Senior DevOps Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 475 395
Rank change year-on-year +130 -80 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 68 114 306
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.34% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.35% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 45 105 279
10th Percentile £61,912 £60,350 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,097 £62,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,001 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £127,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior DevOps.

Senior DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Senior DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (79.41%) Terraform
3 48 (70.59%) AWS
4 47 (69.12%) CI/CD
5 45 (66.18%) Finance
6 37 (54.41%) Kubernetes
7 32 (47.06%) Docker
8 31 (45.59%) Python
9 29 (42.65%) Software Engineering
9 29 (42.65%) Ansible
9 29 (42.65%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (42.65%) Serverless
10 26 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (38.24%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (38.24%) Amazon S3
11 25 (36.76%) Agile
11 25 (36.76%) Banking
12 21 (30.88%) Java
12 21 (30.88%) Jenkins
13 20 (29.41%) Management Information System
13 20 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (27.94%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (27.94%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (27.94%) Azure
15 18 (26.47%) IBM
15 18 (26.47%) Linux
16 17 (25.00%) GCP
16 17 (25.00%) JavaScript
16 17 (25.00%) Git
17 16 (23.53%) SDLC

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.76%) Confluence
2 6 (8.82%) Apache Solr
2 6 (8.82%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 48 (70.59%) AWS
2 29 (42.65%) AWS Lambda
2 29 (42.65%) Serverless
3 26 (38.24%) Amazon EC2
3 26 (38.24%) Amazon S3
4 19 (27.94%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (27.94%) Azure
5 17 (25.00%) GCP
6 15 (22.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (20.59%) Datadog
8 13 (19.12%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (8.82%) GitHub
11 5 (7.35%) SaaS
12 4 (5.88%) CloudFront
12 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (4.41%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (4.41%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (4.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) DNS
1 6 (8.82%) HTTPS
1 6 (8.82%) IPsec
1 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.88%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) HTTP
3 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
1 12 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.29%) MySQL
3 6 (8.82%) Couchbase
4 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.47%) DB2
6 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.47%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (30.88%) Jenkins
2 17 (25.00%) Git
3 14 (20.59%) Cucumber
3 14 (20.59%) GitLab
3 14 (20.59%) IntelliJ
3 14 (20.59%) JUnit
3 14 (20.59%) Maven
3 14 (20.59%) Mockito
4 9 (13.24%) JIRA
5 4 (5.88%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (4.41%) Selenium
6 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.47%) TestRail
General
1 45 (66.18%) Finance
2 25 (36.76%) Banking
3 12 (17.65%) Front Office
4 5 (7.35%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (20.59%) JMS
1 14 (20.59%) Spring
1 14 (20.59%) Spring Boot
2 6 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.88%) Kafka
4 3 (4.41%) AWS SAM
4 3 (4.41%) Django
4 3 (4.41%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.41%) Flask
4 3 (4.41%) Playwright
5 2 (2.94%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 14 (20.59%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (20.59%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.47%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (1.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (69.12%) CI/CD
3 29 (42.65%) Software Engineering
4 26 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (36.76%) Agile
6 20 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 19 (27.94%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (23.53%) SDLC
9 14 (20.59%) Analytics
10 13 (19.12%) Fintech
11 12 (17.65%) Asset Management
11 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (16.18%) Microservices
13 10 (14.71%) Containerisation
13 10 (14.71%) E-Commerce
14 9 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
15 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
16 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
16 6 (8.82%) Software Delivery
16 6 (8.82%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 31 (45.59%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) Java
3 17 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.59%) C++
5 11 (16.18%) Go
6 6 (8.82%) C#
6 6 (8.82%) PHP
6 6 (8.82%) SQL
7 5 (7.35%) Bash
8 3 (4.41%) Groovy
9 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Azure Certification
3 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) OCP
4 3 (4.41%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) GDPR
1 6 (8.82%) HIPAA
1 6 (8.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 32 (47.06%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (79.41%) Terraform
2 37 (54.41%) Kubernetes
3 29 (42.65%) Ansible
4 6 (8.82%) Istio
5 5 (7.35%) Grafana
5 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.88%) Argo
7 3 (4.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.47%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (1.47%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.47%) Kibana
8 1 (1.47%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.47%) logstash
8 1 (1.47%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) IBM
2 6 (8.82%) Google
3 4 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.41%) Confluent
4 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.47%) Imperva
5 1 (1.47%) Okta
5 1 (1.47%) VMware