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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,437 2,116 5,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.45% 8.86% 15.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.89% 9.80% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 968 1,618 3,339
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,400 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% - -
75th Percentile £101,250 £100,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 12,081 21,583 31,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.25% 90.41% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,866 15,843 22,594
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £55,656 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,576 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -5.90% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
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 29 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 29 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 +3 349 £80,000 - 203
South London -8 75 £67,500 -15.63% 15
West London +37 34 £30,000 -64.18% 358
East London -14 22 £90,000 +56.52% 31
North London -20 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 88 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 84 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (5.01%) Apache
4 43 (2.99%) Confluence
5 36 (2.51%) SharePoint
6 23 (1.60%) nginx
7 14 (0.97%) JBoss
8 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
9 12 (0.84%) CMS
10 4 (0.28%) Drupal
10 4 (0.28%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) CICS
12 2 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
13 1 (0.070%) Camunda
13 1 (0.070%) Luigi
13 1 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.070%) Traefik
Applications
1 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.49%) Maya
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.28%) Sketch
5 4 (0.28%) Trello
6 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.28%) 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 (0.070%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.070%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.070%) Eikon
6 1 (0.070%) RMDS
6 1 (0.070%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.070%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 697 (48.50%) Azure
2 640 (44.54%) AWS
3 338 (23.52%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (16.01%) Serverless
5 178 (12.39%) GCP
6 147 (10.23%) GitHub
7 144 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (8.14%) Power Platform
9 99 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
10 81 (5.64%) Pulumi
11 80 (5.57%) dbt
12 73 (5.08%) SaaS
13 72 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 72 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (4.87%) OpenShift
15 67 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
15 67 (4.66%) PaaS
16 66 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 62 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
18 58 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 90 (6.26%) Broadband
2 55 (3.83%) Firewall
3 46 (3.20%) Network Security
4 32 (2.23%) VPN
5 30 (2.09%) SSL
6 26 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 24 (1.67%) SSH
8 22 (1.53%) DNS
9 19 (1.32%) HTTP
10 13 (0.90%) WAN
11 9 (0.63%) LAN
12 6 (0.42%) BGP
12 6 (0.42%) Multicast
12 6 (0.42%) SAN
13 5 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.28%) NX-OS
14 4 (0.28%) VLAN
15 3 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
15 3 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (8.49%) NoSQL
2 114 (7.93%) Relational Database
3 93 (6.47%) SQL Server
4 76 (5.29%) Power BI
5 70 (4.87%) RDBMS
6 69 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
7 66 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
8 63 (4.38%) Apache Iceberg
9 61 (4.24%) Dremio
10 59 (4.11%) Apache Arrow
10 59 (4.11%) Apache Ignite
11 54 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (2.64%) Data Lake
13 34 (2.37%) MongoDB
14 29 (2.02%) MySQL
15 26 (1.81%) Big Data
16 25 (1.74%) DynamoDB
17 23 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
18 22 (1.53%) BigQuery
19 21 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 183 (12.73%) Git
2 173 (12.04%) Jenkins
3 106 (7.38%) JIRA
4 96 (6.68%) GitLab
5 73 (5.08%) Artifactory
6 67 (4.66%) Jaeger
7 55 (3.83%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.48%) Maven
9 40 (2.78%) JUnit
9 40 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 36 (2.51%) TeamCity
11 25 (1.74%) Bitbucket
12 21 (1.46%) Cucumber
13 19 (1.32%) CircleCI
13 19 (1.32%) Selenium
14 18 (1.25%) Ant
14 18 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
15 16 (1.11%) JMeter
16 15 (1.04%) Postman
17 14 (0.97%) IntelliJ
General
1 489 (34.03%) Finance
2 409 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 142 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 133 (9.26%) Banking
5 129 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (6.40%) Front Office
7 77 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 76 (5.29%) Law
9 48 (3.34%) Games
10 34 (2.37%) Marketing
11 31 (2.16%) Retail
11 31 (2.16%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.95%) Investment Banking
13 24 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.39%) Back Office
15 16 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.97%) Legal
17 12 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 254 (17.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 253 (17.61%) Senior
3 249 (17.33%) Lead
4 238 (16.56%) Developer
5 135 (9.39%) Data Engineer
6 127 (8.84%) AWS DevOps
7 118 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
8 117 (8.14%) Architect
9 105 (7.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 105 (7.31%) Python Engineer
10 89 (6.19%) Team Leader
11 86 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 84 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
13 77 (5.36%) Software Engineer
14 64 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
15 56 (3.90%) Analyst
15 56 (3.90%) Senior Developer
16 55 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
17 45 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 40 (2.78%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (10.58%) Kafka
2 143 (9.95%) .NET
3 118 (8.21%) React
4 114 (7.93%) REST
5 107 (7.45%) RESTful
6 104 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
7 96 (6.68%) PySpark
8 74 (5.15%) Spring
9 73 (5.08%) J2EE
10 70 (4.87%) OpenTelemetry
11 68 (4.73%) HTML
12 64 (4.45%) CSS
13 58 (4.04%) Spring Boot
14 53 (3.69%) AngularJS
15 52 (3.62%) Node.js
16 51 (3.55%) Web Services
17 47 (3.27%) .NET Framework
18 36 (2.51%) .NET Core
19 33 (2.30%) SOAP
20 28 (1.95%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 111 (7.72%) Management Information System
3 71 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.51%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
10 23 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.60%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.53%) Cyberattack
11 22 (1.53%) Mobile Games
11 22 (1.53%) PKI
12 20 (1.39%) Clustering
13 19 (1.32%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.18%) Blockchain
15 17 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 254 (17.68%) Linux
2 101 (7.03%) Unix
3 87 (6.05%) Windows
4 43 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (1.95%) Android
7 24 (1.67%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.56%) CentOS
10 8 (0.56%) VMS
10 8 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.28%) Debian
12 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.28%) 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
1 747 (51.98%) CI/CD
2 650 (45.23%) Agile
3 356 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 301 (20.95%) Containerisation
5 269 (18.72%) Mentoring
6 267 (18.58%) Software Engineering
7 252 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (15.73%) Microservices
9 212 (14.75%) Roadmaps
10 171 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
11 165 (11.48%) Analytics
12 163 (11.34%) High Availability
13 156 (10.86%) Data Engineering
14 131 (9.12%) Test Automation
15 124 (8.63%) Computer Science
16 122 (8.49%) Cost Optimisation
17 118 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 115 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
18 115 (8.00%) Resource Management
19 113 (7.86%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 561 (39.04%) Python
2 328 (22.83%) Java
3 283 (19.69%) SQL
4 225 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 175 (12.18%) C#
6 170 (11.83%) Go
7 159 (11.06%) Bash
8 122 (8.49%) PowerShell
9 71 (4.94%) TypeScript
10 30 (2.09%) C++
11 27 (1.88%) Bicep
12 22 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 18 (1.25%) Scala
14 18 (1.25%) Swift
15 17 (1.18%) Objective-C
15 17 (1.18%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.90%) Ruby
17 11 (0.77%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 199 (13.85%) Degree
2 130 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 120 (8.35%) AWS Certification
4 103 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 84 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (4.18%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 30 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 17 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 17 (1.18%) PhD
12 12 (0.84%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.77%) PMP
14 8 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.49%) RHCSA
16 6 (0.42%) CCNP
16 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (7.93%) QA
2 80 (5.57%) GDPR
3 58 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (3.27%) NIST
5 37 (2.57%) HIPAA
6 35 (2.44%) SLA
7 33 (2.30%) Data Quality
8 25 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 21 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (1.11%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.56%) PMO
13 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.28%) CDISC
14 4 (0.28%) NCSC
14 4 (0.28%) WCAG
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.070%) FINRA
16 1 (0.070%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.070%) PSD2
System Software
1 433 (30.13%) Docker
2 52 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 44 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.56%) vSphere
8 6 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.35%) NFS
10 1 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 511 (35.56%) Terraform
2 488 (33.96%) Kubernetes
3 290 (20.18%) Ansible
4 151 (10.51%) Prometheus
5 80 (5.57%) Argo
6 69 (4.80%) Grafana
7 68 (4.73%) Kustomize
8 33 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.53%) Puppet
10 21 (1.46%) Nagios
11 16 (1.11%) Istio
12 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.56%) Podman
15 5 (0.35%) Kibana
15 5 (0.35%) Nessus
15 5 (0.35%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.35%) Packer
15 5 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 243 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 148 (10.30%) Google
3 79 (5.50%) Databricks
4 59 (4.11%) Red Hat
5 56 (3.90%) VMware
6 43 (2.99%) Oracle
7 36 (2.51%) IBM
8 32 (2.23%) Cisco
9 31 (2.16%) Splunk
10 24 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 23 (1.60%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.53%) Thales
13 19 (1.32%) SAP
14 17 (1.18%) Citrix
14 17 (1.18%) New Relic
15 16 (1.11%) SolarWinds
16 14 (0.97%) Siebel
17 13 (0.90%) Commvault
18 10 (0.70%) Palo Alto
19 7 (0.49%) Guidewire