DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 185 125
Rank change year-on-year -27 -60 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 181 284 504
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 1.84% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 2.00% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 151 219 457
10th Percentile £52,500 £66,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +26.47% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 13,343 14,229 19,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.03% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,803 8,133 15,609
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 26 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 26 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 +53 53 £70,000 -30.00% 28
South London +45 4 £70,000 - 2
West London +4 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 26 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.

1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (61.33%) CI/CD
3 106 (58.56%) Terraform
4 87 (48.07%) Azure
5 84 (46.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (46.41%) Kubernetes
6 70 (38.67%) Python
7 65 (35.91%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (31.49%) GitHub
9 55 (30.39%) AWS
10 52 (28.73%) Docker
11 47 (25.97%) Linux
12 43 (23.76%) Bash
12 43 (23.76%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (23.20%) PowerShell
14 38 (20.99%) Ansible
14 38 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (18.23%) Jenkins
16 32 (17.68%) Containerisation
16 32 (17.68%) Prometheus
17 31 (17.13%) AI
18 30 (16.57%) Agile
18 30 (16.57%) SQL
19 25 (13.81%) Git
19 25 (13.81%) Microsoft
19 25 (13.81%) Security Cleared
20 24 (13.26%) SQL Server
21 23 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
21 23 (12.71%) Windows
22 22 (12.15%) 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 (2.76%) IIS
2 2 (1.10%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (48.07%) Azure
2 65 (35.91%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (31.49%) GitHub
4 55 (30.39%) AWS
5 43 (23.76%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.60%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (10.50%) Azure AKS
7 19 (10.50%) GCP
8 17 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (9.39%) Datadog
9 15 (8.29%) Cloud Functions
9 15 (8.29%) Cloud Run
9 15 (8.29%) Google Compute Engine
10 10 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.52%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (5.52%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.97%) Serverless
12 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.18%) Firewall
2 11 (6.08%) WAN
3 8 (4.42%) VPN
4 6 (3.31%) DNS
5 5 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.21%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (2.21%) LAN
7 3 (1.66%) DHCP
7 3 (1.66%) HTTP
8 2 (1.10%) FTP
8 2 (1.10%) SMTP
8 2 (1.10%) SSH
8 2 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.26%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.29%) BigQuery
3 12 (6.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (5.52%) Flink
5 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.76%) MySQL
6 4 (2.21%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.66%) GIS
7 3 (1.66%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.66%) Power BI
8 2 (1.10%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (18.23%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.81%) Git
3 17 (9.39%) Octopus Deploy
4 16 (8.84%) TeamCity
5 10 (5.52%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.31%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.76%) GitLab
8 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.66%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.66%) Gradle
9 3 (1.66%) JIRA
9 3 (1.66%) JMeter
9 3 (1.66%) Maven
9 3 (1.66%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.66%) Subversion
10 2 (1.10%) JUnit
10 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.10%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (35.91%) Finance
2 23 (12.71%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.63%) Banking
4 10 (5.52%) Front Office
5 8 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.76%) Marketing
7 4 (2.21%) Electronics
7 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.66%) Advertising
8 3 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Aviation
10 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.94%) .NET
2 16 (8.84%) YAML
3 13 (7.18%) Kafka
4 12 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (4.97%) OAuth
6 7 (3.87%) ADO
6 7 (3.87%) SAML
7 6 (3.31%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.21%) React
9 3 (1.66%) Node.js
9 3 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.10%) AWS SAM
10 2 (1.10%) JWT
10 2 (1.10%) LAMP
10 2 (1.10%) OpenID
10 2 (1.10%) pytest
10 2 (1.10%) Semantic Kernel
11 1 (0.55%) JSON
11 1 (0.55%) Loki
11 1 (0.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.63%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.63%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.31%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.31%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.66%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.66%) Web3
7 2 (1.10%) PKI
7 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (25.97%) Linux
2 23 (12.71%) Windows
3 12 (6.63%) VMS
4 9 (4.97%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.10%) Unix
6 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.55%) CentOS
7 1 (0.55%) Debian
7 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (61.33%) CI/CD
3 84 (46.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (17.68%) Containerisation
6 31 (17.13%) AI
7 30 (16.57%) Agile
8 23 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (12.15%) Observability
10 21 (11.60%) High Availability
11 20 (11.05%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (10.50%) Software Delivery
13 18 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (9.39%) Cloud Security
14 17 (9.39%) Identity Management
15 16 (8.84%) Investment Management
16 15 (8.29%) Analytics
17 13 (7.18%) Decision-Making
17 13 (7.18%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.67%) Python
2 43 (23.76%) Bash
3 42 (23.20%) PowerShell
4 30 (16.57%) SQL
5 16 (8.84%) Java
6 10 (5.52%) Bicep
7 8 (4.42%) Go
8 7 (3.87%) C#
8 7 (3.87%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.31%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.21%) Groovy
11 3 (1.66%) Ruby
12 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.10%) Perl
12 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.63%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.21%) Degree
6 3 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.94%) GDPR
2 11 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.97%) QA
4 8 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (4.42%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (28.73%) Docker
2 17 (9.39%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.21%) NFS
5 4 (2.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (58.56%) Terraform
2 84 (46.41%) Kubernetes
3 38 (20.99%) Ansible
4 32 (17.68%) Prometheus
5 18 (9.94%) Grafana
6 15 (8.29%) Argo
7 4 (2.21%) logstash
8 3 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.66%) Nagios
8 3 (1.66%) SCCM
9 2 (1.10%) Puppet
10 1 (0.55%) Cilium
10 1 (0.55%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.29%) Google
3 11 (6.08%) VMware
4 10 (5.52%) Zscaler
5 7 (3.87%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.31%) Oracle
6 6 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.76%) Splunk
8 4 (2.21%) Cisco
8 4 (2.21%) Commvault
8 4 (2.21%) Pure Storage
8 4 (2.21%) SAP
9 3 (1.66%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.66%) Okta
9 3 (1.66%) OneLogin
10 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.10%) Pega
11 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.55%) Rackspace
11 1 (0.55%) Rapid7