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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 384 382
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 96 35 118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.22% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.23% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 94 34 58
10th Percentile £63,627 £64,125 £60,625
25th Percentile £63,633 £68,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £98,875 £116,250 -
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 22,107 14,927 22,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.55% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,711 9,017 15,266
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 5 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 5 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 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 42 (43.75%) Azure
4 39 (40.63%) Terraform
5 38 (39.58%) AWS
6 36 (37.50%) Mentoring
7 35 (36.46%) Agile
8 32 (33.33%) Windows
9 31 (32.29%) Test Automation
10 30 (31.25%) Linux
11 29 (30.21%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (30.21%) Scrum
12 28 (29.17%) Coaching
12 28 (29.17%) Unix
13 27 (28.13%) Pega
14 26 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (22.92%) Kubernetes
17 19 (19.79%) Azure AKS
18 18 (18.75%) GitLab
19 17 (17.71%) Node.js
20 16 (16.67%) Argo
21 15 (15.63%) Java
22 14 (14.58%) Azure Service Bus
22 14 (14.58%) Microservices
22 14 (14.58%) MongoDB
22 14 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
23 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
23 13 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
24 12 (12.50%) 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 (1.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (43.75%) Azure
2 38 (39.58%) AWS
3 26 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (19.79%) Azure AKS
5 14 (14.58%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (7.29%) GCP
7 6 (6.25%) SaaS
8 5 (5.21%) GitHub
8 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (3.13%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.08%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.08%) Datadog
11 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (4.17%) DHCP
2 4 (4.17%) Firewall
2 4 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.58%) MongoDB
1 14 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (18.75%) GitLab
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) MSI
4 1 (1.04%) Git
General
1 28 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.50%) Finance
3 10 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (40.63%) Terraform
2 17 (17.71%) Node.js
3 6 (6.25%) ADO
4 3 (3.13%) Kafka
4 3 (3.13%) YAML
5 2 (2.08%) OpenTofu
6 1 (1.04%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 32 (33.33%) Windows
2 30 (31.25%) Linux
3 28 (29.17%) Unix
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 36 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 35 (36.46%) Agile
5 31 (32.29%) Test Automation
6 29 (30.21%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (30.21%) Scrum
7 28 (29.17%) Coaching
8 25 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (14.58%) Microservices
10 13 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (12.50%) Case Management
12 9 (9.38%) Containerisation
12 9 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (8.33%) AI
13 8 (8.33%) Analytics
13 8 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (7.29%) Observability
15 6 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.63%) Java
2 11 (11.46%) Python
3 8 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.25%) Bash
4 6 (6.25%) Go
5 4 (4.17%) SQL
6 1 (1.04%) Bicep
6 1 (1.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.08%) Degree
3 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.67%) Argo
3 4 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (4.17%) Ansible
4 3 (3.13%) Istio
4 3 (3.13%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.08%) Grafana
5 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (28.13%) Pega
2 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) Google
3 4 (4.17%) Okta
3 4 (4.17%) OneLogin
4 3 (3.13%) Confluent
5 2 (2.08%) VMware