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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,325 5,970 12,791
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.56% 15.49% 17.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.60% 16.14% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 4,252 6,993
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £98,355
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 31,355 37,000 72,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,586 26,257 41,808
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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
2 109 (3.28%) IIS
3 81 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 79 (2.38%) CMS
5 68 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
6 64 (1.92%) Confluence
7 55 (1.65%) Umbraco
8 47 (1.41%) nginx
9 40 (1.20%) Apache
9 40 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 38 (1.14%) Kentico
11 37 (1.11%) Headless CMS
12 33 (0.99%) OpenStack
13 32 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
14 24 (0.72%) Apache Spark
15 11 (0.33%) WordPress
16 8 (0.24%) Apache Solr
16 8 (0.24%) JBoss
17 7 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 45 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.60%) Simulink
4 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.090%) Sketch
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.090%) Trello
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.060%) Notion
9 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 79 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.30%) 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 3 (0.090%) Magento
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.060%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.030%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.030%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.030%) iTrent
7 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.030%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 1 (0.030%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.030%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,095 (63.01%) Azure
2 1,332 (40.06%) AWS
3 1,011 (30.41%) Azure DevOps
4 342 (10.29%) SaaS
5 288 (8.66%) Power Platform
6 256 (7.70%) Serverless
7 213 (6.41%) GCP
8 195 (5.86%) GitHub
9 172 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
10 159 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
11 139 (4.18%) PaaS
12 123 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
13 115 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 113 (3.40%) Amazon S3
15 107 (3.22%) Entra ID
15 107 (3.22%) PowerApps
16 98 (2.95%) IaaS
17 94 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
18 93 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
18 93 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 150 (4.51%) Firewall
2 128 (3.85%) DNS
3 71 (2.14%) Network Security
4 60 (1.80%) VPN
5 52 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.20%) WAN
7 37 (1.11%) DHCP
7 37 (1.11%) LAN
8 32 (0.96%) HTTP
9 25 (0.75%) Internet
10 15 (0.45%) 5G
11 14 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.39%) SAN
12 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 12 (0.36%) SSL
14 9 (0.27%) WLAN
15 8 (0.24%) MQTT
15 8 (0.24%) NGFW
15 8 (0.24%) SNMP
15 8 (0.24%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 349 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
3 218 (6.56%) GIS
4 214 (6.44%) QGIS
5 121 (3.64%) Power BI
6 118 (3.55%) MySQL
7 109 (3.28%) Data Lake
8 108 (3.25%) Big Data
9 107 (3.22%) NoSQL
10 102 (3.07%) Relational Database
11 84 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 84 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
12 76 (2.29%) MongoDB
13 72 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
14 57 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
15 55 (1.65%) Dremio
16 54 (1.62%) Apache Arrow
17 47 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
18 44 (1.32%) Redis
19 34 (1.02%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 433 (13.02%) Git
2 304 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 219 (6.59%) JIRA
4 177 (5.32%) GitLab
5 123 (3.70%) Visual Studio
6 74 (2.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 57 (1.71%) Selenium
8 54 (1.62%) Postman
9 44 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 40 (1.20%) Jasmine
11 39 (1.17%) JUnit
12 28 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.81%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 27 (0.81%) SpecFlow
14 26 (0.78%) JMeter
14 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
15 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
15 23 (0.69%) NUnit
16 22 (0.66%) Bitbucket
General
1 715 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 620 (18.65%) Finance
3 165 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (4.63%) Retail
5 124 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 120 (3.61%) Banking
7 119 (3.58%) Law
8 104 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 94 (2.83%) Legal
10 67 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 66 (1.98%) Marketing
12 47 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.14%) Automotive
15 35 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.02%) Back Office
17 30 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
18 29 (0.87%) Games
19 26 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
20 25 (0.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 966 (29.05%) Developer
2 931 (28.00%) Senior
3 495 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 480 (14.44%) Software Engineer
5 375 (11.28%) Lead
6 316 (9.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 290 (8.72%) Senior Developer
8 223 (6.71%) .NET Developer
9 188 (5.65%) Software Developer
10 181 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
11 162 (4.87%) Architect
12 152 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
13 145 (4.36%) C# Developer
14 136 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
15 133 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
16 132 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 108 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
18 107 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 98 (2.95%) Data Engineer
20 90 (2.71%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 922 (27.73%) .NET
2 603 (18.14%) React
3 444 (13.35%) CSS
4 403 (12.12%) .NET Core
5 303 (9.11%) AngularJS
6 284 (8.54%) HTML
7 262 (7.88%) RESTful
8 254 (7.64%) Node.js
9 246 (7.40%) .NET Framework
10 244 (7.34%) ASP.NET
11 215 (6.47%) REST
12 214 (6.44%) Leaflet
12 214 (6.44%) OpenLayers
12 214 (6.44%) PostGIS
13 169 (5.08%) Web Services
14 164 (4.93%) JSON
15 123 (3.70%) XML
16 116 (3.49%) Spring
17 105 (3.16%) Django
18 98 (2.95%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 160 (4.81%) Product Ownership
2 130 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 123 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 116 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 106 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
6 103 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
7 89 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 83 (2.50%) Private Cloud
9 78 (2.35%) Hedge funds
10 74 (2.23%) Mobile App
11 73 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 67 (2.02%) Clustering
13 63 (1.89%) Onboarding
14 62 (1.86%) IoT
15 58 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
17 42 (1.26%) Low-Code
18 37 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
18 37 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 538 (16.18%) Linux
2 325 (9.77%) Windows
3 95 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.68%) Unix
5 55 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 51 (1.53%) Android
7 44 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 29 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
12 21 (0.63%) CentOS
13 18 (0.54%) VMS
14 15 (0.45%) Windows 10
15 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
16 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
17 8 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
18 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
19 5 (0.15%) Debian
19 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,669 (50.20%) Agile
2 1,188 (35.73%) CI/CD
3 922 (27.73%) Software Engineering
4 565 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
5 521 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 504 (15.16%) Scrum
7 403 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
8 393 (11.82%) Microservices
9 385 (11.58%) Mentoring
10 360 (10.83%) Web Development
11 338 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
12 335 (10.08%) Test Automation
13 327 (9.83%) Full Stack Development
14 314 (9.44%) Containerisation
15 301 (9.05%) SDLC
16 275 (8.27%) TDD
17 267 (8.03%) Roadmaps
18 255 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 225 (6.77%) Computer Science
20 219 (6.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 969 (29.14%) Python
2 894 (26.89%) JavaScript
3 864 (25.98%) C#
4 675 (20.30%) SQL
5 477 (14.35%) Java
6 282 (8.48%) TypeScript
7 277 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 170 (5.11%) Bash
9 144 (4.33%) Go
10 116 (3.49%) T-SQL
11 99 (2.98%) PHP
12 90 (2.71%) C
13 66 (1.98%) VB.NET
14 64 (1.92%) Bicep
15 62 (1.86%) C++
16 54 (1.62%) Groovy
17 46 (1.38%) Ruby
17 46 (1.38%) VB
18 43 (1.29%) Perl
19 32 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 734 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 536 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 450 (13.53%) Degree
4 165 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 136 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 94 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 89 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 39 (1.17%) CISSP
13 29 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 28 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
17 16 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
18 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (8.27%) QA
2 56 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (1.26%) Data Quality
4 42 (1.26%) NIST
5 37 (1.11%) GDPR
6 23 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.36%) NCSC
8 9 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.24%) SLA
10 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.15%) PMO
10 5 (0.15%) WCAG
11 4 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.090%) EMIR
12 3 (0.090%) MiFID
12 3 (0.090%) SEPA
13 2 (0.060%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.030%) HL7
System Software
1 688 (20.69%) Docker
2 155 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 99 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 56 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 55 (1.65%) Hyper-V
7 25 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 13 (0.39%) vSphere
10 12 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.36%) NFS
11 11 (0.33%) IAG
12 10 (0.30%) pfSense
13 5 (0.15%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.090%) KVM
15 3 (0.090%) XenApp
16 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.030%) Ceph
17 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 760 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 709 (21.32%) Terraform
3 348 (10.47%) Ansible
4 105 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 97 (2.92%) Puppet
6 88 (2.65%) Grafana
7 75 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 33 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
11 23 (0.69%) Kibana
12 22 (0.66%) SCOM
13 21 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
14 20 (0.60%) ZABBIX
15 18 (0.54%) SCCM
16 17 (0.51%) Packer
16 17 (0.51%) WSUS
17 14 (0.42%) Nagios
18 13 (0.39%) Consul
18 13 (0.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 834 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.44%) ESRI
3 102 (3.07%) VMware
4 99 (2.98%) Google
5 86 (2.59%) Databricks
6 81 (2.44%) Oracle
7 52 (1.56%) Sitecore
8 39 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.11%) Optimizely
10 35 (1.05%) Splunk
11 33 (0.99%) SAP
12 26 (0.78%) Adobe
13 25 (0.75%) Cisco
13 25 (0.75%) Veeam
14 24 (0.72%) Dell
14 24 (0.72%) IBM
15 23 (0.69%) WSO2
16 22 (0.66%) Red Hat
17 21 (0.63%) Citrix
18 20 (0.60%) Xilinx