DevOps Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,671 3,341 6,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.17% 9.87% 14.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.00% 10.77% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 2,524 4,503
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,400 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 84 (5.03%) Apache
1 84 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 82 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (4.49%) Oracle Application Server
4 54 (3.23%) Confluence
5 32 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.50%) Jupyter
7 21 (1.26%) nginx
8 12 (0.72%) Apache Solr
9 10 (0.60%) CMS
10 7 (0.42%) SAS
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.24%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.18%) CICS
13 3 (0.18%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.18%) IIS
14 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.24%) Sketch
4 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Moqups
5 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.24%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.18%) Magento
4 3 (0.18%) Shopify
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.060%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.060%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 863 (51.65%) Azure
2 594 (35.55%) AWS
3 407 (24.36%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (14.48%) GCP
5 210 (12.57%) Serverless
6 160 (9.58%) GitHub
7 153 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
8 151 (9.04%) SaaS
9 148 (8.86%) Power Platform
10 119 (7.12%) Amazon ECS
11 87 (5.21%) dbt
12 83 (4.97%) OpenShift
13 78 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
14 70 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 69 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (3.89%) Amazon S3
17 64 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (3.65%) PaaS
19 60 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
20 47 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.69%) Firewall
2 40 (2.39%) TCP/IP
3 32 (1.92%) Network Security
4 30 (1.80%) VPN
5 28 (1.68%) DNS
6 21 (1.26%) HTTP
7 19 (1.14%) HTTPS
8 18 (1.08%) IPsec
9 16 (0.96%) Internet
10 12 (0.72%) WAN
11 8 (0.48%) Multicast
12 6 (0.36%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.36%) Wireless
13 5 (0.30%) SAN
14 4 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.24%) IPv4
14 4 (0.24%) LAN
14 4 (0.24%) SSH
14 4 (0.24%) SSL
14 4 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.92%) SQL Server
2 119 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (4.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 78 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (4.61%) NoSQL
5 77 (4.61%) Oracle Reports
6 73 (4.37%) Apache Iceberg
6 73 (4.37%) Dremio
6 73 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
7 71 (4.25%) Apache Arrow
7 71 (4.25%) Apache Ignite
8 68 (4.07%) Power BI
9 65 (3.89%) MySQL
10 53 (3.17%) Relational Database
11 50 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
12 44 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
13 43 (2.57%) Big Data
14 41 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 33 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
15 33 (1.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 266 (15.92%) Git
2 168 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 111 (6.64%) JIRA
4 78 (4.67%) Artifactory
5 77 (4.61%) SonarQube
6 71 (4.25%) GitLab
7 54 (3.23%) Visual Studio
8 43 (2.57%) Maven
9 41 (2.45%) JUnit
10 34 (2.03%) Cucumber
10 34 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 34 (2.03%) Team Foundation Server
11 33 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
12 28 (1.68%) Selenium
13 24 (1.44%) MSBuild
14 19 (1.14%) Cypress.io
14 19 (1.14%) webpack
15 17 (1.02%) Mockito
16 15 (0.90%) Gradle
17 14 (0.84%) IntelliJ
General
1 618 (36.98%) Finance
2 495 (29.62%) Social Skills
3 247 (14.78%) Banking
4 183 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (6.16%) Front Office
7 92 (5.51%) Retail
8 82 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
9 76 (4.55%) Law
9 76 (4.55%) Military
10 64 (3.83%) Public Sector
11 42 (2.51%) Legal
12 39 (2.33%) Games
13 32 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.86%) Marketing
15 26 (1.56%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 400 (23.94%) Senior
2 321 (19.21%) Developer
3 263 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 200 (11.97%) Lead
5 181 (10.83%) Software Engineer
6 154 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
7 147 (8.80%) AWS DevOps
8 146 (8.74%) Architect
9 143 (8.56%) Senior Developer
10 127 (7.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 122 (7.30%) Data Engineer
11 122 (7.30%) Python Engineer
12 109 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 72 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
14 71 (4.25%) .NET Developer
15 68 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 58 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
17 53 (3.17%) Security Engineer
18 52 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (19.03%) .NET
2 181 (10.83%) React
3 147 (8.80%) Kafka
4 121 (7.24%) REST
5 115 (6.88%) HTML
6 105 (6.28%) .NET Framework
6 105 (6.28%) CSS
6 105 (6.28%) RESTful
6 105 (6.28%) Spring
7 100 (5.98%) .NET Core
8 99 (5.92%) AngularJS
9 97 (5.80%) Node.js
10 90 (5.39%) ASP.NET
11 83 (4.97%) PySpark
12 81 (4.85%) Spring Boot
13 77 (4.61%) J2EE
14 57 (3.41%) Entity Framework
15 52 (3.11%) JSON
16 42 (2.51%) Vue
17 40 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.30%) Cloud Native
1 122 (7.30%) Management Information System
2 97 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 65 (3.89%) Mobile App
4 63 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 44 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 44 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 40 (2.39%) Security Posture
7 37 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 29 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.44%) Mobile Games
11 23 (1.38%) Cyberattack
11 23 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 22 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.14%) Educational Technology
14 19 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 207 (12.39%) Linux
2 115 (6.88%) Windows
3 58 (3.47%) Unix
4 56 (3.35%) Android
5 44 (2.63%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.60%) CentOS
9 10 (0.60%) VMS
9 10 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.36%) Debian
12 5 (0.30%) zOS
13 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (46.98%) Agile
2 764 (45.72%) CI/CD
3 546 (32.68%) Software Engineering
4 346 (20.71%) Microservices
5 341 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
6 332 (19.87%) Mentoring
7 279 (16.70%) Containerisation
8 251 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 218 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 213 (12.75%) Analytics
11 181 (10.83%) Test Automation
12 158 (9.46%) Computer Science
12 158 (9.46%) ITIL
13 151 (9.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 149 (8.92%) Roadmaps
15 147 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
16 144 (8.62%) Data Engineering
17 136 (8.14%) Customer Experience
18 134 (8.02%) TDD
19 129 (7.72%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 499 (29.86%) Python
2 390 (23.34%) Java
3 357 (21.36%) JavaScript
4 338 (20.23%) SQL
5 335 (20.05%) C#
6 137 (8.20%) Go
7 117 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 113 (6.76%) PowerShell
9 76 (4.55%) Bash
10 48 (2.87%) PHP
11 47 (2.81%) Kotlin
12 45 (2.69%) C++
13 34 (2.03%) C
14 23 (1.38%) Objective-C
15 22 (1.32%) R
15 22 (1.32%) T-SQL
16 19 (1.14%) Swift
17 15 (0.90%) Groovy
17 15 (0.90%) Perl
18 14 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 245 (14.66%) Degree
2 177 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 113 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 110 (6.58%) SC Cleared
5 106 (6.34%) DBS Check
6 83 (4.97%) AWS Certification
7 68 (4.07%) Azure Certification
8 43 (2.57%) Master's Degree
9 35 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (2.03%) DV Cleared
11 30 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (1.20%) PhD
13 15 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 15 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.90%) CISSP
14 12 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 8 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (7.42%) QA
2 98 (5.86%) GDPR
3 44 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.97%) NIST
5 32 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 32 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.74%) HIPAA
7 18 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.08%) SLA
8 16 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.54%) NCSC
10 8 (0.48%) Basel III
10 8 (0.48%) IFRS
10 8 (0.48%) IFRS 9
11 7 (0.42%) Basel II
11 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
11 7 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.36%) CDISC
13 4 (0.24%) JSP 440
System Software
1 487 (29.14%) Docker
2 33 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.30%) Postfix
6 5 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.24%) HDFS
8 3 (0.18%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.12%) KVM
9 2 (0.12%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.060%) NFS
10 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 511 (30.58%) Kubernetes
2 425 (25.43%) Terraform
3 155 (9.28%) Ansible
4 60 (3.59%) Prometheus
5 52 (3.11%) Grafana
6 30 (1.80%) Istio
7 21 (1.26%) Puppet
8 14 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.72%) Argo
9 12 (0.72%) Nagios
10 11 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
11 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.60%) QRadar
12 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.36%) Packer
13 6 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.30%) CASB
14 5 (0.30%) linkerd
15 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 340 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.02%) Oracle
3 102 (6.10%) Google
4 56 (3.35%) IBM
5 49 (2.93%) Databricks
6 38 (2.27%) VMware
7 28 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 22 (1.32%) SAP
10 17 (1.02%) Xamarin
11 15 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 15 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 15 (0.90%) New Relic
12 13 (0.78%) Okta
13 12 (0.72%) Splunk
14 10 (0.60%) Adobe
14 10 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.54%) Cisco
15 9 (0.54%) Salesforce
16 7 (0.42%) Informatica