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

 6 months to
24 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,477 1,695 3,034
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.23% 12.70% 9.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% 13.41% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 1,305 2,528
10th Percentile £42,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £85,000 £88,750 £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 14,918 12,640 29,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.13% 94.72% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,427 8,943 23,621
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 24 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 25 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.62%) Confluence
3 22 (1.49%) Apache
4 20 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.41%) CMS
9 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) WordPress
12 1 (0.068%) Camunda
12 1 (0.068%) Drupal
12 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.068%) JBoss
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.068%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (1.02%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.068%) Magento
8 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.068%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.068%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 844 (57.14%) Azure
2 526 (35.61%) AWS
3 413 (27.96%) Azure DevOps
4 263 (17.81%) GitHub
5 179 (12.12%) GCP
6 148 (10.02%) Serverless
7 133 (9.00%) SaaS
8 129 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
9 120 (8.12%) Power Platform
10 86 (5.82%) Entra ID
11 81 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
11 81 (5.48%) Amazon S3
12 74 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
15 56 (3.79%) Azure AKS
15 56 (3.79%) PaaS
16 54 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 52 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 50 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.93%) Broadband
2 57 (3.86%) Firewall
3 23 (1.56%) DNS
4 21 (1.42%) VPN
5 20 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.08%) DHCP
7 12 (0.81%) Network Security
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
8 7 (0.47%) WAN
9 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.27%) AMQP
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) SSL
11 3 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.20%) Internet
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.20%) SCCP
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 97 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (3.72%) MongoDB
5 52 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
6 50 (3.39%) Power BI
7 48 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (3.18%) Metadata
9 41 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.37%) Data Lake
11 34 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.62%) DynamoDB
13 22 (1.49%) Tableau
14 21 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.42%) MySQL
15 19 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.22%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.22%) Redis
17 14 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 147 (9.95%) Git
2 138 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 115 (7.79%) GitLab
4 88 (5.96%) JIRA
5 49 (3.32%) SonarQube
6 35 (2.37%) Selenium
7 19 (1.29%) Jaeger
8 18 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.15%) TeamCity
10 16 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (0.88%) Postman
12 12 (0.81%) JMeter
12 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.74%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) JUnit
15 8 (0.54%) Subversion
16 7 (0.47%) Locust
16 7 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 381 (25.80%) Finance
2 368 (24.92%) Social Skills
3 160 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 74 (5.01%) Marketing
7 73 (4.94%) Banking
8 68 (4.60%) Law
9 55 (3.72%) Retail
10 50 (3.39%) Games
11 38 (2.57%) Legal
12 37 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.42%) Back Office
16 16 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.02%) Front Office
18 13 (0.88%) Billing
19 12 (0.81%) Health Technology
19 12 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 359 (24.31%) Senior
2 252 (17.06%) Developer
3 229 (15.50%) Lead
4 191 (12.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (9.34%) Architect
6 124 (8.40%) Software Engineer
7 107 (7.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 86 (5.82%) Senior DevOps
9 80 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.33%) Consultant
10 64 (4.33%) Data Engineer
11 61 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
12 59 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 58 (3.93%) Senior Developer
14 56 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
15 53 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
16 52 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
17 47 (3.18%) Lead DevOps
18 45 (3.05%) Lead Developer
19 44 (2.98%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (14.96%) .NET
2 153 (10.36%) React
3 128 (8.67%) REST
4 116 (7.85%) RESTful
5 88 (5.96%) SOAP
6 87 (5.89%) Node.js
7 74 (5.01%) CSS
7 74 (5.01%) Lightning Web Components
8 73 (4.94%) Kafka
8 73 (4.94%) Spring
9 71 (4.81%) HTML
10 67 (4.54%) Spring Boot
11 56 (3.79%) .NET Core
11 56 (3.79%) Visualforce
12 53 (3.59%) AngularJS
13 51 (3.45%) OAuth
14 49 (3.32%) .NET Framework
15 43 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
16 41 (2.78%) PySpark
17 40 (2.71%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 255 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 128 (8.67%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.10%) Low-Code
7 31 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
11 18 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.02%) Cyberattack
14 15 (1.02%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.88%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.63%) Linux
2 84 (5.69%) Windows
3 52 (3.52%) Unix
4 35 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.35%) Android
6 10 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.61%) VMS
8 8 (0.54%) CentOS
9 5 (0.34%) Debian
9 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 649 (43.94%) Agile
3 377 (25.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 351 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 291 (19.70%) Mentoring
6 284 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 262 (17.74%) Software Engineering
8 250 (16.93%) Test Automation
9 242 (16.38%) AI
10 238 (16.11%) Microservices
11 236 (15.98%) Containerisation
12 223 (15.10%) Coaching
13 207 (14.01%) Observability
14 188 (12.73%) Scrum
15 185 (12.53%) Roadmaps
16 171 (11.58%) Analytics
17 156 (10.56%) Event-Driven
18 150 (10.16%) Data Modelling
19 147 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
20 139 (9.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 389 (26.34%) Python
2 328 (22.21%) SQL
3 234 (15.84%) Java
4 183 (12.39%) JavaScript
5 179 (12.12%) C#
6 102 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 96 (6.50%) Bash
8 91 (6.16%) PowerShell
9 79 (5.35%) Go
10 78 (5.28%) Apex Code
11 60 (4.06%) Bicep
12 36 (2.44%) SOQL
12 36 (2.44%) SOSL
13 25 (1.69%) Scala
14 23 (1.56%) C++
15 21 (1.42%) PHP
16 20 (1.35%) Shell Script
17 17 (1.15%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.95%) Rust
19 13 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 171 (11.58%) Degree
2 154 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 112 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 64 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.15%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.02%) CISSP
11 15 (1.02%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.61%) PMP
16 8 (0.54%) PhD
16 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.47%) CCNP
18 6 (0.41%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.12%) QA
2 66 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.51%) GDPR
6 31 (2.10%) NIST
7 19 (1.29%) GRC
8 12 (0.81%) WCAG
9 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.27%) IFRS
11 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.20%) NCSC
11 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.14%) SEPA
12 2 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 276 (18.69%) Docker
2 69 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.61%) vSphere
6 8 (0.54%) Firmware
7 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.068%) KVM
11 1 (0.068%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) vCloud
11 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 401 (27.15%) Terraform
2 332 (22.48%) Kubernetes
3 130 (8.80%) Ansible
4 103 (6.97%) Grafana
5 78 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.32%) Argo
7 26 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.22%) Puppet
10 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.54%) Istio
12 7 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.47%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.41%) Packer
13 6 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
15 4 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 316 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.30%) Salesforce
3 65 (4.40%) Google
4 51 (3.45%) Oracle
5 50 (3.39%) Databricks
6 42 (2.84%) Splunk
7 37 (2.51%) VMware
8 27 (1.83%) SAP
8 27 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 19 (1.29%) Cisco
11 17 (1.15%) Okta
12 16 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 13 (0.88%) Ab Initio
14 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.61%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.61%) IBM
16 8 (0.54%) Confluent
16 8 (0.54%) Juniper
16 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty
911 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs