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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,478 1,690 3,032
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.22% 12.51% 9.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% 13.20% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,299 2,527
10th Percentile £43,050 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 14,934 12,804 29,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.02% 94.79% 91.42%
Number of salaries quoted 10,447 8,937 23,607
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,905 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.90%

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 25 April 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 25 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.62%) Confluence
3 22 (1.49%) Apache
4 20 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) WordPress
11 1 (0.068%) Camunda
11 1 (0.068%) Drupal
11 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.068%) JBoss
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.068%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (1.01%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.068%) Magento
8 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.068%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.068%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 841 (56.90%) Azure
2 529 (35.79%) AWS
3 410 (27.74%) Azure DevOps
4 263 (17.79%) GitHub
5 179 (12.11%) GCP
6 150 (10.15%) Serverless
7 132 (8.93%) SaaS
8 129 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
9 120 (8.12%) Power Platform
10 86 (5.82%) Entra ID
11 82 (5.55%) Amazon S3
12 81 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
13 74 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
15 67 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
16 56 (3.79%) Azure AKS
16 56 (3.79%) PaaS
17 54 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
18 52 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 50 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.92%) Broadband
2 56 (3.79%) Firewall
3 23 (1.56%) DNS
4 21 (1.42%) VPN
5 20 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.08%) DHCP
7 12 (0.81%) Network Security
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
8 7 (0.47%) WAN
9 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.27%) AMQP
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) SSL
11 3 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.20%) Internet
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.20%) SCCP
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 97 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 79 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (3.72%) MongoDB
5 52 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (3.45%) Power BI
7 48 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (3.18%) Metadata
9 41 (2.77%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.37%) Data Lake
11 34 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.62%) DynamoDB
13 22 (1.49%) Tableau
14 21 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.42%) MySQL
15 20 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
16 19 (1.29%) Redis
17 18 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 146 (9.88%) Git
2 140 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 116 (7.85%) GitLab
4 88 (5.95%) JIRA
5 49 (3.32%) SonarQube
6 35 (2.37%) Selenium
7 19 (1.29%) Jaeger
8 18 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.15%) TeamCity
10 16 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (0.88%) Postman
12 12 (0.81%) JMeter
12 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.74%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) JUnit
15 8 (0.54%) Subversion
16 7 (0.47%) Locust
16 7 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 381 (25.78%) Finance
2 366 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 161 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 74 (5.01%) Banking
6 74 (5.01%) Marketing
7 67 (4.53%) Law
8 56 (3.79%) Retail
9 50 (3.38%) Games
10 38 (2.57%) Legal
11 37 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.42%) Back Office
15 16 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.01%) Front Office
17 13 (0.88%) Billing
18 12 (0.81%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 359 (24.29%) Senior
2 252 (17.05%) Developer
3 231 (15.63%) Lead
4 193 (13.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (9.34%) Architect
6 125 (8.46%) Software Engineer
7 106 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 86 (5.82%) Senior DevOps
9 79 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (4.40%) Data Engineer
11 64 (4.33%) Consultant
12 62 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
13 59 (3.99%) Senior Developer
13 59 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 56 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
15 53 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
16 52 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
17 48 (3.25%) Lead DevOps
18 45 (3.04%) Lead Developer
19 44 (2.98%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (14.82%) .NET
2 154 (10.42%) React
3 128 (8.66%) REST
4 115 (7.78%) RESTful
5 88 (5.95%) SOAP
6 87 (5.89%) Node.js
7 75 (5.07%) Spring
8 74 (5.01%) Kafka
8 74 (5.01%) Lightning Web Components
9 73 (4.94%) CSS
10 70 (4.74%) HTML
11 69 (4.67%) Spring Boot
12 56 (3.79%) .NET Core
12 56 (3.79%) Visualforce
13 53 (3.59%) AngularJS
14 51 (3.45%) OAuth
15 49 (3.32%) .NET Framework
16 43 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (2.77%) ASP.NET
17 41 (2.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 255 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 126 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.03%) Low-Code
8 30 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 17 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.01%) Cyberattack
15 14 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.88%) Client/Server
16 13 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.62%) Linux
2 83 (5.62%) Windows
3 52 (3.52%) Unix
4 34 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.42%) Android
6 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.61%) VMS
8 8 (0.54%) CentOS
9 5 (0.34%) Debian
9 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (57.17%) CI/CD
2 652 (44.11%) Agile
3 376 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 349 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 291 (19.69%) Mentoring
6 285 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
7 263 (17.79%) Software Engineering
8 251 (16.98%) Test Automation
9 243 (16.44%) AI
10 240 (16.24%) Microservices
11 236 (15.97%) Containerisation
12 224 (15.16%) Coaching
13 207 (14.01%) Observability
14 189 (12.79%) Scrum
15 185 (12.52%) Roadmaps
16 171 (11.57%) Analytics
17 156 (10.55%) Event-Driven
18 151 (10.22%) Data Modelling
19 149 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
20 141 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 390 (26.39%) Python
2 327 (22.12%) SQL
3 235 (15.90%) Java
4 184 (12.45%) JavaScript
5 178 (12.04%) C#
6 104 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 95 (6.43%) Bash
8 90 (6.09%) PowerShell
9 79 (5.35%) Go
10 78 (5.28%) Apex Code
11 59 (3.99%) Bicep
12 36 (2.44%) SOQL
12 36 (2.44%) SOSL
13 25 (1.69%) Scala
14 23 (1.56%) C++
15 21 (1.42%) PHP
16 20 (1.35%) Shell Script
17 18 (1.22%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.95%) Rust
18 14 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (11.50%) Degree
2 156 (10.55%) Security Cleared
3 113 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 64 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.15%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.01%) CISSP
11 15 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.61%) PMP
16 8 (0.54%) PhD
17 7 (0.47%) CCNP
17 7 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
18 6 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.12%) QA
2 66 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.50%) GDPR
6 31 (2.10%) NIST
7 19 (1.29%) GRC
8 11 (0.74%) WCAG
9 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.27%) IFRS
11 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.20%) NCSC
11 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.14%) SEPA
12 2 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 276 (18.67%) Docker
2 69 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.61%) vSphere
6 8 (0.54%) Firmware
7 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.068%) KVM
11 1 (0.068%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) vCloud
11 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 401 (27.13%) Terraform
2 332 (22.46%) Kubernetes
3 131 (8.86%) Ansible
4 103 (6.97%) Grafana
5 78 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.32%) Argo
7 26 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.22%) Puppet
10 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.54%) Istio
12 7 (0.47%) Packer
12 7 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.47%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.27%) Kibana
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 315 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.29%) Salesforce
3 65 (4.40%) Google
4 51 (3.45%) Oracle
5 50 (3.38%) Databricks
6 42 (2.84%) Splunk
7 37 (2.50%) VMware
8 27 (1.83%) SAP
8 27 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 19 (1.29%) Cisco
11 17 (1.15%) Okta
12 16 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 13 (0.88%) Ab Initio
14 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.61%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.61%) IBM
16 8 (0.54%) Confluent
16 8 (0.54%) Juniper
16 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty