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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,740 3,330 6,312
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.47% 9.84% 14.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.31% 10.74% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 2,515 4,485
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,450 £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 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £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 3 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
1 115 (6.61%) Confluence
2 84 (4.83%) Apache
2 84 (4.83%) Apache Spark
3 82 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (4.31%) Oracle Application Server
5 32 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.44%) Jupyter
7 19 (1.09%) nginx
8 11 (0.63%) CMS
9 10 (0.57%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.40%) SAS
11 4 (0.23%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.17%) CICS
12 3 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.23%) Sketch
4 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Moqups
5 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.17%) Magento
4 3 (0.17%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.057%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.057%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 938 (53.91%) Azure
2 671 (38.56%) AWS
3 404 (23.22%) Azure DevOps
4 300 (17.24%) GCP
5 208 (11.95%) Serverless
6 156 (8.97%) GitHub
7 151 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
8 150 (8.62%) SaaS
9 148 (8.51%) Power Platform
10 117 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
11 87 (5.00%) dbt
12 83 (4.77%) OpenShift
13 78 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
14 69 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
15 68 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 65 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
17 63 (3.62%) Amazon S3
18 59 (3.39%) PaaS
19 58 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
20 46 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.53%) Firewall
2 38 (2.18%) TCP/IP
3 30 (1.72%) Network Security
4 29 (1.67%) VPN
5 26 (1.49%) DNS
6 21 (1.21%) HTTP
7 17 (0.98%) HTTPS
8 16 (0.92%) Internet
9 15 (0.86%) IPsec
10 11 (0.63%) WAN
11 8 (0.46%) Multicast
12 5 (0.29%) SAN
12 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.29%) Wireless
13 4 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.23%) IPv4
13 4 (0.23%) LAN
13 4 (0.23%) SSH
13 4 (0.23%) SSL
13 4 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (13.28%) SQL Server
2 117 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (4.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 78 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (4.43%) Oracle Reports
6 75 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 74 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
8 73 (4.20%) Apache Iceberg
8 73 (4.20%) Dremio
9 71 (4.08%) Apache Arrow
9 71 (4.08%) Apache Ignite
10 69 (3.97%) Power BI
11 63 (3.62%) MySQL
12 55 (3.16%) Relational Database
13 48 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
15 43 (2.47%) Big Data
16 39 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
17 33 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
17 33 (1.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 267 (15.34%) Git
2 193 (11.09%) JIRA
3 167 (9.60%) Jenkins
4 159 (9.14%) SonarQube
5 153 (8.79%) GitLab
6 125 (7.18%) Maven
7 116 (6.67%) Cucumber
7 116 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 110 (6.32%) Selenium
9 95 (5.46%) Bitbucket
10 78 (4.48%) Artifactory
11 53 (3.05%) Visual Studio
12 41 (2.36%) JUnit
13 34 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
14 33 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
15 24 (1.38%) MSBuild
16 19 (1.09%) Cypress.io
16 19 (1.09%) webpack
17 17 (0.98%) Mockito
18 15 (0.86%) Gradle
General
1 694 (39.89%) Finance
2 495 (28.45%) Social Skills
3 327 (18.79%) Banking
4 196 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 184 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
6 113 (6.49%) Retail
7 101 (5.80%) Front Office
8 83 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
9 76 (4.37%) Law
9 76 (4.37%) Military
10 65 (3.74%) Public Sector
11 41 (2.36%) Legal
12 39 (2.24%) Games
13 32 (1.84%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.78%) Marketing
15 28 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.49%) Tech for Good
17 21 (1.21%) Corporate Banking
18 18 (1.03%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 394 (22.64%) Senior
2 323 (18.56%) Developer
3 263 (15.11%) Software Engineer
4 258 (14.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 198 (11.38%) Lead
6 152 (8.74%) AWS Engineer
7 145 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
8 144 (8.28%) Architect
9 142 (8.16%) Senior Developer
10 125 (7.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 120 (6.90%) Data Engineer
11 120 (6.90%) Python Engineer
12 105 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 72 (4.14%) .NET Developer
14 68 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
14 68 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 57 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
16 51 (2.93%) Security Engineer
16 51 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
17 49 (2.82%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (18.16%) .NET
2 264 (15.17%) React
3 229 (13.16%) Kafka
4 197 (11.32%) HTML
5 187 (10.75%) CSS
5 187 (10.75%) Spring
6 163 (9.37%) Spring Boot
7 143 (8.22%) REST
8 125 (7.18%) RESTful
9 105 (6.03%) .NET Framework
10 101 (5.80%) .NET Core
11 99 (5.69%) AngularJS
12 97 (5.57%) Node.js
13 92 (5.29%) Redux
14 91 (5.23%) ASP.NET
15 83 (4.77%) PySpark
16 82 (4.71%) JPA
17 78 (4.48%) Hibernate
18 77 (4.43%) J2EE
19 57 (3.28%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 179 (10.29%) Product Ownership
2 120 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 111 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (3.68%) Mobile App
5 62 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 44 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 43 (2.47%) Algorithms
8 38 (2.18%) Security Posture
9 37 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
10 36 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.38%) Mobile Games
12 23 (1.32%) Cyberattack
12 23 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 21 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.09%) Educational Technology
17 18 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 206 (11.84%) Linux
2 115 (6.61%) Windows
3 58 (3.33%) Unix
4 55 (3.16%) Android
5 43 (2.47%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.57%) CentOS
9 10 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.46%) VMS
11 7 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.34%) Debian
13 5 (0.29%) zOS
14 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 866 (49.77%) Agile
2 831 (47.76%) CI/CD
3 623 (35.80%) Software Engineering
4 429 (24.66%) Microservices
5 359 (20.63%) Containerisation
6 349 (20.06%) Mentoring
7 338 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 261 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 244 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 212 (12.18%) Analytics
12 210 (12.07%) SDLC
13 196 (11.26%) TDD
14 191 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
15 161 (9.25%) ITIL
16 156 (8.97%) Computer Science
17 153 (8.79%) Front End Development
18 149 (8.56%) Roadmaps
19 148 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 147 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 494 (28.39%) Python
2 474 (27.24%) Java
3 436 (25.06%) JavaScript
4 419 (24.08%) SQL
5 333 (19.14%) C#
6 138 (7.93%) TypeScript
7 137 (7.87%) Go
8 111 (6.38%) PowerShell
9 74 (4.25%) Bash
10 47 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 46 (2.64%) PHP
12 45 (2.59%) C++
13 34 (1.95%) C
14 23 (1.32%) Objective-C
15 22 (1.26%) R
15 22 (1.26%) T-SQL
16 19 (1.09%) Swift
17 15 (0.86%) Groovy
17 15 (0.86%) Perl
18 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 242 (13.91%) Degree
2 175 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 111 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 108 (6.21%) SC Cleared
5 106 (6.09%) DBS Check
6 81 (4.66%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.68%) Azure Certification
8 41 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 35 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.95%) DV Cleared
11 30 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (1.15%) PhD
13 15 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 15 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.75%) CISSP
15 12 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 8 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (11.84%) QA
2 95 (5.46%) GDPR
3 63 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 31 (1.78%) NIST
6 29 (1.67%) HIPAA
7 18 (1.03%) SLA
8 16 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.52%) NCSC
11 8 (0.46%) Basel III
11 8 (0.46%) IFRS
11 8 (0.46%) IFRS 9
12 7 (0.40%) Basel II
12 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
12 7 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.34%) CDISC
14 4 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 566 (32.53%) Docker
2 33 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.29%) Postfix
6 5 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.23%) HDFS
7 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.057%) NFS
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 587 (33.74%) Kubernetes
2 419 (24.08%) Terraform
3 153 (8.79%) Ansible
4 60 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 52 (2.99%) Grafana
6 28 (1.61%) Istio
7 21 (1.21%) Puppet
8 14 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.69%) Argo
9 12 (0.69%) Nagios
10 11 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
11 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.57%) QRadar
12 8 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
13 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.23%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.23%) SCCM
15 3 (0.17%) Marathon
Vendors
1 333 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.64%) Oracle
3 100 (5.75%) Google
4 82 (4.71%) Solace
5 56 (3.22%) IBM
6 49 (2.82%) Databricks
7 37 (2.13%) VMware
8 29 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 27 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 22 (1.26%) SAP
11 16 (0.92%) Xamarin
12 15 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 15 (0.86%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.86%) New Relic
13 13 (0.75%) Okta
14 12 (0.69%) Splunk
15 10 (0.57%) Adobe
15 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.52%) Cisco
16 9 (0.52%) Salesforce