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

6 months to
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,331 6,138 12,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.84% 15.19% 17.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.79% 15.81% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,508 4,339 7,014
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 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
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 18 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 (6.42%) ArcGIS
1 214 (6.42%) GeoServer
2 106 (3.18%) IIS
3 80 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 79 (2.37%) CMS
5 62 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
6 59 (1.77%) Confluence
7 55 (1.65%) Umbraco
8 50 (1.50%) nginx
9 40 (1.20%) Apache
9 40 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 38 (1.14%) Kentico
11 37 (1.11%) Headless CMS
12 36 (1.08%) OpenStack
13 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
14 24 (0.72%) Apache Spark
15 9 (0.27%) Apache Solr
15 9 (0.27%) JBoss
15 9 (0.27%) WordPress
16 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 2,092 (62.80%) Azure
2 1,311 (39.36%) AWS
3 1,003 (30.11%) Azure DevOps
4 337 (10.12%) SaaS
5 302 (9.07%) Serverless
6 289 (8.68%) Power Platform
7 249 (7.48%) GCP
8 205 (6.15%) GitHub
9 170 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
10 159 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
11 151 (4.53%) PaaS
12 124 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
13 110 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 108 (3.24%) Amazon S3
15 107 (3.21%) PowerApps
16 103 (3.09%) 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
1 146 (4.38%) Firewall
2 126 (3.78%) DNS
3 71 (2.13%) Network Security
4 63 (1.89%) 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%) SSL
14 11 (0.33%) 5G
14 11 (0.33%) NGFW
15 9 (0.27%) SNMP
15 9 (0.27%) tcpdump
15 9 (0.27%) WLAN
16 8 (0.24%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (12.22%) SQL Server
2 347 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 217 (6.51%) GIS
4 214 (6.42%) QGIS
5 134 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 121 (3.63%) Power BI
7 119 (3.57%) MySQL
8 108 (3.24%) NoSQL
9 106 (3.18%) Data Lake
10 105 (3.15%) Big Data
11 88 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
12 82 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 74 (2.22%) MongoDB
14 66 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
15 51 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
16 49 (1.47%) Dremio
17 48 (1.44%) Apache Arrow
17 48 (1.44%) Oracle Database
18 47 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
18 47 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 478 (14.35%) Git
2 326 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 209 (6.27%) JIRA
4 174 (5.22%) GitLab
5 121 (3.63%) Visual Studio
6 72 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 61 (1.83%) Selenium
8 60 (1.80%) Postman
9 46 (1.38%) 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
15 27 (0.81%) JMeter
15 27 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
15 27 (0.81%) SonarQube
15 27 (0.81%) SpecFlow
16 26 (0.78%) IBM UrbanCode
17 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
General
1 714 (21.44%) Social Skills
2 646 (19.39%) Finance
3 175 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (4.71%) Banking
5 151 (4.53%) Retail
6 122 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.45%) Law
8 98 (2.94%) Legal
9 92 (2.76%) 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 37 (1.11%) Automotive
15 36 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.90%) Games
16 30 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (0.81%) Back Office
18 26 (0.78%) Electronics
18 26 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 963 (28.91%) Developer
2 915 (27.47%) Senior
3 503 (15.10%) Software Engineer
4 501 (15.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 364 (10.93%) Lead
6 305 (9.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 281 (8.44%) Senior Developer
8 220 (6.60%) .NET Developer
9 185 (5.55%) Software Developer
10 175 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
11 153 (4.59%) Architect
12 145 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
13 136 (4.08%) C# Developer
14 135 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 128 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 126 (3.78%) Full Stack Developer
17 109 (3.27%) Data Engineer
18 108 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
18 108 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 87 (2.61%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (27.80%) .NET
2 625 (18.76%) React
3 443 (13.30%) CSS
4 413 (12.40%) .NET Core
5 300 (9.01%) AngularJS
6 284 (8.53%) HTML
7 282 (8.47%) Node.js
8 263 (7.90%) RESTful
9 245 (7.36%) ASP.NET
10 240 (7.21%) .NET Framework
11 228 (6.84%) REST
12 214 (6.42%) Leaflet
12 214 (6.42%) OpenLayers
12 214 (6.42%) PostGIS
13 172 (5.16%) JSON
14 167 (5.01%) 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 (5.04%) Product Ownership
2 137 (4.11%) Public Cloud
3 136 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 112 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
4 112 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
5 102 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 102 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 96 (2.88%) Private Cloud
7 87 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 74 (2.22%) Mobile App
9 72 (2.16%) Data Structures
9 72 (2.16%) Hedge funds
10 63 (1.89%) IoT
11 62 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 61 (1.83%) Clustering
13 55 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 48 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 44 (1.32%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.08%) Algorithms
16 36 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 540 (16.21%) Linux
2 327 (9.82%) Windows
3 93 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 54 (1.62%) Unix
6 50 (1.50%) Android
7 44 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 40 (1.20%) 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 19 (0.57%) VMS
14 14 (0.42%) Mac OS X
14 14 (0.42%) Windows 10
15 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.15%) AIX
18 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,697 (50.95%) Agile
2 1,170 (35.12%) CI/CD
3 942 (28.28%) Software Engineering
4 596 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
5 525 (15.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 506 (15.19%) Scrum
7 434 (13.03%) Microservices
8 430 (12.91%) Continuous Integration
9 383 (11.50%) Mentoring
10 375 (11.26%) Actionable Insight
11 361 (10.84%) Web Development
12 351 (10.54%) Containerisation
13 332 (9.97%) Test Automation
14 319 (9.58%) Full Stack Development
15 301 (9.04%) SDLC
16 274 (8.23%) TDD
17 263 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 258 (7.75%) Unit Testing
19 256 (7.69%) Roadmaps
20 221 (6.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 989 (29.69%) Python
2 912 (27.38%) JavaScript
3 859 (25.79%) C#
4 677 (20.32%) SQL
5 517 (15.52%) Java
6 269 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 260 (7.81%) PowerShell
8 213 (6.39%) Bash
9 175 (5.25%) Go
10 116 (3.48%) T-SQL
11 100 (3.00%) PHP
12 86 (2.58%) C
13 83 (2.49%) Perl
13 83 (2.49%) Ruby
14 67 (2.01%) VB.NET
15 59 (1.77%) Groovy
16 56 (1.68%) C++
17 52 (1.56%) Bicep
18 43 (1.29%) VB
19 34 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 706 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 519 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 449 (13.48%) Degree
4 159 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 86 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 85 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 60 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 41 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 40 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 39 (1.17%) CISSP
14 28 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 27 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 24 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 18 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
18 17 (0.51%) PMI Certification
19 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
19 15 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (9.28%) QA
2 55 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 41 (1.23%) NIST
5 33 (0.99%) 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 (0.090%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.090%) SEPA
12 2 (0.060%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.060%) EMIR
12 2 (0.060%) MiFID
13 1 (0.030%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 696 (20.89%) Docker
2 147 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 73 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 51 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 32 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Firmware
9 16 (0.48%) 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%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.030%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 739 (22.19%) Kubernetes
2 702 (21.07%) Terraform
3 354 (10.63%) Ansible
4 102 (3.06%) Puppet
5 97 (2.91%) Prometheus
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 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 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 (25.10%) Microsoft
2 214 (6.42%) ESRI
3 134 (4.02%) Google
4 122 (3.66%) Oracle
5 106 (3.18%) VMware
6 89 (2.67%) Databricks
7 52 (1.56%) Sitecore
8 38 (1.14%) 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%) Citrix
16 24 (0.72%) Dell
16 24 (0.72%) Red Hat
17 19 (0.57%) New Relic
1,060 DevOps jobs in Work from Home