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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,555 1,904 3,035
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.90% 12.59% 8.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.62% 13.31% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,048 2,470
10th Percentile £43,550 £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 £84,439 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 33 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.61%) Apache
3 23 (1.48%) Confluence
4 19 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.58%) CMS
6 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.39%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.32%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.064%) Drupal
12 1 (0.064%) JBoss
12 1 (0.064%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
5 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.064%) Notion
6 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.71%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.064%) Magento
8 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.064%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.064%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.064%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.064%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 841 (54.08%) Azure
2 522 (33.57%) AWS
3 443 (28.49%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (10.61%) GitHub
5 164 (10.55%) GCP
6 151 (9.71%) Serverless
7 134 (8.62%) Power Platform
8 130 (8.36%) SaaS
9 81 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 78 (5.02%) Entra ID
11 77 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
12 75 (4.82%) PaaS
13 69 (4.44%) Azure AKS
14 68 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
15 63 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 54 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
17 53 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
18 50 (3.22%) Azure AI
18 50 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
19 48 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.05%) Broadband
2 51 (3.28%) Firewall
3 29 (1.86%) DNS
4 24 (1.54%) VPN
5 21 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.96%) DHCP
7 9 (0.58%) Network Security
8 8 (0.51%) Internet
9 6 (0.39%) BGP
9 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.39%) LAN
9 6 (0.39%) NGFW
9 6 (0.39%) OSPF
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
10 5 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.32%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.19%) DSL
12 3 (0.19%) SSL
12 3 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.55%) MongoDB
2 128 (8.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 95 (6.11%) SQL Server
4 78 (5.02%) NoSQL
5 70 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (3.67%) Power BI
7 41 (2.64%) Metadata
8 40 (2.57%) Relational Database
9 36 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.48%) MySQL
14 21 (1.35%) DynamoDB
15 20 (1.29%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.09%) Redis
17 15 (0.96%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (8.42%) Git
2 112 (7.20%) GitLab
2 112 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 90 (5.79%) JIRA
4 43 (2.77%) SonarQube
5 27 (1.74%) Selenium
6 20 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 19 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.16%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.03%) Postman
10 13 (0.84%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.71%) JMeter
12 10 (0.64%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.58%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.45%) Maven
14 7 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.39%) NUnit
16 5 (0.32%) Locust
16 5 (0.32%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 331 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 322 (20.71%) Finance
3 158 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 123 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (4.82%) Law
7 69 (4.44%) Banking
8 65 (4.18%) Marketing
9 61 (3.92%) Games
9 61 (3.92%) Retail
10 46 (2.96%) Legal
11 24 (1.54%) Back Office
12 23 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.22%) Advertising
13 19 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.96%) Legal Technology
16 14 (0.90%) Health Technology
17 13 (0.84%) Billing
18 10 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 341 (21.93%) Senior
2 316 (20.32%) Developer
3 244 (15.69%) Lead
4 237 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 155 (9.97%) Architect
6 134 (8.62%) Software Engineer
7 114 (7.33%) .NET Developer
8 92 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 85 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
10 80 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (4.24%) Data Engineer
12 65 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 63 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
14 62 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
15 61 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
16 56 (3.60%) Senior Developer
17 53 (3.41%) Lead Developer
17 53 (3.41%) Lead DevOps
18 52 (3.34%) Consultant
19 51 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (18.01%) .NET
2 178 (11.45%) React
3 121 (7.78%) .NET Core
4 119 (7.65%) ASP.NET
5 113 (7.27%) RESTful
6 109 (7.01%) ASP.NET Core
6 109 (7.01%) REST
7 107 (6.88%) Node.js
8 97 (6.24%) CSS
9 94 (6.05%) HTML
10 62 (3.99%) Spring
11 61 (3.92%) Entity Framework
12 60 (3.86%) SOAP
13 58 (3.73%) Blazor
14 57 (3.67%) Lightning Web Components
14 57 (3.67%) Spring Boot
15 53 (3.41%) AngularJS
16 52 (3.34%) Kafka
16 52 (3.34%) Visualforce
17 46 (2.96%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 268 (17.23%) Cloud Native
2 125 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (2.32%) Mobile App
7 28 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 28 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 24 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.29%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
14 17 (1.09%) Podcast
15 16 (1.03%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.96%) Cyberattack
16 15 (0.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 160 (10.29%) Linux
2 70 (4.50%) Windows
3 52 (3.34%) Unix
4 26 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.41%) Android
6 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.51%) VMS
8 7 (0.45%) CentOS
8 7 (0.45%) Debian
8 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (54.41%) CI/CD
2 697 (44.82%) Agile
3 389 (25.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 339 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 310 (19.94%) Mentoring
6 270 (17.36%) AI
7 266 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
8 259 (16.66%) Software Engineering
9 238 (15.31%) Microservices
10 235 (15.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 224 (14.41%) Containerisation
12 223 (14.34%) Test Automation
13 205 (13.18%) Scrum
14 196 (12.60%) Roadmaps
15 183 (11.77%) Coaching
16 173 (11.13%) Observability
17 170 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
18 163 (10.48%) Analytics
19 152 (9.77%) Platform Engineering
20 148 (9.52%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 357 (22.96%) SQL
2 348 (22.38%) Python
3 270 (17.36%) C#
4 224 (14.41%) Java
4 224 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 118 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 107 (6.88%) Bash
7 89 (5.72%) PowerShell
8 60 (3.86%) Apex Code
8 60 (3.86%) Go
9 55 (3.54%) Bicep
10 36 (2.32%) SOQL
10 36 (2.32%) SOSL
11 34 (2.19%) C++
12 22 (1.41%) PHP
13 19 (1.22%) Scala
14 14 (0.90%) Rust
15 13 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 179 (11.51%) Security Cleared
2 155 (9.97%) Degree
3 138 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 55 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.09%) CISSP
10 17 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.96%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.58%) PMP
14 8 (0.51%) PhD
14 8 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.45%) CCNP
16 6 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (9.00%) QA
2 64 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.67%) NIST
6 24 (1.54%) GDPR
7 17 (1.09%) GRC
8 13 (0.84%) WCAG
9 8 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.19%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.19%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 253 (16.27%) Docker
2 65 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.71%) vSphere
6 8 (0.51%) Firmware
7 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.064%) iptables
12 1 (0.064%) KVM
12 1 (0.064%) QEMU
12 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 381 (24.50%) Terraform
2 303 (19.49%) Kubernetes
3 122 (7.85%) Ansible
4 75 (4.82%) Grafana
5 61 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.89%) Argo
7 18 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.09%) Puppet
9 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.71%) Istio
11 9 (0.58%) Packer
11 9 (0.58%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.39%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.32%) Kibana
15 5 (0.32%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 389 (25.02%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.27%) Salesforce
3 81 (5.21%) Google
4 46 (2.96%) Oracle
5 43 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.70%) Splunk
6 42 (2.70%) VMware
7 39 (2.51%) SAP
8 38 (2.44%) Databricks
9 23 (1.48%) Facebook
10 17 (1.09%) Cisco
10 17 (1.09%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.96%) Palo Alto
12 13 (0.84%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.77%) Apple
13 12 (0.77%) F5
14 11 (0.71%) Okta
14 11 (0.71%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.71%) YouTube
15 10 (0.64%) Sony