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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 2,236 3,131 5,637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.97% 9.08% 15.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.78% 10.16% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 2,359 4,058
10th Percentile £47,231 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,745 £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 £110,000 £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 18,981 30,804 34,537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.14% 89.33% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,113 22,881 24,933
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £76,250 £75,772 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

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 3 July 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 (8.77%) Confluence
2 75 (3.35%) Oracle Application Server
3 52 (2.33%) Apache
3 52 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 48 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 24 (1.07%) Jupyter
7 15 (0.67%) CMS
8 11 (0.49%) nginx
9 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.18%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.089%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.089%) Drupal
13 2 (0.089%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) Sketch
4 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.045%) Moqups
5 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.31%) Shopify
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.089%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.045%) Magento
6 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.045%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,038 (46.42%) Azure
2 1,034 (46.24%) AWS
3 398 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
4 355 (15.88%) GCP
5 227 (10.15%) Pulumi
6 224 (10.02%) Serverless
7 181 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
8 135 (6.04%) GitHub
9 134 (5.99%) Power Platform
9 134 (5.99%) SaaS
10 78 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
11 72 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
12 67 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
13 66 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
14 65 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
14 65 (2.91%) PaaS
15 55 (2.46%) dbt
16 54 (2.42%) OpenShift
17 53 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
17 53 (2.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 299 (13.37%) Broadband
2 298 (13.33%) VPN
3 262 (11.72%) Cisco IOS
4 85 (3.80%) SSL
5 84 (3.76%) SSH
6 41 (1.83%) Firewall
7 31 (1.39%) DNS
8 30 (1.34%) TCP/IP
9 23 (1.03%) WAN
10 22 (0.98%) Network Security
11 18 (0.81%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.67%) Internet
13 12 (0.54%) HTTP
14 8 (0.36%) Multicast
15 6 (0.27%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.27%) LAN
16 5 (0.22%) SAN
17 4 (0.18%) DHCP
17 4 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
17 4 (0.18%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (17.04%) SQL Server
2 275 (12.30%) NoSQL
3 260 (11.63%) Relational Database
4 223 (9.97%) RDBMS
5 109 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
6 80 (3.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 75 (3.35%) Oracle Reports
8 74 (3.31%) Power BI
9 61 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
10 49 (2.19%) MySQL
11 46 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (1.88%) Apache Arrow
12 42 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
12 42 (1.88%) Apache Ignite
12 42 (1.88%) Dremio
12 42 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (1.61%) Big Data
14 35 (1.57%) Data Lake
15 31 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
15 31 (1.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 340 (15.21%) JIRA
2 315 (14.09%) GitLab
3 312 (13.95%) SonarQube
4 285 (12.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 281 (12.57%) Maven
6 277 (12.39%) Cucumber
7 269 (12.03%) Selenium
8 253 (11.31%) Bitbucket
9 223 (9.97%) Git
10 215 (9.62%) Jaeger
11 126 (5.64%) Jenkins
12 52 (2.33%) Artifactory
13 47 (2.10%) Visual Studio
14 34 (1.52%) JUnit
15 33 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
16 32 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
17 23 (1.03%) MSBuild
18 20 (0.89%) Cypress.io
19 14 (0.63%) Mockito
19 14 (0.63%) NUnit
General
1 837 (37.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 746 (33.36%) Finance
3 534 (23.88%) Social Skills
4 446 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
5 399 (17.84%) Banking
6 172 (7.69%) Retail
7 99 (4.43%) Investment Banking
8 90 (4.03%) Corporate Banking
9 83 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (3.53%) Military
11 63 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 62 (2.77%) Law
13 53 (2.37%) Front Office
14 30 (1.34%) Marketing
15 25 (1.12%) Games
15 25 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.76%) Back Office
17 17 (0.76%) Tech for Good
18 15 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 400 (17.89%) Lead
2 394 (17.62%) Software Engineer
3 295 (13.19%) Senior
4 292 (13.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 282 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 264 (11.81%) Developer
7 242 (10.82%) Team Leader
8 157 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 156 (6.98%) Architect
10 103 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
11 92 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
12 86 (3.85%) Senior Developer
13 81 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 81 (3.62%) Data Engineer
14 68 (3.04%) Python Engineer
15 58 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
16 54 (2.42%) .NET Developer
17 52 (2.33%) C# Developer
18 50 (2.24%) Senior Software Engineer
19 49 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 507 (22.67%) Elastic Stack
2 409 (18.29%) React
3 351 (15.70%) Kafka
4 333 (14.89%) HTML
5 331 (14.80%) CSS
6 329 (14.71%) Spring
7 305 (13.64%) Spring Boot
8 296 (13.24%) .NET
9 256 (11.45%) RESTful
10 252 (11.27%) Redux
11 248 (11.09%) JPA
12 228 (10.20%) REST
13 218 (9.75%) OpenTelemetry
14 172 (7.69%) Hibernate
15 125 (5.59%) Jest
16 118 (5.28%) Web Services
17 102 (4.56%) HTML5
18 100 (4.47%) CSS3
19 97 (4.34%) Sass
20 95 (4.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 367 (16.41%) Cyberattack
2 344 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 263 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 160 (7.16%) Management Information System
5 126 (5.64%) Cloud Native
6 109 (4.87%) Onboarding
7 86 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
8 82 (3.67%) PKI
9 40 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 39 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 36 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 35 (1.57%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.12%) NHS
14 23 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.81%) Data Structures
17 16 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
18 15 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
18 15 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 647 (28.94%) Linux
2 355 (15.88%) Windows
3 298 (13.33%) Android
4 260 (11.63%) Unix
5 28 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.40%) CentOS
12 5 (0.22%) Debian
12 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.13%) VMS
15 2 (0.089%) Rocky
15 2 (0.089%) Solaris
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,138 (50.89%) Agile
2 928 (41.50%) CI/CD
3 710 (31.75%) Containerisation
4 612 (27.37%) Software Engineering
5 575 (25.72%) Mentoring
6 570 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
7 569 (25.45%) Microservices
8 527 (23.57%) Performance Optimisation
9 495 (22.14%) Task Automation
10 486 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 442 (19.77%) Roadmaps
12 406 (18.16%) Test Automation
13 353 (15.79%) SDLC
14 340 (15.21%) Platform Engineering
15 338 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
16 315 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 314 (14.04%) Front End Development
17 314 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 306 (13.69%) Risk Management
19 302 (13.51%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 975 (43.60%) Python
2 760 (33.99%) Java
3 724 (32.38%) JavaScript
4 574 (25.67%) Bash
5 544 (24.33%) SQL
6 398 (17.80%) PowerShell
7 312 (13.95%) C#
8 307 (13.73%) Go
9 193 (8.63%) TypeScript
10 35 (1.57%) Bicep
11 30 (1.34%) C++
12 24 (1.07%) PHP
13 22 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.94%) C
15 18 (0.81%) R
16 15 (0.67%) Groovy
16 15 (0.67%) Perl
17 14 (0.63%) Swift
18 13 (0.58%) Objective-C
18 13 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 279 (12.48%) AWS Certification
2 209 (9.35%) Degree
3 147 (6.57%) Security Cleared
4 110 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 109 (4.87%) DBS Check
6 92 (4.11%) SC Cleared
7 82 (3.67%) Azure Certification
8 37 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 29 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.36%) CISSP
14 8 (0.36%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
16 6 (0.27%) PMP
17 5 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (16.86%) QA
2 122 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 114 (5.10%) NIST
4 113 (5.05%) Accessibility
5 95 (4.25%) GDPR
6 35 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 25 (1.12%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.58%) SLA
9 12 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.36%) NCSC
12 7 (0.31%) PMO
12 7 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.27%) CDISC
13 6 (0.27%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.18%) Basel II
14 4 (0.18%) Basel III
14 4 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
14 4 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,143 (51.12%) Docker
2 274 (12.25%) Hyper-V
3 268 (11.99%) vSphere
4 262 (11.72%) VMware NSX
5 119 (5.32%) Active Directory
6 39 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.22%) 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 2 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.045%) NFS
Systems Management
1 908 (40.61%) Terraform
2 863 (38.60%) Kubernetes
3 622 (27.82%) Ansible
4 284 (12.70%) Prometheus
5 226 (10.11%) Argo
6 216 (9.66%) Kustomize
7 59 (2.64%) Grafana
8 23 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.89%) Istio
10 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
11 11 (0.49%) Puppet
12 10 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.40%) Nagios
14 5 (0.22%) Kibana
14 5 (0.22%) Packer
15 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.18%) SCCM
16 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 287 (12.84%) Google
2 272 (12.16%) Cisco
3 271 (12.12%) Splunk
4 270 (12.08%) Microsoft
5 262 (11.72%) 3PAR
5 262 (11.72%) Juniper
6 247 (11.05%) Solace
7 129 (5.77%) Oracle
8 82 (3.67%) Thales
9 58 (2.59%) Databricks
10 36 (1.61%) VMware
11 33 (1.48%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.34%) IBM
13 19 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 19 (0.85%) SAP
14 16 (0.72%) Meraki
15 14 (0.63%) Okta
16 11 (0.49%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.45%) Atlassian
18 8 (0.36%) Dynatrace