DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 171 136
Rank change year-on-year -38 -35 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 186 307 471
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 2.06% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 2.25% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 157 242 432
10th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £128,125 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -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 14,124 13,657 20,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 91.54% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,854 16,262
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,420
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +50 62 £70,000 -30.00% 13
South London +34 2 £70,000 - 1
West London -2 1 £120,000 +118.18% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 February 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.

1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (59.14%) CI/CD
3 101 (54.30%) Terraform
4 95 (51.08%) Azure
5 84 (45.16%) Kubernetes
6 83 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (34.95%) Python
9 59 (31.72%) AWS
10 50 (26.88%) Docker
10 50 (26.88%) GitHub
11 44 (23.66%) Linux
12 42 (22.58%) Bash
13 41 (22.04%) Ansible
14 40 (21.51%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (20.97%) PowerShell
16 34 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (17.20%) AI
17 32 (17.20%) Prometheus
18 31 (16.67%) SQL
19 30 (16.13%) Jenkins
20 29 (15.59%) Containerisation
21 25 (13.44%) Agile
21 25 (13.44%) Microsoft
22 24 (12.90%) High Availability
22 24 (12.90%) Security Cleared
23 23 (12.37%) GCP
23 23 (12.37%) Observability
24 22 (11.83%) Disaster Recovery
25 21 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 5 (2.69%) IIS
2 2 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (51.08%) Azure
2 66 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (31.72%) AWS
4 50 (26.88%) GitHub
5 40 (21.51%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.37%) GCP
7 20 (10.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (10.75%) Azure AKS
8 19 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (10.22%) Datadog
9 13 (6.99%) Cloud Functions
9 13 (6.99%) Cloud Run
9 13 (6.99%) Google Compute Engine
10 10 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (5.38%) Entra ID
10 10 (5.38%) Serverless
11 8 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (4.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.45%) Firewall
2 10 (5.38%) WAN
3 8 (4.30%) VPN
4 3 (1.61%) DHCP
4 3 (1.61%) DNS
5 2 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (1.08%) LAN
5 2 (1.08%) Network Security
5 2 (1.08%) SSL
5 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.99%) BigQuery
3 12 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (5.38%) Flink
5 6 (3.23%) MySQL
6 4 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.61%) GIS
7 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.61%) Power BI
8 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.08%) Redis
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.22%) Git
3 17 (9.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 16 (8.60%) TeamCity
5 11 (5.91%) Bitbucket
5 11 (5.91%) GitLab
6 6 (3.23%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.69%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.61%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.61%) Gradle
9 3 (1.61%) JMeter
9 3 (1.61%) Maven
9 3 (1.61%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.08%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.08%) JIRA
10 2 (1.08%) JUnit
10 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (35.48%) Finance
2 22 (11.83%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.53%) Banking
4 10 (5.38%) Front Office
5 8 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.15%) Electronics
6 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.15%) Marketing
6 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.61%) Advertising
7 3 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Aviation
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.14%) .NET
1 17 (9.14%) YAML
2 16 (8.60%) Kafka
3 14 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (5.38%) OAuth
5 8 (4.30%) ADO
5 8 (4.30%) SAML
6 4 (2.15%) React
7 3 (1.61%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.61%) Node.js
7 3 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.08%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.08%) JWT
8 2 (1.08%) LAMP
8 2 (1.08%) OpenID
8 2 (1.08%) pytest
8 2 (1.08%) Semantic Kernel
9 1 (0.54%) JSON
9 1 (0.54%) Loki
9 1 (0.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Web3
7 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.08%) PKI
7 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 44 (23.66%) Linux
2 20 (10.75%) Windows
3 10 (5.38%) VMS
3 10 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) CentOS
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Unix
4 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.54%) Debian
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (59.14%) CI/CD
3 83 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (17.20%) AI
6 29 (15.59%) Containerisation
7 25 (13.44%) Agile
8 24 (12.90%) High Availability
9 23 (12.37%) Observability
10 22 (11.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (10.75%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.22%) Software Delivery
14 18 (9.68%) Identity Management
15 16 (8.60%) Analytics
15 16 (8.60%) Investment Management
16 15 (8.06%) Deployment Automation
17 13 (6.99%) Decision-Making
17 13 (6.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.95%) Python
2 42 (22.58%) Bash
3 39 (20.97%) PowerShell
4 31 (16.67%) SQL
5 16 (8.60%) Java
6 12 (6.45%) Go
7 9 (4.84%) Bicep
8 8 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.23%) C#
9 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.08%) Groovy
10 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.99%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.61%) Degree
6 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.22%) GDPR
2 12 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.45%) SOC 2
3 9 (4.84%) QA
4 6 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (26.88%) Docker
2 17 (9.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.08%) NFS
5 2 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (54.30%) Terraform
2 84 (45.16%) Kubernetes
3 41 (22.04%) Ansible
4 32 (17.20%) Prometheus
5 20 (10.75%) Grafana
6 15 (8.06%) Argo
7 4 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.15%) logstash
8 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.61%) Nagios
8 3 (1.61%) SCCM
9 2 (1.08%) Puppet
10 1 (0.54%) Cilium
10 1 (0.54%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.54%) Kibana
10 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.99%) Google
3 11 (5.91%) Zscaler
4 10 (5.38%) VMware
5 8 (4.30%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.76%) Splunk
7 5 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.15%) SAP
9 3 (1.61%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.61%) Commvault
9 3 (1.61%) Okta
9 3 (1.61%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.61%) Oracle
10 2 (1.08%) Cisco
10 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.08%) Pega
10 2 (1.08%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.08%) Rapid7
11 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.54%) Rackspace