DevOps Engineer Job Trends 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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 198 230
Rank change year-on-year -14 +32 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 221 214 319
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.99% 1.73% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.89% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 168 147 231
10th Percentile £55,250 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £127,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 20,816 11,326 21,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.55% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,354 7,351 15,411
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -13 48 £90,000 +16.13% 10
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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.

1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 119 (53.85%) Azure
3 111 (50.23%) CI/CD
4 109 (49.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 101 (45.70%) Terraform
6 98 (44.34%) AWS
7 78 (35.29%) Kubernetes
8 71 (32.13%) Python
9 61 (27.60%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (25.34%) Security Cleared
11 51 (23.08%) Linux
11 51 (23.08%) SC Cleared
12 49 (22.17%) Containerisation
12 49 (22.17%) Docker
13 46 (20.81%) Ansible
14 42 (19.00%) Jenkins
15 39 (17.65%) Bash
16 38 (17.19%) GitLab
17 37 (16.74%) GCP
18 36 (16.29%) AWS CloudFormation
19 32 (14.48%) Git
19 32 (14.48%) Grafana
20 31 (14.03%) YAML
21 29 (13.12%) Serverless
22 28 (12.67%) High Availability
23 27 (12.22%) PowerShell
24 26 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
24 26 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
25 25 (11.31%) Prometheus
26 24 (10.86%) Platform Engineering

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 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.81%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 119 (53.85%) Azure
2 98 (44.34%) AWS
3 61 (27.60%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (16.74%) GCP
5 36 (16.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (13.12%) Serverless
7 23 (10.41%) GitHub
8 21 (9.50%) Datadog
9 17 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (7.24%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.43%) Azure AKS
13 12 (5.43%) OpenShift
14 10 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (4.07%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (4.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.98%) Firewall
2 4 (1.81%) DHCP
2 4 (1.81%) DNS
2 4 (1.81%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.81%) NAS
2 4 (1.81%) SSH
2 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.36%) Network Security
3 3 (1.36%) VPN
4 2 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (4.07%) MySQL
3 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.36%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
8 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 38 (17.19%) GitLab
3 32 (14.48%) Git
4 11 (4.98%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.71%) Maven
7 5 (2.26%) Gradle
8 4 (1.81%) JIRA
9 3 (1.36%) Subversion
10 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.90%) git-flow
10 2 (0.90%) MLflow
11 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.74%) Finance
3 29 (13.12%) Banking
4 9 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.26%) Retail
6 4 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.81%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.81%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Advertising
8 1 (0.45%) Aviation
8 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.03%) YAML
2 17 (7.69%) Kafka
3 16 (7.24%) ADO
4 13 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.43%) JSON
6 5 (2.26%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.81%) web3js
8 3 (1.36%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.90%) OAuth
9 2 (0.90%) SAML
10 1 (0.45%) .NET
10 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.45%) Node.js
10 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.81%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.81%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.81%) Web3
6 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.08%) Linux
2 19 (8.60%) Windows
3 17 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.79%) CentOS
5 12 (5.43%) VMS
6 8 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (50.23%) CI/CD
3 109 (49.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (22.17%) Containerisation
5 28 (12.67%) High Availability
6 26 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
6 26 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (10.86%) Software Engineering
8 23 (10.41%) Analytics
9 22 (9.95%) Infrastructure Automation
10 21 (9.50%) Observability
11 20 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (8.60%) Agile
12 19 (8.60%) Incident Management
13 18 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (8.14%) Mentoring
14 17 (7.69%) Fintech
14 17 (7.69%) Microservices
14 17 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (32.13%) Python
2 39 (17.65%) Bash
3 27 (12.22%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.41%) SQL
5 20 (9.05%) Go
6 8 (3.62%) Java
7 5 (2.26%) C#
8 4 (1.81%) Bicep
8 4 (1.81%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 51 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.79%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Degree
6 4 (1.81%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.14%) QA
2 11 (4.98%) GDPR
2 11 (4.98%) SOC 2
3 9 (4.07%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (22.17%) Docker
2 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (45.70%) Terraform
2 78 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 46 (20.81%) Ansible
4 32 (14.48%) Grafana
5 25 (11.31%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.88%) Argo
7 11 (4.98%) Nagios
8 9 (4.07%) Istio
9 7 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.36%) Kibana
10 3 (1.36%) Puppet
10 3 (1.36%) Rancher
11 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 20 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.98%) Splunk
3 9 (4.07%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.62%) Confluent
4 8 (3.62%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.26%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.26%) Okta
7 4 (1.81%) New Relic
7 4 (1.81%) OneLogin
7 4 (1.81%) VMware
8 3 (1.36%) Commvault
9 2 (0.90%) Databricks
9 2 (0.90%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.90%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.45%) Google
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle
10 1 (0.45%) SAP