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

 6 months to
18 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,450 2,063 2,971
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.86% 13.24% 10.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.28% 13.96% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 986 1,400 2,491
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 14,103 14,778 25,599
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.18% 94.85% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,134 8,791 21,233
10th Percentile £30,538 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,249 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 18 February 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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 26 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 15 (1.03%) Apache
7 12 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.62%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.069%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.069%) Camunda
11 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.069%) SAS
11 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.069%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.069%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 37 (2.55%) Oracle ERP
2 19 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.03%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Shopify
8 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.069%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.069%) Primavera
8 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.069%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.069%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 918 (63.31%) Azure
2 517 (35.66%) AWS
3 499 (34.41%) Azure DevOps
4 343 (23.66%) GitHub
5 174 (12.00%) GCP
6 153 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
7 146 (10.07%) Power Platform
8 142 (9.79%) SaaS
9 141 (9.72%) Serverless
10 97 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (6.69%) Entra ID
11 80 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
12 78 (5.38%) Amazon S3
13 76 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 73 (5.03%) Snowflake
15 72 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (4.97%) GitHub Copilot
16 66 (4.55%) dbt
16 66 (4.55%) PaaS
17 64 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.72%) Firewall
2 50 (3.45%) Broadband
3 28 (1.93%) VPN
4 27 (1.86%) DNS
5 21 (1.45%) DHCP
5 21 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.83%) Network Security
6 12 (0.83%) WAN
7 9 (0.62%) SAN
8 8 (0.55%) LAN
8 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.34%) Internet
10 5 (0.34%) VLAN
11 4 (0.28%) AMQP
12 3 (0.21%) IPsec
12 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
12 3 (0.21%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.21%) VoIP
12 3 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 88 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (5.17%) Power BI
6 51 (3.52%) Metadata
7 49 (3.38%) Tableau
8 48 (3.31%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (2.76%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.62%) Data Lake
12 34 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
13 30 (2.07%) MySQL
14 27 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (1.59%) DynamoDB
15 23 (1.59%) Redis
16 19 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.31%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.17%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 155 (10.69%) Jenkins
2 154 (10.62%) Git
3 105 (7.24%) JIRA
4 99 (6.83%) GitLab
5 45 (3.10%) SonarQube
6 35 (2.41%) Oracle Forms
7 27 (1.86%) Selenium
8 19 (1.31%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.24%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.83%) Postman
13 10 (0.69%) git-flow
13 10 (0.69%) JMeter
13 10 (0.69%) JUnit
14 9 (0.62%) Subversion
15 8 (0.55%) Maven
16 7 (0.48%) Storybook
16 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 431 (29.72%) Finance
2 416 (28.69%) Social Skills
3 171 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (7.66%) Public Sector
6 83 (5.72%) Marketing
7 56 (3.86%) Law
8 54 (3.72%) Retail
9 53 (3.66%) Banking
10 41 (2.83%) Telecoms
11 40 (2.76%) Games
12 28 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.52%) Back Office
14 22 (1.52%) Front Office
15 21 (1.45%) Legal
16 17 (1.17%) Tech for Good
17 15 (1.03%) Billing
18 11 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 362 (24.97%) Senior
2 258 (17.79%) Developer
3 186 (12.83%) Lead
4 137 (9.45%) Software Engineer
5 132 (9.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 129 (8.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 101 (6.97%) Architect
8 87 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
9 71 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 65 (4.48%) Data Engineer
12 60 (4.14%) Applications Engineer
13 54 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
14 49 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 47 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
16 46 (3.17%) Consultant
17 45 (3.10%) .NET Developer
18 43 (2.97%) Analyst
19 39 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
20 38 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (16.55%) .NET
2 165 (11.38%) React
3 140 (9.66%) RESTful
4 119 (8.21%) REST
5 97 (6.69%) SOAP
6 78 (5.38%) Spring
7 75 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 72 (4.97%) Node.js
9 71 (4.90%) CSS
9 71 (4.90%) Lightning Web Components
10 68 (4.69%) HTML
11 67 (4.62%) Kafka
12 60 (4.14%) AngularJS
13 57 (3.93%) .NET Framework
13 57 (3.93%) OAuth
14 50 (3.45%) JSON
15 48 (3.31%) .NET Core
15 48 (3.31%) Visualforce
16 46 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
17 38 (2.62%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 268 (18.48%) Cloud Native
2 150 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 58 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.55%) Low-Code
7 36 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.93%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.24%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.03%) IoT
15 14 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (0.83%) Security Posture
17 11 (0.76%) Data Centre
17 11 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
18 9 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 152 (10.48%) Linux
2 94 (6.48%) Windows
3 55 (3.79%) Unix
4 36 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.59%) Android
6 17 (1.17%) VMS
7 12 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.41%) CentOS
11 4 (0.28%) Debian
12 1 (0.069%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 682 (47.03%) Agile
3 377 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (25.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 312 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
6 293 (20.21%) Mentoring
7 278 (19.17%) Coaching
8 277 (19.10%) AI
9 243 (16.76%) Software Engineering
10 239 (16.48%) Test Automation
11 226 (15.59%) Microservices
12 208 (14.34%) Observability
13 207 (14.28%) Analytics
13 207 (14.28%) Containerisation
14 191 (13.17%) Asset Management
15 177 (12.21%) Data Modelling
16 164 (11.31%) Clean Code
17 154 (10.62%) Roadmaps
18 146 (10.07%) Scrum
19 135 (9.31%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 453 (31.24%) Python
2 382 (26.34%) SQL
3 238 (16.41%) Java
4 183 (12.62%) JavaScript
5 178 (12.28%) C#
6 137 (9.45%) PowerShell
7 123 (8.48%) Bash
8 112 (7.72%) TypeScript
9 77 (5.31%) Go
10 75 (5.17%) Apex Code
11 74 (5.10%) Bicep
12 37 (2.55%) PL/SQL
12 37 (2.55%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.07%) SOQL
13 30 (2.07%) SOSL
14 25 (1.72%) Scala
15 18 (1.24%) C++
16 17 (1.17%) T-SQL
17 16 (1.10%) PHP
18 12 (0.83%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 175 (12.07%) Degree
2 159 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.34%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (4.21%) Azure Certification
6 55 (3.79%) AWS Certification
7 31 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.10%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.76%) CISSP
11 11 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 11 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.62%) PMP
14 8 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.48%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.41%) QA
2 70 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 43 (2.97%) GDPR
4 43 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.24%) NIST
6 12 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.41%) SLA
8 6 (0.41%) WCAG
9 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.28%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) NCSC
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) SEPA
12 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.069%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 275 (18.97%) Docker
2 80 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.83%) vSphere
7 11 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.48%) Firmware
9 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.21%) Postfix
12 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.14%) NFS
12 2 (0.14%) vCloud
13 1 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.069%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 437 (30.14%) Terraform
2 338 (23.31%) Kubernetes
3 135 (9.31%) Ansible
4 116 (8.00%) Grafana
5 91 (6.28%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.83%) Argo
8 20 (1.38%) Kustomize
8 20 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.76%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.62%) SCCM
11 8 (0.55%) Kibana
12 6 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.41%) Puppet
13 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.34%) Control-M
13 5 (0.34%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.28%) logstash
14 4 (0.28%) Packer
14 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 316 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.34%) Salesforce
3 75 (5.17%) Google
4 72 (4.97%) Oracle
5 53 (3.66%) Databricks
6 42 (2.90%) Splunk
7 36 (2.48%) VMware
8 24 (1.66%) SAP
9 22 (1.52%) Okta
10 20 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.24%) Ab Initio
12 18 (1.24%) Cisco
13 15 (1.03%) SolarWinds
13 15 (1.03%) Veeam
14 14 (0.97%) IBM
14 14 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.76%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.69%) NetApp
17 9 (0.62%) 3PAR
758 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs