DevOps Jobs with Work from Home Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,315 6,059 12,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.63% 15.29% 17.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 15.91% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,493 4,260 6,978
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,137 38,084 71,018
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.42% 96.09% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,468 26,396 41,605
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,871 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +4.79% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps.

DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 214 (6.46%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.46%) GeoServer
2 109 (3.29%) IIS
3 79 (2.38%) CMS
3 79 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 68 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 62 (1.87%) Confluence
6 55 (1.66%) Umbraco
7 47 (1.42%) nginx
8 40 (1.21%) Apache
8 40 (1.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 38 (1.15%) Kentico
10 37 (1.12%) Headless CMS
11 34 (1.03%) OpenStack
12 32 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
13 22 (0.66%) Apache Spark
14 11 (0.33%) WordPress
15 8 (0.24%) Apache Solr
15 8 (0.24%) JBoss
16 7 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.54%) Simulink
4 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.090%) Sketch
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.090%) Trello
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.060%) Notion
9 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 78 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.15%) Primavera
3 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.12%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.090%) Magento
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.060%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.030%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.030%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.030%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 1 (0.030%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.030%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,083 (62.84%) Azure
2 1,327 (40.03%) AWS
3 1,004 (30.29%) Azure DevOps
4 336 (10.14%) SaaS
5 286 (8.63%) Power Platform
6 270 (8.14%) Serverless
7 216 (6.52%) GCP
8 193 (5.82%) GitHub
9 171 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
10 158 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
11 141 (4.25%) PaaS
12 123 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
13 114 (3.44%) Amazon S3
13 114 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 106 (3.20%) PowerApps
15 105 (3.17%) Entra ID
16 98 (2.96%) IaaS
17 93 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
17 93 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
18 92 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 150 (4.52%) Firewall
2 129 (3.89%) DNS
3 71 (2.14%) Network Security
4 60 (1.81%) VPN
5 53 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.21%) WAN
7 37 (1.12%) DHCP
7 37 (1.12%) LAN
8 31 (0.94%) HTTP
9 26 (0.78%) Internet
10 15 (0.45%) 5G
11 14 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.39%) SAN
12 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 12 (0.36%) SSL
14 9 (0.27%) SNMP
14 9 (0.27%) tcpdump
14 9 (0.27%) WLAN
15 8 (0.24%) MQTT
15 8 (0.24%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 349 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 218 (6.58%) GIS
4 214 (6.46%) QGIS
5 120 (3.62%) MySQL
6 118 (3.56%) Power BI
7 115 (3.47%) Relational Database
8 109 (3.29%) Big Data
9 108 (3.26%) Data Lake
10 105 (3.17%) NoSQL
11 84 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
12 82 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 77 (2.32%) MongoDB
14 71 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
15 57 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
16 55 (1.66%) Dremio
17 54 (1.63%) Apache Arrow
18 48 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
19 44 (1.33%) Redis
20 34 (1.03%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 447 (13.48%) Git
2 308 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 216 (6.52%) JIRA
4 177 (5.34%) GitLab
5 123 (3.71%) Visual Studio
6 73 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 57 (1.72%) Selenium
8 54 (1.63%) Postman
9 44 (1.33%) TeamCity
10 41 (1.24%) Jasmine
11 39 (1.18%) JUnit
12 28 (0.84%) Cypress.io
12 28 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 27 (0.81%) SpecFlow
14 26 (0.78%) JMeter
14 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
15 23 (0.69%) Bitbucket
15 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
15 23 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 711 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 619 (18.67%) Finance
3 168 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (4.56%) Retail
5 124 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 122 (3.68%) Banking
7 117 (3.53%) Law
8 97 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 94 (2.84%) Legal
10 67 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 66 (1.99%) Marketing
12 46 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 46 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (1.18%) Automotive
14 36 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.03%) Back Office
16 30 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (0.87%) Games
18 26 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
19 25 (0.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 968 (29.20%) Developer
2 923 (27.84%) Senior
3 496 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 482 (14.54%) Software Engineer
5 369 (11.13%) Lead
6 310 (9.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 288 (8.69%) Senior Developer
8 222 (6.70%) .NET Developer
9 188 (5.67%) Software Developer
10 181 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
11 154 (4.65%) Architect
12 147 (4.43%) Azure Engineer
13 143 (4.31%) C# Developer
14 135 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
15 134 (4.04%) Full Stack Developer
16 132 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 109 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
18 108 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 99 (2.99%) Data Engineer
20 89 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 920 (27.75%) .NET
2 605 (18.25%) React
3 446 (13.45%) CSS
4 403 (12.16%) .NET Core
5 306 (9.23%) AngularJS
6 286 (8.63%) HTML
7 263 (7.93%) RESTful
8 262 (7.90%) Node.js
9 246 (7.42%) ASP.NET
10 244 (7.36%) .NET Framework
11 219 (6.61%) REST
12 214 (6.46%) Leaflet
12 214 (6.46%) OpenLayers
12 214 (6.46%) PostGIS
13 168 (5.07%) Web Services
14 165 (4.98%) JSON
15 124 (3.74%) XML
16 117 (3.53%) Spring
17 99 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
18 98 (2.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 163 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 129 (3.89%) Cloud Native
3 123 (3.71%) Public Cloud
4 116 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 104 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 103 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
8 88 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 84 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 78 (2.35%) Hedge funds
11 74 (2.23%) Mobile App
12 71 (2.14%) Data Structures
13 68 (2.05%) Clustering
14 63 (1.90%) IoT
14 63 (1.90%) Onboarding
15 57 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
17 42 (1.27%) Low-Code
18 37 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
18 37 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 536 (16.17%) Linux
2 324 (9.77%) Windows
3 94 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.69%) Unix
5 55 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 50 (1.51%) Android
7 44 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 29 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
12 21 (0.63%) CentOS
13 18 (0.54%) VMS
14 15 (0.45%) Windows 10
15 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
16 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
17 8 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
18 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
19 5 (0.15%) Debian
19 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,665 (50.23%) Agile
2 1,179 (35.57%) CI/CD
3 922 (27.81%) Software Engineering
4 577 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
5 518 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 503 (15.17%) Scrum
7 406 (12.25%) Microservices
8 404 (12.19%) Continuous Integration
9 380 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 360 (10.86%) Web Development
11 350 (10.56%) Actionable Insight
12 335 (10.11%) Test Automation
13 328 (9.89%) Full Stack Development
14 327 (9.86%) Containerisation
15 298 (8.99%) SDLC
16 273 (8.24%) TDD
17 258 (7.78%) Roadmaps
18 254 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
19 231 (6.97%) Unit Testing
20 224 (6.76%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 973 (29.35%) Python
2 902 (27.21%) JavaScript
3 861 (25.97%) C#
4 672 (20.27%) SQL
5 489 (14.75%) Java
6 277 (8.36%) TypeScript
7 274 (8.27%) PowerShell
8 183 (5.52%) Bash
9 156 (4.71%) Go
10 117 (3.53%) T-SQL
11 99 (2.99%) PHP
12 88 (2.65%) C
13 65 (1.96%) VB.NET
14 62 (1.87%) Bicep
15 60 (1.81%) C++
16 58 (1.75%) Ruby
17 57 (1.72%) Perl
18 54 (1.63%) Groovy
19 46 (1.39%) VB
20 32 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 722 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 526 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 447 (13.48%) Degree
4 163 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 128 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 95 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 89 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (1.24%) DBS Check
12 39 (1.18%) CISSP
13 29 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 28 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
17 16 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
18 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (8.63%) QA
2 56 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (1.27%) NIST
5 39 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.09%) GDPR
7 23 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.36%) NCSC
9 9 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.24%) SLA
11 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.15%) PMO
11 5 (0.15%) WCAG
12 4 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.090%) EMIR
13 3 (0.090%) MiFID
13 3 (0.090%) SEPA
14 2 (0.060%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.030%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 690 (20.81%) Docker
2 153 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 98 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 57 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 55 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 13 (0.39%) vSphere
10 12 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.36%) NFS
11 11 (0.33%) IAG
12 10 (0.30%) pfSense
13 5 (0.15%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.090%) KVM
15 3 (0.090%) XenApp
16 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.030%) Ceph
17 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 756 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 708 (21.36%) Terraform
3 352 (10.62%) Ansible
4 105 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 98 (2.96%) Puppet
6 89 (2.68%) Grafana
7 76 (2.29%) Progress Chef
8 33 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
11 23 (0.69%) Kibana
12 22 (0.66%) SCOM
13 20 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.54%) SCCM
15 17 (0.51%) Packer
15 17 (0.51%) WSUS
16 15 (0.45%) Nagios
17 13 (0.39%) HAProxy
17 13 (0.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 832 (25.10%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.46%) ESRI
3 102 (3.08%) VMware
4 101 (3.05%) Google
5 91 (2.75%) Oracle
6 84 (2.53%) Databricks
7 52 (1.57%) Sitecore
8 39 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.12%) Optimizely
10 36 (1.09%) Splunk
11 32 (0.97%) SAP
12 27 (0.81%) Adobe
13 25 (0.75%) Cisco
13 25 (0.75%) Veeam
14 24 (0.72%) Dell
14 24 (0.72%) IBM
14 24 (0.72%) WSO2
15 22 (0.66%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.63%) Citrix
17 20 (0.60%) Salesforce