DevOps Jobs in London

DevOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,463 2,110 4,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.45% 8.78% 15.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.89% 9.73% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 983 1,611 3,298
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £100,501 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £119,750 £118,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,300 21,691 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.24% 90.27% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,989 15,892 22,392
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in London

DevOps
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +2 353 £80,000 +2.56% 185
South London -6 76 £67,500 -16.92% 18
West London +34 34 £30,000 -64.18% 36
East London -16 22 £90,000 +56.52% 38
North London -17 12 £60,000 +9.09% 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 90 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 85 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (5.06%) Apache
4 43 (2.94%) Confluence
5 35 (2.39%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.71%) nginx
7 15 (1.03%) JBoss
8 14 (0.96%) Red Hat Fuse
9 12 (0.82%) CMS
9 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) Drupal
10 4 (0.27%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) CICS
12 2 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.14%) Traefik
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
13 1 (0.068%) Camunda
13 1 (0.068%) Luigi
13 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.48%) Maya
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.27%) Sketch
5 4 (0.27%) Trello
6 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.068%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.068%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 36 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.34%) Shopify
4 3 (0.21%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.068%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.068%) Eikon
6 1 (0.068%) Magento
6 1 (0.068%) RMDS
6 1 (0.068%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.068%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 707 (48.33%) Azure
2 650 (44.43%) AWS
3 345 (23.58%) Azure DevOps
4 234 (15.99%) Serverless
5 180 (12.30%) GCP
6 149 (10.18%) GitHub
7 144 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
8 122 (8.34%) Power Platform
9 104 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
10 81 (5.54%) Pulumi
11 80 (5.47%) dbt
12 77 (5.26%) SaaS
13 74 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 73 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
15 72 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
16 71 (4.85%) OpenShift
17 67 (4.58%) PaaS
18 66 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 64 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
20 63 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 90 (6.15%) Broadband
2 55 (3.76%) Firewall
3 46 (3.14%) Network Security
4 33 (2.26%) VPN
5 30 (2.05%) SSL
6 27 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 24 (1.64%) SSH
8 23 (1.57%) DNS
9 19 (1.30%) HTTP
10 13 (0.89%) WAN
11 9 (0.62%) LAN
12 6 (0.41%) BGP
12 6 (0.41%) Multicast
12 6 (0.41%) SAN
13 5 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.27%) DHCP
14 4 (0.27%) NX-OS
14 4 (0.27%) VLAN
15 3 (0.21%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (8.41%) NoSQL
2 116 (7.93%) Relational Database
3 94 (6.43%) SQL Server
4 75 (5.13%) Power BI
5 70 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
5 70 (4.78%) RDBMS
6 68 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (4.31%) Apache Iceberg
8 61 (4.17%) Dremio
9 59 (4.03%) Apache Arrow
9 59 (4.03%) Apache Ignite
10 55 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (2.67%) Data Lake
12 35 (2.39%) MongoDB
13 30 (2.05%) MySQL
14 27 (1.85%) Big Data
15 25 (1.71%) DynamoDB
16 23 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
17 22 (1.50%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 189 (12.92%) Git
2 176 (12.03%) Jenkins
3 108 (7.38%) JIRA
4 98 (6.70%) GitLab
5 73 (4.99%) Artifactory
6 67 (4.58%) Jaeger
7 55 (3.76%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.42%) Maven
9 41 (2.80%) JUnit
10 40 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 36 (2.46%) TeamCity
12 26 (1.78%) Bitbucket
13 21 (1.44%) Cucumber
14 19 (1.30%) CircleCI
14 19 (1.30%) Selenium
15 18 (1.23%) Ant
15 18 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
16 16 (1.09%) JMeter
17 15 (1.03%) Postman
18 14 (0.96%) IntelliJ
General
1 499 (34.11%) Finance
2 418 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 151 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (9.50%) Banking
5 132 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (6.36%) Front Office
7 85 (5.81%) Law
8 79 (5.40%) Public Sector
9 48 (3.28%) Games
10 37 (2.53%) Marketing
11 31 (2.12%) Retail
12 30 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 30 (2.05%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.64%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.37%) Back Office
15 17 (1.16%) Legal
16 16 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 258 (17.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 257 (17.57%) Senior
3 255 (17.43%) Lead
4 246 (16.81%) Developer
5 138 (9.43%) Data Engineer
6 127 (8.68%) AWS DevOps
7 119 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
8 115 (7.86%) Architect
9 106 (7.25%) Python Engineer
10 105 (7.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 89 (6.08%) Team Leader
12 87 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
12 87 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 84 (5.74%) Software Engineer
14 65 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
15 59 (4.03%) Senior Developer
16 57 (3.90%) Analyst
17 56 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
18 46 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (10.53%) Kafka
2 145 (9.91%) .NET
3 120 (8.20%) React
4 116 (7.93%) REST
5 112 (7.66%) RESTful
6 104 (7.11%) Elastic Stack
7 96 (6.56%) PySpark
8 77 (5.26%) Spring
9 74 (5.06%) J2EE
10 70 (4.78%) OpenTelemetry
11 69 (4.72%) HTML
12 66 (4.51%) CSS
13 60 (4.10%) Spring Boot
14 54 (3.69%) AngularJS
15 53 (3.62%) Web Services
16 51 (3.49%) Node.js
17 48 (3.28%) .NET Framework
18 37 (2.53%) .NET Core
19 34 (2.32%) SOAP
20 28 (1.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 111 (7.59%) Management Information System
3 74 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 31 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
10 23 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.57%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.50%) Cyberattack
11 22 (1.50%) Mobile Games
11 22 (1.50%) PKI
12 20 (1.37%) Clustering
13 19 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 17 (1.16%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 256 (17.50%) Linux
2 101 (6.90%) Unix
3 86 (5.88%) Windows
4 43 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (1.91%) Android
7 24 (1.64%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.55%) CentOS
10 8 (0.55%) VMS
10 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.27%) Debian
12 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.27%) zOS
13 3 (0.21%) Rocky
13 3 (0.21%) Solaris
14 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (52.22%) CI/CD
2 659 (45.04%) Agile
3 362 (24.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 305 (20.85%) Containerisation
5 275 (18.80%) Software Engineering
6 270 (18.46%) Mentoring
7 262 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (15.79%) Microservices
9 212 (14.49%) Roadmaps
10 174 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
11 168 (11.48%) Analytics
12 162 (11.07%) High Availability
13 159 (10.87%) Data Engineering
14 136 (9.30%) Test Automation
15 129 (8.82%) Computer Science
16 124 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 120 (8.20%) Cost Optimisation
18 114 (7.79%) Product Management
18 114 (7.79%) Resource Management
19 113 (7.72%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 570 (38.96%) Python
2 332 (22.69%) Java
3 287 (19.62%) SQL
4 227 (15.52%) JavaScript
5 178 (12.17%) C#
6 175 (11.96%) Go
7 161 (11.00%) Bash
8 124 (8.48%) PowerShell
9 72 (4.92%) TypeScript
10 30 (2.05%) C++
11 27 (1.85%) Bicep
12 25 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 18 (1.23%) Scala
14 18 (1.23%) Swift
15 17 (1.16%) Objective-C
15 17 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.89%) Ruby
17 11 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 11 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 204 (13.94%) Degree
2 129 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.13%) AWS Certification
4 101 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 89 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (4.51%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.23%) ISTQB
11 17 (1.16%) PhD
12 16 (1.09%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.82%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.75%) PMP
15 8 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.48%) RHCSA
17 6 (0.41%) CCNP
17 6 (0.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.07%) QA
2 79 (5.40%) GDPR
3 59 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (3.28%) NIST
5 36 (2.46%) HIPAA
5 36 (2.46%) SLA
6 35 (2.39%) Data Quality
7 25 (1.71%) Accessibility
8 21 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.55%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.27%) CDISC
13 4 (0.27%) NCSC
13 4 (0.27%) WCAG
14 2 (0.14%) GRC
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.068%) FINRA
15 1 (0.068%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 441 (30.14%) Docker
2 54 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 45 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.55%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.34%) NFS
10 1 (0.068%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 516 (35.27%) Terraform
2 498 (34.04%) Kubernetes
3 291 (19.89%) Ansible
4 153 (10.46%) Prometheus
5 80 (5.47%) Argo
6 71 (4.85%) Grafana
7 68 (4.65%) Kustomize
8 33 (2.26%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.50%) Puppet
10 21 (1.44%) Nagios
11 16 (1.09%) Istio
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.55%) Podman
15 6 (0.41%) Kibana
16 5 (0.34%) Nessus
16 5 (0.34%) Opsgenie
16 5 (0.34%) Packer
16 5 (0.34%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 252 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 150 (10.25%) Google
3 81 (5.54%) Databricks
4 59 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 57 (3.90%) VMware
6 44 (3.01%) Oracle
7 36 (2.46%) IBM
8 34 (2.32%) Splunk
9 33 (2.26%) Cisco
10 23 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.57%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.50%) Thales
12 19 (1.30%) SAP
13 17 (1.16%) Citrix
13 17 (1.16%) New Relic
13 17 (1.16%) SolarWinds
14 14 (0.96%) Commvault
14 14 (0.96%) Siebel
15 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.62%) MuleSoft