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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,515 1,946 3,016
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.03% 13.32% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 14.03% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 1,075 2,512
10th Percentile £43,650 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,117 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,873 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +10.57% -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 15,628 13,867 29,674
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 94.93% 90.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,147 8,130 23,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £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 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 25 May 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 29 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.58%) Apache
3 21 (1.39%) Confluence
4 19 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.53%) CMS
6 8 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 1 (0.066%) Camunda
12 1 (0.066%) JBoss
12 1 (0.066%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Trello
5 1 (0.066%) Blender
5 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.066%) Maya
5 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.92%) SAP ERP
3 10 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.066%) Magento
9 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.066%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.066%) SAP MII
9 1 (0.066%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.066%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 818 (53.99%) Azure
2 515 (33.99%) AWS
3 413 (27.26%) Azure DevOps
4 196 (12.94%) GitHub
5 166 (10.96%) GCP
6 147 (9.70%) Serverless
7 131 (8.65%) Power Platform
8 127 (8.38%) SaaS
9 95 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
10 82 (5.41%) Entra ID
11 81 (5.35%) Amazon S3
12 74 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
13 66 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (4.22%) PaaS
15 61 (4.03%) Azure AKS
16 58 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 57 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
18 55 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
19 47 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
20 46 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.09%) Broadband
2 52 (3.43%) Firewall
3 29 (1.91%) DNS
4 21 (1.39%) VPN
5 20 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.06%) DHCP
7 10 (0.66%) Network Security
8 7 (0.46%) WAN
9 6 (0.40%) BGP
9 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.40%) LAN
9 6 (0.40%) NGFW
9 6 (0.40%) OSPF
10 5 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.33%) Internet
10 5 (0.33%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.26%) AMQP
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) SSL
12 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 99 (6.53%) MongoDB
3 91 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 84 (5.54%) NoSQL
5 67 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (3.63%) Power BI
7 45 (2.97%) Metadata
8 39 (2.57%) Relational Database
9 37 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (1.98%) Data Lake
12 29 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
14 24 (1.58%) MySQL
15 22 (1.45%) DynamoDB
16 19 (1.25%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.19%) RDBMS
18 16 (1.06%) Redis
18 16 (1.06%) Tableau
19 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 143 (9.44%) Git
2 125 (8.25%) Jenkins
3 119 (7.85%) GitLab
4 83 (5.48%) JIRA
5 46 (3.04%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.98%) Selenium
7 22 (1.45%) Cypress.io
7 22 (1.45%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.19%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.06%) Postman
10 13 (0.86%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.79%) JMeter
12 11 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.73%) Maven
13 10 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (0.40%) Locust
14 6 (0.40%) NUnit
14 6 (0.40%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 349 (23.04%) Finance
2 327 (21.58%) Social Skills
3 153 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (4.88%) Banking
7 70 (4.62%) Law
8 67 (4.42%) Marketing
9 59 (3.89%) Retail
10 56 (3.70%) Games
11 40 (2.64%) Legal
12 26 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 25 (1.65%) Back Office
14 20 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.92%) Advertising
16 14 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 13 (0.86%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.79%) Billing
18 12 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 346 (22.84%) Senior
2 281 (18.55%) Developer
3 252 (16.63%) Lead
4 228 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 150 (9.90%) Architect
6 135 (8.91%) Software Engineer
7 98 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 91 (6.01%) Senior DevOps
9 85 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
10 79 (5.21%) .NET Developer
11 67 (4.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 66 (4.36%) Data Engineer
13 63 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
13 63 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
14 59 (3.89%) Lead DevOps
15 57 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
16 56 (3.70%) Consultant
16 56 (3.70%) Senior Developer
17 53 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
18 52 (3.43%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (16.17%) .NET
2 156 (10.30%) React
3 119 (7.85%) REST
4 108 (7.13%) RESTful
5 92 (6.07%) .NET Core
6 91 (6.01%) Node.js
7 84 (5.54%) CSS
8 83 (5.48%) ASP.NET
9 82 (5.41%) HTML
10 74 (4.88%) SOAP
11 72 (4.75%) ASP.NET Core
12 67 (4.42%) Spring
13 64 (4.22%) Lightning Web Components
14 62 (4.09%) Spring Boot
15 56 (3.70%) Kafka
16 53 (3.50%) Visualforce
17 52 (3.43%) AngularJS
18 42 (2.77%) Entity Framework
19 40 (2.64%) PySpark
20 39 (2.57%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 250 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 133 (8.78%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 29 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.78%) Low-Code
10 25 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
11 20 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.99%) Cyberattack
13 15 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 15 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (0.92%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.43%) Linux
2 69 (4.55%) Windows
3 50 (3.30%) Unix
4 27 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.32%) Android
6 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 6 (0.40%) VMS
9 5 (0.33%) Debian
10 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (55.51%) CI/CD
2 657 (43.37%) Agile
3 376 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 301 (19.87%) Mentoring
6 268 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
7 255 (16.83%) Software Engineering
8 243 (16.04%) Test Automation
9 235 (15.51%) AI
10 233 (15.38%) Microservices
11 219 (14.46%) Containerisation
12 208 (13.73%) Coaching
13 198 (13.07%) Scrum
14 195 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 184 (12.15%) Observability
15 184 (12.15%) Roadmaps
16 168 (11.09%) Analytics
17 161 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
18 147 (9.70%) Platform Engineering
19 144 (9.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 365 (24.09%) Python
2 343 (22.64%) SQL
3 241 (15.91%) Java
4 222 (14.65%) C#
5 207 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 107 (7.06%) TypeScript
7 101 (6.67%) Bash
8 85 (5.61%) PowerShell
9 68 (4.49%) Apex Code
10 64 (4.22%) Go
11 50 (3.30%) Bicep
12 36 (2.38%) SOQL
12 36 (2.38%) SOSL
13 33 (2.18%) C++
14 24 (1.58%) Scala
15 19 (1.25%) PHP
16 14 (0.92%) Rust
16 14 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.92%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 155 (10.23%) Degree
3 132 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 51 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 47 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.99%) CISSP
10 15 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.59%) PMP
14 8 (0.53%) PhD
14 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.46%) CCNP
16 6 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.78%) QA
2 70 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 34 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.91%) GDPR
6 27 (1.78%) NIST
7 17 (1.12%) GRC
8 13 (0.86%) WCAG
9 9 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.13%) PMO
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 259 (17.10%) Docker
2 68 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.53%) Firmware
5 8 (0.53%) vSphere
6 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.066%) KVM
10 1 (0.066%) QEMU
10 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 387 (25.54%) Terraform
2 312 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 125 (8.25%) Ansible
4 89 (5.87%) Grafana
5 70 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.17%) Argo
7 18 (1.19%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.12%) Puppet
9 16 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.66%) Istio
12 8 (0.53%) Packer
13 7 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.46%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.33%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.26%) Kibana
16 4 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 355 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.07%) Salesforce
3 74 (4.88%) Google
4 44 (2.90%) Oracle
5 43 (2.84%) Databricks
6 39 (2.57%) Splunk
7 38 (2.51%) VMware
8 33 (2.18%) SAP
8 33 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.25%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.12%) Cisco
11 15 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 14 (0.92%) Facebook
12 14 (0.92%) Okta
12 14 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.79%) F5
14 11 (0.73%) IBM
15 9 (0.59%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.53%) Apple
16 8 (0.53%) Juniper
714 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs