Hybrid/Remote Senior DevOps Job Trends

Senior Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations salary for remote/hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 364 466
Rank change year-on-year +51 +102 -99
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 91 61 109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.41% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.45% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 83 38 101
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,686 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,633 £68,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £83,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% +15.52% -14.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,605 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +9.68% -8.82%

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 17,460 13,632 31,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 92.02% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,834 8,796 24,820
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,159
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% -10.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,531 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior DevOps job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior DevOps job vacancies

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Senior DevOps salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 16 May 2026, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (47.25%) Terraform
3 40 (43.96%) AWS
4 38 (41.76%) Azure
5 37 (40.66%) CI/CD
6 33 (36.26%) Linux
7 30 (32.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (31.87%) Kubernetes
9 21 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (21.98%) GitLab
11 19 (20.88%) Python
12 18 (19.78%) Agile
12 18 (19.78%) Mentoring
12 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
12 18 (19.78%) Windows
13 17 (18.68%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (18.68%) GitHub
14 16 (17.58%) AI
14 16 (17.58%) Docker
14 16 (17.58%) Java
14 16 (17.58%) Node.js
14 16 (17.58%) Scrum
15 15 (16.48%) Argo
15 15 (16.48%) Azure AKS
15 15 (16.48%) Bash
15 15 (16.48%) Microservices
15 15 (16.48%) MongoDB
15 15 (16.48%) Observability
15 15 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (16.48%) Unix

Senior DevOps 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 4 (4.40%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.96%) AWS
2 38 (41.76%) Azure
3 21 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (18.68%) GitHub
5 15 (16.48%) Azure AKS
6 14 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (9.89%) GCP
9 8 (8.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.59%) SaaS
11 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.40%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (4.40%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.30%) Serverless
14 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 1 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
15 1 (1.10%) Datadog
15 1 (1.10%) IaaS
15 1 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Firewall
2 7 (7.69%) VPN
3 5 (5.49%) DNS
4 4 (4.40%) DHCP
4 4 (4.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.48%) MongoDB
1 15 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.10%) Metadata
3 1 (1.10%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) GitLab
2 5 (5.49%) JIRA
3 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.40%) Subversion
4 3 (3.30%) Git
4 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.10%) MSI
General
1 21 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 20 (21.98%) Finance
3 10 (10.99%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Retail
6 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.58%) Node.js
2 5 (5.49%) ADO
3 4 (4.40%) Kafka
4 2 (2.20%) Next.js
4 2 (2.20%) YAML
5 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.10%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) RESTful
5 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 6 (6.59%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (36.26%) Linux
2 18 (19.78%) Windows
3 15 (16.48%) Unix
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (40.66%) CI/CD
3 30 (32.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (19.78%) Agile
4 18 (19.78%) Mentoring
4 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
5 17 (18.68%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (17.58%) AI
6 16 (17.58%) Scrum
7 15 (16.48%) Microservices
7 15 (16.48%) Observability
8 14 (15.38%) Coaching
9 10 (10.99%) Containerisation
9 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.89%) High Availability
10 9 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (8.79%) Change Management
11 8 (8.79%) Cloud Security
11 8 (8.79%) Configuration Management
11 8 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) Python
2 16 (17.58%) Java
3 15 (16.48%) Bash
4 12 (13.19%) Go
5 6 (6.59%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.30%) PHP
6 3 (3.30%) SQL
7 2 (2.20%) C#
7 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.10%) Bicep
8 1 (1.10%) Scala
8 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) PMO
2 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 16 (17.58%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (47.25%) Terraform
2 29 (31.87%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.48%) Argo
4 11 (12.09%) Ansible
5 9 (9.89%) Grafana
6 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
7 7 (7.69%) Proxmox
8 4 (4.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (4.40%) Istio
8 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) VMware
3 4 (4.40%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.40%) Confluent
3 4 (4.40%) Okta
3 4 (4.40%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.10%) OpenAI