DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 219 242
Rank change year-on-year -20 +23 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 220 168 250
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.42% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.56% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 164 112 161
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £62,500 £62,826
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -9.33%

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 23,764 10,793 18,210
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.08% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,189 7,020 11,308
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%

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 September 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 September 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 -10 29 £100,000 +35.59% 35
South London +1 3 £80,000 - 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 220 (100.00%) DevOps
2 123 (55.91%) CI/CD
3 117 (53.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (46.82%) Terraform
5 96 (43.64%) Azure
6 95 (43.18%) AWS
7 73 (33.18%) Security Cleared
8 68 (30.91%) Kubernetes
9 65 (29.55%) SC Cleared
10 60 (27.27%) Python
11 57 (25.91%) Azure DevOps
12 50 (22.73%) Linux
13 49 (22.27%) Docker
14 45 (20.45%) Git
15 43 (19.55%) Jenkins
16 42 (19.09%) Platform Engineering
17 39 (17.73%) Bash
18 38 (17.27%) Agile
18 38 (17.27%) Ansible
18 38 (17.27%) Observability
19 36 (16.36%) GitHub
20 35 (15.91%) Containerisation
20 35 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
21 33 (15.00%) Grafana
22 31 (14.09%) GitLab
22 31 (14.09%) Serverless
23 30 (13.64%) PowerShell
24 29 (13.18%) AWS CloudFormation
25 28 (12.73%) Deployment Automation
25 28 (12.73%) YAML

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 (1.82%) SAS
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 96 (43.64%) Azure
2 95 (43.18%) AWS
3 57 (25.91%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (16.36%) GitHub
5 31 (14.09%) Serverless
6 29 (13.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (11.82%) GCP
8 22 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (5.91%) SaaS
12 12 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (5.45%) Datadog
13 11 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.55%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (4.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 7 (3.18%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.64%) Firewall
2 4 (1.82%) DNS
2 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.82%) NAS
2 4 (1.82%) SSH
3 3 (1.36%) DHCP
3 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.91%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) Internet
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.55%) Redis
4 9 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.18%) MySQL
6 6 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.45%) Big Data
9 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (20.45%) Git
2 43 (19.55%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.09%) GitLab
4 10 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.82%) Gradle
5 4 (1.82%) JIRA
5 4 (1.82%) Maven
6 3 (1.36%) Snyk
6 3 (1.36%) Subversion
7 2 (0.91%) MLflow
8 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.18%) Finance
3 14 (6.36%) Banking
4 11 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.82%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.36%) Retail
9 2 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.45%) Aviation
10 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (46.82%) Terraform
2 28 (12.73%) YAML
3 14 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.91%) ADO
5 11 (5.00%) JSON
6 10 (4.55%) Kafka
7 9 (4.09%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.73%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.27%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.82%) Node.js
10 4 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.91%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.91%) OpenTofu
11 2 (0.91%) web3js
12 1 (0.45%) .NET
12 1 (0.45%) React
12 1 (0.45%) REST
12 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.09%) Replication
3 7 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.91%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.91%) Web3
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.73%) Linux
2 15 (6.82%) CentOS
3 14 (6.36%) Windows
4 11 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.55%) VMS
6 8 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.82%) Unix
9 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (100.00%) DevOps
2 123 (55.91%) CI/CD
3 117 (53.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (19.09%) Platform Engineering
5 38 (17.27%) Agile
5 38 (17.27%) Observability
6 35 (15.91%) Containerisation
6 35 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
7 28 (12.73%) Deployment Automation
8 26 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 22 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 21 (9.55%) AI
12 21 (9.55%) Cloud Security
13 20 (9.09%) Analytics
13 20 (9.09%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.64%) High Availability
15 18 (8.18%) Roadmaps
16 17 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (27.27%) Python
2 39 (17.73%) Bash
3 30 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.91%) SQL
5 10 (4.55%) Groovy
6 5 (2.27%) C#
6 5 (2.27%) Go
6 5 (2.27%) Java
6 5 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.82%) Bicep
8 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.45%) C++
9 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (33.18%) Security Cleared
2 65 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.82%) Degree
6 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.91%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.18%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (22.27%) Docker
2 14 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (30.91%) Kubernetes
2 38 (17.27%) Ansible
3 33 (15.00%) Grafana
4 24 (10.91%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.45%) Argo
5 12 (5.45%) Rancher
6 8 (3.64%) Nagios
7 5 (2.27%) Puppet
8 4 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.91%) Kibana
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.09%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.09%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.64%) Splunk
4 7 (3.18%) Rapid7
4 7 (3.18%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.27%) Google
6 5 (2.27%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.82%) New Relic
7 4 (1.82%) Okta
8 3 (1.36%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.91%) Databricks
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle
9 2 (0.91%) SAP
9 2 (0.91%) VMware
10 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.45%) Commvault