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 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 201 107
Rank change year-on-year -36 -94 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 156 279 577
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 1.57% 3.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.66% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 118 201 507
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £92,813 £115,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £118,250 £138,750 £127,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -

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 11,713 16,794 17,925
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.76% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,588 10,285 14,624
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +23 39 £70,000 -15.15% 14
South London +36 4 £70,000 - 6
West London -4 1 £120,000 +128.57%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 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.

1 156 (100.00%) DevOps
2 106 (67.95%) CI/CD
3 93 (59.62%) Terraform
4 83 (53.21%) Kubernetes
5 80 (51.28%) Python
6 75 (48.08%) AWS
7 70 (44.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (44.23%) Azure
9 51 (32.69%) Docker
10 49 (31.41%) GitHub
11 48 (30.77%) Bash
12 43 (27.56%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (27.56%) Containerisation
12 43 (27.56%) Linux
12 43 (27.56%) PowerShell
13 39 (25.00%) Ansible
14 35 (22.44%) Agile
14 35 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (21.15%) Jenkins
16 31 (19.87%) Prometheus
17 28 (17.95%) AI
17 28 (17.95%) Git
17 28 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
18 25 (16.03%) Windows
19 24 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
20 23 (14.74%) Grafana
21 22 (14.10%) Software Engineering
22 20 (12.82%) Observability
22 20 (12.82%) Security Cleared
23 17 (10.90%) .NET

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 3 (1.92%) IIS
2 2 (1.28%) Apache
2 2 (1.28%) Confluence
2 2 (1.28%) JBoss
2 2 (1.28%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (48.08%) AWS
2 69 (44.23%) Azure
3 49 (31.41%) GitHub
4 43 (27.56%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (8.97%) GCP
9 12 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (6.41%) Azure AKS
10 10 (6.41%) Cloud Functions
10 10 (6.41%) Cloud Run
10 10 (6.41%) Datadog
10 10 (6.41%) Google Compute Engine
10 10 (6.41%) Serverless
11 8 (5.13%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.13%) Apigee
11 8 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.05%) Firewall
2 9 (5.77%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.13%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (5.13%) LAN
3 8 (5.13%) WAN
4 4 (2.56%) DNS
5 3 (1.92%) HTTP
6 2 (1.28%) FTP
6 2 (1.28%) SMTP
6 2 (1.28%) SSH
6 2 (1.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.64%) DHCP
7 1 (0.64%) Network Security
7 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.41%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.21%) Flink
6 4 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.92%) GIS
7 3 (1.92%) KDB
7 3 (1.92%) MySQL
7 3 (1.92%) Power BI
8 2 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.28%) Redis
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (21.15%) Jenkins
2 28 (17.95%) Git
3 15 (9.62%) GitLab
4 10 (6.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (5.77%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.13%) JIRA
6 8 (5.13%) TeamCity
7 7 (4.49%) Artifactory
7 7 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.56%) Maven
9 3 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.28%) Ant
10 2 (1.28%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.28%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.28%) JMeter
10 2 (1.28%) JUnit
10 2 (1.28%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 60 (38.46%) Finance
2 25 (16.03%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (10.90%) Banking
5 10 (6.41%) Law
6 9 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.21%) Front Office
8 4 (2.56%) Marketing
9 3 (1.92%) Advertising
9 3 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Electronics
9 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
11 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.90%) .NET
2 13 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (6.41%) Kafka
4 9 (5.77%) YAML
5 8 (5.13%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.85%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.85%) RESTful
6 6 (3.85%) Swagger
7 5 (3.21%) Node.js
8 3 (1.92%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.92%) React
9 2 (1.28%) AWS SAM
9 2 (1.28%) JWT
9 2 (1.28%) Middleware
9 2 (1.28%) OAuth
9 2 (1.28%) OpenID
9 2 (1.28%) pytest
9 2 (1.28%) REST
10 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.97%) Management Information System
3 12 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.49%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.21%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.92%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.92%) Equities
8 3 (1.92%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.28%) Web3
10 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.56%) Linux
2 25 (16.03%) Windows
3 12 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.85%) Unix
4 6 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.21%) VMS
6 2 (1.28%) CentOS
6 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.64%) Debian
7 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (100.00%) DevOps
2 106 (67.95%) CI/CD
3 70 (44.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (27.56%) Containerisation
5 35 (22.44%) Agile
5 35 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (17.95%) AI
7 22 (14.10%) Software Engineering
8 20 (12.82%) Observability
9 17 (10.90%) Software Delivery
10 16 (10.26%) Machine Learning
10 16 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (9.62%) Cloud Security
11 15 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (9.62%) Mentoring
11 15 (9.62%) SDLC
12 12 (7.69%) Configuration Management
12 12 (7.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 80 (51.28%) Python
2 48 (30.77%) Bash
3 43 (27.56%) PowerShell
4 15 (9.62%) Java
4 15 (9.62%) SQL
5 12 (7.69%) Go
6 9 (5.77%) C#
6 9 (5.77%) Groovy
7 7 (4.49%) Bicep
7 7 (4.49%) Ruby
8 6 (3.85%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.85%) Lua
8 6 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.56%) C++
10 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.28%) Perl
11 2 (1.28%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.64%) C
12 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.77%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.49%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) Degree
6 3 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) GDPR
2 8 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (4.49%) QA
4 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (32.69%) Docker
2 13 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.13%) NFS
3 8 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (59.62%) Terraform
2 83 (53.21%) Kubernetes
3 39 (25.00%) Ansible
4 31 (19.87%) Prometheus
5 23 (14.74%) Grafana
6 10 (6.41%) Argo
7 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.92%) Puppet
8 2 (1.28%) Nagios
8 2 (1.28%) Podman
9 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.64%) Cilium
9 1 (0.64%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.64%) logstash
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.97%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.05%) VMware
4 10 (6.41%) Google
5 8 (5.13%) Cisco
5 8 (5.13%) Commvault
5 8 (5.13%) Pure Storage
6 6 (3.85%) MKS
6 6 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.85%) Oracle
7 5 (3.21%) Splunk
8 3 (1.92%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.92%) IBM
8 3 (1.92%) SAP
8 3 (1.92%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.64%) Planview
10 1 (0.64%) Rackspace