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

 6 months to
18 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,402 2,161 2,831
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.16% 13.15% 12.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.51% 14.00% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 968 1,458 2,374
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +6.06% -6.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,001 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,820
% change year-on-year - +3.21% -3.11%

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 13,337 15,436 21,353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.10% 93.91% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 9,087 17,391
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £45,000
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 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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 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 41 (2.92%) Confluence
2 25 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.93%) Apache
7 12 (0.86%) IIS
8 10 (0.71%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.071%) Camunda
11 1 (0.071%) nginx
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) SAS
11 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.071%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.07%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.14%) Shopify
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.071%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.071%) Primavera
7 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.071%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 927 (66.12%) Azure
2 509 (36.31%) Azure DevOps
3 490 (34.95%) AWS
4 342 (24.39%) GitHub
5 164 (11.70%) GCP
6 152 (10.84%) Power Platform
7 151 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
8 137 (9.77%) SaaS
9 126 (8.99%) Serverless
10 99 (7.06%) Entra ID
11 89 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (5.71%) Snowflake
13 74 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 74 (5.28%) GitHub Copilot
14 69 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
15 68 (4.85%) dbt
16 67 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 66 (4.71%) Amazon S3
18 65 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
19 58 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.64%) Firewall
2 35 (2.50%) VPN
3 34 (2.43%) DNS
4 31 (2.21%) Broadband
5 22 (1.57%) Network Security
6 21 (1.50%) DHCP
6 21 (1.50%) WAN
7 20 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 17 (1.21%) LAN
9 12 (0.86%) SAN
9 12 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.78%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.71%) VoIP
12 9 (0.64%) VLAN
13 6 (0.43%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.36%) BGP
14 5 (0.36%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (0.36%) Internet
15 4 (0.29%) AMQP
15 4 (0.29%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.42%) SQL Server
2 99 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (6.13%) Power BI
4 85 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 73 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (4.07%) Tableau
7 47 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (3.35%) Metadata
8 46 (3.28%) Relational Database
9 43 (3.07%) MongoDB
10 39 (2.78%) Data Lake
11 31 (2.21%) MySQL
12 29 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.64%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (1.28%) Redis
15 17 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.21%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.14%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 166 (11.84%) Git
2 147 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 114 (8.13%) JIRA
4 86 (6.13%) GitLab
5 37 (2.64%) Oracle Forms
6 32 (2.28%) Selenium
7 30 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.07%) Postman
10 13 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.93%) Jaeger
11 12 (0.86%) JMeter
12 11 (0.78%) git-flow
12 11 (0.78%) JUnit
12 11 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.64%) Subversion
14 8 (0.57%) Storybook
15 7 (0.50%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 426 (30.39%) Finance
2 414 (29.53%) Social Skills
3 169 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.63%) Marketing
6 53 (3.78%) Law
7 46 (3.28%) Retail
7 46 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 41 (2.92%) Banking
9 26 (1.85%) Front Office
10 22 (1.57%) Games
11 20 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.36%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.07%) Legal
14 14 (1.00%) Tech for Good
15 13 (0.93%) Back Office
16 11 (0.78%) Billing
17 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 354 (25.25%) Senior
2 247 (17.62%) Developer
3 175 (12.48%) Lead
4 129 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 126 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 114 (8.13%) Software Engineer
7 87 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
8 82 (5.85%) Architect
9 78 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 68 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
11 67 (4.78%) Data Engineer
12 62 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
13 56 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 55 (3.92%) Analyst
15 48 (3.42%) .NET Developer
15 48 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
16 43 (3.07%) Consultant
17 39 (2.78%) Support Engineer
18 38 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
18 38 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (16.69%) .NET
2 163 (11.63%) React
3 137 (9.77%) RESTful
4 93 (6.63%) REST
5 75 (5.35%) SOAP
6 70 (4.99%) Node.js
7 69 (4.92%) Spring
8 68 (4.85%) Spring Boot
9 67 (4.78%) CSS
10 64 (4.56%) HTML
11 62 (4.42%) Kafka
12 58 (4.14%) AngularJS
13 55 (3.92%) .NET Framework
13 55 (3.92%) OAuth
14 50 (3.57%) JSON
15 48 (3.42%) .NET Core
16 46 (3.28%) Lightning Web Components
17 43 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
18 39 (2.78%) OAuth2
19 38 (2.71%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 259 (18.47%) Cloud Native
2 131 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.28%) Low-Code
9 28 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 27 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.28%) IoT
12 15 (1.07%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.07%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.00%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 149 (10.63%) Linux
2 115 (8.20%) Windows
3 46 (3.28%) Unix
4 43 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.57%) Android
6 19 (1.36%) VMS
7 12 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.64%) Debian
9 9 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.50%) CentOS
11 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (58.42%) CI/CD
2 671 (47.86%) Agile
3 367 (26.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 350 (24.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 311 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
6 280 (19.97%) AI
7 279 (19.90%) Mentoring
8 262 (18.69%) Coaching
9 233 (16.62%) Test Automation
10 216 (15.41%) Software Engineering
11 215 (15.34%) Analytics
12 210 (14.98%) Microservices
13 202 (14.41%) Observability
14 200 (14.27%) Asset Management
15 188 (13.41%) Containerisation
16 169 (12.05%) Data Modelling
17 155 (11.06%) Clean Code
18 145 (10.34%) Roadmaps
19 133 (9.49%) Scrum
20 131 (9.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 443 (31.60%) Python
2 401 (28.60%) SQL
3 204 (14.55%) Java
4 184 (13.12%) C#
5 163 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 148 (10.56%) PowerShell
7 119 (8.49%) Bash
8 111 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 75 (5.35%) Bicep
10 70 (4.99%) Go
11 50 (3.57%) Apex Code
12 40 (2.85%) PL/SQL
13 39 (2.78%) Shell Script
14 27 (1.93%) Scala
15 20 (1.43%) T-SQL
16 17 (1.21%) C++
17 16 (1.14%) R
17 16 (1.14%) SOQL
17 16 (1.14%) SOSL
18 14 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 162 (11.55%) Degree
2 139 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 104 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 87 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (4.99%) Azure Certification
6 54 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.28%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.50%) ISTQB
11 17 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.93%) CCNP
13 13 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 12 (0.86%) PMP
15 11 (0.78%) CISSP
16 9 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.50%) ACCA
17 7 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (9.49%) QA
2 71 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 45 (3.21%) GDPR
6 23 (1.64%) NIST
7 12 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.57%) NCSC
9 8 (0.57%) WCAG
10 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.50%) SLA
11 6 (0.43%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.36%) PMO
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) GRC
14 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.071%) Basel III
15 1 (0.071%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 253 (18.05%) Docker
2 85 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (1.00%) vSphere
7 13 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.43%) Firmware
9 5 (0.36%) NFS
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.29%) Kamailio
11 3 (0.21%) Postfix
12 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.14%) vCloud
13 1 (0.071%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 421 (30.03%) Terraform
2 320 (22.82%) Kubernetes
3 136 (9.70%) Ansible
4 107 (7.63%) Grafana
5 85 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.71%) Argo
8 24 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.93%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.86%) SCCM
12 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.43%) HP Fortify
13 6 (0.43%) Kibana
14 5 (0.36%) Control-M
15 4 (0.29%) logstash
15 4 (0.29%) Puppet
16 3 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
16 3 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 321 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.49%) Oracle
3 73 (5.21%) Salesforce
4 60 (4.28%) Google
5 57 (4.07%) Databricks
6 37 (2.64%) VMware
7 28 (2.00%) Splunk
8 26 (1.85%) Cisco
9 23 (1.64%) SAP
10 21 (1.50%) Okta
10 21 (1.50%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.43%) SolarWinds
12 18 (1.28%) Ab Initio
12 18 (1.28%) Veeam
13 17 (1.21%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.00%) IBM
15 13 (0.93%) NetApp
16 12 (0.86%) 3PAR
16 12 (0.86%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
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