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

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,655 1,932 2,952
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.12% 12.35% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.88% 13.09% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 1,074 2,397
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,745 £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 £83,939 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 16,752 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,688 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 44 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.63%) Confluence
3 22 (1.33%) Apache
4 17 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.54%) CMS
7 8 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.36%) IIS
8 6 (0.36%) WordPress
9 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.30%) nginx
9 5 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
10 3 (0.18%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.060%) Appian
11 1 (0.060%) Drupal
11 1 (0.060%) JBoss
Applications
1 34 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Trello
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 1 (0.060%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.060%) Notion
6 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.36%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.060%) Magento
6 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.060%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.060%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.060%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.060%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 897 (54.20%) Azure
2 534 (32.27%) AWS
3 495 (29.91%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (10.03%) Serverless
5 165 (9.97%) GCP
6 154 (9.31%) GitHub
7 149 (9.00%) Power Platform
8 142 (8.58%) SaaS
9 85 (5.14%) PaaS
10 77 (4.65%) Entra ID
11 76 (4.59%) Azure AKS
12 75 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (4.29%) Amazon S3
14 68 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
15 67 (4.05%) Azure AI
16 60 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 60 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
17 57 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
18 55 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
19 54 (3.26%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.69%) Broadband
2 48 (2.90%) Firewall
3 32 (1.93%) VPN
4 28 (1.69%) DNS
5 22 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.85%) DHCP
7 10 (0.60%) Internet
8 9 (0.54%) Network Security
9 6 (0.36%) BGP
9 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.36%) LAN
9 6 (0.36%) NGFW
9 6 (0.36%) OSPF
9 6 (0.36%) WAN
10 5 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.30%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.24%) SSL
12 3 (0.18%) AMQP
12 3 (0.18%) DSL
12 3 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (10.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 167 (10.09%) MongoDB
3 110 (6.65%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 69 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 60 (3.63%) Power BI
7 42 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
8 37 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 34 (2.05%) Metadata
10 32 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (1.93%) MySQL
11 28 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (1.27%) Data Lake
14 20 (1.21%) Redis
15 19 (1.15%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.91%) Delta Lake
16 15 (0.91%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 10 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 141 (8.52%) Git
2 113 (6.83%) GitLab
3 110 (6.65%) Jenkins
4 97 (5.86%) JIRA
5 43 (2.60%) SonarQube
6 26 (1.57%) Selenium
7 24 (1.45%) TeamCity
8 17 (1.03%) Postman
9 16 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.79%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.73%) Jaeger
12 11 (0.66%) JMeter
13 10 (0.60%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.42%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.42%) Maven
14 7 (0.42%) NUnit
14 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.30%) Locust
15 5 (0.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 350 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 315 (19.03%) Finance
3 166 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 141 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (5.38%) Law
7 72 (4.35%) Banking
8 68 (4.11%) Retail
9 65 (3.93%) Marketing
10 64 (3.87%) Games
11 50 (3.02%) Legal
12 28 (1.69%) Back Office
13 25 (1.51%) Advertising
14 24 (1.45%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.91%) Legal Technology
18 12 (0.73%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.73%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 362 (21.87%) Senior
2 357 (21.57%) Developer
3 276 (16.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 241 (14.56%) Lead
5 171 (10.33%) Architect
6 149 (9.00%) .NET Developer
7 144 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 97 (5.86%) Senior DevOps
9 86 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 81 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
11 79 (4.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 70 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
13 62 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
13 62 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
14 60 (3.63%) Senior Developer
15 57 (3.44%) Data Engineer
16 56 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (3.20%) Consultant
18 51 (3.08%) Lead Developer
19 45 (2.72%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (20.24%) .NET
2 193 (11.66%) React
3 162 (9.79%) ASP.NET
4 157 (9.49%) .NET Core
5 146 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 123 (7.43%) RESTful
7 115 (6.95%) REST
8 110 (6.65%) CSS
9 109 (6.59%) HTML
10 108 (6.53%) Node.js
11 80 (4.83%) Entity Framework
12 78 (4.71%) Blazor
13 63 (3.81%) ML.NET
14 61 (3.69%) Spring
15 57 (3.44%) Spring Boot
16 56 (3.38%) SOAP
17 55 (3.32%) AngularJS
18 54 (3.26%) Lightning Web Components
19 52 (3.14%) Visualforce
20 49 (2.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 280 (16.92%) Cloud Native
2 124 (7.49%) Product Ownership
3 75 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 37 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 30 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (1.51%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.51%) Podcast
13 23 (1.39%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.33%) Onboarding
15 21 (1.27%) Low-Code
16 19 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
17 17 (1.03%) Social Media
18 15 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (10.39%) Linux
2 87 (5.26%) Windows
3 53 (3.20%) Unix
4 22 (1.33%) Android
4 22 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.97%) VMS
6 9 (0.54%) Debian
6 9 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.36%) CentOS
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (53.47%) CI/CD
2 748 (45.20%) Agile
3 394 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 362 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 332 (20.06%) Mentoring
6 302 (18.25%) AI
7 282 (17.04%) Software Engineering
8 269 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 257 (15.53%) Microservices
11 231 (13.96%) Scrum
12 224 (13.53%) Test Automation
13 217 (13.11%) Containerisation
14 215 (12.99%) Roadmaps
15 182 (11.00%) Coaching
16 179 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
17 174 (10.51%) Observability
18 162 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
19 157 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
20 152 (9.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 390 (23.56%) SQL
2 329 (19.88%) C#
3 326 (19.70%) Python
4 246 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 218 (13.17%) Java
6 122 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 113 (6.83%) Bash
8 103 (6.22%) PowerShell
9 68 (4.11%) Bicep
10 56 (3.38%) Apex Code
11 45 (2.72%) Go
12 36 (2.18%) SOQL
12 36 (2.18%) SOSL
13 33 (1.99%) C++
14 25 (1.51%) PHP
15 20 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 16 (0.97%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.79%) Rust
18 12 (0.73%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 191 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 163 (9.85%) Degree
3 146 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 42 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.15%) CISSP
11 17 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.79%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.54%) PMP
14 9 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.48%) PhD
16 7 (0.42%) CCNP
17 6 (0.36%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (9.18%) QA
2 52 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 44 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.63%) NIST
6 26 (1.57%) GDPR
7 19 (1.15%) GRC
8 12 (0.73%) WCAG
9 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.30%) IFRS
10 5 (0.30%) PMO
11 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.12%) SEPA
12 2 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 252 (15.23%) Docker
2 69 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.15%) vSphere
5 13 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.48%) Firmware
7 5 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.12%) iptables
11 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.060%) KVM
11 1 (0.060%) QEMU
11 1 (0.060%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 363 (21.93%) Terraform
2 300 (18.13%) Kubernetes
3 113 (6.83%) Ansible
4 79 (4.77%) Grafana
5 55 (3.32%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.36%) Argo
7 18 (1.09%) Puppet
8 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.79%) Istio
10 12 (0.73%) Kustomize
11 10 (0.60%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.54%) Packer
13 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.36%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.30%) Kibana
16 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
17 3 (0.18%) SCCM
17 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 444 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.02%) Google
3 79 (4.77%) Salesforce
4 46 (2.78%) Oracle
4 46 (2.78%) VMware
5 45 (2.72%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.54%) Splunk
7 36 (2.18%) Databricks
8 35 (2.11%) SAP
9 31 (1.87%) Facebook
10 22 (1.33%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.15%) Pega
12 17 (1.03%) Cisco
13 16 (0.97%) YouTube
14 15 (0.91%) Apple
14 15 (0.91%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.85%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.79%) Sony
16 13 (0.79%) Yahoo!
17 12 (0.73%) Red Hat
633 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs