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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,337 6,169 12,244
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.87% 15.20% 17.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.82% 15.83% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,512 4,360 7,070
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 £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 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 (6.41%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.41%) GeoServer
2 106 (3.18%) IIS
3 79 (2.37%) CMS
3 79 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 68 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (1.77%) 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 36 (1.08%) OpenStack
12 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
13 23 (0.69%) Apache Spark
14 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
14 9 (0.27%) JBoss
14 9 (0.27%) WordPress
15 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 46 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.81%) 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%) 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%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.030%) Endur
6 1 (0.030%) Magento
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 2,091 (62.66%) Azure
2 1,320 (39.56%) AWS
3 999 (29.94%) Azure DevOps
4 340 (10.19%) SaaS
5 299 (8.96%) Serverless
6 289 (8.66%) Power Platform
7 249 (7.46%) GCP
8 204 (6.11%) GitHub
9 169 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
10 159 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
11 149 (4.47%) PaaS
12 124 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
13 111 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 110 (3.30%) Amazon S3
15 107 (3.21%) PowerApps
16 102 (3.06%) IaaS
17 98 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
18 96 (2.88%) Entra ID
19 95 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
20 94 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.44%) Firewall
2 127 (3.81%) DNS
3 71 (2.13%) Network Security
4 62 (1.86%) VPN
5 55 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.20%) WAN
7 37 (1.11%) LAN
8 34 (1.02%) DHCP
9 29 (0.87%) HTTP
10 25 (0.75%) Internet
11 15 (0.45%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.39%) SAN
12 13 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 12 (0.36%) 5G
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%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 348 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.50%) GIS
4 214 (6.41%) QGIS
5 134 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 121 (3.63%) Power BI
7 119 (3.57%) MySQL
8 112 (3.36%) Data Lake
9 111 (3.33%) Big Data
10 109 (3.27%) NoSQL
11 88 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
12 82 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 75 (2.25%) MongoDB
14 67 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
15 57 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
16 55 (1.65%) Dremio
17 54 (1.62%) Apache Arrow
18 48 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
18 48 (1.44%) Oracle Database
19 47 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 478 (14.32%) Git
2 324 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 209 (6.26%) JIRA
4 173 (5.18%) GitLab
5 121 (3.63%) Visual Studio
6 72 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 60 (1.80%) Selenium
8 59 (1.77%) Postman
9 44 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 43 (1.29%) Jasmine
11 39 (1.17%) JUnit
12 36 (1.08%) JDeveloper
13 29 (0.87%) Cypress.io
14 28 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
14 28 (0.84%) SonarQube
15 26 (0.78%) IBM UrbanCode
15 26 (0.78%) JMeter
15 26 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
15 26 (0.78%) SpecFlow
16 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
General
1 714 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 649 (19.45%) Finance
3 176 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (4.61%) Banking
5 151 (4.53%) Retail
6 125 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.45%) Law
8 98 (2.94%) Legal
9 93 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (2.07%) Marketing
11 63 (1.89%) Aerospace
12 48 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.14%) Automotive
15 36 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.90%) Games
16 30 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (0.84%) Back Office
18 26 (0.78%) Electronics
18 26 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 964 (28.89%) Developer
2 917 (27.48%) Senior
3 503 (15.07%) Software Engineer
4 499 (14.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 366 (10.97%) Lead
6 305 (9.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 282 (8.45%) Senior Developer
8 220 (6.59%) .NET Developer
9 186 (5.57%) Software Developer
10 180 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
11 152 (4.55%) Architect
12 145 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
13 137 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 136 (4.08%) C# Developer
15 129 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
16 127 (3.81%) Full Stack Developer
17 109 (3.27%) Data Engineer
17 109 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
17 109 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 85 (2.55%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 924 (27.69%) .NET
2 626 (18.76%) React
3 444 (13.31%) CSS
4 413 (12.38%) .NET Core
5 300 (8.99%) AngularJS
6 285 (8.54%) HTML
7 283 (8.48%) Node.js
8 263 (7.88%) RESTful
9 245 (7.34%) ASP.NET
10 238 (7.13%) .NET Framework
11 226 (6.77%) REST
12 214 (6.41%) Leaflet
12 214 (6.41%) OpenLayers
12 214 (6.41%) PostGIS
13 170 (5.09%) JSON
14 167 (5.00%) Web Services
15 125 (3.75%) XML
16 121 (3.63%) Spring
17 104 (3.12%) SOAP
18 99 (2.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 168 (5.03%) Product Ownership
2 136 (4.08%) Cloud Native
2 136 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 112 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
4 111 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 102 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 102 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 95 (2.85%) Private Cloud
7 88 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 78 (2.34%) Hedge funds
9 73 (2.19%) Mobile App
10 72 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 67 (2.01%) Clustering
12 64 (1.92%) IoT
13 63 (1.89%) Onboarding
14 55 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
15 49 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
16 44 (1.32%) Low-Code
17 37 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 36 (1.08%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 539 (16.15%) Linux
2 326 (9.77%) Windows
3 92 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 54 (1.62%) Unix
6 50 (1.50%) Android
7 44 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 39 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.66%) 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 1,694 (50.76%) Agile
2 1,167 (34.97%) CI/CD
3 946 (28.35%) Software Engineering
4 595 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
5 526 (15.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 507 (15.19%) Scrum
7 435 (13.04%) Microservices
8 428 (12.83%) Continuous Integration
9 385 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 375 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
11 361 (10.82%) Web Development
12 353 (10.58%) Containerisation
13 335 (10.04%) Test Automation
14 321 (9.62%) Full Stack Development
15 298 (8.93%) SDLC
16 275 (8.24%) TDD
17 264 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 258 (7.73%) Roadmaps
18 258 (7.73%) Unit Testing
19 221 (6.62%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 991 (29.70%) Python
2 918 (27.51%) JavaScript
3 857 (25.68%) C#
4 678 (20.32%) SQL
5 523 (15.67%) Java
6 270 (8.09%) TypeScript
7 256 (7.67%) PowerShell
8 212 (6.35%) Bash
9 180 (5.39%) Go
10 116 (3.48%) T-SQL
11 100 (3.00%) PHP
12 86 (2.58%) C
13 83 (2.49%) Perl
14 81 (2.43%) Ruby
15 67 (2.01%) VB.NET
16 59 (1.77%) Groovy
17 56 (1.68%) C++
18 52 (1.56%) Bicep
19 43 (1.29%) VB
20 34 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 707 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 520 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 449 (13.46%) Degree
4 159 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 88 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 85 (2.55%) 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 24 (0.72%) 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
1 311 (9.32%) QA
2 55 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.23%) NIST
6 33 (0.99%) GDPR
7 21 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.33%) NCSC
9 9 (0.27%) SLA
10 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.15%) PMO
11 5 (0.15%) WCAG
12 3 (0.090%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.090%) SEPA
13 2 (0.060%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.060%) EMIR
13 2 (0.060%) MiFID
14 1 (0.030%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 698 (20.92%) Docker
2 147 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 72 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 49 (1.47%) 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
1 747 (22.39%) Kubernetes
2 706 (21.16%) Terraform
3 355 (10.64%) Ansible
4 103 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 101 (3.03%) Puppet
6 88 (2.64%) Grafana
7 85 (2.55%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
11 23 (0.69%) Kibana
12 22 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.57%) SCOM
15 17 (0.51%) Packer
16 15 (0.45%) Nagios
16 15 (0.45%) SCCM
17 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
17 14 (0.42%) WSUS
18 13 (0.39%) Consul
Vendors
1 836 (25.05%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.41%) ESRI
3 133 (3.99%) Google
4 122 (3.66%) Oracle
5 104 (3.12%) VMware
6 89 (2.67%) Databricks
7 52 (1.56%) Sitecore
8 39 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.11%) Optimizely
10 36 (1.08%) Splunk
11 33 (0.99%) IBM
12 31 (0.93%) SAP
13 30 (0.90%) Adobe
14 26 (0.78%) WSO2
15 25 (0.75%) Cisco
15 25 (0.75%) Veeam
16 24 (0.72%) Dell
17 23 (0.69%) Red Hat
18 22 (0.66%) Citrix
19 19 (0.57%) New Relic