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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 2,220 3,262 5,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.28% 9.10% 15.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.04% 10.21% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 2,436 4,134
10th Percentile £47,231 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,125 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -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 18,443 31,946 35,253
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.71% 89.14% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,667 23,824 25,239
10th Percentile £25,625 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 21 June 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
1 196 (8.83%) Confluence
2 75 (3.38%) Oracle Application Server
3 60 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 59 (2.66%) Apache
5 54 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
6 32 (1.44%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.08%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.59%) CMS
8 13 (0.59%) nginx
9 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.23%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.18%) SAS
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.090%) Drupal
13 2 (0.090%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.14%) Sketch
3 2 (0.090%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.045%) Moqups
4 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.090%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.045%) Magento
5 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.045%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (46.85%) AWS
2 1,016 (45.77%) Azure
3 378 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
4 364 (16.40%) GCP
5 229 (10.32%) Serverless
6 227 (10.23%) Pulumi
7 185 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 138 (6.22%) Power Platform
9 137 (6.17%) GitHub
10 127 (5.72%) SaaS
11 75 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
12 74 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
13 72 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
14 66 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
15 62 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
15 62 (2.79%) dbt
15 62 (2.79%) PaaS
16 59 (2.66%) OpenShift
17 50 (2.25%) Power Automate
18 48 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 299 (13.47%) Broadband
2 298 (13.42%) VPN
3 262 (11.80%) Cisco IOS
4 85 (3.83%) SSL
5 84 (3.78%) SSH
6 42 (1.89%) Firewall
7 32 (1.44%) DNS
8 31 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 23 (1.04%) Network Security
10 22 (0.99%) WAN
11 17 (0.77%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.68%) Internet
13 12 (0.54%) HTTP
14 8 (0.36%) Multicast
15 7 (0.32%) HTTPS
16 5 (0.23%) LAN
16 5 (0.23%) SAN
17 4 (0.18%) DHCP
17 4 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
17 4 (0.18%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (16.76%) SQL Server
2 277 (12.48%) NoSQL
3 263 (11.85%) Relational Database
4 223 (10.05%) RDBMS
5 110 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
6 79 (3.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 75 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
7 75 (3.38%) Power BI
8 64 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
9 52 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
10 51 (2.30%) MySQL
11 48 (2.16%) Apache Arrow
11 48 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
11 48 (2.16%) Apache Ignite
11 48 (2.16%) Dremio
12 42 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (1.62%) Big Data
14 35 (1.58%) Data Lake
15 33 (1.49%) MongoDB
16 29 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 338 (15.23%) JIRA
2 317 (14.28%) SonarQube
3 315 (14.19%) GitLab
4 285 (12.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 284 (12.79%) Maven
6 278 (12.52%) Cucumber
7 270 (12.16%) Selenium
8 253 (11.40%) Bitbucket
9 224 (10.09%) Git
10 215 (9.68%) Jaeger
11 133 (5.99%) Jenkins
12 58 (2.61%) Artifactory
13 48 (2.16%) Visual Studio
14 35 (1.58%) JUnit
15 31 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
15 31 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
16 23 (1.04%) MSBuild
17 20 (0.90%) Cypress.io
18 15 (0.68%) Mockito
19 14 (0.63%) NUnit
General
1 828 (37.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 746 (33.60%) Finance
3 537 (24.19%) Social Skills
4 448 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
5 407 (18.33%) Banking
6 167 (7.52%) Retail
7 99 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 90 (4.05%) Corporate Banking
9 83 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
10 78 (3.51%) Military
11 65 (2.93%) Public Sector
12 59 (2.66%) Front Office
13 56 (2.52%) Law
14 32 (1.44%) Games
15 26 (1.17%) Marketing
16 25 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 15 (0.68%) Manufacturing
19 13 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 397 (17.88%) Lead
1 397 (17.88%) Software Engineer
2 295 (13.29%) Senior
3 292 (13.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 281 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 260 (11.71%) Developer
6 240 (10.81%) Team Leader
7 155 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 154 (6.94%) Architect
9 109 (4.91%) AWS DevOps
10 98 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
11 92 (4.14%) Data Engineer
12 88 (3.96%) Senior Developer
13 87 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 74 (3.33%) Python Engineer
15 56 (2.52%) Senior DevOps
16 52 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
17 51 (2.30%) C# Developer
18 50 (2.25%) .NET Developer
18 50 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (22.93%) Elastic Stack
2 404 (18.20%) React
3 362 (16.31%) Kafka
4 335 (15.09%) Spring
5 331 (14.91%) HTML
6 329 (14.82%) CSS
7 310 (13.96%) Spring Boot
8 283 (12.75%) .NET
9 256 (11.53%) RESTful
10 252 (11.35%) Redux
11 248 (11.17%) JPA
12 224 (10.09%) REST
13 218 (9.82%) OpenTelemetry
14 172 (7.75%) Hibernate
15 124 (5.59%) Jest
16 115 (5.18%) Web Services
17 102 (4.59%) HTML5
18 100 (4.50%) CSS3
19 97 (4.37%) Sass
20 91 (4.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 367 (16.53%) Cyberattack
2 346 (15.59%) Product Ownership
3 267 (12.03%) Enterprise Software
4 162 (7.30%) Management Information System
5 122 (5.50%) Cloud Native
6 107 (4.82%) Onboarding
7 86 (3.87%) Cyber Threat
8 82 (3.69%) PKI
9 44 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 37 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 35 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 34 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 30 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 23 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
15 22 (0.99%) NHS
16 20 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (0.90%) Mobile Games
17 19 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
18 17 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
18 17 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 642 (28.92%) Linux
2 355 (15.99%) Windows
3 302 (13.60%) Android
4 260 (11.71%) Unix
5 32 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 19 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.36%) CentOS
12 5 (0.23%) Debian
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.14%) VMS
15 2 (0.090%) Rocky
15 2 (0.090%) Solaris
15 2 (0.090%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,136 (51.17%) Agile
2 918 (41.35%) CI/CD
3 704 (31.71%) Containerisation
4 634 (28.56%) Software Engineering
5 575 (25.90%) Mentoring
6 571 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
7 568 (25.59%) Microservices
8 529 (23.83%) Performance Optimisation
9 496 (22.34%) Task Automation
10 468 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 440 (19.82%) Roadmaps
12 403 (18.15%) Test Automation
13 352 (15.86%) SDLC
14 336 (15.14%) Full-Stack Development
15 335 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
16 315 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 315 (14.19%) Front End Development
17 314 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 307 (13.83%) Risk Management
19 302 (13.60%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 971 (43.74%) Python
2 777 (35.00%) Java
3 720 (32.43%) JavaScript
4 566 (25.50%) Bash
5 541 (24.37%) SQL
6 386 (17.39%) PowerShell
7 311 (14.01%) Go
8 295 (13.29%) C#
9 188 (8.47%) TypeScript
10 32 (1.44%) Bicep
10 32 (1.44%) C++
11 26 (1.17%) Kotlin
12 25 (1.13%) PHP
13 20 (0.90%) C
14 18 (0.81%) R
14 18 (0.81%) Swift
15 17 (0.77%) Objective-C
16 15 (0.68%) Groovy
17 13 (0.59%) Perl
17 13 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 280 (12.61%) AWS Certification
2 212 (9.55%) Degree
3 148 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 113 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 109 (4.91%) DBS Check
6 92 (4.14%) SC Cleared
7 82 (3.69%) Azure Certification
8 37 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.36%) CISSP
15 7 (0.32%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
16 5 (0.23%) A+ Certification
16 5 (0.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (16.98%) QA
2 117 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 114 (5.14%) Accessibility
4 112 (5.05%) NIST
5 91 (4.10%) GDPR
6 34 (1.53%) HIPAA
7 29 (1.31%) Data Quality
8 15 (0.68%) SLA
9 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.32%) NCSC
10 7 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.27%) CDISC
11 6 (0.27%) PMO
12 4 (0.18%) Basel II
12 4 (0.18%) Basel III
12 4 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1,149 (51.76%) Docker
2 274 (12.34%) Hyper-V
3 267 (12.03%) vSphere
4 262 (11.80%) VMware NSX
5 118 (5.32%) Active Directory
6 37 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.18%) Dovecot
9 4 (0.18%) HDFS
9 4 (0.18%) Postfix
9 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.045%) NFS
Systems Management
1 903 (40.68%) Terraform
2 869 (39.14%) Kubernetes
3 618 (27.84%) Ansible
4 283 (12.75%) Prometheus
5 227 (10.23%) Argo
6 216 (9.73%) Kustomize
7 60 (2.70%) Grafana
8 23 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.99%) Istio
10 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.54%) Puppet
12 11 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
13 9 (0.41%) Nagios
13 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.23%) Kibana
14 5 (0.23%) Packer
14 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.18%) SCCM
16 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 293 (13.20%) Google
2 272 (12.25%) Cisco
2 272 (12.25%) Splunk
3 262 (11.80%) 3PAR
3 262 (11.80%) Juniper
3 262 (11.80%) Microsoft
4 247 (11.13%) Solace
5 125 (5.63%) Oracle
6 82 (3.69%) Thales
7 60 (2.70%) Databricks
8 35 (1.58%) VMware
9 32 (1.44%) IBM
10 29 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 22 (0.99%) SAP
12 17 (0.77%) Salesforce
13 16 (0.72%) Meraki
14 14 (0.63%) Okta
15 11 (0.50%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.50%) New Relic
15 11 (0.50%) OpenAI