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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 179 198
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 225 258 368
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 2.04% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 2.26% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 182 208 293
10th Percentile £57,750 £69,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £81,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £81,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.85% +16.07% -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 18,771 11,430 22,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.28% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,759 7,434 16,662
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,400 £53,818
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.37% -11.48%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +27 69 £90,000 +9.09% 14
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 225 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (49.78%) Terraform
3 104 (46.22%) CI/CD
4 103 (45.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 102 (45.33%) Azure
6 90 (40.00%) Kubernetes
7 80 (35.56%) AWS
8 74 (32.89%) Python
9 59 (26.22%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (24.00%) Docker
11 50 (22.22%) Linux
12 46 (20.44%) Ansible
12 46 (20.44%) Containerisation
13 40 (17.78%) GitHub
14 39 (17.33%) Bash
14 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
15 36 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (16.00%) High Availability
15 36 (16.00%) Jenkins
16 35 (15.56%) GCP
17 32 (14.22%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (12.89%) Platform Engineering
19 27 (12.00%) PowerShell
19 27 (12.00%) Prometheus
19 27 (12.00%) SQL
20 25 (11.11%) AI
20 25 (11.11%) Datadog
20 25 (11.11%) Kafka
20 25 (11.11%) SC Cleared
21 24 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.89%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (45.33%) Azure
2 80 (35.56%) AWS
3 59 (26.22%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (17.78%) GitHub
5 36 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (15.56%) GCP
7 32 (14.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (11.11%) Datadog
9 22 (9.78%) Serverless
10 21 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (8.00%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.33%) SaaS
14 11 (4.89%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.44%) Entra ID
16 9 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 9 (4.00%) OpenShift
17 8 (3.56%) Cloud Functions
17 8 (3.56%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.22%) Firewall
2 9 (4.00%) VPN
3 8 (3.56%) WAN
4 6 (2.67%) DHCP
4 6 (2.67%) DNS
5 4 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.56%) BigQuery
3 8 (3.56%) MySQL
4 7 (3.11%) Flink
5 6 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.67%) Git
2 24 (10.67%) GitLab
3 11 (4.89%) CircleCI
4 8 (3.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.56%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.67%) Maven
6 5 (2.22%) Gradle
7 4 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.89%) git-flow
8 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.89%) Subversion
9 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (32.44%) Finance
2 37 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.67%) Banking
4 10 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.11%) Front Office
6 5 (2.22%) Retail
7 4 (1.78%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.78%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.78%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.33%) Electronics
8 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.33%) Marketing
9 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.11%) Kafka
2 21 (9.33%) YAML
3 14 (6.22%) ADO
3 14 (6.22%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.44%) .NET
5 8 (3.56%) JSON
5 8 (3.56%) OAuth
5 8 (3.56%) SAML
6 4 (1.78%) React
6 4 (1.78%) web3js
7 2 (0.89%) LAMP
7 2 (0.89%) OpenID
8 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.44%) AWS SAM
8 1 (0.44%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.44%) Loki
8 1 (0.44%) Next.js
8 1 (0.44%) Node.js
8 1 (0.44%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.44%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.78%) Cloud Native
1 13 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (3.11%) Hedge funds
2 7 (3.11%) Web3
3 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.67%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.78%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.33%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.89%) PKI
7 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.22%) Linux
2 20 (8.89%) Windows
3 15 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.44%) VMS
5 9 (4.00%) CentOS
6 5 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.78%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (46.22%) CI/CD
3 103 (45.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (20.44%) Containerisation
5 36 (16.00%) High Availability
6 29 (12.89%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (11.11%) AI
8 24 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (10.67%) Observability
9 22 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (8.44%) Analytics
11 19 (8.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (8.00%) Agile
12 18 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (8.00%) Identity Management
12 18 (8.00%) Software Engineering
13 17 (7.56%) Incident Management
13 17 (7.56%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (32.89%) Python
2 39 (17.33%) Bash
3 27 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 27 (12.00%) SQL
4 23 (10.22%) Go
5 15 (6.67%) Java
6 10 (4.44%) Bicep
7 8 (3.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.78%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.22%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.67%) Degree
6 4 (1.78%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) GDPR
2 17 (7.56%) SOC 2
3 13 (5.78%) QA
4 10 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 54 (24.00%) Docker
2 19 (8.44%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 112 (49.78%) Terraform
2 90 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 46 (20.44%) Ansible
4 27 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.67%) Grafana
6 15 (6.67%) Argo
7 9 (4.00%) Istio
8 8 (3.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.11%) Nagios
10 4 (1.78%) logstash
11 2 (0.89%) Kibana
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.89%) Puppet
11 2 (0.89%) Rancher
11 2 (0.89%) SCCM
12 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.44%) Zscaler
3 8 (3.56%) Confluent
3 8 (3.56%) Google
3 8 (3.56%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.56%) Splunk
4 7 (3.11%) Okta
5 6 (2.67%) OneLogin
5 6 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.67%) VMware
6 5 (2.22%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.78%) SAP
8 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.89%) Commvault
9 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle
9 2 (0.89%) Pega
10 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.44%) Cognizant