Tech Ops Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Tech Ops skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Tech Ops over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 516 616
Rank change year-on-year +144 +100 +110
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 25 76 57
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 62 45
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,525 £42,750
25th Percentile £48,624 £43,227 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -37.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £69,375 £72,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £76,250 £155,000
UK median annual salary £49,230 £55,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -10.49% +9.45% -7.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Tech Ops falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Tech Ops
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tech Ops trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Tech Ops
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Tech Ops salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Tech Ops over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Tech Ops salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Tech Ops
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 2 (8.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (8.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) DHCP
3 2 (8.00%) IPsec
3 2 (8.00%) LTE
3 2 (8.00%) VLAN
3 2 (8.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security
4 1 (4.00%) SAN
4 1 (4.00%) Skype
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (24.00%) Police
5 4 (16.00%) Law
6 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (12.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (8.00%) Finance
7 2 (8.00%) Games
7 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Operations Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
2 6 (24.00%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Technical Operations Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) CSS
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Clustering
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Learning Management System
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) CentOS
4 2 (8.00%) VMS
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Chemistry
5 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Neuroscience
5 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.00%) Validation
5 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GMP
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) GxP
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (8.00%) Proxmox
1 2 (8.00%) Puppet
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) SCOM
2 1 (4.00%) SCOrch
2 1 (4.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (8.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco