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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 189 238
Rank change year-on-year -30 +49 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 223 233 334
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.03% 1.91% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 2.11% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 169 166 250
10th Percentile £57,500 £63,125 £55,126
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,813 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +10.94% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 19,983 11,053 23,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 90.80% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,756 6,999 17,364
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,400 £37,283
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -2 61 £90,000 +16.13% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 223 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (51.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (50.22%) CI/CD
4 111 (49.78%) Azure
5 105 (47.09%) Terraform
6 83 (37.22%) AWS
7 76 (34.08%) Kubernetes
8 68 (30.49%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (29.60%) Python
10 51 (22.87%) Security Cleared
11 47 (21.08%) Linux
12 46 (20.63%) Containerisation
13 44 (19.73%) Docker
14 42 (18.83%) SC Cleared
15 40 (17.94%) Ansible
16 38 (17.04%) Jenkins
17 37 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
18 35 (15.70%) High Availability
19 33 (14.80%) Bash
20 32 (14.35%) GCP
20 32 (14.35%) SQL
20 32 (14.35%) YAML
21 31 (13.90%) PowerShell
22 30 (13.45%) GitLab
23 27 (12.11%) Git
23 27 (12.11%) Grafana
24 26 (11.66%) Analytics
24 26 (11.66%) Prometheus
24 26 (11.66%) Serverless
25 25 (11.21%) 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 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.45%) IIS
2 1 (0.45%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (49.78%) Azure
2 83 (37.22%) AWS
3 68 (30.49%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (14.35%) GCP
6 26 (11.66%) Serverless
7 23 (10.31%) GitHub
8 22 (9.87%) Datadog
9 19 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (7.62%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (7.17%) Azure AKS
13 12 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.38%) Entra ID
14 10 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (4.48%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.73%) Firewall
2 7 (3.14%) VPN
3 6 (2.69%) DHCP
3 6 (2.69%) DNS
3 6 (2.69%) WAN
4 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.35%) Network Security
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.45%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.14%) MySQL
5 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
8 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (17.04%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.45%) GitLab
3 27 (12.11%) Git
4 11 (4.93%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.69%) Maven
6 5 (2.24%) Gradle
6 5 (2.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.24%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.35%) Subversion
9 2 (0.90%) git-flow
9 2 (0.90%) MLflow
10 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.45%) JIRA
10 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (22.42%) Finance
2 40 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.66%) Banking
4 6 (2.69%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.24%) Retail
6 4 (1.79%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Advertising
8 1 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Aviation
8 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.35%) YAML
2 20 (8.97%) ADO
3 17 (7.62%) Kafka
4 14 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.38%) JSON
6 7 (3.14%) .NET
7 6 (2.69%) OAuth
7 6 (2.69%) SAML
8 5 (2.24%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.79%) web3js
10 3 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.90%) LAMP
12 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
12 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
12 1 (0.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.69%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.79%) Web3
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.45%) PKI
9 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.08%) Linux
2 20 (8.97%) Windows
3 17 (7.62%) Windows Server
4 16 (7.17%) VMS
5 9 (4.04%) CentOS
6 5 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (51.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (50.22%) CI/CD
4 46 (20.63%) Containerisation
5 35 (15.70%) High Availability
6 26 (11.66%) Analytics
7 25 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (11.21%) Observability
7 25 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (9.42%) Software Engineering
10 20 (8.97%) AI
11 19 (8.52%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (7.17%) Incident Management
12 16 (7.17%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (7.17%) Log Analytics
13 15 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (6.73%) Infrastructure Management
13 15 (6.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (29.60%) Python
2 33 (14.80%) Bash
3 32 (14.35%) SQL
4 31 (13.90%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.52%) Go
6 9 (4.04%) Java
7 6 (2.69%) Bicep
7 6 (2.69%) C#
7 6 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.45%) Groovy
8 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.73%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.69%) Degree
6 4 (1.79%) 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 16 (7.17%) GDPR
2 15 (6.73%) SOC 2
3 14 (6.28%) QA
4 9 (4.04%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 44 (19.73%) Docker
2 22 (9.87%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 105 (47.09%) Terraform
2 76 (34.08%) Kubernetes
3 40 (17.94%) Ansible
4 27 (12.11%) Grafana
5 26 (11.66%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.83%) Argo
7 9 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (4.04%) Istio
8 8 (3.59%) Nagios
9 3 (1.35%) Kibana
9 3 (1.35%) Puppet
9 3 (1.35%) Rancher
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.90%) SCCM
11 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.04%) Splunk
3 8 (3.59%) Confluent
3 8 (3.59%) Zscaler
4 7 (3.14%) Okta
4 7 (3.14%) VMware
5 6 (2.69%) OneLogin
5 6 (2.69%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.69%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.24%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.79%) Google
7 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.35%) Commvault
8 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.90%) Databricks
9 2 (0.90%) Oracle
10 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.45%) Pega
10 1 (0.45%) SAP