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

 6 months to
20 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,897 1,738 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.75% 10.68% 9.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.53% 11.46% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 940 1,608
10th Percentile £45,749 £46,462 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
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 19,914 15,166 20,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.38% 93.21% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,271 8,607 12,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £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 20 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 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.69%) Confluence
3 26 (1.37%) Apache
4 25 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) CMS
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
7 9 (0.47%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.32%) SAS
10 6 (0.32%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 41 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 10 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.053%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.37%) 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 EBS
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Magento
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,063 (56.04%) Azure
2 593 (31.26%) AWS
3 588 (31.00%) Azure DevOps
4 261 (13.76%) SaaS
5 189 (9.96%) GCP
6 174 (9.17%) Power Platform
7 142 (7.49%) Serverless
8 139 (7.33%) GitHub
9 93 (4.90%) Azure AI
10 83 (4.38%) PaaS
11 77 (4.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 77 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
12 75 (3.95%) PowerApps
13 70 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (3.69%) Entra ID
14 69 (3.64%) Power Automate
15 68 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
15 68 (3.58%) Azure AKS
16 66 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
17 65 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.95%) VPN
2 30 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 27 (1.42%) Firewall
4 25 (1.32%) DNS
5 20 (1.05%) Broadband
6 14 (0.74%) Internet
7 9 (0.47%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
9 6 (0.32%) DHCP
9 6 (0.32%) OSPF
9 6 (0.32%) 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
11 4 (0.21%) SSL
11 4 (0.21%) TETRA
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
13 2 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (10.96%) MongoDB
3 163 (8.59%) SQL Server
4 90 (4.74%) Power BI
5 82 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 57 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (2.27%) Metadata
10 41 (2.16%) MySQL
11 39 (2.06%) Data Lake
11 39 (2.06%) Relational Database
12 29 (1.53%) DynamoDB
13 22 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (1.11%) Redis
15 19 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (1.00%) Star Schema
16 16 (0.84%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 189 (9.96%) Git
2 125 (6.59%) JIRA
3 84 (4.43%) GitLab
4 81 (4.27%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.32%) TeamCity
6 25 (1.32%) Selenium
7 19 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 17 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.84%) Postman
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (0.47%) NUnit
13 8 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.37%) JUnit
14 7 (0.37%) Maven
15 6 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.32%) JMeter
15 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 459 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 354 (18.66%) Finance
3 189 (9.96%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.70%) Law
5 137 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
7 107 (5.64%) Legal
8 78 (4.11%) Banking
9 70 (3.69%) Retail
10 43 (2.27%) Back Office
11 41 (2.16%) Marketing
12 40 (2.11%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.58%) Advertising
14 29 (1.53%) Games
15 23 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.63%) Local Government
18 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 490 (25.83%) Senior
2 376 (19.82%) Developer
3 349 (18.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 253 (13.34%) Lead
5 188 (9.91%) .NET Developer
6 164 (8.65%) Software Engineer
7 135 (7.12%) Architect
8 110 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
9 98 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
10 91 (4.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 87 (4.59%) IT Manager
12 77 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 70 (3.69%) Data Engineer
14 66 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
14 66 (3.48%) Senior Developer
15 63 (3.32%) Senior Manager
16 55 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 55 (2.90%) Service Manager
16 55 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
17 52 (2.74%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (19.87%) Terraform
2 373 (19.66%) .NET
3 209 (11.02%) ASP.NET
4 202 (10.65%) React
5 187 (9.86%) .NET Core
6 177 (9.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 140 (7.38%) Node.js
8 135 (7.12%) RESTful
9 118 (6.22%) CSS
10 110 (5.80%) HTML
11 105 (5.54%) REST
12 104 (5.48%) Blazor
13 96 (5.06%) Entity Framework
14 79 (4.16%) ML.NET
15 66 (3.48%) Middleware
16 62 (3.27%) AngularJS
17 46 (2.42%) Spring Boot
18 45 (2.37%) Kafka
19 44 (2.32%) Spring
20 36 (1.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 321 (16.92%) Cloud Native
2 148 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 109 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
4 83 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
5 64 (3.37%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 56 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
8 44 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 30 (1.58%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.21%) Social Media
14 20 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (1.05%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.00%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.90%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 162 (8.54%) Linux
2 104 (5.48%) Windows
3 58 (3.06%) Unix
4 21 (1.11%) Android
5 15 (0.79%) VMS
5 15 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.37%) Debian
8 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) CentOS
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.11%) Solaris
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (49.55%) CI/CD
2 843 (44.44%) Agile
3 452 (23.83%) Mentoring
4 425 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 400 (21.09%) Software Engineering
6 391 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 386 (20.35%) AI
8 343 (18.08%) Test Automation
9 310 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
10 276 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
11 253 (13.34%) Microservices
12 243 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 223 (11.76%) Coaching
14 211 (11.12%) Scrum
15 209 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
16 195 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 184 (9.70%) Observability
18 181 (9.54%) Roadmaps
19 174 (9.17%) Containerisation
20 168 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 466 (24.57%) C#
2 454 (23.93%) SQL
3 383 (20.19%) Python
4 301 (15.87%) JavaScript
5 207 (10.91%) Java
6 171 (9.01%) PowerShell
7 170 (8.96%) TypeScript
8 100 (5.27%) Bash
9 79 (4.16%) Bicep
10 29 (1.53%) C++
11 27 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 23 (1.21%) Go
13 20 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.84%) Apex Code
15 16 (0.84%) PHP
16 14 (0.74%) Ruby
17 13 (0.69%) Groovy
18 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 238 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 192 (10.12%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.33%) Degree
4 62 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 61 (3.22%) CISSP
6 58 (3.06%) CISM
7 56 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (2.16%) DV Cleared
10 37 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.32%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.58%) PMP
17 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 6 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (11.49%) QA
2 78 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 75 (3.95%) NIST
4 58 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.53%) ISO 22301
6 34 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.74%) GDPR
8 21 (1.11%) GRC
9 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
9 9 (0.47%) WCAG
10 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.32%) PMO
11 5 (0.26%) IFRS
12 4 (0.21%) NCSC
12 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 241 (12.70%) Docker
2 58 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.74%) vSphere
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) iptables
8 2 (0.11%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.053%) QEMU
9 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 286 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 83 (4.38%) Grafana
3 79 (4.16%) Ansible
4 41 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.53%) Argo
6 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.79%) Puppet
8 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.42%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Packer
10 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.26%) Kibana
11 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.11%) Nagios
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.053%) Consul
13 1 (0.053%) linkerd
Vendors
1 519 (27.36%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.43%) Google
3 67 (3.53%) Oracle
4 47 (2.48%) Databricks
5 44 (2.32%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.11%) Facebook
7 38 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 35 (1.85%) SAP
9 32 (1.69%) VMware
9 32 (1.69%) YouTube
10 28 (1.48%) Pega
11 26 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.00%) Sony
13 18 (0.95%) Apple
13 18 (0.95%) MuleSoft
14 17 (0.90%) Informatica
14 17 (0.90%) Yahoo!
15 16 (0.84%) Foundry
16 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.63%) Splunk
2,099 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs