DevOps Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 237 93
Rank change year-on-year +8 -144 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 288 427 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.37% 1.30% 3.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.35% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 183 307 1,042
10th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £48,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £98,125 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 19,266 31,694 33,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 96.16% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10,684 23,670 25,250
10th Percentile £25,267 £32,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 288 (100.00%) DevOps
2 219 (76.04%) Terraform
3 218 (75.69%) AWS
4 213 (73.96%) Python
5 155 (53.82%) CI/CD
6 137 (47.57%) Kubernetes
7 135 (46.88%) Docker
7 135 (46.88%) Serverless
8 126 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
9 112 (38.89%) Social Skills
10 105 (36.46%) Deployment Automation
11 94 (32.64%) Azure
12 92 (31.94%) Cybersecurity
13 91 (31.60%) Active Directory
14 89 (30.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 88 (30.56%) Management Information System
15 88 (30.56%) Onboarding
16 84 (29.17%) Roadmaps
17 83 (28.82%) Web Services
17 83 (28.82%) SSH
18 82 (28.47%) Vulnerability Assessment
18 82 (28.47%) PKI
18 82 (28.47%) Use Case
18 82 (28.47%) Broadband
18 82 (28.47%) SSL
18 82 (28.47%) Cyber Threat
18 82 (28.47%) Cyberattack
18 82 (28.47%) RESTful
18 82 (28.47%) Containerisation
18 82 (28.47%) Key Management

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 36 (12.50%) Apache
2 33 (11.46%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (11.46%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.08%) nginx
4 5 (1.74%) Confluence
4 5 (1.74%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 218 (75.69%) AWS
2 135 (46.88%) Serverless
3 126 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
4 94 (32.64%) Azure
5 58 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (17.36%) GitHub
7 43 (14.93%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (14.24%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (13.54%) OpenShift
10 33 (11.46%) dbt
11 26 (9.03%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (8.33%) GCP
13 20 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (5.90%) Azure AKS
16 14 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (4.51%) SaaS
18 12 (4.17%) Amazon S3
19 10 (3.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 83 (28.82%) SSH
2 82 (28.47%) Broadband
2 82 (28.47%) SSL
3 7 (2.43%) Firewall
4 3 (1.04%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) DNS
5 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.46%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (11.46%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (11.46%) Apache Iceberg
1 33 (11.46%) Apache Ignite
1 33 (11.46%) Dremio
2 8 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.74%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.74%) MySQL
5 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.35%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (14.58%) Artifactory
2 41 (14.24%) Jenkins
3 37 (12.85%) SonarQube
4 32 (11.11%) GitLab
5 27 (9.38%) Git
6 21 (7.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (4.86%) JIRA
8 8 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (2.78%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.43%) IBM UrbanCode
9 7 (2.43%) Selenium
10 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.35%) JMeter
13 1 (0.35%) Maven
13 1 (0.35%) MSBuild
13 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.35%) TestRail
General
1 112 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.96%) Finance
3 33 (11.46%) Front Office
4 16 (5.56%) Banking
5 10 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.47%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.39%) Retail
8 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.04%) Marketing
8 3 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Electronics
9 2 (0.69%) Games
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Automotive
10 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (28.82%) Web Services
2 82 (28.47%) RESTful
3 42 (14.58%) Kafka
4 33 (11.46%) J2EE
4 33 (11.46%) PySpark
5 19 (6.60%) REST
6 16 (5.56%) .NET
6 16 (5.56%) React
7 13 (4.51%) ARM Templates
7 13 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.74%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (1.74%) Loki
9 5 (1.74%) Node.js
10 3 (1.04%) AWS CDK
10 3 (1.04%) Django
10 3 (1.04%) FastAPI
10 3 (1.04%) Flask
10 3 (1.04%) JSON
10 3 (1.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 88 (30.56%) Management Information System
1 88 (30.56%) Onboarding
2 82 (28.47%) Cyber Threat
2 82 (28.47%) Cyberattack
2 82 (28.47%) PKI
3 25 (8.68%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.43%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.04%) IoT
8 3 (1.04%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.35%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.35%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.54%) Linux
2 15 (5.21%) Windows
3 6 (2.08%) Unix
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.04%) Debian
5 3 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.69%) CentOS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (100.00%) DevOps
2 155 (53.82%) CI/CD
3 105 (36.46%) Deployment Automation
4 92 (31.94%) Cybersecurity
5 84 (29.17%) Roadmaps
6 82 (28.47%) Containerisation
6 82 (28.47%) Key Management
6 82 (28.47%) Programme Delivery
6 82 (28.47%) Use Case
6 82 (28.47%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 79 (27.43%) Agile
7 79 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 56 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 50 (17.36%) Software Engineering
10 40 (13.89%) Open Source
11 39 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (11.81%) Data Engineering
13 33 (11.46%) Asset Management
14 31 (10.76%) Observability
15 26 (9.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 213 (73.96%) Python
2 57 (19.79%) Java
3 56 (19.44%) Go
4 48 (16.67%) Bash
5 36 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.47%) Bicep
8 9 (3.13%) C#
8 9 (3.13%) SQL
8 9 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.43%) Groovy
10 5 (1.74%) Perl
11 4 (1.39%) PHP
12 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.69%) C
14 1 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.35%) Ruby
14 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.43%) Degree
4 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.04%) OCP
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (30.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (28.47%) NIST
3 17 (5.90%) QA
4 5 (1.74%) NCSC
5 4 (1.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 135 (46.88%) Docker
2 91 (31.60%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 219 (76.04%) Terraform
2 137 (47.57%) Kubernetes
3 60 (20.83%) Ansible
4 35 (12.15%) Prometheus
5 28 (9.72%) Grafana
6 9 (3.13%) Istio
7 5 (1.74%) Puppet
8 4 (1.39%) Argo
8 4 (1.39%) Kibana
9 3 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.04%) Nagios
9 3 (1.04%) Packer
9 3 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.69%) Salt
11 1 (0.35%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.35%) logstash
11 1 (0.35%) Rancher
11 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (28.47%) Thales
2 10 (3.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.47%) VMware
3 8 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.08%) Confluent
4 6 (2.08%) IBM
5 4 (1.39%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.39%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.39%) Splunk
6 3 (1.04%) Commvault
6 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.69%) Databricks
7 2 (0.69%) Pega
7 2 (0.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Imperva
8 1 (0.35%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.35%) New Relic
8 1 (0.35%) Okta
8 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds