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 6 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
6 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 327 440
Rank change year-on-year -13 +113 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 46 61 126
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.47% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.50% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 44 58 113
10th Percentile £71,625 £62,831 £57,500
25th Percentile - £72,500 £62,500
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 £115,313 £93,750
90th Percentile £101,750 £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 15,956 12,118 30,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 94.00% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 8,991 24,574
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 6 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 6 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 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 16 (34.78%) AWS
3 16 (34.78%) Terraform
4 15 (32.61%) Linux
5 13 (28.26%) Docker
6 10 (21.74%) Azure
6 10 (21.74%) High Availability
6 10 (21.74%) Python
7 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
8 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (15.22%) Go
9 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
9 7 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (13.04%) Observability
11 5 (10.87%) Ansible
11 5 (10.87%) Bash
11 5 (10.87%) GitHub
12 4 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (8.70%) Confluent
12 4 (8.70%) Firewall
12 4 (8.70%) GCP
12 4 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
12 4 (8.70%) Istio
12 4 (8.70%) Kafka
12 4 (8.70%) Open Source

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 16 (34.78%) AWS
2 10 (21.74%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.52%) Serverless
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.17%) IaaS
8 1 (2.17%) PaaS
8 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) GitLab
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 14 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Banking
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Kafka
2 3 (6.52%) AWS SAM
2 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.17%) Next.js
4 1 (2.17%) Node.js
4 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.17%) RESTful
4 1 (2.17%) WCF
4 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Hedge funds
2 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Unix
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (21.74%) High Availability
4 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) Observability
8 4 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (8.70%) Open Source
8 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
9 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (4.35%) Analytics
10 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (4.35%) Mentoring
10 2 (4.35%) Microservices
10 2 (4.35%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Go
3 5 (10.87%) Bash
4 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (34.78%) Terraform
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 4 (8.70%) Istio
5 3 (6.52%) Grafana
6 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Confluent
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Okta
3 2 (4.35%) OneLogin
4 1 (2.17%) VMware
26 hybrid/remote Senior DevOps Engineer jobs