DevOps Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 2,518 3,949 10,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.02% 15.95% 16.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.34% 16.70% 17.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,469 2,880 6,251
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £69,308 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% - +7.69%

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 20,411 23,648 60,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.29% 95.49% 96.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,615 17,455 38,981
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,362 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £97,500 £96,330
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 26 October 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 86 (3.42%) Oracle Application Server
2 55 (2.18%) Confluence
3 36 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 29 (1.15%) nginx
5 28 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.11%) IIS
6 26 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 17 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 11 (0.44%) Apache
10 8 (0.32%) Drupal
10 8 (0.32%) WordPress
11 7 (0.28%) CMS
12 6 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.079%) Appian
16 2 (0.079%) Ethereum
16 2 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (1.63%) Simulink
2 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.079%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.040%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.040%) Revit
6 1 (0.040%) Sketch
6 1 (0.040%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 102 (4.05%) Oracle EBS
2 20 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.36%) Magento
5 4 (0.16%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
7 2 (0.079%) BambooHR
7 2 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.079%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.079%) iTrent
7 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.040%) Maximo
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.040%) Primavera
8 1 (0.040%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.040%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.040%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,239 (49.21%) Azure
2 700 (27.80%) AWS
3 691 (27.44%) Azure DevOps
4 237 (9.41%) SaaS
5 165 (6.55%) GCP
6 151 (6.00%) Serverless
7 144 (5.72%) GitHub
8 135 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 122 (4.85%) PaaS
10 99 (3.93%) Entra ID
11 93 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
12 88 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 85 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
14 82 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
15 80 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 79 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 78 (3.10%) IaaS
18 76 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
18 76 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
19 73 (2.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 349 (13.86%) Broadband
2 61 (2.42%) Firewall
3 50 (1.99%) DNS
4 46 (1.83%) Internet
5 38 (1.51%) HTTP
6 31 (1.23%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.99%) DHCP
8 24 (0.95%) Network Security
9 21 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (0.40%) SSL
10 10 (0.40%) VPN
11 7 (0.28%) LAN
11 7 (0.28%) WAN
12 5 (0.20%) 5G
12 5 (0.20%) MPLS
12 5 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.20%) VoIP
12 5 (0.20%) Wireless
13 4 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.16%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (10.29%) Relational Database
2 229 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 226 (8.98%) MySQL
4 154 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 153 (6.08%) MongoDB
6 142 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
7 126 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 92 (3.65%) RDBMS
9 89 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
9 89 (3.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 81 (3.22%) NoSQL
11 77 (3.06%) Power BI
12 68 (2.70%) Data Lake
13 62 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
14 57 (2.26%) Big Data
15 55 (2.18%) Redis
16 31 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 25 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.95%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 379 (15.05%) Git
2 245 (9.73%) GitLab
3 169 (6.71%) JIRA
4 151 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 60 (2.38%) Visual Studio
6 51 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 49 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 48 (1.91%) Selenium
9 45 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 40 (1.59%) MSBuild
11 35 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 29 (1.15%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.83%) Postman
14 20 (0.79%) JMeter
15 17 (0.68%) TeamCity
16 16 (0.64%) SpecFlow
17 15 (0.60%) Cucumber
17 15 (0.60%) JUnit
18 14 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 14 (0.56%) Gatling
General
1 728 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 510 (20.25%) Finance
3 475 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 119 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
6 101 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
7 93 (3.69%) Military
8 86 (3.42%) Retail
9 84 (3.34%) Public Sector
10 82 (3.26%) Banking
11 80 (3.18%) Law
12 63 (2.50%) Marketing
13 56 (2.22%) Advertising
14 44 (1.75%) Automotive
15 39 (1.55%) Front Office
16 31 (1.23%) Back Office
17 27 (1.07%) Tech for Good
18 25 (0.99%) Manufacturing
19 22 (0.87%) Investment Banking
20 19 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 667 (26.49%) Senior
2 605 (24.03%) Developer
3 322 (12.79%) Lead
4 320 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 270 (10.72%) Software Engineer
6 258 (10.25%) Senior Developer
7 180 (7.15%) Analyst
7 180 (7.15%) Architect
8 150 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 149 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 143 (5.68%) .NET Developer
11 136 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
12 135 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
13 131 (5.20%) Software Developer
14 129 (5.12%) Team Leader
15 123 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 119 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
17 102 (4.05%) Product Manager
18 97 (3.85%) C# Developer
19 96 (3.81%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (20.41%) .NET
2 313 (12.43%) React
3 193 (7.66%) CSS
4 188 (7.47%) HTML
5 187 (7.43%) AngularJS
6 184 (7.31%) .NET Framework
7 167 (6.63%) ASP.NET
8 151 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
9 127 (5.04%) Node.js
10 111 (4.41%) REST
11 109 (4.33%) Entity Framework
12 107 (4.25%) .NET Core
13 106 (4.21%) RESTful
14 105 (4.17%) Django
15 92 (3.65%) ARM Templates
16 85 (3.38%) Spring
17 66 (2.62%) Web Services
18 65 (2.58%) Spring Boot
18 65 (2.58%) Vue
19 60 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 186 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 179 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 147 (5.84%) Private Cloud
4 137 (5.44%) Onboarding
5 110 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 99 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 68 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 58 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 51 (2.03%) Hedge funds
10 44 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 43 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 39 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 39 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 33 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 32 (1.27%) Clustering
14 32 (1.27%) Derivative
15 28 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 24 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 463 (18.39%) Linux
2 204 (8.10%) Windows
3 64 (2.54%) Unix
4 57 (2.26%) Android
5 55 (2.18%) Windows Server
6 43 (1.71%) Apple iOS
7 40 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
8 26 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.60%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.56%) Windows 10
11 14 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.36%) CentOS
12 9 (0.36%) VMS
13 8 (0.32%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.32%) SUSE
14 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.16%) Debian
16 3 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
17 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,077 (42.77%) CI/CD
2 1,048 (41.62%) Agile
3 749 (29.75%) Software Engineering
4 713 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
5 613 (24.34%) Mentoring
6 459 (18.23%) Continuous Integration
7 363 (14.42%) Containerisation
8 337 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 336 (13.34%) Microservices
10 314 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 313 (12.43%) Roadmaps
12 312 (12.39%) ITIL
13 311 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 292 (11.60%) Design Patterns
15 289 (11.48%) SDLC
16 279 (11.08%) Computer Science
17 271 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 269 (10.68%) Observability
19 263 (10.44%) Configuration Management
20 250 (9.93%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 716 (28.44%) Python
2 623 (24.74%) SQL
3 543 (21.56%) C#
4 464 (18.43%) JavaScript
5 377 (14.97%) Java
6 270 (10.72%) Bash
7 237 (9.41%) PowerShell
8 223 (8.86%) TypeScript
9 153 (6.08%) Shell Script
10 118 (4.69%) C++
11 74 (2.94%) PHP
12 72 (2.86%) C
13 68 (2.70%) Bicep
14 61 (2.42%) T-SQL
15 51 (2.03%) Go
16 25 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
17 23 (0.91%) Objective-C
18 21 (0.83%) Kotlin
19 20 (0.79%) VB.NET
20 15 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 420 (16.68%) Degree
2 322 (12.79%) Security Cleared
3 251 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 178 (7.07%) SC Cleared
5 145 (5.76%) Master's Degree
6 131 (5.20%) LPIC
7 125 (4.96%) RHCSA
8 118 (4.69%) Azure Certification
9 112 (4.45%) DBS Check
10 108 (4.29%) DV Cleared
11 60 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 55 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 48 (1.91%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.99%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.68%) CISSP
16 14 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.52%) PMI Certification
18 11 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 10 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 10 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (8.06%) QA
2 132 (5.24%) NIST
3 128 (5.08%) SOC 2
4 59 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.91%) GDPR
6 37 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 24 (0.95%) NCSC
8 16 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.36%) SLA
10 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.16%) EMIR
12 4 (0.16%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.079%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.079%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.079%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.079%) WCAG
15 1 (0.040%) PMO
System Software
1 644 (25.58%) Docker
2 125 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 81 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
4 47 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.79%) XenApp
6 20 (0.79%) XenDesktop
7 6 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.24%) Varnish
7 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.079%) NFS
Systems Management
1 575 (22.84%) Kubernetes
2 494 (19.62%) Terraform
3 315 (12.51%) Ansible
4 258 (10.25%) Grafana
5 199 (7.90%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.51%) Puppet
7 27 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (0.87%) Packer
9 21 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 20 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (0.75%) Consul
12 17 (0.68%) Nagios
13 15 (0.60%) WSUS
14 12 (0.48%) SCOM
15 11 (0.44%) SCCM
16 10 (0.40%) Rancher
17 8 (0.32%) QRadar
18 7 (0.28%) HAProxy
19 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
20 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 492 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 138 (5.48%) Oracle
3 102 (4.05%) Google
4 81 (3.22%) Databricks
5 62 (2.46%) ServiceNow
6 61 (2.42%) VMware
7 59 (2.34%) Xamarin
8 40 (1.59%) Xilinx
9 29 (1.15%) SAP
10 27 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 24 (0.95%) Atlassian
12 23 (0.91%) Citrix
13 20 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 20 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 17 (0.68%) Splunk
15 13 (0.52%) BT
16 12 (0.48%) BMC
16 12 (0.48%) IBM
16 12 (0.48%) Remedy
17 10 (0.40%) Informatica