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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,317 6,216 11,832
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.80% 14.95% 17.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.71% 15.56% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 4,412 7,077
10th Percentile £41,500 £45,036 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £81,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
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 30,965 39,955 66,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.45% 96.10% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 27,739 41,261
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 8 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 (6.45%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.45%) GeoServer
2 107 (3.23%) IIS
3 82 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 77 (2.32%) CMS
5 61 (1.84%) Confluence
6 56 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
7 54 (1.63%) Umbraco
8 51 (1.54%) nginx
9 40 (1.21%) Apache
10 39 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 37 (1.12%) Kentico
11 37 (1.12%) OpenStack
12 36 (1.09%) Headless CMS
13 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
14 25 (0.75%) Apache Spark
15 11 (0.33%) WordPress
16 10 (0.30%) JBoss
17 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
17 9 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 44 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.36%) Simulink
4 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.090%) Trello
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.060%) Notion
9 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.060%) Sketch
9 2 (0.060%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 78 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.21%) 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 2 (0.060%) Magento
5 2 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.060%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.060%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.030%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.030%) Endur
6 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.030%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.030%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,091 (63.04%) Azure
2 1,316 (39.67%) AWS
3 1,017 (30.66%) Azure DevOps
4 339 (10.22%) SaaS
5 304 (9.16%) Serverless
6 289 (8.71%) Power Platform
7 261 (7.87%) GCP
8 212 (6.39%) GitHub
9 174 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
10 166 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
11 155 (4.67%) PaaS
12 125 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
13 108 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 108 (3.26%) PowerApps
14 107 (3.23%) Amazon S3
15 106 (3.20%) IaaS
16 97 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
17 96 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 95 (2.86%) Entra ID
19 93 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 147 (4.43%) Firewall
2 130 (3.92%) DNS
3 70 (2.11%) Network Security
4 65 (1.96%) VPN
5 55 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.21%) WAN
7 37 (1.12%) DHCP
7 37 (1.12%) LAN
8 28 (0.84%) HTTP
9 27 (0.81%) Internet
10 15 (0.45%) Unified Communications
11 14 (0.42%) SAN
12 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 12 (0.36%) NGFW
13 12 (0.36%) SSL
14 10 (0.30%) 5G
14 10 (0.30%) SNMP
14 10 (0.30%) tcpdump
15 9 (0.27%) WLAN
16 8 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 350 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.54%) GIS
4 214 (6.45%) QGIS
5 132 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 120 (3.62%) MySQL
7 117 (3.53%) Power BI
8 103 (3.11%) NoSQL
9 101 (3.04%) Big Data
9 101 (3.04%) Data Lake
10 89 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
11 81 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 77 (2.32%) MongoDB
13 63 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
14 51 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 48 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
16 47 (1.42%) RDBMS
17 45 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (1.30%) Dremio
18 43 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 487 (14.68%) Git
2 329 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 216 (6.51%) JIRA
4 172 (5.19%) GitLab
5 122 (3.68%) Visual Studio
6 72 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 64 (1.93%) Selenium
8 61 (1.84%) Postman
9 46 (1.39%) TeamCity
10 45 (1.36%) Jasmine
11 41 (1.24%) JUnit
12 36 (1.09%) JDeveloper
13 31 (0.93%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.87%) JMeter
14 29 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
15 28 (0.84%) IBM UrbanCode
15 28 (0.84%) SpecFlow
16 27 (0.81%) SonarQube
17 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
18 23 (0.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 699 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 650 (19.60%) Finance
3 176 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (5.03%) Banking
5 144 (4.34%) Retail
6 125 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 112 (3.38%) Law
8 98 (2.95%) Legal
9 94 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (2.02%) Marketing
11 61 (1.84%) Aerospace
12 48 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.15%) Automotive
15 37 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 29 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (0.84%) Games
18 26 (0.78%) Electronics
19 25 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 947 (28.55%) Developer
2 901 (27.16%) Senior
3 507 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 495 (14.92%) Software Engineer
5 368 (11.09%) Lead
6 290 (8.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 276 (8.32%) Senior Developer
8 211 (6.36%) .NET Developer
9 179 (5.40%) Software Developer
10 170 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
11 153 (4.61%) Architect
12 149 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
13 137 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 129 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 127 (3.83%) C# Developer
16 123 (3.71%) Full Stack Developer
17 111 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
18 110 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 108 (3.26%) Data Engineer
20 86 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 916 (27.62%) .NET
2 622 (18.75%) React
3 446 (13.45%) CSS
4 418 (12.60%) .NET Core
5 302 (9.10%) AngularJS
6 289 (8.71%) HTML
7 281 (8.47%) Node.js
8 261 (7.87%) RESTful
9 248 (7.48%) ASP.NET
10 239 (7.21%) .NET Framework
11 228 (6.87%) REST
12 216 (6.51%) PostGIS
13 214 (6.45%) Leaflet
13 214 (6.45%) OpenLayers
14 180 (5.43%) JSON
15 165 (4.97%) Web Services
16 125 (3.77%) XML
17 123 (3.71%) Spring
18 109 (3.29%) SOAP
19 100 (3.01%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 169 (5.09%) Product Ownership
2 139 (4.19%) Public Cloud
3 134 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 114 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
5 110 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
6 101 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
7 100 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 96 (2.89%) Private Cloud
9 90 (2.71%) Management Information System
10 74 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 74 (2.23%) Mobile App
11 64 (1.93%) Hedge funds
12 63 (1.90%) IoT
12 63 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 56 (1.69%) Clustering
13 56 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
14 50 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
15 44 (1.33%) Low-Code
16 39 (1.18%) Virtual Team
17 36 (1.09%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 552 (16.64%) Linux
2 333 (10.04%) Windows
3 100 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.66%) Ubuntu
5 54 (1.63%) Unix
6 49 (1.48%) Android
7 45 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 43 (1.30%) Apple iOS
9 27 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.66%) CentOS
12 19 (0.57%) VMS
13 16 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
15 13 (0.39%) Windows 10
16 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
17 6 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.15%) AIX
18 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,701 (51.28%) Agile
2 1,187 (35.79%) CI/CD
3 931 (28.07%) Software Engineering
4 594 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
5 533 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 512 (15.44%) Scrum
7 432 (13.02%) Continuous Integration
8 431 (12.99%) Microservices
9 383 (11.55%) Mentoring
10 380 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
11 365 (11.00%) Web Development
12 353 (10.64%) Containerisation
13 332 (10.01%) Test Automation
14 306 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
15 302 (9.10%) SDLC
16 269 (8.11%) TDD
17 255 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
18 252 (7.60%) Roadmaps
19 247 (7.45%) Unit Testing
20 213 (6.42%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 984 (29.67%) Python
2 901 (27.16%) JavaScript
3 850 (25.63%) C#
4 683 (20.59%) SQL
5 504 (15.19%) Java
6 266 (8.02%) PowerShell
7 265 (7.99%) TypeScript
8 218 (6.57%) Bash
9 169 (5.09%) Go
10 116 (3.50%) T-SQL
11 105 (3.17%) PHP
12 89 (2.68%) Perl
13 87 (2.62%) Ruby
14 81 (2.44%) C
15 67 (2.02%) VB.NET
16 59 (1.78%) Groovy
17 54 (1.63%) Bicep
18 47 (1.42%) C++
19 43 (1.30%) VB
20 37 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 700 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 514 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 439 (13.23%) Degree
4 147 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 83 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 81 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 63 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.18%) CISSP
11 39 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 25 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 25 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 24 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 20 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
16 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
17 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (9.41%) QA
2 54 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 47 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 40 (1.21%) NIST
6 32 (0.96%) GDPR
7 21 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.33%) NCSC
9 9 (0.27%) SLA
10 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.18%) PMO
12 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.15%) WCAG
13 3 (0.090%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.090%) SEPA
14 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.060%) HL7
15 1 (0.030%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.030%) MiFID
15 1 (0.030%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 709 (21.37%) Docker
2 149 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 91 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 74 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 52 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 16 (0.48%) vSphere
10 12 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.33%) IAG
11 11 (0.33%) NFS
12 10 (0.30%) pfSense
13 6 (0.18%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.090%) KVM
15 3 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.090%) XenApp
16 2 (0.060%) Apache Flume
17 1 (0.030%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 725 (21.86%) Kubernetes
2 693 (20.89%) Terraform
3 350 (10.55%) Ansible
4 105 (3.17%) Puppet
5 91 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 89 (2.68%) Grafana
7 86 (2.59%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 24 (0.72%) Kibana
12 22 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.57%) SCOM
15 17 (0.51%) Packer
16 16 (0.48%) Nagios
16 16 (0.48%) SCCM
17 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
17 14 (0.42%) WSUS
18 13 (0.39%) Consul
Vendors
1 837 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.45%) ESRI
3 139 (4.19%) Google
4 125 (3.77%) Oracle
5 107 (3.23%) VMware
6 90 (2.71%) Databricks
7 51 (1.54%) Sitecore
8 37 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.09%) Optimizely
9 36 (1.09%) Splunk
10 35 (1.06%) IBM
11 32 (0.96%) Adobe
12 30 (0.90%) SAP
13 27 (0.81%) Citrix
13 27 (0.81%) WSO2
14 26 (0.78%) Red Hat
14 26 (0.78%) Veeam
15 25 (0.75%) Cisco
15 25 (0.75%) Dell
16 19 (0.57%) New Relic