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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 100 106
Rank change year-on-year -121 +6 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 501 1,311 2,532
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 3.24% 3.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 3.38% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 387 1,067 1,494
10th Percentile £49,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,180 £61,250
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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,516 £95,000
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 32,493 38,794 68,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 27,614 41,915
10th Percentile £33,009 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £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 £93,750 £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 17 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 17 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.

1 501 (100.00%) DevOps
2 353 (70.46%) CI/CD
3 319 (63.67%) Terraform
4 299 (59.68%) Kubernetes
4 299 (59.68%) AWS
5 288 (57.49%) Azure
6 243 (48.50%) Docker
7 205 (40.92%) Linux
8 202 (40.32%) Agile
9 183 (36.53%) Python
10 179 (35.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 171 (34.13%) Ansible
12 131 (26.15%) Containerisation
13 126 (25.15%) Security Cleared
14 120 (23.95%) Jenkins
15 118 (23.55%) Azure DevOps
16 103 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
17 97 (19.36%) Social Skills
18 95 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
19 91 (18.16%) Windows
20 90 (17.96%) Bash
21 87 (17.37%) PowerShell
22 84 (16.77%) Microsoft
23 83 (16.57%) GCP
24 82 (16.37%) SQL
25 80 (15.97%) Finance
25 80 (15.97%) Scrum
26 79 (15.77%) Continuous Deployment
27 75 (14.97%) Git
28 69 (13.77%) 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 14 (2.79%) nginx
2 6 (1.20%) 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%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) Moodle
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 299 (59.68%) AWS
2 288 (57.49%) Azure
3 118 (23.55%) Azure DevOps
4 83 (16.57%) GCP
5 69 (13.77%) Serverless
6 62 (12.38%) GitHub
7 55 (10.98%) SaaS
8 47 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 36 (7.19%) Amazon S3
12 30 (5.99%) OpenShift
13 29 (5.79%) Azure AKS
14 28 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (4.19%) PaaS
18 17 (3.39%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.78%) DNS
2 35 (6.99%) Firewall
3 22 (4.39%) Network Security
3 22 (4.39%) TCP/IP
4 17 (3.39%) HTTP
5 14 (2.79%) VPN
5 14 (2.79%) WAN
6 12 (2.40%) LAN
7 11 (2.20%) Internet
8 9 (1.80%) SNMP
8 9 (1.80%) tcpdump
9 5 (1.00%) AMQP
10 4 (0.80%) IPv4
10 4 (0.80%) WLAN
11 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.40%) IPsec
12 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.58%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (4.79%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.39%) MySQL
6 17 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.20%) Power BI
10 10 (2.00%) Big Data
10 10 (2.00%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.00%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (1.40%) Redis
13 6 (1.20%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.00%) InfluxDB
14 5 (1.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 120 (23.95%) Jenkins
2 75 (14.97%) Git
3 69 (13.77%) JIRA
4 59 (11.78%) GitLab
5 18 (3.59%) IBM UrbanCode
6 16 (3.19%) TeamCity
7 14 (2.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 13 (2.59%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.20%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.00%) Selenium
11 8 (1.60%) git-flow
11 8 (1.60%) Maven
11 8 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.00%) JUnit
13 5 (1.00%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.60%) Gradle
16 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
16 2 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 97 (19.36%) Social Skills
2 80 (15.97%) Finance
3 54 (10.78%) Aerospace
4 35 (6.99%) Banking
5 23 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.79%) Retail
10 12 (2.40%) Games
11 11 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.80%) Law
13 5 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.80%) Advertising
14 4 (0.80%) Marketing
14 4 (0.80%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.60%) Automotive
15 3 (0.60%) Electronics
15 3 (0.60%) Police
16 2 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
2 33 (6.59%) .NET
3 27 (5.39%) RESTful
4 24 (4.79%) YAML
5 17 (3.39%) Node.js
6 16 (3.19%) JWT
7 13 (2.59%) AWS CDK
8 12 (2.40%) ARM Templates
8 12 (2.40%) Middleware
9 11 (2.20%) JSON
9 11 (2.20%) Kafka
9 11 (2.20%) REST
10 9 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (1.60%) AWS SAM
12 6 (1.20%) React
13 5 (1.00%) XML
14 4 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 4 (0.80%) Lambda Expressions
14 4 (0.80%) Spring
14 4 (0.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.59%) Public Cloud
2 16 (3.19%) Client/Server
3 15 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.79%) Private Cloud
4 14 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.80%) Clustering
8 9 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.60%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.60%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.00%) Online Games
12 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 205 (40.92%) Linux
2 91 (18.16%) Windows
3 9 (1.80%) CentOS
4 8 (1.60%) 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
1 501 (100.00%) DevOps
2 353 (70.46%) CI/CD
3 202 (40.32%) Agile
4 179 (35.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (26.15%) Containerisation
6 103 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
7 95 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (15.97%) Scrum
9 79 (15.77%) Continuous Deployment
10 66 (13.17%) SDLC
11 65 (12.97%) Collaborative Working
12 60 (11.98%) Microservices
13 59 (11.78%) Kanban
14 53 (10.58%) Validation
15 51 (10.18%) Software Engineering
16 49 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
17 47 (9.38%) Configuration Management
17 47 (9.38%) Mentoring
18 45 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
18 45 (8.98%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 183 (36.53%) Python
2 90 (17.96%) Bash
3 87 (17.37%) PowerShell
4 82 (16.37%) SQL
5 49 (9.78%) Java
6 40 (7.98%) Groovy
7 33 (6.59%) Go
8 32 (6.39%) C#
9 23 (4.59%) JavaScript
10 17 (3.39%) Perl
11 16 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.19%) T-SQL
12 13 (2.59%) Ruby
13 10 (2.00%) PHP
14 9 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.80%) U-SQL
15 6 (1.20%) C
16 5 (1.00%) Ada
16 5 (1.00%) C++
17 4 (0.80%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 126 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.18%) DV Cleared
3 52 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 42 (8.38%) Degree
5 27 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (5.19%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.60%) 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 14 (2.79%) 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%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 243 (48.50%) Docker
2 26 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (4.79%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.60%) KVM
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 319 (63.67%) Terraform
2 299 (59.68%) Kubernetes
3 171 (34.13%) Ansible
4 53 (10.58%) Progress Chef
4 53 (10.58%) Puppet
5 45 (8.98%) Grafana
6 26 (5.19%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.40%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (2.20%) Rancher
9 10 (2.00%) Argo
9 10 (2.00%) Consul
10 9 (1.80%) Graphite
10 9 (1.80%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.80%) Nagios
10 9 (1.80%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.60%) Kibana
12 6 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.00%) Packer
14 4 (0.80%) Rundeck
14 4 (0.80%) vRealize
Vendors
1 84 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.19%) Google
2 26 (5.19%) VMware
3 23 (4.59%) Oracle
4 17 (3.39%) IBM
5 12 (2.40%) Databricks
6 8 (1.60%) Cisco
6 8 (1.60%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.60%) Splunk
7 6 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.00%) McAfee
8 5 (1.00%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.80%) Meraki
9 4 (0.80%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.60%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.60%) Remedy
10 3 (0.60%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.60%) Veeam
11 2 (0.40%) Atlassian