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

 6 months to
11 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,906 1,724 2,296
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.95% 10.61% 9.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.71% 11.41% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 937 1,640
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,494 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 September 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 55 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.63%) Confluence
3 27 (1.42%) Apache
4 24 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) CMS
8 8 (0.42%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 10 (0.52%) 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 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.052%) Notion
9 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
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%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,064 (55.82%) Azure
2 603 (31.64%) AWS
3 588 (30.85%) Azure DevOps
4 256 (13.43%) SaaS
5 192 (10.07%) GCP
6 168 (8.81%) Power Platform
7 143 (7.50%) Serverless
8 139 (7.29%) GitHub
9 93 (4.88%) Azure AI
10 80 (4.20%) PaaS
11 75 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
12 74 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 72 (3.78%) PowerApps
14 70 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (3.67%) Entra ID
15 68 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
15 68 (3.57%) Azure AKS
15 68 (3.57%) Power Automate
16 66 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
16 66 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.84%) VPN
2 32 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 27 (1.42%) Firewall
4 26 (1.36%) DNS
5 21 (1.10%) Broadband
6 13 (0.68%) Internet
7 9 (0.47%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
9 6 (0.31%) DHCP
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
9 6 (0.31%) WAN
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
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
12 3 (0.16%) SSL
12 3 (0.16%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 211 (11.07%) MongoDB
3 158 (8.29%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.41%) Power BI
5 83 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 52 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (2.26%) MySQL
10 39 (2.05%) Metadata
10 39 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 35 (1.84%) Data Lake
12 28 (1.47%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (1.05%) Redis
15 19 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.84%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.84%) Star Schema
17 11 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 178 (9.34%) Git
2 124 (6.51%) JIRA
3 85 (4.46%) GitLab
4 82 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 38 (1.99%) TeamCity
6 27 (1.42%) Selenium
7 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.84%) Postman
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.58%) NUnit
11 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.37%) JMeter
13 7 (0.37%) JUnit
13 7 (0.37%) Maven
14 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 453 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 353 (18.52%) Finance
3 178 (9.34%) Public Sector
4 143 (7.50%) Law
5 138 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 112 (5.88%) Legal
8 78 (4.09%) Banking
9 65 (3.41%) Retail
10 42 (2.20%) Marketing
11 36 (1.89%) Back Office
12 33 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.57%) Advertising
13 30 (1.57%) Games
14 24 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.84%) Legal Technology
17 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 486 (25.50%) Senior
2 382 (20.04%) Developer
3 356 (18.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 253 (13.27%) Lead
5 191 (10.02%) .NET Developer
6 157 (8.24%) Software Engineer
7 138 (7.24%) Architect
8 102 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
9 100 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
10 95 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (4.51%) IT Manager
12 75 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 68 (3.57%) Data Engineer
14 67 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 64 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
16 62 (3.25%) Senior Manager
17 58 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
17 58 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
18 55 (2.89%) Service Manager
19 52 (2.73%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (19.94%) Terraform
2 376 (19.73%) .NET
3 215 (11.28%) ASP.NET
4 204 (10.70%) React
5 191 (10.02%) .NET Core
6 183 (9.60%) ASP.NET Core
7 140 (7.35%) RESTful
8 138 (7.24%) Node.js
9 121 (6.35%) CSS
10 114 (5.98%) HTML
11 107 (5.61%) Blazor
12 106 (5.56%) REST
13 98 (5.14%) Entity Framework
14 82 (4.30%) ML.NET
15 67 (3.52%) Middleware
16 59 (3.10%) AngularJS
17 51 (2.68%) Kafka
18 49 (2.57%) Spring Boot
19 47 (2.47%) Spring
20 34 (1.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 315 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 141 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 102 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
4 81 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 64 (3.36%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
7 54 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.47%) Driving Licence
13 25 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 25 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.21%) Social Media
16 21 (1.10%) Podcast
16 21 (1.10%) Security Posture
17 20 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
18 17 (0.89%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.39%) Linux
2 99 (5.19%) Windows
3 56 (2.94%) Unix
4 20 (1.05%) Android
5 16 (0.84%) VMS
6 15 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.42%) Debian
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.26%) CentOS
8 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.10%) Solaris
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (48.85%) CI/CD
2 847 (44.44%) Agile
3 435 (22.82%) Mentoring
4 421 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 400 (20.99%) Software Engineering
6 394 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 382 (20.04%) AI
8 336 (17.63%) Test Automation
9 299 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 287 (15.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 254 (13.33%) Microservices
12 238 (12.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 223 (11.70%) Scrum
14 212 (11.12%) Coaching
15 209 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
16 196 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 189 (9.92%) Observability
18 188 (9.86%) Containerisation
18 188 (9.86%) Roadmaps
19 173 (9.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 458 (24.03%) C#
2 450 (23.61%) SQL
3 381 (19.99%) Python
4 307 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 203 (10.65%) Java
6 170 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 166 (8.71%) PowerShell
8 99 (5.19%) Bash
9 77 (4.04%) Bicep
10 29 (1.52%) C++
11 26 (1.36%) Go
12 25 (1.31%) T-SQL
13 19 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (1.00%) PHP
14 17 (0.89%) Apex Code
15 16 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.79%) Ruby
17 13 (0.68%) Groovy
18 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 238 (12.49%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.02%) SC Cleared
3 144 (7.56%) Degree
4 61 (3.20%) CISSP
5 59 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 58 (3.04%) CISM
7 56 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
8 45 (2.36%) DV Cleared
9 41 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 35 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 18 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.89%) DBS Check
14 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.73%) PMP
16 11 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.31%) CISA
17 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (11.44%) QA
2 77 (4.04%) NIST
3 73 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 61 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.52%) ISO 22301
6 35 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.52%) GDPR
8 25 (1.31%) GRC
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
9 9 (0.47%) WCAG
10 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.31%) PMO
12 5 (0.26%) IFRS
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
13 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 253 (13.27%) Docker
2 59 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.79%) vSphere
7 6 (0.31%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.10%) iptables
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 291 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 80 (4.20%) Ansible
3 79 (4.14%) Grafana
4 41 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.57%) Argo
6 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.89%) Puppet
7 14 (0.73%) Istio
8 10 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.42%) Packer
10 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 4 (0.21%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.10%) MIIS
13 2 (0.10%) Nagios
14 1 (0.052%) Check_MK
14 1 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 515 (27.02%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.25%) Google
3 64 (3.36%) Oracle
4 46 (2.41%) Databricks
5 43 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.10%) Facebook
7 39 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 33 (1.73%) SAP
8 33 (1.73%) VMware
9 31 (1.63%) YouTube
10 28 (1.47%) Pega
11 26 (1.36%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.00%) Sony
13 18 (0.94%) Apple
14 17 (0.89%) Yahoo!
15 15 (0.79%) Informatica
16 13 (0.68%) Foundry
16 13 (0.68%) Splunk
17 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
1,127 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs