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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,470 1,712 3,080
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.43% 13.03% 9.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.13% 13.74% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 1,329 2,548
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -6.88%
75th Percentile £84,250 £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 14,510 12,456 29,185
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,123 8,932 23,488
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 14 April 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 24 (1.63%) Confluence
2 22 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.22%) Apache
5 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.14%) WordPress
12 1 (0.068%) Camunda
12 1 (0.068%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) Drupal
12 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.068%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (1.09%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.068%) Magento
7 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.068%) Primavera
7 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.068%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.068%) Shopify
7 1 (0.068%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 851 (57.89%) Azure
2 538 (36.60%) AWS
3 415 (28.23%) Azure DevOps
4 281 (19.12%) GitHub
5 196 (13.33%) GCP
6 154 (10.48%) Serverless
7 138 (9.39%) SaaS
8 137 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (8.03%) Power Platform
10 89 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (5.78%) Amazon S3
12 85 (5.78%) Entra ID
13 73 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 71 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
15 60 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 60 (4.08%) dbt
16 58 (3.95%) PaaS
17 53 (3.61%) GitHub Copilot
18 52 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.95%) Broadband
1 58 (3.95%) Firewall
2 26 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.50%) DNS
3 22 (1.50%) VPN
4 17 (1.16%) DHCP
5 12 (0.82%) Network Security
6 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.41%) LAN
6 6 (0.41%) WAN
7 5 (0.34%) SAN
8 4 (0.27%) AMQP
9 3 (0.20%) Internet
9 3 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.20%) SCCP
9 3 (0.20%) SSL
9 3 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 105 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (3.54%) Power BI
5 51 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (3.27%) MongoDB
8 45 (3.06%) Metadata
9 41 (2.79%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (2.52%) Data Lake
12 26 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.77%) Redis
13 25 (1.70%) DynamoDB
14 24 (1.63%) MySQL
14 24 (1.63%) Tableau
15 20 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 145 (9.86%) Git
2 142 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 110 (7.48%) GitLab
4 82 (5.58%) JIRA
5 50 (3.40%) SonarQube
6 33 (2.24%) Selenium
7 19 (1.29%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
11 14 (0.95%) JMeter
12 12 (0.82%) Postman
13 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.61%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) Subversion
15 8 (0.54%) JUnit
16 7 (0.48%) Locust
16 7 (0.48%) NUnit
General
1 394 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 390 (26.53%) Finance
3 165 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 76 (5.17%) Marketing
7 75 (5.10%) Banking
8 73 (4.97%) Law
9 59 (4.01%) Retail
10 49 (3.33%) Games
11 41 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.65%) Legal
13 30 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.43%) Back Office
16 16 (1.09%) Front Office
17 15 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.95%) Tech for Good
19 12 (0.82%) Billing
20 11 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 360 (24.49%) Senior
2 252 (17.14%) Developer
3 212 (14.42%) Lead
4 173 (11.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 137 (9.32%) Architect
6 135 (9.18%) Software Engineer
7 101 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
9 77 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
10 65 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
11 60 (4.08%) Consultant
11 60 (4.08%) Data Engineer
11 60 (4.08%) Senior Developer
12 55 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
13 53 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
13 53 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
14 50 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 45 (3.06%) .NET Developer
15 45 (3.06%) Applications Engineer
15 45 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (15.51%) .NET
2 159 (10.82%) React
3 129 (8.78%) REST
4 120 (8.16%) RESTful
5 90 (6.12%) SOAP
6 79 (5.37%) CSS
7 78 (5.31%) Kafka
7 78 (5.31%) Spring
8 77 (5.24%) Node.js
9 76 (5.17%) HTML
9 76 (5.17%) Lightning Web Components
10 71 (4.83%) Spring Boot
11 57 (3.88%) Visualforce
12 56 (3.81%) .NET Core
13 52 (3.54%) OAuth
14 51 (3.47%) AngularJS
15 48 (3.27%) .NET Framework
16 47 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (2.79%) ASP.NET
17 41 (2.79%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 263 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 132 (8.98%) Product Ownership
3 59 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.38%) Low-Code
7 34 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 31 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
12 16 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.95%) Cyberattack
15 13 (0.88%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.88%) Podcast
16 12 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 160 (10.88%) Linux
2 84 (5.71%) Windows
3 57 (3.88%) Unix
4 38 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.36%) Android
6 11 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.68%) VMS
8 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.61%) CentOS
9 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Debian
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (58.16%) CI/CD
2 655 (44.56%) Agile
3 391 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 358 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
6 280 (19.05%) Mentoring
7 275 (18.71%) Software Engineering
8 243 (16.53%) Test Automation
9 240 (16.33%) AI
10 238 (16.19%) Containerisation
11 231 (15.71%) Microservices
12 219 (14.90%) Coaching
13 218 (14.83%) Observability
14 173 (11.77%) Analytics
14 173 (11.77%) Roadmaps
15 172 (11.70%) Scrum
16 153 (10.41%) Data Modelling
16 153 (10.41%) Event-Driven
17 142 (9.66%) Full-Stack Development
18 136 (9.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 403 (27.41%) Python
2 334 (22.72%) SQL
3 229 (15.58%) Java
4 189 (12.86%) JavaScript
5 175 (11.90%) C#
6 103 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 98 (6.67%) Bash
8 96 (6.53%) PowerShell
9 82 (5.58%) Go
10 81 (5.51%) Apex Code
11 64 (4.35%) Bicep
12 36 (2.45%) SOQL
12 36 (2.45%) SOSL
13 22 (1.50%) Scala
14 20 (1.36%) C++
15 19 (1.29%) Shell Script
16 17 (1.16%) PHP
16 17 (1.16%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.95%) Rust
18 13 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (11.97%) Degree
2 165 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.95%) CISSP
10 14 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 13 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.68%) PMP
13 9 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.61%) PhD
14 8 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.41%) CCNP
15 6 (0.41%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.23%) QA
2 65 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.59%) GDPR
6 29 (1.97%) NIST
7 19 (1.29%) GRC
8 13 (0.88%) WCAG
9 10 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) SLA
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) HL7
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 292 (19.86%) Docker
2 69 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.68%) vSphere
5 8 (0.54%) Firmware
6 7 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.20%) Postfix
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) vCloud
10 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.068%) KVM
10 1 (0.068%) QEMU
10 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 411 (27.96%) Terraform
2 344 (23.40%) Kubernetes
3 133 (9.05%) Ansible
4 114 (7.76%) Grafana
5 85 (5.78%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.86%) Argo
7 26 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 15 (1.02%) Puppet
10 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.54%) Istio
12 7 (0.48%) Kibana
12 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.48%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.41%) Packer
13 6 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) SCCM
15 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 311 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.39%) Salesforce
3 73 (4.97%) Google
4 51 (3.47%) Oracle
5 48 (3.27%) Databricks
5 48 (3.27%) Splunk
6 36 (2.45%) VMware
7 26 (1.77%) SAP
8 23 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 22 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.29%) Cisco
11 17 (1.16%) Okta
12 16 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.95%) Ab Initio
14 11 (0.75%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.68%) IBM
16 9 (0.61%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.61%) Veeam
17 8 (0.54%) New Relic
17 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty
716 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs