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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 11 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,404 8,727 8,246
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 16.02% 16.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.74% 16.67% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 5,908 6,487
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +11.57%

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 21,624 52,355 48,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.42% 96.11% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,831 36,601 36,140
10th Percentile £36,270 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,306 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,070 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% +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 6 December 2023.

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
1 131 (3.85%) Confluence
2 58 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.97%) CMS
3 33 (0.97%) Tomcat
4 27 (0.79%) nginx
5 23 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 23 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 21 (0.62%) Apache
7 20 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 19 (0.56%) Drupal
9 15 (0.44%) IIS
9 15 (0.44%) Jetty
10 13 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 13 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.35%) JBoss
12 11 (0.32%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
14 7 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.18%) MS Exchange
16 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.059%) Simulink
7 2 (0.059%) Trello
8 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.029%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.029%) PrintSoft PReS
8 1 (0.029%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 108 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.97%) Unit4 Business World
3 5 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.059%) Magento
4 2 (0.059%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.059%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.059%) Shopify
4 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.029%) Endur
5 1 (0.029%) iTrent
5 1 (0.029%) PlanetPress Connect
5 1 (0.029%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,970 (57.87%) Azure
2 1,126 (33.08%) AWS
3 1,079 (31.70%) Azure DevOps
4 496 (14.57%) GCP
5 442 (12.98%) Power Platform
6 371 (10.90%) Serverless
7 348 (10.22%) Dynamics 365
8 259 (7.61%) PaaS
9 245 (7.20%) GitHub
10 210 (6.17%) SaaS
11 186 (5.46%) IaaS
12 127 (3.73%) OpenShift
13 119 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 112 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
15 93 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
16 87 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
17 86 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
18 80 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
18 80 (2.35%) Entra ID
19 66 (1.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.35%) Firewall
2 97 (2.85%) DNS
3 69 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.94%) VPN
5 55 (1.62%) Internet
6 39 (1.15%) Network Security
7 28 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 28 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (0.71%) DHCP
8 24 (0.71%) WAN
9 23 (0.68%) NGFW
10 20 (0.59%) HTTP
10 20 (0.59%) SSL
11 19 (0.56%) IPv4
12 15 (0.44%) VLAN
13 14 (0.41%) OSPF
14 12 (0.35%) SAN
15 11 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
16 10 (0.29%) 5G
16 10 (0.29%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 208 (6.11%) Power BI
3 165 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 134 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 123 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
6 122 (3.58%) Oracle Database
7 118 (3.47%) Big Data
8 108 (3.17%) MongoDB
9 105 (3.08%) RDBMS
10 96 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 74 (2.17%) MySQL
12 73 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
12 73 (2.14%) Data Lake
12 73 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 59 (1.73%) Redis
14 54 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 51 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 49 (1.44%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 538 (15.80%) Git
2 506 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 278 (8.17%) JIRA
4 149 (4.38%) GitLab
5 119 (3.50%) Cucumber
5 119 (3.50%) Selenium
6 79 (2.32%) Maven
7 71 (2.09%) SonarQube
8 70 (2.06%) Postman
9 64 (1.88%) Bitbucket
10 61 (1.79%) Artifactory
11 57 (1.67%) Cypress.io
12 54 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 48 (1.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 48 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
14 43 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 43 (1.26%) TeamCity
15 40 (1.18%) Visual Studio
16 39 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
16 39 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 1,027 (30.17%) Finance
2 645 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 411 (12.07%) Banking
4 252 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 229 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 187 (5.49%) Retail
7 146 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 66 (1.94%) Marketing
9 62 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 56 (1.65%) Police
11 53 (1.56%) Retail Banking
12 50 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.35%) Aerospace
14 46 (1.35%) Electronics
15 45 (1.32%) Law
16 35 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
17 34 (1.00%) Legal
18 32 (0.94%) Financial Institution
19 31 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 796 (23.38%) Developer
2 734 (21.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 643 (18.89%) Senior
4 392 (11.52%) Architect
4 392 (11.52%) Lead
5 382 (11.22%) Software Engineer
6 214 (6.29%) Senior DevOps
7 211 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
8 194 (5.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 184 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 172 (5.05%) .NET Developer
11 164 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
12 160 (4.70%) Senior Developer
13 154 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
14 144 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
15 138 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
16 121 (3.55%) Data Engineer
17 108 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
18 107 (3.14%) Analyst
19 101 (2.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 627 (18.42%) .NET
2 376 (11.05%) React
3 332 (9.75%) HTML
4 315 (9.25%) Node.js
5 307 (9.02%) CSS
6 301 (8.84%) AngularJS
7 193 (5.67%) .NET Core
8 175 (5.14%) .NET Framework
9 171 (5.02%) JSON
10 167 (4.91%) REST
11 146 (4.29%) ASP.NET
12 135 (3.97%) Kafka
13 131 (3.85%) RESTful
14 118 (3.47%) Spring
15 105 (3.08%) Web Services
16 98 (2.88%) Spring Boot
17 97 (2.85%) YAML
18 94 (2.76%) jQuery
19 85 (2.50%) ARM Templates
20 77 (2.26%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 278 (8.17%) Public Cloud
2 196 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 166 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 114 (3.35%) Private Cloud
5 97 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 93 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
7 69 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 66 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 58 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 54 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
11 52 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.20%) Onboarding
15 39 (1.15%) Mobile App
16 36 (1.06%) Online Banking
17 34 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
18 31 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
19 30 (0.88%) Blockchain
20 27 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 508 (14.92%) Linux
2 247 (7.26%) Windows
3 161 (4.73%) Unix
4 110 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 46 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (0.53%) Android
9 16 (0.47%) Apple iOS
10 15 (0.44%) VMS
10 15 (0.44%) Windows 10
11 14 (0.41%) Solaris
12 12 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.26%) CentOS
13 9 (0.26%) HPUX
14 8 (0.24%) Debian
14 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.088%) zOS
16 2 (0.059%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,888 (55.46%) Agile
2 1,242 (36.49%) CI/CD
3 797 (23.41%) Software Engineering
4 655 (19.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 652 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 634 (18.63%) Mentoring
7 509 (14.95%) Microservices
8 507 (14.89%) Actionable Insight
9 438 (12.87%) Continuous Integration
10 432 (12.69%) Containerisation
11 396 (11.63%) Scrum
12 322 (9.46%) Test Automation
13 303 (8.90%) SDLC
14 288 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
15 285 (8.37%) Roadmaps
16 278 (8.17%) TDD
17 261 (7.67%) Design Patterns
18 239 (7.02%) Analytics
19 228 (6.70%) Open Source
20 223 (6.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,013 (29.76%) Python
2 753 (22.12%) JavaScript
3 703 (20.65%) Java
4 682 (20.04%) SQL
5 613 (18.01%) C#
6 456 (13.40%) Bash
7 399 (11.72%) PowerShell
8 225 (6.61%) TypeScript
9 199 (5.85%) Go
10 186 (5.46%) Ruby
11 159 (4.67%) Perl
12 121 (3.55%) T-SQL
13 97 (2.85%) C++
14 89 (2.61%) PHP
15 63 (1.85%) Groovy
16 58 (1.70%) Bicep
17 53 (1.56%) Kotlin
18 46 (1.35%) Shell Script
19 42 (1.23%) C
20 40 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 545 (16.01%) Security Cleared
2 393 (11.55%) Degree
3 390 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 130 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 69 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 54 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 49 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 31 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (0.53%) ISEB
14 12 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.32%) CISSP
15 11 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (0.29%) GIAC
16 10 (0.29%) RHCE
17 9 (0.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (8.96%) QA
2 57 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 48 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 28 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.71%) PMO
6 21 (0.62%) GDPR
7 11 (0.32%) NCSC
7 11 (0.32%) NIST
8 9 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.24%) WCAG
10 7 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.21%) SLA
11 6 (0.18%) GAAP
12 5 (0.15%) DO-178B
12 5 (0.15%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.088%) COBIT
14 3 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.088%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.059%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 853 (25.06%) Docker
2 176 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 44 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 33 (0.97%) vSphere
7 31 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.32%) Firmware
10 5 (0.15%) Ceph
11 4 (0.12%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.12%) FreeRADIUS
11 4 (0.12%) KVM
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.059%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.059%) NFS
13 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.029%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.029%) QEMU
13 1 (0.029%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 971 (28.53%) Kubernetes
2 857 (25.18%) Terraform
3 445 (13.07%) Ansible
4 141 (4.14%) Puppet
5 98 (2.88%) Grafana
6 81 (2.38%) Prometheus
7 71 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.15%) Istio
9 31 (0.91%) SCCM
10 28 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.76%) Nagios
12 21 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 21 (0.62%) Kibana
12 21 (0.62%) Packer
13 17 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
14 15 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
15 14 (0.41%) Kustomize
15 14 (0.41%) SCOM
16 13 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
17 11 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 792 (23.27%) Microsoft
2 242 (7.11%) Oracle
3 228 (6.70%) Google
4 105 (3.08%) VMware
5 67 (1.97%) Databricks
6 65 (1.91%) Splunk
7 60 (1.76%) IBM
7 60 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 42 (1.23%) Citrix
8 42 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 41 (1.20%) New Relic
10 37 (1.09%) Cisco
10 37 (1.09%) HP
11 36 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 30 (0.88%) CheckPoint
12 30 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 29 (0.85%) F5
14 27 (0.79%) Veracode
15 23 (0.68%) Sun
16 22 (0.65%) Salesforce