Senior DevOps Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations salary for remote or hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 488 377
Rank change year-on-year +74 -111 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 60 100 284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.28% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.29% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34 92 263
10th Percentile £60,686 £60,088 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,625 £62,500 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,001 £105,000 £102,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 17,595 33,942 36,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 96.26% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,714 25,713 26,498
10th Percentile £26,500 £33,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,910 £42,500 £47,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,242 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -11.61% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior DevOps.

Senior DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Senior DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 June 2025, Senior DevOps 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (75.00%) AWS
3 43 (71.67%) CI/CD
4 40 (66.67%) Terraform
5 33 (55.00%) Kubernetes
6 31 (51.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (48.33%) Ansible
7 29 (48.33%) Python
8 25 (41.67%) Finance
8 25 (41.67%) Azure
9 24 (40.00%) Docker
9 24 (40.00%) Java
10 23 (38.33%) Management Information System
10 23 (38.33%) Jenkins
11 22 (36.67%) GCP
12 20 (33.33%) Linux
13 19 (31.67%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (28.33%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (28.33%) IBM
14 17 (28.33%) Software Engineering
14 17 (28.33%) Git
15 16 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
15 16 (26.67%) Microservices
15 16 (26.67%) SDLC
16 15 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (25.00%) GitLab
16 15 (25.00%) Serverless
16 15 (25.00%) Agile
17 14 (23.33%) Maven

Senior DevOps 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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Solr
2 3 (5.00%) nginx
3 1 (1.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 45 (75.00%) AWS
2 25 (41.67%) Azure
3 22 (36.67%) GCP
4 17 (28.33%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (25.00%) Serverless
6 13 (21.67%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (21.67%) Amazon S3
6 13 (21.67%) Datadog
7 10 (16.67%) GitHub
8 6 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
9 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (6.67%) CloudFront
11 3 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (5.00%) IPsec
2 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.67%) MySQL
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) Couchbase
3 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) DB2
4 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.67%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (38.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (28.33%) Git
3 15 (25.00%) GitLab
4 14 (23.33%) Maven
5 13 (21.67%) Cucumber
5 13 (21.67%) IntelliJ
5 13 (21.67%) JUnit
5 13 (21.67%) Mockito
6 5 (8.33%) JIRA
7 4 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (5.00%) Selenium
8 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.67%) MSBuild
10 1 (1.67%) TestRail
General
1 25 (41.67%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Banking
3 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Automotive
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) ActiveMQ
1 13 (21.67%) JMS
1 13 (21.67%) Spring
1 13 (21.67%) Spring Boot
2 7 (11.67%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (6.67%) Kafka
4 3 (5.00%) Django
4 3 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.00%) Flask
4 3 (5.00%) Playwright
4 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.33%) AWS SAM
5 2 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (1.67%) .NET
6 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Management Information System
2 13 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (21.67%) Credit Derivative
2 13 (21.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (71.67%) CI/CD
3 31 (51.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (31.67%) Deployment Automation
5 17 (28.33%) Software Engineering
6 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 16 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (26.67%) Microservices
6 16 (26.67%) SDLC
7 15 (25.00%) Agile
8 13 (21.67%) Analytics
8 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.67%) Architectural Design
9 10 (16.67%) Data Management
9 10 (16.67%) Data Privacy
9 10 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 10 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
9 10 (16.67%) TOGAF
10 8 (13.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) Python
2 24 (40.00%) Java
3 13 (21.67%) C++
4 11 (18.33%) C#
5 10 (16.67%) Go
5 10 (16.67%) SQL
6 9 (15.00%) Bash
6 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.00%) Groovy
7 3 (5.00%) PHP
7 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) JCL
9 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) AWS Certification
2 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) OCP
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) GDPR
1 11 (18.33%) HIPAA
2 10 (16.67%) NIST
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 24 (40.00%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (66.67%) Terraform
2 33 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 29 (48.33%) Ansible
4 9 (15.00%) Grafana
5 6 (10.00%) Istio
5 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.67%) Argo
7 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.67%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (1.67%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.67%) Kibana
8 1 (1.67%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.67%) logstash
8 1 (1.67%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) IBM
2 10 (16.67%) Google
3 4 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.00%) Confluent
4 3 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.33%) VMware
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) Imperva
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.67%) Okta
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