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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,920 1,710 2,275
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.02% 10.54% 9.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.79% 11.33% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 935 1,622
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,492 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 19,614 15,094 20,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.92% 93.04% 87.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14,115 8,698 12,932
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,252
25th Percentile £44,784 £40,500 £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 10 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 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.61%) Confluence
3 27 (1.41%) Apache
4 24 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) CMS
8 8 (0.42%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 10 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.052%) Notion
9 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.34%) 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 ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,072 (55.83%) Azure
2 603 (31.41%) AWS
3 592 (30.83%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (13.39%) SaaS
5 194 (10.10%) GCP
6 169 (8.80%) Power Platform
7 140 (7.29%) GitHub
7 140 (7.29%) Serverless
8 93 (4.84%) Azure AI
9 81 (4.22%) PaaS
10 75 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
11 74 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 72 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (3.75%) PowerApps
13 71 (3.70%) Entra ID
14 69 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (3.59%) Azure AKS
15 68 (3.54%) Power Automate
16 67 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
17 66 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.88%) VPN
2 33 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.51%) Firewall
4 28 (1.46%) DNS
5 26 (1.35%) Broadband
6 13 (0.68%) Internet
7 9 (0.47%) Network Security
8 7 (0.36%) BGP
8 7 (0.36%) DHCP
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
9 6 (0.31%) WAN
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
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
12 3 (0.16%) SSL
12 3 (0.16%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (11.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 212 (11.04%) MongoDB
3 159 (8.28%) SQL Server
4 85 (4.43%) Power BI
5 83 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 51 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (2.24%) MySQL
10 39 (2.03%) Metadata
10 39 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 28 (1.46%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (1.04%) Redis
15 19 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.83%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.83%) Star Schema
18 11 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 178 (9.27%) Git
2 125 (6.51%) JIRA
3 91 (4.74%) GitLab
4 87 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 38 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 28 (1.46%) Selenium
7 23 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 21 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.89%) Postman
10 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.57%) NUnit
11 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.42%) JMeter
13 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.36%) JUnit
14 7 (0.36%) Maven
15 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 456 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 356 (18.54%) Finance
3 177 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 147 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (7.60%) Law
6 116 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
7 114 (5.94%) Legal
8 79 (4.11%) Banking
9 65 (3.39%) Retail
10 47 (2.45%) Marketing
11 37 (1.93%) Games
12 36 (1.88%) Back Office
13 33 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 30 (1.56%) Advertising
15 24 (1.25%) Aerospace
16 20 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.94%) Legal Technology
18 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.68%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 490 (25.52%) Senior
2 382 (19.90%) Developer
3 358 (18.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 254 (13.23%) Lead
5 192 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 158 (8.23%) Software Engineer
7 143 (7.45%) Architect
8 103 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
9 100 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
10 96 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (4.48%) IT Manager
12 77 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 68 (3.54%) Data Engineer
14 67 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
15 66 (3.44%) Senior Developer
16 63 (3.28%) Senior Manager
17 60 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
18 59 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
19 55 (2.86%) Service Manager
20 53 (2.76%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (20.00%) Terraform
2 378 (19.69%) .NET
3 216 (11.25%) ASP.NET
4 202 (10.52%) React
5 192 (10.00%) .NET Core
6 184 (9.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (7.34%) RESTful
8 137 (7.14%) Node.js
9 123 (6.41%) CSS
10 116 (6.04%) HTML
11 111 (5.78%) REST
12 107 (5.57%) Blazor
13 99 (5.16%) Entity Framework
14 82 (4.27%) ML.NET
15 67 (3.49%) Middleware
16 59 (3.07%) AngularJS
17 51 (2.66%) Kafka
18 47 (2.45%) Spring Boot
19 45 (2.34%) Spring
20 34 (1.77%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 314 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 148 (7.71%) Product Ownership
3 103 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 82 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
5 64 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 63 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 54 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 26 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 25 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.20%) Podcast
15 23 (1.20%) Social Media
16 21 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 20 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
18 17 (0.89%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 161 (8.39%) Linux
2 100 (5.21%) Windows
3 56 (2.92%) Unix
4 20 (1.04%) Android
5 16 (0.83%) VMS
5 16 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.42%) Debian
6 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.26%) CentOS
7 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.10%) Solaris
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (49.22%) CI/CD
2 855 (44.53%) Agile
3 434 (22.60%) Mentoring
4 432 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 400 (20.83%) Software Engineering
6 399 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 382 (19.90%) AI
8 341 (17.76%) Test Automation
9 298 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 289 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 254 (13.23%) Microservices
12 238 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 231 (12.03%) Scrum
14 213 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
15 211 (10.99%) Coaching
16 197 (10.26%) Roadmaps
17 196 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
18 193 (10.05%) Observability
19 191 (9.95%) Containerisation
20 178 (9.27%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 461 (24.01%) C#
2 453 (23.59%) SQL
3 383 (19.95%) Python
4 307 (15.99%) JavaScript
5 202 (10.52%) Java
6 167 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 167 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 100 (5.21%) Bash
8 78 (4.06%) Bicep
9 30 (1.56%) C++
10 27 (1.41%) Go
11 25 (1.30%) T-SQL
12 22 (1.15%) Apex Code
13 19 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (0.99%) PHP
14 16 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.78%) Ruby
16 13 (0.68%) Groovy
17 12 (0.63%) SOQL
17 12 (0.63%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 237 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 190 (9.90%) SC Cleared
3 146 (7.60%) Degree
4 61 (3.18%) Azure Certification
4 61 (3.18%) CISSP
5 58 (3.02%) CISM
6 56 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
7 45 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 41 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.94%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.73%) PMP
14 11 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.31%) CISA
15 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (11.51%) QA
2 77 (4.01%) NIST
3 71 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 62 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.50%) ISO 22301
6 34 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.51%) GDPR
8 25 (1.30%) GRC
9 10 (0.52%) WCAG
10 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.47%) SLA
11 7 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) PMO
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS
14 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 252 (13.13%) Docker
2 60 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.78%) vSphere
7 6 (0.31%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.10%) iptables
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 294 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 84 (4.38%) Ansible
3 81 (4.22%) Grafana
4 41 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.56%) Argo
6 18 (0.94%) Puppet
7 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.73%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.31%) Packer
10 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.21%) Kibana
11 4 (0.21%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.10%) MIIS
12 2 (0.10%) Nagios
13 1 (0.052%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 519 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.22%) Google
3 64 (3.33%) Oracle
4 46 (2.40%) Databricks
5 44 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 44 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.08%) Facebook
7 33 (1.72%) SAP
7 33 (1.72%) VMware
8 29 (1.51%) YouTube
9 28 (1.46%) Pega
10 26 (1.35%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 19 (0.99%) Sony
12 18 (0.94%) Apple
12 18 (0.94%) Splunk
13 17 (0.89%) Yahoo!
14 15 (0.78%) Informatica
15 13 (0.68%) Foundry
16 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
1,047 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs