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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,327 6,425 11,499
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.86% 14.89% 17.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.76% 15.49% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,512 4,552 7,155
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.80%

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 30,928 41,467 64,681
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.65% 96.10% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 23,495 28,748 41,173
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 27 April 2024.

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
1 214 (6.43%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.43%) GeoServer
2 104 (3.13%) IIS
3 84 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 80 (2.40%) CMS
5 64 (1.92%) Confluence
6 52 (1.56%) Umbraco
7 51 (1.53%) nginx
8 44 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
9 40 (1.20%) Apache
10 39 (1.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 37 (1.11%) Kentico
11 37 (1.11%) OpenStack
12 36 (1.08%) Headless CMS
13 29 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
14 25 (0.75%) Apache Spark
15 12 (0.36%) WordPress
16 10 (0.30%) JBoss
17 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
17 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.30%) Simulink
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.090%) Trello
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.060%) Notion
8 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.060%) Sketch
8 2 (0.060%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 80 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.12%) Primavera
3 4 (0.12%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.090%) Magento
5 2 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.060%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.060%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.030%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.030%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.030%) Endur
6 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.030%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.030%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,099 (63.09%) Azure
2 1,304 (39.19%) AWS
3 1,028 (30.90%) Azure DevOps
4 332 (9.98%) SaaS
5 307 (9.23%) Serverless
6 296 (8.90%) Power Platform
7 270 (8.12%) GCP
8 218 (6.55%) GitHub
9 173 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
10 169 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
11 157 (4.72%) PaaS
12 128 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
13 109 (3.28%) IaaS
14 108 (3.25%) PowerApps
15 106 (3.19%) Amazon S3
15 106 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
16 99 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
17 93 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
17 93 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
18 90 (2.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 145 (4.36%) Firewall
2 136 (4.09%) DNS
3 70 (2.10%) Network Security
4 67 (2.01%) VPN
5 58 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.20%) WAN
7 38 (1.14%) DHCP
8 37 (1.11%) LAN
9 27 (0.81%) HTTP
9 27 (0.81%) Internet
10 15 (0.45%) SSL
11 14 (0.42%) NGFW
11 14 (0.42%) SAN
11 14 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.30%) 5G
13 10 (0.30%) SNMP
13 10 (0.30%) tcpdump
14 9 (0.27%) WLAN
15 8 (0.24%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (12.59%) SQL Server
2 354 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.52%) GIS
4 214 (6.43%) QGIS
5 128 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 125 (3.76%) MySQL
7 122 (3.67%) Power BI
8 105 (3.16%) NoSQL
9 91 (2.74%) Big Data
10 87 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
11 86 (2.58%) Data Lake
12 76 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 72 (2.16%) MongoDB
14 64 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
15 53 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
16 51 (1.53%) Oracle Database
17 46 (1.38%) RDBMS
17 46 (1.38%) Redis
18 35 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 35 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 481 (14.46%) Git
2 336 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 223 (6.70%) JIRA
4 174 (5.23%) GitLab
5 116 (3.49%) Visual Studio
6 73 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 69 (2.07%) Selenium
8 67 (2.01%) Postman
9 49 (1.47%) TeamCity
10 45 (1.35%) Jasmine
11 39 (1.17%) JUnit
12 36 (1.08%) JDeveloper
13 33 (0.99%) Cypress.io
14 30 (0.90%) JMeter
15 29 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
15 29 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
15 29 (0.87%) SpecFlow
16 26 (0.78%) Cucumber
16 26 (0.78%) SonarQube
17 25 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 698 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 654 (19.66%) Finance
3 188 (5.65%) Banking
4 180 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 147 (4.42%) Retail
6 129 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 108 (3.25%) Law
8 101 (3.04%) Legal
9 95 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 65 (1.95%) Marketing
11 57 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 50 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.05%) Automotive
16 29 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (0.81%) Games
17 27 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
18 26 (0.78%) Electronics
18 26 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 953 (28.64%) Developer
2 912 (27.41%) Senior
3 516 (15.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 495 (14.88%) Software Engineer
5 370 (11.12%) Lead
6 290 (8.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 280 (8.42%) Senior Developer
8 219 (6.58%) .NET Developer
9 172 (5.17%) Software Developer
10 157 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
11 155 (4.66%) Architect
12 145 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
13 139 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 126 (3.79%) Full Stack Developer
15 125 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
16 124 (3.73%) C# Developer
17 118 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
18 117 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 100 (3.01%) Data Engineer
20 85 (2.55%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 922 (27.71%) .NET
2 623 (18.73%) React
3 448 (13.47%) CSS
4 413 (12.41%) .NET Core
5 306 (9.20%) AngularJS
6 290 (8.72%) HTML
7 281 (8.45%) Node.js
8 263 (7.91%) RESTful
9 243 (7.30%) ASP.NET
10 239 (7.18%) .NET Framework
11 228 (6.85%) REST
12 216 (6.49%) PostGIS
13 214 (6.43%) Leaflet
13 214 (6.43%) OpenLayers
14 178 (5.35%) JSON
15 159 (4.78%) Web Services
16 125 (3.76%) XML
17 121 (3.64%) Spring
18 111 (3.34%) SOAP
19 99 (2.98%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 174 (5.23%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.48%) Public Cloud
3 133 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 116 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
5 107 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
6 101 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
7 100 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.95%) Private Cloud
9 91 (2.74%) Management Information System
10 75 (2.25%) Data Structures
11 74 (2.22%) Mobile App
12 67 (2.01%) IoT
13 64 (1.92%) Onboarding
14 56 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
15 52 (1.56%) Hedge funds
16 50 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
17 46 (1.38%) Low-Code
18 45 (1.35%) Virtual Team
19 44 (1.32%) Clustering
20 37 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 554 (16.65%) Linux
2 335 (10.07%) Windows
3 103 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 58 (1.74%) Unix
5 55 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 51 (1.53%) Android
7 45 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 44 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (0.66%) CentOS
10 22 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (0.54%) VMS
12 14 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
12 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
13 13 (0.39%) Windows 10
14 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
15 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.15%) AIX
16 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,728 (51.94%) Agile
2 1,198 (36.01%) CI/CD
3 931 (27.98%) Software Engineering
4 591 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
5 529 (15.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 511 (15.36%) Scrum
7 430 (12.92%) Continuous Integration
8 425 (12.77%) Microservices
9 390 (11.72%) Mentoring
10 380 (11.42%) Actionable Insight
11 366 (11.00%) Web Development
12 354 (10.64%) Containerisation
13 332 (9.98%) Test Automation
14 317 (9.53%) Full Stack Development
15 304 (9.14%) SDLC
16 272 (8.18%) TDD
17 254 (7.63%) Roadmaps
18 251 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 242 (7.27%) Unit Testing
20 210 (6.31%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 987 (29.67%) Python
2 898 (26.99%) JavaScript
3 854 (25.67%) C#
4 692 (20.80%) SQL
5 488 (14.67%) Java
6 272 (8.18%) PowerShell
7 270 (8.12%) TypeScript
8 226 (6.79%) Bash
9 160 (4.81%) Go
10 120 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 107 (3.22%) PHP
12 94 (2.83%) Perl
13 92 (2.77%) Ruby
14 78 (2.34%) C
15 66 (1.98%) VB.NET
16 58 (1.74%) Groovy
17 54 (1.62%) Bicep
18 43 (1.29%) C++
18 43 (1.29%) VB
19 38 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 695 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 518 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 442 (13.29%) Degree
4 144 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 81 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 78 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 69 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.17%) CISSP
12 36 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 36 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.81%) ISTQB
14 24 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 24 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 20 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
16 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
17 16 (0.48%) ISEB
18 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (9.62%) QA
2 59 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 47 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 40 (1.20%) NIST
6 31 (0.93%) GDPR
7 21 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.33%) NCSC
9 8 (0.24%) SLA
10 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.18%) PMO
12 5 (0.15%) WCAG
13 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.090%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.090%) SEPA
15 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.060%) HL7
15 2 (0.060%) IFRS
15 2 (0.060%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 716 (21.52%) Docker
2 152 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 94 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 81 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 59 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 53 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
8 18 (0.54%) vSphere
9 12 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.33%) IAG
11 10 (0.30%) NFS
11 10 (0.30%) pfSense
12 6 (0.18%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.090%) KVM
14 3 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.090%) XenApp
15 2 (0.060%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.030%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 715 (21.49%) Kubernetes
2 680 (20.44%) Terraform
3 348 (10.46%) Ansible
4 109 (3.28%) Puppet
5 93 (2.80%) Grafana
6 87 (2.61%) Progress Chef
7 82 (2.46%) Prometheus
8 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 28 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.78%) Kibana
11 22 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
11 22 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (0.63%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.57%) SCOM
14 17 (0.51%) Nagios
14 17 (0.51%) Packer
15 16 (0.48%) SCCM
16 14 (0.42%) WSUS
17 13 (0.39%) Nmap
17 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 841 (25.28%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.43%) ESRI
3 146 (4.39%) Google
4 125 (3.76%) Oracle
5 114 (3.43%) VMware
6 89 (2.68%) Databricks
7 49 (1.47%) Sitecore
8 43 (1.29%) IBM
9 36 (1.08%) Optimizely
9 36 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.08%) Splunk
10 32 (0.96%) Adobe
11 30 (0.90%) Citrix
11 30 (0.90%) SAP
12 28 (0.84%) Red Hat
13 27 (0.81%) Veeam
13 27 (0.81%) WSO2
14 25 (0.75%) Dell
15 24 (0.72%) Cisco
16 19 (0.57%) New Relic