DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 195 94
Rank change year-on-year +15 -101 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 260 373 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.04% 1.58% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 1.68% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 211 299 976
10th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £81,875 £63,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £84,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +1.82% +3.13%
75th Percentile £127,500 £105,000 £99,625
90th Percentile £138,750 £117,500 £119,375
England median annual salary £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,491 22,247 33,558
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.13% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,485 16,728 24,644
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,097 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 2025. 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 +1 37 £82,500 -8.33% 13
South London +10 5 - - 3
East London -11 3 £100,000 +73.91% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 260 (100.00%) DevOps
2 221 (85.00%) CI/CD
3 204 (78.46%) Terraform
4 202 (77.69%) AWS
5 196 (75.38%) Python
6 195 (75.00%) Kubernetes
7 183 (70.38%) Docker
8 162 (62.31%) Finance
9 143 (55.00%) Agile
10 126 (48.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 115 (44.23%) Serverless
12 114 (43.85%) Amazon ECS
13 111 (42.69%) AWS Lambda
13 111 (42.69%) Software Engineering
14 109 (41.92%) Front Office
15 107 (41.15%) Asset Management
16 103 (39.62%) Java
17 92 (35.38%) Go
18 87 (33.46%) Kafka
19 86 (33.08%) OpenShift
19 86 (33.08%) Open Source
20 83 (31.92%) Artifactory
20 83 (31.92%) Data Engineering
21 79 (30.38%) J2EE
22 77 (29.62%) Apache
23 73 (28.08%) Apache Spark
23 73 (28.08%) Amazon Athena
23 73 (28.08%) PySpark
23 73 (28.08%) Apache Airflow
23 73 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (29.62%) Apache
2 73 (28.08%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (28.08%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.08%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) Jetty
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 202 (77.69%) AWS
2 115 (44.23%) Serverless
3 114 (43.85%) Amazon ECS
4 111 (42.69%) AWS Lambda
5 86 (33.08%) OpenShift
6 73 (28.08%) dbt
7 72 (27.69%) Azure
8 42 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (15.77%) GitHub
10 40 (15.38%) Amazon S3
11 38 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (12.69%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (12.31%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (11.54%) GCP
15 26 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (5.38%) Datadog
18 12 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 11 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
19 11 (4.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) Firewall
2 5 (1.92%) SSL
3 4 (1.54%) Network Security
4 3 (1.15%) DNS
5 2 (0.77%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.38%) SAN
6 1 (0.38%) SSH
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (28.08%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (28.08%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (28.08%) Dremio
2 71 (27.31%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (27.31%) Apache Ignite
3 36 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (12.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.69%) MySQL
7 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.54%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.15%) Redis
10 2 (0.77%) Big Data
10 2 (0.77%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.38%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 83 (31.92%) Artifactory
2 43 (16.54%) Jenkins
3 30 (11.54%) GitLab
4 17 (6.54%) SonarQube
5 15 (5.77%) Git
6 14 (5.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (5.00%) JIRA
8 9 (3.46%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.54%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.54%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.15%) AppScan
10 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.77%) Maven
11 2 (0.77%) Selenium
12 1 (0.38%) Ant
12 1 (0.38%) JMeter
12 1 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 162 (62.31%) Finance
2 109 (41.92%) Front Office
3 45 (17.31%) Banking
4 36 (13.85%) Social Skills
5 6 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (1.92%) Back Office
7 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.15%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Automotive
8 2 (0.77%) Games
9 1 (0.38%) Advertising
9 1 (0.38%) Electronics
9 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Marketing
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (33.46%) Kafka
2 79 (30.38%) J2EE
3 73 (28.08%) PySpark
4 12 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (4.62%) React
4 12 (4.62%) REST
4 12 (4.62%) YAML
5 4 (1.54%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (1.15%) .NET
6 3 (1.15%) Middleware
6 3 (1.15%) Node.js
7 2 (0.77%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.77%) AWS SAM
7 2 (0.77%) Loki
7 2 (0.77%) pytest
7 2 (0.77%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.38%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.38%) Dask
8 1 (0.38%) Next.js
8 1 (0.38%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.46%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.08%) Tandem
5 7 (2.69%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.38%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.38%) Eurex
8 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.38%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.38%) Replication
8 1 (0.38%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.08%) Linux
2 15 (5.77%) Windows
3 9 (3.46%) Unix
4 7 (2.69%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.31%) CentOS
6 4 (1.54%) Debian
6 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.54%) VMS
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (100.00%) DevOps
2 221 (85.00%) CI/CD
3 143 (55.00%) Agile
4 126 (48.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 111 (42.69%) Software Engineering
6 107 (41.15%) Asset Management
7 86 (33.08%) Open Source
8 83 (31.92%) Data Engineering
9 73 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (19.23%) Containerisation
11 42 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (15.00%) Fintech
13 31 (11.92%) Deployment Automation
14 22 (8.46%) Release Management
15 21 (8.08%) DevSecOps
16 19 (7.31%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (6.92%) Software Delivery
18 16 (6.15%) Configuration Management
18 16 (6.15%) Migration
18 16 (6.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 196 (75.38%) Python
2 103 (39.62%) Java
3 92 (35.38%) Go
4 37 (14.23%) Bash
5 31 (11.92%) JavaScript
6 27 (10.38%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.23%) Bicep
8 10 (3.85%) SQL
9 8 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.69%) Ruby
11 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.15%) C#
13 2 (0.77%) Groovy
13 2 (0.77%) PHP
13 2 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.31%) Degree
4 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (1.15%) CCSP
5 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.15%) CISSP
5 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) PhD
7 1 (0.38%) RHCE
7 1 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.69%) QA
2 5 (1.92%) GDPR
3 4 (1.54%) FINRA
3 4 (1.54%) SLA
4 3 (1.15%) NIST
4 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 183 (70.38%) Docker
2 13 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 204 (78.46%) Terraform
2 195 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 67 (25.77%) Ansible
4 25 (9.62%) Progress Chef
5 20 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.69%) Puppet
6 15 (5.77%) Grafana
7 11 (4.23%) Podman
8 9 (3.46%) Istio
9 6 (2.31%) Nagios
10 5 (1.92%) Argo
10 5 (1.92%) Nessus
11 4 (1.54%) Proxmox
12 3 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.15%) CASB
12 3 (1.15%) Kibana
12 3 (1.15%) linkerd
13 2 (0.77%) Packer
14 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.23%) Databricks
2 11 (4.23%) Splunk
3 8 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.31%) Confluent
5 5 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.92%) VMware
6 4 (1.54%) Google
6 4 (1.54%) Juniper
6 4 (1.54%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.77%) Commvault
8 2 (0.77%) Cribl.io
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle
8 2 (0.77%) SAP
8 2 (0.77%) Snow
9 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.38%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.38%) Okta
9 1 (0.38%) YouTube