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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 172 202
Rank change year-on-year -45 +30 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 221 264 376
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 2.08% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 2.30% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 183 215 305
10th Percentile £57,500 £70,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,625 £85,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +30.95% +1.82%
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 18,396 11,462 22,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.21% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,403 7,453 16,731
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,454
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 £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 1 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 1 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 +31 69 £85,000 +3.03% 13
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (51.13%) Terraform
3 103 (46.61%) CI/CD
4 102 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (45.25%) Azure
6 94 (42.53%) Kubernetes
7 82 (37.10%) AWS
8 76 (34.39%) Python
9 59 (26.70%) Docker
10 55 (24.89%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (22.62%) Linux
12 49 (22.17%) Ansible
12 49 (22.17%) Containerisation
13 42 (19.00%) Bash
13 42 (19.00%) GitHub
14 36 (16.29%) GCP
14 36 (16.29%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (16.29%) Security Cleared
15 35 (15.84%) High Availability
15 35 (15.84%) Jenkins
16 32 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
17 28 (12.67%) Prometheus
18 26 (11.76%) AI
18 26 (11.76%) Datadog
18 26 (11.76%) Kafka
18 26 (11.76%) PowerShell
19 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 25 (11.31%) Observability
19 25 (11.31%) Problem-Solving

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 (1.81%) 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
1 100 (45.25%) Azure
2 82 (37.10%) AWS
3 55 (24.89%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (19.00%) GitHub
5 36 (16.29%) GCP
5 36 (16.29%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (11.76%) Datadog
8 23 (10.41%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (8.60%) Serverless
10 18 (8.14%) Azure AKS
11 10 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.52%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 9 (4.07%) Cloud Functions
12 9 (4.07%) Cloud Run
12 9 (4.07%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.07%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.88%) Firewall
2 9 (4.07%) VPN
3 8 (3.62%) WAN
4 6 (2.71%) DHCP
4 6 (2.71%) DNS
5 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.07%) BigQuery
2 9 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.07%) MySQL
2 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.62%) Flink
4 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.81%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (15.84%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.86%) GitLab
3 22 (9.95%) Git
4 11 (4.98%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.52%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.62%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (3.62%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.26%) Maven
8 4 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.81%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.90%) git-flow
9 2 (0.90%) JMeter
9 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.90%) Subversion
9 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (35.75%) Finance
2 36 (16.29%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.38%) Banking
4 11 (4.98%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.62%) Front Office
6 5 (2.26%) Retail
6 5 (2.26%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.81%) Electronics
7 4 (1.81%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.81%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.81%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.81%) Marketing
8 3 (1.36%) Advertising
8 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.76%) Kafka
2 16 (7.24%) YAML
3 15 (6.79%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (5.43%) ADO
5 10 (4.52%) .NET
5 10 (4.52%) OAuth
6 8 (3.62%) SAML
7 5 (2.26%) JSON
8 4 (1.81%) React
8 4 (1.81%) web3js
9 3 (1.36%) Node.js
10 2 (0.90%) JWT
10 2 (0.90%) LAMP
10 2 (0.90%) OpenID
10 2 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.45%) AWS SAM
11 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.45%) Next.js
11 1 (0.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.17%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.17%) Web3
4 6 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.71%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.81%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
8 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.62%) Linux
2 22 (9.95%) Windows
3 16 (7.24%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.07%) CentOS
5 8 (3.62%) VMS
6 5 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (46.61%) CI/CD
3 102 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (22.17%) Containerisation
5 35 (15.84%) High Availability
6 32 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (11.76%) AI
8 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (11.31%) Observability
8 25 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (9.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (9.05%) Agile
10 20 (9.05%) Analytics
10 20 (9.05%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (8.14%) Identity Management
12 17 (7.69%) Incident Management
12 17 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
12 17 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (34.39%) Python
2 42 (19.00%) Bash
3 26 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 25 (11.31%) SQL
5 23 (10.41%) Go
6 16 (7.24%) Java
7 10 (4.52%) Bicep
8 8 (3.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.81%) C#
10 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
10 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.17%) Degree
6 4 (1.81%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.60%) GDPR
2 17 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 11 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.98%) QA
4 9 (4.07%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (26.70%) Docker
2 19 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (51.13%) Terraform
2 94 (42.53%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.17%) Ansible
4 28 (12.67%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.86%) Grafana
6 17 (7.69%) Argo
7 9 (4.07%) Istio
8 8 (3.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.17%) Nagios
10 4 (1.81%) 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 23 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.52%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.07%) Google
3 9 (4.07%) Splunk
4 8 (3.62%) Confluent
4 8 (3.62%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.17%) Okta
6 6 (2.71%) OneLogin
6 6 (2.71%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.71%) VMware
7 5 (2.26%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.26%) SAP
8 3 (1.36%) Oracle
9 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.90%) Commvault
9 2 (0.90%) Pega
10 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.45%) Salesforce