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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,424 2,136 3,013
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.03% 13.08% 11.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.40% 13.86% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,432 2,532
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +6.63% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 13,689 15,415 23,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.83% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,688 9,091 19,584
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 January 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 41 (2.88%) Confluence
2 29 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 14 (0.98%) Apache
7 12 (0.84%) IIS
8 10 (0.70%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.070%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.070%) Camunda
11 1 (0.070%) nginx
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.070%) SAS
11 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.070%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.070%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (2.74%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.05%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Shopify
8 1 (0.070%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.070%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.070%) Primavera
8 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.070%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 919 (64.54%) Azure
2 506 (35.53%) Azure DevOps
3 496 (34.83%) AWS
4 343 (24.09%) GitHub
5 160 (11.24%) GCP
6 151 (10.60%) GitHub Actions
7 149 (10.46%) Power Platform
8 136 (9.55%) SaaS
9 135 (9.48%) Serverless
10 102 (7.16%) Entra ID
11 93 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 76 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 76 (5.34%) Snowflake
13 74 (5.20%) GitHub Copilot
14 71 (4.99%) Amazon S3
15 70 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 65 (4.56%) Azure Monitor
17 64 (4.49%) dbt
18 61 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.65%) Firewall
2 45 (3.16%) Broadband
3 33 (2.32%) DNS
3 33 (2.32%) VPN
4 22 (1.54%) DHCP
5 20 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.33%) Network Security
7 18 (1.26%) WAN
8 14 (0.98%) LAN
9 11 (0.77%) SAN
10 10 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.49%) VLAN
11 7 (0.49%) VoIP
12 5 (0.35%) Internet
12 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.28%) BGP
13 4 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
14 3 (0.21%) IPsec
14 3 (0.21%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (8.92%) SQL Server
2 93 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (6.32%) NoSQL
4 80 (5.62%) Power BI
5 75 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (3.65%) Tableau
7 51 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 50 (3.51%) Metadata
9 46 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (3.09%) MongoDB
11 40 (2.81%) Data Lake
12 32 (2.25%) MySQL
13 31 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (1.69%) DynamoDB
15 23 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (1.40%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.26%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.26%) Redis
18 16 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
18 16 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 162 (11.38%) Git
2 153 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 113 (7.94%) JIRA
4 93 (6.53%) GitLab
5 39 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 37 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
7 27 (1.90%) Selenium
8 19 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.33%) Jaeger
9 14 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.84%) Postman
12 11 (0.77%) git-flow
12 11 (0.77%) JMeter
12 11 (0.77%) JUnit
13 9 (0.63%) Subversion
14 7 (0.49%) Maven
14 7 (0.49%) Storybook
15 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 434 (30.48%) Finance
2 413 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 169 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 85 (5.97%) Marketing
7 51 (3.58%) Law
8 47 (3.30%) Banking
9 46 (3.23%) Retail
10 42 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 32 (2.25%) Games
12 26 (1.83%) Front Office
13 24 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.33%) Back Office
16 18 (1.26%) Legal
17 16 (1.12%) Tech for Good
18 13 (0.91%) Billing
18 13 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 361 (25.35%) Senior
2 255 (17.91%) Developer
3 179 (12.57%) Lead
4 130 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 128 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 122 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 93 (6.53%) Architect
8 87 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
9 77 (5.41%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.71%) Data Engineer
11 66 (4.63%) Applications Engineer
12 64 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
13 53 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 49 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (3.37%) .NET Developer
15 48 (3.37%) Analyst
16 43 (3.02%) Consultant
16 43 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
17 38 (2.67%) Support Engineer
18 37 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (16.71%) .NET
2 165 (11.59%) React
3 138 (9.69%) RESTful
4 105 (7.37%) REST
5 87 (6.11%) SOAP
6 69 (4.85%) CSS
6 69 (4.85%) Node.js
7 68 (4.78%) Spring
8 67 (4.71%) Spring Boot
9 66 (4.63%) HTML
10 62 (4.35%) Kafka
11 59 (4.14%) AngularJS
12 58 (4.07%) Lightning Web Components
13 57 (4.00%) OAuth
14 55 (3.86%) .NET Framework
15 50 (3.51%) JSON
16 48 (3.37%) .NET Core
16 48 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
17 39 (2.74%) OAuth2
18 37 (2.60%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 255 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 143 (10.04%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.46%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.25%) Low-Code
9 29 (2.04%) Mobile App
9 29 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.62%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.26%) IoT
13 16 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 13 (0.91%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (0.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 147 (10.32%) Linux
2 106 (7.44%) Windows
3 50 (3.51%) Unix
4 40 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.62%) Android
6 19 (1.33%) VMS
7 12 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.63%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.49%) CentOS
11 7 (0.49%) Debian
12 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (58.64%) CI/CD
2 679 (47.68%) Agile
3 373 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 315 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
6 288 (20.22%) Mentoring
7 280 (19.66%) AI
8 272 (19.10%) Coaching
9 233 (16.36%) Test Automation
10 228 (16.01%) Software Engineering
11 212 (14.89%) Analytics
12 211 (14.82%) Microservices
13 202 (14.19%) Observability
14 200 (14.04%) Asset Management
15 194 (13.62%) Containerisation
16 174 (12.22%) Data Modelling
17 158 (11.10%) Roadmaps
18 156 (10.96%) Clean Code
19 143 (10.04%) Scrum
20 131 (9.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 444 (31.18%) Python
2 394 (27.67%) SQL
3 215 (15.10%) Java
4 186 (13.06%) C#
5 168 (11.80%) JavaScript
6 145 (10.18%) PowerShell
7 126 (8.85%) Bash
8 112 (7.87%) TypeScript
9 76 (5.34%) Bicep
9 76 (5.34%) Go
10 62 (4.35%) Apex Code
11 40 (2.81%) PL/SQL
12 39 (2.74%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.90%) Scala
14 25 (1.76%) SOQL
14 25 (1.76%) SOSL
15 20 (1.40%) C++
16 18 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 15 (1.05%) PHP
18 13 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 172 (12.08%) Degree
2 145 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 109 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 91 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (4.63%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.19%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.84%) CISSP
13 12 (0.84%) PMP
14 11 (0.77%) CCNP
14 11 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.85%) QA
2 72 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 46 (3.23%) GDPR
6 21 (1.47%) NIST
7 13 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.49%) WCAG
10 6 (0.42%) NCSC
10 6 (0.42%) SLA
11 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.35%) PMO
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.14%) GRC
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.070%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.070%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 258 (18.12%) Docker
2 85 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.98%) vSphere
6 13 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.42%) Firmware
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.28%) NFS
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.21%) Postfix
11 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.14%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.14%) vCloud
12 1 (0.070%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 431 (30.27%) Terraform
2 326 (22.89%) Kubernetes
3 136 (9.55%) Ansible
4 109 (7.65%) Grafana
5 89 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (2.95%) Argo
8 23 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.40%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.91%) vCenter Server
11 11 (0.77%) SCCM
12 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.42%) Kibana
12 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.35%) Control-M
14 4 (0.28%) logstash
14 4 (0.28%) Puppet
15 3 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 323 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 75 (5.27%) Oracle
4 66 (4.63%) Google
5 57 (4.00%) Databricks
6 37 (2.60%) VMware
7 36 (2.53%) Splunk
8 23 (1.62%) Cisco
8 23 (1.62%) SAP
9 22 (1.54%) Okta
10 19 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.26%) Ab Initio
11 18 (1.26%) SolarWinds
12 17 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.19%) Veeam
13 14 (0.98%) IBM
13 14 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.84%) NetApp
15 11 (0.77%) 3PAR
15 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
847 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs