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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,326 6,176 11,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.84% 14.98% 17.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.76% 15.58% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 4,400 7,059
10th Percentile £41,933 £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 £86,250
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 30,902 39,630 66,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.40% 96.09% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 27,583 41,127
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 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 (3.22%) IIS
3 81 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 78 (2.35%) CMS
5 58 (1.74%) Confluence
6 56 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
7 55 (1.65%) Umbraco
8 50 (1.50%) nginx
9 40 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 39 (1.17%) Apache
11 38 (1.14%) Kentico
12 37 (1.11%) Headless CMS
12 37 (1.11%) OpenStack
13 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
14 25 (0.75%) Apache Spark
15 10 (0.30%) JBoss
15 10 (0.30%) WordPress
16 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
16 9 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 45 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.84%) 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 (0.090%) 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 (2.35%) 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 2,100 (63.14%) Azure
2 1,308 (39.33%) AWS
3 1,014 (30.49%) Azure DevOps
4 341 (10.25%) SaaS
5 304 (9.14%) Serverless
6 288 (8.66%) Power Platform
7 257 (7.73%) GCP
8 209 (6.28%) GitHub
9 173 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
10 164 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
11 153 (4.60%) PaaS
12 125 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 109 (3.28%) Amazon S3
13 109 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 108 (3.25%) PowerApps
15 106 (3.19%) IaaS
16 97 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
16 97 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 96 (2.89%) Entra ID
18 93 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 147 (4.42%) Firewall
2 130 (3.91%) DNS
3 70 (2.10%) Network Security
4 65 (1.95%) VPN
5 55 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.20%) WAN
7 37 (1.11%) LAN
8 36 (1.08%) DHCP
9 28 (0.84%) HTTP
10 27 (0.81%) Internet
11 15 (0.45%) Unified Communications
12 14 (0.42%) SAN
13 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
14 12 (0.36%) NGFW
14 12 (0.36%) SSL
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
1 409 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 349 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.52%) GIS
4 214 (6.43%) QGIS
5 132 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 119 (3.58%) MySQL
7 118 (3.55%) Power BI
8 103 (3.10%) NoSQL
9 101 (3.04%) Big Data
9 101 (3.04%) Data Lake
10 89 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
11 81 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 76 (2.29%) MongoDB
13 65 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
14 50 (1.50%) Oracle Database
15 48 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
16 47 (1.41%) RDBMS
17 45 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (1.29%) Dremio
18 43 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 483 (14.52%) Git
2 327 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 212 (6.37%) JIRA
4 171 (5.14%) GitLab
5 121 (3.64%) Visual Studio
6 72 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 64 (1.92%) Selenium
8 61 (1.83%) Postman
9 46 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 45 (1.35%) Jasmine
11 41 (1.23%) JUnit
12 36 (1.08%) JDeveloper
13 31 (0.93%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
15 28 (0.84%) JMeter
15 28 (0.84%) SpecFlow
16 27 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
17 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
17 26 (0.78%) SonarQube
18 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
General
1 706 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 645 (19.39%) Finance
3 178 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (4.84%) Banking
5 148 (4.45%) Retail
6 124 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 113 (3.40%) Law
8 98 (2.95%) Legal
9 93 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (2.01%) Marketing
11 61 (1.83%) Aerospace
12 48 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.14%) Automotive
15 37 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 28 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (0.81%) Games
18 26 (0.78%) Electronics
18 26 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 961 (28.89%) Developer
2 906 (27.24%) Senior
3 502 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 495 (14.88%) Software Engineer
5 366 (11.00%) Lead
6 297 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
7 276 (8.30%) Senior Developer
8 213 (6.40%) .NET Developer
9 181 (5.44%) Software Developer
10 170 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
11 154 (4.63%) Architect
12 148 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
13 137 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 129 (3.88%) C# Developer
15 128 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
16 123 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
17 108 (3.25%) Data Engineer
17 108 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
17 108 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 86 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 920 (27.66%) .NET
2 622 (18.70%) React
3 445 (13.38%) CSS
4 419 (12.60%) .NET Core
5 300 (9.02%) AngularJS
6 289 (8.69%) HTML
7 281 (8.45%) Node.js
8 260 (7.82%) RESTful
9 248 (7.46%) ASP.NET
10 240 (7.22%) .NET Framework
11 228 (6.86%) REST
12 216 (6.49%) PostGIS
13 214 (6.43%) Leaflet
13 214 (6.43%) OpenLayers
14 179 (5.38%) JSON
15 165 (4.96%) Web Services
16 124 (3.73%) XML
17 121 (3.64%) Spring
18 108 (3.25%) SOAP
19 102 (3.07%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 170 (5.11%) Product Ownership
2 138 (4.15%) Public Cloud
3 134 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 113 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
5 110 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
6 102 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 101 (3.04%) Data Centre
8 96 (2.89%) Private Cloud
9 88 (2.65%) Management Information System
10 74 (2.22%) Mobile App
11 73 (2.19%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.92%) Hedge funds
12 64 (1.92%) IoT
13 62 (1.86%) Onboarding
14 56 (1.68%) Clustering
14 56 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
15 49 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
16 44 (1.32%) Low-Code
17 38 (1.14%) Virtual Team
18 36 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 544 (16.36%) Linux
2 333 (10.01%) Windows
3 98 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 54 (1.62%) Unix
6 49 (1.47%) Android
7 43 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 43 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.66%) CentOS
11 19 (0.57%) VMS
12 18 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
13 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
14 13 (0.39%) Windows 10
15 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
16 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.15%) AIX
17 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,706 (51.29%) Agile
2 1,184 (35.60%) CI/CD
3 929 (27.93%) Software Engineering
4 593 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
5 533 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 509 (15.30%) Scrum
7 431 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
7 431 (12.96%) Microservices
8 381 (11.46%) Mentoring
9 377 (11.33%) Actionable Insight
10 361 (10.85%) Web Development
11 353 (10.61%) Containerisation
12 334 (10.04%) Test Automation
13 304 (9.14%) Full Stack Development
14 300 (9.02%) SDLC
15 270 (8.12%) TDD
16 261 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 258 (7.76%) Unit Testing
18 255 (7.67%) Roadmaps
19 211 (6.34%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 986 (29.65%) Python
2 904 (27.18%) JavaScript
3 851 (25.59%) C#
4 683 (20.54%) SQL
5 509 (15.30%) Java
6 268 (8.06%) TypeScript
7 265 (7.97%) PowerShell
8 218 (6.55%) Bash
9 169 (5.08%) Go
10 117 (3.52%) T-SQL
11 103 (3.10%) PHP
12 88 (2.65%) Perl
13 86 (2.59%) Ruby
14 84 (2.53%) C
15 67 (2.01%) VB.NET
16 59 (1.77%) Groovy
17 54 (1.62%) Bicep
18 49 (1.47%) C++
19 43 (1.29%) VB
20 35 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 702 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 517 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 440 (13.23%) Degree
4 149 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 101 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 84 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 82 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 61 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.17%) CISSP
12 38 (1.14%) DBS Check
12 38 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (0.78%) 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
1 311 (9.35%) QA
2 52 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.23%) NIST
6 32 (0.96%) GDPR
7 21 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.30%) NCSC
9 9 (0.27%) SLA
10 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.18%) PMO
12 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.15%) WCAG
13 3 (0.090%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.090%) SEPA
14 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.060%) EMIR
14 2 (0.060%) HL7
14 2 (0.060%) MiFID
15 1 (0.030%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 705 (21.20%) Docker
2 149 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
4 75 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 52 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 16 (0.48%) 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 (0.090%) KVM
15 3 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.090%) XenApp
16 2 (0.060%) Apache Flume
17 1 (0.030%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 738 (22.19%) Kubernetes
2 701 (21.08%) Terraform
3 359 (10.79%) Ansible
4 106 (3.19%) Puppet
5 91 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 89 (2.68%) Grafana
7 85 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (0.87%) 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
1 835 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.43%) ESRI
3 137 (4.12%) Google
4 123 (3.70%) Oracle
5 108 (3.25%) VMware
6 90 (2.71%) Databricks
7 52 (1.56%) Sitecore
8 37 (1.11%) Optimizely
8 37 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.08%) Splunk
10 34 (1.02%) IBM
11 31 (0.93%) SAP
12 30 (0.90%) Adobe
13 27 (0.81%) Citrix
13 27 (0.81%) WSO2
14 26 (0.78%) Veeam
15 25 (0.75%) Cisco
15 25 (0.75%) Dell
15 25 (0.75%) Red Hat
16 19 (0.57%) New Relic