DevOps Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 89 110
Rank change year-on-year -147 +21 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 367 1,161 2,791
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 3.54% 3.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 3.69% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 269 988 1,485
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £68,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.33% - +15.38%

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 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £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 £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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.

1 367 (100.00%) DevOps
2 244 (66.49%) AWS
3 224 (61.04%) CI/CD
4 218 (59.40%) Kubernetes
5 205 (55.86%) Terraform
6 196 (53.41%) Azure
7 176 (47.96%) Docker
8 136 (37.06%) Python
9 130 (35.42%) Linux
10 125 (34.06%) Agile
11 116 (31.61%) Ansible
12 104 (28.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 104 (28.34%) Security Cleared
13 100 (27.25%) Containerisation
14 87 (23.71%) Azure DevOps
15 71 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
15 71 (19.35%) Scrum
16 66 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
17 65 (17.71%) Jenkins
18 59 (16.08%) SDLC
19 57 (15.53%) PowerShell
20 56 (15.26%) JIRA
21 55 (14.99%) Continuous Deployment
22 53 (14.44%) Social Skills
23 51 (13.90%) Collaborative Working
23 51 (13.90%) DV Cleared
24 50 (13.62%) SQL
25 49 (13.35%) Kanban
25 49 (13.35%) Serverless
25 49 (13.35%) DevSecOps

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 11 (3.00%) nginx
2 8 (2.18%) IIS
3 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.54%) Apache
4 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) Moodle
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 244 (66.49%) AWS
2 196 (53.41%) Azure
3 87 (23.71%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (13.35%) Serverless
5 47 (12.81%) SaaS
6 41 (11.17%) GitHub
7 34 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (8.99%) Amazon S3
9 32 (8.72%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (6.81%) GCP
11 24 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (5.72%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (4.90%) Azure AKS
14 16 (4.36%) PaaS
15 14 (3.81%) IaaS
16 12 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (3.27%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (3.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.90%) Firewall
2 17 (4.63%) Network Security
3 10 (2.72%) DNS
4 6 (1.63%) WAN
5 5 (1.36%) AMQP
5 5 (1.36%) LAN
6 3 (0.82%) Internet
7 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.27%) HTTP
8 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.27%) SNMP
8 1 (0.27%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.27%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) VSAN
8 1 (0.27%) Wireless
8 1 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (6.54%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.18%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (4.09%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.81%) Big Data
7 11 (3.00%) Hadoop
7 11 (3.00%) MySQL
8 10 (2.72%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.72%) Power BI
9 9 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 7 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.36%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.36%) Redis
12 4 (1.09%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.09%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 65 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 56 (15.26%) JIRA
3 44 (11.99%) Git
4 42 (11.44%) GitLab
5 14 (3.81%) SonarQube
6 13 (3.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (2.72%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.91%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.36%) Selenium
10 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.82%) JUnit
11 3 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.27%) GoCD
13 1 (0.27%) Gradle
13 1 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.27%) MSBuild
13 1 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
13 1 (0.27%) Spinnaker
General
1 53 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.81%) Aerospace
3 36 (9.81%) Finance
4 17 (4.63%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.54%) Banking
7 8 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.63%) Games
9 4 (1.09%) Law
9 4 (1.09%) Retail
10 3 (0.82%) Advertising
10 3 (0.82%) Automotive
10 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.27%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.27%) Legal
12 1 (0.27%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.81%) .NET
2 17 (4.63%) Node.js
3 16 (4.36%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.54%) Kafka
5 12 (3.27%) RESTful
6 11 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (2.45%) AWS CDK
8 8 (2.18%) AWS SAM
9 7 (1.91%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (1.91%) YAML
10 6 (1.63%) React
10 6 (1.63%) REST
10 6 (1.63%) SAML
11 5 (1.36%) Loki
12 4 (1.09%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.09%) JSON
12 4 (1.09%) Middleware
13 3 (0.82%) ADO
13 3 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.09%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.09%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.82%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.82%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.54%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 130 (35.42%) Linux
2 40 (10.90%) Windows
3 8 (2.18%) CentOS
4 5 (1.36%) Unix
5 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.09%) VMS
5 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (100.00%) DevOps
2 224 (61.04%) CI/CD
3 125 (34.06%) Agile
4 104 (28.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (27.25%) Containerisation
6 71 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
6 71 (19.35%) Scrum
7 66 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (16.08%) SDLC
9 55 (14.99%) Continuous Deployment
10 51 (13.90%) Collaborative Working
11 49 (13.35%) DevSecOps
11 49 (13.35%) Kanban
12 48 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
13 47 (12.81%) Software Engineering
14 46 (12.53%) Validation
15 38 (10.35%) Actionable Insight
16 35 (9.54%) Microservices
17 34 (9.26%) Fintech
17 34 (9.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 136 (37.06%) Python
2 57 (15.53%) PowerShell
3 50 (13.62%) SQL
4 45 (12.26%) Bash
5 39 (10.63%) Java
6 26 (7.08%) C#
7 15 (4.09%) Go
8 12 (3.27%) Groovy
8 12 (3.27%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (2.45%) U-SQL
10 8 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.91%) Perl
12 6 (1.63%) PHP
13 4 (1.09%) Bicep
13 4 (1.09%) C++
13 4 (1.09%) Ruby
13 4 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 51 (13.90%) DV Cleared
3 38 (10.35%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.90%) Degree
5 27 (7.36%) AWS Certification
6 22 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.27%) OCP
13 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.09%) QA
2 7 (1.91%) NCSC
3 4 (1.09%) Solvency II
4 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.82%) NIST
4 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 176 (47.96%) Docker
2 10 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.18%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.54%) KVM
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 218 (59.40%) Kubernetes
2 205 (55.86%) Terraform
3 116 (31.61%) Ansible
4 25 (6.81%) Puppet
5 24 (6.54%) Progress Chef
6 18 (4.90%) Grafana
7 14 (3.81%) Prometheus
8 12 (3.27%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (1.91%) Consul
10 5 (1.36%) Argo
11 4 (1.09%) Rundeck
12 3 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.82%) Podman
12 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.54%) Packer
13 2 (0.54%) Salt
13 2 (0.54%) vRealize
14 1 (0.27%) Graphite
14 1 (0.27%) Kibana
14 1 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.09%) VMware
3 13 (3.54%) Oracle
4 9 (2.45%) Databricks
5 8 (2.18%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.18%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.91%) Google
7 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.09%) Splunk
8 4 (1.09%) Veracode
9 3 (0.82%) Cisco
9 3 (0.82%) ForgeRock
9 3 (0.82%) Remedy
9 3 (0.82%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.54%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.54%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.27%) Adaptive Insights
11 1 (0.27%) Jitterbit
11 1 (0.27%) Workday
11 1 (0.27%) xMatters