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

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,589 1,921 3,033
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.91% 12.45% 8.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 13.17% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,175 1,061 2,453
10th Percentile £45,000 £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 £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16,449 14,587 30,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 94.52% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,886 8,474 23,847
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
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 19 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 38 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.64%) Confluence
3 24 (1.51%) Apache
4 17 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.57%) CMS
7 8 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.38%) WordPress
9 5 (0.31%) IIS
9 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.25%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
13 1 (0.063%) Drupal
13 1 (0.063%) JBoss
13 1 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 34 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.38%) Trello
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 1 (0.063%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.063%) Notion
6 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.063%) Magento
7 1 (0.063%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.063%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.063%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.063%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.063%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 866 (54.50%) Azure
2 520 (32.72%) AWS
3 472 (29.70%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (10.20%) GCP
5 155 (9.75%) Serverless
6 154 (9.69%) GitHub
7 139 (8.75%) Power Platform
8 132 (8.31%) SaaS
9 78 (4.91%) PaaS
10 76 (4.78%) Entra ID
11 72 (4.53%) Amazon S3
12 71 (4.47%) Azure AKS
13 70 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
14 69 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
15 62 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 60 (3.78%) Azure AI
17 54 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
18 52 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
18 52 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
18 52 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.09%) Broadband
2 50 (3.15%) Firewall
3 29 (1.83%) DNS
4 27 (1.70%) VPN
5 21 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.94%) DHCP
7 10 (0.63%) Internet
8 9 (0.57%) Network Security
9 6 (0.38%) BGP
9 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.38%) LAN
9 6 (0.38%) NGFW
9 6 (0.38%) OSPF
9 6 (0.38%) WAN
10 5 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.31%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.25%) SAN
11 4 (0.25%) SSL
12 3 (0.19%) DSL
12 3 (0.19%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (9.63%) MongoDB
2 152 (9.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 101 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 79 (4.97%) NoSQL
5 72 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.65%) Power BI
7 41 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 40 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (2.14%) Metadata
10 30 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (1.76%) MySQL
13 25 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.38%) Data Lake
15 21 (1.32%) RDBMS
16 20 (1.26%) DynamoDB
17 19 (1.20%) Redis
18 14 (0.88%) Delta Lake
19 11 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
19 11 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 137 (8.62%) Git
2 114 (7.17%) GitLab
3 110 (6.92%) Jenkins
4 98 (6.17%) JIRA
5 42 (2.64%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.70%) Selenium
7 20 (1.26%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.13%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.07%) Postman
10 13 (0.82%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.69%) JMeter
12 10 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.57%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.44%) NUnit
14 7 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.38%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.38%) Maven
16 5 (0.31%) Locust
16 5 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 340 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 314 (19.76%) Finance
3 162 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 132 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 122 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (4.91%) Law
7 66 (4.15%) Banking
8 63 (3.96%) Games
8 63 (3.96%) Marketing
9 62 (3.90%) Retail
10 46 (2.89%) Legal
11 24 (1.51%) Back Office
12 23 (1.45%) Advertising
13 22 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.94%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.88%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.76%) Billing
19 11 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 347 (21.84%) Senior
2 339 (21.33%) Developer
3 245 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 244 (15.36%) Lead
5 158 (9.94%) Architect
6 137 (8.62%) Software Engineer
7 135 (8.50%) .NET Developer
8 91 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 90 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
10 80 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
11 70 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 63 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
13 62 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
13 62 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
14 57 (3.59%) Data Engineer
14 57 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 54 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
16 53 (3.34%) Consultant
16 53 (3.34%) Lead Developer
17 48 (3.02%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (19.70%) .NET
2 186 (11.71%) React
3 145 (9.13%) ASP.NET
4 143 (9.00%) .NET Core
5 131 (8.24%) ASP.NET Core
6 119 (7.49%) RESTful
7 109 (6.86%) REST
8 108 (6.80%) Node.js
9 106 (6.67%) CSS
10 104 (6.54%) HTML
11 73 (4.59%) Entity Framework
12 70 (4.41%) Blazor
13 61 (3.84%) Spring
14 57 (3.59%) ML.NET
14 57 (3.59%) SOAP
14 57 (3.59%) Spring Boot
15 55 (3.46%) Lightning Web Components
16 54 (3.40%) AngularJS
17 52 (3.27%) Visualforce
18 46 (2.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 271 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 122 (7.68%) Product Ownership
3 72 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 35 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 27 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.70%) Public Cloud
11 25 (1.57%) Driving Licence
12 22 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 20 (1.26%) Podcast
14 19 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
14 19 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.94%) Cyberattack
15 15 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (10.38%) Linux
2 74 (4.66%) Windows
3 51 (3.21%) Unix
4 24 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.45%) Android
6 11 (0.69%) VMS
7 9 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.44%) Debian
9 7 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.38%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 856 (53.87%) CI/CD
2 719 (45.25%) Agile
3 391 (24.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 350 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 319 (20.08%) Mentoring
6 286 (18.00%) AI
7 265 (16.68%) Software Engineering
8 264 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
9 254 (15.98%) Full-Stack Development
10 243 (15.29%) Microservices
11 222 (13.97%) Containerisation
12 217 (13.66%) Test Automation
13 216 (13.59%) Scrum
14 209 (13.15%) Roadmaps
15 178 (11.20%) Coaching
16 170 (10.70%) Observability
16 170 (10.70%) Technical Leadership
17 154 (9.69%) Analytics
18 153 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
19 151 (9.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 375 (23.60%) SQL
2 330 (20.77%) Python
3 304 (19.13%) C#
4 237 (14.92%) JavaScript
5 218 (13.72%) Java
6 119 (7.49%) TypeScript
7 108 (6.80%) Bash
8 93 (5.85%) PowerShell
9 60 (3.78%) Bicep
10 57 (3.59%) Apex Code
11 54 (3.40%) Go
12 36 (2.27%) SOQL
12 36 (2.27%) SOSL
13 34 (2.14%) C++
14 23 (1.45%) PHP
15 15 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.88%) Rust
16 14 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 182 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 162 (10.20%) Degree
3 142 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.13%) CISSP
11 17 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.94%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.57%) PMP
15 8 (0.50%) PhD
15 8 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.44%) CCNP
17 6 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (9.38%) QA
2 53 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.70%) NIST
6 24 (1.51%) GDPR
7 18 (1.13%) GRC
8 13 (0.82%) WCAG
9 8 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.31%) IFRS
11 5 (0.31%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.19%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (16.05%) Docker
2 66 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.88%) vSphere
6 8 (0.50%) Firmware
6 8 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.063%) iptables
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) QEMU
10 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 370 (23.29%) Terraform
2 301 (18.94%) Kubernetes
3 121 (7.61%) Ansible
4 76 (4.78%) Grafana
5 62 (3.90%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.77%) Argo
7 18 (1.13%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.07%) Puppet
9 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.76%) Istio
11 10 (0.63%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.57%) Packer
13 8 (0.50%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.38%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.31%) Kibana
16 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 420 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.48%) Google
3 78 (4.91%) Salesforce
4 45 (2.83%) Oracle
5 44 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.71%) VMware
7 42 (2.64%) Splunk
8 38 (2.39%) SAP
9 37 (2.33%) Databricks
10 28 (1.76%) Facebook
11 19 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.07%) Cisco
13 15 (0.94%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.88%) Apple
14 14 (0.88%) YouTube
15 12 (0.76%) F5
15 12 (0.76%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.76%) Sony
15 12 (0.76%) Yahoo!
16 11 (0.69%) OpenAI
645 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs