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

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,571 1,912 3,036
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.85% 12.41% 8.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.59% 13.13% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 1,053 2,458
10th Percentile £44,000 £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 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £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 16,378 14,566 30,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.83% 94.52% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 8,457 23,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £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% -9.54%

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 18 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 37 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.59%) Apache
2 25 (1.59%) Confluence
3 18 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.57%) CMS
7 8 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.38%) WordPress
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.064%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.064%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.25%) Trello
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.064%) Notion
6 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.064%) Magento
7 1 (0.064%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.064%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.064%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.064%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.064%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 855 (54.42%) Azure
2 518 (32.97%) AWS
3 460 (29.28%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (10.31%) GCP
5 153 (9.74%) GitHub
5 153 (9.74%) Serverless
6 138 (8.78%) Power Platform
7 133 (8.47%) SaaS
8 77 (4.90%) PaaS
9 76 (4.84%) Entra ID
10 73 (4.65%) Amazon S3
11 71 (4.52%) Azure AKS
12 70 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
13 69 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
14 62 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (3.50%) Azure AI
16 52 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
16 52 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
16 52 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.14%) Broadband
2 50 (3.18%) Firewall
3 29 (1.85%) DNS
4 26 (1.65%) VPN
5 21 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.95%) DHCP
7 9 (0.57%) Network Security
8 8 (0.51%) Internet
9 6 (0.38%) BGP
9 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.38%) LAN
9 6 (0.38%) NGFW
9 6 (0.38%) OSPF
9 6 (0.38%) WAN
10 5 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.32%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.25%) SAN
11 4 (0.25%) SSL
12 3 (0.19%) DSL
12 3 (0.19%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 144 (9.17%) MongoDB
3 102 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 79 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 72 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
6 59 (3.76%) Power BI
7 41 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 39 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.23%) Metadata
10 30 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (1.78%) MySQL
13 26 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.40%) Data Lake
15 21 (1.34%) RDBMS
16 20 (1.27%) DynamoDB
17 19 (1.21%) Redis
18 14 (0.89%) Delta Lake
19 12 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
19 12 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 136 (8.66%) Git
2 114 (7.26%) GitLab
3 110 (7.00%) Jenkins
4 95 (6.05%) JIRA
5 42 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.72%) Selenium
7 20 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.15%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.02%) Postman
10 13 (0.83%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.70%) JMeter
12 10 (0.64%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.57%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.45%) NUnit
14 7 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.38%) Maven
16 5 (0.32%) Claude Code
16 5 (0.32%) Locust
16 5 (0.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 339 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 315 (20.05%) Finance
3 161 (10.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 132 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 123 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (4.90%) Law
7 67 (4.26%) Banking
8 63 (4.01%) Marketing
9 62 (3.95%) Games
9 62 (3.95%) Retail
10 46 (2.93%) Legal
11 24 (1.53%) Back Office
12 22 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.34%) Advertising
14 19 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.95%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.89%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.76%) Billing
19 11 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 339 (21.58%) Senior
2 329 (20.94%) Developer
3 244 (15.53%) Lead
4 242 (15.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 159 (10.12%) Architect
6 135 (8.59%) Software Engineer
7 126 (8.02%) .NET Developer
8 91 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 86 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
10 80 (5.09%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 64 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
13 62 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
13 62 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
14 59 (3.76%) Data Engineer
15 57 (3.63%) Senior Developer
16 54 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (3.37%) Lead Developer
18 51 (3.25%) Consultant
19 48 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (19.35%) .NET
2 181 (11.52%) React
3 136 (8.66%) .NET Core
3 136 (8.66%) ASP.NET
4 122 (7.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 114 (7.26%) RESTful
6 109 (6.94%) REST
7 106 (6.75%) Node.js
8 102 (6.49%) CSS
9 100 (6.37%) HTML
10 69 (4.39%) Entity Framework
11 65 (4.14%) Blazor
12 60 (3.82%) Spring
13 57 (3.63%) SOAP
14 56 (3.56%) Spring Boot
15 55 (3.50%) Lightning Web Components
16 54 (3.44%) AngularJS
17 52 (3.31%) ML.NET
17 52 (3.31%) Visualforce
18 47 (2.99%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 270 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 122 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 35 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 26 (1.65%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.53%) Driving Licence
13 21 (1.34%) Onboarding
14 20 (1.27%) Low-Code
15 19 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.21%) Podcast
16 18 (1.15%) Security Posture
17 15 (0.95%) Cyberattack
17 15 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (10.50%) Linux
2 73 (4.65%) Windows
3 52 (3.31%) Unix
4 25 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.34%) Android
6 10 (0.64%) VMS
7 9 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.51%) Debian
8 8 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (54.11%) CI/CD
2 705 (44.88%) Agile
3 390 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 349 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 314 (19.99%) Mentoring
6 278 (17.70%) AI
7 266 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
8 263 (16.74%) Software Engineering
9 245 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
10 242 (15.40%) Microservices
11 221 (14.07%) Containerisation
12 218 (13.88%) Test Automation
13 214 (13.62%) Scrum
14 206 (13.11%) Roadmaps
15 177 (11.27%) Coaching
16 170 (10.82%) Observability
17 169 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
18 153 (9.74%) Analytics
19 151 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
20 150 (9.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 370 (23.55%) SQL
2 330 (21.01%) Python
3 294 (18.71%) C#
4 230 (14.64%) JavaScript
5 217 (13.81%) Java
6 118 (7.51%) TypeScript
7 108 (6.87%) Bash
8 92 (5.86%) PowerShell
9 59 (3.76%) Bicep
10 57 (3.63%) Apex Code
11 54 (3.44%) Go
12 36 (2.29%) SOQL
12 36 (2.29%) SOSL
13 33 (2.10%) C++
14 23 (1.46%) PHP
15 14 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.89%) Rust
16 13 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.83%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 181 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 160 (10.18%) Degree
3 141 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 57 (3.63%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.08%) CISSP
10 17 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.57%) PMP
14 8 (0.51%) PhD
14 8 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.45%) CCNP
16 6 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (9.36%) QA
2 54 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.65%) NIST
6 23 (1.46%) GDPR
7 17 (1.08%) GRC
8 13 (0.83%) WCAG
9 8 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS
11 5 (0.32%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
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 (16.10%) Docker
2 65 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.83%) vSphere
6 8 (0.51%) Firmware
7 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.064%) iptables
11 1 (0.064%) KVM
11 1 (0.064%) QEMU
11 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 370 (23.55%) Terraform
2 300 (19.10%) Kubernetes
3 122 (7.77%) Ansible
4 76 (4.84%) Grafana
5 62 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.80%) Argo
7 18 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.08%) Puppet
9 16 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.76%) Istio
11 10 (0.64%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.57%) Packer
13 8 (0.51%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.38%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.32%) Kibana
16 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 409 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.35%) Google
3 78 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 44 (2.80%) Oracle
5 43 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.67%) Splunk
6 42 (2.67%) VMware
7 38 (2.42%) Databricks
8 37 (2.36%) SAP
9 26 (1.65%) Facebook
10 19 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 17 (1.08%) Cisco
12 15 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 13 (0.83%) Apple
13 13 (0.83%) YouTube
14 12 (0.76%) F5
14 12 (0.76%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.70%) Sony
15 11 (0.70%) Yahoo!
588 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs