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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,819 1,941 2,651
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.49% 11.77% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 12.62% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,335 1,068 2,147
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 17,722 15,381 27,304
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 93.27% 88.71%
Number of salaries quoted 12,904 9,107 20,627
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%

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 17 July 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 44 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.48%) Confluence
3 23 (1.26%) Apache
4 18 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.49%) IIS
7 8 (0.44%) CMS
7 8 (0.44%) nginx
7 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.33%) SAS
8 6 (0.33%) WordPress
9 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.055%) Drupal
12 1 (0.055%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.60%) Trello
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Blender
5 3 (0.16%) Maya
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
Business Applications
1 48 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.055%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.055%) Magento
7 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.055%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,005 (55.25%) Azure
2 589 (32.38%) AWS
3 543 (29.85%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (12.48%) SaaS
5 174 (9.57%) GCP
6 154 (8.47%) Serverless
7 148 (8.14%) GitHub
8 144 (7.92%) Power Platform
9 92 (5.06%) PaaS
10 86 (4.73%) Azure AI
11 77 (4.23%) Azure AKS
12 73 (4.01%) Entra ID
13 71 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
15 66 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
16 63 (3.46%) Amazon S3
17 58 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
18 57 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 57 (3.13%) Power Automate
19 55 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.02%) Broadband
2 44 (2.42%) Firewall
3 38 (2.09%) VPN
4 29 (1.59%) DNS
5 27 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.71%) Internet
7 12 (0.66%) DHCP
8 8 (0.44%) Network Security
9 6 (0.33%) BGP
9 6 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.33%) LAN
9 6 (0.33%) NGFW
9 6 (0.33%) OSPF
9 6 (0.33%) WAN
10 5 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.27%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.22%) SSH
11 4 (0.22%) SSL
12 3 (0.16%) HTTP
12 3 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 200 (11.00%) MongoDB
3 121 (6.65%) SQL Server
4 86 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (3.24%) NoSQL
6 57 (3.13%) Power BI
7 47 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.81%) MySQL
10 28 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.26%) Metadata
13 21 (1.15%) Redis
14 18 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 18 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (0.93%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.71%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
18 9 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 138 (7.59%) Git
2 114 (6.27%) Jenkins
3 111 (6.10%) GitLab
4 107 (5.88%) JIRA
5 42 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 26 (1.43%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.37%) Selenium
8 18 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.99%) Postman
9 12 (0.66%) JMeter
10 11 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.44%) Maven
12 8 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.38%) NUnit
14 6 (0.33%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.27%) Locust
General
1 399 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 326 (17.92%) Finance
3 163 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.92%) Law
6 115 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (5.11%) Legal
8 73 (4.01%) Banking
9 71 (3.90%) Marketing
10 66 (3.63%) Retail
11 65 (3.57%) Games
12 30 (1.65%) Advertising
12 30 (1.65%) Back Office
13 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.82%) Legal Technology
17 13 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.66%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 419 (23.03%) Senior
2 383 (21.06%) Developer
3 310 (17.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 243 (13.36%) Lead
5 184 (10.12%) .NET Developer
6 169 (9.29%) Architect
7 144 (7.92%) Software Engineer
8 106 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
9 90 (4.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 89 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
11 83 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 79 (4.34%) IT Manager
13 69 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
14 63 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
15 62 (3.41%) Senior Developer
16 60 (3.30%) Consultant
17 57 (3.13%) Senior Manager
18 54 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
18 54 (2.97%) Data Engineer
18 54 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (20.12%) .NET
2 205 (11.27%) React
3 198 (10.89%) ASP.NET
4 185 (10.17%) .NET Core
5 180 (9.90%) ASP.NET Core
6 144 (7.92%) RESTful
7 125 (6.87%) CSS
8 123 (6.76%) HTML
8 123 (6.76%) REST
9 111 (6.10%) Node.js
10 98 (5.39%) Blazor
10 98 (5.39%) Entity Framework
11 81 (4.45%) ML.NET
12 71 (3.90%) Middleware
13 55 (3.02%) Spring
13 55 (3.02%) Spring Boot
14 53 (2.91%) Kafka
14 53 (2.91%) Lightning Web Components
14 53 (2.91%) SOAP
15 51 (2.80%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 294 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 130 (7.15%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
5 49 (2.69%) Virtual Team
6 46 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 35 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.37%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.37%) Podcast
13 21 (1.15%) Social Media
14 19 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 18 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.57%) Linux
2 97 (5.33%) Windows
3 57 (3.13%) Unix
4 21 (1.15%) Android
5 19 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.88%) VMS
7 8 (0.44%) Debian
7 8 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.27%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (50.25%) CI/CD
2 837 (46.01%) Agile
3 422 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 397 (21.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 380 (20.89%) Mentoring
6 338 (18.58%) AI
7 335 (18.42%) Software Engineering
8 318 (17.48%) Test Automation
9 297 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 291 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
11 264 (14.51%) Microservices
12 250 (13.74%) Scrum
13 220 (12.09%) Roadmaps
14 213 (11.71%) Containerisation
15 211 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 192 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
17 185 (10.17%) Coaching
18 182 (10.01%) Observability
19 179 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
20 163 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 416 (22.87%) SQL
2 405 (22.26%) C#
3 369 (20.29%) Python
4 301 (16.55%) JavaScript
5 211 (11.60%) Java
6 158 (8.69%) TypeScript
7 150 (8.25%) PowerShell
8 108 (5.94%) Bash
9 72 (3.96%) Bicep
10 55 (3.02%) Apex Code
11 38 (2.09%) Go
12 35 (1.92%) SOQL
12 35 (1.92%) SOSL
13 32 (1.76%) C++
14 25 (1.37%) PHP
15 20 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.93%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.71%) Ruby
18 12 (0.66%) Groovy
19 11 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 189 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 161 (8.85%) Degree
3 150 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 67 (3.68%) CISSP
5 63 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.97%) CISM
6 54 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
7 44 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 25 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 23 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.71%) PMP
14 8 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.38%) CCNP
15 7 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (10.72%) QA
2 76 (4.18%) NIST
3 45 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 45 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.42%) ISO 22301
5 35 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.70%) GDPR
7 23 (1.26%) GRC
8 15 (0.82%) WCAG
9 8 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.27%) IFRS
12 5 (0.27%) PMO
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) SEPA
14 3 (0.16%) SLA
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 254 (13.96%) Docker
2 64 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.99%) vSphere
6 13 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 360 (19.79%) Terraform
2 306 (16.82%) Kubernetes
3 100 (5.50%) Ansible
4 81 (4.45%) Grafana
5 50 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.92%) Argo
7 21 (1.15%) Puppet
8 13 (0.71%) Istio
9 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.49%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.38%) Packer
12 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.27%) Kibana
14 3 (0.16%) Nagios
14 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 482 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.45%) Google
3 76 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 52 (2.86%) Oracle
5 50 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.31%) VMware
7 40 (2.20%) Facebook
7 40 (2.20%) Splunk
8 34 (1.87%) Databricks
9 32 (1.76%) SAP
10 29 (1.59%) Pega
11 24 (1.32%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.15%) YouTube
13 19 (1.04%) Apple
14 17 (0.93%) Cisco
14 17 (0.93%) Sony
14 17 (0.93%) Yahoo!
15 15 (0.82%) OpenAI
15 15 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.71%) Red Hat
571 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs