DevOps Manager Job Trends in London

Development Operations Manager
England > London

The median Development Operations Manager salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 378 419
Rank change year-on-year -12 +41 +139
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 5 47 17
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.036% 0.30% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.32% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 43 15
10th Percentile - - £71,959
25th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £112,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +25.00% -2.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £118,750 £108,373
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £111,746
England median annual salary £80,000 £112,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -28.89% +25.00% +5.88%

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 12,453 14,685 16,817
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.97% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,230 8,588 13,582
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

DevOps Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

DevOps Manager job vacancy trend in London

DevOps Manager
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Manager job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Manager job vacancies in London

DevOps Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Manager in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, DevOps Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Bicep
4 2 (40.00%) GitLab
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (20.00%) Git
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell

DevOps Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft