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

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,817 1,944 2,738
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.51% 11.79% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.30% 12.64% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 1,074 2,222
10th Percentile £44,475 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,595 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £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% -8.84%

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 15 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 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.49%) Confluence
3 23 (1.27%) Apache
4 17 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.50%) IIS
7 8 (0.44%) CMS
7 8 (0.44%) nginx
7 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.33%) SAS
8 6 (0.33%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.055%) Drupal
12 1 (0.055%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.61%) 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%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
Business Applications
1 50 (2.75%) 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
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 ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.055%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,006 (55.37%) Azure
2 588 (32.36%) AWS
3 542 (29.83%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (12.55%) SaaS
5 172 (9.47%) GCP
6 156 (8.59%) Serverless
7 150 (8.26%) GitHub
8 146 (8.04%) Power Platform
9 93 (5.12%) PaaS
10 86 (4.73%) Azure AI
11 78 (4.29%) Azure AKS
12 75 (4.13%) Entra ID
13 73 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
14 72 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
15 67 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 64 (3.52%) Amazon S3
17 57 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 57 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
17 57 (3.14%) Power Automate
18 55 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.03%) Broadband
2 45 (2.48%) Firewall
3 39 (2.15%) VPN
4 29 (1.60%) DNS
5 27 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.72%) Internet
7 12 (0.66%) DHCP
8 8 (0.44%) 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%) SSH
11 4 (0.22%) SSL
12 3 (0.17%) HTTP
12 3 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (11.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 201 (11.06%) MongoDB
3 123 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 83 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 57 (3.14%) Power BI
7 48 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (1.87%) MySQL
8 34 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 28 (1.54%) Metadata
10 27 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.16%) Redis
13 19 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 17 (0.94%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (0.61%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
18 9 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 137 (7.54%) Git
2 115 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 111 (6.11%) GitLab
4 106 (5.83%) JIRA
5 44 (2.42%) SonarQube
6 26 (1.43%) Selenium
6 26 (1.43%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 18 (0.99%) Postman
8 13 (0.72%) JMeter
9 12 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.44%) Maven
13 7 (0.39%) NUnit
13 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.33%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.28%) Locust
General
1 398 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 327 (18.00%) Finance
3 163 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.93%) Law
6 116 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (5.12%) Legal
8 74 (4.07%) Banking
9 71 (3.91%) Marketing
10 67 (3.69%) Retail
11 66 (3.63%) Games
12 30 (1.65%) Advertising
12 30 (1.65%) Back Office
13 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.83%) Legal Technology
17 13 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.66%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 414 (22.78%) Senior
2 385 (21.19%) Developer
3 306 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 243 (13.37%) Lead
5 186 (10.24%) .NET Developer
6 173 (9.52%) Architect
7 144 (7.93%) Software Engineer
8 103 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
9 89 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
10 86 (4.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 83 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 80 (4.40%) IT Manager
13 69 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
14 62 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
15 61 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 59 (3.25%) Consultant
17 57 (3.14%) Senior Manager
18 55 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
19 54 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
20 53 (2.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (20.20%) .NET
2 202 (11.12%) React
3 199 (10.95%) ASP.NET
4 184 (10.13%) .NET Core
5 181 (9.96%) ASP.NET Core
6 143 (7.87%) RESTful
7 125 (6.88%) CSS
8 123 (6.77%) HTML
9 121 (6.66%) REST
10 110 (6.05%) Node.js
11 98 (5.39%) Blazor
11 98 (5.39%) Entity Framework
12 81 (4.46%) ML.NET
13 71 (3.91%) Middleware
14 56 (3.08%) Spring
15 55 (3.03%) Kafka
15 55 (3.03%) Spring Boot
16 53 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
16 53 (2.92%) SOAP
17 50 (2.75%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 294 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 131 (7.21%) Product Ownership
3 84 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 51 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 45 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
8 39 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 38 (2.09%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 28 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.43%) Driving Licence
15 25 (1.38%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.38%) Podcast
16 21 (1.16%) Social Media
17 19 (1.05%) Security Posture
18 18 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.52%) Linux
2 98 (5.39%) Windows
3 55 (3.03%) Unix
4 23 (1.27%) Android
5 20 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.88%) VMS
7 9 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.44%) Debian
9 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.33%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (50.69%) CI/CD
2 837 (46.06%) Agile
3 423 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 398 (21.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 381 (20.97%) Mentoring
6 334 (18.38%) Software Engineering
7 333 (18.33%) AI
8 318 (17.50%) Test Automation
9 296 (16.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 288 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
11 260 (14.31%) Microservices
12 245 (13.48%) Scrum
13 220 (12.11%) Roadmaps
14 215 (11.83%) Containerisation
15 211 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 189 (10.40%) Coaching
16 189 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
17 183 (10.07%) Observability
18 178 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
19 162 (8.92%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 417 (22.95%) SQL
2 407 (22.40%) C#
3 369 (20.31%) Python
4 302 (16.62%) JavaScript
5 214 (11.78%) Java
6 158 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 153 (8.42%) PowerShell
8 111 (6.11%) Bash
9 73 (4.02%) Bicep
10 55 (3.03%) Apex Code
11 40 (2.20%) Go
12 35 (1.93%) SOQL
12 35 (1.93%) SOSL
13 33 (1.82%) C++
14 25 (1.38%) PHP
15 20 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.72%) Ruby
18 12 (0.66%) Groovy
18 12 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 192 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 162 (8.92%) Degree
3 150 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 67 (3.69%) CISSP
5 63 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.97%) CISM
6 54 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
7 44 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.05%) DBS Check
12 19 (1.05%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.77%) PMP
14 13 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.44%) PhD
15 8 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (10.79%) QA
2 76 (4.18%) NIST
3 46 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.42%) ISO 22301
6 34 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.71%) GDPR
8 23 (1.27%) GRC
9 14 (0.77%) WCAG
10 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.28%) IFRS
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
1 253 (13.92%) Docker
2 66 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.99%) 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
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
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 361 (19.87%) Terraform
2 303 (16.68%) Kubernetes
3 102 (5.61%) Ansible
4 83 (4.57%) Grafana
5 51 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.93%) Argo
7 21 (1.16%) Puppet
8 13 (0.72%) Istio
9 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.44%) Packer
11 8 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.33%) ZABBIX
14 5 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.28%) Kibana
15 3 (0.17%) Nagios
15 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.11%) MIIS
Vendors
1 488 (26.86%) Microsoft
2 83 (4.57%) Google
3 76 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 53 (2.92%) Oracle
5 49 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.37%) VMware
7 42 (2.31%) Splunk
8 40 (2.20%) Facebook
9 32 (1.76%) SAP
10 31 (1.71%) Databricks
11 29 (1.60%) Pega
12 24 (1.32%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.16%) YouTube
14 19 (1.05%) Apple
15 17 (0.94%) Cisco
15 17 (0.94%) Sony
15 17 (0.94%) Yahoo!
16 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
17 13 (0.72%) Red Hat
1,481 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs