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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 405 431
Rank change year-on-year +48 +26 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 99 33 78
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.22% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 96 30 70
10th Percentile £63,627 £65,000 £56,125
25th Percentile £63,633 £72,600 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,751 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -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 20,891 15,233 25,032
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 92.11% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15,095 9,453 18,639
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (43.43%) CI/CD
3 41 (41.41%) AWS
3 41 (41.41%) Azure
4 40 (40.40%) Terraform
5 35 (35.35%) Mentoring
6 34 (34.34%) Agile
7 32 (32.32%) Linux
7 32 (32.32%) Windows
8 31 (31.31%) Test Automation
9 29 (29.29%) Continuous Integration
9 29 (29.29%) Scrum
10 28 (28.28%) Coaching
10 28 (28.28%) Unix
11 27 (27.27%) Pega
12 24 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
13 18 (18.18%) Azure AKS
14 17 (17.17%) GitLab
15 16 (16.16%) Argo
15 16 (16.16%) Node.js
16 15 (15.15%) Java
17 14 (14.14%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (14.14%) Microservices
17 14 (14.14%) MongoDB
17 14 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
18 12 (12.12%) Case Management
18 12 (12.12%) Docker
18 12 (12.12%) Microsoft

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 (1.01%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.41%) AWS
1 41 (41.41%) Azure
2 24 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 14 (14.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (7.07%) GCP
6 6 (6.06%) GitHub
6 6 (6.06%) SaaS
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.04%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.02%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.02%) Datadog
9 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) DNS
2 4 (4.04%) DHCP
2 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) MongoDB
1 14 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) GitLab
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.02%) MSI
4 1 (1.01%) Git
General
1 28 (28.28%) Public Sector
2 14 (14.14%) Finance
3 8 (8.08%) Banking
3 8 (8.08%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) Node.js
2 6 (6.06%) ADO
3 4 (4.04%) Kafka
4 3 (3.03%) YAML
5 1 (1.01%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.32%) Linux
1 32 (32.32%) Windows
2 28 (28.28%) Unix
3 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (43.43%) CI/CD
3 35 (35.35%) Mentoring
4 34 (34.34%) Agile
5 31 (31.31%) Test Automation
6 29 (29.29%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (29.29%) Scrum
7 28 (28.28%) Coaching
8 24 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (14.14%) Microservices
10 12 (12.12%) Case Management
11 11 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (10.10%) Containerisation
13 9 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (8.08%) Analytics
14 8 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.08%) Technical Leadership
15 7 (7.07%) AI
16 6 (6.06%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.15%) Java
2 12 (12.12%) Python
3 8 (8.08%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.07%) Bash
5 6 (6.06%) Go
6 3 (3.03%) SQL
7 2 (2.02%) PHP
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.02%) Degree
3 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (12.12%) Docker
2 6 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (40.40%) Terraform
2 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.16%) Argo
4 4 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.04%) Istio
5 3 (3.03%) Ansible
6 2 (2.02%) Grafana
6 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (27.27%) Pega
2 12 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) Confluent
3 4 (4.04%) Okta
3 4 (4.04%) OneLogin
4 3 (3.03%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) VMware