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 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 340 406
Rank change year-on-year -17 +66 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 33 95 129
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.20% 0.61% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 31 66 119
10th Percentile £61,250 £62,218 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +27.52% -16.97%
75th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%

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 15,330 14,892 26,441
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.58% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,212 9,013 22,121
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 17 (51.52%) Linux
4 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 15 (45.45%) Docker
5 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
5 15 (45.45%) Terraform
6 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
7 11 (33.33%) High Availability
8 9 (27.27%) Ansible
8 9 (27.27%) Observability
8 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (24.24%) Grafana
10 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (21.21%) GitHub
10 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (18.18%) Bash
11 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
11 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
12 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
12 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (15.15%) Node.js
12 5 (15.15%) Python
12 5 (15.15%) VMware
12 5 (15.15%) vSphere
13 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty

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 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (21.21%) GitHub
3 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Control Tower
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) Azure
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) git-flow
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
1 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Node.js
2 4 (12.12%) AWS SAM
2 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.06%) WCF
5 1 (3.03%) Next.js
5 1 (3.03%) React
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Hedge funds
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) VMS
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 11 (33.33%) High Availability
5 9 (27.27%) Observability
5 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
8 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.12%) Microservices
10 3 (9.09%) Configuration Management
10 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (9.09%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Bash
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Go
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) PHP
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) vSphere
3 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
1 15 (45.45%) Terraform
2 9 (27.27%) Ansible
3 8 (24.24%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Argo
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) VMware