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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 185 229
Rank change year-on-year -27 +44 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 219 226 334
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 1.85% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 2.04% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 165 158 249
10th Percentile £58,000 £61,750 £55,112
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £114,834
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 20,201 11,088 22,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 90.94% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13,896 7,038 16,965
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
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 £98,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 27 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 27 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 +7 57 £90,000 +16.13% 8
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 219 (100.00%) DevOps
2 114 (52.05%) Azure
3 113 (51.60%) CI/CD
3 113 (51.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (47.49%) Terraform
5 86 (39.27%) AWS
6 76 (34.70%) Kubernetes
7 67 (30.59%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (30.59%) Python
8 52 (23.74%) Security Cleared
9 47 (21.46%) Linux
10 46 (21.00%) Containerisation
11 45 (20.55%) Docker
12 44 (20.09%) SC Cleared
13 42 (19.18%) Ansible
14 38 (17.35%) Jenkins
15 37 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (15.98%) Bash
17 33 (15.07%) GCP
17 33 (15.07%) High Availability
18 32 (14.61%) YAML
19 31 (14.16%) GitLab
19 31 (14.16%) PowerShell
20 30 (13.70%) SQL
21 28 (12.79%) Git
21 28 (12.79%) Grafana
22 27 (12.33%) Serverless
23 25 (11.42%) Analytics
23 25 (11.42%) Prometheus
24 24 (10.96%) 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 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.91%) SAS
3 1 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.46%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (52.05%) Azure
2 86 (39.27%) AWS
3 67 (30.59%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (15.07%) GCP
6 27 (12.33%) Serverless
7 22 (10.05%) Datadog
7 22 (10.05%) GitHub
8 18 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (7.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 17 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (6.85%) Azure AKS
11 13 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (5.02%) Entra ID
13 11 (5.02%) OpenShift
14 10 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (4.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.39%) Firewall
2 6 (2.74%) VPN
3 5 (2.28%) DHCP
3 5 (2.28%) DNS
3 5 (2.28%) WAN
4 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.37%) Network Security
6 2 (0.91%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.91%) NAS
7 1 (0.46%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.11%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.65%) MySQL
4 3 (1.37%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.37%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.46%) Big Data
6 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.46%) Metadata
6 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (17.35%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.16%) GitLab
3 28 (12.79%) Git
4 11 (5.02%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.74%) Maven
6 5 (2.28%) Gradle
7 4 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.83%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.37%) Subversion
9 2 (0.91%) git-flow
9 2 (0.91%) JIRA
9 2 (0.91%) MLflow
10 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (21.46%) Finance
2 40 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.33%) Banking
4 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.28%) Retail
6 4 (1.83%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.83%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Advertising
8 1 (0.46%) Aviation
8 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.61%) YAML
2 19 (8.68%) ADO
3 17 (7.76%) Kafka
4 14 (6.39%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.48%) JSON
6 6 (2.74%) .NET
7 5 (2.28%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.28%) OAuth
7 5 (2.28%) SAML
8 4 (1.83%) web3js
9 3 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.46%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.46%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.28%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.83%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.83%) Web3
6 3 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.46%) PKI
8 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.46%) Linux
2 20 (9.13%) Windows
3 17 (7.76%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.85%) VMS
5 10 (4.57%) CentOS
6 5 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (51.60%) CI/CD
2 113 (51.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (21.00%) Containerisation
4 33 (15.07%) High Availability
5 25 (11.42%) Analytics
6 24 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (10.96%) Observability
6 24 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (10.05%) Deployment Automation
7 22 (10.05%) Software Engineering
8 19 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (8.22%) Infrastructure Automation
10 17 (7.76%) AI
10 17 (7.76%) Incident Management
11 15 (6.85%) Cloud Security
11 15 (6.85%) Fintech
11 15 (6.85%) Log Analytics
11 15 (6.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (30.59%) Python
2 35 (15.98%) Bash
3 31 (14.16%) PowerShell
4 30 (13.70%) SQL
5 19 (8.68%) Go
6 9 (4.11%) Java
7 6 (2.74%) C#
8 5 (2.28%) Bicep
8 5 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.46%) Groovy
9 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.85%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.74%) Degree
6 4 (1.83%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.31%) QA
2 15 (6.85%) GDPR
3 14 (6.39%) SOC 2
4 9 (4.11%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 45 (20.55%) Docker
2 21 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 104 (47.49%) Terraform
2 76 (34.70%) Kubernetes
3 42 (19.18%) Ansible
4 28 (12.79%) Grafana
5 25 (11.42%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.94%) Argo
7 9 (4.11%) Istio
7 9 (4.11%) Nagios
8 8 (3.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.37%) Kibana
9 3 (1.37%) Puppet
9 3 (1.37%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.57%) Splunk
3 8 (3.65%) Confluent
4 7 (3.20%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.74%) Okta
5 6 (2.74%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.74%) VMware
5 6 (2.74%) Zscaler
6 5 (2.28%) OneLogin
6 5 (2.28%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.28%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.83%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.37%) Commvault
8 3 (1.37%) Google
9 2 (0.91%) Databricks
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.46%) Pega
10 1 (0.46%) SAP