DevOps Engineer Job Trends in South London

Development Operations Engineer
London > South London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in South London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 64 35
Rank change year-on-year +19 -29 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 5 20
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 1.36% 0.95% 5.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 0.98% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - - £54,000
25th Percentile - £81,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -9.38%
75th Percentile - £84,875 £83,750
90th Percentile - £85,550 -
London median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 258 510 371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.46% 96.59% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 158 177 268
10th Percentile £30,875 £27,000 £35,675
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,800
London median annual salary £72,500 £73,548 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% -1.94% +7.14%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in South London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in South London

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the South London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Croydon +1 4 £70,000 -15.15% 5
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 2025, DevOps 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 South London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) SSH
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) VMS
3 2 (50.00%) SMTP
3 2 (50.00%) FTP
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) Ruby
3 2 (50.00%) Nagios
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SSH
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) FTP
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) SMTP
3 1 (25.00%) Broadband
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) GIS
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
1 2 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Thales