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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 173 212
Rank change year-on-year -30 +39 -121
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 223 245 355
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 2.03% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 2.26% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 178 186 279
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £106,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +32.81% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,438 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -6.67%

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 19,143 10,858 22,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 89.97% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,094 6,935 16,595
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +21 70 £90,000 +9.09% 21
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 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.

1 223 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (48.43%) Terraform
3 104 (46.64%) CI/CD
4 103 (46.19%) Azure
4 103 (46.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (35.87%) Kubernetes
6 77 (34.53%) AWS
7 68 (30.49%) Python
8 62 (27.80%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (21.97%) Docker
9 49 (21.97%) Linux
10 45 (20.18%) Ansible
11 43 (19.28%) Containerisation
12 42 (18.83%) Security Cleared
13 37 (16.59%) Jenkins
14 35 (15.70%) GitHub
15 34 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (15.25%) High Availability
16 33 (14.80%) Bash
17 31 (13.90%) GCP
17 31 (13.90%) GitHub Actions
17 31 (13.90%) SC Cleared
18 29 (13.00%) SQL
19 27 (12.11%) Git
19 27 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
20 26 (11.66%) PowerShell
20 26 (11.66%) YAML
21 25 (11.21%) GitLab
22 24 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
22 24 (10.76%) Datadog

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 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.90%) IIS
3 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (46.19%) Azure
2 77 (34.53%) AWS
3 62 (27.80%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (15.70%) GitHub
5 34 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (13.90%) GCP
6 31 (13.90%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (10.76%) Datadog
8 23 (10.31%) Serverless
9 17 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.62%) Azure AKS
10 14 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.83%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (5.38%) SaaS
13 11 (4.93%) Entra ID
14 9 (4.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (4.04%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.59%) Amazon MSK
16 7 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.28%) Firewall
2 9 (4.04%) VPN
3 8 (3.59%) WAN
4 6 (2.69%) DHCP
4 6 (2.69%) DNS
5 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.14%) MySQL
4 6 (2.69%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.24%) Flink
6 4 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (16.59%) Jenkins
2 27 (12.11%) Git
3 25 (11.21%) GitLab
4 11 (4.93%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.69%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.69%) Maven
7 5 (2.24%) Gradle
8 4 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.90%) git-flow
9 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.90%) Subversion
10 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.45%) JMeter
10 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (30.49%) Finance
2 40 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.90%) Banking
4 10 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.24%) Front Office
5 5 (2.24%) Retail
6 4 (1.79%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.90%) Electronics
8 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.90%) Marketing
8 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.66%) YAML
2 23 (10.31%) Kafka
3 16 (7.17%) ADO
4 13 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.93%) JSON
6 10 (4.48%) .NET
7 8 (3.59%) OAuth
7 8 (3.59%) SAML
8 4 (1.79%) React
8 4 (1.79%) web3js
9 2 (0.90%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.90%) LAMP
10 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.45%) Next.js
10 1 (0.45%) Node.js
10 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.14%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.69%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.24%) Web3
6 4 (1.79%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.90%) PKI
7 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.97%) Linux
2 18 (8.07%) Windows
3 15 (6.73%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.38%) VMS
5 9 (4.04%) CentOS
6 5 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (46.64%) CI/CD
3 103 (46.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (19.28%) Containerisation
5 34 (15.25%) High Availability
6 27 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (10.31%) AI
8 23 (10.31%) Observability
9 22 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (9.42%) Analytics
11 20 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (8.52%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (8.07%) Incident Management
13 18 (8.07%) Software Engineering
14 17 (7.62%) Identity Management
14 17 (7.62%) Infrastructure Management
14 17 (7.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 16 (7.17%) Agile
16 15 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 68 (30.49%) Python
2 33 (14.80%) Bash
3 29 (13.00%) SQL
4 26 (11.66%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.87%) Go
6 13 (5.83%) Java
7 9 (4.04%) Bicep
8 8 (3.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.79%) C#
10 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.28%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.69%) Degree
6 4 (1.79%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.07%) GDPR
2 17 (7.62%) SOC 2
3 14 (6.28%) QA
4 10 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 49 (21.97%) Docker
2 20 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (48.43%) Terraform
2 80 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.18%) Ansible
4 24 (10.76%) Prometheus
5 23 (10.31%) Grafana
6 13 (5.83%) Argo
7 9 (4.04%) Istio
8 8 (3.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.14%) Nagios
10 3 (1.35%) 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 21 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.48%) Zscaler
3 8 (3.59%) Confluent
3 8 (3.59%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.59%) Splunk
4 7 (3.14%) Okta
5 6 (2.69%) Google
5 6 (2.69%) OneLogin
5 6 (2.69%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.69%) VMware
6 5 (2.24%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.35%) SAP
9 2 (0.90%) Commvault
9 2 (0.90%) Oracle
9 2 (0.90%) Pega
10 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.45%) Cognizant