Principal DevOps Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Principal Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £116,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 587 647
Rank change year-on-year +176 +60 +166
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 2 2 24
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.006% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.006% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 22
10th Percentile £107,625 - £78,875
25th Percentile £109,688 £92,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £116,250 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.37% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £119,688 £97,500 £116,875
90th Percentile £119,875 - £133,375
UK median annual salary £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +1.32% - -2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Principal DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Principal DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Principal DevOps Engineer.

Principal DevOps Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Principal DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Network
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Debian
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX