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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,435 1,706 3,101
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.57% 13.32% 9.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.24% 14.04% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,332 2,578
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +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 £65,250
% change year-on-year - +7.28% -6.79%

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 14,015 12,148 28,480
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.70% 94.82% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,753 8,786 23,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,754
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 April 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 24 (1.67%) Confluence
2 20 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.25%) Apache
4 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.14%) WordPress
12 1 (0.070%) Camunda
12 1 (0.070%) Drupal
12 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.070%) SAS
12 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.070%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
3 16 (1.11%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.28%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
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%) Payment Gateway
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
1 846 (58.95%) Azure
2 532 (37.07%) AWS
3 415 (28.92%) Azure DevOps
4 286 (19.93%) GitHub
5 196 (13.66%) GCP
6 151 (10.52%) Serverless
7 137 (9.55%) SaaS
8 136 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
9 122 (8.50%) Power Platform
10 92 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (5.85%) Amazon S3
13 82 (5.71%) Entra ID
14 72 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 61 (4.25%) dbt
17 61 (4.25%) PaaS
18 53 (3.69%) GitHub Copilot
18 53 (3.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.46%) Broadband
2 55 (3.83%) Firewall
3 25 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.53%) VPN
5 21 (1.46%) DNS
6 16 (1.11%) DHCP
7 10 (0.70%) Network Security
8 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.35%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) SAN
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
1 113 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 104 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 79 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (3.90%) Power BI
5 53 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
6 47 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 47 (3.28%) Metadata
7 43 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 42 (2.93%) MongoDB
9 40 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
9 40 (2.79%) Data Lake
10 30 (2.09%) Tableau
11 26 (1.81%) DynamoDB
12 25 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (1.74%) MySQL
12 25 (1.74%) Redis
13 20 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.25%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 152 (10.59%) Jenkins
2 141 (9.83%) Git
3 114 (7.94%) GitLab
4 80 (5.57%) JIRA
5 57 (3.97%) SonarQube
6 31 (2.16%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
8 18 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.25%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (1.05%) JMeter
11 13 (0.91%) Postman
12 10 (0.70%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.63%) JUnit
13 9 (0.63%) Maven
13 9 (0.63%) Subversion
14 8 (0.56%) git-flow
15 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 396 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 380 (26.48%) Finance
3 165 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 85 (5.92%) Marketing
7 73 (5.09%) Banking
8 69 (4.81%) Law
9 57 (3.97%) Retail
10 55 (3.83%) Games
11 41 (2.86%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.58%) Legal
13 31 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.81%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.46%) Back Office
16 16 (1.11%) Front Office
17 15 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.84%) Billing
19 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (23.76%) Senior
2 255 (17.77%) Developer
3 203 (14.15%) Lead
4 154 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 137 (9.55%) Software Engineer
6 135 (9.41%) Architect
7 102 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
9 62 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
9 62 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
10 61 (4.25%) Senior Developer
11 60 (4.18%) Consultant
12 55 (3.83%) Data Engineer
13 53 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
14 51 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
14 51 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 48 (3.34%) .NET Developer
16 43 (3.00%) Applications Engineer
16 43 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
16 43 (3.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (16.24%) .NET
2 159 (11.08%) React
3 137 (9.55%) REST
4 119 (8.29%) RESTful
5 97 (6.76%) SOAP
6 83 (5.78%) Lightning Web Components
7 80 (5.57%) Spring
8 79 (5.51%) CSS
9 77 (5.37%) HTML
10 76 (5.30%) Kafka
11 75 (5.23%) Node.js
12 74 (5.16%) Spring Boot
13 64 (4.46%) Visualforce
14 59 (4.11%) .NET Core
15 54 (3.76%) AngularJS
16 53 (3.69%) OAuth
17 52 (3.62%) .NET Framework
18 47 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
19 42 (2.93%) ASP.NET
20 39 (2.72%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 245 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 134 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.09%) Mobile App
10 29 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.02%) Public Cloud
11 19 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
13 15 (1.05%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.98%) IoT
15 12 (0.84%) AI Agents
16 11 (0.77%) Podcast
16 11 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.94%) Linux
2 86 (5.99%) Windows
3 57 (3.97%) Unix
4 37 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.39%) Android
6 11 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.77%) VMS
7 9 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.63%) CentOS
8 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.28%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (58.95%) CI/CD
2 647 (45.09%) Agile
3 381 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 353 (24.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 289 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
6 270 (18.82%) Mentoring
7 267 (18.61%) Software Engineering
8 244 (17.00%) AI
9 233 (16.24%) Test Automation
10 230 (16.03%) Containerisation
11 221 (15.40%) Microservices
12 209 (14.56%) Observability
13 208 (14.49%) Coaching
14 174 (12.13%) Analytics
15 172 (11.99%) Roadmaps
16 164 (11.43%) Scrum
17 154 (10.73%) Data Modelling
18 152 (10.59%) Event-Driven
19 144 (10.03%) Full-Stack Development
20 135 (9.41%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 401 (27.94%) Python
2 337 (23.48%) SQL
3 225 (15.68%) Java
4 188 (13.10%) JavaScript
5 174 (12.13%) C#
6 104 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 100 (6.97%) Bash
7 100 (6.97%) PowerShell
8 88 (6.13%) Apex Code
9 81 (5.64%) Go
10 69 (4.81%) Bicep
11 43 (3.00%) SOQL
11 43 (3.00%) SOSL
12 22 (1.53%) Scala
13 20 (1.39%) C++
14 19 (1.32%) PHP
15 18 (1.25%) Shell Script
16 16 (1.11%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.91%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (12.33%) Degree
2 162 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 77 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.98%) CISSP
10 14 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.84%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.70%) PhD
13 9 (0.63%) PMP
14 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 7 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.29%) QA
2 66 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.44%) GDPR
6 21 (1.46%) NIST
7 17 (1.18%) GRC
8 12 (0.84%) WCAG
9 9 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.35%) SLA
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) NCSC
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%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 289 (20.14%) Docker
2 67 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.77%) vSphere
6 8 (0.56%) Firmware
6 8 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.21%) Postfix
8 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) vCloud
10 1 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 402 (28.01%) Terraform
2 334 (23.28%) Kubernetes
3 132 (9.20%) Ansible
4 112 (7.80%) Grafana
5 84 (5.85%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.72%) Argo
7 26 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.77%) Puppet
10 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.56%) Istio
11 8 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.49%) Kibana
13 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.35%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.35%) Packer
14 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.35%) SCCM
15 4 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 307 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.11%) Salesforce
3 79 (5.51%) Google
4 56 (3.90%) Splunk
5 51 (3.55%) Oracle
6 48 (3.34%) Databricks
7 35 (2.44%) VMware
8 25 (1.74%) SAP
9 24 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 21 (1.46%) Cisco
10 21 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.11%) Okta
12 15 (1.05%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.98%) Ab Initio
14 13 (0.91%) IBM
15 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.63%) Veeam
18 8 (0.56%) New Relic
18 8 (0.56%) PagerDuty