DevOps Engineer Jobs 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 to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 94 101
Rank change year-on-year -106 +7 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 368 1,205 2,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.56% 3.51% 3.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 3.70% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 292 967 1,278
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,236 32,601 64,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.01% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,671 24,034 34,497
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -88 62 £91,250 +14.06% 9
South London +3 13 £84,000 +5.00% 3
East London - 13 £57,500 - 2
West London 0 2 £55,000 -38.89%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 368 (100.00%) DevOps
2 271 (73.64%) Terraform
3 248 (67.39%) AWS
4 242 (65.76%) CI/CD
5 219 (59.51%) Kubernetes
6 208 (56.52%) Python
7 162 (44.02%) Docker
8 148 (40.22%) Azure
9 138 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 135 (36.68%) Agile
11 131 (35.60%) Jenkins
12 116 (31.52%) Containerisation
13 106 (28.80%) Finance
14 105 (28.53%) Linux
15 96 (26.09%) Serverless
16 95 (25.82%) Ansible
17 88 (23.91%) Bash
18 87 (23.64%) Social Skills
19 81 (22.01%) Amazon S3
20 77 (20.92%) Java
20 77 (20.92%) Amazon RDS
20 77 (20.92%) AWS Lambda
21 74 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
22 72 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
23 69 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
24 66 (17.93%) PowerShell
24 66 (17.93%) Go
25 65 (17.66%) Software Engineering
26 64 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
27 63 (17.12%) Azure DevOps

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.90%) Drupal
2 6 (1.63%) nginx
3 5 (1.36%) Confluence
4 3 (0.82%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) WordPress
5 2 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.27%) Moodle
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 248 (67.39%) AWS
2 148 (40.22%) Azure
3 96 (26.09%) Serverless
4 81 (22.01%) Amazon S3
5 77 (20.92%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
8 64 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
9 63 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
10 61 (16.58%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (15.22%) GCP
12 47 (12.77%) OpenShift
13 39 (10.60%) GitHub
14 35 (9.51%) Amazon SQS
15 34 (9.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (6.79%) Azure AKS
17 17 (4.62%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (4.35%) PaaS
18 16 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 39 (10.60%) DNS
2 25 (6.79%) Firewall
3 19 (5.16%) TCP/IP
4 15 (4.08%) HTTP
4 15 (4.08%) Internet
5 13 (3.53%) Network Security
6 10 (2.72%) SNMP
6 10 (2.72%) tcpdump
7 6 (1.63%) IPv4
7 6 (1.63%) IPv6
8 4 (1.09%) LAN
8 4 (1.09%) WAN
9 3 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.82%) SSH
9 3 (0.82%) VPN
10 2 (0.54%) SMTP
10 2 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (20.92%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (10.05%) SQL Server
3 35 (9.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 27 (7.34%) MongoDB
5 23 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (5.16%) MySQL
8 16 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (4.35%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.99%) Power BI
10 11 (2.99%) Relational Database
11 10 (2.72%) DB2
11 10 (2.72%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.45%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 5 (1.36%) Redis
15 4 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 131 (35.60%) Jenkins
2 62 (16.85%) Git
3 43 (11.68%) GitLab
4 38 (10.33%) Artifactory
5 15 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 15 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (3.53%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.72%) JIRA
8 8 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.09%) Maven
9 4 (1.09%) Subversion
9 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.54%) JMeter
10 2 (0.54%) Selenium
11 1 (0.27%) Gatling
11 1 (0.27%) GoCD
11 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 106 (28.80%) Finance
2 87 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.70%) Front Office
4 32 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.62%) Law
7 12 (3.26%) Banking
8 11 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.90%) Retail
10 5 (1.36%) Police
11 4 (1.09%) Legal
12 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.54%) Aviation
13 2 (0.54%) Games
13 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Marketing
13 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.97%) .NET
2 32 (8.70%) J2EE
3 31 (8.42%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (6.25%) YAML
5 16 (4.35%) ARM Templates
5 16 (4.35%) REST
6 14 (3.80%) AWS CDK
7 13 (3.53%) React
8 11 (2.99%) Middleware
9 10 (2.72%) RESTful
9 10 (2.72%) Spring
9 10 (2.72%) Spring XD
10 9 (2.45%) .NET Core
11 8 (2.17%) AWS SAM
11 8 (2.17%) Kafka
12 7 (1.90%) JWT
13 6 (1.63%) HTML
14 5 (1.36%) CSS
14 5 (1.36%) Node.js
15 4 (1.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.97%) Tandem
2 16 (4.35%) Blockchain
2 16 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.26%) Clustering
4 11 (2.99%) e-Learning
5 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.17%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.63%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.63%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 105 (28.53%) Linux
2 59 (16.03%) Windows
3 11 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.63%) CentOS
6 5 (1.36%) Unix
7 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.82%) VMS
8 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (100.00%) DevOps
2 242 (65.76%) CI/CD
3 138 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (36.68%) Agile
5 116 (31.52%) Containerisation
6 74 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (17.66%) Software Engineering
8 55 (14.95%) Microservices
9 53 (14.40%) Deployment Automation
9 53 (14.40%) Test Automation
10 51 (13.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 48 (13.04%) Configuration Management
12 47 (12.77%) Migration
13 43 (11.68%) Mentoring
14 40 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (10.05%) Open Source
16 33 (8.97%) Asset Management
16 33 (8.97%) Decision-Making
17 32 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
17 32 (8.70%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 208 (56.52%) Python
2 88 (23.91%) Bash
3 77 (20.92%) Java
4 66 (17.93%) Go
4 66 (17.93%) PowerShell
5 46 (12.50%) SQL
6 27 (7.34%) C#
7 16 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.35%) Perl
8 15 (4.08%) Ruby
9 13 (3.53%) Groovy
9 13 (3.53%) PHP
10 8 (2.17%) C++
10 8 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (2.17%) Rust
10 8 (2.17%) U-SQL
11 7 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.90%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.63%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 48 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.15%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.16%) Degree
5 12 (3.26%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.45%) QA
2 3 (0.82%) NIST
2 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 162 (44.02%) Docker
2 14 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) Varnish
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.54%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) etcd
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) NFS
Systems Management
1 271 (73.64%) Terraform
2 219 (59.51%) Kubernetes
3 95 (25.82%) Ansible
4 54 (14.67%) Puppet
5 46 (12.50%) Grafana
6 39 (10.60%) Prometheus
7 30 (8.15%) Progress Chef
8 13 (3.53%) Nagios
9 11 (2.99%) HAProxy
10 10 (2.72%) Graphite
10 10 (2.72%) vCenter Server
11 9 (2.45%) Packer
12 8 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (1.90%) Argo
13 7 (1.90%) Consul
13 7 (1.90%) Istio
13 7 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.36%) Kibana
15 4 (1.09%) Rancher
16 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.61%) Oracle
3 26 (7.07%) Red Hat
4 20 (5.43%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.53%) Google
6 12 (3.26%) Databricks
6 12 (3.26%) VMware
7 11 (2.99%) IBM
7 11 (2.99%) Splunk
8 10 (2.72%) Sybase
9 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.36%) New Relic
10 4 (1.09%) Cisco
11 3 (0.82%) Black Duck
12 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.54%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.54%) SAP
12 2 (0.54%) Veracode
12 2 (0.54%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.27%) Salesforce