Hybrid/Remote DevOps Job Trends

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,554 1,907 3,035
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.78% 12.42% 8.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.51% 13.14% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 1,048 2,454
10th Percentile £43,831 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,346 14,518 30,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 94.57% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,794 8,418 23,762
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

DevOps job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DevOps
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DevOps over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

DevOps salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work 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 35 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.61%) Apache
2 25 (1.61%) Confluence
3 19 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.58%) CMS
7 8 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.39%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.32%) WordPress
10 4 (0.26%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.19%) IIS
11 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.064%) Drupal
12 1 (0.064%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.064%) JBoss
12 1 (0.064%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.26%) Trello
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.064%) Notion
6 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.64%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.064%) Magento
7 1 (0.064%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.064%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.064%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.064%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.064%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 843 (54.25%) Azure
2 517 (33.27%) AWS
3 451 (29.02%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (10.36%) GCP
5 156 (10.04%) GitHub
5 156 (10.04%) Serverless
6 136 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 132 (8.49%) SaaS
8 77 (4.95%) PaaS
9 76 (4.89%) Amazon S3
9 76 (4.89%) Entra ID
10 72 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 71 (4.57%) Azure AKS
12 70 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
13 64 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 55 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
15 53 (3.41%) Azure AI
16 52 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
16 52 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
17 50 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.18%) Broadband
2 50 (3.22%) Firewall
3 29 (1.87%) DNS
4 26 (1.67%) VPN
5 21 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.97%) DHCP
7 9 (0.58%) Network Security
8 8 (0.51%) Internet
9 6 (0.39%) BGP
9 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.39%) LAN
9 6 (0.39%) NGFW
9 6 (0.39%) OSPF
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
10 5 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.32%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.19%) DSL
12 3 (0.19%) SCCP
12 3 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (8.94%) MongoDB
2 138 (8.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 99 (6.37%) SQL Server
4 79 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 72 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
6 59 (3.80%) Power BI
7 41 (2.64%) Relational Database
8 37 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (2.19%) Metadata
10 30 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
12 26 (1.67%) MySQL
13 24 (1.54%) Data Lake
14 22 (1.42%) DynamoDB
15 21 (1.35%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.16%) Redis
17 15 (0.97%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 138 (8.88%) Git
2 115 (7.40%) GitLab
3 111 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 94 (6.05%) JIRA
5 43 (2.77%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.74%) Selenium
7 20 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 19 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.16%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.03%) Postman
11 13 (0.84%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.71%) JMeter
13 10 (0.64%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.58%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.45%) Maven
15 7 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.39%) NUnit
17 5 (0.32%) Claude Code
17 5 (0.32%) Locust
17 5 (0.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 337 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 314 (20.21%) Finance
3 160 (10.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 123 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (4.95%) Law
7 67 (4.31%) Banking
8 61 (3.93%) Games
8 61 (3.93%) Marketing
8 61 (3.93%) Retail
9 46 (2.96%) Legal
10 24 (1.54%) Back Office
11 22 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 20 (1.29%) Advertising
13 19 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.97%) Legal Technology
16 14 (0.90%) Health Technology
17 12 (0.77%) Billing
18 11 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 336 (21.62%) Senior
2 324 (20.85%) Developer
3 240 (15.44%) Lead
4 238 (15.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 158 (10.17%) Architect
6 134 (8.62%) Software Engineer
7 121 (7.79%) .NET Developer
8 90 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 85 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
10 79 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 64 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 62 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
13 62 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
14 59 (3.80%) Data Engineer
15 56 (3.60%) Senior Developer
16 54 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (3.41%) Lead Developer
18 51 (3.28%) Consultant
19 48 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (18.92%) .NET
2 179 (11.52%) React
3 129 (8.30%) .NET Core
3 129 (8.30%) ASP.NET
4 115 (7.40%) ASP.NET Core
5 113 (7.27%) RESTful
6 108 (6.95%) REST
7 105 (6.76%) Node.js
8 97 (6.24%) CSS
9 95 (6.11%) HTML
10 63 (4.05%) Blazor
10 63 (4.05%) Entity Framework
11 62 (3.99%) Spring
12 57 (3.67%) SOAP
12 57 (3.67%) Spring Boot
13 55 (3.54%) AngularJS
13 55 (3.54%) Lightning Web Components
14 52 (3.35%) Visualforce
15 50 (3.22%) ML.NET
16 48 (3.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 266 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 33 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 28 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.54%) Driving Licence
11 22 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.29%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 19 (1.22%) Podcast
14 17 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.97%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (10.55%) Linux
2 72 (4.63%) Windows
3 52 (3.35%) Unix
4 25 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.35%) Android
6 10 (0.64%) VMS
7 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.51%) Debian
8 8 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (54.05%) CI/CD
2 694 (44.66%) Agile
3 390 (25.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 343 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 311 (20.01%) Mentoring
6 271 (17.44%) AI
7 265 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
8 262 (16.86%) Software Engineering
9 241 (15.51%) Microservices
10 240 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
11 221 (14.22%) Containerisation
12 218 (14.03%) Test Automation
13 212 (13.64%) Scrum
14 205 (13.19%) Roadmaps
15 175 (11.26%) Coaching
16 169 (10.88%) Observability
17 165 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
18 154 (9.91%) Analytics
19 150 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
20 149 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 364 (23.42%) SQL
2 332 (21.36%) Python
3 282 (18.15%) C#
4 225 (14.48%) JavaScript
5 218 (14.03%) Java
6 118 (7.59%) TypeScript
7 109 (7.01%) Bash
8 90 (5.79%) PowerShell
9 59 (3.80%) Bicep
10 58 (3.73%) Apex Code
11 54 (3.47%) Go
12 36 (2.32%) SOQL
12 36 (2.32%) SOSL
13 33 (2.12%) C++
14 23 (1.48%) PHP
15 14 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.90%) Rust
16 13 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.84%) Scala
16 13 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 159 (10.23%) Degree
3 140 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.09%) CISSP
10 17 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.58%) PMP
14 8 (0.51%) PhD
14 8 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.45%) CCNP
16 6 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (9.33%) QA
2 55 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.67%) NIST
6 23 (1.48%) GDPR
7 17 (1.09%) GRC
8 13 (0.84%) WCAG
9 8 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS
11 5 (0.32%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.19%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (16.41%) Docker
2 65 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.84%) vSphere
6 8 (0.51%) Firmware
7 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.064%) iptables
11 1 (0.064%) KVM
11 1 (0.064%) QEMU
11 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 369 (23.75%) Terraform
2 300 (19.31%) Kubernetes
3 121 (7.79%) Ansible
4 76 (4.89%) Grafana
5 62 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.83%) Argo
7 18 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.09%) Puppet
9 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.77%) Istio
11 9 (0.58%) Packer
11 9 (0.58%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.39%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.32%) Kibana
15 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.32%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 399 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.34%) Google
3 79 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 44 (2.83%) Oracle
5 43 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.70%) Splunk
6 42 (2.70%) VMware
7 39 (2.51%) Databricks
8 38 (2.45%) SAP
9 25 (1.61%) Facebook
10 18 (1.16%) MuleSoft
11 17 (1.09%) Cisco
12 15 (0.97%) Palo Alto
13 13 (0.84%) Apple
14 12 (0.77%) F5
14 12 (0.77%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.77%) YouTube
15 11 (0.71%) Sony
15 11 (0.71%) Yahoo!
16 10 (0.64%) Okta
2,091 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs