DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 158 170
Rank change year-on-year -43 +12 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 209 293 406
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 2.28% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 2.51% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 179 236 357
10th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £56,050
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £131,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £121,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -6.45%

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 16,176 11,669 20,924
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 90.79% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,807 7,516 16,460
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +28 62 £72,500 -20.55% 13
South London +30 2 £70,000 - 3
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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.

1 209 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (53.59%) CI/CD
3 109 (52.15%) Terraform
4 104 (49.76%) Azure
5 95 (45.45%) Kubernetes
6 89 (42.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 83 (39.71%) AWS
8 80 (38.28%) Python
9 59 (28.23%) Docker
10 57 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (22.97%) Ansible
12 47 (22.49%) GitHub
12 47 (22.49%) Linux
13 45 (21.53%) Bash
14 43 (20.57%) Containerisation
15 38 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (17.22%) GCP
17 34 (16.27%) PowerShell
18 33 (15.79%) Jenkins
18 33 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (15.79%) SQL
19 31 (14.83%) High Availability
19 31 (14.83%) Prometheus
20 30 (14.35%) AI
21 29 (13.88%) Kafka
22 28 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
22 28 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
22 28 (13.40%) Security Cleared
23 27 (12.92%) Amazon EKS
24 25 (11.96%) Go

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 (1.91%) IIS
2 2 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (49.76%) Azure
2 83 (39.71%) AWS
3 57 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (22.49%) GitHub
5 38 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (17.22%) GCP
7 28 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (12.92%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (11.48%) Datadog
10 19 (9.09%) Azure AKS
11 16 (7.66%) Serverless
12 12 (5.74%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.78%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.78%) Cloud Functions
13 10 (4.78%) Cloud Run
13 10 (4.78%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.26%) Firewall
2 8 (3.83%) VPN
2 8 (3.83%) WAN
3 3 (1.44%) DHCP
3 3 (1.44%) DNS
4 2 (0.96%) Network Security
5 1 (0.48%) SSL
5 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.78%) BigQuery
2 10 (4.78%) Flink
3 9 (4.31%) MySQL
3 9 (4.31%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.44%) GIS
6 3 (1.44%) Power BI
7 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.96%) Redis
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.00%) GitLab
3 17 (8.13%) Git
4 13 (6.22%) Octopus Deploy
4 13 (6.22%) TeamCity
5 12 (5.74%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.26%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.39%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.44%) JMeter
9 3 (1.44%) Maven
9 3 (1.44%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.96%) git-flow
10 2 (0.96%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.96%) JIRA
10 2 (0.96%) JUnit
General
1 79 (37.80%) Finance
2 31 (14.83%) Banking
2 31 (14.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.78%) Front Office
3 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.39%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.91%) Electronics
5 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
5 4 (1.91%) Marketing
6 3 (1.44%) Advertising
6 3 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.44%) Retail
7 2 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.88%) Kafka
2 18 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (6.70%) .NET
3 14 (6.70%) YAML
4 10 (4.78%) OAuth
5 9 (4.31%) ADO
6 8 (3.83%) SAML
7 4 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.91%) React
8 3 (1.44%) Node.js
9 2 (0.96%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.96%) JWT
9 2 (0.96%) LAMP
9 2 (0.96%) OpenID
9 2 (0.96%) pytest
9 2 (0.96%) Semantic Kernel
9 2 (0.96%) web3js
10 1 (0.48%) JSON
10 1 (0.48%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.48%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.70%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (4.31%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.35%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.87%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.39%) Web3
7 4 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.96%) PKI
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 47 (22.49%) Linux
2 21 (10.05%) Windows
3 14 (6.70%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.83%) VMS
5 6 (2.87%) CentOS
6 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.96%) Unix
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.48%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (53.59%) CI/CD
3 89 (42.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (20.57%) Containerisation
5 33 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (14.83%) High Availability
7 30 (14.35%) AI
8 28 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (11.96%) Observability
10 24 (11.48%) Agile
11 22 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (8.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (8.61%) Identity Management
14 17 (8.13%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (8.13%) Infrastructure Management
15 16 (7.66%) Analytics
15 16 (7.66%) Fintech
15 16 (7.66%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 80 (38.28%) Python
2 45 (21.53%) Bash
3 34 (16.27%) PowerShell
4 33 (15.79%) SQL
5 25 (11.96%) Go
6 17 (8.13%) Java
7 8 (3.83%) Bicep
7 8 (3.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.39%) C#
8 5 (2.39%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.44%) Groovy
10 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.70%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.39%) Degree
6 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.96%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.57%) GDPR
2 17 (8.13%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.26%) QA
5 9 (4.31%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (28.23%) Docker
2 16 (7.66%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.66%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (52.15%) Terraform
2 95 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 48 (22.97%) Ansible
4 31 (14.83%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.00%) Grafana
6 17 (8.13%) Argo
7 9 (4.31%) Istio
8 6 (2.87%) Nagios
9 5 (2.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.91%) logstash
11 2 (0.96%) Kibana
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.96%) SCCM
12 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.48%) Puppet
12 1 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.78%) Google
2 10 (4.78%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.31%) Splunk
4 8 (3.83%) Confluent
4 8 (3.83%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.83%) VMware
5 6 (2.87%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.91%) Oracle
6 4 (1.91%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.91%) SAP
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.44%) Okta
7 3 (1.44%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.96%) Commvault
8 2 (0.96%) Pega
9 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce