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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 343 451
Rank change year-on-year -6 +108 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 59 54 121
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.33% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.44% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 57 51 111
10th Percentile - £65,000 £60,875
25th Percentile £63,633 £72,500 £65,359
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £109,376 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,500 £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 16,804 12,395 31,147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 92.89% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,110 9,074 24,964
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,530 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,675 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 24 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 24 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 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (47.46%) Terraform
3 25 (42.37%) AWS
3 25 (42.37%) Azure
4 24 (40.68%) Linux
5 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
6 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
8 15 (25.42%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (25.42%) Windows
9 13 (22.03%) Agile
9 13 (22.03%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (22.03%) GitLab
9 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
9 13 (22.03%) Scrum
9 13 (22.03%) Unix
10 12 (20.34%) Docker
10 12 (20.34%) Java
10 12 (20.34%) Microservices
10 12 (20.34%) Node.js
10 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
11 11 (18.64%) Argo
11 11 (18.64%) Azure AKS
11 11 (18.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (18.64%) Coaching
11 11 (18.64%) MongoDB
11 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (16.95%) Python
13 9 (15.25%) High Availability
14 8 (13.56%) Containerisation

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 (1.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (42.37%) AWS
1 25 (42.37%) Azure
2 15 (25.42%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.64%) Azure AKS
3 11 (18.64%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (8.47%) GitHub
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (6.78%) GCP
6 4 (6.78%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.08%) Serverless
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) DHCP
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) MongoDB
1 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) GitLab
2 2 (3.39%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 16 (27.12%) Finance
2 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.56%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) Node.js
2 4 (6.78%) ADO
2 4 (6.78%) Kafka
3 2 (3.39%) AWS SAM
3 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.39%) Next.js
4 1 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (1.69%) Web Services
4 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (40.68%) Linux
2 15 (25.42%) Windows
3 13 (22.03%) Unix
4 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
3 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (22.03%) Agile
4 13 (22.03%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
4 13 (22.03%) Scrum
5 12 (20.34%) Microservices
5 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
6 11 (18.64%) Coaching
7 9 (15.25%) High Availability
8 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.56%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (8.47%) Incident Management
11 5 (8.47%) Observability
11 5 (8.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) Java
2 10 (16.95%) Python
3 6 (10.17%) Go
4 5 (8.47%) Bash
5 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.39%) PHP
5 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.39%) SQL
6 1 (1.69%) Bicep
6 1 (1.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (47.46%) Terraform
2 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.64%) Argo
4 4 (6.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (6.78%) Istio
5 3 (5.08%) Ansible
6 2 (3.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Confluent
2 4 (6.78%) Okta
2 4 (6.78%) OneLogin