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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 105 106
Rank change year-on-year -115 +1 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 506 1,329 2,429
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 3.14% 3.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 3.27% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 393 1,078 1,514
10th Percentile £49,000 £52,425 £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 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,288 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.28% +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 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £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 £92,500 £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 5 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 5 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.

1 506 (100.00%) DevOps
2 355 (70.16%) CI/CD
3 320 (63.24%) Terraform
4 301 (59.49%) Kubernetes
5 297 (58.70%) AWS
6 291 (57.51%) Azure
7 243 (48.02%) Docker
8 212 (41.90%) Linux
9 200 (39.53%) Agile
10 188 (37.15%) Python
11 182 (35.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 168 (33.20%) Ansible
13 128 (25.30%) Security Cleared
13 128 (25.30%) Containerisation
14 121 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
15 118 (23.32%) Jenkins
16 107 (21.15%) Continuous Integration
17 98 (19.37%) Social Skills
18 95 (18.77%) Bash
18 95 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
19 94 (18.58%) Windows
20 93 (18.38%) GCP
21 88 (17.39%) Finance
21 88 (17.39%) PowerShell
22 83 (16.40%) Continuous Deployment
23 81 (16.01%) SQL
24 80 (15.81%) Microsoft
24 80 (15.81%) Scrum
25 76 (15.02%) Git
26 73 (14.43%) 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 (2.96%) nginx
2 8 (1.58%) Confluence
3 4 (0.79%) IIS
4 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.59%) Drupal
4 3 (0.59%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Magento
1 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 297 (58.70%) AWS
2 291 (57.51%) Azure
3 121 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (18.38%) GCP
5 73 (14.43%) Serverless
6 63 (12.45%) GitHub
7 56 (11.07%) SaaS
8 50 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (8.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 36 (7.11%) Amazon S3
12 32 (6.32%) Azure AKS
13 31 (6.13%) OpenShift
14 29 (5.73%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (3.95%) PaaS
19 17 (3.36%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 42 (8.30%) DNS
2 37 (7.31%) Firewall
3 25 (4.94%) TCP/IP
4 20 (3.95%) Network Security
5 17 (3.36%) HTTP
6 15 (2.96%) VPN
7 14 (2.77%) WAN
8 12 (2.37%) Internet
8 12 (2.37%) LAN
9 10 (1.98%) SNMP
9 10 (1.98%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.99%) AMQP
11 4 (0.79%) IPv4
11 4 (0.79%) WLAN
12 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.40%) IPsec
12 2 (0.40%) SSL
13 1 (0.20%) BGP
13 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.55%) MySQL
5 22 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.17%) Big Data
9 11 (2.17%) Power BI
10 8 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.58%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 5 (0.99%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.99%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.99%) Redis
13 4 (0.79%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 118 (23.32%) Jenkins
2 76 (15.02%) Git
3 70 (13.83%) JIRA
4 57 (11.26%) GitLab
5 18 (3.56%) IBM UrbanCode
6 17 (3.36%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.96%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.57%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (2.17%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.98%) git-flow
10 10 (1.98%) Selenium
11 8 (1.58%) Maven
11 8 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.99%) JUnit
13 5 (0.99%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.59%) Gradle
15 3 (0.59%) Travis CI
16 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
General
1 98 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.39%) Finance
3 51 (10.08%) Aerospace
4 39 (7.71%) Banking
5 24 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.77%) Retail
9 12 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.17%) Games
11 9 (1.78%) Law
12 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.79%) Advertising
13 4 (0.79%) Marketing
13 4 (0.79%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.59%) Automotive
14 3 (0.59%) Electronics
14 3 (0.59%) Police
15 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.91%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (6.72%) .NET
3 27 (5.34%) YAML
4 25 (4.94%) RESTful
5 18 (3.56%) Node.js
6 16 (3.16%) JWT
7 14 (2.77%) Middleware
8 13 (2.57%) JSON
9 12 (2.37%) ARM Templates
9 12 (2.37%) AWS CDK
9 12 (2.37%) Kafka
10 10 (1.98%) REST
11 8 (1.58%) AWS SAM
11 8 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (1.58%) React
12 6 (1.19%) .NET Core
13 5 (0.99%) XML
14 4 (0.79%) ADO
14 4 (0.79%) Spring
14 4 (0.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.93%) Public Cloud
2 16 (3.16%) Client/Server
3 15 (2.96%) Cloud Native
3 15 (2.96%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.57%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.37%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.98%) Clustering
8 8 (1.58%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.58%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.99%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.99%) Online Games
11 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 212 (41.90%) Linux
2 94 (18.58%) Windows
3 9 (1.78%) CentOS
3 9 (1.78%) VMS
4 6 (1.19%) Unix
5 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (100.00%) DevOps
2 355 (70.16%) CI/CD
3 200 (39.53%) Agile
4 182 (35.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (25.30%) Containerisation
6 107 (21.15%) Continuous Integration
7 95 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (16.40%) Continuous Deployment
9 80 (15.81%) Scrum
10 65 (12.85%) Collaborative Working
11 64 (12.65%) SDLC
12 60 (11.86%) Kanban
13 59 (11.66%) Microservices
14 53 (10.47%) Software Engineering
15 52 (10.28%) Validation
16 51 (10.08%) Actionable Insight
17 49 (9.68%) Configuration Management
18 48 (9.49%) Mentoring
19 46 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
20 45 (8.89%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 188 (37.15%) Python
2 95 (18.77%) Bash
3 88 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 81 (16.01%) SQL
5 52 (10.28%) Java
6 39 (7.71%) Groovy
7 34 (6.72%) C#
8 33 (6.52%) Go
9 24 (4.74%) JavaScript
10 19 (3.75%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.56%) Perl
12 16 (3.16%) T-SQL
13 14 (2.77%) Ruby
14 12 (2.37%) PHP
15 7 (1.38%) C++
15 7 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (1.38%) U-SQL
16 6 (1.19%) C
17 5 (0.99%) Ada
18 4 (0.79%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 128 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.87%) DV Cleared
3 52 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 42 (8.30%) Degree
5 25 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.38%) 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 16 (3.16%) QA
2 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.59%) GDPR
2 3 (0.59%) NIST
2 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.20%) NCSC
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 243 (48.02%) Docker
2 27 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (4.74%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.59%) KVM
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 320 (63.24%) Terraform
2 301 (59.49%) Kubernetes
3 168 (33.20%) Ansible
4 51 (10.08%) Progress Chef
5 50 (9.88%) Puppet
6 49 (9.68%) Grafana
7 28 (5.53%) Prometheus
8 12 (2.37%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (2.17%) Rancher
10 10 (1.98%) Argo
10 10 (1.98%) Graphite
10 10 (1.98%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.98%) Nagios
10 10 (1.98%) vCenter Server
11 9 (1.78%) Consul
12 8 (1.58%) Kibana
13 6 (1.19%) Istio
14 5 (0.99%) Packer
15 4 (0.79%) Rundeck
15 4 (0.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 80 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.13%) Google
3 25 (4.94%) Oracle
3 25 (4.94%) VMware
4 17 (3.36%) IBM
5 10 (1.98%) Databricks
6 8 (1.58%) Cisco
6 8 (1.58%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.58%) Splunk
7 7 (1.38%) McAfee
8 6 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.99%) SaltStack
9 5 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.79%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.79%) Meraki
10 4 (0.79%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.59%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.59%) Remedy
11 3 (0.59%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.59%) Veeam