DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 186 109
Rank change year-on-year -47 -77 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 166 277 497
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 1.75% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.89% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 138 210 448
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,563 £80,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 12,453 14,685 16,817
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.97% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,230 8,588 13,582
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +48 44 £70,000 -28.21% 63
South London - 4 £70,000 - 4
West London -1 1 £120,000 +140.00% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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.

1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (65.66%) CI/CD
3 103 (62.05%) Terraform
4 84 (50.60%) Kubernetes
5 78 (46.99%) Python
6 77 (46.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (45.18%) Azure
8 62 (37.35%) AWS
9 58 (34.94%) GitHub
10 56 (33.73%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (30.72%) Docker
12 48 (28.92%) Bash
13 47 (28.31%) Linux
14 46 (27.71%) PowerShell
15 40 (24.10%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (22.89%) Ansible
17 37 (22.29%) Containerisation
18 34 (20.48%) Jenkins
18 34 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (19.88%) Prometheus
20 30 (18.07%) Agile
21 27 (16.27%) Git
22 26 (15.66%) AI
23 24 (14.46%) Windows
24 23 (13.86%) Grafana
24 23 (13.86%) Microsoft
25 22 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
25 22 (13.25%) SQL
26 21 (12.65%) Observability
26 21 (12.65%) Security Cleared

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 (2.41%) IIS
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.60%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) JBoss
2 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (45.18%) Azure
2 62 (37.35%) AWS
3 58 (34.94%) GitHub
4 56 (33.73%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (24.10%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (10.24%) GCP
8 14 (8.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (7.83%) Cloud Functions
9 13 (7.83%) Cloud Run
9 13 (7.83%) Datadog
9 13 (7.83%) Google Compute Engine
10 12 (7.23%) Azure AKS
11 10 (6.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (5.42%) Serverless
13 8 (4.82%) Amazon S3
13 8 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.63%) Firewall
2 9 (5.42%) WAN
3 7 (4.22%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.61%) DNS
4 6 (3.61%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (3.61%) LAN
5 4 (2.41%) VPN
6 3 (1.81%) DHCP
6 3 (1.81%) HTTP
7 2 (1.20%) FTP
7 2 (1.20%) SMTP
7 2 (1.20%) SSH
7 2 (1.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.65%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.83%) BigQuery
3 10 (6.02%) Flink
3 10 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.41%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.41%) MySQL
6 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.81%) GIS
6 3 (1.81%) Power BI
7 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.20%) Redis
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (20.48%) Jenkins
2 27 (16.27%) Git
3 14 (8.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 13 (7.83%) TeamCity
5 10 (6.02%) GitLab
6 8 (4.82%) Bitbucket
7 7 (4.22%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.61%) JIRA
9 5 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.81%) Maven
10 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.20%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.20%) Gradle
11 2 (1.20%) JMeter
11 2 (1.20%) JUnit
11 2 (1.20%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.20%) Subversion
11 2 (1.20%) Vagrant
General
1 61 (36.75%) Finance
2 25 (15.06%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.43%) Banking
4 10 (6.02%) Front Office
5 9 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.61%) Marketing
7 5 (3.01%) Electronics
7 5 (3.01%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.81%) Advertising
8 3 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Aviation
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.84%) .NET
2 14 (8.43%) Kafka
3 12 (7.23%) YAML
4 11 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.82%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.01%) Node.js
6 5 (3.01%) OAuth
7 4 (2.41%) React
8 3 (1.81%) ADO
8 3 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.81%) SAML
9 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.20%) AWS SAM
9 2 (1.20%) JWT
9 2 (1.20%) LAMP
9 2 (1.20%) OpenID
9 2 (1.20%) pytest
10 1 (0.60%) Middleware
10 1 (0.60%) Semantic Kernel
10 1 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (7.23%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.02%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.61%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.81%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Web3
8 2 (1.20%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) PKI
9 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (28.31%) Linux
2 24 (14.46%) Windows
3 9 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.82%) VMS
5 2 (1.20%) CentOS
5 2 (1.20%) Unix
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.60%) Debian
6 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (65.66%) CI/CD
3 77 (46.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (22.29%) Containerisation
5 34 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (18.07%) Agile
7 26 (15.66%) AI
8 21 (12.65%) Observability
9 19 (11.45%) Software Delivery
10 18 (10.84%) Cloud Security
10 18 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (10.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (9.64%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (7.83%) High Availability
14 13 (7.83%) Investment Management
14 13 (7.83%) Root Cause Analysis
15 12 (7.23%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (7.23%) Mentoring
15 12 (7.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (46.99%) Python
2 48 (28.92%) Bash
3 46 (27.71%) PowerShell
4 22 (13.25%) SQL
5 17 (10.24%) Java
6 11 (6.63%) Bicep
7 9 (5.42%) C#
8 8 (4.82%) Go
9 7 (4.22%) Groovy
10 6 (3.61%) Ruby
10 6 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.41%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.81%) C++
12 3 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 2 (1.20%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.60%) C
14 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.63%) Azure Certification
3 10 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.22%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.41%) Degree
6 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.83%) GDPR
2 8 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (4.82%) QA
3 7 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.81%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (30.72%) Docker
2 13 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.61%) NFS
4 6 (3.61%) vSphere
5 3 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (62.05%) Terraform
2 84 (50.60%) Kubernetes
3 38 (22.89%) Ansible
4 33 (19.88%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.86%) Grafana
6 15 (9.04%) Argo
7 4 (2.41%) logstash
8 3 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.81%) Nagios
8 3 (1.81%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.81%) SCCM
9 2 (1.20%) Puppet
10 1 (0.60%) Cilium
10 1 (0.60%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.60%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.83%) Google
3 12 (7.23%) VMware
4 9 (5.42%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.61%) Cisco
5 6 (3.61%) Commvault
5 6 (3.61%) Pure Storage
5 6 (3.61%) Splunk
5 6 (3.61%) Zscaler
6 5 (3.01%) Oracle
6 5 (3.01%) SAP
7 3 (1.81%) Okta
7 3 (1.81%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.81%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.20%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.20%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.60%) Rapid7