DevOps Platform Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary for remote or hybrid work is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 581 616
Rank change year-on-year +198 +35 +193
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 14 11 57
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.094% 0.033% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.034% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 49
10th Percentile - £91,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £92,188 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £102,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% +41.38% +11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £86,500 - £102,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +31.03% +3.57%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

DevOps Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DevOps Platform Engineer.

DevOps Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DevOps Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

DevOps Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) Docker
3 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 12 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (78.57%) Containerisation
4 11 (78.57%) Python
5 10 (71.43%) Terraform
6 9 (64.29%) AWS
7 8 (57.14%) Ansible
8 7 (50.00%) GitLab
9 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
9 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
9 6 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (42.86%) Azure
9 6 (42.86%) REST
9 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
10 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
10 5 (35.71%) Azure AKS
10 5 (35.71%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
10 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
11 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (28.57%) Migration
11 4 (28.57%) Bicep
11 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
11 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
11 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack

DevOps Platform 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) Azure AKS
4 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.14%) Datadog
6 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) GitLab
2 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 6 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) AWS SAM
3 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (78.57%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
5 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
7 1 (7.14%) Client Onboarding
7 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.14%) People Management
7 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Management
7 1 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 4 (28.57%) Bicep
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (71.43%) Terraform
3 8 (57.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft