DevOps Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Work from Home is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 101 103
Rank change year-on-year -118 +2 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 503 1,316 2,483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 3.17% 3.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 3.30% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 389 1,071 1,515
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,295 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,770 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,025 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer.

DevOps Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

DevOps Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 jobs with remote work options featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 503 (100.00%) DevOps
2 352 (69.98%) CI/CD
3 319 (63.42%) Terraform
4 300 (59.64%) Kubernetes
5 297 (59.05%) AWS
6 290 (57.65%) Azure
7 242 (48.11%) Docker
8 209 (41.55%) Linux
9 200 (39.76%) Agile
10 186 (36.98%) Python
11 182 (36.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 170 (33.80%) Ansible
13 128 (25.45%) Containerisation
14 127 (25.25%) Security Cleared
15 120 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
16 117 (23.26%) Jenkins
17 107 (21.27%) Continuous Integration
18 97 (19.28%) Social Skills
19 96 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
20 94 (18.69%) Bash
21 93 (18.49%) Windows
22 90 (17.89%) GCP
23 88 (17.50%) PowerShell
24 85 (16.90%) Finance
25 84 (16.70%) Continuous Deployment
26 81 (16.10%) Scrum
26 81 (16.10%) SQL
27 80 (15.90%) Microsoft
28 76 (15.11%) Git
29 71 (14.12%) Serverless

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 15 (2.98%) nginx
2 6 (1.19%) Confluence
3 4 (0.80%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.40%) Drupal
5 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) WordPress
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Moodle
6 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Magento
1 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 297 (59.05%) AWS
2 290 (57.65%) Azure
3 120 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (17.89%) GCP
5 71 (14.12%) Serverless
6 62 (12.33%) GitHub
7 55 (10.93%) SaaS
8 49 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (7.36%) Amazon S3
12 32 (6.36%) Azure AKS
13 31 (6.16%) OpenShift
14 29 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (3.98%) PaaS
19 17 (3.38%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.95%) DNS
2 37 (7.36%) Firewall
3 23 (4.57%) TCP/IP
4 20 (3.98%) Network Security
5 17 (3.38%) HTTP
6 15 (2.98%) VPN
7 14 (2.78%) WAN
8 12 (2.39%) Internet
8 12 (2.39%) LAN
9 10 (1.99%) SNMP
9 10 (1.99%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.99%) AMQP
11 4 (0.80%) IPv4
11 4 (0.80%) WLAN
12 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.40%) IPsec
13 1 (0.20%) BGP
13 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.35%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (4.77%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.37%) MySQL
6 17 (3.38%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.19%) Big Data
11 9 (1.79%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.79%) Power BI
12 8 (1.59%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (1.19%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.19%) Redis
15 5 (0.99%) InfluxDB
16 4 (0.80%) DynamoDB
17 3 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 117 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 76 (15.11%) Git
3 69 (13.72%) JIRA
4 56 (11.13%) GitLab
5 18 (3.58%) IBM UrbanCode
6 16 (3.18%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.98%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.58%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (2.19%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.99%) git-flow
10 10 (1.99%) Selenium
11 8 (1.59%) Maven
11 8 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.99%) JUnit
13 5 (0.99%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.60%) Gradle
15 3 (0.60%) Travis CI
16 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
General
1 97 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 85 (16.90%) Finance
3 52 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 37 (7.36%) Banking
5 24 (4.77%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.78%) Retail
9 12 (2.39%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.19%) Games
11 9 (1.79%) Law
12 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.80%) Advertising
13 4 (0.80%) Marketing
13 4 (0.80%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.60%) Automotive
14 3 (0.60%) Electronics
14 3 (0.60%) Police
15 2 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.35%) Elastic Stack
2 33 (6.56%) .NET
3 27 (5.37%) YAML
4 25 (4.97%) RESTful
5 19 (3.78%) Node.js
6 16 (3.18%) JWT
7 13 (2.58%) JSON
7 13 (2.58%) Middleware
8 12 (2.39%) ARM Templates
8 12 (2.39%) AWS CDK
8 12 (2.39%) Kafka
9 10 (1.99%) REST
10 8 (1.59%) AWS SAM
10 8 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (1.59%) React
11 6 (1.19%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.99%) XML
13 4 (0.80%) ADO
13 4 (0.80%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.57%) Public Cloud
2 16 (3.18%) Client/Server
3 15 (2.98%) Cloud Native
3 15 (2.98%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.58%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.58%) Private Cloud
5 12 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.99%) Clustering
8 8 (1.59%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.59%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.99%) Online Games
11 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 209 (41.55%) Linux
2 93 (18.49%) Windows
3 9 (1.79%) CentOS
4 8 (1.59%) VMS
5 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.80%) Unix
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (100.00%) DevOps
2 352 (69.98%) CI/CD
3 200 (39.76%) Agile
4 182 (36.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (25.45%) Containerisation
6 107 (21.27%) Continuous Integration
7 96 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (16.70%) Continuous Deployment
9 81 (16.10%) Scrum
10 65 (12.92%) Collaborative Working
10 65 (12.92%) SDLC
11 61 (12.13%) Kanban
12 59 (11.73%) Microservices
13 53 (10.54%) Validation
14 52 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 51 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
16 47 (9.34%) Configuration Management
16 47 (9.34%) Mentoring
17 46 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (9.15%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 186 (36.98%) Python
2 94 (18.69%) Bash
3 88 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 81 (16.10%) SQL
5 51 (10.14%) Java
6 38 (7.55%) Groovy
7 32 (6.36%) C#
7 32 (6.36%) Go
8 24 (4.77%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.98%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.58%) Perl
11 16 (3.18%) T-SQL
12 13 (2.58%) Ruby
13 11 (2.19%) PHP
14 7 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.39%) U-SQL
15 6 (1.19%) C
15 6 (1.19%) C++
16 5 (0.99%) Ada
17 4 (0.80%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 127 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.13%) DV Cleared
3 51 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 42 (8.35%) Degree
5 26 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.20%) OCP
14 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.98%) QA
2 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.60%) NIST
2 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.20%) NCSC
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 242 (48.11%) Docker
2 26 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (4.97%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.18%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.60%) KVM
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 319 (63.42%) Terraform
2 300 (59.64%) Kubernetes
3 170 (33.80%) Ansible
4 51 (10.14%) Progress Chef
5 50 (9.94%) Puppet
6 48 (9.54%) Grafana
7 27 (5.37%) Prometheus
8 12 (2.39%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (2.19%) Rancher
10 10 (1.99%) Argo
10 10 (1.99%) Graphite
10 10 (1.99%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.99%) Nagios
10 10 (1.99%) vCenter Server
11 9 (1.79%) Consul
12 8 (1.59%) Kibana
13 6 (1.19%) Istio
14 5 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.99%) Packer
15 4 (0.80%) vRealize
Vendors
1 80 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.16%) Google
3 26 (5.17%) VMware
4 24 (4.77%) Oracle
5 17 (3.38%) IBM
6 10 (1.99%) Databricks
7 8 (1.59%) Cisco
7 8 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.59%) Splunk
8 7 (1.39%) McAfee
9 6 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.99%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.80%) Meraki
11 4 (0.80%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.60%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.60%) Remedy
12 3 (0.60%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.60%) Veeam
13 2 (0.40%) Atlassian