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 4 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 356 408
Rank change year-on-year -3 +52 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 33 66 132
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.20% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.48% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 31 64 119
10th Percentile £61,250 £64,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £68,125 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +27.52% -16.97%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,938 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -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 15,571 13,750 27,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.04% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,451 8,756 22,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,724 £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 £81,250 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (51.52%) AWS
4 16 (48.48%) Linux
5 15 (45.45%) Docker
5 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
5 15 (45.45%) Terraform
6 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
7 11 (33.33%) High Availability
8 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
9 9 (27.27%) Observability
10 8 (24.24%) Ansible
10 8 (24.24%) Grafana
11 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (21.21%) Bash
11 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
12 6 (18.18%) Python
13 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
13 5 (15.15%) GitHub
14 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (12.12%) AWS Control Tower
14 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (12.12%) AWS SAM
14 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (12.12%) Go
14 4 (12.12%) JavaScript

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 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (15.15%) GitHub
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Control Tower
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.09%) Azure
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) git-flow
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (21.21%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) AWS SAM
1 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.06%) WCF
4 1 (3.03%) Next.js
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Hedge funds
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) VMS
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
4 11 (33.33%) High Availability
5 9 (27.27%) Observability
6 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.12%) Microservices
10 3 (9.09%) Configuration Management
10 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (9.09%) GitOps
10 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 2 (6.06%) Computer Science
11 2 (6.06%) E-Commerce
11 2 (6.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Bash
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Go
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) PHP
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) vSphere
3 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
1 15 (45.45%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 8 (24.24%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Argo
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) VMware
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
21 hybrid/remote Senior DevOps Engineer jobs