DevOps Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Work from Home is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 99 105
Rank change year-on-year -124 +6 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 503 1,324 2,585
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.49% 3.29% 3.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 3.43% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 388 1,080 1,483
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,180 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,508 38,611 69,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,864 27,418 42,055
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,359 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer.

DevOps Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

DevOps Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, DevOps Engineer 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 remote work options featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 503 (100.00%) DevOps
2 354 (70.38%) CI/CD
3 322 (64.02%) Terraform
4 304 (60.44%) AWS
5 302 (60.04%) Kubernetes
6 287 (57.06%) Azure
7 244 (48.51%) Docker
8 206 (40.95%) Linux
9 203 (40.36%) Agile
10 182 (36.18%) Python
11 176 (34.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 172 (34.19%) Ansible
13 134 (26.64%) Containerisation
14 127 (25.25%) Security Cleared
15 119 (23.66%) Jenkins
16 118 (23.46%) Azure DevOps
17 101 (20.08%) Continuous Integration
18 97 (19.28%) Social Skills
19 92 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
20 87 (17.30%) Windows
21 86 (17.10%) PowerShell
21 86 (17.10%) Bash
22 82 (16.30%) GCP
23 81 (16.10%) Continuous Deployment
23 81 (16.10%) Microsoft
23 81 (16.10%) Scrum
24 80 (15.90%) SQL
25 77 (15.31%) Finance
26 74 (14.71%) Git
27 71 (14.12%) JIRA

DevOps Engineer 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 14 (2.78%) nginx
2 6 (1.19%) Confluence
3 4 (0.80%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) Moodle
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 304 (60.44%) AWS
2 287 (57.06%) Azure
3 118 (23.46%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (16.30%) GCP
5 67 (13.32%) Serverless
6 59 (11.73%) GitHub
7 56 (11.13%) SaaS
8 47 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (7.55%) Amazon S3
12 29 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (5.77%) OpenShift
13 28 (5.57%) Azure AKS
13 28 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (3.98%) PaaS
18 17 (3.38%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.75%) DNS
2 35 (6.96%) Firewall
3 22 (4.37%) Network Security
4 21 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 18 (3.58%) HTTP
6 14 (2.78%) VPN
6 14 (2.78%) WAN
7 12 (2.39%) LAN
8 11 (2.19%) Internet
9 9 (1.79%) SNMP
9 9 (1.79%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.99%) AMQP
11 4 (0.80%) IPv4
11 4 (0.80%) WLAN
12 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.40%) IPsec
13 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.35%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.17%) MySQL
6 17 (3.38%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.19%) Power BI
10 10 (1.99%) Big Data
10 10 (1.99%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.99%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (1.39%) Redis
13 6 (1.19%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.99%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.99%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 119 (23.66%) Jenkins
2 74 (14.71%) Git
3 71 (14.12%) JIRA
4 58 (11.53%) GitLab
5 18 (3.58%) IBM UrbanCode
6 15 (2.98%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.58%) CircleCI
7 13 (2.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (1.99%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.79%) Selenium
10 8 (1.59%) git-flow
10 8 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.39%) Maven
12 6 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.99%) JUnit
13 5 (0.99%) MSBuild
14 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.60%) Gradle
15 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 97 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 77 (15.31%) Finance
3 56 (11.13%) Aerospace
4 35 (6.96%) Banking
5 25 (4.97%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.78%) Retail
10 12 (2.39%) Games
11 11 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.59%) Law
13 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.80%) Advertising
14 4 (0.80%) Marketing
14 4 (0.80%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.60%) Automotive
16 2 (0.40%) Electronics
16 2 (0.40%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (6.36%) .NET
3 27 (5.37%) RESTful
4 23 (4.57%) YAML
5 17 (3.38%) Node.js
6 16 (3.18%) JWT
7 13 (2.58%) AWS CDK
8 12 (2.39%) ARM Templates
9 11 (2.19%) JSON
9 11 (2.19%) Kafka
9 11 (2.19%) Middleware
9 11 (2.19%) REST
10 9 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (1.59%) AWS SAM
12 5 (0.99%) React
12 5 (0.99%) XML
13 4 (0.80%) .NET Core
13 4 (0.80%) GraphQL
13 4 (0.80%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (0.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.37%) Public Cloud
2 16 (3.18%) Client/Server
2 16 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.58%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.58%) Private Cloud
5 12 (2.39%) Virtual Team
6 11 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.99%) Clustering
7 10 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.59%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.59%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.99%) Online Games
12 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 206 (40.95%) Linux
2 87 (17.30%) Windows
3 9 (1.79%) CentOS
4 7 (1.39%) VMS
5 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.80%) Unix
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (100.00%) DevOps
2 354 (70.38%) CI/CD
3 203 (40.36%) Agile
4 176 (34.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (26.64%) Containerisation
6 101 (20.08%) Continuous Integration
7 92 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (16.10%) Continuous Deployment
8 81 (16.10%) Scrum
9 66 (13.12%) SDLC
10 65 (12.92%) Collaborative Working
11 61 (12.13%) Kanban
12 60 (11.93%) Microservices
13 55 (10.93%) Validation
14 50 (9.94%) Software Engineering
15 48 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
15 48 (9.54%) Mentoring
15 48 (9.54%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (8.95%) Configuration Management
17 44 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 182 (36.18%) Python
2 86 (17.10%) Bash
2 86 (17.10%) PowerShell
3 80 (15.90%) SQL
4 47 (9.34%) Java
5 42 (8.35%) Groovy
6 32 (6.36%) C#
7 31 (6.16%) Go
8 20 (3.98%) JavaScript
9 17 (3.38%) Perl
10 16 (3.18%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.18%) T-SQL
11 12 (2.39%) Ruby
12 10 (1.99%) PHP
13 9 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.79%) U-SQL
14 5 (0.99%) Ada
14 5 (0.99%) C
15 4 (0.80%) C++
15 4 (0.80%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 127 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.53%) DV Cleared
3 51 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 42 (8.35%) Degree
5 29 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 27 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.20%) OCP
14 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.78%) QA
2 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.60%) NIST
2 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.20%) NCSC
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 244 (48.51%) Docker
2 25 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (4.57%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.98%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.60%) KVM
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 322 (64.02%) Terraform
2 302 (60.04%) Kubernetes
3 172 (34.19%) Ansible
4 52 (10.34%) Progress Chef
4 52 (10.34%) Puppet
5 45 (8.95%) Grafana
6 27 (5.37%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.39%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (2.19%) Rancher
9 10 (1.99%) Consul
10 9 (1.79%) Argo
10 9 (1.79%) Graphite
10 9 (1.79%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.79%) Nagios
10 9 (1.79%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.39%) Kibana
12 5 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.99%) Packer
13 4 (0.80%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.80%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 81 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.17%) Google
2 26 (5.17%) VMware
3 21 (4.17%) Oracle
4 17 (3.38%) IBM
5 12 (2.39%) Databricks
6 8 (1.59%) Cisco
6 8 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.39%) Splunk
8 6 (1.19%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.19%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.99%) McAfee
9 5 (0.99%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.80%) Meraki
10 4 (0.80%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.60%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.60%) Remedy
11 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.60%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.60%) Veeam