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 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 377 475
Rank change year-on-year +35 +98 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 67 37 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 63 35 103
10th Percentile £60,500 £60,686 £60,175
25th Percentile £63,633 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +13.79% -14.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £124,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.97% -8.24%

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 17,728 13,355 31,272
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 92.03% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 8,223 24,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,035 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,401
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -9.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 23 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 23 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 67 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (52.24%) Terraform
3 33 (49.25%) Azure
4 27 (40.30%) AWS
5 25 (37.31%) Linux
6 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
7 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (31.34%) Kubernetes
9 20 (29.85%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (28.36%) Agile
11 18 (26.87%) Mentoring
11 18 (26.87%) Windows
12 17 (25.37%) Test Automation
13 16 (23.88%) Argo
13 16 (23.88%) Azure AKS
13 16 (23.88%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (23.88%) GitLab
13 16 (23.88%) Scrum
14 15 (22.39%) Java
14 15 (22.39%) Microservices
14 15 (22.39%) Node.js
15 14 (20.90%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (20.90%) Coaching
15 14 (20.90%) MongoDB
15 14 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (20.90%) Unix
16 13 (19.40%) Docker
17 11 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
17 11 (16.42%) Python
18 9 (13.43%) 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 (1.49%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (49.25%) Azure
2 27 (40.30%) AWS
3 20 (29.85%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (23.88%) Azure AKS
5 14 (20.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (8.96%) SaaS
7 5 (7.46%) GitHub
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (5.97%) GCP
8 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.99%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.99%) Datadog
10 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.49%) IaaS
11 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) DNS
2 4 (5.97%) DHCP
2 4 (5.97%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) MongoDB
1 14 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (23.88%) GitLab
2 2 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) MSI
3 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 17 (25.37%) Public Sector
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Banking
4 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) Node.js
2 6 (8.96%) ADO
3 4 (5.97%) Kafka
4 3 (4.48%) YAML
5 2 (2.99%) Next.js
6 1 (1.49%) RESTful
6 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Hedge funds
2 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (37.31%) Linux
2 18 (26.87%) Windows
3 14 (20.90%) Unix
4 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (28.36%) Agile
5 18 (26.87%) Mentoring
6 17 (25.37%) Test Automation
7 16 (23.88%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (23.88%) Scrum
8 15 (22.39%) Microservices
9 14 (20.90%) Coaching
10 11 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 9 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (10.45%) Analytics
12 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.45%) High Availability
13 6 (8.96%) Observability
13 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (7.46%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.39%) Java
2 11 (16.42%) Python
3 8 (11.94%) Bash
4 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.97%) Go
6 2 (2.99%) PHP
6 2 (2.99%) SQL
7 1 (1.49%) Bicep
7 1 (1.49%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) Degree
4 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (19.40%) Docker
2 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (52.24%) Terraform
2 21 (31.34%) Kubernetes
3 16 (23.88%) Argo
4 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (5.97%) Istio
5 2 (2.99%) Ansible
5 2 (2.99%) Grafana
5 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Confluent
2 4 (5.97%) Okta
2 4 (5.97%) OneLogin
3 1 (1.49%) VMware