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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,510 1,927 3,021
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.83% 12.96% 8.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 13.69% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,099 1,065 2,484
10th Percentile £43,991 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,250 £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 15,830 14,077 30,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.08% 94.70% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,320 8,261 23,558
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 5 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 30 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.66%) Apache
3 21 (1.39%) Confluence
4 19 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.53%) CMS
6 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.066%) Drupal
12 1 (0.066%) JBoss
12 1 (0.066%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) Blender
4 3 (0.20%) Maya
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.066%) Notion
6 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.86%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.066%) Magento
8 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.066%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.066%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.066%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.066%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 802 (53.11%) Azure
2 516 (34.17%) AWS
3 410 (27.15%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (11.19%) GitHub
5 165 (10.93%) GCP
6 152 (10.07%) Serverless
7 128 (8.48%) SaaS
8 127 (8.41%) Power Platform
9 80 (5.30%) Amazon S3
9 80 (5.30%) Entra ID
9 80 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
10 72 (4.77%) PaaS
11 70 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
12 69 (4.57%) Azure AKS
13 65 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (3.58%) Azure Logic Apps
15 53 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
16 47 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 46 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
18 45 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.17%) Broadband
2 52 (3.44%) Firewall
3 30 (1.99%) DNS
4 23 (1.52%) VPN
5 21 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.06%) DHCP
7 9 (0.60%) Network Security
8 7 (0.46%) WAN
9 6 (0.40%) BGP
9 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.40%) LAN
9 6 (0.40%) NGFW
9 6 (0.40%) OSPF
10 5 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.33%) Internet
10 5 (0.33%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) DSL
12 3 (0.20%) SSL
12 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (7.42%) MongoDB
2 106 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (6.16%) SQL Server
4 83 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 72 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (3.58%) Power BI
7 40 (2.65%) Metadata
7 40 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (1.52%) MySQL
13 22 (1.46%) DynamoDB
14 19 (1.26%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.06%) Delta Lake
15 16 (1.06%) Redis
16 12 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 135 (8.94%) Git
2 116 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 113 (7.48%) GitLab
4 83 (5.50%) JIRA
5 43 (2.85%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.79%) Selenium
7 20 (1.32%) TeamCity
8 19 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.19%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.99%) Postman
11 13 (0.86%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.66%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.66%) JMeter
14 8 (0.53%) Maven
15 7 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.33%) Locust
16 5 (0.33%) NUnit
16 5 (0.33%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 325 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 319 (21.13%) Finance
3 156 (10.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 129 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (4.97%) Law
7 71 (4.70%) Banking
8 64 (4.24%) Marketing
9 59 (3.91%) Retail
10 57 (3.77%) Games
11 45 (2.98%) Legal
12 24 (1.59%) Back Office
12 24 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.06%) Advertising
14 16 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.93%) Health Technology
16 13 (0.86%) Billing
17 11 (0.73%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 335 (22.19%) Senior
2 293 (19.40%) Developer
3 242 (16.03%) Lead
4 233 (15.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 153 (10.13%) Architect
6 136 (9.01%) Software Engineer
7 93 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 91 (6.03%) .NET Developer
9 88 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
10 81 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (4.37%) Data Engineer
11 66 (4.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 63 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
13 62 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
14 61 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
15 54 (3.58%) Lead DevOps
15 54 (3.58%) Senior Developer
16 53 (3.51%) Consultant
16 53 (3.51%) Lead Developer
17 52 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (16.95%) .NET
2 164 (10.86%) React
3 113 (7.48%) REST
4 104 (6.89%) RESTful
5 103 (6.82%) Node.js
6 99 (6.56%) .NET Core
7 92 (6.09%) ASP.NET
8 86 (5.70%) CSS
9 84 (5.56%) HTML
10 82 (5.43%) ASP.NET Core
11 65 (4.30%) Spring
12 62 (4.11%) SOAP
13 59 (3.91%) Spring Boot
14 58 (3.84%) Lightning Web Components
15 54 (3.58%) Kafka
16 53 (3.51%) Visualforce
17 51 (3.38%) AngularJS
18 48 (3.18%) Entity Framework
19 44 (2.91%) Blazor
20 39 (2.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 258 (17.09%) Cloud Native
2 126 (8.34%) Product Ownership
3 61 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 27 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 23 (1.52%) Public Cloud
11 22 (1.46%) Low-Code
12 21 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.32%) Driving Licence
14 19 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.13%) Algorithms
16 16 (1.06%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.99%) Cyberattack
17 15 (0.99%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.40%) Linux
2 67 (4.44%) Windows
3 52 (3.44%) Unix
4 26 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.32%) Android
6 9 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 6 (0.40%) Debian
8 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.40%) VMS
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (54.44%) CI/CD
2 660 (43.71%) Agile
3 381 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 331 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 299 (19.80%) Mentoring
6 267 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
7 258 (17.09%) Software Engineering
8 245 (16.23%) AI
9 240 (15.89%) Microservices
10 225 (14.90%) Containerisation
11 221 (14.64%) Test Automation
12 209 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 202 (13.38%) Scrum
14 192 (12.72%) Roadmaps
15 178 (11.79%) Coaching
16 167 (11.06%) Observability
17 164 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
18 159 (10.53%) Analytics
19 149 (9.87%) Platform Engineering
20 144 (9.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 353 (23.38%) Python
2 335 (22.19%) SQL
3 240 (15.89%) C#
4 228 (15.10%) Java
5 211 (13.97%) JavaScript
6 117 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 103 (6.82%) Bash
8 87 (5.76%) PowerShell
9 61 (4.04%) Apex Code
9 61 (4.04%) Go
10 52 (3.44%) Bicep
11 36 (2.38%) SOQL
11 36 (2.38%) SOSL
12 34 (2.25%) C++
13 22 (1.46%) Scala
14 21 (1.39%) PHP
15 14 (0.93%) Rust
16 12 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.79%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 180 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 153 (10.13%) Degree
3 139 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.13%) CISSP
10 17 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 14 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.60%) PMP
14 8 (0.53%) PhD
14 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.46%) CCNP
16 6 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (9.07%) QA
2 65 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.79%) NIST
6 25 (1.66%) GDPR
7 17 (1.13%) GRC
8 14 (0.93%) WCAG
9 8 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) PMO
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 254 (16.82%) Docker
2 66 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.60%) Firmware
5 9 (0.60%) vSphere
6 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.066%) iptables
10 1 (0.066%) KVM
10 1 (0.066%) QEMU
10 1 (0.066%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 375 (24.83%) Terraform
2 308 (20.40%) Kubernetes
3 123 (8.15%) Ansible
4 77 (5.10%) Grafana
5 61 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.98%) Argo
7 18 (1.19%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.13%) Puppet
9 11 (0.73%) Istio
10 9 (0.60%) Packer
11 8 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.53%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.26%) Kibana
14 4 (0.26%) SCCM
14 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 357 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 77 (5.10%) Google
4 42 (2.78%) Oracle
5 41 (2.72%) Splunk
6 39 (2.58%) Databricks
6 39 (2.58%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.58%) VMware
7 37 (2.45%) SAP
8 17 (1.13%) Cisco
8 17 (1.13%) Facebook
8 17 (1.13%) MuleSoft
9 15 (0.99%) Palo Alto
10 13 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 12 (0.79%) F5
12 11 (0.73%) Okta
13 10 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.60%) Apple
15 8 (0.53%) IBM
15 8 (0.53%) Juniper
1,031 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs