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

 6 months to
11 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,813 1,954 2,763
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.51% 11.86% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.28% 12.70% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 1,081 2,234
10th Percentile £44,600 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,925 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,965
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 17,644 15,382 28,524
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 93.39% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,905 9,093 21,741
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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% -8.72%

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 11 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 46 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.54%) Confluence
3 24 (1.32%) Apache
4 17 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.50%) IIS
7 8 (0.44%) CMS
7 8 (0.44%) nginx
7 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.33%) SAS
8 6 (0.33%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.055%) Drupal
12 1 (0.055%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.55%) Trello
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
6 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 51 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
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 1,007 (55.54%) Azure
2 586 (32.32%) AWS
3 548 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
4 201 (11.09%) SaaS
5 179 (9.87%) GCP
6 161 (8.88%) Serverless
7 154 (8.49%) GitHub
8 152 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 93 (5.13%) PaaS
10 85 (4.69%) Azure AI
11 78 (4.30%) Azure AKS
12 76 (4.19%) Entra ID
13 74 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
15 68 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
16 67 (3.70%) Amazon S3
17 57 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 57 (3.14%) Power Automate
18 56 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 56 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.03%) Broadband
2 46 (2.54%) Firewall
3 39 (2.15%) VPN
4 29 (1.60%) DNS
5 27 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.77%) Internet
7 12 (0.66%) DHCP
8 8 (0.44%) 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
1 204 (11.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 203 (11.20%) MongoDB
3 124 (6.84%) SQL Server
4 83 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 63 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 61 (3.36%) Power BI
7 47 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.88%) MySQL
10 32 (1.77%) Metadata
11 28 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.21%) Redis
13 20 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (1.10%) Data Lake
14 18 (0.99%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (0.66%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
18 9 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 139 (7.67%) Git
2 114 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.07%) GitLab
4 106 (5.85%) JIRA
5 44 (2.43%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.49%) Selenium
7 26 (1.43%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.99%) Postman
9 17 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.72%) JMeter
11 12 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.44%) Maven
14 7 (0.39%) NUnit
14 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.33%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.28%) Locust
General
1 393 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 332 (18.31%) Finance
3 163 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 152 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.94%) Law
6 122 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
7 80 (4.41%) Legal
8 73 (4.03%) Banking
8 73 (4.03%) Marketing
9 69 (3.81%) Retail
10 67 (3.70%) Games
11 30 (1.65%) Advertising
11 30 (1.65%) Back Office
12 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.83%) Legal Technology
16 13 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.66%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 411 (22.67%) Senior
2 393 (21.68%) Developer
3 303 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 247 (13.62%) Lead
5 186 (10.26%) .NET Developer
6 180 (9.93%) Architect
7 147 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 102 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
9 89 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
10 85 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 85 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 71 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
12 65 (3.59%) IT Manager
13 64 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
13 64 (3.53%) Senior Developer
14 58 (3.20%) Consultant
15 56 (3.09%) Data Engineer
16 55 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
16 55 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
17 50 (2.76%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (20.57%) .NET
2 206 (11.36%) React
3 199 (10.98%) ASP.NET
4 187 (10.31%) .NET Core
5 181 (9.98%) ASP.NET Core
6 143 (7.89%) RESTful
7 127 (7.00%) CSS
8 126 (6.95%) HTML
9 124 (6.84%) REST
10 112 (6.18%) Node.js
11 98 (5.41%) Blazor
11 98 (5.41%) Entity Framework
12 81 (4.47%) ML.NET
13 60 (3.31%) Middleware
14 59 (3.25%) Spring
15 58 (3.20%) Spring Boot
16 56 (3.09%) Kafka
17 55 (3.03%) AngularJS
17 55 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
17 55 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 297 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 132 (7.28%) Product Ownership
3 84 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.21%) Mobile App
6 40 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 37 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 30 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
11 28 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 26 (1.43%) Driving Licence
13 25 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.38%) Podcast
14 21 (1.16%) Social Media
15 20 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 19 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 177 (9.76%) Linux
2 99 (5.46%) Windows
3 57 (3.14%) Unix
4 23 (1.27%) 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 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 839 (46.28%) Agile
3 418 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 405 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 376 (20.74%) Mentoring
6 335 (18.48%) AI
7 325 (17.93%) Software Engineering
8 300 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 293 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
9 293 (16.16%) Test Automation
10 265 (14.62%) Microservices
11 244 (13.46%) Scrum
12 221 (12.19%) Containerisation
13 220 (12.13%) Roadmaps
14 195 (10.76%) Coaching
15 191 (10.54%) Technical Leadership
16 184 (10.15%) Observability
16 184 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 176 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
18 167 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 428 (23.61%) SQL
2 396 (21.84%) C#
3 365 (20.13%) Python
4 293 (16.16%) JavaScript
5 224 (12.36%) Java
6 147 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 142 (7.83%) PowerShell
8 110 (6.07%) Bash
9 74 (4.08%) Bicep
10 57 (3.14%) Apex Code
11 42 (2.32%) 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%) Groovy
17 13 (0.72%) Ruby
17 13 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 200 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 168 (9.27%) Degree
3 153 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 67 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 51 (2.81%) CISSP
6 45 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.10%) CISM
8 37 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
9 31 (1.71%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.66%) PMP
15 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.44%) PhD
17 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (10.20%) QA
2 61 (3.36%) NIST
3 50 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.71%) GDPR
7 29 (1.60%) ISO 22301
8 22 (1.21%) GRC
9 13 (0.72%) WCAG
10 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.28%) IFRS
12 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.28%) PMO
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.17%) SLA
14 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 259 (14.29%) Docker
2 66 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.21%) 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
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
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 (20.46%) Terraform
2 311 (17.15%) Kubernetes
3 107 (5.90%) Ansible
4 83 (4.58%) Grafana
5 51 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.93%) Argo
7 21 (1.16%) Puppet
8 13 (0.72%) Istio
9 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Kustomize
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
17 2 (0.11%) MIIS
Vendors
1 495 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.85%) Google
3 79 (4.36%) Salesforce
4 52 (2.87%) Oracle
5 50 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.43%) VMware
7 42 (2.32%) Splunk
8 40 (2.21%) Facebook
9 34 (1.88%) SAP
10 33 (1.82%) Databricks
11 29 (1.60%) Pega
12 25 (1.38%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.16%) YouTube
14 19 (1.05%) Apple
15 17 (0.94%) Cisco
15 17 (0.94%) Sony
15 17 (0.94%) Yahoo!
16 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
17 13 (0.72%) Red Hat
683 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs