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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,571 2,182 3,287
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.91% 10.99% 15.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.69% 12.46% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 924 1,450 2,760
10th Percentile £45,150 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,125 £53,750 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -

All Process and 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 14,699 17,518 20,762
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.71% 88.25% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,625 10,430 16,806
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,484
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6 November 2025.

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 36 (2.29%) Confluence
2 27 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.02%) IIS
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (0.51%) Apache
6 8 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.51%) nginx
7 6 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.38%) CMS
8 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.064%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.064%) Drupal
9 1 (0.064%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.064%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.064%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.064%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.51%) Shopify
5 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.064%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.064%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.064%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.064%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.064%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.064%) Primavera
6 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 885 (56.33%) Azure
2 477 (30.36%) AWS
3 471 (29.98%) Azure DevOps
4 253 (16.10%) GitHub
5 149 (9.48%) Power Platform
6 148 (9.42%) SaaS
7 144 (9.17%) GCP
8 120 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
9 107 (6.81%) Serverless
10 89 (5.67%) Entra ID
11 75 (4.77%) PaaS
12 74 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 73 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
14 69 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
15 68 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
16 67 (4.26%) Power Automate
17 60 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
18 57 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 53 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
20 48 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 316 (20.11%) VPN
2 262 (16.68%) Cisco IOS
3 59 (3.76%) Firewall
4 48 (3.06%) DNS
5 43 (2.74%) WAN
6 26 (1.65%) SD-WAN
7 25 (1.59%) LAN
8 23 (1.46%) Broadband
9 22 (1.40%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.21%) DHCP
11 18 (1.15%) Network Security
12 13 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.76%) VoIP
14 10 (0.64%) SAN
14 10 (0.64%) VLAN
15 7 (0.45%) BGP
15 7 (0.45%) Internet
15 7 (0.45%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
17 5 (0.32%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 85 (5.41%) Power BI
3 74 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 45 (2.86%) MySQL
7 39 (2.48%) Tableau
8 38 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 38 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 37 (2.36%) Data Lake
10 34 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 28 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (1.34%) DynamoDB
14 19 (1.21%) Metadata
15 14 (0.89%) Redis
15 14 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 11 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 172 (10.95%) Git
2 124 (7.89%) JIRA
3 117 (7.45%) Jenkins
4 108 (6.87%) GitLab
5 69 (4.39%) SonarQube
6 56 (3.56%) Selenium
7 44 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 43 (2.74%) Bitbucket
8 43 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 38 (2.42%) Maven
10 21 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
11 18 (1.15%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.89%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
14 11 (0.70%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.64%) JUnit
15 10 (0.64%) Postman
16 9 (0.57%) git-flow
16 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 397 (25.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 376 (23.93%) Finance
3 363 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 362 (23.04%) Social Skills
5 100 (6.37%) Retail
6 76 (4.84%) Marketing
7 67 (4.26%) Law
8 65 (4.14%) Banking
8 65 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 40 (2.55%) Investment Banking
10 37 (2.36%) Corporate Banking
11 31 (1.97%) Back Office
12 27 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (1.65%) Games
13 26 (1.65%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.34%) Front Office
15 20 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.21%) Legal
17 13 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 311 (19.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 280 (17.82%) Senior
3 236 (15.02%) Developer
4 149 (9.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 132 (8.40%) Software Engineer
6 129 (8.21%) Lead
7 120 (7.64%) Architect
8 98 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 81 (5.16%) Senior Developer
10 70 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
11 60 (3.82%) Analyst
12 53 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
13 52 (3.31%) .NET Developer
14 48 (3.06%) Data Engineer
15 47 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
16 41 (2.61%) Applications Engineer
17 40 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (2.29%) AWS DevOps
18 36 (2.29%) Full-Stack Developer
19 33 (2.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (18.27%) Elastic Stack
2 255 (16.23%) .NET
3 197 (12.54%) React
4 126 (8.02%) REST
4 126 (8.02%) RESTful
5 105 (6.68%) CSS
6 103 (6.56%) HTML
7 89 (5.67%) Spring Boot
8 88 (5.60%) Spring
9 75 (4.77%) Kafka
10 65 (4.14%) .NET Framework
11 61 (3.88%) Node.js
12 56 (3.56%) AngularJS
13 54 (3.44%) Jest
14 49 (3.12%) JSON
15 46 (2.93%) CSS3
16 45 (2.86%) .NET Core
16 45 (2.86%) HTML5
17 44 (2.80%) Redux
18 43 (2.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 264 (16.80%) Cyberattack
2 215 (13.69%) Cloud Native
3 144 (9.17%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 64 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 33 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 29 (1.85%) NHS
10 27 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.46%) IoT
13 22 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.15%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.08%) Mobile App
16 16 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.70%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.70%) Security Posture
18 10 (0.64%) Data Structures
19 9 (0.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 400 (25.46%) Linux
2 371 (23.62%) Windows
3 270 (17.19%) Android
4 37 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.04%) Unix
6 14 (0.89%) VMS
7 12 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.51%) Debian
10 8 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.45%) CentOS
12 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (46.98%) CI/CD
2 636 (40.48%) Agile
3 549 (34.95%) Problem-Solving
4 365 (23.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 345 (21.96%) Platform Engineering
6 344 (21.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 299 (19.03%) Risk Management
8 287 (18.27%) Task Automation
9 282 (17.95%) Line Management
10 280 (17.82%) Mentoring
11 279 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 275 (17.50%) Mathematics
13 263 (16.74%) Storage Management
14 243 (15.47%) Microservices
15 228 (14.51%) Software Engineering
16 227 (14.45%) Test Automation
17 219 (13.94%) AI
18 214 (13.62%) Containerisation
19 167 (10.63%) Analytics
20 162 (10.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 656 (41.76%) Python
2 430 (27.37%) PowerShell
3 387 (24.63%) SQL
4 384 (24.44%) Bash
5 244 (15.53%) C#
6 201 (12.79%) JavaScript
7 186 (11.84%) Java
8 151 (9.61%) TypeScript
9 77 (4.90%) Bicep
10 38 (2.42%) Go
11 32 (2.04%) Apex Code
12 27 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 26 (1.65%) T-SQL
14 22 (1.40%) Shell Script
15 19 (1.21%) PHP
16 17 (1.08%) SOQL
17 16 (1.02%) C
18 15 (0.95%) SOSL
19 14 (0.89%) R
19 14 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (10.76%) Degree
2 115 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 99 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 91 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (5.73%) Azure Certification
6 53 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 36 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.34%) DBS Check
11 20 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.95%) CISSP
14 14 (0.89%) CCNP
14 14 (0.89%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.89%) PMP
15 13 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.45%) ACCA
17 7 (0.45%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (11.01%) QA
2 69 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (4.33%) Accessibility
4 63 (4.01%) GDPR
5 36 (2.29%) NIST
6 30 (1.91%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.08%) ISO 9001
7 17 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.02%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.76%) NCSC
10 10 (0.64%) PMO
11 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.57%) SLA
12 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.51%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.38%) WCAG
14 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.064%) GRC
15 1 (0.064%) P3O
System Software
1 554 (35.26%) Docker
2 280 (17.82%) vSphere
3 265 (16.87%) VMware NSX
4 263 (16.74%) Hyper-V
5 72 (4.58%) Active Directory
6 43 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.38%) NFS
11 5 (0.32%) Firmware
11 5 (0.32%) Kamailio
12 4 (0.25%) Postfix
13 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.064%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.064%) HDFS
14 1 (0.064%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 598 (38.06%) Terraform
2 390 (24.82%) Ansible
3 331 (21.07%) Kubernetes
4 82 (5.22%) Grafana
5 62 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.21%) Argo
9 12 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (0.70%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.64%) SCCM
12 8 (0.51%) Kibana
13 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.19%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.19%) Puppet
15 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.13%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 308 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 292 (18.59%) Cisco
3 286 (18.20%) Splunk
4 272 (17.31%) 3PAR
5 262 (16.68%) Juniper
6 59 (3.76%) Oracle
7 58 (3.69%) Databricks
8 52 (3.31%) Salesforce
9 41 (2.61%) Google
10 38 (2.42%) VMware
11 36 (2.29%) Solace
12 32 (2.04%) Red Hat
13 20 (1.27%) Meraki
14 19 (1.21%) SolarWinds
15 16 (1.02%) Veeam
16 14 (0.89%) Okta
17 12 (0.76%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.64%) Dynatrace
18 10 (0.64%) NetApp
19 9 (0.57%) IBM
2,574 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs