Hybrid/Remote Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 321 335
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 32 123 158
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.21% 0.75% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.78% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 32 66 147
10th Percentile £62,625 £62,843 £55,499
25th Percentile £66,563 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +16.13% -8.82%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £106,774
UK median annual salary £81,250 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 14,035 15,855 20,818
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 96.10% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,122 9,591 17,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,664
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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 Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Senior DevOps Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (50.00%) Terraform
4 15 (46.88%) Docker
4 15 (46.88%) Linux
5 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
6 11 (34.38%) Grafana
6 11 (34.38%) High Availability
6 11 (34.38%) Observability
7 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (28.13%) Ansible
8 9 (28.13%) Bash
9 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (25.00%) Python
10 7 (21.88%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (21.88%) GitHub
10 7 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
11 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
11 6 (18.75%) Serverless
11 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
12 5 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (15.63%) GitOps

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (21.88%) GitHub
3 7 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (18.75%) Serverless
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.25%) Azure
8 2 (6.25%) GCP
9 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.13%) OCI
9 1 (3.13%) PaaS
9 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 2 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) git-flow
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Automotive
4 1 (3.13%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (15.63%) Node.js
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 4 (12.50%) AWS SAM
4 3 (9.38%) .NET
5 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.25%) WCF
6 1 (3.13%) Next.js
6 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Hedge funds
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 15 (46.88%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) VMS
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (34.38%) High Availability
3 11 (34.38%) Observability
4 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 5 (15.63%) GitOps
8 4 (12.50%) Agile
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
9 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (9.38%) Microservices
9 3 (9.38%) Product Management
9 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Bash
2 8 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Go
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) vSphere
3 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 16 (50.00%) Terraform
2 11 (34.38%) Grafana
3 9 (28.13%) Ansible
4 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) VMware
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
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