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

 6 months to
5 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,418 2,095 3,085
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.88% 13.12% 11.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.25% 13.87% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 967 1,423 2,599
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,553 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% +6.63% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £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 13,835 15,102 25,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.68% 94.55% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8,819 8,974 20,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,759
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £58,478
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.73% -6.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 5 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 40 (2.82%) Confluence
2 27 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 15 (1.06%) Apache
7 11 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.71%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.071%) Camunda
11 1 (0.071%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) SAS
11 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.071%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (2.75%) Oracle ERP
2 19 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.06%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Shopify
8 1 (0.071%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.071%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.071%) Primavera
8 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.071%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 911 (64.25%) Azure
2 501 (35.33%) Azure DevOps
3 495 (34.91%) AWS
4 346 (24.40%) GitHub
5 156 (11.00%) GCP
6 151 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
7 146 (10.30%) Power Platform
8 136 (9.59%) SaaS
8 136 (9.59%) Serverless
9 100 (7.05%) Entra ID
10 94 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 78 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
13 75 (5.29%) Snowflake
14 74 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
15 73 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 73 (5.15%) Amazon S3
16 65 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
17 64 (4.51%) dbt
18 63 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.81%) Firewall
2 45 (3.17%) Broadband
3 31 (2.19%) VPN
4 30 (2.12%) DNS
5 21 (1.48%) DHCP
6 19 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.13%) Network Security
8 15 (1.06%) WAN
9 11 (0.78%) LAN
10 10 (0.71%) SAN
11 9 (0.63%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.42%) VLAN
14 5 (0.35%) Internet
14 5 (0.35%) VoIP
15 4 (0.28%) AMQP
15 4 (0.28%) Unified Communications
16 3 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
16 3 (0.21%) IPsec
16 3 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 90 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
2 90 (6.35%) NoSQL
3 80 (5.64%) Power BI
4 73 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (3.67%) Tableau
6 51 (3.60%) Metadata
7 50 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (2.82%) MongoDB
10 39 (2.75%) Data Lake
11 31 (2.19%) MySQL
12 30 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (1.69%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (1.41%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.27%) Redis
17 17 (1.20%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 157 (11.07%) Git
2 153 (10.79%) Jenkins
3 108 (7.62%) JIRA
4 93 (6.56%) GitLab
5 40 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 37 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
7 26 (1.83%) Selenium
8 19 (1.34%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.27%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.92%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.78%) git-flow
12 11 (0.78%) JMeter
12 11 (0.78%) Postman
13 10 (0.71%) JUnit
14 9 (0.63%) Subversion
15 7 (0.49%) Maven
15 7 (0.49%) Storybook
16 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 429 (30.25%) Finance
2 405 (28.56%) Social Skills
3 165 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 84 (5.92%) Marketing
7 47 (3.31%) Banking
7 47 (3.31%) Law
8 45 (3.17%) Retail
9 42 (2.96%) Telecoms
10 32 (2.26%) Games
11 25 (1.76%) Front Office
12 24 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.27%) Back Office
15 17 (1.20%) Legal
16 16 (1.13%) Tech for Good
17 15 (1.06%) Billing
18 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
19 10 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 364 (25.67%) Senior
2 256 (18.05%) Developer
3 173 (12.20%) Lead
4 132 (9.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 132 (9.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 124 (8.74%) Software Engineer
6 90 (6.35%) Architect
7 87 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
8 75 (5.29%) Senior Developer
9 66 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
10 65 (4.58%) Applications Engineer
10 65 (4.58%) Data Engineer
11 54 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
12 50 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 47 (3.31%) .NET Developer
14 46 (3.24%) Analyst
15 45 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 43 (3.03%) Consultant
17 38 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
18 37 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (16.93%) .NET
2 163 (11.50%) React
3 138 (9.73%) RESTful
4 109 (7.69%) REST
5 89 (6.28%) SOAP
6 72 (5.08%) Spring
7 71 (5.01%) Node.js
7 71 (5.01%) Spring Boot
8 69 (4.87%) CSS
9 66 (4.65%) HTML
10 65 (4.58%) Kafka
11 61 (4.30%) Lightning Web Components
12 60 (4.23%) AngularJS
13 57 (4.02%) .NET Framework
13 57 (4.02%) OAuth
14 50 (3.53%) JSON
15 48 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (3.31%) .NET Core
17 39 (2.75%) OAuth2
18 38 (2.68%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 257 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 143 (10.08%) Product Ownership
3 57 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.33%) Low-Code
8 30 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.97%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.55%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.06%) IoT
15 14 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.85%) Data Centre
16 12 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
18 8 (0.56%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 151 (10.65%) Linux
2 101 (7.12%) Windows
3 50 (3.53%) Unix
4 38 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.62%) Android
6 19 (1.34%) VMS
7 12 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.49%) CentOS
11 6 (0.42%) Debian
12 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (59.59%) CI/CD
2 667 (47.04%) Agile
3 370 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (25.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 311 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
6 282 (19.89%) Mentoring
7 275 (19.39%) AI
7 275 (19.39%) Coaching
8 233 (16.43%) Software Engineering
8 233 (16.43%) Test Automation
9 212 (14.95%) Microservices
10 209 (14.74%) Analytics
11 201 (14.17%) Asset Management
12 199 (14.03%) Observability
13 194 (13.68%) Containerisation
14 174 (12.27%) Data Modelling
15 155 (10.93%) Clean Code
15 155 (10.93%) Roadmaps
16 139 (9.80%) Scrum
17 129 (9.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 448 (31.59%) Python
2 394 (27.79%) SQL
3 218 (15.37%) Java
4 184 (12.98%) C#
5 173 (12.20%) JavaScript
6 142 (10.01%) PowerShell
7 128 (9.03%) Bash
8 113 (7.97%) TypeScript
9 76 (5.36%) Bicep
9 76 (5.36%) Go
10 65 (4.58%) Apex Code
11 40 (2.82%) PL/SQL
12 39 (2.75%) Shell Script
13 25 (1.76%) Scala
13 25 (1.76%) SOQL
13 25 (1.76%) SOSL
14 19 (1.34%) C++
15 18 (1.27%) PHP
16 17 (1.20%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 169 (11.92%) Degree
2 149 (10.51%) Security Cleared
3 112 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.16%) AWS Certification
7 31 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 11 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.71%) PMP
14 9 (0.63%) CCNP
14 9 (0.63%) CISSP
15 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.49%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.67%) QA
2 71 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.24%) GDPR
4 46 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.41%) NIST
6 12 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.42%) NCSC
8 6 (0.42%) SLA
8 6 (0.42%) WCAG
9 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.14%) GRC
10 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.14%) PMO
11 1 (0.071%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.071%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 265 (18.69%) Docker
2 82 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.92%) vSphere
7 12 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.21%) NFS
10 3 (0.21%) Postfix
11 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.14%) vCloud
12 1 (0.071%) HDFS
12 1 (0.071%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 434 (30.61%) Terraform
2 328 (23.13%) Kubernetes
3 133 (9.38%) Ansible
4 110 (7.76%) Grafana
5 91 (6.42%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (2.96%) Argo
8 22 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.41%) Kustomize
10 12 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.71%) SCCM
12 7 (0.49%) Kibana
13 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
13 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.35%) Control-M
14 5 (0.35%) Puppet
15 4 (0.28%) logstash
15 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 312 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.78%) Salesforce
3 74 (5.22%) Oracle
4 66 (4.65%) Google
5 55 (3.88%) Databricks
6 37 (2.61%) Splunk
6 37 (2.61%) VMware
7 23 (1.62%) SAP
8 22 (1.55%) Okta
9 20 (1.41%) Cisco
10 19 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.27%) Ab Initio
12 17 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.13%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.13%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.13%) Veeam
14 14 (0.99%) IBM
15 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.78%) NetApp
16 10 (0.71%) 3PAR
816 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs