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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,348 2,307 2,918
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.79% 12.09% 14.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.76% 13.27% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,555 2,466
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,750 £85,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
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 13,815 17,389 19,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.15% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,716 10,513 15,727
10th Percentile £29,675 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 5 December 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 42 (3.12%) Confluence
2 23 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.19%) IIS
5 14 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.74%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) nginx
9 5 (0.37%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.074%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.074%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 33 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.22%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.22%) Shopify
5 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.074%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.074%) Primavera
6 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.074%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 918 (68.10%) Azure
2 506 (37.54%) Azure DevOps
3 445 (33.01%) AWS
4 317 (23.52%) GitHub
5 152 (11.28%) GCP
6 145 (10.76%) SaaS
7 141 (10.46%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (10.16%) Power Platform
9 105 (7.79%) Serverless
10 87 (6.45%) Entra ID
11 78 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 67 (4.97%) Snowflake
13 63 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
14 62 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
14 62 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
15 60 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 60 (4.45%) Azure Monitor
16 59 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
17 58 (4.30%) PaaS
18 56 (4.15%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.34%) Firewall
2 36 (2.67%) VPN
3 32 (2.37%) DNS
4 27 (2.00%) WAN
5 24 (1.78%) LAN
6 20 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.41%) Broadband
8 18 (1.34%) DHCP
8 18 (1.34%) Network Security
9 13 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.89%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.89%) VoIP
11 10 (0.74%) SAN
11 10 (0.74%) VLAN
12 7 (0.52%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.45%) BGP
13 6 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (0.45%) Internet
14 5 (0.37%) DMZ
14 5 (0.37%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (11.35%) SQL Server
2 98 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (5.71%) Power BI
4 71 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (4.53%) NoSQL
6 48 (3.56%) Tableau
7 47 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 39 (2.89%) Relational Database
9 33 (2.45%) MongoDB
10 32 (2.37%) Data Lake
11 31 (2.30%) MySQL
12 27 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.71%) Metadata
14 22 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (1.56%) DynamoDB
16 18 (1.34%) Redis
17 15 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
18 13 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 12 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
19 12 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 164 (12.17%) Git
2 132 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 113 (8.38%) JIRA
4 84 (6.23%) GitLab
5 33 (2.45%) SonarQube
6 31 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
7 26 (1.93%) Selenium
8 17 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.89%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.82%) git-flow
10 11 (0.82%) JMeter
10 11 (0.82%) JUnit
10 11 (0.82%) Postman
11 10 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.59%) Subversion
13 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 399 (29.60%) Finance
2 397 (29.45%) Social Skills
3 134 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (6.45%) Marketing
6 70 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 67 (4.97%) Retail
8 61 (4.53%) Law
9 44 (3.26%) Telecoms
10 32 (2.37%) Back Office
10 32 (2.37%) Banking
11 29 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.56%) Front Office
13 20 (1.48%) Games
14 19 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.34%) Legal
16 17 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 11 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 314 (23.29%) Senior
2 236 (17.51%) Developer
3 149 (11.05%) Lead
4 138 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 116 (8.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 101 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 89 (6.60%) Architect
8 83 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
9 78 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 62 (4.60%) Analyst
11 60 (4.45%) Applications Engineer
12 57 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 56 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (4.01%) Data Engineer
15 52 (3.86%) .NET Developer
16 49 (3.64%) Consultant
17 42 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
18 39 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
19 34 (2.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 34 (2.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (18.84%) .NET
2 156 (11.57%) React
3 116 (8.61%) RESTful
4 86 (6.38%) REST
5 68 (5.04%) CSS
5 68 (5.04%) HTML
6 64 (4.75%) .NET Framework
7 63 (4.67%) SOAP
8 59 (4.38%) Node.js
9 57 (4.23%) AngularJS
10 54 (4.01%) Spring Boot
11 53 (3.93%) Kafka
12 51 (3.78%) .NET Core
13 50 (3.71%) JSON
13 50 (3.71%) Spring
14 49 (3.64%) OAuth
15 42 (3.12%) XML
16 39 (2.89%) ASP.NET
16 39 (2.89%) Lightning Web Components
17 37 (2.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 249 (18.47%) Cloud Native
2 120 (8.90%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.45%) Management Information System
4 51 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.71%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.63%) IoT
10 22 (1.63%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 18 (1.34%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.26%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.19%) NHS
16 13 (0.96%) Security Posture
17 11 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
18 9 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 135 (10.01%) Linux
2 114 (8.46%) Windows
3 39 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.15%) Unix
5 19 (1.41%) VMS
6 13 (0.96%) Android
7 12 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.59%) Debian
11 7 (0.52%) CentOS
11 7 (0.52%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (56.68%) CI/CD
2 640 (47.48%) Agile
3 348 (25.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 316 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 297 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
6 265 (19.66%) Mentoring
7 255 (18.92%) AI
8 227 (16.84%) Test Automation
9 209 (15.50%) Coaching
10 208 (15.43%) Software Engineering
11 206 (15.28%) Microservices
12 186 (13.80%) Analytics
13 178 (13.20%) Containerisation
14 177 (13.13%) Observability
15 174 (12.91%) Asset Management
16 145 (10.76%) Scrum
17 144 (10.68%) Roadmaps
18 143 (10.61%) Clean Code
19 134 (9.94%) Computer Science
20 128 (9.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 408 (30.27%) Python
2 376 (27.89%) SQL
3 227 (16.84%) C#
4 164 (12.17%) PowerShell
5 160 (11.87%) Java
6 155 (11.50%) JavaScript
7 124 (9.20%) Bash
8 114 (8.46%) TypeScript
9 76 (5.64%) Bicep
10 43 (3.19%) Go
11 42 (3.12%) Apex Code
12 36 (2.67%) PL/SQL
13 31 (2.30%) Shell Script
14 25 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 17 (1.26%) Scala
16 16 (1.19%) PHP
17 15 (1.11%) C
17 15 (1.11%) SOQL
17 15 (1.11%) SOSL
18 14 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 180 (13.35%) Degree
2 124 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 102 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 101 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (5.42%) Azure Certification
6 47 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.74%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.48%) ISTQB
11 19 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (1.11%) CCNP
13 14 (1.04%) CISSP
13 14 (1.04%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.96%) PMP
15 12 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 7 (0.52%) ACCA
18 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (10.24%) QA
2 67 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (4.30%) GDPR
4 41 (3.04%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.89%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.15%) NIST
7 17 (1.26%) ISO 9001
8 16 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.82%) NCSC
10 10 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.59%) SLA
11 8 (0.59%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.52%) PMO
13 6 (0.45%) WCAG
14 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.15%) GRC
16 2 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 249 (18.47%) Docker
2 76 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.26%) vSphere
6 16 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.45%) NFS
9 5 (0.37%) Firmware
9 5 (0.37%) Kamailio
10 4 (0.30%) Postfix
10 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.15%) vCloud
13 1 (0.074%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.074%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 376 (27.89%) Terraform
2 300 (22.26%) Kubernetes
3 121 (8.98%) Ansible
4 98 (7.27%) Grafana
5 70 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.71%) Argo
8 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (0.82%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.74%) SCCM
11 6 (0.45%) Kibana
12 5 (0.37%) Puppet
13 4 (0.30%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 325 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.49%) Oracle
3 62 (4.60%) Salesforce
4 52 (3.86%) Databricks
5 38 (2.82%) Google
6 37 (2.74%) VMware
7 34 (2.52%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.23%) Cisco
9 26 (1.93%) Splunk
10 19 (1.41%) Okta
10 19 (1.41%) SolarWinds
11 16 (1.19%) Veeam
12 15 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 12 (0.89%) Ab Initio
14 11 (0.82%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.82%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.82%) NetApp
14 11 (0.82%) SAP
15 10 (0.74%) 3PAR
15 10 (0.74%) IBM
983 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs