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

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,448 1,701 3,106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.58% 13.26% 9.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.27% 13.98% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,327 2,586
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 14,103 12,168 28,555
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.60% 94.83% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9,832 8,797 23,312
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,738 £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 3 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 (1.66%) Confluence
2 21 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.24%) Apache
5 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.14%) WordPress
12 1 (0.069%) Camunda
12 1 (0.069%) Drupal
12 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.069%) SAS
12 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
3 16 (1.10%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.069%) Magento
8 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.069%) Primavera
8 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.069%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.069%) Shopify
8 1 (0.069%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 849 (58.63%) Azure
2 537 (37.09%) AWS
3 417 (28.80%) Azure DevOps
4 287 (19.82%) GitHub
5 196 (13.54%) GCP
6 152 (10.50%) Serverless
7 140 (9.67%) SaaS
8 138 (9.53%) GitHub Actions
9 122 (8.43%) Power Platform
10 91 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (5.80%) Amazon S3
13 83 (5.73%) Entra ID
14 73 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
16 61 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 61 (4.21%) dbt
17 60 (4.14%) PaaS
18 53 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
19 52 (3.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.42%) Broadband
2 57 (3.94%) Firewall
3 25 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.59%) VPN
5 21 (1.45%) DNS
6 16 (1.10%) DHCP
7 10 (0.69%) Network Security
8 6 (0.41%) 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%) SSL
11 3 (0.21%) Wireless
12 2 (0.14%) VLAN
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 105 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (3.80%) Power BI
5 52 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (3.11%) Metadata
8 43 (2.97%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.90%) MongoDB
10 40 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
11 39 (2.69%) Data Lake
12 29 (2.00%) Tableau
13 26 (1.80%) DynamoDB
13 26 (1.80%) MySQL
13 26 (1.80%) Redis
14 25 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.31%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.24%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 153 (10.57%) Jenkins
2 146 (10.08%) Git
3 115 (7.94%) GitLab
4 78 (5.39%) JIRA
5 58 (4.01%) SonarQube
6 31 (2.14%) Selenium
7 19 (1.31%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.31%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.24%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (1.04%) JMeter
11 13 (0.90%) Postman
12 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.62%) JUnit
13 9 (0.62%) Maven
13 9 (0.62%) Subversion
14 8 (0.55%) git-flow
15 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 397 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 385 (26.59%) Finance
3 165 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (11.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 118 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 84 (5.80%) Marketing
7 73 (5.04%) Banking
7 73 (5.04%) Law
8 58 (4.01%) Retail
9 55 (3.80%) Games
10 41 (2.83%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.62%) Legal
12 31 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.86%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.52%) Back Office
15 16 (1.10%) Front Office
16 15 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.83%) Billing
19 11 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (23.96%) Senior
2 257 (17.75%) Developer
3 205 (14.16%) Lead
4 158 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 141 (9.74%) Architect
6 135 (9.32%) Software Engineer
7 99 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
9 66 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
10 63 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
11 62 (4.28%) Senior Developer
12 60 (4.14%) Consultant
13 56 (3.87%) Data Engineer
13 56 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 52 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
15 51 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
16 48 (3.31%) .NET Developer
17 46 (3.18%) Technical Architect
18 43 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
19 42 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (16.02%) .NET
2 163 (11.26%) React
3 139 (9.60%) REST
4 119 (8.22%) RESTful
5 97 (6.70%) SOAP
6 83 (5.73%) Lightning Web Components
7 80 (5.52%) CSS
7 80 (5.52%) Spring
8 77 (5.32%) HTML
8 77 (5.32%) Kafka
8 77 (5.32%) Node.js
9 73 (5.04%) Spring Boot
10 64 (4.42%) Visualforce
11 60 (4.14%) .NET Core
12 55 (3.80%) AngularJS
13 53 (3.66%) .NET Framework
13 53 (3.66%) OAuth
14 48 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
15 43 (2.97%) ASP.NET
16 39 (2.69%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 247 (17.06%) Cloud Native
2 136 (9.39%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.42%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.07%) Mobile App
11 29 (2.00%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.90%) IoT
15 13 (0.90%) Podcast
16 12 (0.83%) AI Agents
16 12 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.91%) Linux
2 83 (5.73%) Windows
3 57 (3.94%) Unix
4 37 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.38%) Android
6 11 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.76%) VMS
7 9 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.62%) CentOS
8 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.069%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (58.91%) CI/CD
2 652 (45.03%) Agile
3 384 (26.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (24.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 289 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
6 271 (18.72%) Mentoring
7 269 (18.58%) Software Engineering
8 245 (16.92%) AI
9 238 (16.44%) Test Automation
10 235 (16.23%) Containerisation
11 227 (15.68%) Microservices
12 212 (14.64%) Observability
13 208 (14.36%) Coaching
14 172 (11.88%) Analytics
15 171 (11.81%) Roadmaps
16 170 (11.74%) Scrum
17 153 (10.57%) Data Modelling
17 153 (10.57%) Event-Driven
18 143 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
19 136 (9.39%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 403 (27.83%) Python
2 336 (23.20%) SQL
3 226 (15.61%) Java
4 188 (12.98%) JavaScript
5 174 (12.02%) C#
6 104 (7.18%) TypeScript
7 99 (6.84%) Bash
7 99 (6.84%) PowerShell
8 88 (6.08%) Apex Code
9 82 (5.66%) Go
10 68 (4.70%) Bicep
11 43 (2.97%) SOQL
11 43 (2.97%) SOSL
12 22 (1.52%) Scala
13 20 (1.38%) C++
13 20 (1.38%) PHP
14 19 (1.31%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.17%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.97%) Rust
17 13 (0.90%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 176 (12.15%) Degree
2 163 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 120 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 74 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.97%) CISSP
11 13 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.69%) PhD
14 9 (0.62%) PMP
15 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.41%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.29%) QA
2 65 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.62%) GDPR
6 23 (1.59%) NIST
7 18 (1.24%) GRC
8 12 (0.83%) WCAG
9 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.35%) SLA
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.21%) IFRS
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) NCSC
12 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 292 (20.17%) Docker
2 66 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.76%) vSphere
6 8 (0.55%) Firmware
6 8 (0.55%) 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 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 405 (27.97%) Terraform
2 338 (23.34%) Kubernetes
3 135 (9.32%) Ansible
4 113 (7.80%) Grafana
5 85 (5.87%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.69%) Argo
7 26 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.31%) Kustomize
9 12 (0.83%) Puppet
10 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.55%) Istio
11 8 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.48%) Kibana
12 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.35%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.35%) Packer
14 5 (0.35%) SCCM
15 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 311 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.04%) Salesforce
3 77 (5.32%) Google
4 56 (3.87%) Splunk
5 52 (3.59%) Oracle
6 48 (3.31%) Databricks
7 35 (2.42%) VMware
8 25 (1.73%) SAP
9 24 (1.66%) MuleSoft
10 21 (1.45%) Cisco
11 20 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.10%) Okta
13 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.97%) Ab Initio
15 13 (0.90%) IBM
16 11 (0.76%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.69%) Palo Alto
18 9 (0.62%) Veeam
19 8 (0.55%) New Relic
19 8 (0.55%) PagerDuty
782 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs