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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 484 359
Rank change year-on-year +62 -125 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 35 91 274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.27% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.28% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 32 81 247
10th Percentile £60,992 £56,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,875 £62,500 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,001 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.06% -8.82% -

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 18,832 32,819 34,592
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 96.20% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,508 24,686 25,631
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (71.43%) Terraform
3 24 (68.57%) AWS
4 21 (60.00%) Kubernetes
5 20 (57.14%) Python
6 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
7 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (40.00%) Azure
8 14 (40.00%) Ansible
8 14 (40.00%) Docker
9 12 (34.29%) GitHub
9 12 (34.29%) GCP
9 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (31.43%) Go
11 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
11 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
11 10 (28.57%) JavaScript
12 9 (25.71%) Finance
12 9 (25.71%) Bash
12 9 (25.71%) Grafana
13 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
13 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (22.86%) High Availability
13 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
13 8 (22.86%) Banking
14 7 (20.00%) Firewall
14 7 (20.00%) Linux
14 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
14 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (20.00%) 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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 12 (34.29%) GCP
3 12 (34.29%) GitHub
4 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
6 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (11.43%) CloudFront
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (8.57%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.71%) Serverless
10 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.86%) IPsec
2 1 (2.86%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
1 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.71%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Redis
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 4 (11.43%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (8.57%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (8.57%) Selenium
4 3 (8.57%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.57%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.71%) GitLab
6 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.86%) Maven
6 1 (2.86%) MSBuild
6 1 (2.86%) TestRail
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Banking
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Automotive
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (11.43%) Kafka
3 3 (8.57%) Django
3 3 (8.57%) FastAPI
3 3 (8.57%) Flask
3 3 (8.57%) Node.js
3 3 (8.57%) Playwright
4 2 (5.71%) AWS CDK
4 2 (5.71%) AWS SAM
5 1 (2.86%) .NET
5 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (8.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.86%) High Availability
6 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (17.14%) Agile
7 6 (17.14%) Configuration Management
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (17.14%) Microservices
7 6 (17.14%) Observability
8 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
8 5 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (14.29%) SIEM
8 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
9 4 (11.43%) Edge Computing
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) Go
3 10 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 9 (25.71%) Bash
5 3 (8.57%) Groovy
5 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) Java
7 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) OCP
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Docker
2 6 (17.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.57%) vSphere
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (71.43%) Terraform
2 21 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (40.00%) Ansible
4 9 (25.71%) Grafana
5 6 (17.14%) Istio
5 6 (17.14%) Prometheus
6 4 (11.43%) Argo
7 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.86%) Check_MK
8 1 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.86%) Kibana
8 1 (2.86%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.86%) logstash
8 1 (2.86%) Opsgenie
8 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.57%) Confluent
2 3 (8.57%) Dynatrace
2 3 (8.57%) IBM
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.86%) Imperva
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Okta