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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,723 2,233 3,473
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.42% 10.72% 14.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 12.19% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 890 1,506 2,921
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £69,308 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +2.68% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,875 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -

All Process and 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 15,511 18,315 22,094
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.84% 87.95% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,394 11,074 17,965
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 15 October 2025.

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
1 193 (11.20%) Confluence
2 27 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.87%) IIS
4 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.58%) CMS
5 10 (0.58%) nginx
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.46%) Apache
8 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.41%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.058%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.058%) Drupal
10 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.058%) Mendix
10 1 (0.058%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.058%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
2 22 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.41%) Shopify
5 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.12%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.058%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.058%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.058%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (61.40%) Azure
2 660 (38.31%) AWS
3 459 (26.64%) Azure DevOps
4 282 (16.37%) GCP
5 209 (12.13%) GitHub
6 155 (9.00%) Power Platform
7 134 (7.78%) SaaS
8 101 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
9 87 (5.05%) Serverless
10 78 (4.53%) Entra ID
11 73 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
12 72 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
13 71 (4.12%) PaaS
14 67 (3.89%) Power Automate
15 66 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
16 61 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
17 54 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
18 44 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
19 42 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 40 (2.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 316 (18.34%) VPN
2 262 (15.21%) Cisco IOS
3 55 (3.19%) Firewall
4 48 (2.79%) DNS
5 44 (2.55%) WAN
6 27 (1.57%) SD-WAN
7 25 (1.45%) LAN
8 21 (1.22%) Broadband
9 18 (1.04%) DHCP
10 17 (0.99%) Network Security
11 16 (0.93%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.70%) VoIP
14 10 (0.58%) SAN
14 10 (0.58%) VLAN
15 7 (0.41%) BGP
15 7 (0.41%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.35%) Fibre Channel
16 6 (0.35%) Internet
17 5 (0.29%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (21.65%) SQL Server
2 94 (5.46%) Power BI
3 69 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 42 (2.44%) MySQL
5 42 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (2.38%) Tableau
7 37 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 32 (1.86%) Data Lake
9 31 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 15 (0.87%) Metadata
14 13 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.70%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 338 (19.62%) JIRA
2 316 (18.34%) GitLab
3 283 (16.42%) SonarQube
4 264 (15.32%) Selenium
5 256 (14.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 252 (14.63%) Maven
7 251 (14.57%) Bitbucket
8 250 (14.51%) Cucumber
9 167 (9.69%) Git
10 112 (6.50%) Jenkins
11 21 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
12 18 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
14 16 (0.93%) Visual Studio
15 14 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.70%) MSBuild
17 11 (0.64%) Postman
17 11 (0.64%) TeamCity
18 9 (0.52%) webpack
19 8 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 600 (34.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 565 (32.79%) Finance
3 357 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 271 (15.73%) Banking
6 156 (9.05%) Retail
7 94 (5.46%) Investment Banking
8 90 (5.22%) Corporate Banking
9 72 (4.18%) Marketing
10 69 (4.00%) Law
11 56 (3.25%) Public Sector
12 29 (1.68%) Back Office
13 27 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (1.51%) Games
15 20 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.04%) Front Office
16 18 (1.04%) Legal
17 10 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 338 (19.62%) Software Engineer
2 306 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 256 (14.86%) Senior
4 229 (13.29%) Developer
5 142 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 130 (7.54%) Lead
7 124 (7.20%) Architect
8 97 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 74 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 63 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
11 60 (3.48%) Analyst
12 51 (2.96%) .NET Developer
13 49 (2.84%) Data Engineer
13 49 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
15 41 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (2.15%) AWS DevOps
17 36 (2.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 34 (1.97%) Applications Engineer
18 34 (1.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (23.39%) React
2 311 (18.05%) CSS
2 311 (18.05%) HTML
3 291 (16.89%) Spring
4 288 (16.72%) Spring Boot
5 279 (16.19%) Elastic Stack
6 276 (16.02%) Kafka
7 254 (14.74%) Redux
8 250 (14.51%) .NET
9 248 (14.39%) JPA
10 195 (11.32%) REST
11 174 (10.10%) RESTful
12 159 (9.23%) Hibernate
13 110 (6.38%) Jest
14 98 (5.69%) CSS3
15 97 (5.63%) HTML5
16 95 (5.51%) Sass
17 72 (4.18%) .NET Framework
18 57 (3.31%) Node.js
19 51 (2.96%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 343 (19.91%) Product Ownership
2 284 (16.48%) Enterprise Software
3 264 (15.32%) Cyberattack
4 183 (10.62%) Cloud Native
5 66 (3.83%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.32%) Data Centre
7 33 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 30 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (1.74%) NHS
9 27 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (1.16%) IoT
11 17 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 14 (0.81%) Mobile App
13 13 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.64%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.58%) AI Agents
16 10 (0.58%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 397 (23.04%) Linux
2 367 (21.30%) Windows
3 268 (15.55%) Android
4 34 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.33%) Unix
6 14 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.75%) VMS
8 12 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.52%) Debian
11 6 (0.35%) CentOS
12 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (52.12%) CI/CD
2 817 (47.42%) Agile
3 522 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 454 (26.35%) Microservices
5 422 (24.49%) Software Engineering
6 421 (24.43%) Containerisation
7 420 (24.38%) Test Automation
8 403 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 355 (20.60%) SDLC
10 351 (20.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 344 (19.97%) Full-Stack Development
12 340 (19.73%) Platform Engineering
13 315 (18.28%) Mentoring
14 304 (17.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 303 (17.59%) Performance Optimisation
16 300 (17.41%) Front End Development
17 298 (17.30%) Risk Management
18 285 (16.54%) Task Automation
19 281 (16.31%) Line Management
20 274 (15.90%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 628 (36.45%) Python
2 580 (33.66%) SQL
3 418 (24.26%) PowerShell
4 404 (23.45%) JavaScript
5 393 (22.81%) Java
6 378 (21.94%) Bash
7 250 (14.51%) C#
8 198 (11.49%) TypeScript
9 67 (3.89%) Bicep
10 34 (1.97%) Go
11 29 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.57%) Apex Code
13 23 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.16%) PHP
16 18 (1.04%) C
17 17 (0.99%) SOQL
18 16 (0.93%) C++
18 16 (0.93%) Perl
18 16 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 164 (9.52%) Degree
2 107 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 93 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 91 (5.28%) Azure Certification
5 90 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (3.25%) AWS Certification
7 36 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.93%) CISSP
14 15 (0.87%) CCNP
15 13 (0.75%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.75%) PMP
16 12 (0.70%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 6 (0.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (21.94%) QA
2 122 (7.08%) Accessibility
3 70 (4.06%) GDPR
4 69 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.21%) NIST
6 31 (1.80%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.04%) HIPAA
9 17 (0.99%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.64%) NCSC
11 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.52%) PMO
12 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.46%) SLA
12 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.23%) WCAG
14 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.058%) ECSS
15 1 (0.058%) GRC
System Software
1 743 (43.12%) Docker
2 280 (16.25%) vSphere
3 264 (15.32%) VMware NSX
4 263 (15.26%) Hyper-V
5 63 (3.66%) Active Directory
6 41 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.41%) NFS
11 5 (0.29%) Kamailio
12 4 (0.23%) Firmware
13 3 (0.17%) HDFS
13 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.058%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.058%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 565 (32.79%) Terraform
2 518 (30.06%) Kubernetes
3 395 (22.93%) Ansible
4 67 (3.89%) Grafana
5 56 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.81%) Argo
8 14 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (0.64%) SCCM
9 11 (0.64%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.29%) Kibana
11 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.17%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.17%) Puppet
13 2 (0.12%) Control-M
13 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 309 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 290 (16.83%) Cisco
3 283 (16.42%) Splunk
4 272 (15.79%) 3PAR
5 262 (15.21%) Juniper
6 247 (14.34%) Solace
7 57 (3.31%) Databricks
8 55 (3.19%) Oracle
9 48 (2.79%) Salesforce
10 41 (2.38%) VMware
11 38 (2.21%) Google
12 36 (2.09%) Red Hat
13 21 (1.22%) Meraki
13 21 (1.22%) SolarWinds
14 13 (0.75%) Okta
14 13 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 13 (0.75%) Veeam
15 11 (0.64%) NetApp
15 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.58%) IBM
1,272 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs