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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,435 2,024 2,959
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.79% 13.25% 10.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.24% 13.95% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1,389 2,480
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +6.63% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

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 14,012 14,514 25,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.84% 95.01% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,096 8,740 21,398
10th Percentile £30,625 £36,250 £34,757
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 23 February 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 37 (2.58%) Confluence
2 25 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.05%) Apache
5 15 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 12 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.56%) IIS
8 4 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.070%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.070%) Camunda
10 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.070%) SAS
10 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.070%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 35 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.05%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Shopify
8 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.070%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.070%) Primavera
8 1 (0.070%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.070%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.070%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.070%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 903 (62.93%) Azure
2 519 (36.17%) AWS
3 480 (33.45%) Azure DevOps
4 332 (23.14%) GitHub
5 176 (12.26%) GCP
6 148 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
7 143 (9.97%) Power Platform
8 140 (9.76%) Serverless
9 139 (9.69%) SaaS
10 95 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (6.55%) Entra ID
12 79 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
13 78 (5.44%) Amazon S3
14 74 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
16 69 (4.81%) Snowflake
17 65 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
17 65 (4.53%) dbt
17 65 (4.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.69%) Firewall
2 50 (3.48%) Broadband
3 27 (1.88%) DNS
4 26 (1.81%) VPN
5 22 (1.53%) DHCP
6 20 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.77%) Network Security
8 10 (0.70%) WAN
9 9 (0.63%) SAN
10 7 (0.49%) LAN
11 6 (0.42%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.35%) Internet
13 4 (0.28%) AMQP
13 4 (0.28%) VLAN
14 3 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
14 3 (0.21%) SCCP
15 2 (0.14%) OSPF
15 2 (0.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 92 (6.41%) NoSQL
3 84 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
5 71 (4.95%) Power BI
6 51 (3.55%) Metadata
7 48 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.21%) Tableau
9 44 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 38 (2.65%) MongoDB
11 33 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (1.88%) MySQL
13 26 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.60%) Redis
15 20 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.18%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 156 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 150 (10.45%) Git
3 100 (6.97%) GitLab
3 100 (6.97%) JIRA
4 45 (3.14%) SonarQube
5 33 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
6 29 (2.02%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.18%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.84%) Postman
12 10 (0.70%) git-flow
12 10 (0.70%) JMeter
12 10 (0.70%) JUnit
13 9 (0.63%) Subversion
14 8 (0.56%) Maven
14 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 426 (29.69%) Finance
2 416 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 167 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (9.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 80 (5.57%) Marketing
7 59 (4.11%) Law
8 54 (3.76%) Banking
8 54 (3.76%) Retail
9 41 (2.86%) Games
9 41 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 27 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.81%) Legal
13 22 (1.53%) Back Office
14 21 (1.46%) Front Office
15 17 (1.18%) Tech for Good
16 15 (1.05%) Billing
17 11 (0.77%) Health Technology
17 11 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 358 (24.95%) Senior
2 255 (17.77%) Developer
3 189 (13.17%) Lead
4 136 (9.48%) Software Engineer
5 129 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 126 (8.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 109 (7.60%) Architect
8 83 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
10 65 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 63 (4.39%) Data Engineer
12 58 (4.04%) Applications Engineer
13 54 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (3.55%) Consultant
15 47 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 47 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 46 (3.21%) .NET Developer
17 41 (2.86%) Analyst
17 41 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
18 40 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (16.17%) .NET
2 159 (11.08%) React
3 135 (9.41%) RESTful
4 116 (8.08%) REST
5 96 (6.69%) SOAP
6 79 (5.51%) Spring
7 76 (5.30%) Spring Boot
8 71 (4.95%) CSS
8 71 (4.95%) Lightning Web Components
9 69 (4.81%) Node.js
10 68 (4.74%) HTML
11 67 (4.67%) Kafka
12 58 (4.04%) OAuth
13 56 (3.90%) AngularJS
14 52 (3.62%) .NET Framework
15 51 (3.55%) .NET Core
16 49 (3.41%) JSON
17 48 (3.34%) Visualforce
18 46 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
19 37 (2.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 263 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 144 (10.03%) Product Ownership
3 58 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.58%) Low-Code
8 31 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 26 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 23 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (1.05%) IoT
15 13 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.84%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.63%) Data Centre
18 8 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 155 (10.80%) Linux
2 92 (6.41%) Windows
3 56 (3.90%) Unix
4 34 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.53%) Android
6 15 (1.05%) VMS
7 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.42%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Debian
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (59.79%) CI/CD
2 669 (46.62%) Agile
3 370 (25.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 365 (25.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 307 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
6 289 (20.14%) Mentoring
7 271 (18.89%) Coaching
8 266 (18.54%) AI
9 241 (16.79%) Software Engineering
10 236 (16.45%) Test Automation
11 222 (15.47%) Microservices
12 208 (14.49%) Observability
13 206 (14.36%) Containerisation
14 202 (14.08%) Analytics
15 181 (12.61%) Asset Management
16 172 (11.99%) Data Modelling
17 158 (11.01%) Clean Code
18 152 (10.59%) Roadmaps
19 144 (10.03%) Scrum
20 138 (9.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 436 (30.38%) Python
2 373 (25.99%) SQL
3 236 (16.45%) Java
4 178 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 172 (11.99%) C#
6 130 (9.06%) PowerShell
7 119 (8.29%) Bash
8 106 (7.39%) TypeScript
9 75 (5.23%) Apex Code
9 75 (5.23%) Go
10 72 (5.02%) Bicep
11 35 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 35 (2.44%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.09%) SOQL
12 30 (2.09%) SOSL
13 23 (1.60%) Scala
14 18 (1.25%) C++
15 17 (1.18%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.98%) PHP
17 13 (0.91%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 173 (12.06%) Degree
2 160 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (4.04%) Azure Certification
6 52 (3.62%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.05%) CISSP
12 11 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.56%) PhD
14 8 (0.56%) PMP
15 7 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.36%) QA
2 69 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.93%) GDPR
5 40 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.32%) NIST
7 12 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.49%) WCAG
9 6 (0.42%) SLA
10 4 (0.28%) GRC
10 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) NCSC
11 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) SEPA
13 1 (0.070%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 274 (19.09%) Docker
2 79 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.77%) vSphere
6 7 (0.49%) Firmware
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.21%) Postfix
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.14%) vCloud
11 1 (0.070%) NFS
Systems Management
1 420 (29.27%) Terraform
2 330 (23.00%) Kubernetes
3 133 (9.27%) Ansible
4 113 (7.87%) Grafana
5 89 (6.20%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.86%) Argo
8 20 (1.39%) Kustomize
9 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.77%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.63%) SCCM
12 8 (0.56%) Kibana
13 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.35%) Control-M
14 5 (0.35%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.35%) Puppet
15 4 (0.28%) logstash
15 4 (0.28%) Packer
16 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 316 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.27%) Salesforce
3 78 (5.44%) Google
4 71 (4.95%) Oracle
5 52 (3.62%) Databricks
6 42 (2.93%) Splunk
7 36 (2.51%) VMware
8 24 (1.67%) SAP
9 23 (1.60%) Okta
10 20 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.39%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.25%) Ab Initio
11 18 (1.25%) Cisco
12 15 (1.05%) Veeam
13 14 (0.98%) IBM
13 14 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.98%) SolarWinds
14 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.70%) NetApp
16 9 (0.63%) 3PAR
727 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs