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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 387 350
Rank change year-on-year +40 -37 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 110 33 125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.20% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.21% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 107 32 66
10th Percentile £63,626 £57,875 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,633 £63,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% +13.02%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £95,000 - £113,125
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 23,365 15,489 20,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.21% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 16,055 8,753 12,926
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,821 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -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 11 October 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 October 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.

1 110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 45 (40.91%) Agile
4 42 (38.18%) AWS
5 39 (35.45%) Mentoring
6 38 (34.55%) Azure
7 35 (31.82%) Terraform
8 33 (30.00%) Test Automation
9 31 (28.18%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (27.27%) Coaching
10 30 (27.27%) Linux
10 30 (27.27%) Scrum
10 30 (27.27%) Unix
11 29 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (24.55%) Pega
13 26 (23.64%) Windows
14 23 (20.91%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (20.00%) Kubernetes
16 18 (16.36%) Azure AKS
17 16 (14.55%) GitLab
18 14 (12.73%) Node.js
18 14 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
19 13 (11.82%) Argo
20 12 (10.91%) Case Management
20 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
21 11 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
21 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
21 11 (10.00%) Java
21 11 (10.00%) Microservices
21 11 (10.00%) MongoDB

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 (0.91%) Confluence
1 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.18%) AWS
2 38 (34.55%) Azure
3 23 (20.91%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (16.36%) Azure AKS
5 11 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (10.00%) SaaS
6 4 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.64%) GCP
6 4 (3.64%) GitHub
6 4 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.82%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.82%) Datadog
8 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.82%) PaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) DNS
2 1 (0.91%) DHCP
2 1 (0.91%) Firewall
2 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 11 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.55%) GitLab
2 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.82%) Git
3 2 (1.82%) MSI
4 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.91%) JIRA
4 1 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (28.18%) Public Sector
2 7 (6.36%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.91%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.82%) Terraform
2 14 (12.73%) Node.js
3 4 (3.64%) ADO
3 4 (3.64%) YAML
4 2 (1.82%) OpenTofu
5 1 (0.91%) .NET
5 1 (0.91%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (3.64%) Culture of Ownership
3 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.27%) Linux
1 30 (27.27%) Unix
2 26 (23.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 45 (40.91%) Agile
4 39 (35.45%) Mentoring
5 33 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 31 (28.18%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (27.27%) Coaching
7 30 (27.27%) Scrum
8 29 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (10.91%) Case Management
11 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (10.00%) Microservices
11 11 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.09%) AI
13 8 (7.27%) Containerisation
14 7 (6.36%) Observability
14 7 (6.36%) Technical Leadership
15 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
15 5 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.00%) Java
1 11 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.18%) Python
3 8 (7.27%) Bash
4 4 (3.64%) Go
5 3 (2.73%) SQL
6 2 (1.82%) C#
7 1 (0.91%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.82%) Degree
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (8.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.82%) Argo
3 7 (6.36%) Ansible
4 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.82%) Grafana
5 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.91%) Opsview
6 1 (0.91%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (24.55%) Pega
2 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.64%) Google
4 3 (2.73%) VMware
5 1 (0.91%) Okta
5 1 (0.91%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.91%) YouTube