Hybrid/Remote DevOps Contract Job Trends

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,347 1,137 1,548
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.10% 11.59% 10.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.57% 12.69% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 869 1,108
10th Percentile £375 £383 £400
25th Percentile £433 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £713 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £520 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -4.09% -5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 17
10th Percentile £25.38 - £55.75
25th Percentile £48.40 £67.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate £74.50 £70.00 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -19.96% +34.55%
75th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £87.53
90th Percentile £94.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.82% +12.65% -0.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,719 8,961 13,245
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.36% 91.32% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,913 6,169 8,878
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £420 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £774 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 213 571
10th Percentile £17.50 £13.85 £15.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £19.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.04 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.28% -9.21% -19.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £83.90 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DevOps job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DevOps over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

DevOps hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 94 (6.98%) Confluence
2 39 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.82%) SAS
4 31 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.71%) Apache
6 20 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.89%) nginx
8 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.59%) IIS
10 6 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.45%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.37%) CMS
12 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.22%) Camunda
13 3 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
13 3 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
14 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.074%) InDesign
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.074%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.15%) Magento
5 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.074%) Endur
6 1 (0.074%) Findur
6 1 (0.074%) Maximo
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.074%) Primavera
6 1 (0.074%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.074%) Shopify
6 1 (0.074%) Summit
6 1 (0.074%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 785 (58.28%) Azure
2 476 (35.34%) AWS
3 418 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
4 266 (19.75%) GitHub
5 172 (12.77%) GCP
6 156 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
7 138 (10.24%) Power Platform
8 111 (8.24%) Serverless
9 88 (6.53%) Amazon S3
10 83 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 79 (5.86%) Entra ID
12 78 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 74 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
14 59 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
15 55 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
16 52 (3.86%) PaaS
17 48 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
17 48 (3.56%) Azure AKS
17 48 (3.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 48 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.68%) Firewall
2 37 (2.75%) DNS
3 27 (2.00%) Network Security
4 19 (1.41%) VPN
5 14 (1.04%) HTTP
6 11 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.59%) SSL
9 7 (0.52%) DHCP
9 7 (0.52%) WAN
10 6 (0.45%) SAN
11 5 (0.37%) Internet
11 5 (0.37%) IPsec
12 4 (0.30%) BGP
12 4 (0.30%) MQTT
13 3 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 3 (0.22%) InfiniBand
13 3 (0.22%) OpenVPN
13 3 (0.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.61%) Power BI
2 88 (6.53%) SQL Server
3 59 (4.38%) Data Lake
3 59 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (2.38%) Delta Lake
6 32 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 31 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
8 29 (2.15%) NoSQL
9 28 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (1.93%) Oracle Database
11 25 (1.86%) Metadata
12 23 (1.71%) MongoDB
13 19 (1.41%) Big Data
14 18 (1.34%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 222 (16.48%) Jenkins
2 219 (16.26%) Git
3 177 (13.14%) JIRA
4 152 (11.28%) GitLab
5 32 (2.38%) Postman
6 31 (2.30%) Selenium
7 21 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.26%) JMeter
9 15 (1.11%) JUnit
10 14 (1.04%) REST Assured
11 13 (0.97%) NUnit
12 11 (0.82%) Artifactory
13 10 (0.74%) Snyk
13 10 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.74%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.74%) WebDriver
14 9 (0.67%) Maven
15 8 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 320 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 256 (19.01%) Finance
3 189 (14.03%) Public Sector
4 89 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.09%) Banking
6 64 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (1.19%) Front Office
11 15 (1.11%) Marketing
12 14 (1.04%) Legal
12 14 (1.04%) Retail
13 13 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.74%) Military
16 9 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.67%) Law
17 7 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 238 (17.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 227 (16.85%) Developer
3 181 (13.44%) Senior
4 160 (11.88%) Architect
5 107 (7.94%) Data Engineer
6 101 (7.50%) Lead
7 98 (7.28%) Azure Engineer
8 87 (6.46%) AWS Engineer
9 75 (5.57%) Analyst
10 67 (4.97%) AWS DevOps
11 63 (4.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 61 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
13 54 (4.01%) Consultant
14 46 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 36 (2.67%) Java Developer
18 34 (2.52%) Business Analyst
18 34 (2.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 32 (2.38%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (9.50%) REST
2 125 (9.28%) .NET
3 82 (6.09%) Node.js
4 80 (5.94%) React
5 65 (4.83%) Kafka
6 63 (4.68%) RESTful
7 59 (4.38%) Spring
8 57 (4.23%) Spring Boot
9 55 (4.08%) PySpark
10 53 (3.93%) Playwright
11 46 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 43 (3.19%) OAuth
13 42 (3.12%) JSON
14 40 (2.97%) HTML
15 37 (2.75%) .NET Framework
15 37 (2.75%) YAML
16 36 (2.67%) SOAP
17 34 (2.52%) GraphQL
18 33 (2.45%) CSS
18 33 (2.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 243 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 15 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.11%) NHS
12 14 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.89%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.82%) Management Information System
15 11 (0.82%) Replication
16 9 (0.67%) Clustering
16 9 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (8.61%) Linux
2 62 (4.60%) Windows
3 29 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.48%) Unix
5 17 (1.26%) VMS
5 17 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (0.22%) Solaris
7 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.15%) CentOS
8 2 (0.15%) Debian
8 2 (0.15%) Rocky
8 2 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.074%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (60.80%) CI/CD
2 484 (35.93%) Agile
3 401 (29.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 225 (16.70%) Containerisation
5 210 (15.59%) Test Automation
6 197 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 196 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 181 (13.44%) Migration
9 169 (12.55%) Analytics
10 151 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
11 149 (11.06%) Data Modelling
12 148 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 140 (10.39%) Microservices
14 136 (10.10%) Scrum
15 135 (10.02%) Observability
16 131 (9.73%) AI
17 122 (9.06%) Data Pipeline
18 120 (8.91%) ETL
19 117 (8.69%) Business Intelligence
20 103 (7.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 380 (28.21%) Python
2 286 (21.23%) SQL
3 144 (10.69%) Java
4 127 (9.43%) C#
5 113 (8.39%) Bash
6 106 (7.87%) PowerShell
7 105 (7.80%) TypeScript
8 96 (7.13%) JavaScript
9 45 (3.34%) Bicep
10 31 (2.30%) Scala
11 21 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.41%) Apex Code
12 19 (1.41%) Go
13 18 (1.34%) T-SQL
14 16 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.82%) Ruby
16 9 (0.67%) C++
16 9 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.67%) Perl
17 8 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 489 (36.30%) Security Cleared
2 449 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 69 (5.12%) Degree
4 68 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 56 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 27 (2.00%) CISSP
9 24 (1.78%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.97%) CISM
12 12 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.59%) PMP
16 8 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.52%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.83%) QA
2 87 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 61 (4.53%) GDPR
4 47 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (3.41%) NIST
6 36 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 34 (2.52%) NCSC
8 16 (1.19%) PMO
9 13 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.74%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.67%) SLA
11 9 (0.67%) WCAG
12 7 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.37%) GRC
15 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 256 (19.01%) Docker
2 44 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.30%) Postfix
6 4 (0.30%) Squid
6 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.30%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) Ceph
7 3 (0.22%) HDFS
7 3 (0.22%) Lustre
7 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) NFS
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.15%) QEMU
8 2 (0.15%) SRDF
8 2 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 413 (30.66%) Terraform
2 344 (25.54%) Kubernetes
3 154 (11.43%) Ansible
4 106 (7.87%) Grafana
5 87 (6.46%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.30%) Argo
7 26 (1.93%) Puppet
8 21 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.04%) Istio
10 12 (0.89%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.52%) Packer
12 6 (0.45%) Consul
12 6 (0.45%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.37%) Kibana
13 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.37%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 238 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.65%) Databricks
3 79 (5.86%) Oracle
4 72 (5.35%) Google
5 54 (4.01%) Splunk
6 43 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 37 (2.75%) VMware
8 36 (2.67%) Salesforce
9 29 (2.15%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.86%) SAP
11 22 (1.63%) Dynatrace
12 17 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 17 (1.26%) Informatica
13 16 (1.19%) Denodo
13 16 (1.19%) MuleSoft
14 14 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.97%) Adobe
15 13 (0.97%) Cisco
15 13 (0.97%) Okta