,000 +118.18% 3
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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.

1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (58.60%) CI/CD
3 100 (53.76%) Terraform
4 94 (50.54%) Azure
5 83 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (44.62%) Kubernetes
6 65 (34.95%) AWS
6 65 (34.95%) Python
7 61 (32.80%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (25.27%) Docker
9 43 (23.12%) GitHub
10 42 (22.58%) Bash
11 40 (21.51%) Ansible
12 39 (20.97%) Linux
13 38 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (20.43%) PowerShell
14 37 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (18.28%) AI
16 33 (17.74%) SQL
17 32 (17.20%) Prometheus
18 29 (15.59%) Jenkins
19 27 (14.52%) Containerisation
20 26 (13.98%) High Availability
21 25 (13.44%) GCP
22 24 (12.90%) Agile
23 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
23 23 (12.37%) Observability
23 23 (12.37%) Security Cleared
24 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
25 21 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation

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 (2.69%) IIS
2 2 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (50.54%) Azure
2 65 (34.95%) AWS
3 61 (32.80%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (23.12%) GitHub
5 38 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (13.44%) GCP
7 21 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (10.75%) Datadog
9 19 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (10.22%) Azure AKS
10 12 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (6.45%) Cloud Run
10 12 (6.45%) Google Compute Engine
10 12 (6.45%) Serverless
11 10 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (4.84%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (4.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.38%) Firewall
2 8 (4.30%) VPN
2 8 (4.30%) WAN
3 3 (1.61%) DHCP
3 3 (1.61%) DNS
4 2 (1.08%) Network Security
4 2 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.45%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (5.38%) Flink
4 6 (3.23%) MySQL
4 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.61%) GIS
5 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.61%) Power BI
6 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.08%) Redis
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (15.59%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 16 (8.60%) TeamCity
4 13 (6.99%) Git
4 13 (6.99%) GitLab
5 11 (5.91%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.30%) CircleCI
7 6 (3.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.61%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.61%) Gradle
9 3 (1.61%) JMeter
9 3 (1.61%) Maven
9 3 (1.61%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.08%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.08%) JIRA
10 2 (1.08%) JUnit
10 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (35.48%) Finance
2 24 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.60%) Banking
4 10 (5.38%) Front Office
5 8 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.15%) Electronics
6 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.15%) Marketing
6 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Aviation
9 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.68%) Kafka
2 17 (9.14%) .NET
3 16 (8.60%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (8.60%) YAML
4 10 (5.38%) OAuth
5 8 (4.30%) ADO
5 8 (4.30%) SAML
6 4 (2.15%) React
7 3 (1.61%) Node.js
7 3 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.08%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.08%) JWT
8 2 (1.08%) LAMP
8 2 (1.08%) OpenID
8 2 (1.08%) pytest
8 2 (1.08%) Semantic Kernel
9 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.54%) JSON
9 1 (0.54%) Loki
9 1 (0.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Web3
7 2 (1.08%) PKI
7 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.97%) Linux
2 17 (9.14%) Windows
3 10 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.84%) VMS
5 2 (1.08%) CentOS
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.54%) Debian
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (58.60%) CI/CD
3 83 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.28%) AI
6 27 (14.52%) Containerisation
7 26 (13.98%) High Availability
8 24 (12.90%) Agile
9 23 (12.37%) Observability
10 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (9.68%) Identity Management
13 18 (9.68%) Software Delivery
14 16 (8.60%) Analytics
14 16 (8.60%) Investment Management
15 14 (7.53%) Customer Experience
15 14 (7.53%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (7.53%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.95%) Python
2 42 (22.58%) Bash
3 38 (20.43%) PowerShell
4 33 (17.74%) SQL
5 16 (8.60%) Java
6 14 (7.53%) Go
7 8 (4.30%) Bicep
7 8 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (3.23%) C#
8 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.08%) Groovy
9 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.45%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.30%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.61%) Degree
6 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.22%) GDPR
2 14 (7.53%) SOC 2
3 12 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.84%) QA
5 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 47 (25.27%) Docker
2 16 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (53.76%) Terraform
2 83 (44.62%) Kubernetes
3 40 (21.51%) Ansible
4 32 (17.20%) Prometheus
5 21 (11.29%) Grafana
6 16 (8.60%) Argo
7 4 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.15%) logstash
8 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.61%) Nagios
8 3 (1.61%) SCCM
9 1 (0.54%) Cilium
9 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.54%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.54%) Kibana
9 1 (0.54%) Puppet
9 1 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.45%) Google
3 11 (5.91%) Zscaler
4 8 (4.30%) Palo Alto
4 8 (4.30%) VMware
5 6 (3.23%) Splunk
6 4 (2.15%) SAP
7 3 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.61%) Okta
7 3 (1.61%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.61%) Oracle
7 3 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.08%) Pega
8 2 (1.08%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.54%) Commvault
9 1 (0.54%) Rackspace