Hybrid/Remote Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 378 301
Rank change year-on-year -5 -77 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 38 120 237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.51% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.53% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 37 60 212
10th Percentile £59,750 £61,875 £59,888
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,750 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -1.11% -6.32%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £88,500 - £106,289
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 15,105 22,566 23,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 96.28% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,998 14,513 19,625
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,005 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (84.21%) AWS
3 30 (78.95%) CI/CD
4 27 (71.05%) Terraform
5 24 (63.16%) Kubernetes
5 24 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (47.37%) Docker
7 17 (44.74%) Python
8 16 (42.11%) GitHub
8 16 (42.11%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
10 14 (36.84%) Grafana
11 13 (34.21%) Observability
12 12 (31.58%) Ansible
12 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
12 12 (31.58%) Bash
13 11 (28.95%) Azure
13 11 (28.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (28.95%) Go
13 11 (28.95%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (26.32%) GCP
14 10 (26.32%) High Availability
14 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
14 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
14 10 (26.32%) Linux
14 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
15 9 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (23.68%) Virtual Machines
15 9 (23.68%) Elastic Stack

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 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (84.21%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) GitHub
2 16 (42.11%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (28.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (28.95%) Azure
4 10 (26.32%) GCP
5 6 (15.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (15.79%) AWS Control Tower
5 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (13.16%) Serverless
7 3 (7.89%) CloudFront
7 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.42%) TeamCity
3 3 (7.89%) Git
3 3 (7.89%) GitLab
4 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.63%) git-flow
5 1 (2.63%) Maven
5 1 (2.63%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Automotive
3 2 (5.26%) Banking
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (21.05%) Node.js
3 5 (13.16%) AWS CDK
4 3 (7.89%) AWS SAM
5 2 (5.26%) .NET
5 2 (5.26%) Kafka
6 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Online Games
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 24 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (34.21%) Observability
6 11 (28.95%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (26.32%) High Availability
7 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
8 9 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (21.05%) Agile
9 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
10 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
10 7 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (18.42%) Data Strategy
10 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
10 7 (18.42%) Product Management
10 7 (18.42%) SDLC
11 6 (15.79%) Configuration Management
11 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Python
2 12 (31.58%) Bash
3 11 (28.95%) Go
4 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Java
7 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (18.42%) Degree
4 6 (15.79%) AWS Certification
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) Docker
2 9 (23.68%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (18.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (71.05%) Terraform
2 24 (63.16%) Kubernetes
3 14 (36.84%) Grafana
4 12 (31.58%) Ansible
5 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.89%) Argo
7 2 (5.26%) Istio
8 1 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) VMware
2 2 (5.26%) Confluent
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle