DevOps Systems Engineer Job Trends in London

Development Operations System Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations System Engineer salary in London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 - 471
Rank change year-on-year - - +193
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Systems Engineer 3 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.020% - 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% - 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £40,000
25th Percentile - - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.44%
75th Percentile £74,375 - £105,625
90th Percentile £92,000 - £110,000
England median annual salary £50,000 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -60.94%

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 14,035 13,808 19,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 91.60% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,348 8,000 16,061
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,250
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 £93,750
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 Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DevOps Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in London

DevOps Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Systems Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Systems Engineer job vacancies in London

DevOps Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Systems Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 2026, DevOps Systems 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) LAMP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) QA

DevOps Systems 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk