DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 185 120
Rank change year-on-year -21 -65 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 177 275 487
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 1.78% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.93% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 147 212 441
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £119,688 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -

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 12,982 14,278 18,081
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.41% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,563 8,218 14,541
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.74% +0.49%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.39%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +52 51 £70,000 -29.11% 27
South London +42 4 £70,000 - 7
West London +2 1 £120,000 +118.18%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 January 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.

1 177 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (63.28%) CI/CD
3 106 (59.89%) Terraform
4 84 (47.46%) Kubernetes
5 83 (46.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (45.76%) Azure
7 73 (41.24%) Python
8 63 (35.59%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (33.33%) GitHub
10 57 (32.20%) AWS
11 52 (29.38%) Docker
12 50 (28.25%) Linux
13 45 (25.42%) PowerShell
14 44 (24.86%) Bash
15 43 (24.29%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (22.60%) Ansible
17 38 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (19.21%) Jenkins
19 32 (18.08%) Containerisation
20 31 (17.51%) Agile
20 31 (17.51%) Prometheus
21 28 (15.82%) Git
21 28 (15.82%) SQL
22 27 (15.25%) AI
23 25 (14.12%) Microsoft
23 25 (14.12%) Windows
24 24 (13.56%) Security Cleared
24 24 (13.56%) SQL Server
25 22 (12.43%) Disaster Recovery
25 22 (12.43%) Observability

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 (2.82%) IIS
2 2 (1.13%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) JBoss
3 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.76%) Azure
2 63 (35.59%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (33.33%) GitHub
4 57 (32.20%) AWS
5 43 (24.29%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (9.60%) GCP
8 16 (9.04%) Datadog
9 15 (8.47%) Azure AKS
10 14 (7.91%) Cloud Functions
10 14 (7.91%) Cloud Run
10 14 (7.91%) Google Compute Engine
11 11 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (5.65%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (5.08%) Entra ID
14 8 (4.52%) Serverless
15 7 (3.95%) Amazon S3
15 7 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.34%) Firewall
2 11 (6.21%) WAN
3 7 (3.95%) VPN
4 6 (3.39%) DNS
4 6 (3.39%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.82%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (2.82%) LAN
6 3 (1.69%) DHCP
6 3 (1.69%) HTTP
7 2 (1.13%) FTP
7 2 (1.13%) SMTP
7 2 (1.13%) SSH
7 2 (1.13%) SSL
8 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.91%) BigQuery
3 12 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (5.65%) Flink
5 6 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.82%) MySQL
7 4 (2.26%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.69%) GIS
8 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.69%) Power BI
9 2 (1.13%) Redis
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (19.21%) Jenkins
2 28 (15.82%) Git
3 17 (9.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 16 (9.04%) TeamCity
5 10 (5.65%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.95%) Artifactory
7 6 (3.39%) GitLab
8 5 (2.82%) JIRA
9 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.69%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.69%) JMeter
10 3 (1.69%) Maven
10 3 (1.69%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.69%) Subversion
10 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.13%) Gradle
11 2 (1.13%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.13%) JUnit
General
1 66 (37.29%) Finance
2 23 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.34%) Banking
4 10 (5.65%) Front Office
5 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.82%) Marketing
7 4 (2.26%) Electronics
7 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.69%) Advertising
8 3 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Aviation
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.17%) .NET
2 15 (8.47%) YAML
3 14 (7.91%) Kafka
4 12 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.52%) OAuth
6 7 (3.95%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.39%) ADO
7 6 (3.39%) SAML
8 4 (2.26%) React
9 3 (1.69%) Node.js
9 3 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.13%) AWS SAM
10 2 (1.13%) JWT
10 2 (1.13%) LAMP
10 2 (1.13%) OpenID
10 2 (1.13%) pytest
11 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.56%) Loki
11 1 (0.56%) Middleware
11 1 (0.56%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.78%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.39%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.39%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.69%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.69%) Web3
6 2 (1.13%) PKI
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (28.25%) Linux
2 25 (14.12%) Windows
3 11 (6.21%) VMS
4 10 (5.65%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.13%) Unix
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) Debian
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (63.28%) CI/CD
3 83 (46.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (18.08%) Containerisation
6 31 (17.51%) Agile
7 27 (15.25%) AI
8 22 (12.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (12.43%) Observability
9 20 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (10.73%) Software Delivery
11 18 (10.17%) Cloud Security
11 18 (10.17%) High Availability
12 17 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (8.47%) Identity Management
14 15 (8.47%) Investment Management
15 13 (7.34%) Analytics
15 13 (7.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (6.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.24%) Python
2 45 (25.42%) PowerShell
3 44 (24.86%) Bash
4 28 (15.82%) SQL
5 16 (9.04%) Java
6 10 (5.65%) Bicep
7 8 (4.52%) Go
8 7 (3.95%) C#
9 6 (3.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.39%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.82%) Groovy
11 3 (1.69%) Ruby
12 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.13%) Perl
12 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.34%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.26%) Degree
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.04%) GDPR
2 10 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.08%) QA
4 8 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (3.39%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (29.38%) Docker
2 17 (9.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.82%) NFS
5 5 (2.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (59.89%) Terraform
2 84 (47.46%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.60%) Ansible
4 31 (17.51%) Prometheus
5 19 (10.73%) Grafana
6 16 (9.04%) Argo
7 4 (2.26%) logstash
8 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.69%) Nagios
8 3 (1.69%) Puppet
8 3 (1.69%) SCCM
9 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.56%) Cilium
10 1 (0.56%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.56%) Podman
10 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.91%) Google
3 12 (6.78%) VMware
4 9 (5.08%) Zscaler
5 7 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.39%) Oracle
6 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.39%) Splunk
7 5 (2.82%) Cisco
7 5 (2.82%) Commvault
7 5 (2.82%) Pure Storage
8 4 (2.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.69%) Okta
9 3 (1.69%) OneLogin
10 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.13%) Pega
11 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.56%) Rackspace
11 1 (0.56%) Rapid7