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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,808 1,959 2,742
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.47% 11.84% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.24% 12.69% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 1,087 2,219
10th Percentile £44,850 £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 £84,128 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,300 £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 17,655 15,436 28,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 93.33% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,911 9,153 21,561
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 13 July 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 46 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.55%) Confluence
3 24 (1.33%) Apache
4 17 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.50%) IIS
7 8 (0.44%) CMS
7 8 (0.44%) nginx
7 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.39%) SAS
9 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.33%) WordPress
10 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.055%) Drupal
13 1 (0.055%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.55%) Trello
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
6 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 51 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.055%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.055%) Magento
7 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.055%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.055%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (55.48%) Azure
2 583 (32.25%) AWS
3 546 (30.20%) Azure DevOps
4 201 (11.12%) SaaS
5 177 (9.79%) GCP
6 158 (8.74%) Serverless
7 152 (8.41%) GitHub
7 152 (8.41%) Power Platform
8 93 (5.14%) PaaS
9 85 (4.70%) Azure AI
10 78 (4.31%) Azure AKS
11 75 (4.15%) Entra ID
12 74 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
14 68 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
15 66 (3.65%) Amazon S3
16 57 (3.15%) Power Automate
17 56 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
17 56 (3.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 56 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.04%) Broadband
2 46 (2.54%) Firewall
3 39 (2.16%) VPN
4 29 (1.60%) DNS
5 27 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.72%) Internet
7 12 (0.66%) DHCP
8 8 (0.44%) Network Security
9 6 (0.33%) BGP
9 6 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.33%) LAN
9 6 (0.33%) NGFW
9 6 (0.33%) OSPF
9 6 (0.33%) WAN
10 5 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.28%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.22%) SSL
12 3 (0.17%) DSL
12 3 (0.17%) Modbus
12 3 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (11.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 202 (11.17%) MongoDB
3 124 (6.86%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 61 (3.37%) Power BI
7 47 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.88%) MySQL
10 32 (1.77%) Metadata
11 28 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.22%) Redis
13 20 (1.11%) Data Lake
14 19 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (0.94%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (0.66%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
18 9 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 138 (7.63%) Git
2 113 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.08%) GitLab
4 106 (5.86%) JIRA
5 44 (2.43%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.49%) Selenium
7 26 (1.44%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.00%) Postman
9 17 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.72%) JMeter
11 12 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.44%) Maven
15 7 (0.39%) NUnit
15 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.33%) Jaeger
16 6 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 390 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 331 (18.31%) Finance
3 163 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 152 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.96%) Law
6 120 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
7 80 (4.42%) Legal
8 73 (4.04%) Banking
8 73 (4.04%) Marketing
9 69 (3.82%) Retail
10 67 (3.71%) Games
11 30 (1.66%) Advertising
11 30 (1.66%) Back Office
12 26 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.83%) Legal Technology
16 13 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.66%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 411 (22.73%) Senior
2 390 (21.57%) Developer
3 305 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 247 (13.66%) Lead
5 185 (10.23%) .NET Developer
6 179 (9.90%) Architect
7 146 (8.08%) Software Engineer
8 103 (5.70%) Senior DevOps
9 90 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
10 86 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 85 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 71 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (3.60%) IT Manager
13 65 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
14 64 (3.54%) Senior Developer
15 59 (3.26%) Consultant
16 56 (3.10%) Data Engineer
17 55 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
17 55 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
18 50 (2.77%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (20.46%) .NET
2 204 (11.28%) React
3 199 (11.01%) ASP.NET
4 185 (10.23%) .NET Core
5 181 (10.01%) ASP.NET Core
6 143 (7.91%) RESTful
7 126 (6.97%) CSS
8 125 (6.91%) HTML
9 123 (6.80%) REST
10 111 (6.14%) Node.js
11 98 (5.42%) Entity Framework
12 97 (5.37%) Blazor
13 81 (4.48%) ML.NET
14 60 (3.32%) Middleware
15 58 (3.21%) Spring
16 57 (3.15%) Spring Boot
17 56 (3.10%) Kafka
18 55 (3.04%) Lightning Web Components
18 55 (3.04%) SOAP
19 53 (2.93%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 296 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 132 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 84 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 41 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 36 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
10 30 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 26 (1.44%) Driving Licence
12 26 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.38%) Podcast
14 21 (1.16%) Social Media
15 20 (1.11%) Security Posture
16 19 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 176 (9.73%) Linux
2 99 (5.48%) Windows
3 56 (3.10%) Unix
4 23 (1.27%) Android
5 20 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.88%) VMS
7 9 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.44%) Debian
9 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.33%) CentOS
11 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (51.77%) CI/CD
2 837 (46.29%) Agile
3 415 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 402 (22.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 376 (20.80%) Mentoring
6 333 (18.42%) AI
7 324 (17.92%) Software Engineering
8 299 (16.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 292 (16.15%) Test Automation
10 290 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
11 264 (14.60%) Microservices
12 244 (13.50%) Scrum
13 221 (12.22%) Containerisation
13 221 (12.22%) Roadmaps
14 196 (10.84%) Coaching
15 191 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
16 184 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 182 (10.07%) Observability
18 175 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
19 167 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 425 (23.51%) SQL
2 395 (21.85%) C#
3 364 (20.13%) Python
4 293 (16.21%) JavaScript
5 222 (12.28%) Java
6 147 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 142 (7.85%) PowerShell
8 110 (6.08%) Bash
9 73 (4.04%) Bicep
10 57 (3.15%) Apex Code
11 41 (2.27%) Go
12 36 (1.99%) SOQL
12 36 (1.99%) SOSL
13 33 (1.83%) C++
14 25 (1.38%) PHP
15 20 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.72%) Groovy
17 13 (0.72%) Ruby
18 12 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 200 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 167 (9.24%) Degree
3 153 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.88%) CISSP
6 45 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.16%) CISM
8 37 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
9 30 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 27 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 18 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.66%) PMP
16 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.44%) PhD
18 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (10.12%) QA
2 62 (3.43%) NIST
3 50 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.77%) GDPR
7 29 (1.60%) ISO 22301
8 23 (1.27%) GRC
9 13 (0.72%) WCAG
10 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.28%) IFRS
13 5 (0.28%) PMO
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.17%) SLA
15 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 256 (14.16%) Docker
2 66 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.05%) vSphere
6 13 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 368 (20.35%) Terraform
2 309 (17.09%) Kubernetes
3 106 (5.86%) Ansible
4 82 (4.54%) Grafana
5 50 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.94%) Argo
7 21 (1.16%) Puppet
8 13 (0.72%) Istio
9 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.50%) Packer
12 8 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.33%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.28%) Kibana
16 3 (0.17%) Nagios
16 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
17 2 (0.11%) MIIS
Vendors
1 494 (27.32%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.87%) Google
3 79 (4.37%) Salesforce
4 52 (2.88%) Oracle
5 50 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.43%) VMware
7 42 (2.32%) Splunk
8 40 (2.21%) Facebook
9 33 (1.83%) Databricks
9 33 (1.83%) SAP
10 29 (1.60%) Pega
11 25 (1.38%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.16%) YouTube
13 19 (1.05%) Apple
14 17 (0.94%) Cisco
14 17 (0.94%) Sony
14 17 (0.94%) Yahoo!
15 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.72%) Red Hat
833 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs