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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,934 1,796 2,282
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.45% 10.86% 9.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.25% 11.68% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 986 1,777
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,368 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 18,872 15,371 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,617 8,911 15,260
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 18 August 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 49 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.60%) Confluence
3 27 (1.40%) Apache
4 25 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.41%) CMS
8 8 (0.41%) nginx
8 8 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.31%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 6 (0.31%) WordPress
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.052%) Drupal
11 1 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 40 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.62%) Trello
4 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.052%) Notion
8 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,077 (55.69%) Azure
2 616 (31.85%) AWS
3 584 (30.20%) Azure DevOps
4 260 (13.44%) SaaS
5 189 (9.77%) GCP
6 153 (7.91%) Power Platform
7 151 (7.81%) Serverless
8 145 (7.50%) GitHub
9 91 (4.71%) Azure AI
10 88 (4.55%) PaaS
11 73 (3.77%) Azure AKS
12 72 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
13 70 (3.62%) Entra ID
14 69 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 69 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
15 67 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
17 64 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
18 63 (3.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.96%) VPN
2 36 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 35 (1.81%) Broadband
3 35 (1.81%) Firewall
4 29 (1.50%) DNS
5 13 (0.67%) Internet
6 10 (0.52%) Network Security
7 9 (0.47%) DHCP
8 7 (0.36%) BGP
8 7 (0.36%) WAN
9 6 (0.31%) LAN
9 6 (0.31%) NGFW
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
10 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.21%) HTTP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 4 (0.21%) SSL
12 3 (0.16%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (10.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (10.75%) MongoDB
3 157 (8.12%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (3.46%) Power BI
6 59 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 50 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (2.12%) MySQL
9 39 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (1.91%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.40%) Metadata
12 25 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.19%) DynamoDB
14 21 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (1.03%) Redis
16 18 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (0.83%) Delta Lake
18 11 (0.57%) Big Data
18 11 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 166 (8.58%) Git
2 121 (6.26%) JIRA
3 103 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 98 (5.07%) GitLab
5 31 (1.60%) TeamCity
6 30 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.50%) Selenium
8 21 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.88%) Postman
10 12 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.57%) JMeter
11 11 (0.57%) NUnit
12 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.31%) JUnit
15 6 (0.31%) Maven
15 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 467 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 357 (18.46%) Finance
3 170 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 150 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 145 (7.50%) Law
6 116 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (6.00%) Legal
7 78 (4.03%) Banking
8 62 (3.21%) Retail
9 56 (2.90%) Marketing
10 47 (2.43%) Games
11 31 (1.60%) Advertising
12 29 (1.50%) Back Office
13 26 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.19%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (0.98%) Legal Technology
16 19 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.78%) Telecoms
18 12 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 476 (24.61%) Senior
2 391 (20.22%) Developer
3 352 (18.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 261 (13.50%) Lead
5 197 (10.19%) .NET Developer
6 155 (8.01%) Architect
7 153 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 108 (5.58%) Senior DevOps
9 99 (5.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 97 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
11 85 (4.40%) IT Manager
12 77 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 67 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
13 67 (3.46%) Senior Developer
14 65 (3.36%) Senior Manager
15 63 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
16 62 (3.21%) Data Engineer
17 58 (3.00%) Senior Software Engineer
18 54 (2.79%) Consultant
18 54 (2.79%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (20.32%) .NET
2 212 (10.96%) ASP.NET
3 210 (10.86%) React
4 201 (10.39%) .NET Core
5 183 (9.46%) ASP.NET Core
6 143 (7.39%) RESTful
7 130 (6.72%) Node.js
8 129 (6.67%) CSS
9 123 (6.36%) HTML
10 121 (6.26%) REST
11 106 (5.48%) Blazor
12 100 (5.17%) Entity Framework
13 82 (4.24%) ML.NET
14 70 (3.62%) Middleware
15 61 (3.15%) AngularJS
16 57 (2.95%) Kafka
17 49 (2.53%) Spring Boot
18 47 (2.43%) Spring
19 38 (1.96%) .NET Framework
20 37 (1.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 313 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 102 (5.27%) Enterprise Software
4 85 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (3.21%) Virtual Team
6 61 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.96%) Mobile App
10 34 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 33 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.50%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 27 (1.40%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.29%) Driving Licence
15 25 (1.29%) Podcast
16 23 (1.19%) Social Media
17 22 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
17 22 (1.14%) Security Posture
18 20 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.00%) Linux
2 100 (5.17%) Windows
3 58 (3.00%) Unix
4 20 (1.03%) Android
5 17 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.83%) VMS
7 8 (0.41%) Debian
7 8 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.10%) Solaris
11 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.052%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (49.17%) CI/CD
2 864 (44.67%) Agile
3 443 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 424 (21.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 421 (21.77%) Mentoring
6 399 (20.63%) Software Engineering
7 373 (19.29%) AI
8 341 (17.63%) Test Automation
9 300 (15.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 298 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
11 265 (13.70%) Microservices
12 244 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 241 (12.46%) Scrum
14 215 (11.12%) Technical Leadership
15 210 (10.86%) Containerisation
16 202 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 201 (10.39%) Observability
18 200 (10.34%) Coaching
18 200 (10.34%) Roadmaps
19 181 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 457 (23.63%) C#
2 452 (23.37%) SQL
3 384 (19.86%) Python
4 310 (16.03%) JavaScript
5 201 (10.39%) Java
6 167 (8.63%) TypeScript
7 164 (8.48%) PowerShell
8 100 (5.17%) Bash
9 77 (3.98%) Bicep
10 34 (1.76%) Apex Code
11 33 (1.71%) C++
12 28 (1.45%) Go
13 23 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 22 (1.14%) PHP
15 20 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (1.03%) SOQL
15 20 (1.03%) SOSL
16 16 (0.83%) Ruby
17 13 (0.67%) Groovy
18 11 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 236 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 191 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 156 (8.07%) Degree
4 65 (3.36%) Azure Certification
4 65 (3.36%) CISSP
5 58 (3.00%) CISM
6 57 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
7 45 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 18 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.72%) PMP
14 13 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.36%) CCNP
16 6 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (11.69%) QA
2 79 (4.08%) NIST
3 60 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 56 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 48 (2.48%) ISO 22301
6 33 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.45%) GDPR
8 23 (1.19%) GRC
9 15 (0.78%) WCAG
10 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.36%) SLA
12 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) PMO
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS
13 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.21%) NCSC
15 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 264 (13.65%) Docker
2 65 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.88%) vSphere
6 16 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.47%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.10%) iptables
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 385 (19.91%) Terraform
2 299 (15.46%) Kubernetes
3 89 (4.60%) Ansible
4 78 (4.03%) Grafana
5 42 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.55%) Argo
7 19 (0.98%) Puppet
8 16 (0.83%) Istio
8 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.31%) Packer
10 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.16%) Kibana
13 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.10%) MIIS
13 2 (0.10%) Nagios
14 1 (0.052%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 510 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.40%) Google
3 61 (3.15%) Oracle
4 57 (2.95%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.22%) Databricks
7 40 (2.07%) Facebook
8 39 (2.02%) VMware
9 32 (1.65%) SAP
10 28 (1.45%) Pega
11 26 (1.34%) Splunk
12 24 (1.24%) YouTube
13 21 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.98%) Sony
15 18 (0.93%) Apple
16 17 (0.88%) Yahoo!
17 16 (0.83%) Cisco
18 14 (0.72%) Red Hat
19 13 (0.67%) Palo Alto
637 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs