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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 339 283
Rank change year-on-year -6 -56 +161
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 27 132 196
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.68% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.70% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26 73 175
10th Percentile £61,875 £64,000 £54,666
25th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.02% -6.32%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £87,500 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 14,182 18,781 20,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 96.47% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9,030 11,771 16,390
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.83% -3.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% -4.17% -

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025, 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 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 22 (81.48%) AWS
4 19 (70.37%) Kubernetes
5 18 (66.67%) Terraform
6 17 (62.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (59.26%) Docker
8 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (44.44%) Grafana
9 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
10 11 (40.74%) Ansible
10 11 (40.74%) Bash
10 11 (40.74%) GitHub
10 11 (40.74%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (40.74%) Observability
10 11 (40.74%) Python
11 10 (37.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (37.04%) Linux
12 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
13 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (29.63%) High Availability
13 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
13 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
14 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
14 7 (25.93%) VMware
14 7 (25.93%) vSphere
15 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
15 6 (22.22%) 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 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (81.48%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) GitHub
2 11 (40.74%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (37.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (22.22%) Serverless
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 5 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (18.52%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (14.81%) Azure
7 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (11.11%) GCP
7 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.70%) OCI
8 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
2 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
1 5 (18.52%) TeamCity
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.70%) git-flow
4 1 (3.70%) Maven
4 1 (3.70%) MSBuild
4 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (22.22%) Node.js
3 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 4 (14.81%) AWS CDK
3 4 (14.81%) AWS SAM
4 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.41%) WCF
5 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
1 5 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.70%) Online Games
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) VMS
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 17 (62.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (40.74%) Observability
6 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (29.63%) High Availability
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
7 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 5 (18.52%) Agile
8 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
8 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (18.52%) Data Strategy
8 5 (18.52%) GitOps
8 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (18.52%) Product Management
8 5 (18.52%) SDLC
9 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Bash
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) Go
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (18.52%) Degree
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Docker
2 7 (25.93%) vSphere
3 5 (18.52%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (66.67%) Terraform
3 12 (44.44%) Grafana
4 11 (40.74%) Ansible
5 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (11.11%) Argo
7 1 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) VMware
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle