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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 395 377
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 98 35 119
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.21% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.23% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 96 34 60
10th Percentile £63,627 £58,625 £61,875
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,000 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -11.43% +9.88%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £95,000 - £105,625
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

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 23,248 15,407 21,924
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.85% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,167 8,911 13,737
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -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 27 September 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 27 September 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 98 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (45.92%) CI/CD
3 40 (40.82%) Azure
4 39 (39.80%) Agile
5 36 (36.73%) Mentoring
6 35 (35.71%) AWS
6 35 (35.71%) Terraform
7 32 (32.65%) Test Automation
8 31 (31.63%) Windows
9 29 (29.59%) Continuous Integration
9 29 (29.59%) Scrum
10 28 (28.57%) Coaching
10 28 (28.57%) Linux
10 28 (28.57%) Unix
11 27 (27.55%) Pega
12 25 (25.51%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (21.43%) Kubernetes
15 19 (19.39%) Azure AKS
16 18 (18.37%) GitLab
17 17 (17.35%) Node.js
18 16 (16.33%) Argo
19 14 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
19 14 (14.29%) Java
19 14 (14.29%) Microservices
19 14 (14.29%) MongoDB
19 14 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
20 12 (12.24%) Case Management
20 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
21 11 (11.22%) Platform Engineering

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 (1.02%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Azure
2 35 (35.71%) AWS
3 25 (25.51%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (19.39%) Azure AKS
5 14 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (9.18%) SaaS
7 5 (5.10%) GitHub
8 4 (4.08%) GCP
8 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.04%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.04%) Datadog
10 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) DNS
2 3 (3.06%) DHCP
2 3 (3.06%) Firewall
2 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 14 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (18.37%) GitLab
2 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.04%) MSI
4 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 29 (29.59%) Public Sector
2 9 (9.18%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (3.06%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (35.71%) Terraform
2 17 (17.35%) Node.js
3 5 (5.10%) ADO
4 3 (3.06%) YAML
5 2 (2.04%) OpenTofu
6 1 (1.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.10%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.63%) Windows
2 28 (28.57%) Linux
2 28 (28.57%) Unix
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (45.92%) CI/CD
3 39 (39.80%) Agile
4 36 (36.73%) Mentoring
5 32 (32.65%) Test Automation
6 29 (29.59%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (29.59%) Scrum
7 28 (28.57%) Coaching
8 23 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (14.29%) Microservices
10 12 (12.24%) Case Management
11 11 (11.22%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (8.16%) AI
13 8 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (7.14%) Analytics
14 7 (7.14%) Observability
15 6 (6.12%) Containerisation
15 6 (6.12%) Technical Leadership
16 5 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.29%) Java
2 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
3 8 (8.16%) Python
4 7 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (3.06%) Go
5 3 (3.06%) SQL
6 1 (1.02%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.33%) Argo
3 4 (4.08%) Ansible
4 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.04%) Grafana
5 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (27.55%) Pega
2 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.08%) Google
4 3 (3.06%) Okta
4 3 (3.06%) OneLogin
5 2 (2.04%) VMware