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

 6 months to
9 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,814 1,956 2,829
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.56% 11.92% 8.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.33% 12.75% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 1,082 2,299
10th Percentile £44,175 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 17,569 15,347 29,009
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.87% 93.54% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,813 9,109 22,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 9 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 46 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.54%) Confluence
3 23 (1.27%) Apache
4 17 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.50%) CMS
8 8 (0.44%) IIS
8 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.39%) nginx
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.33%) SAS
10 6 (0.33%) WordPress
11 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.22%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.055%) Drupal
14 1 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 39 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.55%) Trello
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
6 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 51 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.055%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.055%) Magento
7 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.055%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.055%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (55.35%) Azure
2 590 (32.52%) AWS
3 550 (30.32%) Azure DevOps
4 197 (10.86%) SaaS
5 177 (9.76%) GCP
6 162 (8.93%) Serverless
7 154 (8.49%) GitHub
8 152 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 93 (5.13%) PaaS
10 87 (4.80%) Azure AI
11 76 (4.19%) Azure AKS
12 75 (4.13%) Entra ID
13 74 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
15 66 (3.64%) Amazon S3
15 66 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
16 59 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
17 56 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 56 (3.09%) Power Automate
18 55 (3.03%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.36%) Broadband
2 47 (2.59%) Firewall
3 39 (2.15%) VPN
4 30 (1.65%) DNS
5 27 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.77%) Internet
7 13 (0.72%) DHCP
8 9 (0.50%) Network Security
9 6 (0.33%) BGP
9 6 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.33%) LAN
9 6 (0.33%) NGFW
9 6 (0.33%) OSPF
9 6 (0.33%) WAN
10 5 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.28%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.22%) SSL
12 3 (0.17%) DSL
12 3 (0.17%) HTTP
12 3 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (11.36%) MongoDB
2 205 (11.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 122 (6.73%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
5 69 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 61 (3.36%) Power BI
7 48 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 40 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.87%) MySQL
10 31 (1.71%) Metadata
11 28 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.16%) Redis
14 20 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.05%) Data Lake
16 18 (0.99%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 15 (0.83%) RDBMS
19 12 (0.66%) Delta Lake
20 11 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 138 (7.61%) Git
2 113 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.06%) GitLab
4 106 (5.84%) JIRA
5 44 (2.43%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.49%) Selenium
7 25 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.99%) Postman
9 17 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.72%) JMeter
11 12 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.66%) Jaeger
11 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.44%) Maven
14 7 (0.39%) NUnit
14 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 388 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 333 (18.36%) Finance
3 168 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 143 (7.88%) Law
6 123 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
7 78 (4.30%) Legal
8 73 (4.02%) Marketing
9 72 (3.97%) Banking
10 69 (3.80%) Retail
11 67 (3.69%) Games
12 30 (1.65%) Advertising
13 29 (1.60%) Back Office
14 25 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.83%) Legal Technology
18 13 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
19 12 (0.66%) Telecoms
20 11 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 409 (22.55%) Senior
2 395 (21.78%) Developer
3 300 (16.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 250 (13.78%) Lead
5 189 (10.42%) .NET Developer
6 176 (9.70%) Architect
7 150 (8.27%) Software Engineer
8 102 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
9 89 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 88 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 85 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 69 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (3.58%) IT Manager
14 63 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
15 61 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 58 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
17 56 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
17 56 (3.09%) Consultant
18 55 (3.03%) Data Engineer
19 50 (2.76%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (20.78%) .NET
2 212 (11.69%) React
3 202 (11.14%) ASP.NET
4 190 (10.47%) .NET Core
5 184 (10.14%) ASP.NET Core
6 144 (7.94%) RESTful
7 127 (7.00%) CSS
8 126 (6.95%) HTML
9 121 (6.67%) REST
10 115 (6.34%) Node.js
11 100 (5.51%) Blazor
12 99 (5.46%) Entity Framework
13 83 (4.58%) ML.NET
14 60 (3.31%) Middleware
14 60 (3.31%) Spring
15 57 (3.14%) AngularJS
15 57 (3.14%) Spring Boot
16 54 (2.98%) Lightning Web Components
16 54 (2.98%) SOAP
17 52 (2.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 296 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 128 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 82 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 39 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 36 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.98%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
9 29 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 26 (1.43%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.38%) Podcast
13 22 (1.21%) Social Media
14 21 (1.16%) Low-Code
14 21 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 182 (10.03%) Linux
2 99 (5.46%) Windows
3 62 (3.42%) Unix
4 23 (1.27%) Android
5 21 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.88%) VMS
7 10 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.50%) Debian
9 8 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.39%) CentOS
11 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Solaris
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (51.71%) CI/CD
2 844 (46.53%) Agile
3 409 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 409 (22.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 383 (21.11%) Mentoring
5 336 (18.52%) AI
6 325 (17.92%) Software Engineering
7 307 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 294 (16.21%) Test Automation
9 293 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
10 263 (14.50%) Microservices
11 244 (13.45%) Scrum
12 229 (12.62%) Containerisation
13 226 (12.46%) Roadmaps
14 193 (10.64%) Coaching
15 188 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
16 183 (10.09%) Observability
17 180 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 175 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 165 (9.10%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 427 (23.54%) SQL
2 400 (22.05%) C#
3 372 (20.51%) Python
4 301 (16.59%) JavaScript
5 226 (12.46%) Java
6 148 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 140 (7.72%) PowerShell
8 117 (6.45%) Bash
9 73 (4.02%) Bicep
10 56 (3.09%) Apex Code
11 48 (2.65%) Go
12 36 (1.98%) SOQL
12 36 (1.98%) SOSL
13 34 (1.87%) C++
14 25 (1.38%) PHP
15 20 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.72%) Groovy
17 13 (0.72%) Ruby
17 13 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 199 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 166 (9.15%) Degree
3 152 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.58%) Azure Certification
5 51 (2.81%) CISSP
6 45 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.09%) CISM
8 37 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
9 34 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.76%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.66%) PMP
15 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.44%) PhD
17 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (10.14%) QA
2 62 (3.42%) NIST
3 50 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.71%) GDPR
7 29 (1.60%) ISO 22301
8 22 (1.21%) GRC
9 13 (0.72%) WCAG
10 10 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.28%) IFRS
13 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.28%) PMO
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.17%) SLA
15 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 264 (14.55%) Docker
2 67 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.05%) vSphere
6 13 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.055%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 374 (20.62%) Terraform
2 316 (17.42%) Kubernetes
3 113 (6.23%) Ansible
4 80 (4.41%) Grafana
5 55 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.21%) Argo
7 21 (1.16%) Puppet
8 13 (0.72%) Istio
8 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.66%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.50%) Packer
12 8 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.33%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.28%) Kibana
16 3 (0.17%) Nagios
16 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 496 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.18%) Google
3 78 (4.30%) Salesforce
4 52 (2.87%) Oracle
5 49 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.48%) VMware
7 42 (2.32%) Splunk
8 41 (2.26%) Facebook
9 34 (1.87%) SAP
10 33 (1.82%) Databricks
11 29 (1.60%) Pega
12 23 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.16%) YouTube
14 20 (1.10%) Apple
15 18 (0.99%) Sony
15 18 (0.99%) Yahoo!
16 17 (0.94%) Cisco
17 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
17 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
18 13 (0.72%) Red Hat
834 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs