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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 187 223
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 -130
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 228 234 347
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 1.92% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 2.12% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 177 168 264
10th Percentile £57,500 £63,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,438 £62,745
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,813
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 19,710 11,054 23,192
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 90.49% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13,587 6,953 17,198
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.32%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +16 66 £90,000 +16.13% 7
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 228 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (50.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 112 (49.12%) Azure
5 108 (47.37%) Terraform
6 83 (36.40%) AWS
7 77 (33.77%) Kubernetes
8 69 (30.26%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (29.39%) Python
10 48 (21.05%) Linux
10 48 (21.05%) Security Cleared
11 47 (20.61%) Containerisation
11 47 (20.61%) Docker
12 42 (18.42%) Ansible
13 40 (17.54%) SC Cleared
14 39 (17.11%) Jenkins
15 37 (16.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 37 (16.23%) High Availability
16 34 (14.91%) Bash
16 34 (14.91%) GCP
16 34 (14.91%) SQL
17 33 (14.47%) YAML
18 31 (13.60%) GitLab
18 31 (13.60%) PowerShell
19 28 (12.28%) Grafana
20 27 (11.84%) Git
20 27 (11.84%) Prometheus
21 26 (11.40%) Analytics
21 26 (11.40%) Observability
22 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (49.12%) Azure
2 83 (36.40%) AWS
3 69 (30.26%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (16.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (14.91%) GCP
6 25 (10.96%) GitHub
6 25 (10.96%) Serverless
7 23 (10.09%) Datadog
8 21 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (7.02%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.70%) Entra ID
13 12 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (4.39%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.39%) SaaS
16 9 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.02%) Firewall
2 8 (3.51%) VPN
3 7 (3.07%) WAN
4 6 (2.63%) DHCP
4 6 (2.63%) DNS
5 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.51%) MySQL
5 5 (2.19%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.44%) Metadata
8 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.60%) GitLab
3 27 (11.84%) Git
4 11 (4.82%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.63%) Maven
5 6 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.63%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.19%) Gradle
7 4 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.88%) git-flow
8 2 (0.88%) Subversion
9 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (24.56%) Finance
2 42 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.84%) Banking
4 7 (3.07%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.19%) Retail
6 4 (1.75%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.75%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.44%) Advertising
8 1 (0.44%) Aviation
8 1 (0.44%) Electronics
8 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.47%) YAML
2 21 (9.21%) ADO
3 17 (7.46%) Kafka
4 14 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.26%) JSON
6 8 (3.51%) .NET
7 7 (3.07%) OAuth
7 7 (3.07%) SAML
8 5 (2.19%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.75%) web3js
10 2 (0.88%) LAMP
10 2 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.44%) Next.js
11 1 (0.44%) Node.js
11 1 (0.44%) SAP Basis
11 1 (0.44%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.63%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.19%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.19%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.19%) Web3
6 4 (1.75%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.44%) PKI
9 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.05%) Linux
2 19 (8.33%) Windows
3 17 (7.46%) VMS
4 16 (7.02%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.39%) CentOS
6 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (50.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 47 (20.61%) Containerisation
5 37 (16.23%) High Availability
6 26 (11.40%) Analytics
6 26 (11.40%) Observability
7 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (10.09%) AI
8 23 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (8.77%) Software Engineering
10 19 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
11 17 (7.46%) Log Analytics
12 16 (7.02%) Fintech
12 16 (7.02%) Infrastructure Management
13 15 (6.58%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (6.58%) Incident Management
13 15 (6.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (29.39%) Python
2 34 (14.91%) Bash
2 34 (14.91%) SQL
3 31 (13.60%) PowerShell
4 19 (8.33%) Go
5 8 (3.51%) Java
6 7 (3.07%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.63%) Bicep
7 6 (2.63%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.44%) Groovy
8 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.58%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.63%) Degree
6 4 (1.75%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.46%) GDPR
2 16 (7.02%) SOC 2
3 14 (6.14%) QA
4 9 (3.95%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 47 (20.61%) Docker
2 22 (9.65%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (47.37%) Terraform
2 77 (33.77%) Kubernetes
3 42 (18.42%) Ansible
4 28 (12.28%) Grafana
5 27 (11.84%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.26%) Argo
7 9 (3.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (3.95%) Istio
7 9 (3.95%) Nagios
8 3 (1.32%) Kibana
9 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.88%) Puppet
9 2 (0.88%) Rancher
9 2 (0.88%) SCCM
10 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.39%) Splunk
3 9 (3.95%) Zscaler
4 8 (3.51%) Confluent
5 7 (3.07%) Okta
5 7 (3.07%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.07%) VMware
6 6 (2.63%) OneLogin
6 6 (2.63%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.19%) Google
8 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.32%) Commvault
9 3 (1.32%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle
10 2 (0.88%) SAP
11 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.44%) Databricks
11 1 (0.44%) Pega