DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 207 104
Rank change year-on-year -17 -103 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 164 261 605
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.28% 1.50% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.58% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 118 186 532
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £108,125
90th Percentile £115,750 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,650 16,489 18,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 94.85% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 10,094 14,956
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,613 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +14 38 £70,000 -17.65% 58
South London +30 5 £70,000 -15.15%
West London -8 1 £120,000 +128.57% 2
East London - 1 - - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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.

1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (67.68%) CI/CD
3 95 (57.93%) Terraform
4 85 (51.83%) AWS
5 83 (50.61%) Kubernetes
6 82 (50.00%) Python
7 70 (42.68%) Azure
8 68 (41.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (31.71%) Docker
10 48 (29.27%) GitHub
11 46 (28.05%) Bash
11 46 (28.05%) Containerisation
12 45 (27.44%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (27.44%) Linux
13 43 (26.22%) PowerShell
14 42 (25.61%) Ansible
15 37 (22.56%) Agile
16 36 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (20.12%) AI
18 32 (19.51%) Jenkins
19 31 (18.90%) Prometheus
20 30 (18.29%) Git
21 28 (17.07%) Windows
22 25 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
23 24 (14.63%) Software Engineering
24 23 (14.02%) Amazon EKS
24 23 (14.02%) Grafana
25 21 (12.80%) Observability
26 20 (12.20%) Red Hat
27 19 (11.59%) Mentoring

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 3 (1.83%) IIS
2 2 (1.22%) Apache
2 2 (1.22%) Confluence
2 2 (1.22%) JBoss
2 2 (1.22%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 85 (51.83%) AWS
2 70 (42.68%) Azure
3 48 (29.27%) GitHub
4 45 (27.44%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (14.02%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (8.54%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (6.71%) GCP
9 11 (6.71%) Serverless
10 10 (6.10%) Apigee
11 9 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.49%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.49%) Datadog
12 8 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (4.88%) Cloud Functions
12 8 (4.88%) Cloud Run
12 8 (4.88%) Google Compute Engine
12 8 (4.88%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.93%) Firewall
2 11 (6.71%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.10%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (6.10%) LAN
3 10 (6.10%) WAN
4 4 (2.44%) DNS
4 4 (2.44%) SSH
4 4 (2.44%) SSL
5 3 (1.83%) HTTP
6 2 (1.22%) Broadband
6 2 (1.22%) FTP
6 2 (1.22%) SMTP
7 1 (0.61%) DHCP
7 1 (0.61%) Network Security
7 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.88%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.44%) Flink
5 4 (2.44%) KDB
6 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.83%) GIS
6 3 (1.83%) MySQL
6 3 (1.83%) Power BI
7 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 30 (18.29%) Git
3 17 (10.37%) GitLab
4 11 (6.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (6.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 10 (6.10%) TeamCity
6 9 (5.49%) SonarQube
7 8 (4.88%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.88%) JIRA
8 7 (4.27%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.44%) Maven
10 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.22%) Ant
11 2 (1.22%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.22%) Gradle
11 2 (1.22%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.22%) JMeter
11 2 (1.22%) JUnit
11 2 (1.22%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.22%) Subversion
General
1 62 (37.80%) Finance
2 29 (17.68%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (11.59%) Banking
5 13 (7.93%) Law
6 12 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.44%) Front Office
7 4 (2.44%) Marketing
8 3 (1.83%) Advertising
8 3 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Electronics
8 3 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Aviation
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.98%) .NET
2 14 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (6.10%) RESTful
4 9 (5.49%) YAML
5 8 (4.88%) ARM Templates
5 8 (4.88%) Kafka
5 8 (4.88%) OpenAPI
5 8 (4.88%) Swagger
6 5 (3.05%) Node.js
7 4 (2.44%) React
8 3 (1.83%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.83%) REST
9 2 (1.22%) JWT
9 2 (1.22%) Middleware
9 2 (1.22%) OAuth
9 2 (1.22%) pytest
9 2 (1.22%) Web Services
10 1 (0.61%) Loki
10 1 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.98%) Management Information System
3 15 (9.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.27%) e-Learning
4 7 (4.27%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Equities
6 4 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.44%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.22%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.22%) PKI
8 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.44%) Linux
2 28 (17.07%) Windows
3 14 (8.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.27%) Unix
6 5 (3.05%) VMS
7 2 (1.22%) CentOS
7 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.61%) Debian
8 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (67.68%) CI/CD
3 68 (41.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (28.05%) Containerisation
5 37 (22.56%) Agile
6 36 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (20.12%) AI
8 24 (14.63%) Software Engineering
9 21 (12.80%) Observability
10 19 (11.59%) Mentoring
10 19 (11.59%) SDLC
11 18 (10.98%) Machine Learning
12 17 (10.37%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (10.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (10.37%) Software Delivery
13 16 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (8.54%) Disaster Recovery
15 13 (7.93%) Cloud Security
15 13 (7.93%) DevSecOps
16 12 (7.32%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (50.00%) Python
2 46 (28.05%) Bash
3 43 (26.22%) PowerShell
4 15 (9.15%) Go
4 15 (9.15%) Java
4 15 (9.15%) SQL
5 10 (6.10%) C#
6 9 (5.49%) Groovy
7 8 (4.88%) Lua
8 7 (4.27%) Ruby
9 6 (3.66%) Bicep
9 6 (3.66%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.66%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.44%) C++
11 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.22%) Perl
12 2 (1.22%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.61%) C
13 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.88%) Azure Certification
2 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.27%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.05%) Degree
5 3 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) GDPR
2 7 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 7 (4.27%) QA
3 4 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.22%) NIST
4 2 (1.22%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (31.71%) Docker
2 15 (9.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.10%) NFS
3 10 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (57.93%) Terraform
2 83 (50.61%) Kubernetes
3 42 (25.61%) Ansible
4 31 (18.90%) Prometheus
5 23 (14.02%) Grafana
6 9 (5.49%) Argo
7 3 (1.83%) Nagios
7 3 (1.83%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.83%) Puppet
8 2 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.22%) Podman
9 1 (0.61%) Cilium
9 1 (0.61%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.61%) Kibana
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (12.20%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.54%) VMware
4 11 (6.71%) Commvault
5 10 (6.10%) Cisco
5 10 (6.10%) Pure Storage
6 8 (4.88%) Google
6 8 (4.88%) MKS
6 8 (4.88%) MuleSoft
7 7 (4.27%) IBM
8 6 (3.66%) Oracle
8 6 (3.66%) Splunk
9 3 (1.83%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.83%) SAP
9 3 (1.83%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.22%) Thales
11 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.61%) Rackspace