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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,312 6,206 11,922
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.82% 15.01% 17.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 15.62% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,495 4,411 7,089
10th Percentile £41,823 £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 £86,100
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 30,803 39,731 67,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,360 27,643 41,432
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 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 (6.46%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.46%) GeoServer
2 106 (3.20%) IIS
3 81 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 78 (2.36%) CMS
5 62 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
6 58 (1.75%) Confluence
7 55 (1.66%) Umbraco
8 50 (1.51%) nginx
9 40 (1.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 39 (1.18%) Apache
11 38 (1.15%) Kentico
12 37 (1.12%) Headless CMS
12 37 (1.12%) OpenStack
13 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
14 25 (0.75%) Apache Spark
15 10 (0.30%) JBoss
16 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
16 9 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
16 9 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.82%) 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 (0.091%) 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
9 2 (0.060%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 78 (2.36%) 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%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.030%) Dynamics GP
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
Cloud Services
1 2,085 (62.95%) Azure
2 1,305 (39.40%) AWS
3 1,007 (30.40%) Azure DevOps
4 339 (10.24%) SaaS
5 303 (9.15%) Serverless
6 286 (8.64%) Power Platform
7 255 (7.70%) GCP
8 208 (6.28%) GitHub
9 171 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
10 162 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
11 151 (4.56%) PaaS
12 124 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
13 109 (3.29%) Amazon S3
13 109 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 108 (3.26%) PowerApps
15 104 (3.14%) IaaS
16 96 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
16 96 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 95 (2.87%) Entra ID
18 93 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 146 (4.41%) Firewall
2 130 (3.93%) DNS
3 70 (2.11%) Network Security
4 63 (1.90%) VPN
5 55 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.21%) WAN
7 37 (1.12%) LAN
8 36 (1.09%) DHCP
9 28 (0.85%) HTTP
10 26 (0.79%) 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%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 349 (10.54%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.55%) GIS
4 214 (6.46%) QGIS
5 132 (3.99%) Relational Database
6 119 (3.59%) MySQL
7 117 (3.53%) Power BI
8 106 (3.20%) Big Data
8 106 (3.20%) Data Lake
9 104 (3.14%) NoSQL
10 88 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
11 81 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 76 (2.29%) MongoDB
13 65 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
14 51 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
15 50 (1.51%) Oracle Database
16 49 (1.48%) Dremio
17 48 (1.45%) Apache Arrow
17 48 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
18 47 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 479 (14.46%) Git
2 325 (9.81%) Jenkins
3 211 (6.37%) JIRA
4 170 (5.13%) GitLab
5 120 (3.62%) Visual Studio
6 72 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 63 (1.90%) Selenium
8 60 (1.81%) Postman
9 45 (1.36%) TeamCity
10 44 (1.33%) Jasmine
11 41 (1.24%) JUnit
12 36 (1.09%) JDeveloper
13 30 (0.91%) Cypress.io
14 28 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
15 27 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
15 27 (0.82%) JMeter
15 27 (0.82%) SpecFlow
16 26 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
16 26 (0.79%) SonarQube
17 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
General
1 705 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 647 (19.54%) Finance
3 177 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (4.83%) Banking
5 148 (4.47%) Retail
6 124 (3.74%) Public Sector
7 113 (3.41%) Law
8 98 (2.96%) Legal
9 93 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (2.02%) Marketing
11 60 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 48 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.15%) Automotive
15 37 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 28 (0.85%) Games
16 28 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
17 26 (0.79%) Electronics
17 26 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 956 (28.86%) Developer
2 903 (27.26%) Senior
3 499 (15.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 493 (14.89%) Software Engineer
5 364 (10.99%) Lead
6 297 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
7 276 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 213 (6.43%) .NET Developer
9 180 (5.43%) Software Developer
10 174 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
11 153 (4.62%) Architect
12 147 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
13 135 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 127 (3.83%) C# Developer
14 127 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
15 121 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
16 108 (3.26%) Data Engineer
17 107 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
17 107 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 86 (2.60%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 914 (27.60%) .NET
2 619 (18.69%) React
3 441 (13.32%) CSS
4 415 (12.53%) .NET Core
5 296 (8.94%) AngularJS
6 284 (8.57%) HTML
7 281 (8.48%) Node.js
8 260 (7.85%) RESTful
9 244 (7.37%) ASP.NET
10 236 (7.13%) .NET Framework
11 227 (6.85%) REST
12 216 (6.52%) PostGIS
13 214 (6.46%) Leaflet
13 214 (6.46%) OpenLayers
14 178 (5.37%) JSON
15 165 (4.98%) Web Services
16 124 (3.74%) XML
17 120 (3.62%) Spring
18 108 (3.26%) SOAP
19 99 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 169 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 137 (4.14%) Public Cloud
3 135 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 112 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 110 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
6 102 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 101 (3.05%) Data Centre
8 95 (2.87%) Private Cloud
9 87 (2.63%) Management Information System
10 74 (2.23%) Mobile App
11 73 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 70 (2.11%) Hedge funds
13 63 (1.90%) IoT
14 62 (1.87%) Clustering
14 62 (1.87%) Onboarding
15 57 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
16 48 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (1.33%) Low-Code
18 38 (1.15%) Virtual Team
19 36 (1.09%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 540 (16.30%) Linux
2 329 (9.93%) Windows
3 95 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.66%) Ubuntu
5 54 (1.63%) Unix
6 49 (1.48%) Android
7 43 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 41 (1.24%) 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 1,695 (51.18%) Agile
2 1,170 (35.33%) CI/CD
3 924 (27.90%) Software Engineering
4 591 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
5 527 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 508 (15.34%) Scrum
7 431 (13.01%) Microservices
8 428 (12.92%) Continuous Integration
9 379 (11.44%) Mentoring
10 375 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
11 361 (10.90%) Web Development
12 353 (10.66%) Containerisation
13 332 (10.02%) Test Automation
14 301 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
15 297 (8.97%) SDLC
16 268 (8.09%) TDD
17 259 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
18 254 (7.67%) Roadmaps
18 254 (7.67%) Unit Testing
19 211 (6.37%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 986 (29.77%) Python
2 905 (27.32%) JavaScript
3 845 (25.51%) C#
4 677 (20.44%) SQL
5 512 (15.46%) Java
6 265 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 262 (7.91%) PowerShell
8 215 (6.49%) Bash
9 175 (5.28%) Go
10 114 (3.44%) T-SQL
11 102 (3.08%) PHP
12 86 (2.60%) Perl
13 85 (2.57%) Ruby
14 84 (2.54%) C
15 67 (2.02%) VB.NET
16 59 (1.78%) Groovy
17 54 (1.63%) Bicep
18 48 (1.45%) C++
19 43 (1.30%) VB
20 35 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 699 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 516 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 439 (13.25%) Degree
4 149 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 100 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 84 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 82 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 61 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.18%) CISSP
12 38 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 38 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 25 (0.75%) ISTQB
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
1 309 (9.33%) QA
2 51 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 41 (1.24%) NIST
5 32 (0.97%) 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 (0.091%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.091%) 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%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 701 (21.17%) Docker
2 147 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 73 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 51 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 32 (0.97%) 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 (0.091%) KVM
15 3 (0.091%) XenApp
16 2 (0.060%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.030%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 740 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 702 (21.20%) Terraform
3 355 (10.72%) Ansible
4 104 (3.14%) Puppet
5 98 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 90 (2.72%) Grafana
7 84 (2.54%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (0.88%) 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%) Consul
18 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
18 14 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 828 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.46%) ESRI
3 136 (4.11%) Google
4 123 (3.71%) Oracle
5 105 (3.17%) VMware
6 90 (2.72%) Databricks
7 52 (1.57%) Sitecore
8 37 (1.12%) Optimizely
8 37 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.09%) Splunk
10 34 (1.03%) IBM
11 31 (0.94%) SAP
12 30 (0.91%) Adobe
13 27 (0.82%) WSO2
14 26 (0.79%) Veeam
15 25 (0.75%) Citrix
15 25 (0.75%) Dell
16 24 (0.72%) Cisco
16 24 (0.72%) Red Hat
17 19 (0.57%) New Relic