DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 156 160
Rank change year-on-year -54 +4 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 205 290 415
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 2.20% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 2.42% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 176 235 368
10th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -6.45%

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 15,742 11,983 20,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 90.84% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,519 7,536 16,376
10th Percentile £37,048 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +5.26% -2.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 March 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 March 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 +35 65 £70,000 -24.32% 17
South London +30 2 £70,000 - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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.

1 205 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (55.12%) CI/CD
3 110 (53.66%) Terraform
4 105 (51.22%) Azure
5 94 (45.85%) Kubernetes
6 88 (42.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (38.54%) AWS
8 77 (37.56%) Python
9 58 (28.29%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (27.80%) Docker
11 46 (22.44%) GitHub
12 45 (21.95%) Bash
13 44 (21.46%) Ansible
14 43 (20.98%) Linux
15 41 (20.00%) Containerisation
16 38 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (18.05%) GCP
17 37 (18.05%) PowerShell
17 37 (18.05%) SQL
18 36 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (16.10%) AI
20 32 (15.61%) Jenkins
21 31 (15.12%) Prometheus
22 30 (14.63%) High Availability
23 29 (14.15%) Kafka
24 27 (13.17%) Amazon EKS
24 27 (13.17%) Platform Engineering
25 26 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
26 25 (12.20%) Agile
26 25 (12.20%) 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 (1.95%) IIS
2 2 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (51.22%) Azure
2 79 (38.54%) AWS
3 58 (28.29%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (22.44%) GitHub
5 38 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (18.05%) GCP
7 27 (13.17%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (11.22%) Datadog
10 19 (9.27%) Azure AKS
11 15 (7.32%) Serverless
12 12 (5.85%) OpenShift
13 11 (5.37%) Cloud Functions
13 11 (5.37%) Cloud Run
13 11 (5.37%) Google Compute Engine
14 10 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (3.90%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (3.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.37%) Firewall
2 8 (3.90%) VPN
2 8 (3.90%) WAN
3 3 (1.46%) DHCP
3 3 (1.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.98%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) SSL
5 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (5.37%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.88%) Flink
5 9 (4.39%) MySQL
5 9 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.46%) GIS
8 3 (1.46%) Power BI
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.98%) Redis
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (15.61%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.73%) GitLab
3 17 (8.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 16 (7.80%) TeamCity
5 15 (7.32%) Git
6 12 (5.85%) Bitbucket
7 11 (5.37%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.44%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.46%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.46%) JMeter
10 3 (1.46%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.98%) Gradle
11 2 (0.98%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.98%) JIRA
11 2 (0.98%) JUnit
11 2 (0.98%) Maven
11 2 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (39.51%) Finance
2 31 (15.12%) Banking
3 29 (14.15%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.88%) Front Office
4 10 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.95%) Electronics
5 4 (1.95%) Manufacturing
5 4 (1.95%) Marketing
5 4 (1.95%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.98%) Advertising
7 2 (0.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.15%) Kafka
2 18 (8.78%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (8.29%) .NET
4 14 (6.83%) YAML
5 10 (4.88%) OAuth
6 9 (4.39%) ADO
7 8 (3.90%) SAML
8 4 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.95%) React
9 3 (1.46%) Node.js
10 2 (0.98%) AWS SAM
10 2 (0.98%) JWT
10 2 (0.98%) LAMP
10 2 (0.98%) OpenID
10 2 (0.98%) pytest
10 2 (0.98%) Semantic Kernel
11 1 (0.49%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.49%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.49%) Next.js
11 1 (0.49%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.85%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.41%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.93%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.95%) Web3
7 2 (0.98%) PKI
7 2 (0.98%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.98%) Linux
2 18 (8.78%) Windows
3 11 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.90%) VMS
5 5 (2.44%) CentOS
6 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.98%) Unix
6 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.49%) Debian
7 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (55.12%) CI/CD
3 88 (42.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 36 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (16.10%) AI
7 30 (14.63%) High Availability
8 27 (13.17%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (12.20%) Agile
10 24 (11.71%) Observability
11 22 (10.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (10.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (9.27%) Software Delivery
14 18 (8.78%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (8.78%) Identity Management
15 17 (8.29%) Infrastructure Management
16 16 (7.80%) Analytics
16 16 (7.80%) Investment Management
16 16 (7.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.56%) Python
2 45 (21.95%) Bash
3 37 (18.05%) PowerShell
3 37 (18.05%) SQL
4 24 (11.71%) Go
5 17 (8.29%) Java
6 8 (3.90%) Bicep
6 8 (3.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.93%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.44%) C#
9 2 (0.98%) Groovy
9 2 (0.98%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.34%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.39%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.95%) Degree
6 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.24%) GDPR
2 17 (8.29%) SOC 2
3 12 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.37%) QA
5 9 (4.39%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 57 (27.80%) Docker
2 16 (7.80%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (7.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (53.66%) Terraform
2 94 (45.85%) Kubernetes
3 44 (21.46%) Ansible
4 31 (15.12%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.22%) Grafana
6 16 (7.80%) Argo
7 9 (4.39%) Istio
8 5 (2.44%) Nagios
9 4 (1.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.95%) logstash
10 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.98%) SCCM
11 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.49%) Kibana
11 1 (0.49%) Puppet
11 1 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.37%) Google
3 10 (4.88%) Zscaler
4 8 (3.90%) Confluent
4 8 (3.90%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.90%) Splunk
5 7 (3.41%) VMware
6 5 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.95%) Oracle
7 4 (1.95%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.95%) SAP
8 3 (1.46%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.46%) Okta
8 3 (1.46%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.98%) Pega
10 1 (0.49%) Commvault
10 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.49%) Salesforce