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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,531 1,928 3,029
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.01% 12.95% 9.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 13.66% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,118 1,062 2,503
10th Percentile £43,892 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £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 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 15,796 14,113 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.60% 94.78% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,308 8,284 23,565
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 2 June 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 29 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.70%) Apache
3 23 (1.50%) Confluence
4 20 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.52%) CMS
6 8 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
13 1 (0.065%) Drupal
13 1 (0.065%) JBoss
13 1 (0.065%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Blender
5 2 (0.13%) Maya
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.065%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.065%) Notion
6 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.85%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.20%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.065%) Magento
8 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.065%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.065%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.065%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.065%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 823 (53.76%) Azure
2 527 (34.42%) AWS
3 420 (27.43%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (11.63%) GitHub
5 167 (10.91%) GCP
6 149 (9.73%) Serverless
7 131 (8.56%) Power Platform
8 129 (8.43%) SaaS
9 85 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
10 82 (5.36%) Amazon S3
11 81 (5.29%) Entra ID
12 75 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
13 68 (4.44%) Azure AKS
13 68 (4.44%) PaaS
14 64 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 56 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
16 54 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
17 53 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
19 46 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.11%) Broadband
2 52 (3.40%) Firewall
3 30 (1.96%) DNS
4 21 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 21 (1.37%) VPN
5 16 (1.05%) DHCP
6 9 (0.59%) Network Security
7 7 (0.46%) WAN
8 6 (0.39%) BGP
8 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.39%) LAN
8 6 (0.39%) NGFW
8 6 (0.39%) 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%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.38%) MongoDB
2 106 (6.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 100 (6.53%) SQL Server
4 85 (5.55%) NoSQL
5 74 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (3.66%) Power BI
7 43 (2.81%) Metadata
8 40 (2.61%) Relational Database
9 33 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (1.96%) Data Lake
13 26 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
14 24 (1.57%) MySQL
15 22 (1.44%) DynamoDB
16 19 (1.24%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.24%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.11%) Redis
18 13 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 143 (9.34%) Git
2 118 (7.71%) Jenkins
3 116 (7.58%) GitLab
4 83 (5.42%) JIRA
5 43 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.76%) Selenium
7 22 (1.44%) TeamCity
8 19 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.18%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.98%) Postman
11 13 (0.85%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.72%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.65%) JMeter
14 9 (0.59%) Maven
15 7 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
17 5 (0.33%) Locust
17 5 (0.33%) NUnit
17 5 (0.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 338 (22.08%) Finance
2 331 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 155 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (4.83%) Banking
6 74 (4.83%) Law
7 65 (4.25%) Marketing
8 59 (3.85%) Retail
9 57 (3.72%) Games
10 45 (2.94%) Legal
11 25 (1.63%) Back Office
11 25 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.05%) Advertising
14 15 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.91%) Health Technology
16 13 (0.85%) Billing
17 12 (0.78%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 340 (22.21%) Senior
2 300 (19.60%) Developer
3 251 (16.39%) Lead
4 235 (15.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 151 (9.86%) Architect
6 138 (9.01%) Software Engineer
7 96 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 92 (6.01%) .NET Developer
9 91 (5.94%) Senior DevOps
10 84 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
11 69 (4.51%) Data Engineer
12 68 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 64 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
14 62 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
14 62 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
15 57 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
16 56 (3.66%) Senior Developer
17 53 (3.46%) Consultant
17 53 (3.46%) Lead Developer
18 52 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (16.92%) .NET
2 169 (11.04%) React
3 117 (7.64%) REST
4 109 (7.12%) RESTful
5 102 (6.66%) .NET Core
5 102 (6.66%) Node.js
6 94 (6.14%) ASP.NET
7 89 (5.81%) CSS
8 88 (5.75%) HTML
9 84 (5.49%) ASP.NET Core
10 67 (4.38%) SOAP
10 67 (4.38%) Spring
11 61 (3.98%) Spring Boot
12 60 (3.92%) Lightning Web Components
13 57 (3.72%) Kafka
14 53 (3.46%) AngularJS
14 53 (3.46%) Visualforce
15 48 (3.14%) Entity Framework
16 44 (2.87%) Blazor
17 42 (2.74%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 259 (16.92%) Cloud Native
2 130 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 28 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.70%) Low-Code
8 26 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 23 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.31%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.18%) Driving Licence
15 16 (1.05%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.98%) Cyberattack
17 14 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 159 (10.39%) Linux
2 66 (4.31%) Windows
3 51 (3.33%) Unix
4 26 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.31%) Android
6 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 6 (0.39%) Debian
8 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) VMS
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (55.26%) CI/CD
2 667 (43.57%) Agile
3 384 (25.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 301 (19.66%) Mentoring
6 271 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
7 262 (17.11%) Software Engineering
8 246 (16.07%) AI
9 243 (15.87%) Microservices
10 230 (15.02%) Test Automation
11 225 (14.70%) Containerisation
12 212 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
13 200 (13.06%) Scrum
14 191 (12.48%) Roadmaps
15 190 (12.41%) Coaching
16 174 (11.37%) Observability
17 168 (10.97%) Analytics
18 164 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
19 153 (9.99%) Platform Engineering
20 147 (9.60%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 366 (23.91%) Python
2 350 (22.86%) SQL
3 244 (15.94%) C#
4 234 (15.28%) Java
5 215 (14.04%) JavaScript
6 116 (7.58%) TypeScript
7 104 (6.79%) Bash
8 88 (5.75%) PowerShell
9 63 (4.11%) Apex Code
9 63 (4.11%) Go
10 51 (3.33%) Bicep
11 36 (2.35%) SOQL
11 36 (2.35%) SOSL
12 34 (2.22%) C++
13 24 (1.57%) Scala
14 22 (1.44%) PHP
15 14 (0.91%) Rust
16 13 (0.85%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.78%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 179 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 154 (10.06%) Degree
3 136 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 16 (1.05%) CISSP
10 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.59%) PMP
14 8 (0.52%) PhD
14 8 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.46%) CCNP
16 5 (0.33%) GIAC
16 5 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (8.95%) QA
2 72 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 30 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.76%) NIST
6 26 (1.70%) GDPR
7 17 (1.11%) GRC
8 14 (0.91%) WCAG
9 8 (0.52%) 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
1 259 (16.92%) Docker
2 66 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.59%) Firmware
6 7 (0.46%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.065%) iptables
11 1 (0.065%) KVM
11 1 (0.065%) QEMU
11 1 (0.065%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 385 (25.15%) Terraform
2 316 (20.64%) Kubernetes
3 123 (8.03%) Ansible
4 82 (5.36%) Grafana
5 65 (4.25%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.07%) Argo
7 18 (1.18%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.11%) Puppet
9 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.72%) Istio
10 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.52%) Packer
11 8 (0.52%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.26%) Kibana
15 4 (0.26%) SCCM
15 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 363 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 76 (4.96%) Google
4 44 (2.87%) Oracle
5 42 (2.74%) Databricks
6 40 (2.61%) Splunk
7 37 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.42%) VMware
8 36 (2.35%) SAP
9 18 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.11%) Cisco
10 17 (1.11%) Facebook
11 15 (0.98%) Palo Alto
12 13 (0.85%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.78%) F5
13 12 (0.78%) Okta
14 9 (0.59%) Apple
14 9 (0.59%) IBM
14 9 (0.59%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.52%) Juniper
852 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs