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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 223 231
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 217 176 255
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 1.47% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.61% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 169 115 161
10th Percentile £49,250 £50,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,625 £63,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £100,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £119,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 22,939 10,933 18,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 91.27% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15,845 7,135 11,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -12 29 £100,000 +29.03% 23
South London +1 3 £80,000 - 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (53.00%) CI/CD
3 110 (50.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (47.00%) Terraform
5 100 (46.08%) AWS
5 100 (46.08%) Azure
6 74 (34.10%) Kubernetes
7 67 (30.88%) Python
7 67 (30.88%) Security Cleared
8 60 (27.65%) SC Cleared
9 55 (25.35%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (24.42%) Docker
11 52 (23.96%) Linux
12 44 (20.28%) Containerisation
13 42 (19.35%) Ansible
13 42 (19.35%) Git
14 39 (17.97%) Jenkins
15 38 (17.51%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (17.05%) Bash
17 34 (15.67%) Agile
18 33 (15.21%) Infrastructure Automation
19 32 (14.75%) GitHub
19 32 (14.75%) GitLab
19 32 (14.75%) Observability
20 31 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
20 31 (14.29%) Grafana
21 29 (13.36%) PowerShell
22 28 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
22 28 (12.90%) GCP
22 28 (12.90%) Serverless

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 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.84%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 100 (46.08%) AWS
1 100 (46.08%) Azure
2 55 (25.35%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (14.75%) GitHub
4 31 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (12.90%) GCP
5 28 (12.90%) Serverless
6 21 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (7.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (7.37%) Datadog
9 14 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (5.99%) SaaS
11 12 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (5.53%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.61%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (4.15%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (4.15%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) Firewall
2 4 (1.84%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.84%) NAS
2 4 (1.84%) SSH
3 3 (1.38%) DHCP
3 3 (1.38%) DNS
3 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
1 12 (5.53%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.15%) MySQL
4 8 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.23%) Redis
6 6 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.46%) Metadata
9 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (19.35%) Git
2 39 (17.97%) Jenkins
3 32 (14.75%) GitLab
4 11 (5.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.30%) Maven
6 4 (1.84%) Gradle
6 4 (1.84%) JIRA
7 3 (1.38%) Subversion
8 2 (0.92%) MLflow
8 2 (0.92%) Snyk
9 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.46%) git-flow
9 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.44%) Finance
3 21 (9.68%) Banking
4 10 (4.61%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.30%) Retail
7 4 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.84%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.84%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.46%) Advertising
8 1 (0.46%) Aviation
8 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Front Office
8 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (47.00%) Terraform
2 28 (12.90%) YAML
3 14 (6.45%) Kafka
4 13 (5.99%) ADO
5 12 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (5.07%) JSON
7 6 (2.76%) Keycloak
8 5 (2.30%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.30%) Pulumi
9 4 (1.84%) Node.js
9 4 (1.84%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.84%) web3js
10 3 (1.38%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.92%) OpenTofu
12 1 (0.46%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.04%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.76%) Replication
4 5 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.84%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.84%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.84%) Web3
6 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.92%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.46%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (23.96%) Linux
2 17 (7.83%) CentOS
2 17 (7.83%) Windows
3 15 (6.91%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.61%) VMS
5 6 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.84%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (53.00%) CI/CD
3 110 (50.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (20.28%) Containerisation
5 38 (17.51%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (15.67%) Agile
7 33 (15.21%) Infrastructure Automation
8 32 (14.75%) Observability
9 28 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
10 26 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (10.14%) High Availability
11 22 (10.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (9.68%) Cloud Security
12 21 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (9.68%) Software Engineering
13 19 (8.76%) Analytics
14 17 (7.83%) Configuration Management
14 17 (7.83%) Test Automation
15 16 (7.37%) AI
16 15 (6.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 67 (30.88%) Python
2 37 (17.05%) Bash
3 29 (13.36%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.45%) SQL
5 13 (5.99%) Go
6 7 (3.23%) Groovy
7 5 (2.30%) Java
8 4 (1.84%) C#
8 4 (1.84%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.38%) Bicep
10 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 67 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 13 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.76%) Degree
6 4 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.84%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.76%) QA
2 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (24.42%) Docker
2 15 (6.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (34.10%) Kubernetes
2 42 (19.35%) Ansible
3 31 (14.29%) Grafana
4 22 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.99%) Argo
6 10 (4.61%) Nagios
7 9 (4.15%) Rancher
8 6 (2.76%) Istio
9 5 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.84%) Puppet
11 2 (0.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.61%) Splunk
3 9 (4.15%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.69%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.76%) Confluent
5 6 (2.76%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.30%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.84%) New Relic
7 4 (1.84%) Okta
8 3 (1.38%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.38%) VMware
9 2 (0.92%) Commvault
9 2 (0.92%) Databricks
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle
9 2 (0.92%) SAP
10 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.46%) Cognizant