Principal DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Principal Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 509 623
Rank change year-on-year +111 +114 +221
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 1 1 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.004% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.004% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £88,500
25th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £101,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £95,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £118,750 £97,500 £130,938
90th Percentile - - £146,125
England median annual salary £112,500 £95,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +18.42% - -3.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,488 22,226 33,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,726 24,705
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Principal DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Principal DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Principal DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX