DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 221 92
Rank change year-on-year +37 -129 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 245 337 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.89% 1.38% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.47% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 157 250 872
10th Percentile £61,500 £54,875 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £112,729 £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

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 11,829 22,970 28,692
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 94.38% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7,168 16,861 21,759
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,283 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,875 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +26 51 £77,500 -13.89% 63
South London -2 11 - - 2
West London +14 5 - - 14
East London -21 5 £96,250 +67.39% 27
North London - 4 - -
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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.

1 245 (100.00%) DevOps
2 174 (71.02%) AWS
3 165 (67.35%) CI/CD
4 163 (66.53%) Terraform
5 151 (61.63%) Python
6 129 (52.65%) Kubernetes
7 115 (46.94%) Docker
8 105 (42.86%) Finance
9 94 (38.37%) Agile
10 76 (31.02%) Serverless
11 73 (29.80%) AWS Lambda
12 72 (29.39%) Azure
13 69 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 68 (27.76%) Java
15 65 (26.53%) Go
16 62 (25.31%) Software Engineering
16 62 (25.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 61 (24.90%) Containerisation
18 59 (24.08%) Ansible
19 58 (23.67%) Amazon ECS
20 54 (22.04%) Kafka
21 53 (21.63%) Social Skills
21 53 (21.63%) Data Engineering
22 50 (20.41%) OpenShift
23 49 (20.00%) Open Source
24 47 (19.18%) Artifactory
24 47 (19.18%) Apache
25 44 (17.96%) Apache Spark
25 44 (17.96%) PySpark
26 43 (17.55%) Azure DevOps

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 47 (19.18%) Apache
2 44 (17.96%) Apache Spark
3 42 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.82%) JBoss
5 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) Drupal
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 174 (71.02%) AWS
2 76 (31.02%) Serverless
3 73 (29.80%) AWS Lambda
4 72 (29.39%) Azure
5 58 (23.67%) Amazon ECS
6 50 (20.41%) OpenShift
7 43 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (17.14%) dbt
8 42 (17.14%) GitHub
9 31 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
9 31 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.53%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.31%) GCP
12 12 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (4.49%) Datadog
14 10 (4.08%) Azure AKS
15 8 (3.27%) Kong
15 8 (3.27%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.02%) SSL
2 23 (9.39%) SSH
3 22 (8.98%) Broadband
4 13 (5.31%) Firewall
5 4 (1.63%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (1.63%) LAN
5 4 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.63%) WAN
6 2 (0.82%) DNS
7 1 (0.41%) DHCP
7 1 (0.41%) HTTP
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.41%) SAN
7 1 (0.41%) VLAN
7 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.14%) Amazon Athena
1 42 (17.14%) Apache Arrow
1 42 (17.14%) Apache Iceberg
1 42 (17.14%) Apache Ignite
1 42 (17.14%) Dremio
2 7 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.63%) KDB
3 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.82%) Big Data
5 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.82%) MySQL
5 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.41%) DB2
6 1 (0.41%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.41%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 47 (19.18%) Artifactory
2 31 (12.65%) GitLab
3 29 (11.84%) Jenkins
4 24 (9.80%) SonarQube
5 20 (8.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 17 (6.94%) Git
7 11 (4.49%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.67%) JIRA
9 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.63%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.22%) Maven
11 2 (0.82%) Ant
11 2 (0.82%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.41%) Locust
12 1 (0.41%) Postman
12 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.41%) TestRail
12 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (42.86%) Finance
2 53 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.55%) Front Office
4 33 (13.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (10.20%) Banking
6 18 (7.35%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.90%) Law
8 3 (1.22%) Games
8 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Electronics
9 2 (0.82%) Marketing
9 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Automotive
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.04%) Kafka
2 44 (17.96%) PySpark
3 42 (17.14%) J2EE
4 31 (12.65%) RESTful
5 22 (8.98%) Web Services
6 19 (7.76%) React
7 16 (6.53%) REST
8 13 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.67%) .NET
10 8 (3.27%) OpenAPI
10 8 (3.27%) Swagger
10 8 (3.27%) YAML
11 4 (1.63%) Middleware
11 4 (1.63%) Node.js
12 2 (0.82%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.82%) Loki
12 2 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
13 1 (0.41%) boto
13 1 (0.41%) Next.js
13 1 (0.41%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.88%) Management Information System
3 23 (9.39%) Onboarding
4 22 (8.98%) Cyber Threat
4 22 (8.98%) Cyberattack
4 22 (8.98%) PKI
5 15 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (5.71%) e-Learning
7 5 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.63%) Equities
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.41%) Replication
10 1 (0.41%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.51%) Linux
2 16 (6.53%) Windows
3 10 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.27%) Unix
5 6 (2.45%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.63%) Debian
7 2 (0.82%) CentOS
7 2 (0.82%) VMS
7 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Android
8 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (100.00%) DevOps
2 165 (67.35%) CI/CD
3 94 (38.37%) Agile
4 69 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (25.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 62 (25.31%) Software Engineering
6 61 (24.90%) Containerisation
7 53 (21.63%) Data Engineering
8 49 (20.00%) Open Source
9 43 (17.55%) Asset Management
10 38 (15.51%) Platform Engineering
11 36 (14.69%) Roadmaps
12 34 (13.88%) Deployment Automation
13 30 (12.24%) Machine Learning
14 28 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
14 28 (11.43%) Release Management
15 27 (11.02%) Observability
16 26 (10.61%) Key Management
17 24 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
18 23 (9.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 151 (61.63%) Python
2 68 (27.76%) Java
3 65 (26.53%) Go
4 38 (15.51%) Bash
5 27 (11.02%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.27%) Lua
7 7 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.45%) SQL
9 5 (2.04%) Ruby
9 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.63%) Bicep
10 4 (1.63%) C#
10 4 (1.63%) Groovy
11 3 (1.22%) PHP
12 1 (0.41%) C++
12 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.04%) Degree
4 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) PhD
7 1 (0.41%) RHCE
7 1 (0.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (8.98%) NIST
3 5 (2.04%) QA
4 4 (1.63%) SLA
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 115 (46.94%) Docker
2 36 (14.69%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.63%) NFS
4 4 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 163 (66.53%) Terraform
2 129 (52.65%) Kubernetes
3 59 (24.08%) Ansible
4 23 (9.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.31%) Grafana
6 10 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.67%) Puppet
8 6 (2.45%) Istio
9 5 (2.04%) Nessus
9 5 (2.04%) Podman
10 4 (1.63%) Kibana
10 4 (1.63%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.22%) Argo
11 3 (1.22%) Nagios
12 1 (0.41%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.41%) logstash
12 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (9.39%) Red Hat
2 22 (8.98%) Thales
3 15 (6.12%) IBM
3 15 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.90%) Databricks
5 8 (3.27%) MKS
5 8 (3.27%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.27%) VMware
6 7 (2.86%) Commvault
7 6 (2.45%) Confluent
8 5 (2.04%) Splunk
9 4 (1.63%) Cisco
9 4 (1.63%) Juniper
9 4 (1.63%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.22%) SAP
11 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle
11 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.41%) Imperva
12 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow