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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 386 477
Rank change year-on-year +32 +91 -144
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 85 35 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 81 32 81
10th Percentile £63,627 £63,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,633 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -8.82%

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 20,031 15,209 30,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,594 9,441 23,786
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £57,098
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.58% -8.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 July 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 July 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 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (45.88%) AWS
3 38 (44.71%) CI/CD
4 37 (43.53%) Terraform
5 36 (42.35%) Azure
6 32 (37.65%) Mentoring
7 31 (36.47%) Agile
7 31 (36.47%) Linux
8 30 (35.29%) Windows
9 29 (34.12%) Test Automation
10 28 (32.94%) Continuous Integration
10 28 (32.94%) Scrum
11 27 (31.76%) Pega
12 26 (30.59%) Coaching
12 26 (30.59%) Unix
13 23 (27.06%) Kubernetes
14 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (20.00%) Azure AKS
17 16 (18.82%) Argo
17 16 (18.82%) GitLab
18 15 (17.65%) Java
18 15 (17.65%) Microservices
19 14 (16.47%) Azure Service Bus
19 14 (16.47%) MongoDB
19 14 (16.47%) Node.js
19 14 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
20 12 (14.12%) Case Management
20 12 (14.12%) Docker
21 10 (11.76%) Containerisation

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 (1.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.88%) AWS
2 36 (42.35%) Azure
3 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 14 (16.47%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (7.06%) GCP
6 6 (7.06%) SaaS
7 5 (5.88%) GitHub
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.35%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.35%) Datadog
10 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) DNS
2 4 (4.71%) DHCP
2 4 (4.71%) Firewall
2 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.47%) MongoDB
1 14 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) GitLab
2 2 (2.35%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.35%) MSI
3 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 26 (30.59%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.29%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) Node.js
2 6 (7.06%) ADO
3 4 (4.71%) Kafka
4 3 (3.53%) YAML
5 1 (1.18%) Next.js
5 1 (1.18%) RESTful
5 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.47%) Linux
2 30 (35.29%) Windows
3 26 (30.59%) Unix
4 4 (4.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (44.71%) CI/CD
3 32 (37.65%) Mentoring
4 31 (36.47%) Agile
5 29 (34.12%) Test Automation
6 28 (32.94%) Continuous Integration
6 28 (32.94%) Scrum
7 26 (30.59%) Coaching
8 21 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (17.65%) Microservices
10 12 (14.12%) Case Management
11 10 (11.76%) Containerisation
12 9 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (9.41%) Analytics
13 8 (9.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
16 5 (5.88%) Incident Management
16 5 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.65%) Java
2 10 (11.76%) Python
3 7 (8.24%) Bash
3 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.71%) Go
5 2 (2.35%) PHP
5 2 (2.35%) SQL
6 1 (1.18%) Bicep
6 1 (1.18%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.53%) Degree
3 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (14.12%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (43.53%) Terraform
2 23 (27.06%) Kubernetes
3 16 (18.82%) Argo
4 4 (4.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.71%) Istio
5 2 (2.35%) Ansible
5 2 (2.35%) Grafana
5 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (31.76%) Pega
2 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.71%) Confluent
3 4 (4.71%) Okta
3 4 (4.71%) OneLogin
4 2 (2.35%) Google
4 2 (2.35%) VMware