DevOps Job Trends in London

DevOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,487 1,501 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.67% 11.94% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.11% 12.60% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,038 1,498
10th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,875 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £66,000
% change year-on-year -2.77% +9.08% -5.71%

All Process & 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 18,338 11,915 20,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.31% 94.81% 89.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 7,431 14,970
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £122,500 £117,850
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

DevOps job vacancy trend in London

DevOps
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 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 -10 249 £85,000 +6.25% 155
South London -15 16 £92,500 +42.31% 7
West London -16 10 £82,500 +175.00% 75
North London +7 2 £55,000 +18.92% 4
East London -13 1 - - 11
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 42 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.28%) Apache
4 18 (1.21%) Confluence
5 16 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.67%) SAS
8 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.54%) CMS
10 5 (0.34%) Camunda
11 4 (0.27%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.13%) Moodle
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.13%) WordPress
13 1 (0.067%) IIS
13 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 20 (1.34%) PlantUML
2 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Maya
7 3 (0.20%) Blender
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.067%) Notion
Business Applications
1 26 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.40%) Endur
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.067%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.067%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.067%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.067%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.067%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.067%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 881 (59.25%) Azure
2 600 (40.35%) AWS
3 366 (24.61%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (15.47%) GCP
5 190 (12.78%) Serverless
6 154 (10.36%) GitHub
7 112 (7.53%) Power Platform
8 109 (7.33%) SaaS
9 105 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 87 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (5.72%) Amazon S3
12 78 (5.25%) Azure Logic Apps
13 77 (5.18%) PaaS
14 72 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
15 70 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
16 62 (4.17%) Azure AKS
17 61 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
19 54 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
20 50 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.09%) DNS
2 43 (2.89%) Firewall
3 26 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.55%) Internet
5 21 (1.41%) VPN
6 18 (1.21%) LAN
7 17 (1.14%) WAN
8 16 (1.08%) DHCP
9 14 (0.94%) Broadband
10 13 (0.87%) DMARC
11 12 (0.81%) HTTP
12 10 (0.67%) Network Security
13 5 (0.34%) 5G
13 5 (0.34%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.34%) NAS
14 4 (0.27%) HTTPS
15 3 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
15 3 (0.20%) Multicast
15 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 71 (4.77%) Power BI
3 69 (4.64%) NoSQL
4 54 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 45 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 40 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 33 (2.22%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (2.15%) MongoDB
11 30 (2.02%) MySQL
12 25 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (1.55%) Delta Lake
15 22 (1.48%) Metadata
16 19 (1.28%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.08%) Big Data
17 16 (1.08%) Redis
18 14 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 158 (10.63%) Git
2 137 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 122 (8.20%) GitLab
4 68 (4.57%) JIRA
5 25 (1.68%) CircleCI
6 20 (1.34%) Selenium
7 18 (1.21%) TeamCity
8 17 (1.14%) Eclipse
9 15 (1.01%) JUnit
9 15 (1.01%) Maven
10 13 (0.87%) Postman
11 12 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.74%) JMeter
13 10 (0.67%) Mockito
13 10 (0.67%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.47%) Claude Code
15 7 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.40%) Jaeger
General
1 472 (31.74%) Finance
2 380 (25.55%) Social Skills
3 177 (11.90%) Banking
4 104 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 69 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.03%) Law
8 56 (3.77%) Retail
9 38 (2.56%) Legal
10 36 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 25 (1.68%) Back Office
11 25 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.48%) Front Office
14 21 (1.41%) Marketing
15 19 (1.28%) Advertising
16 18 (1.21%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.08%) Retail Banking
18 14 (0.94%) Public Speaking
18 14 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 321 (21.59%) Senior
2 251 (16.88%) Lead
3 218 (14.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 185 (12.44%) Developer
5 164 (11.03%) Architect
6 109 (7.33%) Azure Engineer
7 88 (5.92%) Software Engineer
8 87 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 77 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
10 75 (5.04%) Data Engineer
11 71 (4.77%) AWS Engineer
12 66 (4.44%) Consultant
13 65 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
14 59 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 55 (3.70%) Senior Developer
16 45 (3.03%) Technical Leader
17 41 (2.76%) Senior DevOps
18 38 (2.56%) AWS DevOps
18 38 (2.56%) Security Engineer
18 38 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (11.43%) .NET
2 117 (7.87%) React
3 105 (7.06%) Kafka
4 92 (6.19%) REST
5 83 (5.58%) Node.js
6 73 (4.91%) RESTful
7 66 (4.44%) Spring Boot
8 64 (4.30%) Spring
9 55 (3.70%) YAML
10 53 (3.56%) OAuth
11 40 (2.69%) ASP.NET
12 39 (2.62%) JSON
13 36 (2.42%) PySpark
14 35 (2.35%) OAuth2
15 33 (2.22%) CSS
16 31 (2.08%) Django
17 30 (2.02%) .NET Core
17 30 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
18 29 (1.95%) Middleware
18 29 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 350 (23.54%) Cloud Native
2 98 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 89 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (4.98%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.49%) Management Information System
8 34 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (1.68%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
11 22 (1.48%) Blockchain
12 20 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.21%) Blog
14 18 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 155 (10.42%) Linux
2 75 (5.04%) Windows
3 29 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.48%) Unix
6 17 (1.14%) CentOS
7 13 (0.87%) VMS
8 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.27%) Rocky
10 3 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.067%) SUSE
12 1 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 469 (31.54%) Agile
3 439 (29.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 313 (21.05%) Mentoring
5 267 (17.96%) Microservices
6 252 (16.95%) AI
7 245 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
8 232 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 227 (15.27%) Software Engineering
10 215 (14.46%) Test Automation
11 207 (13.92%) Roadmaps
12 203 (13.65%) Containerisation
13 191 (12.84%) Analytics
14 177 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
15 159 (10.69%) Observability
16 156 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
17 142 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
18 121 (8.14%) Computer Science
19 118 (7.94%) Data Engineering
19 118 (7.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 453 (30.46%) Python
2 275 (18.49%) SQL
3 219 (14.73%) Java
4 180 (12.10%) C#
5 151 (10.15%) JavaScript
6 116 (7.80%) Bash
7 112 (7.53%) PowerShell
8 104 (6.99%) TypeScript
9 66 (4.44%) Go
10 40 (2.69%) Bicep
11 25 (1.68%) C++
12 22 (1.48%) Rust
13 18 (1.21%) Apex Code
13 18 (1.21%) Scala
14 11 (0.74%) PHP
15 9 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.40%) Ruby
16 6 (0.40%) SOQL
16 6 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 194 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 181 (12.17%) Degree
3 149 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 52 (3.50%) Master's Degree
7 44 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.55%) PhD
10 19 (1.28%) CISSP
11 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.87%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.87%) RHCSA
14 11 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.74%) PMP
15 9 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (0.54%) CCNP
16 8 (0.54%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (10.96%) QA
2 69 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.51%) GDPR
4 38 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 33 (2.22%) NIST
6 28 (1.88%) GRC
7 21 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.01%) PMO
9 15 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.47%) SLA
13 6 (0.40%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
14 4 (0.27%) WCAG
15 3 (0.20%) PSD2
15 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.13%) HITRUST
16 2 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 229 (15.40%) Docker
2 54 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 43 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.74%) vSphere
6 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) Firmware
8 1 (0.067%) KVM
8 1 (0.067%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 459 (30.87%) Terraform
2 321 (21.59%) Kubernetes
3 151 (10.15%) Ansible
4 76 (5.11%) Grafana
5 70 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.75%) Argo
7 20 (1.34%) Nagios
8 10 (0.67%) Istio
8 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.61%) Puppet
10 8 (0.54%) Kibana
11 7 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.27%) Rancher
15 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.13%) Proxmox
16 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
17 1 (0.067%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 268 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.71%) Databricks
3 59 (3.97%) Google
3 59 (3.97%) VMware
4 48 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 47 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.35%) Oracle
7 31 (2.08%) Splunk
8 30 (2.02%) Cisco
9 27 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.75%) SAP
11 24 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.14%) Foundry
12 17 (1.14%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.01%) Palantir
14 14 (0.94%) Guidewire
15 13 (0.87%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.81%) Intapp
17 11 (0.74%) Aderant
17 11 (0.74%) Palo Alto