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

 6 months to
8 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,811 1,939 2,832
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.57% 11.93% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.36% 12.74% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,347 1,075 2,296
10th Percentile £44,400 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,438 £85,750 £83,281
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 17,480 15,224 29,144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 93.65% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,756 9,023 22,315
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 8 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 47 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.55%) Confluence
3 23 (1.27%) Apache
4 17 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.50%) CMS
8 8 (0.44%) IIS
8 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.39%) nginx
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.33%) WordPress
11 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.28%) SAS
12 4 (0.22%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.055%) Drupal
14 1 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 37 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.55%) Trello
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 1 (0.055%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
6 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 50 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
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 (55.38%) Azure
2 587 (32.41%) AWS
3 550 (30.37%) Azure DevOps
4 195 (10.77%) SaaS
5 176 (9.72%) GCP
6 163 (9.00%) Serverless
7 154 (8.50%) GitHub
8 151 (8.34%) Power Platform
9 92 (5.08%) PaaS
10 89 (4.91%) Azure AI
11 75 (4.14%) Azure AKS
11 75 (4.14%) Entra ID
12 73 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
14 67 (3.70%) Amazon S3
15 66 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
16 59 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
17 56 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 56 (3.09%) Power Automate
18 55 (3.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.37%) Broadband
2 47 (2.60%) Firewall
3 38 (2.10%) VPN
4 29 (1.60%) DNS
5 26 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.77%) Internet
7 13 (0.72%) DHCP
8 9 (0.50%) 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%) HTTP
12 3 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 207 (11.43%) MongoDB
2 123 (6.79%) SQL Server
3 82 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 60 (3.31%) Power BI
6 48 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
7 40 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 34 (1.88%) MySQL
9 33 (1.82%) Metadata
10 28 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
11 21 (1.16%) Redis
12 19 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 17 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.83%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.72%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 138 (7.62%) Git
2 111 (6.13%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.07%) GitLab
4 103 (5.69%) JIRA
5 44 (2.43%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.49%) Selenium
7 24 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.88%) Postman
10 13 (0.72%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.66%) Jaeger
12 11 (0.61%) JMeter
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 5 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 387 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 332 (18.33%) Finance
3 167 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 152 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 142 (7.84%) Law
6 122 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
7 78 (4.31%) Legal
8 73 (4.03%) Marketing
9 71 (3.92%) Banking
10 69 (3.81%) Retail
11 67 (3.70%) Games
12 30 (1.66%) Advertising
13 28 (1.55%) Back Office
14 24 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.83%) Legal Technology
17 13 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.66%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 410 (22.64%) Senior
2 398 (21.98%) Developer
3 301 (16.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 252 (13.91%) Lead
5 191 (10.55%) .NET Developer
6 176 (9.72%) Architect
7 148 (8.17%) Software Engineer
8 104 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
9 87 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
9 87 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 87 (4.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 69 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.53%) IT Manager
12 62 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
13 61 (3.37%) Senior Developer
14 57 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
15 56 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
15 56 (3.09%) Data Engineer
16 55 (3.04%) Consultant
17 51 (2.82%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (20.98%) .NET
2 214 (11.82%) React
3 204 (11.26%) ASP.NET
4 193 (10.66%) .NET Core
5 186 (10.27%) ASP.NET Core
6 146 (8.06%) RESTful
7 127 (7.01%) CSS
8 126 (6.96%) HTML
9 121 (6.68%) REST
10 115 (6.35%) Node.js
11 102 (5.63%) Blazor
12 99 (5.47%) Entity Framework
13 85 (4.69%) ML.NET
14 61 (3.37%) Spring
15 60 (3.31%) Middleware
16 58 (3.20%) Spring Boot
17 57 (3.15%) AngularJS
18 54 (2.98%) Lightning Web Components
18 54 (2.98%) SOAP
19 52 (2.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 295 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 127 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 81 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 41 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 38 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
12 28 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.44%) Driving Licence
14 25 (1.38%) Podcast
15 24 (1.33%) Onboarding
16 22 (1.21%) Social Media
17 21 (1.16%) Low-Code
17 21 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 181 (9.99%) Linux
2 96 (5.30%) Windows
3 62 (3.42%) Unix
4 25 (1.38%) Android
5 20 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.88%) VMS
7 10 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.50%) Debian
9 8 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.39%) CentOS
11 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Solaris
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (51.63%) CI/CD
2 843 (46.55%) Agile
3 407 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 407 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 382 (21.09%) Mentoring
5 336 (18.55%) AI
6 323 (17.84%) Software Engineering
7 310 (17.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 293 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
9 291 (16.07%) Test Automation
10 263 (14.52%) Microservices
11 243 (13.42%) Scrum
12 229 (12.64%) Containerisation
13 225 (12.42%) Roadmaps
14 191 (10.55%) Coaching
15 188 (10.38%) Technical Leadership
16 183 (10.10%) Observability
17 180 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 173 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
19 162 (8.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 431 (23.80%) SQL
2 403 (22.25%) C#
3 370 (20.43%) Python
4 303 (16.73%) JavaScript
5 223 (12.31%) Java
6 148 (8.17%) TypeScript
7 138 (7.62%) PowerShell
8 116 (6.41%) Bash
9 74 (4.09%) Bicep
10 56 (3.09%) Apex Code
11 48 (2.65%) Go
12 36 (1.99%) SOQL
12 36 (1.99%) SOSL
13 34 (1.88%) C++
14 25 (1.38%) PHP
15 20 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.72%) Ruby
17 13 (0.72%) Rust
18 12 (0.66%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 199 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 166 (9.17%) Degree
3 151 (8.34%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 50 (2.76%) CISSP
6 45 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.04%) CISM
7 37 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
8 34 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.71%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.66%) PMP
15 11 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.44%) PhD
18 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (9.99%) QA
2 61 (3.37%) NIST
3 52 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 34 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.66%) GDPR
7 29 (1.60%) ISO 22301
8 21 (1.16%) GRC
9 13 (0.72%) WCAG
10 10 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.28%) IFRS
13 5 (0.28%) PMO
14 4 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 265 (14.63%) Docker
2 67 (3.70%) 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
9 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.055%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 371 (20.49%) Terraform
2 316 (17.45%) Kubernetes
3 112 (6.18%) Ansible
4 79 (4.36%) Grafana
5 55 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.21%) Argo
7 20 (1.10%) Puppet
8 13 (0.72%) Istio
8 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.66%) Kustomize
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%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.28%) Kibana
16 3 (0.17%) Nagios
16 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 498 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.25%) Google
3 78 (4.31%) Salesforce
4 50 (2.76%) Oracle
5 48 (2.65%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.48%) VMware
7 42 (2.32%) Splunk
8 41 (2.26%) Facebook
9 34 (1.88%) Databricks
10 33 (1.82%) SAP
11 29 (1.60%) Pega
12 23 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.16%) YouTube
14 20 (1.10%) Apple
15 18 (0.99%) Sony
15 18 (0.99%) Yahoo!
16 17 (0.94%) Cisco
17 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
17 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
18 13 (0.72%) Red Hat
932 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs