Hybrid/Remote DevOps Engineer Job Trends

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £69,310 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 235 256
Rank change year-on-year +45 +21 -169
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 303 207 396
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 1.26% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.36% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 234 182 305
10th Percentile £47,737 £53,875 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £89,537 £99,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 20,031 15,209 30,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,594 9,441 23,786
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £57,098
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.58% -8.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote DevOps Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote DevOps Engineer job vacancies

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

DevOps Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 11 July 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 303 (100.00%) DevOps
2 121 (39.93%) CI/CD
3 117 (38.61%) AWS
4 100 (33.00%) Terraform
5 99 (32.67%) Azure
6 89 (29.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (26.07%) Kubernetes
8 72 (23.76%) Linux
9 64 (21.12%) Agile
10 58 (19.14%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (17.82%) Docker
12 51 (16.83%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (16.83%) Python
13 48 (15.84%) Containerisation
14 46 (15.18%) Security Cleared
15 45 (14.85%) Mentoring
15 45 (14.85%) Windows
16 41 (13.53%) SC Cleared
16 41 (13.53%) Test Automation
17 38 (12.54%) GitLab
18 37 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (12.21%) Unix
19 36 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
20 35 (11.55%) Azure AKS
20 35 (11.55%) Coaching
20 35 (11.55%) Observability
21 34 (11.22%) Bash
22 32 (10.56%) Microsoft
22 32 (10.56%) Scrum
23 30 (9.90%) PowerShell

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (2.31%) nginx
2 6 (1.98%) IIS
3 4 (1.32%) WordPress
4 2 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Drupal
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 117 (38.61%) AWS
2 99 (32.67%) Azure
3 58 (19.14%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (11.55%) Azure AKS
5 25 (8.25%) GitHub
6 20 (6.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (6.27%) GCP
8 18 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (4.29%) SaaS
11 10 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (3.30%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.97%) PaaS
13 8 (2.64%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (2.31%) Cloudflare
14 7 (2.31%) Datadog
14 7 (2.31%) IaaS
14 7 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.31%) DNS
1 7 (2.31%) Firewall
2 4 (1.32%) DHCP
2 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.99%) DSL
3 3 (0.99%) SSH
3 3 (0.99%) SSL
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.27%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.63%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.32%) Redis
6 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.99%) MySQL
7 2 (0.66%) Big Data
8 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.33%) Metadata
8 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (12.54%) GitLab
2 26 (8.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.63%) Git
4 5 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.99%) JIRA
6 3 (0.99%) Selenium
7 2 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.66%) JMeter
7 2 (0.66%) Maven
7 2 (0.66%) MSI
8 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.33%) Gatling
8 1 (0.33%) git-flow
8 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (14.19%) Public Sector
2 25 (8.25%) Finance
3 18 (5.94%) Social Skills
4 12 (3.96%) Banking
5 6 (1.98%) Retail
6 5 (1.65%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.32%) Welsh Language
8 3 (0.99%) Aviation
8 3 (0.99%) Law
9 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Advertising
10 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.33%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.93%) YAML
2 17 (5.61%) Node.js
3 13 (4.29%) Kafka
4 9 (2.97%) .NET
5 7 (2.31%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.98%) ADO
7 5 (1.65%) Loki
8 3 (0.99%) Nuxt
8 3 (0.99%) Playwright
8 3 (0.99%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.66%) JSON
9 2 (0.66%) LAMP
9 2 (0.66%) React
9 2 (0.66%) RESTful
9 2 (0.66%) Spring
9 2 (0.66%) WAMP
10 1 (0.33%) Apache Cordova
10 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.33%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.89%) Cloud Native
2 8 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (1.65%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.66%) Life Science
7 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.33%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.33%) PKI
7 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.33%) PropTech
7 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (23.76%) Linux
2 45 (14.85%) Windows
3 37 (12.21%) Unix
4 11 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.66%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (100.00%) DevOps
2 121 (39.93%) CI/CD
3 89 (29.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (21.12%) Agile
5 51 (16.83%) Platform Engineering
6 48 (15.84%) Containerisation
7 45 (14.85%) Mentoring
8 41 (13.53%) Test Automation
9 37 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (11.55%) Coaching
11 35 (11.55%) Observability
12 32 (10.56%) Scrum
13 30 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (7.92%) Microservices
15 19 (6.27%) Cloud Security
16 17 (5.61%) Deployment Automation
16 17 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 15 (4.95%) Cybersecurity
18 14 (4.62%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.83%) Python
2 34 (11.22%) Bash
3 30 (9.90%) PowerShell
4 23 (7.59%) Java
5 18 (5.94%) SQL
6 12 (3.96%) Bicep
6 12 (3.96%) C#
6 12 (3.96%) Go
7 5 (1.65%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.32%) PHP
8 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.99%) Groovy
9 3 (0.99%) Ruby
10 2 (0.66%) Perl
10 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.30%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.32%) Degree
6 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.64%) QA
2 1 (0.33%) NCSC
2 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 54 (17.82%) Docker
2 16 (5.28%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (33.00%) Terraform
2 79 (26.07%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.24%) Ansible
4 22 (7.26%) Argo
4 22 (7.26%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.27%) Grafana
6 11 (3.63%) Istio
7 7 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.32%) Packer
8 4 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.99%) Kibana
9 3 (0.99%) Nagios
9 3 (0.99%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.99%) Puppet
9 3 (0.99%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.33%) Consul
10 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.91%) Pega
3 8 (2.64%) Confluent
4 5 (1.65%) Splunk
4 5 (1.65%) VMware
5 4 (1.32%) Okta
5 4 (1.32%) OneLogin
5 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.99%) Commvault
6 3 (0.99%) Google
6 3 (0.99%) New Relic
6 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.33%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.33%) Sonatype
7 1 (0.33%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.33%) TOWER Software