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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,737 1,937 2,906
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.34% 12.06% 8.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.12% 12.87% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 1,080 2,359
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 17,169 15,050 29,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 93.73% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12,535 8,890 22,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,906 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £79,938 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 July 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 47 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.61%) Confluence
3 21 (1.21%) Apache
4 17 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.52%) CMS
8 8 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.40%) IIS
10 6 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.35%) nginx
10 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.35%) WordPress
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) SAS
13 3 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.058%) Appian
14 1 (0.058%) Camunda
14 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 36 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.46%) Trello
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 1 (0.058%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.058%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.058%) Notion
6 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 50 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.058%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.058%) Magento
7 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.058%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.058%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.058%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.058%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 953 (54.86%) Azure
2 565 (32.53%) AWS
3 522 (30.05%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (9.84%) GCP
5 166 (9.56%) SaaS
6 165 (9.50%) Serverless
7 153 (8.81%) GitHub
8 150 (8.64%) Power Platform
9 92 (5.30%) PaaS
10 80 (4.61%) Azure AI
11 77 (4.43%) Azure AKS
12 76 (4.38%) Entra ID
13 74 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
15 67 (3.86%) Amazon S3
16 64 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
17 60 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
18 56 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
18 56 (3.22%) Power Automate
19 55 (3.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.51%) Broadband
2 49 (2.82%) Firewall
3 34 (1.96%) VPN
4 28 (1.61%) DNS
5 24 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.81%) DHCP
7 12 (0.69%) Internet
8 9 (0.52%) Network Security
9 6 (0.35%) BGP
9 6 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.35%) LAN
9 6 (0.35%) NGFW
9 6 (0.35%) OSPF
9 6 (0.35%) WAN
10 5 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.29%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.23%) SSL
12 3 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.17%) DSL
12 3 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (11.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 188 (10.82%) MongoDB
3 117 (6.74%) SQL Server
4 79 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 60 (3.45%) Power BI
7 46 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.90%) Metadata
9 33 (1.90%) MySQL
10 30 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (1.21%) Redis
13 20 (1.15%) Data Lake
14 18 (1.04%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.86%) RDBMS
17 14 (0.81%) Delta Lake
18 9 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 137 (7.89%) Git
2 111 (6.39%) GitLab
2 111 (6.39%) Jenkins
3 100 (5.76%) JIRA
4 43 (2.48%) SonarQube
5 25 (1.44%) Selenium
6 24 (1.38%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.92%) Postman
8 15 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.69%) Jaeger
9 12 (0.69%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.63%) JMeter
11 10 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.40%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.40%) Maven
12 7 (0.40%) NUnit
12 7 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.29%) Locust
13 5 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 360 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 325 (18.71%) Finance
3 166 (9.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 121 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 113 (6.51%) Law
7 71 (4.09%) Banking
8 69 (3.97%) Marketing
8 69 (3.97%) Retail
9 65 (3.74%) Games
10 62 (3.57%) Legal
11 28 (1.61%) Advertising
11 28 (1.61%) Back Office
12 24 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.86%) Legal Technology
16 13 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 389 (22.39%) Senior
2 377 (21.70%) Developer
3 298 (17.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 245 (14.10%) Lead
5 174 (10.02%) Architect
6 173 (9.96%) .NET Developer
7 146 (8.41%) Software Engineer
8 106 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
9 89 (5.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 88 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 86 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
12 70 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
13 64 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
14 59 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
14 59 (3.40%) Senior Developer
15 56 (3.22%) Senior Software Engineer
16 55 (3.17%) Data Engineer
17 54 (3.11%) Consultant
18 50 (2.88%) IT Manager
18 50 (2.88%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (20.67%) .NET
2 204 (11.74%) React
3 185 (10.65%) ASP.NET
4 177 (10.19%) .NET Core
5 169 (9.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 135 (7.77%) RESTful
7 119 (6.85%) REST
8 118 (6.79%) CSS
9 117 (6.74%) HTML
10 111 (6.39%) Node.js
11 92 (5.30%) Blazor
12 91 (5.24%) Entity Framework
13 76 (4.38%) ML.NET
14 59 (3.40%) Spring
15 56 (3.22%) AngularJS
15 56 (3.22%) Spring Boot
16 54 (3.11%) SOAP
17 53 (3.05%) Lightning Web Components
18 51 (2.94%) Visualforce
19 49 (2.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 292 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 126 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 79 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 44 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 36 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 29 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 28 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 26 (1.50%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.44%) Podcast
11 25 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.32%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.21%) Low-Code
15 20 (1.15%) Social Media
16 18 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 181 (10.42%) Linux
2 93 (5.35%) Windows
3 61 (3.51%) Unix
4 24 (1.38%) Android
5 21 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.92%) VMS
7 10 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.52%) Debian
9 8 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.40%) CentOS
11 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.058%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 912 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 798 (45.94%) Agile
3 407 (23.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 380 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 359 (20.67%) Mentoring
6 322 (18.54%) AI
7 301 (17.33%) Software Engineering
8 291 (16.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 281 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
10 259 (14.91%) Microservices
11 258 (14.85%) Test Automation
12 237 (13.64%) Scrum
13 224 (12.90%) Containerisation
14 219 (12.61%) Roadmaps
15 188 (10.82%) Coaching
16 184 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
17 182 (10.48%) Observability
18 167 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
19 160 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
20 153 (8.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 410 (23.60%) SQL
2 367 (21.13%) C#
3 346 (19.92%) Python
4 275 (15.83%) JavaScript
5 219 (12.61%) Java
6 133 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 118 (6.79%) PowerShell
8 114 (6.56%) Bash
9 70 (4.03%) Bicep
10 55 (3.17%) Apex Code
11 48 (2.76%) Go
12 36 (2.07%) SOQL
12 36 (2.07%) SOSL
13 33 (1.90%) C++
14 25 (1.44%) PHP
15 20 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.98%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.75%) Ruby
17 13 (0.75%) Rust
18 11 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 195 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 163 (9.38%) Degree
3 149 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 35 (2.01%) CISSP
7 29 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (1.27%) CISM
12 18 (1.04%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.92%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.58%) PMP
17 9 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
18 8 (0.46%) PhD
19 7 (0.40%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (9.27%) QA
2 51 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.59%) NIST
4 42 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.67%) GDPR
7 20 (1.15%) GRC
8 15 (0.86%) ISO 22301
9 12 (0.69%) WCAG
10 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.40%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.29%) IFRS
13 5 (0.29%) PMO
14 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (14.68%) Docker
2 68 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.09%) vSphere
6 13 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.46%) Firmware
8 4 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.12%) iptables
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
11 1 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.058%) QEMU
11 1 (0.058%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.058%) Xen
Systems Management
1 369 (21.24%) Terraform
2 308 (17.73%) Kubernetes
3 112 (6.45%) Ansible
4 79 (4.55%) Grafana
5 55 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.25%) Argo
7 19 (1.09%) Puppet
8 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.75%) Istio
10 12 (0.69%) Kustomize
11 10 (0.58%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.52%) Packer
13 8 (0.46%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.35%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.29%) Kibana
17 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
18 3 (0.17%) Nagios
18 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 472 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.24%) Google
3 78 (4.49%) Salesforce
4 49 (2.82%) Oracle
5 48 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.65%) VMware
7 42 (2.42%) Splunk
8 37 (2.13%) Facebook
9 35 (2.01%) Databricks
10 34 (1.96%) SAP
11 29 (1.67%) Pega
12 22 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.09%) YouTube
14 18 (1.04%) Apple
15 17 (0.98%) Cisco
16 16 (0.92%) Sony
16 16 (0.92%) Yahoo!
17 15 (0.86%) OpenAI
17 15 (0.86%) Palo Alto
18 13 (0.75%) Red Hat
917 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs