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

 6 months to
26 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,440 1,743 3,103
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.54% 13.49% 10.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.11% 14.19% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,354 2,583
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,555 £52,797 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +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 £65,799
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%

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 14,237 12,283 28,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.42% 95.05% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,595 8,796 23,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,806
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 £75,750
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 26 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 (1.25%) Apache
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.35%) IIS
10 4 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
13 1 (0.069%) Camunda
13 1 (0.069%) Drupal
13 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.069%) SAS
13 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.069%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 19 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.11%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 854 (59.31%) Azure
2 533 (37.01%) AWS
3 427 (29.65%) Azure DevOps
4 292 (20.28%) GitHub
5 192 (13.33%) GCP
6 149 (10.35%) Serverless
7 138 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
8 136 (9.44%) SaaS
9 125 (8.68%) Power Platform
10 95 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (5.90%) Amazon S3
13 80 (5.56%) Entra ID
14 72 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
14 72 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 64 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 62 (4.31%) dbt
17 61 (4.24%) PaaS
18 56 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
18 56 (3.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.44%) Broadband
2 54 (3.75%) Firewall
3 25 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.53%) VPN
5 21 (1.46%) DNS
6 16 (1.11%) DHCP
7 10 (0.69%) 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
1 112 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 102 (7.08%) NoSQL
3 77 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (4.03%) Power BI
6 48 (3.33%) Metadata
7 44 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 40 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 40 (2.78%) MongoDB
10 33 (2.29%) Tableau
11 27 (1.88%) DynamoDB
12 26 (1.81%) MySQL
13 25 (1.74%) Redis
14 24 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.25%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 158 (10.97%) Jenkins
2 142 (9.86%) Git
3 113 (7.85%) GitLab
4 83 (5.76%) JIRA
5 58 (4.03%) SonarQube
6 31 (2.15%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
8 18 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.18%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.11%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.04%) JMeter
12 13 (0.90%) Postman
13 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.63%) git-flow
14 9 (0.63%) JUnit
14 9 (0.63%) Maven
14 9 (0.63%) Subversion
15 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 400 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 391 (27.15%) Finance
3 167 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 86 (5.97%) Marketing
7 71 (4.93%) Law
8 70 (4.86%) Banking
9 56 (3.89%) Retail
10 54 (3.75%) Games
11 41 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.57%) Legal
13 32 (2.22%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.53%) Back Office
16 18 (1.25%) Front Office
17 15 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.04%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.83%) Billing
18 12 (0.83%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 345 (23.96%) Senior
2 262 (18.19%) Developer
3 198 (13.75%) Lead
4 151 (10.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (9.38%) Architect
6 131 (9.10%) Software Engineer
7 104 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
9 64 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
9 64 (4.44%) Senior Developer
10 61 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
11 60 (4.17%) Consultant
12 55 (3.82%) Data Engineer
13 52 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
14 50 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
15 47 (3.26%) .NET Developer
15 47 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
16 43 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
16 43 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 43 (2.99%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (15.97%) .NET
2 153 (10.63%) React
3 137 (9.51%) REST
4 120 (8.33%) RESTful
5 101 (7.01%) SOAP
6 85 (5.90%) Lightning Web Components
7 80 (5.56%) CSS
7 80 (5.56%) Spring
8 77 (5.35%) HTML
9 76 (5.28%) Kafka
9 76 (5.28%) Spring Boot
10 71 (4.93%) Node.js
11 65 (4.51%) Visualforce
12 59 (4.10%) .NET Core
13 54 (3.75%) OAuth
14 50 (3.47%) AngularJS
15 49 (3.40%) .NET Framework
16 46 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
17 42 (2.92%) JSON
18 40 (2.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 251 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 137 (9.51%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.43%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.08%) Public Cloud
10 29 (2.01%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.88%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.11%) IoT
14 16 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
15 15 (1.04%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.97%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.76%) Podcast
17 11 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 159 (11.04%) Linux
2 87 (6.04%) Windows
3 57 (3.96%) Unix
4 37 (2.57%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.32%) Android
6 12 (0.83%) VMS
7 11 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.63%) CentOS
9 8 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.28%) Debian
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (59.31%) CI/CD
2 644 (44.72%) Agile
3 382 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
6 275 (19.10%) Mentoring
7 258 (17.92%) Software Engineering
8 247 (17.15%) AI
9 233 (16.18%) Containerisation
9 233 (16.18%) Test Automation
10 218 (15.14%) Microservices
11 217 (15.07%) Coaching
12 211 (14.65%) Observability
13 180 (12.50%) Analytics
14 167 (11.60%) Roadmaps
15 161 (11.18%) Data Modelling
16 160 (11.11%) Scrum
17 152 (10.56%) Event-Driven
18 138 (9.58%) Full-Stack Development
19 137 (9.51%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 413 (28.68%) Python
2 341 (23.68%) SQL
3 233 (16.18%) Java
4 185 (12.85%) JavaScript
5 172 (11.94%) C#
6 108 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 105 (7.29%) Bash
8 95 (6.60%) TypeScript
9 90 (6.25%) Apex Code
10 83 (5.76%) Go
11 71 (4.93%) Bicep
12 43 (2.99%) SOQL
12 43 (2.99%) SOSL
13 22 (1.53%) Scala
14 21 (1.46%) C++
14 21 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 19 (1.32%) PHP
15 19 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 175 (12.15%) Degree
2 159 (11.04%) Security Cleared
3 118 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 76 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.97%) CISSP
10 14 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.69%) PhD
12 10 (0.69%) 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
1 121 (8.40%) QA
2 66 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.43%) GDPR
6 21 (1.46%) NIST
7 16 (1.11%) GRC
8 10 (0.69%) WCAG
9 9 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.42%) SLA
12 4 (0.28%) NCSC
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) HL7
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.14%) SEPA
15 1 (0.069%) PMO
System Software
1 288 (20.00%) Docker
2 66 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.83%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) vCloud
11 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 408 (28.33%) Terraform
2 329 (22.85%) Kubernetes
3 132 (9.17%) Ansible
4 112 (7.78%) Grafana
5 85 (5.90%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.64%) Argo
7 29 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.76%) Puppet
10 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.63%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.56%) Istio
13 7 (0.49%) Kibana
14 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
14 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.42%) SCCM
15 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.35%) Control-M
15 5 (0.35%) Packer
15 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 310 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.22%) Salesforce
3 79 (5.49%) Google
4 56 (3.89%) Splunk
5 55 (3.82%) Oracle
6 48 (3.33%) Databricks
7 36 (2.50%) VMware
8 25 (1.74%) MuleSoft
9 24 (1.67%) SAP
10 22 (1.53%) Cisco
11 21 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.18%) Okta
13 15 (1.04%) Ab Initio
13 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.97%) IBM
15 11 (0.76%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.76%) Veeam
16 10 (0.69%) Palo Alto
17 8 (0.56%) New Relic
17 8 (0.56%) PagerDuty
782 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs