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

 6 months to
4 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,912 1,733 2,286
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.69% 10.28% 10.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 10.96% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 909 1,533
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £68,525 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +1.52% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%

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 20,083 15,814 19,645
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.74% 93.84% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14,322 8,472 11,653
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,460 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%

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 4 October 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 60 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.99%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.26%) Apache
5 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.47%) CMS
6 9 (0.47%) nginx
7 8 (0.42%) IIS
7 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.26%) WordPress
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.10%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 37 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.052%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (55.49%) Azure
2 602 (31.49%) AWS
3 592 (30.96%) Azure DevOps
4 266 (13.91%) SaaS
5 190 (9.94%) GCP
6 180 (9.41%) Power Platform
7 149 (7.79%) GitHub
8 143 (7.48%) Serverless
9 93 (4.86%) Azure AI
10 91 (4.76%) PaaS
11 80 (4.18%) PowerApps
12 77 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
13 75 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 75 (3.92%) Power Automate
14 74 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 71 (3.71%) Azure AKS
16 70 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 70 (3.66%) Entra ID
17 68 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
18 66 (3.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.25%) VPN
2 30 (1.57%) Firewall
3 29 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.46%) DNS
5 15 (0.78%) Internet
6 14 (0.73%) Broadband
7 11 (0.58%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
8 7 (0.37%) WAN
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
10 5 (0.26%) DHCP
10 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.26%) NGFW
10 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) HTTP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 4 (0.21%) TETRA
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
12 3 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (11.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 207 (10.83%) MongoDB
3 168 (8.79%) SQL Server
4 94 (4.92%) Power BI
5 88 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (2.77%) NoSQL
8 47 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
9 46 (2.41%) Metadata
10 40 (2.09%) Relational Database
11 39 (2.04%) Data Lake
11 39 (2.04%) MySQL
12 27 (1.41%) DynamoDB
13 24 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.10%) Redis
15 20 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (1.05%) Star Schema
16 15 (0.78%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 186 (9.73%) Git
2 131 (6.85%) JIRA
3 82 (4.29%) GitLab
4 74 (3.87%) Jenkins
5 47 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.20%) Selenium
7 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.84%) Postman
9 10 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.47%) JUnit
11 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.31%) Maven
13 6 (0.31%) NUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 481 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 357 (18.67%) Finance
3 210 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 144 (7.53%) Law
5 127 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
7 104 (5.44%) Legal
8 79 (4.13%) Banking
9 75 (3.92%) Retail
10 45 (2.35%) Back Office
11 42 (2.20%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.83%) Marketing
13 29 (1.52%) Advertising
14 22 (1.15%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.15%) Games
14 22 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 517 (27.04%) Senior
2 377 (19.72%) Developer
3 374 (19.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 248 (12.97%) Lead
5 188 (9.83%) .NET Developer
6 165 (8.63%) Software Engineer
7 131 (6.85%) Architect
8 117 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
9 111 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
9 111 (5.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 87 (4.55%) IT Manager
11 77 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 70 (3.66%) Data Engineer
13 66 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
13 66 (3.45%) Senior Developer
14 61 (3.19%) Senior Manager
15 54 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
16 53 (2.77%) Analyst
16 53 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
17 52 (2.72%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (20.35%) Terraform
2 371 (19.40%) .NET
3 208 (10.88%) ASP.NET
4 195 (10.20%) React
5 185 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 174 (9.10%) ASP.NET Core
7 136 (7.11%) Node.js
8 134 (7.01%) RESTful
9 118 (6.17%) CSS
10 110 (5.75%) REST
11 109 (5.70%) HTML
12 101 (5.28%) Blazor
13 91 (4.76%) Entity Framework
14 78 (4.08%) ML.NET
15 70 (3.66%) Middleware
16 55 (2.88%) AngularJS
17 52 (2.72%) Spring Boot
18 49 (2.56%) Spring
19 45 (2.35%) Kafka
20 34 (1.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 321 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 141 (7.37%) Product Ownership
3 113 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 85 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.29%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
8 48 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.99%) Mobile App
10 37 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.52%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
14 22 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.15%) Social Media
15 21 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.10%) Data Centre
15 21 (1.10%) Onboarding
16 20 (1.05%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (8.58%) Linux
2 102 (5.33%) Windows
3 64 (3.35%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 13 (0.68%) VMS
5 13 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.31%) Debian
8 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.10%) CentOS
10 2 (0.10%) Rocky
10 2 (0.10%) Solaris
11 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 958 (50.10%) CI/CD
2 842 (44.04%) Agile
3 476 (24.90%) Mentoring
4 435 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 408 (21.34%) Software Engineering
6 403 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 391 (20.45%) AI
8 345 (18.04%) Test Automation
9 324 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
10 268 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 249 (13.02%) Microservices
12 245 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 237 (12.40%) Coaching
14 212 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
15 209 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 208 (10.88%) Scrum
17 185 (9.68%) Observability
18 179 (9.36%) Containerisation
19 174 (9.10%) Analytics
20 171 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 467 (24.42%) C#
2 454 (23.74%) SQL
3 391 (20.45%) Python
4 303 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 217 (11.35%) Java
6 176 (9.21%) PowerShell
7 169 (8.84%) TypeScript
8 105 (5.49%) Bash
9 83 (4.34%) Bicep
10 31 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.52%) C++
12 26 (1.36%) Go
13 19 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.73%) PHP
15 14 (0.73%) Ruby
16 11 (0.58%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.58%) Groovy
16 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 243 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 200 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.27%) Degree
4 64 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.14%) CISSP
6 58 (3.03%) CISM
7 56 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
8 44 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (2.09%) DV Cleared
10 35 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.36%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.84%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.63%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.47%) PMP
15 9 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (10.98%) QA
2 84 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.77%) NIST
4 62 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.51%) ISO 22301
6 33 (1.73%) GDPR
7 32 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.89%) GRC
9 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.37%) WCAG
12 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) PMO
13 3 (0.16%) NCSC
14 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 245 (12.81%) Docker
2 54 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.78%) vSphere
7 4 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) iptables
9 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) QEMU
10 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 299 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.76%) Grafana
3 76 (3.97%) Ansible
4 40 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.57%) Argo
6 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
7 11 (0.58%) Puppet
8 10 (0.52%) Packer
9 8 (0.42%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.21%) Kibana
11 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.052%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.052%) Nagios
Vendors
1 521 (27.25%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.50%) Google
3 72 (3.77%) Oracle
4 47 (2.46%) Databricks
5 43 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 37 (1.94%) Facebook
7 36 (1.88%) YouTube
8 35 (1.83%) SAP
9 34 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.78%) VMware
10 28 (1.46%) Pega
11 27 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 18 (0.94%) Sony
13 17 (0.89%) Apple
13 17 (0.89%) Foundry
13 17 (0.89%) Informatica
14 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.63%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
2,878 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs