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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 170 200
Rank change year-on-year -36 +30 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 215 266 375
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 2.07% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 2.28% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 179 217 312
10th Percentile £56,250 £71,250 £55,251
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% +4.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 17,979 11,660 21,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 90.54% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 12,087 7,584 16,649
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.49%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +34 66 £85,000 +3.03% 10
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 215 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (50.23%) Terraform
3 102 (47.44%) CI/CD
4 97 (45.12%) Azure
4 97 (45.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (44.19%) Kubernetes
6 82 (38.14%) AWS
7 75 (34.88%) Python
8 59 (27.44%) Docker
9 53 (24.65%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (22.33%) Ansible
10 48 (22.33%) Linux
11 47 (21.86%) Containerisation
12 42 (19.53%) Bash
12 42 (19.53%) GitHub
13 36 (16.74%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (16.28%) GCP
14 35 (16.28%) High Availability
14 35 (16.28%) Security Cleared
15 33 (15.35%) Jenkins
16 31 (14.42%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
18 28 (13.02%) Prometheus
19 27 (12.56%) PowerShell
20 26 (12.09%) AI
20 26 (12.09%) Kafka
20 26 (12.09%) Observability
20 26 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
20 26 (12.09%) SQL
21 25 (11.63%) Amazon EKS

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 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.40%) IIS
3 2 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (45.12%) Azure
2 82 (38.14%) AWS
3 53 (24.65%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (19.53%) GitHub
5 36 (16.74%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (16.28%) GCP
7 31 (14.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (11.63%) Datadog
9 18 (8.37%) Azure AKS
9 18 (8.37%) Serverless
10 10 (4.65%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.19%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.19%) Cloud Functions
11 9 (4.19%) Cloud Run
11 9 (4.19%) Google Compute Engine
12 8 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.51%) Firewall
2 8 (3.72%) VPN
2 8 (3.72%) WAN
3 6 (2.79%) DHCP
3 6 (2.79%) DNS
4 4 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.19%) BigQuery
2 9 (4.19%) Flink
2 9 (4.19%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.72%) MySQL
4 6 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.86%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (15.35%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.70%) GitLab
3 19 (8.84%) Git
4 11 (5.12%) CircleCI
5 10 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (3.72%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.86%) Maven
9 3 (1.40%) Gradle
9 3 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.93%) git-flow
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
10 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.93%) Subversion
10 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (36.74%) Finance
2 34 (15.81%) Banking
3 33 (15.35%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.19%) Front Office
6 5 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.86%) Electronics
7 4 (1.86%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.86%) Marketing
7 4 (1.86%) Retail
8 3 (1.40%) Advertising
8 3 (1.40%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.09%) Kafka
2 16 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (6.51%) YAML
4 12 (5.58%) ADO
5 10 (4.65%) .NET
5 10 (4.65%) OAuth
6 8 (3.72%) SAML
7 4 (1.86%) React
7 4 (1.86%) web3js
8 3 (1.40%) JSON
8 3 (1.40%) Node.js
9 2 (0.93%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.93%) JWT
9 2 (0.93%) LAMP
9 2 (0.93%) OpenID
9 2 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.47%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.47%) Next.js
10 1 (0.47%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.26%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.26%) Web3
4 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.79%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.86%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.86%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.93%) PKI
8 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (22.33%) Linux
2 23 (10.70%) Windows
3 17 (7.91%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.72%) CentOS
4 8 (3.72%) VMS
5 5 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.93%) Unix
7 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (47.44%) CI/CD
3 97 (45.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (21.86%) Containerisation
5 35 (16.28%) High Availability
6 30 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (12.09%) AI
7 26 (12.09%) Observability
7 26 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (10.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (9.77%) Agile
10 21 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (8.84%) Analytics
11 19 (8.84%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (8.84%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (8.37%) Identity Management
13 17 (7.91%) Incident Management
13 17 (7.91%) Infrastructure Management
14 16 (7.44%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 75 (34.88%) Python
2 42 (19.53%) Bash
3 27 (12.56%) PowerShell
4 26 (12.09%) SQL
5 24 (11.16%) Go
6 17 (7.91%) Java
7 9 (4.19%) Bicep
8 8 (3.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.86%) C#
10 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.47%) Groovy
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.51%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.58%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.26%) Degree
6 4 (1.86%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.84%) GDPR
2 17 (7.91%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.65%) QA
5 9 (4.19%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (27.44%) Docker
2 18 (8.37%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (50.23%) Terraform
2 95 (44.19%) Kubernetes
3 48 (22.33%) Ansible
4 28 (13.02%) Prometheus
5 23 (10.70%) Grafana
6 18 (8.37%) Argo
7 9 (4.19%) Istio
8 8 (3.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (2.79%) Nagios
10 4 (1.86%) logstash
11 2 (0.93%) Kibana
11 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.93%) Puppet
11 2 (0.93%) Rancher
11 2 (0.93%) SCCM
12 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.65%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.19%) Google
4 8 (3.72%) Confluent
4 8 (3.72%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.72%) Splunk
5 6 (2.79%) Okta
5 6 (2.79%) OneLogin
5 6 (2.79%) VMware
6 5 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.86%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.86%) SAP
8 3 (1.40%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Commvault
9 2 (0.93%) Pega
10 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.47%) Salesforce