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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,515 2,054 3,008
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.06% 13.61% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.74% 14.31% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 1,175 2,508
10th Percentile £44,200 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £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 15,547 14,351 29,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.72% 95.06% 90.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,029 8,676 23,362
10th Percentile £34,460 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%

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 20 May 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 27 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.45%) Apache
3 20 (1.32%) Confluence
4 17 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.53%) CMS
6 8 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.066%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.066%) Drupal
12 1 (0.066%) JBoss
12 1 (0.066%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) Trello
5 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.92%) SAP ERP
3 12 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.066%) Magento
9 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.066%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.066%) SAP MII
9 1 (0.066%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.066%) TIBCO iProcess
9 1 (0.066%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 826 (54.52%) Azure
2 512 (33.80%) AWS
3 421 (27.79%) Azure DevOps
4 209 (13.80%) GitHub
5 165 (10.89%) GCP
6 146 (9.64%) Serverless
7 128 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 122 (8.05%) SaaS
9 101 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 84 (5.54%) Entra ID
11 80 (5.28%) Amazon S3
12 75 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 61 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 60 (3.96%) Azure AKS
16 59 (3.89%) PaaS
17 58 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 57 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
19 47 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
20 46 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.09%) Broadband
2 54 (3.56%) Firewall
3 29 (1.91%) DNS
4 20 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.32%) VPN
5 16 (1.06%) DHCP
6 10 (0.66%) Network Security
7 7 (0.46%) WAN
8 6 (0.40%) BGP
8 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.40%) LAN
8 6 (0.40%) NGFW
8 6 (0.40%) OSPF
9 5 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.33%) Internet
9 5 (0.33%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.26%) AMQP
10 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 99 (6.53%) MongoDB
3 90 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 83 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 68 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (3.43%) Power BI
7 45 (2.97%) Metadata
8 41 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (2.64%) Relational Database
10 33 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
12 29 (1.91%) Data Lake
13 25 (1.65%) MySQL
14 22 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.32%) DynamoDB
16 19 (1.25%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.19%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.19%) Tableau
18 17 (1.12%) Redis
19 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 144 (9.50%) Git
2 125 (8.25%) Jenkins
3 114 (7.52%) GitLab
4 86 (5.68%) JIRA
5 46 (3.04%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.98%) Selenium
7 21 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.32%) TeamCity
9 18 (1.19%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.06%) Postman
11 13 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.86%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.79%) JMeter
12 12 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
13 11 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.73%) Maven
14 6 (0.40%) Locust
14 6 (0.40%) NUnit
14 6 (0.40%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 360 (23.76%) Finance
2 324 (21.39%) Social Skills
3 150 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 133 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
6 73 (4.82%) Banking
7 68 (4.49%) Law
8 67 (4.42%) Marketing
9 56 (3.70%) Games
9 56 (3.70%) Retail
10 40 (2.64%) Legal
11 24 (1.58%) Back Office
11 24 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.99%) Advertising
15 13 (0.86%) Billing
15 13 (0.86%) Front Office
15 13 (0.86%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 351 (23.17%) Senior
2 277 (18.28%) Developer
3 250 (16.50%) Lead
4 225 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 148 (9.77%) Architect
6 130 (8.58%) Software Engineer
7 95 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 91 (6.01%) Senior DevOps
9 81 (5.35%) .NET Developer
9 81 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 64 (4.22%) Data Engineer
12 62 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
12 62 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
13 61 (4.03%) Consultant
14 58 (3.83%) Lead DevOps
15 54 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
15 54 (3.56%) Senior Developer
16 52 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
17 51 (3.37%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (16.11%) .NET
2 158 (10.43%) React
3 122 (8.05%) REST
4 115 (7.59%) RESTful
5 93 (6.14%) .NET Core
6 88 (5.81%) Node.js
7 82 (5.41%) ASP.NET
7 82 (5.41%) CSS
8 80 (5.28%) HTML
9 77 (5.08%) SOAP
10 71 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
11 66 (4.36%) Lightning Web Components
11 66 (4.36%) Spring
12 61 (4.03%) Spring Boot
13 60 (3.96%) Kafka
14 53 (3.50%) Visualforce
15 49 (3.23%) AngularJS
16 42 (2.77%) Entity Framework
17 40 (2.64%) .NET Framework
18 39 (2.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 245 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 132 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 28 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.78%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 25 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
12 20 (1.32%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.99%) Cyberattack
15 15 (0.99%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.92%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 159 (10.50%) Linux
2 71 (4.69%) Windows
3 51 (3.37%) Unix
4 28 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.39%) Android
6 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.53%) VMS
8 7 (0.46%) CentOS
9 5 (0.33%) Debian
10 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (55.38%) CI/CD
2 658 (43.43%) Agile
3 368 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 333 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 302 (19.93%) Mentoring
6 264 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 250 (16.50%) Software Engineering
8 242 (15.97%) Test Automation
9 239 (15.78%) AI
10 233 (15.38%) Microservices
11 214 (14.13%) Coaching
12 210 (13.86%) Containerisation
13 196 (12.94%) Scrum
14 193 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
15 188 (12.41%) Observability
16 180 (11.88%) Roadmaps
17 167 (11.02%) Analytics
18 159 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
19 146 (9.64%) Event-Driven
20 145 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 365 (24.09%) Python
2 344 (22.71%) SQL
3 237 (15.64%) Java
4 216 (14.26%) C#
5 204 (13.47%) JavaScript
6 107 (7.06%) TypeScript
7 95 (6.27%) Bash
8 81 (5.35%) PowerShell
9 70 (4.62%) Apex Code
10 66 (4.36%) Go
11 49 (3.23%) Bicep
12 36 (2.38%) SOQL
12 36 (2.38%) SOSL
13 31 (2.05%) C++
14 25 (1.65%) Scala
15 20 (1.32%) PHP
16 16 (1.06%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.92%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.92%) Rust
18 13 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 172 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 153 (10.10%) Degree
3 127 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 50 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 49 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 17 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.99%) CISSP
11 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.92%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.59%) PMP
15 8 (0.53%) PhD
15 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.46%) CCNP
17 6 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (8.51%) QA
2 70 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 34 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.98%) GDPR
6 27 (1.78%) NIST
7 17 (1.12%) GRC
8 12 (0.79%) WCAG
9 9 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (16.83%) Docker
2 69 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.53%) vSphere
6 7 (0.46%) Firmware
7 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.066%) KVM
11 1 (0.066%) QEMU
11 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 384 (25.35%) Terraform
2 312 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 126 (8.32%) Ansible
4 84 (5.54%) Grafana
5 66 (4.36%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.90%) Argo
7 19 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.19%) Kustomize
9 17 (1.12%) Puppet
10 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.66%) Istio
12 8 (0.53%) Packer
13 7 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.46%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.33%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.26%) Kibana
16 4 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 350 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.07%) Salesforce
3 74 (4.88%) Google
4 45 (2.97%) Oracle
5 44 (2.90%) Databricks
6 39 (2.57%) Splunk
7 37 (2.44%) VMware
8 33 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 32 (2.11%) SAP
10 19 (1.25%) MuleSoft
11 17 (1.12%) Cisco
12 15 (0.99%) Okta
12 15 (0.99%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.92%) Facebook
13 14 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.79%) F5
15 11 (0.73%) IBM
16 10 (0.66%) Ab Initio
17 8 (0.53%) Apple
17 8 (0.53%) Juniper
750 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs