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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 378 467
Rank change year-on-year +41 +89 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 65 43 107
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.32% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 62 41 99
10th Percentile £60,250 £60,686 £60,700
25th Percentile £63,633 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £127,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £79,125
% change year-on-year -8.82% +7.42% -6.91%

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 17,190 13,411 31,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 92.27% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,633 8,791 24,816
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,070
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,359
Median % change year-on-year - +6.46% -9.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 65 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (52.31%) Terraform
3 31 (47.69%) Azure
4 27 (41.54%) AWS
5 26 (40.00%) Linux
6 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
7 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (30.77%) Kubernetes
9 19 (29.23%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (27.69%) Agile
10 18 (27.69%) Mentoring
10 18 (27.69%) Windows
11 16 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (24.62%) GitLab
11 16 (24.62%) Scrum
11 16 (24.62%) Test Automation
12 15 (23.08%) Argo
12 15 (23.08%) Azure AKS
12 15 (23.08%) Java
12 15 (23.08%) Microservices
12 15 (23.08%) Node.js
12 15 (23.08%) Unix
13 14 (21.54%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (21.54%) Coaching
13 14 (21.54%) Docker
13 14 (21.54%) MongoDB
13 14 (21.54%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (16.92%) Python
15 9 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
16 8 (12.31%) Bash

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 (1.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (47.69%) Azure
2 27 (41.54%) AWS
3 19 (29.23%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (23.08%) Azure AKS
5 14 (21.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (7.69%) GitHub
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (6.15%) GCP
7 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.15%) SaaS
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.08%) Serverless
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.54%) Datadog
10 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) DNS
1 5 (7.69%) Firewall
2 4 (6.15%) DHCP
2 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) MongoDB
1 14 (21.54%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) GitLab
2 2 (3.08%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) MSI
General
1 17 (26.15%) Public Sector
2 16 (24.62%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.08%) Node.js
2 5 (7.69%) ADO
3 4 (6.15%) Kafka
4 2 (3.08%) Next.js
4 2 (3.08%) YAML
5 1 (1.54%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.54%) RESTful
5 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.00%) Linux
2 18 (27.69%) Windows
3 15 (23.08%) Unix
4 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
3 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (27.69%) Agile
4 18 (27.69%) Mentoring
5 16 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (24.62%) Scrum
5 16 (24.62%) Test Automation
6 15 (23.08%) Microservices
7 14 (21.54%) Coaching
8 9 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.31%) High Availability
9 8 (12.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (9.23%) Observability
11 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
12 5 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.08%) Java
2 11 (16.92%) Python
3 8 (12.31%) Bash
4 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.69%) Go
6 2 (3.08%) PHP
6 2 (3.08%) SQL
7 1 (1.54%) Bicep
7 1 (1.54%) C#
7 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (52.31%) Terraform
2 20 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 15 (23.08%) Argo
4 4 (6.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (6.15%) Istio
5 3 (4.62%) Ansible
6 2 (3.08%) Grafana
7 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Confluent
2 4 (6.15%) Okta
2 4 (6.15%) OneLogin