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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,527 1,909 3,026
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.85% 12.63% 8.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 13.35% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 1,054 2,473
10th Percentile £43,967 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,595 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,350 £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 15,975 14,300 30,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.12% 94.60% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,436 8,372 23,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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 10 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 31 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.64%) Apache
3 22 (1.44%) Confluence
4 19 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.59%) CMS
6 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.39%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) Drupal
13 1 (0.065%) JBoss
13 1 (0.065%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Blender
5 3 (0.20%) Maya
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.065%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.065%) Notion
7 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.85%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.065%) Magento
8 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.065%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.065%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.065%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.065%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 822 (53.83%) Azure
2 517 (33.86%) AWS
3 425 (27.83%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (10.94%) GitHub
5 165 (10.81%) GCP
6 149 (9.76%) Serverless
7 129 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 127 (8.32%) SaaS
9 79 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 79 (5.17%) Entra ID
9 79 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
10 74 (4.85%) PaaS
11 70 (4.58%) Azure AKS
12 69 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 53 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
16 46 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 46 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
16 46 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.13%) Broadband
2 51 (3.34%) Firewall
3 29 (1.90%) DNS
4 24 (1.57%) VPN
5 20 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.98%) DHCP
7 9 (0.59%) Network Security
8 8 (0.52%) 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 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.33%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) DSL
12 3 (0.20%) SSL
12 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (8.12%) MongoDB
2 118 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 77 (5.04%) NoSQL
5 68 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (3.60%) Power BI
7 41 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 40 (2.62%) Metadata
9 34 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (1.70%) Data Lake
13 25 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.44%) MySQL
15 20 (1.31%) DynamoDB
15 20 (1.31%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.11%) Redis
17 15 (0.98%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
19 11 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 130 (8.51%) Git
2 113 (7.40%) GitLab
3 112 (7.33%) Jenkins
4 85 (5.57%) JIRA
5 42 (2.75%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.77%) Selenium
7 20 (1.31%) TeamCity
8 19 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.18%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.05%) Postman
11 13 (0.85%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.65%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.65%) JMeter
14 7 (0.46%) Maven
14 7 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.33%) Locust
15 5 (0.33%) NUnit
15 5 (0.33%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 331 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 316 (20.69%) Finance
3 159 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 125 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (4.98%) Law
7 69 (4.52%) Banking
8 64 (4.19%) Marketing
9 60 (3.93%) Games
9 60 (3.93%) Retail
10 46 (3.01%) Legal
11 24 (1.57%) Back Office
12 23 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.11%) Advertising
15 16 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.92%) Health Technology
17 13 (0.85%) Billing
18 11 (0.72%) Telecoms
19 10 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 337 (22.07%) Senior
2 301 (19.71%) Developer
3 241 (15.78%) Lead
4 235 (15.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 155 (10.15%) Architect
6 135 (8.84%) Software Engineer
7 104 (6.81%) .NET Developer
8 93 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 86 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
10 80 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (4.32%) Data Engineer
12 65 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 62 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 62 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
14 61 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
15 55 (3.60%) Senior Developer
16 53 (3.47%) Lead DevOps
17 52 (3.41%) Lead Developer
18 51 (3.34%) Consultant
18 51 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (17.62%) .NET
2 169 (11.07%) React
3 110 (7.20%) .NET Core
3 110 (7.20%) REST
4 109 (7.14%) RESTful
5 107 (7.01%) ASP.NET
6 103 (6.75%) Node.js
7 97 (6.35%) ASP.NET Core
8 92 (6.02%) CSS
9 90 (5.89%) HTML
10 62 (4.06%) Spring
11 61 (3.99%) SOAP
12 57 (3.73%) Lightning Web Components
13 56 (3.67%) Entity Framework
13 56 (3.67%) Spring Boot
14 52 (3.41%) Blazor
14 52 (3.41%) Kafka
14 52 (3.41%) Visualforce
15 51 (3.34%) AngularJS
16 41 (2.69%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 267 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 124 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 64 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 28 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.44%) Driving Licence
13 21 (1.38%) Low-Code
14 19 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.11%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.11%) Podcast
16 15 (0.98%) Cyberattack
16 15 (0.98%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.35%) Linux
2 70 (4.58%) Windows
3 52 (3.41%) Unix
4 27 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.38%) Android
6 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.52%) VMS
8 7 (0.46%) CentOS
9 6 (0.39%) Debian
9 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (54.68%) CI/CD
2 676 (44.27%) Agile
3 385 (25.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 305 (19.97%) Mentoring
6 266 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
7 263 (17.22%) AI
8 257 (16.83%) Software Engineering
9 237 (15.52%) Microservices
10 223 (14.60%) Containerisation
11 222 (14.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 222 (14.54%) Test Automation
12 202 (13.23%) Scrum
13 195 (12.77%) Roadmaps
14 179 (11.72%) Coaching
15 172 (11.26%) Observability
16 168 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
17 163 (10.67%) Analytics
18 150 (9.82%) Platform Engineering
19 147 (9.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 349 (22.86%) Python
2 344 (22.53%) SQL
3 258 (16.90%) C#
4 223 (14.60%) Java
5 217 (14.21%) JavaScript
6 114 (7.47%) TypeScript
7 105 (6.88%) Bash
8 88 (5.76%) PowerShell
9 60 (3.93%) Apex Code
9 60 (3.93%) Go
10 56 (3.67%) Bicep
11 36 (2.36%) SOQL
11 36 (2.36%) SOSL
12 34 (2.23%) C++
13 21 (1.38%) PHP
14 20 (1.31%) Scala
15 14 (0.92%) Rust
16 12 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (11.66%) Security Cleared
2 154 (10.09%) Degree
3 137 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.11%) CISSP
10 17 (1.11%) DBS Check
11 14 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.59%) PMP
13 9 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.52%) PhD
15 7 (0.46%) CCNP
16 6 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (9.04%) QA
2 64 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.77%) NIST
6 25 (1.64%) GDPR
7 17 (1.11%) GRC
8 13 (0.85%) WCAG
9 8 (0.52%) 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%) PMO
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 252 (16.50%) Docker
2 67 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.72%) vSphere
6 8 (0.52%) Firmware
7 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.065%) iptables
12 1 (0.065%) KVM
12 1 (0.065%) QEMU
12 1 (0.065%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 378 (24.75%) Terraform
2 303 (19.84%) Kubernetes
3 119 (7.79%) Ansible
4 76 (4.98%) Grafana
5 61 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.95%) Argo
7 18 (1.18%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.11%) Puppet
9 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.72%) Istio
11 9 (0.59%) Packer
12 8 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.52%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.39%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.33%) Kibana
16 4 (0.26%) SCCM
16 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 377 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.37%) Salesforce
3 78 (5.11%) Google
4 44 (2.88%) Oracle
5 42 (2.75%) Splunk
5 42 (2.75%) VMware
6 41 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.55%) SAP
8 36 (2.36%) Databricks
9 19 (1.24%) Facebook
10 17 (1.11%) Cisco
10 17 (1.11%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.98%) Palo Alto
12 13 (0.85%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.79%) F5
14 11 (0.72%) Okta
15 10 (0.65%) Apple
15 10 (0.65%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.59%) YouTube
17 8 (0.52%) Confluent
843 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs