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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 388 431
Rank change year-on-year +33 +43 -131
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 99 34 70
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 97 32 60
10th Percentile £63,627 £63,875 £61,875
25th Percentile £63,633 £69,375 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £124,750 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.76%

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 21,451 15,271 23,811
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.17% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,322 9,301 17,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 43 (43.43%) Azure
4 40 (40.40%) AWS
4 40 (40.40%) Terraform
5 36 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 34 (34.34%) Agile
7 32 (32.32%) Windows
8 31 (31.31%) Test Automation
9 30 (30.30%) Linux
10 29 (29.29%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (29.29%) Scrum
11 28 (28.28%) Coaching
11 28 (28.28%) Unix
12 27 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (27.27%) Pega
13 26 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
15 19 (19.19%) Azure AKS
16 17 (17.17%) GitLab
17 16 (16.16%) Argo
17 16 (16.16%) Node.js
18 15 (15.15%) Java
19 14 (14.14%) Azure Service Bus
19 14 (14.14%) Microservices
19 14 (14.14%) MongoDB
19 14 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
20 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
20 13 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
21 12 (12.12%) Case Management

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 (1.01%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.43%) Azure
2 40 (40.40%) AWS
3 26 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (19.19%) Azure AKS
5 14 (14.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (8.08%) GCP
7 6 (6.06%) SaaS
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (4.04%) GitHub
8 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (4.04%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.02%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.02%) Datadog
10 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) DNS
2 4 (4.04%) DHCP
2 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) MongoDB
1 14 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) GitLab
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.02%) MSI
4 1 (1.01%) Git
General
1 28 (28.28%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.15%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.08%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) Node.js
2 6 (6.06%) ADO
3 4 (4.04%) Kafka
4 3 (3.03%) YAML
5 1 (1.01%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.32%) Windows
2 30 (30.30%) Linux
3 28 (28.28%) Unix
4 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 36 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 34 (34.34%) Agile
5 31 (31.31%) Test Automation
6 29 (29.29%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (29.29%) Scrum
7 28 (28.28%) Coaching
8 27 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (14.14%) Microservices
10 13 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (12.12%) Case Management
12 11 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 10 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (8.08%) Analytics
15 8 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (8.08%) Technical Leadership
16 7 (7.07%) AI
16 7 (7.07%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.15%) Java
2 12 (12.12%) Python
3 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.07%) Bash
5 6 (6.06%) Go
6 4 (4.04%) SQL
7 1 (1.01%) Bicep
7 1 (1.01%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.02%) Degree
3 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) Docker
2 6 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (40.40%) Terraform
2 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.16%) Argo
4 4 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.04%) Istio
5 3 (3.03%) Ansible
6 2 (2.02%) Grafana
6 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (27.27%) Pega
2 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) Confluent
3 4 (4.04%) Google
3 4 (4.04%) Okta
3 4 (4.04%) OneLogin
4 2 (2.02%) VMware