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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 344 441
Rank change year-on-year -1 +97 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 54 55 123
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.44% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 52 52 112
10th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £60,088
25th Percentile £78,125 £72,500 £63,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £104,688 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,750 £127,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -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 16,722 12,400 31,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.93% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,033 9,079 24,854
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (44.44%) Terraform
3 21 (38.89%) AWS
4 20 (37.04%) Linux
5 19 (35.19%) Azure
5 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (33.33%) Kubernetes
7 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
8 13 (24.07%) Docker
9 11 (20.37%) Windows
10 10 (18.52%) Python
11 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 9 (16.67%) High Availability
11 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (14.81%) Agile
12 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (14.81%) GitLab
12 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
12 8 (14.81%) Microservices
12 8 (14.81%) Scrum
12 8 (14.81%) Unix
13 7 (12.96%) Java
13 7 (12.96%) MongoDB
13 7 (12.96%) Node.js
13 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
14 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (11.11%) Argo
14 6 (11.11%) Azure AKS

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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) Azure
3 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 6 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (7.41%) GCP
6 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.56%) Serverless
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.85%) PaaS
9 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) DHCP
2 4 (7.41%) DNS
2 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) MongoDB
2 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 16 (29.63%) Finance
2 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.81%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) Node.js
2 4 (7.41%) ADO
2 4 (7.41%) Kafka
3 2 (3.70%) AWS SAM
3 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.70%) Next.js
4 1 (1.85%) .NET
4 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.85%) RESTful
4 1 (1.85%) WCF
4 1 (1.85%) Web Services
4 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Hedge funds
2 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Linux
2 11 (20.37%) Windows
3 8 (14.81%) Unix
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 9 (16.67%) High Availability
4 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (14.81%) Agile
5 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
5 8 (14.81%) Microservices
5 8 (14.81%) Scrum
6 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.11%) Coaching
7 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (9.26%) Incident Management
8 5 (9.26%) Observability
9 4 (7.41%) Application Packaging
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) Python
2 7 (12.96%) Java
3 6 (11.11%) Go
4 5 (9.26%) Bash
5 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) PHP
5 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.85%) Bicep
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 13 (24.07%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (44.44%) Terraform
2 18 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.11%) Argo
4 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (7.41%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Istio
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Confluent
2 4 (7.41%) Okta
2 4 (7.41%) OneLogin
3 1 (1.85%) VMware