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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,904 1,726 2,251
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.74% 10.68% 9.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 11.44% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 920 1,560
10th Percentile £45,748 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -2.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
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 19,997 15,081 19,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.33% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,323 8,517 12,096
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 23 September 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 55 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.68%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache
3 25 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.47%) CMS
7 8 (0.42%) IIS
7 8 (0.42%) nginx
7 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.32%) SAS
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.26%) WordPress
11 4 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
Applications
1 39 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 10 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.053%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,068 (56.09%) Azure
2 599 (31.46%) AWS
3 594 (31.20%) Azure DevOps
4 269 (14.13%) SaaS
5 190 (9.98%) GCP
6 177 (9.30%) Power Platform
7 148 (7.77%) Serverless
8 147 (7.72%) GitHub
9 93 (4.88%) Azure AI
10 86 (4.52%) PaaS
11 79 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (4.04%) Entra ID
13 76 (3.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 76 (3.99%) PowerApps
14 71 (3.73%) Power Automate
15 70 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
16 69 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 69 (3.62%) Azure AKS
17 68 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
18 65 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.05%) VPN
2 30 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.52%) Firewall
4 26 (1.37%) DNS
5 20 (1.05%) Broadband
6 15 (0.79%) Internet
7 11 (0.58%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
8 7 (0.37%) WAN
9 6 (0.32%) DHCP
9 6 (0.32%) OSPF
10 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.26%) NGFW
10 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) HTTP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 4 (0.21%) SSL
11 4 (0.21%) TETRA
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (11.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (10.92%) MongoDB
3 162 (8.51%) SQL Server
4 91 (4.78%) Power BI
5 85 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 57 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (2.36%) Metadata
10 41 (2.15%) MySQL
11 40 (2.10%) Relational Database
12 39 (2.05%) Data Lake
13 29 (1.52%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.10%) Redis
17 19 (1.00%) Star Schema
18 18 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
19 16 (0.84%) Delta Lake
20 11 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 190 (9.98%) Git
2 124 (6.51%) JIRA
3 85 (4.46%) GitLab
4 81 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 45 (2.36%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.26%) Selenium
7 19 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 17 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.84%) Postman
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.42%) NUnit
13 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.37%) JUnit
13 7 (0.37%) Maven
13 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 466 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 358 (18.80%) Finance
3 201 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 147 (7.72%) Law
5 140 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 119 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 106 (5.57%) Legal
8 80 (4.20%) Banking
9 72 (3.78%) Retail
10 45 (2.36%) Back Office
11 42 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 41 (2.15%) Marketing
13 30 (1.58%) Advertising
14 29 (1.52%) Games
15 23 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.63%) Local Government
18 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 499 (26.21%) Senior
2 376 (19.75%) Developer
3 347 (18.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 253 (13.29%) Lead
5 187 (9.82%) .NET Developer
6 169 (8.88%) Software Engineer
7 144 (7.56%) Architect
8 110 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
9 97 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 91 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (4.52%) IT Manager
12 76 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 70 (3.68%) Data Engineer
14 67 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 66 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
16 61 (3.20%) Senior Manager
17 60 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
18 56 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
19 54 (2.84%) Service Manager
20 52 (2.73%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (20.27%) Terraform
2 372 (19.54%) .NET
3 207 (10.87%) ASP.NET
4 205 (10.77%) React
5 186 (9.77%) .NET Core
6 175 (9.19%) ASP.NET Core
7 140 (7.35%) Node.js
8 134 (7.04%) RESTful
9 118 (6.20%) CSS
10 110 (5.78%) HTML
10 110 (5.78%) REST
11 103 (5.41%) Blazor
12 95 (4.99%) Entity Framework
13 78 (4.10%) ML.NET
14 68 (3.57%) Middleware
15 62 (3.26%) AngularJS
16 49 (2.57%) Spring Boot
17 47 (2.47%) Spring
18 46 (2.42%) Kafka
19 36 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 325 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 149 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 112 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 85 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.31%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 56 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
8 46 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 24 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 24 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.16%) Social Media
15 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 19 (1.00%) AI Agents
18 18 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 161 (8.46%) Linux
2 102 (5.36%) Windows
3 59 (3.10%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 15 (0.79%) VMS
6 13 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.37%) Debian
9 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (49.95%) CI/CD
2 846 (44.43%) Agile
3 459 (24.11%) Mentoring
4 435 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 415 (21.80%) Software Engineering
6 400 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 390 (20.48%) AI
8 349 (18.33%) Test Automation
9 311 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 275 (14.44%) Full-Stack Development
11 258 (13.55%) Microservices
12 243 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 228 (11.97%) Coaching
14 213 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
15 211 (11.08%) Scrum
16 200 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 190 (9.98%) Observability
18 189 (9.93%) Roadmaps
19 177 (9.30%) Containerisation
20 171 (8.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 465 (24.42%) C#
2 455 (23.90%) SQL
3 389 (20.43%) Python
4 301 (15.81%) JavaScript
5 214 (11.24%) Java
6 174 (9.14%) TypeScript
7 172 (9.03%) PowerShell
8 101 (5.30%) Bash
9 84 (4.41%) Bicep
10 29 (1.52%) C++
11 28 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 24 (1.26%) Go
13 20 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.84%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.79%) PHP
17 14 (0.74%) Ruby
18 13 (0.68%) Groovy
19 12 (0.63%) Kotlin
20 10 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 241 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 197 (10.35%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.20%) Degree
4 66 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.15%) CISSP
6 58 (3.05%) CISM
7 56 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.10%) DV Cleared
10 39 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.31%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.53%) PMP
17 9 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
18 6 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (11.40%) QA
2 79 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 74 (3.89%) NIST
4 59 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.52%) ISO 22301
6 33 (1.73%) GDPR
6 33 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.05%) GRC
8 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 9 (0.47%) SLA
8 9 (0.47%) WCAG
9 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.32%) PMO
10 5 (0.26%) IFRS
11 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.16%) NCSC
12 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 244 (12.82%) Docker
2 57 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.74%) vSphere
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) iptables
8 2 (0.11%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.053%) QEMU
9 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 295 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 93 (4.88%) Grafana
3 78 (4.10%) Ansible
4 42 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.52%) Argo
6 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.74%) Puppet
8 12 (0.63%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.53%) Packer
10 8 (0.42%) Istio
10 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.26%) Kibana
11 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.11%) Nagios
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.053%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.053%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 524 (27.52%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.25%) Google
3 67 (3.52%) Oracle
4 47 (2.47%) Databricks
5 43 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.05%) Facebook
7 38 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.79%) SAP
8 34 (1.79%) YouTube
9 32 (1.68%) VMware
10 28 (1.47%) Pega
11 26 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 18 (0.95%) Sony
13 17 (0.89%) Apple
13 17 (0.89%) Foundry
13 17 (0.89%) Informatica
14 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
15 12 (0.63%) Splunk
2,166 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs