Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 476 408
Rank change year-on-year +131 -68 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 52 116 287
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.34% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.36% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 49 106 262
10th Percentile £63,137 £60,438 £68,750
25th Percentile £70,097 £62,680 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,001 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior DevOps Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (84.62%) Terraform
3 35 (67.31%) Kubernetes
3 35 (67.31%) Finance
4 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
5 30 (57.69%) AWS
6 28 (53.85%) Docker
7 27 (51.92%) Banking
7 27 (51.92%) Python
8 23 (44.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (40.38%) Agile
10 19 (36.54%) JavaScript
11 17 (32.69%) Software Engineering
11 17 (32.69%) Ansible
11 17 (32.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (32.69%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (32.69%) Serverless
12 15 (28.85%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (28.85%) Fintech
13 14 (26.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (26.92%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (26.92%) Asset Management
13 14 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (26.92%) Amazon S3
13 14 (26.92%) Front Office
13 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (25.00%) Azure
15 12 (23.08%) E-Commerce
15 12 (23.08%) GCP

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (15.38%) Apache Solr
1 8 (15.38%) Confluence
1 8 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (1.92%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) AWS
2 17 (32.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 17 (32.69%) AWS Lambda
2 17 (32.69%) Serverless
3 15 (28.85%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (26.92%) Amazon S3
4 14 (26.92%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (25.00%) Azure
6 12 (23.08%) GCP
7 6 (11.54%) GitHub
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (9.62%) SaaS
9 4 (7.69%) CloudFront
9 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.77%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (5.77%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) DNS
1 8 (15.38%) HTTPS
1 8 (15.38%) IPsec
1 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.69%) Firewall
2 4 (7.69%) HTTP
3 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (26.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (17.31%) MySQL
3 8 (15.38%) Couchbase
3 8 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.92%) DB2
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) JIRA
2 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.69%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (5.77%) Git
4 3 (5.77%) Selenium
4 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.92%) TestRail
General
1 35 (67.31%) Finance
2 27 (51.92%) Banking
3 14 (26.92%) Front Office
4 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (7.69%) Kafka
3 3 (5.77%) AWS SAM
3 3 (5.77%) Django
3 3 (5.77%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.77%) Flask
3 3 (5.77%) Playwright
4 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
3 23 (44.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 21 (40.38%) Agile
5 17 (32.69%) Software Engineering
6 15 (28.85%) Fintech
7 14 (26.92%) Asset Management
7 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (23.08%) E-Commerce
8 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.38%) Software Delivery
10 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (9.62%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (9.62%) Microservices
11 5 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (9.62%) Test Automation
12 4 (7.69%) Non-Blocking Code
12 4 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (51.92%) Python
2 19 (36.54%) JavaScript
3 11 (21.15%) Go
4 8 (15.38%) PHP
5 5 (9.62%) Bash
6 3 (5.77%) Groovy
7 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) Java
8 1 (1.92%) JCL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.77%) OCP
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 28 (53.85%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (84.62%) Terraform
2 35 (67.31%) Kubernetes
3 17 (32.69%) Ansible
4 6 (11.54%) Istio
5 5 (9.62%) Grafana
5 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.69%) Argo
7 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.92%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (1.92%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.92%) Kibana
8 1 (1.92%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.92%) logstash
8 1 (1.92%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Atlassian
1 4 (7.69%) IBM
2 3 (5.77%) Confluent
2 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.92%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.92%) Imperva
3 1 (1.92%) Okta
3 1 (1.92%) VMware