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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,315 6,300 11,700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.81% 14.86% 17.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.71% 15.46% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 4,472 7,135
10th Percentile £41,300 £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% - +7.69%

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 30,939 40,754 65,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.60% 96.10% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,489 28,301 41,422
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 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 4 May 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 (6.46%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.46%) GeoServer
2 105 (3.17%) IIS
3 83 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 78 (2.35%) CMS
5 63 (1.90%) Confluence
6 53 (1.60%) Umbraco
7 51 (1.54%) nginx
8 50 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
9 40 (1.21%) Apache
10 39 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 37 (1.12%) Kentico
11 37 (1.12%) OpenStack
12 36 (1.09%) Headless CMS
13 31 (0.94%) 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%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 44 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.36%) Simulink
4 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.090%) Trello
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.060%) Notion
9 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.060%) Sketch
9 2 (0.060%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 78 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.15%) Primavera
3 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.12%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.060%) 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 2,095 (63.20%) Azure
2 1,307 (39.43%) AWS
3 1,021 (30.80%) Azure DevOps
4 336 (10.14%) SaaS
5 305 (9.20%) Serverless
6 290 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 265 (7.99%) GCP
8 211 (6.37%) GitHub
9 174 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
10 166 (5.01%) Dynamics 365
11 156 (4.71%) PaaS
12 125 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
13 109 (3.29%) IaaS
14 108 (3.26%) PowerApps
15 107 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 105 (3.17%) Amazon S3
17 97 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
18 94 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
18 94 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
19 92 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 147 (4.43%) Firewall
2 134 (4.04%) DNS
3 70 (2.11%) Network Security
4 66 (1.99%) VPN
5 57 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.21%) WAN
7 37 (1.12%) DHCP
7 37 (1.12%) LAN
8 27 (0.81%) HTTP
8 27 (0.81%) Internet
9 15 (0.45%) Unified Communications
10 14 (0.42%) SAN
10 14 (0.42%) SSL
11 13 (0.39%) NGFW
11 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.30%) 5G
12 10 (0.30%) SNMP
12 10 (0.30%) tcpdump
13 9 (0.27%) WLAN
14 8 (0.24%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (12.46%) SQL Server
2 353 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.55%) GIS
4 214 (6.46%) QGIS
5 129 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 120 (3.62%) MySQL
7 119 (3.59%) Power BI
8 104 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 96 (2.90%) Big Data
10 92 (2.78%) Data Lake
11 87 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
12 77 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 74 (2.23%) MongoDB
14 62 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
15 51 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 51 (1.54%) Oracle Database
16 47 (1.42%) RDBMS
17 43 (1.30%) Redis
18 39 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
19 37 (1.12%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 484 (14.60%) Git
2 333 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 220 (6.64%) JIRA
4 175 (5.28%) GitLab
5 119 (3.59%) Visual Studio
6 71 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 67 (2.02%) Selenium
8 66 (1.99%) Postman
9 48 (1.45%) TeamCity
10 45 (1.36%) Jasmine
11 41 (1.24%) JUnit
12 36 (1.09%) JDeveloper
13 32 (0.97%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.87%) JMeter
14 29 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
15 28 (0.84%) IBM UrbanCode
15 28 (0.84%) SpecFlow
16 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
16 26 (0.78%) SonarQube
17 25 (0.75%) Cucumber
General
1 699 (21.09%) Social Skills
2 652 (19.67%) Finance
3 180 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (5.31%) Banking
5 143 (4.31%) Retail
6 126 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 110 (3.32%) Law
8 99 (2.99%) Legal
9 94 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 64 (1.93%) Marketing
11 59 (1.78%) Aerospace
12 48 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.12%) Automotive
16 29 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (0.84%) Games
18 26 (0.78%) Electronics
18 26 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 950 (28.66%) Developer
2 907 (27.36%) Senior
3 506 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 491 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 372 (11.22%) Lead
6 290 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 280 (8.45%) Senior Developer
8 216 (6.52%) .NET Developer
9 176 (5.31%) Software Developer
10 163 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
11 153 (4.62%) Architect
12 145 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
13 139 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 127 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
15 125 (3.77%) C# Developer
16 124 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
17 111 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
18 110 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 104 (3.14%) Data Engineer
20 84 (2.53%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 919 (27.72%) .NET
2 620 (18.70%) React
3 445 (13.42%) CSS
4 416 (12.55%) .NET Core
5 301 (9.08%) AngularJS
6 288 (8.69%) HTML
7 281 (8.48%) Node.js
8 260 (7.84%) RESTful
9 247 (7.45%) ASP.NET
10 238 (7.18%) .NET Framework
11 229 (6.91%) REST
12 216 (6.52%) PostGIS
13 214 (6.46%) Leaflet
13 214 (6.46%) OpenLayers
14 179 (5.40%) JSON
15 162 (4.89%) Web Services
16 125 (3.77%) XML
17 122 (3.68%) Spring
18 110 (3.32%) SOAP
19 98 (2.96%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 171 (5.16%) Product Ownership
2 143 (4.31%) Public Cloud
3 134 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 114 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
5 107 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 101 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 101 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (2.90%) Private Cloud
8 90 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 75 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 74 (2.23%) Mobile App
11 67 (2.02%) IoT
12 63 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 58 (1.75%) Hedge funds
14 56 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (1.51%) Clustering
15 50 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
16 44 (1.33%) Low-Code
17 41 (1.24%) Virtual Team
18 36 (1.09%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 551 (16.62%) Linux
2 336 (10.14%) Windows
3 101 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.69%) Unix
5 55 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 50 (1.51%) Android
7 45 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 27 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.66%) CentOS
12 19 (0.57%) VMS
13 16 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
15 13 (0.39%) Windows 10
16 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
17 6 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.15%) AIX
18 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,707 (51.49%) Agile
2 1,192 (35.96%) CI/CD
3 928 (27.99%) Software Engineering
4 592 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 531 (16.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 511 (15.41%) Scrum
7 432 (13.03%) Continuous Integration
8 425 (12.82%) Microservices
9 390 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 380 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
11 367 (11.07%) Web Development
12 355 (10.71%) Containerisation
13 329 (9.92%) Test Automation
14 310 (9.35%) Full Stack Development
15 300 (9.05%) SDLC
16 269 (8.11%) TDD
17 253 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 253 (7.63%) Roadmaps
18 243 (7.33%) Unit Testing
19 211 (6.37%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 991 (29.89%) Python
2 896 (27.03%) JavaScript
3 852 (25.70%) C#
4 687 (20.72%) SQL
5 498 (15.02%) Java
6 272 (8.21%) PowerShell
7 266 (8.02%) TypeScript
8 223 (6.73%) Bash
9 164 (4.95%) Go
10 120 (3.62%) T-SQL
11 106 (3.20%) PHP
12 93 (2.81%) Perl
13 89 (2.68%) Ruby
14 81 (2.44%) C
15 67 (2.02%) VB.NET
16 58 (1.75%) Groovy
17 53 (1.60%) Bicep
18 45 (1.36%) C++
19 43 (1.30%) VB
20 37 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 697 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 516 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 440 (13.27%) Degree
4 145 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 82 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 79 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 68 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.18%) CISSP
12 37 (1.12%) DBS Check
13 36 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 25 (0.75%) ISTQB
15 24 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 20 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
17 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
18 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (9.56%) QA
2 59 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 47 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 40 (1.21%) NIST
6 32 (0.97%) 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
16 1 (0.030%) MiFID
16 1 (0.030%) Solvency II
System Software
1 712 (21.48%) Docker
2 151 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 95 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
4 78 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 59 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 52 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 17 (0.51%) vSphere
10 12 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.33%) IAG
11 11 (0.33%) NFS
12 10 (0.30%) pfSense
13 6 (0.18%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.090%) KVM
15 3 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.090%) XenApp
16 2 (0.060%) Apache Flume
17 1 (0.030%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 721 (21.75%) Kubernetes
2 684 (20.63%) Terraform
3 349 (10.53%) Ansible
4 108 (3.26%) Puppet
5 91 (2.75%) Grafana
6 86 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 85 (2.56%) Prometheus
8 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 28 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 24 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 24 (0.72%) Kibana
11 22 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (0.63%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.57%) SCOM
14 17 (0.51%) Packer
15 16 (0.48%) Nagios
15 16 (0.48%) SCCM
16 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
16 14 (0.42%) WSUS
17 13 (0.39%) Consul
Vendors
1 836 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.46%) ESRI
3 141 (4.25%) Google
4 125 (3.77%) Oracle
5 110 (3.32%) VMware
6 90 (2.71%) Databricks
7 50 (1.51%) Sitecore
8 37 (1.12%) IBM
8 37 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.09%) Optimizely
10 34 (1.03%) Splunk
11 32 (0.97%) Adobe
12 30 (0.90%) SAP
13 29 (0.87%) Citrix
14 27 (0.81%) Red Hat
14 27 (0.81%) WSO2
15 26 (0.78%) Veeam
16 25 (0.75%) Cisco
16 25 (0.75%) Dell
17 18 (0.54%) Apple