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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 177 201
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 222 256 367
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.09% 2.02% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 2.24% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 179 207 294
10th Percentile £57,500 £69,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £81,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £82,865
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +32.75% +0.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £121,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £81,250 £70,576
% change year-on-year -13.85% +15.12% -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 18,717 11,422 21,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 90.21% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,631 7,373 16,681
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 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 8 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 8 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 +30 67 £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 8 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.

1 222 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (50.00%) Terraform
3 103 (46.40%) CI/CD
4 102 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (45.05%) Azure
6 90 (40.54%) Kubernetes
7 80 (36.04%) AWS
8 73 (32.88%) Python
9 57 (25.68%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (24.77%) Docker
11 51 (22.97%) Linux
12 47 (21.17%) Ansible
13 46 (20.72%) Containerisation
14 40 (18.02%) Bash
15 39 (17.57%) GitHub
15 39 (17.57%) Security Cleared
16 37 (16.67%) Jenkins
17 36 (16.22%) High Availability
18 35 (15.77%) GCP
18 35 (15.77%) GitHub Actions
19 33 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
20 29 (13.06%) Platform Engineering
21 28 (12.61%) PowerShell
22 27 (12.16%) Prometheus
22 27 (12.16%) SQL
23 25 (11.26%) AI
23 25 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
23 25 (11.26%) Datadog
23 25 (11.26%) Kafka
24 24 (10.81%) Git

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 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.90%) IIS
3 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (45.05%) Azure
2 80 (36.04%) AWS
3 57 (25.68%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (17.57%) GitHub
5 35 (15.77%) GCP
5 35 (15.77%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (11.26%) Datadog
8 21 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (9.46%) Serverless
9 18 (8.11%) Azure AKS
10 12 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.95%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.50%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.50%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.50%) SaaS
13 9 (4.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (3.60%) Cloud Functions
14 8 (3.60%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.31%) Firewall
2 9 (4.05%) VPN
3 8 (3.60%) WAN
4 6 (2.70%) DHCP
4 6 (2.70%) DNS
5 4 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.05%) MySQL
2 9 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.60%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.15%) Flink
5 6 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.81%) Git
2 24 (10.81%) GitLab
3 11 (4.95%) CircleCI
4 8 (3.60%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.60%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.70%) Maven
6 5 (2.25%) Gradle
7 4 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.90%) git-flow
8 2 (0.90%) JMeter
8 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.90%) Subversion
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (32.88%) Finance
2 37 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.41%) Banking
4 10 (4.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.15%) Front Office
6 5 (2.25%) Retail
7 4 (1.80%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.80%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.35%) Electronics
8 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.35%) Marketing
9 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.26%) Kafka
2 21 (9.46%) YAML
3 15 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (6.31%) ADO
5 10 (4.50%) .NET
6 8 (3.60%) JSON
6 8 (3.60%) OAuth
6 8 (3.60%) SAML
7 4 (1.80%) React
7 4 (1.80%) web3js
8 2 (0.90%) LAMP
8 2 (0.90%) OpenID
9 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.45%) AWS SAM
9 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.45%) Next.js
9 1 (0.45%) Node.js
9 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.86%) Cloud Native
1 13 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (3.15%) Hedge funds
2 7 (3.15%) Web3
3 6 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.70%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.25%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.80%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.90%) PKI
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.97%) Linux
2 21 (9.46%) Windows
3 15 (6.76%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.50%) VMS
5 9 (4.05%) CentOS
6 5 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (46.40%) CI/CD
3 102 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (20.72%) Containerisation
5 36 (16.22%) High Availability
6 29 (13.06%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (11.26%) AI
7 25 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (10.81%) Observability
9 23 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (9.01%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (8.56%) Agile
11 19 (8.56%) Analytics
11 19 (8.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (8.11%) Identity Management
12 18 (8.11%) Software Engineering
13 17 (7.66%) Incident Management
13 17 (7.66%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (32.88%) Python
2 40 (18.02%) Bash
3 28 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 27 (12.16%) SQL
5 23 (10.36%) Go
6 15 (6.76%) Java
7 10 (4.50%) Bicep
8 8 (3.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.80%) C#
10 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
10 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.31%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.70%) Degree
6 4 (1.80%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.56%) GDPR
2 17 (7.66%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.41%) QA
4 10 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.05%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 55 (24.77%) Docker
2 19 (8.56%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 111 (50.00%) Terraform
2 90 (40.54%) Kubernetes
3 47 (21.17%) Ansible
4 27 (12.16%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.81%) Grafana
6 15 (6.76%) Argo
7 9 (4.05%) Istio
8 8 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.15%) Nagios
10 4 (1.80%) logstash
11 2 (0.90%) Kibana
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.90%) Puppet
11 2 (0.90%) Rancher
11 2 (0.90%) SCCM
12 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.50%) Zscaler
3 9 (4.05%) Splunk
4 8 (3.60%) Confluent
4 8 (3.60%) Google
4 8 (3.60%) Palo Alto
5 7 (3.15%) Okta
6 6 (2.70%) OneLogin
6 6 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.70%) VMware
7 5 (2.25%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.80%) SAP
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle
10 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.90%) Commvault
10 2 (0.90%) Pega
10 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft