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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,441 1,711 3,099
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.63% 13.34% 9.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 14.07% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,336 2,578
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 13,978 12,164 28,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.76% 94.81% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 8,801 23,226
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 31 March 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 26 (1.80%) Confluence
2 21 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.25%) Apache
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.35%) IIS
10 4 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
13 1 (0.069%) Camunda
13 1 (0.069%) Drupal
13 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.069%) SAS
13 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.11%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.35%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.069%) Magento
9 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.069%) Primavera
9 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.069%) SAP MII
9 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.069%) Shopify
9 1 (0.069%) TIBCO iProcess
9 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 851 (59.06%) Azure
2 532 (36.92%) AWS
3 425 (29.49%) Azure DevOps
4 290 (20.12%) GitHub
5 193 (13.39%) GCP
6 148 (10.27%) Serverless
7 137 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
8 136 (9.44%) SaaS
9 124 (8.61%) Power Platform
10 92 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (5.90%) Amazon S3
13 83 (5.76%) Entra ID
14 73 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
15 71 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
16 63 (4.37%) dbt
17 62 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 61 (4.23%) PaaS
19 56 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
19 56 (3.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.44%) Broadband
2 54 (3.75%) Firewall
3 25 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.53%) VPN
5 20 (1.39%) DNS
6 15 (1.04%) DHCP
7 10 (0.69%) Network Security
8 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.35%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) SAN
9 5 (0.35%) WAN
10 4 (0.28%) AMQP
11 3 (0.21%) Internet
11 3 (0.21%) Modbus
11 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.21%) SCCP
11 3 (0.21%) Wireless
12 2 (0.14%) DSL
12 2 (0.14%) RFID
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (7.77%) SQL Server
2 102 (7.08%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (4.02%) Power BI
5 57 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (3.33%) Metadata
7 46 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (2.98%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 40 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 40 (2.78%) MongoDB
10 33 (2.29%) Tableau
11 26 (1.80%) DynamoDB
12 25 (1.73%) MySQL
12 25 (1.73%) Redis
13 24 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.25%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 155 (10.76%) Jenkins
2 141 (9.78%) Git
3 114 (7.91%) GitLab
4 84 (5.83%) JIRA
5 58 (4.02%) SonarQube
6 32 (2.22%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
8 18 (1.25%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.11%) JMeter
10 13 (0.90%) Postman
11 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.62%) JUnit
12 9 (0.62%) Maven
12 9 (0.62%) Subversion
13 8 (0.56%) git-flow
14 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 396 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 391 (27.13%) Finance
3 166 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (7.98%) Public Sector
6 85 (5.90%) Marketing
7 71 (4.93%) Banking
8 69 (4.79%) Law
9 57 (3.96%) Retail
10 55 (3.82%) Games
11 41 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.57%) Legal
13 31 (2.15%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.87%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.46%) Back Office
16 18 (1.25%) Front Office
17 15 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.04%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.83%) Billing
18 12 (0.83%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 343 (23.80%) Senior
2 256 (17.77%) Developer
3 203 (14.09%) Lead
4 155 (10.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (9.37%) Software Engineer
6 134 (9.30%) Architect
7 103 (7.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (5.55%) Azure Engineer
9 63 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
10 62 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
11 61 (4.23%) Senior Developer
12 60 (4.16%) Consultant
13 56 (3.89%) Data Engineer
14 52 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
15 51 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
16 49 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
17 48 (3.33%) .NET Developer
18 46 (3.19%) Applications Engineer
19 43 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
19 43 (2.98%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (16.03%) .NET
2 157 (10.90%) React
3 136 (9.44%) REST
4 120 (8.33%) RESTful
5 100 (6.94%) SOAP
6 84 (5.83%) Lightning Web Components
7 80 (5.55%) Spring
8 79 (5.48%) CSS
9 77 (5.34%) HTML
10 76 (5.27%) Spring Boot
11 75 (5.20%) Kafka
12 72 (5.00%) Node.js
13 64 (4.44%) Visualforce
14 59 (4.09%) .NET Core
15 54 (3.75%) OAuth
16 51 (3.54%) AngularJS
17 50 (3.47%) .NET Framework
18 47 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
19 40 (2.78%) ASP.NET
19 40 (2.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 248 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 137 (9.51%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.43%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.01%) Mobile App
9 29 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 28 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 14 (0.97%) IoT
16 12 (0.83%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.76%) Podcast
17 11 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.90%) Linux
2 85 (5.90%) Windows
3 57 (3.96%) Unix
4 36 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.32%) Android
6 12 (0.83%) VMS
7 11 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.62%) CentOS
9 8 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.28%) Debian
13 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (58.92%) CI/CD
2 652 (45.25%) Agile
3 378 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 358 (24.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 290 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
6 276 (19.15%) Mentoring
7 262 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 249 (17.28%) AI
9 238 (16.52%) Test Automation
10 230 (15.96%) Containerisation
11 223 (15.48%) Microservices
12 218 (15.13%) Coaching
13 212 (14.71%) Observability
14 178 (12.35%) Analytics
15 172 (11.94%) Roadmaps
16 163 (11.31%) Scrum
17 157 (10.90%) Data Modelling
18 151 (10.48%) Event-Driven
19 142 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 137 (9.51%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 407 (28.24%) Python
2 341 (23.66%) SQL
3 231 (16.03%) Java
4 187 (12.98%) JavaScript
5 173 (12.01%) C#
6 103 (7.15%) PowerShell
7 102 (7.08%) Bash
8 99 (6.87%) TypeScript
9 89 (6.18%) Apex Code
10 83 (5.76%) Go
11 68 (4.72%) Bicep
12 43 (2.98%) SOQL
12 43 (2.98%) SOSL
13 22 (1.53%) Scala
14 21 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.39%) C++
16 19 (1.32%) PHP
16 19 (1.32%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.90%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (12.28%) Degree
2 160 (11.10%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 77 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.97%) CISSP
10 14 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.83%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.69%) PhD
13 9 (0.62%) PMP
14 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 7 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.33%) QA
2 66 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.43%) GDPR
6 20 (1.39%) NIST
7 17 (1.18%) GRC
8 12 (0.83%) WCAG
9 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.35%) SLA
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) NCSC
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) HL7
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
14 1 (0.069%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 288 (19.99%) Docker
2 67 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.83%) vSphere
6 8 (0.56%) Firmware
6 8 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.21%) Postfix
9 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) vCloud
11 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 405 (28.11%) Terraform
2 328 (22.76%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.09%) Ansible
4 112 (7.77%) Grafana
5 84 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.71%) Argo
7 29 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.76%) Puppet
10 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.56%) Istio
11 8 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.49%) Kibana
13 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
13 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.35%) Control-M
14 5 (0.35%) Packer
14 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 306 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.15%) Salesforce
3 79 (5.48%) Google
4 56 (3.89%) Splunk
5 55 (3.82%) Oracle
6 48 (3.33%) Databricks
7 35 (2.43%) VMware
8 25 (1.73%) SAP
9 24 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.53%) Cisco
11 21 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.18%) Okta
13 15 (1.04%) Ab Initio
13 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.97%) IBM
15 11 (0.76%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.69%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.69%) Veeam
17 8 (0.56%) New Relic
17 8 (0.56%) PagerDuty
782 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs