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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,329 6,132 12,342
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.80% 15.29% 17.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.78% 15.92% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,510 4,333 7,033
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £98,750
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 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 23 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 (6.43%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.43%) GeoServer
2 107 (3.21%) IIS
3 80 (2.40%) CMS
3 80 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 68 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 62 (1.86%) Confluence
6 55 (1.65%) Umbraco
7 49 (1.47%) nginx
8 40 (1.20%) Apache
8 40 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 38 (1.14%) Kentico
10 37 (1.11%) Headless CMS
11 35 (1.05%) OpenStack
12 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
13 23 (0.69%) Apache Spark
14 10 (0.30%) WordPress
15 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
16 8 (0.24%) JBoss
17 7 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 46 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.48%) 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%) 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 78 (2.34%) 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%) Magento
5 2 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.060%) SystmOne
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%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.030%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,095 (62.93%) Azure
2 1,326 (39.83%) AWS
3 1,001 (30.07%) Azure DevOps
4 338 (10.15%) SaaS
5 289 (8.68%) Power Platform
6 286 (8.59%) Serverless
7 244 (7.33%) GCP
8 201 (6.04%) GitHub
9 171 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
10 159 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
11 149 (4.48%) PaaS
12 124 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
13 113 (3.39%) Amazon S3
14 112 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 107 (3.21%) PowerApps
16 102 (3.06%) IaaS
17 98 (2.94%) Entra ID
18 97 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
19 95 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
20 94 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.45%) Firewall
2 129 (3.88%) DNS
3 71 (2.13%) Network Security
4 61 (1.83%) VPN
5 54 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.20%) WAN
7 37 (1.11%) LAN
8 35 (1.05%) DHCP
9 30 (0.90%) HTTP
10 25 (0.75%) Internet
11 14 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.39%) 5G
12 13 (0.39%) SAN
12 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 12 (0.36%) SSL
14 9 (0.27%) NGFW
14 9 (0.27%) SNMP
14 9 (0.27%) tcpdump
14 9 (0.27%) WLAN
15 8 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (12.14%) SQL Server
2 346 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.52%) GIS
4 214 (6.43%) QGIS
5 123 (3.69%) Relational Database
6 120 (3.60%) Power BI
7 118 (3.54%) MySQL
8 111 (3.33%) Data Lake
9 109 (3.27%) Big Data
9 109 (3.27%) NoSQL
10 87 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
11 82 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 75 (2.25%) MongoDB
13 69 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
14 57 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
15 55 (1.65%) Dremio
16 54 (1.62%) Apache Arrow
17 48 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
18 43 (1.29%) Redis
19 35 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 464 (13.94%) Git
2 324 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 214 (6.43%) JIRA
4 179 (5.38%) GitLab
5 121 (3.63%) Visual Studio
6 72 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 58 (1.74%) Selenium
8 56 (1.68%) Postman
9 44 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 43 (1.29%) Jasmine
11 38 (1.14%) JUnit
12 29 (0.87%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
14 27 (0.81%) SonarQube
15 26 (0.78%) JMeter
15 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
15 26 (0.78%) SpecFlow
16 24 (0.72%) JDeveloper
16 24 (0.72%) NUnit
17 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
General
1 716 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 642 (19.29%) Finance
3 170 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (4.51%) Retail
5 146 (4.39%) Banking
6 124 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 116 (3.48%) Law
8 98 (2.94%) Legal
9 93 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (2.07%) Marketing
11 65 (1.95%) Aerospace
12 50 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.14%) Automotive
15 36 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.90%) Back Office
16 30 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (0.87%) Games
18 26 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
19 25 (0.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 960 (28.84%) Developer
2 917 (27.55%) Senior
3 501 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 491 (14.75%) Software Engineer
5 365 (10.96%) Lead
6 304 (9.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 283 (8.50%) Senior Developer
8 217 (6.52%) .NET Developer
9 184 (5.53%) Software Developer
10 182 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
11 155 (4.66%) Architect
12 144 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
13 137 (4.12%) C# Developer
13 137 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 133 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
15 129 (3.88%) Full Stack Developer
16 112 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
16 112 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 106 (3.18%) Data Engineer
18 88 (2.64%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 917 (27.55%) .NET
2 608 (18.26%) React
3 445 (13.37%) CSS
4 403 (12.11%) .NET Core
5 298 (8.95%) AngularJS
6 284 (8.53%) HTML
7 269 (8.08%) Node.js
8 262 (7.87%) RESTful
9 243 (7.30%) ASP.NET
10 240 (7.21%) .NET Framework
11 223 (6.70%) REST
12 214 (6.43%) Leaflet
12 214 (6.43%) OpenLayers
12 214 (6.43%) PostGIS
13 167 (5.02%) JSON
13 167 (5.02%) Web Services
14 125 (3.75%) XML
15 119 (3.57%) Spring
16 100 (3.00%) SOAP
17 98 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 169 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 136 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 134 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 115 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 109 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
6 102 (3.06%) Data Centre
7 101 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 94 (2.82%) Private Cloud
9 88 (2.64%) Management Information System
10 78 (2.34%) Hedge funds
11 72 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 72 (2.16%) Mobile App
12 68 (2.04%) Clustering
13 64 (1.92%) IoT
14 63 (1.89%) Onboarding
15 57 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
16 49 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (1.32%) Low-Code
18 36 (1.08%) Algorithms
19 35 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 541 (16.25%) Linux
2 327 (9.82%) Windows
3 93 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.68%) Unix
5 55 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 49 (1.47%) Android
7 43 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 39 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.63%) CentOS
12 20 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
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 7 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
18 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
19 5 (0.15%) AIX
19 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,689 (50.74%) Agile
2 1,180 (35.45%) CI/CD
3 931 (27.97%) Software Engineering
4 583 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
5 528 (15.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 509 (15.29%) Scrum
7 420 (12.62%) Microservices
8 417 (12.53%) Continuous Integration
9 383 (11.50%) Mentoring
10 362 (10.87%) Actionable Insight
11 361 (10.84%) Web Development
12 344 (10.33%) Containerisation
13 335 (10.06%) Test Automation
14 321 (9.64%) Full Stack Development
15 296 (8.89%) SDLC
16 274 (8.23%) TDD
17 265 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
18 259 (7.78%) Roadmaps
19 243 (7.30%) Unit Testing
20 220 (6.61%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 984 (29.56%) Python
2 907 (27.25%) JavaScript
3 854 (25.65%) C#
4 672 (20.19%) SQL
5 508 (15.26%) Java
6 267 (8.02%) TypeScript
7 265 (7.96%) PowerShell
8 196 (5.89%) Bash
9 170 (5.11%) Go
10 117 (3.51%) T-SQL
11 98 (2.94%) PHP
12 85 (2.55%) C
13 71 (2.13%) Perl
13 71 (2.13%) Ruby
14 65 (1.95%) VB.NET
15 61 (1.83%) Groovy
16 57 (1.71%) C++
17 56 (1.68%) Bicep
18 44 (1.32%) VB
19 34 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 716 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 524 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 447 (13.43%) Degree
4 158 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 116 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 91 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 86 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 41 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 41 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (1.17%) CISSP
13 29 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 27 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 25 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
17 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
18 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (8.95%) QA
2 56 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (1.26%) NIST
5 41 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 34 (1.02%) GDPR
7 23 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.33%) NCSC
9 8 (0.24%) SLA
9 8 (0.24%) SOC 2
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%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.090%) SEPA
13 2 (0.060%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.060%) EMIR
13 2 (0.060%) MiFID
14 1 (0.030%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 698 (20.97%) Docker
2 149 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 95 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
4 74 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 51 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 14 (0.42%) 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%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 751 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 713 (21.42%) Terraform
3 358 (10.75%) Ansible
4 104 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 100 (3.00%) Puppet
6 88 (2.64%) Grafana
7 83 (2.49%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
11 23 (0.69%) Kibana
12 21 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.60%) SCOM
13 20 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 17 (0.51%) Packer
15 16 (0.48%) SCCM
16 15 (0.45%) Nagios
16 15 (0.45%) WSUS
17 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
18 13 (0.39%) Consul
Vendors
1 836 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.43%) ESRI
3 125 (3.75%) Google
4 106 (3.18%) Oracle
4 106 (3.18%) VMware
5 88 (2.64%) Databricks
6 52 (1.56%) Sitecore
7 39 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.11%) Optimizely
9 36 (1.08%) Splunk
10 31 (0.93%) IBM
11 30 (0.90%) Adobe
11 30 (0.90%) SAP
12 25 (0.75%) Cisco
12 25 (0.75%) Veeam
12 25 (0.75%) WSO2
13 24 (0.72%) Dell
14 23 (0.69%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.66%) Citrix
16 19 (0.57%) New Relic