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

 6 months to
22 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,478 1,686 3,030
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.27% 12.61% 9.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 13.32% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 1,302 2,518
10th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £85,000 £90,000 £82,313
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 14,862 12,659 29,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.70% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,395 8,961 23,539
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 22 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%) Confluence
1 25 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.42%) Apache
3 19 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.34%) CMS
8 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 2 (0.14%) WordPress
10 1 (0.068%) Camunda
10 1 (0.068%) Drupal
10 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.068%) JBoss
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
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 (1.01%) 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
7 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Shopify
8 1 (0.068%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 847 (57.31%) Azure
2 535 (36.20%) AWS
3 411 (27.81%) Azure DevOps
4 271 (18.34%) GitHub
5 189 (12.79%) GCP
6 151 (10.22%) Serverless
7 137 (9.27%) SaaS
8 134 (9.07%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (7.98%) Power Platform
10 88 (5.95%) Entra ID
11 84 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
12 83 (5.62%) Amazon S3
13 81 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 67 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
16 57 (3.86%) PaaS
17 55 (3.72%) dbt
18 54 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 54 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
19 52 (3.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.92%) Broadband
2 57 (3.86%) Firewall
3 26 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.56%) DNS
5 21 (1.42%) VPN
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
2 101 (6.83%) NoSQL
3 82 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (3.59%) MongoDB
5 51 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 49 (3.32%) Power BI
7 46 (3.11%) Metadata
8 41 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (2.37%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 24 (1.62%) Redis
13 23 (1.56%) MySQL
14 22 (1.49%) Tableau
15 20 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.29%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 148 (10.01%) Git
2 139 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 113 (7.65%) GitLab
4 87 (5.89%) JIRA
5 49 (3.32%) SonarQube
6 34 (2.30%) Selenium
7 19 (1.29%) Jaeger
8 18 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 17 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (0.81%) JMeter
11 12 (0.81%) Postman
11 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.74%) Maven
13 9 (0.61%) JUnit
13 9 (0.61%) Subversion
14 7 (0.47%) Locust
14 7 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 380 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 379 (25.64%) Finance
3 162 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 74 (5.01%) Banking
6 74 (5.01%) Marketing
7 69 (4.67%) Law
8 56 (3.79%) Retail
9 50 (3.38%) Games
10 38 (2.57%) Legal
10 38 (2.57%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.62%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.49%) Back Office
14 16 (1.08%) Front Office
15 15 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.81%) Billing
16 12 (0.81%) Health Technology
16 12 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 361 (24.42%) Senior
2 253 (17.12%) Developer
3 226 (15.29%) Lead
4 186 (12.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (9.34%) Architect
6 127 (8.59%) Software Engineer
7 107 (7.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 85 (5.75%) Senior DevOps
9 81 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.26%) Consultant
11 63 (4.26%) Data Engineer
12 57 (3.86%) Senior Developer
12 57 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 56 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
14 53 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
14 53 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (3.11%) Lead Developer
16 45 (3.04%) .NET Developer
17 44 (2.98%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (14.95%) .NET
2 158 (10.69%) React
3 128 (8.66%) REST
4 119 (8.05%) RESTful
5 88 (5.95%) SOAP
6 84 (5.68%) Node.js
7 77 (5.21%) CSS
8 75 (5.07%) Kafka
8 75 (5.07%) Spring
9 74 (5.01%) HTML
9 74 (5.01%) Lightning Web Components
10 69 (4.67%) Spring Boot
11 56 (3.79%) .NET Core
11 56 (3.79%) Visualforce
12 54 (3.65%) AngularJS
13 51 (3.45%) OAuth
14 49 (3.32%) .NET Framework
15 44 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
16 41 (2.77%) PySpark
17 40 (2.71%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 258 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 130 (8.80%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (2.64%) 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 27 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
11 17 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.15%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.01%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.95%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 161 (10.89%) Linux
2 83 (5.62%) Windows
3 56 (3.79%) Unix
4 36 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.35%) Android
6 10 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.68%) VMS
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
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
1 857 (57.98%) CI/CD
2 647 (43.78%) Agile
3 386 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 353 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 289 (19.55%) Mentoring
6 288 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
7 266 (18.00%) Software Engineering
8 248 (16.78%) Test Automation
9 241 (16.31%) Microservices
10 239 (16.17%) AI
11 238 (16.10%) Containerisation
12 222 (15.02%) Coaching
13 212 (14.34%) Observability
14 185 (12.52%) Roadmaps
15 184 (12.45%) Scrum
16 168 (11.37%) Analytics
17 155 (10.49%) Event-Driven
18 148 (10.01%) Data Modelling
19 147 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
20 141 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 393 (26.59%) Python
2 329 (22.26%) SQL
3 233 (15.76%) Java
4 184 (12.45%) JavaScript
5 177 (11.98%) C#
6 105 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 96 (6.50%) Bash
8 92 (6.22%) PowerShell
9 79 (5.35%) Go
10 78 (5.28%) Apex Code
11 61 (4.13%) Bicep
12 36 (2.44%) SOQL
12 36 (2.44%) SOSL
13 25 (1.69%) Scala
14 21 (1.42%) C++
14 21 (1.42%) PHP
15 20 (1.35%) Shell Script
16 17 (1.15%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.95%) Rust
18 13 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (11.71%) Degree
2 161 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.01%) CISSP
11 15 (1.01%) 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
1 121 (8.19%) QA
2 66 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.50%) GDPR
6 31 (2.10%) NIST
7 19 (1.29%) GRC
8 13 (0.88%) 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
1 285 (19.28%) Docker
2 72 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) 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%) Postfix
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
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
1 408 (27.60%) Terraform
2 337 (22.80%) Kubernetes
3 133 (9.00%) Ansible
4 105 (7.10%) Grafana
5 79 (5.35%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.18%) Argo
7 27 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.22%) Puppet
10 9 (0.61%) 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
14 5 (0.34%) Kibana
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 317 (21.45%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.29%) Salesforce
3 71 (4.80%) Google
4 50 (3.38%) Databricks
4 50 (3.38%) Oracle
5 43 (2.91%) Splunk
6 36 (2.44%) VMware
7 26 (1.76%) SAP
8 25 (1.69%) 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%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.61%) IBM
16 8 (0.54%) Confluent
16 8 (0.54%) Juniper
16 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty
741 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs