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

 6 months to
1 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,482 1,666 3,029
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.17% 12.38% 9.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.88% 13.07% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 1,280 2,524
10th Percentile £43,791 £43,750 £41,400
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 £82,500
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 15,007 12,750 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 8,864 23,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,881
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +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 1 May 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 27 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.55%) Apache
2 23 (1.55%) Confluence
3 20 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.47%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.40%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) WordPress
11 1 (0.067%) Camunda
11 1 (0.067%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.067%) Drupal
11 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.067%) JBoss
11 1 (0.067%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.067%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (1.01%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.067%) Magento
8 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.067%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.067%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.067%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.067%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.067%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 836 (56.41%) Azure
2 520 (35.09%) AWS
3 407 (27.46%) Azure DevOps
4 250 (16.87%) GitHub
5 176 (11.88%) GCP
6 144 (9.72%) Serverless
7 132 (8.91%) SaaS
8 128 (8.64%) Power Platform
9 122 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
10 89 (6.01%) Entra ID
11 78 (5.26%) Amazon S3
12 75 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
13 69 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 60 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (3.91%) Azure AKS
16 58 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
17 55 (3.71%) PaaS
18 51 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
19 48 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.18%) Broadband
2 54 (3.64%) Firewall
3 23 (1.55%) DNS
4 21 (1.42%) VPN
5 20 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.08%) DHCP
7 12 (0.81%) Network Security
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
8 7 (0.47%) WAN
9 6 (0.40%) 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%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.20%) SCCP
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.20%) Wireless
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 94 (6.34%) NoSQL
3 79 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 52 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (3.51%) Power BI
6 49 (3.31%) Metadata
7 48 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (3.04%) Relational Database
9 35 (2.36%) Data Lake
10 33 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (1.75%) MySQL
12 22 (1.48%) Tableau
13 21 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 21 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (1.28%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.28%) RDBMS
14 19 (1.28%) Redis
15 14 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 148 (9.99%) Git
2 140 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 124 (8.37%) GitLab
4 89 (6.01%) JIRA
5 49 (3.31%) SonarQube
6 36 (2.43%) Selenium
7 19 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.28%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.94%) Postman
12 12 (0.81%) JMeter
12 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.74%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) JUnit
15 7 (0.47%) Locust
15 7 (0.47%) NUnit
15 7 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 372 (25.10%) Finance
2 354 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 156 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.93%) Marketing
7 72 (4.86%) Banking
8 67 (4.52%) Law
9 55 (3.71%) Retail
10 50 (3.37%) Games
11 38 (2.56%) Legal
12 33 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.48%) Back Office
14 22 (1.48%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.94%) Front Office
17 13 (0.88%) Billing
17 13 (0.88%) Health Technology
18 11 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 357 (24.09%) Senior
2 251 (16.94%) Developer
3 240 (16.19%) Lead
4 206 (13.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 141 (9.51%) Architect
6 119 (8.03%) Software Engineer
7 103 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 89 (6.01%) Senior DevOps
9 77 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.45%) Data Engineer
11 65 (4.39%) Consultant
12 63 (4.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 62 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
14 59 (3.98%) Senior Developer
15 57 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
16 55 (3.71%) Lead DevOps
17 53 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
18 49 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
19 47 (3.17%) Lead Developer
20 45 (3.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (14.30%) .NET
2 147 (9.92%) React
3 126 (8.50%) REST
4 112 (7.56%) RESTful
5 86 (5.80%) SOAP
6 85 (5.74%) Node.js
7 73 (4.93%) Spring
8 72 (4.86%) Kafka
8 72 (4.86%) Lightning Web Components
9 70 (4.72%) CSS
10 68 (4.59%) Spring Boot
11 67 (4.52%) HTML
12 55 (3.71%) Visualforce
13 54 (3.64%) .NET Core
14 51 (3.44%) AngularJS
15 49 (3.31%) .NET Framework
16 47 (3.17%) OAuth
17 41 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (2.77%) PySpark
18 38 (2.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 256 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 130 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (1.96%) Low-Code
6 29 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 29 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.28%) Data Centre
9 19 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
11 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.01%) Cyberattack
13 14 (0.94%) Client/Server
13 14 (0.94%) Security Posture
14 13 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 159 (10.73%) Linux
2 85 (5.74%) Windows
3 53 (3.58%) Unix
4 33 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.28%) Android
6 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.61%) VMS
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 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (56.82%) CI/CD
2 645 (43.52%) Agile
3 370 (24.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 345 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (19.70%) Mentoring
6 275 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
7 255 (17.21%) Software Engineering
8 253 (17.07%) Test Automation
9 245 (16.53%) Microservices
10 239 (16.13%) AI
11 230 (15.52%) Containerisation
12 217 (14.64%) Coaching
13 202 (13.63%) Observability
14 194 (13.09%) Scrum
15 183 (12.35%) Roadmaps
16 172 (11.61%) Analytics
17 158 (10.66%) Event-Driven
18 153 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
19 151 (10.19%) Data Modelling
20 139 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 383 (25.84%) Python
2 324 (21.86%) SQL
3 236 (15.92%) Java
4 178 (12.01%) JavaScript
5 171 (11.54%) C#
6 103 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 93 (6.28%) Bash
8 87 (5.87%) PowerShell
9 76 (5.13%) Apex Code
10 75 (5.06%) Go
11 57 (3.85%) Bicep
12 36 (2.43%) SOQL
12 36 (2.43%) SOSL
13 26 (1.75%) Scala
14 23 (1.55%) C++
15 21 (1.42%) PHP
16 20 (1.35%) Shell Script
17 18 (1.21%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.94%) Rust
19 13 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (11.00%) Degree
2 159 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 117 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 61 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.01%) CISSP
12 14 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.61%) PMP
16 8 (0.54%) PhD
17 7 (0.47%) CCNP
17 7 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
18 6 (0.40%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (8.64%) QA
2 72 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (2.43%) GDPR
6 31 (2.09%) NIST
7 19 (1.28%) GRC
8 11 (0.74%) WCAG
9 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.34%) IFRS
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 272 (18.35%) Docker
2 75 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.61%) vSphere
6 7 (0.47%) Firmware
7 6 (0.40%) 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%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.13%) Postfix
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.067%) KVM
11 1 (0.067%) QEMU
11 1 (0.067%) vCloud
11 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 396 (26.72%) Terraform
2 329 (22.20%) Kubernetes
3 128 (8.64%) Ansible
4 98 (6.61%) Grafana
5 74 (4.99%) Prometheus
6 50 (3.37%) Argo
7 25 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.28%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.21%) Puppet
10 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.61%) Istio
12 8 (0.54%) Packer
13 7 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.47%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.27%) Kibana
16 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 319 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.14%) Salesforce
3 68 (4.59%) Google
4 51 (3.44%) Oracle
5 50 (3.37%) Databricks
6 41 (2.77%) Splunk
7 38 (2.56%) VMware
8 29 (1.96%) SAP
8 29 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.42%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.21%) Cisco
11 17 (1.15%) Okta
12 16 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.81%) Ab Initio
14 10 (0.67%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.61%) IBM
16 8 (0.54%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.54%) Confluent
16 8 (0.54%) Juniper
17 6 (0.40%) OpenAI
734 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs