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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,300 5,846 12,906
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.35% 15.49% 17.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 16.13% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,465 4,179 7,030
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 £97,500
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 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 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
1 202 (6.12%) ArcGIS
1 202 (6.12%) GeoServer
2 109 (3.30%) IIS
3 79 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 77 (2.33%) CMS
5 69 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
6 66 (2.00%) Confluence
7 55 (1.67%) Umbraco
8 46 (1.39%) nginx
9 42 (1.27%) Apache
10 40 (1.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 38 (1.15%) Kentico
12 37 (1.12%) Headless CMS
13 33 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
14 32 (0.97%) OpenStack
15 28 (0.85%) Apache Spark
16 11 (0.33%) WordPress
17 8 (0.24%) JBoss
18 7 (0.21%) Apache Solr
18 7 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.61%) 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 (0.091%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.091%) Sketch
8 3 (0.091%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.091%) Trello
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.061%) Notion
9 2 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 76 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.36%) 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%) Magento
4 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.12%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.061%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.061%) iTrent
5 2 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.030%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.030%) Endur
6 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.030%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.030%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,083 (63.12%) Azure
2 1,314 (39.82%) AWS
3 1,009 (30.58%) Azure DevOps
4 344 (10.42%) SaaS
5 289 (8.76%) Power Platform
6 252 (7.64%) Serverless
7 189 (5.73%) GCP
8 185 (5.61%) GitHub
9 173 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
10 158 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
11 132 (4.00%) PaaS
12 122 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
13 115 (3.48%) Amazon S3
14 113 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 111 (3.36%) Entra ID
16 107 (3.24%) PowerApps
17 102 (3.09%) IaaS
18 95 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
18 95 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 91 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.48%) Firewall
2 131 (3.97%) DNS
3 68 (2.06%) Network Security
4 59 (1.79%) VPN
5 48 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.21%) DHCP
7 38 (1.15%) WAN
8 35 (1.06%) LAN
9 32 (0.97%) HTTP
10 25 (0.76%) Internet
11 15 (0.45%) 5G
12 13 (0.39%) Unified Communications
13 12 (0.36%) SAN
14 11 (0.33%) SSL
14 11 (0.33%) Wireshark
15 9 (0.27%) WLAN
16 8 (0.24%) MQTT
16 8 (0.24%) SNMP
16 8 (0.24%) tcpdump
17 7 (0.21%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 337 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
3 206 (6.24%) GIS
4 202 (6.12%) QGIS
5 124 (3.76%) Power BI
6 117 (3.55%) MySQL
7 111 (3.36%) Big Data
7 111 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 110 (3.33%) Data Lake
9 104 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 87 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 85 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
12 78 (2.36%) MongoDB
13 72 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
14 57 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
15 55 (1.67%) Dremio
16 54 (1.64%) Apache Arrow
17 47 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
18 44 (1.33%) Redis
19 35 (1.06%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 428 (12.97%) Git
2 283 (8.58%) Jenkins
3 221 (6.70%) JIRA
4 177 (5.36%) GitLab
5 121 (3.67%) Visual Studio
6 75 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 54 (1.64%) Selenium
8 52 (1.58%) Postman
9 43 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 39 (1.18%) Jasmine
10 39 (1.18%) JUnit
11 28 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
12 27 (0.82%) Cypress.io
13 26 (0.79%) JMeter
13 26 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
13 26 (0.79%) SonarQube
13 26 (0.79%) SpecFlow
14 23 (0.70%) NUnit
15 21 (0.64%) Bitbucket
16 20 (0.61%) Cucumber
General
1 709 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 604 (18.30%) Finance
3 169 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (4.82%) Retail
5 124 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 118 (3.58%) Law
7 107 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 94 (2.85%) Banking
9 93 (2.82%) Legal
10 67 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 65 (1.97%) Marketing
12 49 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.15%) Automotive
15 35 (1.06%) Back Office
15 35 (1.06%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (0.88%) Games
18 25 (0.76%) Advertising
18 25 (0.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 969 (29.36%) Developer
2 920 (27.88%) Senior
3 481 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 469 (14.21%) Software Engineer
5 380 (11.52%) Lead
6 309 (9.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 297 (9.00%) Senior Developer
8 226 (6.85%) .NET Developer
9 190 (5.76%) Software Developer
10 178 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
11 167 (5.06%) Architect
12 155 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
13 148 (4.48%) C# Developer
14 138 (4.18%) Full Stack Developer
15 137 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
16 130 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 100 (3.03%) Data Engineer
17 100 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
18 99 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 92 (2.79%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 920 (27.88%) .NET
2 603 (18.27%) React
3 442 (13.39%) CSS
4 403 (12.21%) .NET Core
5 305 (9.24%) AngularJS
6 283 (8.58%) HTML
7 262 (7.94%) RESTful
8 253 (7.67%) Node.js
9 248 (7.52%) .NET Framework
10 245 (7.42%) ASP.NET
11 210 (6.36%) REST
12 202 (6.12%) Leaflet
12 202 (6.12%) OpenLayers
12 202 (6.12%) PostGIS
13 168 (5.09%) Web Services
14 158 (4.79%) JSON
15 122 (3.70%) XML
16 110 (3.33%) Spring
17 98 (2.97%) Entity Framework
17 98 (2.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 149 (4.52%) Product Ownership
2 123 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 114 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 113 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 111 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 103 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
7 102 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
8 86 (2.61%) Management Information System
9 78 (2.36%) Hedge funds
9 78 (2.36%) Private Cloud
10 75 (2.27%) Data Structures
11 74 (2.24%) Mobile App
12 67 (2.03%) Clustering
13 66 (2.00%) IoT
14 62 (1.88%) Onboarding
15 56 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
17 40 (1.21%) Low-Code
18 39 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
19 38 (1.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 515 (15.61%) Linux
2 323 (9.79%) Windows
3 98 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.64%) Unix
5 49 (1.48%) Android
6 42 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 42 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 37 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 30 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
11 20 (0.61%) CentOS
12 19 (0.58%) VMS
13 15 (0.45%) Windows 10
14 13 (0.39%) Mac OS X
15 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 8 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.18%) AIX
17 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,636 (49.58%) Agile
2 1,181 (35.79%) CI/CD
3 906 (27.45%) Software Engineering
4 571 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
5 511 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 506 (15.33%) Scrum
7 403 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
8 392 (11.88%) Microservices
9 378 (11.45%) Mentoring
10 349 (10.58%) Web Development
11 338 (10.24%) Full Stack Development
12 329 (9.97%) Test Automation
13 325 (9.85%) Actionable Insight
14 313 (9.48%) Containerisation
15 304 (9.21%) SDLC
16 271 (8.21%) TDD
17 261 (7.91%) Roadmaps
18 251 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 230 (6.97%) Analytics
20 225 (6.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 950 (28.79%) Python
2 888 (26.91%) JavaScript
3 868 (26.30%) C#
4 666 (20.18%) SQL
5 472 (14.30%) Java
6 290 (8.79%) TypeScript
7 283 (8.58%) PowerShell
8 171 (5.18%) Bash
9 141 (4.27%) Go
10 114 (3.45%) T-SQL
11 99 (3.00%) PHP
12 90 (2.73%) C
13 67 (2.03%) Bicep
14 66 (2.00%) VB.NET
15 62 (1.88%) C++
16 47 (1.42%) VB
17 45 (1.36%) Ruby
18 44 (1.33%) Groovy
18 44 (1.33%) Perl
19 31 (0.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 725 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 527 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 450 (13.64%) Degree
4 167 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 142 (4.30%) DV Cleared
6 93 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 93 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 59 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (1.24%) DBS Check
10 36 (1.09%) CISSP
11 28 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 28 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 28 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 17 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.42%) CISM
13 14 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
14 13 (0.39%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (8.36%) QA
2 56 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 45 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 45 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (1.18%) NIST
5 36 (1.09%) GDPR
6 21 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.33%) NCSC
8 8 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.21%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) EMIR
11 4 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.091%) SEPA
13 2 (0.061%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.030%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 665 (20.15%) Docker
2 159 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 102 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 72 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 54 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 53 (1.61%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.55%) Firmware
9 12 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.36%) NFS
9 12 (0.36%) vSphere
10 11 (0.33%) IAG
11 10 (0.30%) pfSense
12 5 (0.15%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.091%) KVM
14 3 (0.091%) XenApp
15 2 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.030%) Ceph
16 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 744 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 684 (20.73%) Terraform
3 336 (10.18%) Ansible
4 102 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 96 (2.91%) Puppet
6 84 (2.55%) Grafana
7 68 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 33 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 23 (0.70%) Kibana
11 23 (0.70%) SCOM
12 20 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (0.61%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.58%) SCCM
14 18 (0.55%) WSUS
15 16 (0.48%) Packer
16 14 (0.42%) Nagios
17 13 (0.39%) Consul
18 12 (0.36%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 827 (25.06%) Microsoft
2 202 (6.12%) ESRI
3 104 (3.15%) VMware
4 89 (2.70%) Databricks
5 80 (2.42%) Oracle
6 75 (2.27%) Google
7 52 (1.58%) Sitecore
8 39 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.12%) Optimizely
10 36 (1.09%) SAP
11 31 (0.94%) Splunk
12 25 (0.76%) Veeam
13 24 (0.73%) Adobe
13 24 (0.73%) Cisco
14 23 (0.70%) Dell
15 22 (0.67%) WSO2
16 21 (0.64%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.61%) Xilinx
18 19 (0.58%) Citrix
18 19 (0.58%) Salesforce