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

 6 months to
11 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,364 2,141 2,781
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.10% 12.98% 12.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.40% 13.87% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 938 1,446 2,329
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £69,308 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +2.68% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,563 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 13,114 15,432 20,281
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.46% 93.53% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,324 9,112 16,422
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,938 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 39 (2.86%) Confluence
2 22 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (0.88%) Apache
5 12 (0.88%) IIS
6 10 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.073%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.073%) Camunda
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.95%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.44%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.073%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.073%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.073%) Primavera
7 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 908 (66.57%) Azure
2 508 (37.24%) Azure DevOps
3 467 (34.24%) AWS
4 338 (24.78%) GitHub
5 149 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
6 148 (10.85%) GCP
7 144 (10.56%) Power Platform
8 132 (9.68%) SaaS
9 117 (8.58%) Serverless
10 97 (7.11%) Entra ID
11 86 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (5.87%) Snowflake
13 74 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
14 71 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 67 (4.91%) dbt
16 65 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
17 63 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 63 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
18 62 (4.55%) Amazon S3
19 58 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.74%) Firewall
2 36 (2.64%) VPN
3 35 (2.57%) DNS
4 31 (2.27%) Broadband
5 24 (1.76%) WAN
6 22 (1.61%) DHCP
6 22 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.54%) Network Security
8 20 (1.47%) LAN
9 13 (0.95%) SAN
9 13 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.88%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.88%) VoIP
11 11 (0.81%) VLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (0.37%) BGP
14 5 (0.37%) DMZ
14 5 (0.37%) Internet
14 5 (0.37%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 99 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (6.01%) Power BI
4 81 (5.94%) NoSQL
5 74 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (4.11%) Tableau
7 48 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 39 (2.86%) MongoDB
10 38 (2.79%) Data Lake
10 38 (2.79%) Metadata
11 30 (2.20%) MySQL
12 28 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.69%) DynamoDB
14 22 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (1.32%) Redis
16 16 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (1.17%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.17%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 164 (12.02%) Git
2 146 (10.70%) Jenkins
3 114 (8.36%) JIRA
4 87 (6.38%) GitLab
5 37 (2.71%) Oracle Forms
6 30 (2.20%) Selenium
7 28 (2.05%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.10%) Postman
10 13 (0.95%) Jaeger
11 12 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.81%) git-flow
12 11 (0.81%) JMeter
12 11 (0.81%) JUnit
13 9 (0.66%) Subversion
13 9 (0.66%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.59%) Storybook
14 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.44%) Maven
General
1 419 (30.72%) Finance
2 403 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 161 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 81 (5.94%) Marketing
7 51 (3.74%) Law
8 47 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 46 (3.37%) Retail
10 37 (2.71%) Banking
11 26 (1.91%) Front Office
12 20 (1.47%) Games
12 20 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.17%) Legal
16 13 (0.95%) Tech for Good
17 12 (0.88%) Back Office
18 11 (0.81%) Billing
18 11 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 333 (24.41%) Senior
2 235 (17.23%) Developer
3 166 (12.17%) Lead
4 127 (9.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 126 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 107 (7.84%) Software Engineer
7 87 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
8 73 (5.35%) Architect
9 72 (5.28%) Senior Developer
10 69 (5.06%) Applications Engineer
11 64 (4.69%) Data Engineer
12 60 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
13 57 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (3.96%) Analyst
15 47 (3.45%) .NET Developer
15 47 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
16 46 (3.37%) Consultant
17 38 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
17 38 (2.79%) Support Engineer
18 37 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (16.72%) .NET
2 160 (11.73%) React
3 135 (9.90%) RESTful
4 88 (6.45%) REST
5 73 (5.35%) SOAP
6 66 (4.84%) Node.js
7 64 (4.69%) Spring
7 64 (4.69%) Spring Boot
8 63 (4.62%) CSS
9 60 (4.40%) HTML
10 59 (4.33%) Kafka
11 56 (4.11%) OAuth
12 54 (3.96%) .NET Framework
13 53 (3.89%) AngularJS
14 51 (3.74%) JSON
15 46 (3.37%) .NET Core
16 44 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
17 42 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
18 39 (2.86%) OAuth2
19 36 (2.64%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 257 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 126 (9.24%) Product Ownership
3 55 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.05%) Low-Code
9 26 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.32%) IoT
13 16 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 14 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 12 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (0.59%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 144 (10.56%) Linux
2 115 (8.43%) Windows
3 45 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.15%) Unix
5 20 (1.47%) Android
6 19 (1.39%) VMS
7 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.66%) Debian
11 7 (0.51%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.37%) CentOS
13 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (57.77%) CI/CD
2 650 (47.65%) Agile
3 361 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 335 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 303 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
6 275 (20.16%) AI
7 268 (19.65%) Mentoring
8 245 (17.96%) Coaching
9 231 (16.94%) Test Automation
10 207 (15.18%) Analytics
11 206 (15.10%) Software Engineering
12 203 (14.88%) Microservices
13 200 (14.66%) Asset Management
14 198 (14.52%) Observability
15 176 (12.90%) Containerisation
16 154 (11.29%) Data Modelling
17 147 (10.78%) Clean Code
18 141 (10.34%) Roadmaps
19 134 (9.82%) Scrum
20 128 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 433 (31.74%) Python
2 390 (28.59%) SQL
3 188 (13.78%) Java
4 181 (13.27%) C#
5 156 (11.44%) JavaScript
6 148 (10.85%) PowerShell
7 118 (8.65%) Bash
8 110 (8.06%) TypeScript
9 75 (5.50%) Bicep
10 65 (4.77%) Go
11 48 (3.52%) Apex Code
12 40 (2.93%) PL/SQL
13 39 (2.86%) Shell Script
14 27 (1.98%) Scala
15 22 (1.61%) T-SQL
16 16 (1.17%) R
17 15 (1.10%) C++
17 15 (1.10%) PHP
17 15 (1.10%) SOQL
17 15 (1.10%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 158 (11.58%) Degree
2 124 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 98 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (4.99%) Azure Certification
6 53 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.61%) ISTQB
10 19 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (1.03%) CCNP
14 13 (0.95%) CISSP
15 12 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 12 (0.88%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.88%) PMP
16 9 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.51%) ACCA
17 7 (0.51%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.97%) QA
2 65 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.37%) GDPR
5 25 (1.83%) NIST
6 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.66%) NCSC
9 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.59%) WCAG
10 7 (0.51%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.51%) SLA
11 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.37%) PMO
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.15%) GRC
14 2 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.073%) Basel III
System Software
1 243 (17.82%) Docker
2 84 (6.16%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.10%) vSphere
6 14 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.44%) Firmware
7 6 (0.44%) NFS
8 5 (0.37%) Kamailio
9 4 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.22%) Postfix
11 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.15%) vCloud
12 1 (0.073%) HDFS
12 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 412 (30.21%) Terraform
2 313 (22.95%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.60%) Ansible
4 103 (7.55%) Grafana
5 83 (6.09%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.79%) Argo
8 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 14 (1.03%) vCenter Server
10 13 (0.95%) SCCM
11 8 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.44%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.44%) Kibana
13 5 (0.37%) Control-M
14 4 (0.29%) logstash
14 4 (0.29%) Puppet
15 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 316 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.43%) Oracle
3 71 (5.21%) Salesforce
4 55 (4.03%) Databricks
5 51 (3.74%) Google
6 38 (2.79%) VMware
7 29 (2.13%) Cisco
8 26 (1.91%) Splunk
9 25 (1.83%) Red Hat
10 22 (1.61%) SolarWinds
11 21 (1.54%) Okta
11 21 (1.54%) SAP
12 19 (1.39%) Veeam
13 18 (1.32%) Ab Initio
14 16 (1.17%) ServiceNow
15 14 (1.03%) IBM
15 14 (1.03%) NetApp
16 13 (0.95%) 3PAR
17 11 (0.81%) Dynatrace
17 11 (0.81%) MuleSoft
810 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs