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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 95 106
Rank change year-on-year -135 +11 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 481 1,264 2,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.36% 3.35% 3.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 3.49% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 360 1,046 1,485
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,625 £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 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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.

1 481 (100.00%) DevOps
2 341 (70.89%) CI/CD
3 299 (62.16%) AWS
4 297 (61.75%) Terraform
5 289 (60.08%) Kubernetes
6 272 (56.55%) Azure
7 235 (48.86%) Docker
8 182 (37.84%) Agile
9 181 (37.63%) Linux
10 173 (35.97%) Python
11 157 (32.64%) Ansible
12 153 (31.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 129 (26.82%) Containerisation
14 126 (26.20%) Security Cleared
15 117 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
16 109 (22.66%) Jenkins
17 97 (20.17%) Continuous Integration
18 94 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
19 84 (17.46%) PowerShell
20 83 (17.26%) Microsoft
20 83 (17.26%) Scrum
20 83 (17.26%) Social Skills
21 77 (16.01%) Continuous Deployment
22 76 (15.80%) Bash
23 72 (14.97%) JIRA
23 72 (14.97%) Windows
24 68 (14.14%) SDLC
24 68 (14.14%) Git
25 65 (13.51%) SQL
26 64 (13.31%) Serverless

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 11 (2.29%) nginx
2 6 (1.25%) Confluence
3 4 (0.83%) IIS
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.42%) Apache
5 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.42%) Moodle
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 299 (62.16%) AWS
2 272 (56.55%) Azure
3 117 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (13.31%) Serverless
5 60 (12.47%) GCP
6 57 (11.85%) GitHub
6 57 (11.85%) SaaS
7 43 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (8.11%) Amazon S3
10 31 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (5.20%) Azure AKS
15 22 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (4.16%) PaaS
17 17 (3.53%) Azure App Service
18 16 (3.33%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.48%) DNS
2 34 (7.07%) Firewall
3 22 (4.57%) Network Security
4 18 (3.74%) HTTP
5 17 (3.53%) TCP/IP
6 14 (2.91%) VPN
6 14 (2.91%) WAN
7 12 (2.49%) LAN
8 10 (2.08%) Internet
9 8 (1.66%) SNMP
9 8 (1.66%) tcpdump
10 5 (1.04%) AMQP
11 4 (0.83%) IPv4
11 4 (0.83%) WLAN
12 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.20%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.37%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.74%) MySQL
7 16 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.49%) Big Data
9 12 (2.49%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.29%) Power BI
11 10 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.08%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.87%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 7 (1.46%) Redis
14 5 (1.04%) InfluxDB
14 5 (1.04%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.83%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 109 (22.66%) Jenkins
2 72 (14.97%) JIRA
3 68 (14.14%) Git
4 56 (11.64%) GitLab
5 15 (3.12%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (2.49%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.66%) Selenium
10 7 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.25%) git-flow
11 6 (1.25%) IBM UrbanCode
11 6 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (1.04%) JUnit
12 5 (1.04%) Maven
12 5 (1.04%) MSBuild
13 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.62%) Gradle
14 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 83 (17.26%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.06%) Aerospace
3 56 (11.64%) Finance
4 24 (4.99%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.16%) Banking
6 17 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.91%) Retail
9 11 (2.29%) Games
10 10 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.25%) Law
11 6 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.83%) Advertising
13 4 (0.83%) Marketing
13 4 (0.83%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.62%) Automotive
15 2 (0.42%) Aviation
15 2 (0.42%) Electronics
15 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.90%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (6.44%) .NET
3 28 (5.82%) RESTful
4 18 (3.74%) YAML
5 16 (3.33%) JWT
5 16 (3.33%) Node.js
6 12 (2.49%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.49%) Kafka
7 11 (2.29%) ARM Templates
8 10 (2.08%) REST
9 9 (1.87%) Middleware
10 8 (1.66%) AWS SAM
10 8 (1.66%) JSON
11 7 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.04%) React
12 5 (1.04%) XML
13 4 (0.83%) ADO
13 4 (0.83%) GraphQL
14 3 (0.62%) SAML
14 3 (0.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.33%) Client/Server
2 14 (2.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (2.91%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (2.49%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.49%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 9 (1.87%) Clustering
5 9 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.66%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.66%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.04%) Online Games
10 4 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (37.63%) Linux
2 72 (14.97%) Windows
3 8 (1.66%) CentOS
4 7 (1.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.62%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (100.00%) DevOps
2 341 (70.89%) CI/CD
3 182 (37.84%) Agile
4 153 (31.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 129 (26.82%) Containerisation
6 97 (20.17%) Continuous Integration
7 94 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (17.26%) Scrum
9 77 (16.01%) Continuous Deployment
10 68 (14.14%) SDLC
11 63 (13.10%) Collaborative Working
12 61 (12.68%) Kanban
13 59 (12.27%) Microservices
14 57 (11.85%) Validation
15 51 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
16 49 (10.19%) Software Engineering
17 48 (9.98%) Actionable Insight
18 42 (8.73%) Configuration Management
19 41 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 41 (8.52%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 173 (35.97%) Python
2 84 (17.46%) PowerShell
3 76 (15.80%) Bash
4 65 (13.51%) SQL
5 47 (9.77%) Java
6 33 (6.86%) C#
7 27 (5.61%) Go
8 26 (5.41%) Groovy
9 17 (3.53%) JavaScript
10 16 (3.33%) Perl
10 16 (3.33%) T-SQL
11 13 (2.70%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.49%) Ruby
13 9 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.87%) U-SQL
14 6 (1.25%) PHP
15 5 (1.04%) Ada
15 5 (1.04%) C
15 5 (1.04%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.83%) C++
Qualifications
1 126 (26.20%) Security Cleared
2 60 (12.47%) DV Cleared
3 47 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.32%) Degree
5 30 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (6.03%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.21%) OCP
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.12%) QA
2 3 (0.62%) NIST
2 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.42%) NCSC
4 1 (0.21%) GDPR
4 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 235 (48.86%) Docker
2 25 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (3.95%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.62%) KVM
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 297 (61.75%) Terraform
2 289 (60.08%) Kubernetes
3 157 (32.64%) Ansible
4 49 (10.19%) Puppet
5 40 (8.32%) Grafana
6 39 (8.11%) Progress Chef
7 25 (5.20%) Prometheus
8 12 (2.49%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (2.08%) Consul
9 10 (2.08%) Rancher
10 8 (1.66%) Argo
10 8 (1.66%) Graphite
10 8 (1.66%) HAProxy
10 8 (1.66%) Nagios
10 8 (1.66%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.46%) Kibana
12 5 (1.04%) Packer
13 4 (0.83%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.83%) Rundeck
13 4 (0.83%) vRealize
Vendors
1 83 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.61%) VMware
3 19 (3.95%) Oracle
4 11 (2.29%) Databricks
4 11 (2.29%) Google
5 8 (1.66%) Cisco
5 8 (1.66%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.04%) IBM
7 5 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.04%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.04%) Splunk
8 4 (0.83%) Meraki
8 4 (0.83%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.62%) ForgeRock
9 3 (0.62%) McAfee
9 3 (0.62%) Remedy
9 3 (0.62%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.62%) Veeam