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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,434 1,767 3,098
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.50% 13.60% 10.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.06% 14.30% 11.01%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,355 2,582
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -5.71%

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 14,255 12,358 28,134
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.46% 95.09% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,572 8,784 23,084
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 25 March 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 26 (1.81%) Confluence
2 21 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.26%) Apache
5 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.42%) IIS
8 6 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) WordPress
11 1 (0.070%) Camunda
11 1 (0.070%) Drupal
11 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.070%) SAS
11 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.070%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 19 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.12%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.070%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.070%) Magento
8 1 (0.070%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.070%) Primavera
8 1 (0.070%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.070%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.070%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.070%) Shopify
8 1 (0.070%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 855 (59.62%) Azure
2 532 (37.10%) AWS
3 426 (29.71%) Azure DevOps
4 291 (20.29%) GitHub
5 194 (13.53%) GCP
6 147 (10.25%) Serverless
7 138 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (9.55%) SaaS
9 125 (8.72%) Power Platform
10 93 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
12 83 (5.79%) Amazon S3
13 81 (5.65%) Entra ID
14 72 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 62 (4.32%) dbt
16 62 (4.32%) PaaS
17 56 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
17 56 (3.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.46%) Broadband
2 55 (3.84%) Firewall
3 25 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.53%) VPN
5 21 (1.46%) DNS
6 16 (1.12%) DHCP
7 10 (0.70%) Network Security
8 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.42%) SAN
9 5 (0.35%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) WAN
10 4 (0.28%) AMQP
11 3 (0.21%) Internet
11 3 (0.21%) Modbus
11 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.21%) SCCP
11 3 (0.21%) Wireless
12 2 (0.14%) DSL
12 2 (0.14%) RFID
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 102 (7.11%) NoSQL
3 77 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (4.04%) Power BI
6 48 (3.35%) Metadata
7 44 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.79%) MongoDB
10 39 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
10 39 (2.72%) Data Lake
11 33 (2.30%) Tableau
12 26 (1.81%) MySQL
13 25 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 25 (1.74%) Redis
14 24 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.19%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 155 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 142 (9.90%) Git
3 112 (7.81%) GitLab
4 83 (5.79%) JIRA
5 58 (4.04%) SonarQube
6 31 (2.16%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
8 18 (1.26%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.19%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.12%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.05%) JMeter
12 13 (0.91%) Postman
13 10 (0.70%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.63%) JUnit
14 9 (0.63%) Subversion
15 8 (0.56%) git-flow
15 8 (0.56%) Maven
16 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 400 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 389 (27.13%) Finance
3 165 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 86 (6.00%) Marketing
7 71 (4.95%) Law
8 70 (4.88%) Banking
9 57 (3.97%) Retail
10 54 (3.77%) Games
11 41 (2.86%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.58%) Legal
13 33 (2.30%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.53%) Back Office
16 18 (1.26%) Front Office
17 15 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 14 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.84%) Billing
19 12 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 342 (23.85%) Senior
2 261 (18.20%) Developer
3 198 (13.81%) Lead
4 146 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (9.41%) Architect
6 133 (9.27%) Software Engineer
7 105 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 79 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
9 64 (4.46%) Senior Developer
10 63 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
11 60 (4.18%) Consultant
12 58 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
13 55 (3.84%) Data Engineer
14 52 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
15 49 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
16 48 (3.35%) .NET Developer
17 47 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
18 43 (3.00%) Applications Engineer
18 43 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 43 (3.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (16.25%) .NET
2 155 (10.81%) React
3 136 (9.48%) REST
4 122 (8.51%) RESTful
5 100 (6.97%) SOAP
6 85 (5.93%) Lightning Web Components
7 81 (5.65%) CSS
8 79 (5.51%) Spring
9 78 (5.44%) HTML
10 76 (5.30%) Kafka
11 75 (5.23%) Spring Boot
12 70 (4.88%) Node.js
13 65 (4.53%) Visualforce
14 60 (4.18%) .NET Core
15 54 (3.77%) OAuth
16 51 (3.56%) .NET Framework
17 50 (3.49%) AngularJS
18 46 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
19 42 (2.93%) JSON
20 40 (2.79%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 250 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 137 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 29 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.88%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.12%) IoT
14 16 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
15 15 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.98%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.77%) Podcast
17 11 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 155 (10.81%) Linux
2 87 (6.07%) Windows
3 57 (3.97%) Unix
4 36 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.32%) Android
6 11 (0.77%) VMS
7 9 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.56%) CentOS
9 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.21%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (59.21%) CI/CD
2 646 (45.05%) Agile
3 381 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (25.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
6 275 (19.18%) Mentoring
7 260 (18.13%) Software Engineering
8 247 (17.22%) AI
9 233 (16.25%) Test Automation
10 232 (16.18%) Containerisation
11 219 (15.27%) Microservices
12 216 (15.06%) Coaching
13 209 (14.57%) Observability
14 180 (12.55%) Analytics
15 166 (11.58%) Roadmaps
16 162 (11.30%) Scrum
17 161 (11.23%) Data Modelling
18 152 (10.60%) Event-Driven
19 140 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
20 137 (9.55%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 409 (28.52%) Python
2 343 (23.92%) SQL
3 232 (16.18%) Java
4 186 (12.97%) JavaScript
5 173 (12.06%) C#
6 107 (7.46%) PowerShell
7 103 (7.18%) Bash
8 96 (6.69%) TypeScript
9 90 (6.28%) Apex Code
10 82 (5.72%) Go
11 71 (4.95%) Bicep
12 43 (3.00%) SOQL
12 43 (3.00%) SOSL
13 22 (1.53%) Scala
14 21 (1.46%) C++
14 21 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.39%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.32%) PHP
17 14 (0.98%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 177 (12.34%) Degree
2 157 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 116 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.98%) CISSP
10 14 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.70%) PhD
12 10 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.56%) PMP
14 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.51%) QA
2 66 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.44%) GDPR
6 21 (1.46%) NIST
7 16 (1.12%) GRC
8 10 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.70%) WCAG
9 7 (0.49%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.42%) SLA
11 4 (0.28%) NCSC
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) HL7
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
14 1 (0.070%) PMO
System Software
1 285 (19.87%) Docker
2 66 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.84%) vSphere
6 9 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.56%) Firmware
8 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.21%) Postfix
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.14%) vCloud
11 1 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 407 (28.38%) Terraform
2 328 (22.87%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.14%) Ansible
4 110 (7.67%) Grafana
5 83 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.65%) Argo
7 29 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.70%) Puppet
10 9 (0.63%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.56%) Istio
12 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.42%) Kibana
12 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.42%) SCCM
13 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.35%) Control-M
13 5 (0.35%) Packer
14 4 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 312 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 80 (5.58%) Google
4 56 (3.91%) Oracle
5 55 (3.84%) Splunk
6 47 (3.28%) Databricks
7 35 (2.44%) VMware
8 24 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 24 (1.67%) SAP
9 22 (1.53%) Cisco
10 21 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.19%) Okta
12 15 (1.05%) Ab Initio
13 14 (0.98%) IBM
13 14 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.77%) Veeam
15 10 (0.70%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.56%) New Relic
16 8 (0.56%) PagerDuty