DevOps Jobs with Work from Home Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,325 6,141 12,063
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.86% 15.09% 17.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.79% 15.71% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 4,347 7,052
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,823 39,093 67,833
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.36% 96.07% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,354 27,124 41,194
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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.

DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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
1 214 (6.44%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.44%) GeoServer
2 107 (3.22%) IIS
3 81 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 79 (2.38%) CMS
5 62 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
6 59 (1.77%) Confluence
7 55 (1.65%) Umbraco
8 50 (1.50%) nginx
9 40 (1.20%) Apache
9 40 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 38 (1.14%) Kentico
11 37 (1.11%) Headless CMS
12 36 (1.08%) OpenStack
13 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
14 25 (0.75%) Apache Spark
15 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
15 9 (0.27%) JBoss
15 9 (0.27%) WordPress
16 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 45 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.42%) Simulink
4 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.090%) Trello
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.060%) Notion
9 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.060%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 78 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.15%) Primavera
3 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.12%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.060%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.060%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.030%) Endur
6 1 (0.030%) Magento
6 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.030%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.030%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.030%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,094 (62.98%) Azure
2 1,312 (39.46%) AWS
3 1,004 (30.20%) Azure DevOps
4 338 (10.17%) SaaS
5 302 (9.08%) Serverless
6 289 (8.69%) Power Platform
7 252 (7.58%) GCP
8 206 (6.20%) GitHub
9 171 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
10 161 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
11 150 (4.51%) PaaS
12 125 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 110 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 109 (3.28%) Amazon S3
15 108 (3.25%) PowerApps
16 103 (3.10%) IaaS
17 96 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 95 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
18 95 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
18 95 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 146 (4.39%) Firewall
2 129 (3.88%) DNS
3 70 (2.11%) Network Security
4 62 (1.86%) VPN
5 55 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.20%) WAN
7 37 (1.11%) LAN
8 36 (1.08%) DHCP
9 28 (0.84%) HTTP
10 26 (0.78%) Internet
11 15 (0.45%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.39%) SAN
12 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 12 (0.36%) SSL
14 11 (0.33%) NGFW
15 10 (0.30%) 5G
15 10 (0.30%) SNMP
15 10 (0.30%) tcpdump
16 9 (0.27%) WLAN
17 8 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (12.18%) SQL Server
2 345 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.53%) GIS
4 214 (6.44%) QGIS
5 132 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 119 (3.58%) MySQL
6 119 (3.58%) Power BI
7 106 (3.19%) Big Data
8 105 (3.16%) Data Lake
8 105 (3.16%) NoSQL
9 88 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
10 80 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 77 (2.32%) MongoDB
12 65 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
13 51 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
14 49 (1.47%) Dremio
14 49 (1.47%) Oracle Database
15 48 (1.44%) Apache Arrow
15 48 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
16 47 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 481 (14.47%) Git
2 324 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 208 (6.26%) JIRA
4 173 (5.20%) GitLab
5 122 (3.67%) Visual Studio
6 72 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 61 (1.83%) Selenium
8 60 (1.80%) Postman
9 45 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 44 (1.32%) Jasmine
11 39 (1.17%) JUnit
12 36 (1.08%) JDeveloper
13 30 (0.90%) Cypress.io
14 28 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
14 28 (0.84%) SpecFlow
15 27 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
15 27 (0.81%) JMeter
15 27 (0.81%) SonarQube
16 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
17 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
General
1 711 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 644 (19.37%) Finance
3 175 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (4.84%) Banking
5 151 (4.54%) Retail
6 122 (3.67%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.46%) Law
8 98 (2.95%) Legal
9 93 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (2.08%) Marketing
11 62 (1.86%) Aerospace
12 48 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 37 (1.11%) Automotive
14 37 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 30 (0.90%) Games
15 30 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
16 26 (0.78%) Back Office
16 26 (0.78%) Electronics
17 25 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 962 (28.93%) Developer
2 904 (27.19%) Senior
3 503 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 496 (14.92%) Software Engineer
5 364 (10.95%) Lead
6 297 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
7 276 (8.30%) Senior Developer
8 218 (6.56%) .NET Developer
9 182 (5.47%) Software Developer
10 177 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
11 153 (4.60%) Architect
12 146 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
13 136 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 133 (4.00%) C# Developer
15 129 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
16 123 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
17 109 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
17 109 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 107 (3.22%) Data Engineer
19 87 (2.62%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 922 (27.73%) .NET
2 622 (18.71%) React
3 446 (13.41%) CSS
4 413 (12.42%) .NET Core
5 297 (8.93%) AngularJS
6 288 (8.66%) HTML
7 281 (8.45%) Node.js
8 263 (7.91%) RESTful
9 246 (7.40%) ASP.NET
10 237 (7.13%) .NET Framework
11 227 (6.83%) REST
12 214 (6.44%) Leaflet
12 214 (6.44%) OpenLayers
12 214 (6.44%) PostGIS
13 177 (5.32%) JSON
14 165 (4.96%) Web Services
15 125 (3.76%) XML
16 121 (3.64%) Spring
17 106 (3.19%) SOAP
18 99 (2.98%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 168 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 137 (4.12%) Public Cloud
3 135 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 112 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 111 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
6 103 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
7 101 (3.04%) Data Centre
8 95 (2.86%) Private Cloud
9 88 (2.65%) Management Information System
10 74 (2.23%) Mobile App
11 73 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 72 (2.17%) Hedge funds
13 63 (1.89%) IoT
14 62 (1.86%) Clustering
14 62 (1.86%) Onboarding
15 56 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
16 48 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (1.32%) Low-Code
18 38 (1.14%) Virtual Team
19 36 (1.08%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 544 (16.36%) Linux
2 329 (9.89%) Windows
3 95 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 54 (1.62%) Unix
6 50 (1.50%) Android
7 44 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 41 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.66%) CentOS
12 19 (0.57%) VMS
13 18 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
15 13 (0.39%) Windows 10
16 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
17 6 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.15%) AIX
18 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,697 (51.04%) Agile
2 1,173 (35.28%) CI/CD
3 936 (28.15%) Software Engineering
4 594 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 526 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 507 (15.25%) Scrum
7 434 (13.05%) Microservices
8 430 (12.93%) Continuous Integration
9 381 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 375 (11.28%) Actionable Insight
11 360 (10.83%) Web Development
12 355 (10.68%) Containerisation
13 336 (10.11%) Test Automation
14 311 (9.35%) Full Stack Development
15 298 (8.96%) SDLC
16 272 (8.18%) TDD
17 261 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 258 (7.76%) Unit Testing
19 253 (7.61%) Roadmaps
20 215 (6.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 986 (29.65%) Python
2 910 (27.37%) JavaScript
3 855 (25.71%) C#
4 670 (20.15%) SQL
5 517 (15.55%) Java
6 265 (7.97%) TypeScript
7 263 (7.91%) PowerShell
8 217 (6.53%) Bash
9 176 (5.29%) Go
10 114 (3.43%) T-SQL
11 102 (3.07%) PHP
12 86 (2.59%) Perl
13 84 (2.53%) C
13 84 (2.53%) Ruby
14 67 (2.02%) VB.NET
15 59 (1.77%) Groovy
16 54 (1.62%) C++
17 53 (1.59%) Bicep
18 43 (1.29%) VB
19 35 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 701 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 516 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 444 (13.35%) Degree
4 152 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 102 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 85 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 83 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 60 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 41 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 40 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (1.17%) CISSP
13 28 (0.84%) ISTQB
14 26 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 24 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 20 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
17 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
18 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.35%) QA
2 53 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 41 (1.23%) NIST
5 32 (0.96%) GDPR
6 21 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.30%) NCSC
8 9 (0.27%) SLA
9 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.15%) PMO
10 5 (0.15%) WCAG
11 3 (0.090%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.090%) SEPA
12 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.060%) EMIR
12 2 (0.060%) HL7
12 2 (0.060%) MiFID
13 1 (0.030%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 700 (21.05%) Docker
2 147 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
4 74 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 51 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 32 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 15 (0.45%) vSphere
10 12 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.33%) IAG
11 11 (0.33%) NFS
12 10 (0.30%) pfSense
13 6 (0.18%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.090%) KVM
15 3 (0.090%) XenApp
16 2 (0.060%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.030%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 736 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 704 (21.17%) Terraform
3 356 (10.71%) Ansible
4 104 (3.13%) Puppet
5 97 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.65%) Grafana
7 85 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 24 (0.72%) Kibana
12 22 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.57%) SCOM
15 17 (0.51%) Packer
16 16 (0.48%) Nagios
17 15 (0.45%) SCCM
18 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
18 14 (0.42%) WSUS
19 13 (0.39%) Consul
Vendors
1 836 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.44%) ESRI
3 138 (4.15%) Google
4 124 (3.73%) Oracle
5 106 (3.19%) VMware
6 88 (2.65%) Databricks
7 52 (1.56%) Sitecore
8 38 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.11%) Optimizely
9 37 (1.11%) Splunk
10 34 (1.02%) IBM
11 31 (0.93%) SAP
12 30 (0.90%) Adobe
13 26 (0.78%) Veeam
13 26 (0.78%) WSO2
14 25 (0.75%) Citrix
14 25 (0.75%) Dell
15 24 (0.72%) Cisco
15 24 (0.72%) Red Hat
16 19 (0.57%) New Relic