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

 6 months to
7 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,471 1,703 3,104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.57% 13.20% 9.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 13.92% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,330 2,577
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,560
% change year-on-year - +6.77% -6.34%

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 14,331 12,231 28,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.46% 94.80% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,023 8,889 23,341
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 7 April 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 24 (1.63%) Confluence
2 21 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.22%) Apache
5 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.27%) CMS
8 4 (0.27%) IIS
9 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) WordPress
11 1 (0.068%) Camunda
11 1 (0.068%) Drupal
11 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.068%) SAS
11 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.068%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
3 16 (1.09%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.068%) Magento
8 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.068%) Primavera
8 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.068%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.068%) Shopify
8 1 (0.068%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 859 (58.40%) Azure
2 542 (36.85%) AWS
3 419 (28.48%) Azure DevOps
4 288 (19.58%) GitHub
5 198 (13.46%) GCP
6 153 (10.40%) Serverless
7 140 (9.52%) SaaS
8 139 (9.45%) GitHub Actions
9 122 (8.29%) Power Platform
10 92 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (5.78%) Amazon S3
13 84 (5.71%) Entra ID
14 73 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
16 61 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 61 (4.15%) dbt
16 61 (4.15%) PaaS
17 53 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
18 52 (3.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.28%) Broadband
2 57 (3.87%) Firewall
3 26 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.63%) VPN
5 21 (1.43%) DNS
6 16 (1.09%) DHCP
7 10 (0.68%) Network Security
8 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.41%) LAN
8 6 (0.41%) WAN
9 5 (0.34%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) AMQP
10 4 (0.27%) Internet
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.20%) SCCP
11 3 (0.20%) SSL
11 3 (0.20%) Wireless
12 2 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (7.75%) SQL Server
2 105 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 79 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (3.74%) Power BI
5 53 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
6 47 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (3.06%) Metadata
8 44 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.86%) MongoDB
10 41 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
11 39 (2.65%) Data Lake
12 29 (1.97%) Tableau
13 26 (1.77%) DynamoDB
13 26 (1.77%) MySQL
13 26 (1.77%) Redis
14 25 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 153 (10.40%) Jenkins
2 149 (10.13%) Git
3 114 (7.75%) GitLab
4 81 (5.51%) JIRA
5 57 (3.87%) SonarQube
6 32 (2.18%) Selenium
7 19 (1.29%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (1.02%) JMeter
12 12 (0.82%) Postman
13 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.61%) JUnit
14 9 (0.61%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) Subversion
15 8 (0.54%) git-flow
16 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 398 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 390 (26.51%) Finance
3 166 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 118 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 83 (5.64%) Marketing
7 74 (5.03%) Banking
8 73 (4.96%) Law
9 60 (4.08%) Retail
10 54 (3.67%) Games
11 41 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.65%) Legal
13 31 (2.11%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.50%) Back Office
16 16 (1.09%) Front Office
17 15 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.95%) Tech for Good
19 12 (0.82%) Billing
20 11 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 357 (24.27%) Senior
2 258 (17.54%) Developer
3 209 (14.21%) Lead
4 165 (11.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 143 (9.72%) Architect
6 135 (9.18%) Software Engineer
7 103 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
9 73 (4.96%) Senior DevOps
10 63 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
11 62 (4.21%) Senior Developer
12 60 (4.08%) Consultant
13 57 (3.87%) Data Engineer
13 57 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 53 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
15 51 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
16 48 (3.26%) .NET Developer
17 46 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 45 (3.06%) Technical Architect
19 44 (2.99%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (15.84%) .NET
2 164 (11.15%) React
3 139 (9.45%) REST
4 121 (8.23%) RESTful
5 96 (6.53%) SOAP
6 82 (5.57%) Lightning Web Components
7 80 (5.44%) CSS
7 80 (5.44%) Spring
8 78 (5.30%) Kafka
9 77 (5.23%) HTML
9 77 (5.23%) Node.js
10 73 (4.96%) Spring Boot
11 63 (4.28%) Visualforce
12 60 (4.08%) .NET Core
13 56 (3.81%) AngularJS
14 53 (3.60%) .NET Framework
14 53 (3.60%) OAuth
15 48 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
16 43 (2.92%) ASP.NET
17 40 (2.72%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 254 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 138 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.38%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.11%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (1.02%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.88%) IoT
15 13 (0.88%) Podcast
16 12 (0.82%) Data Centre
16 12 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (10.88%) Linux
2 84 (5.71%) Windows
3 57 (3.87%) Unix
4 37 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.36%) Android
6 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.82%) VMS
7 10 (0.68%) CentOS
8 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Debian
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 862 (58.60%) CI/CD
2 659 (44.80%) Agile
3 390 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 295 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
6 272 (18.49%) Mentoring
7 271 (18.42%) Software Engineering
8 242 (16.45%) AI
9 240 (16.32%) Containerisation
10 238 (16.18%) Test Automation
11 232 (15.77%) Microservices
12 213 (14.48%) Observability
13 211 (14.34%) Coaching
14 175 (11.90%) Analytics
14 175 (11.90%) Roadmaps
15 174 (11.83%) Scrum
16 155 (10.54%) Event-Driven
17 154 (10.47%) Data Modelling
18 145 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
19 138 (9.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 406 (27.60%) Python
2 338 (22.98%) SQL
3 228 (15.50%) Java
4 192 (13.05%) JavaScript
5 177 (12.03%) C#
6 108 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 99 (6.73%) Bash
7 99 (6.73%) PowerShell
8 87 (5.91%) Apex Code
9 82 (5.57%) Go
10 68 (4.62%) Bicep
11 42 (2.86%) SOQL
11 42 (2.86%) SOSL
12 22 (1.50%) Scala
13 21 (1.43%) C++
14 20 (1.36%) PHP
15 19 (1.29%) Shell Script
16 17 (1.16%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.95%) Rust
18 13 (0.88%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 181 (12.30%) Degree
2 164 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 75 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.95%) CISSP
11 13 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.68%) PhD
12 10 (0.68%) PMP
13 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.23%) QA
2 66 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.52%) GDPR
6 25 (1.70%) NIST
7 19 (1.29%) GRC
8 13 (0.88%) WCAG
9 10 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.27%) SLA
12 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 298 (20.26%) Docker
2 67 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.75%) vSphere
6 8 (0.54%) Firmware
6 8 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.20%) Postfix
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) vCloud
10 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.068%) KVM
10 1 (0.068%) QEMU
10 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 409 (27.80%) Terraform
2 343 (23.32%) Kubernetes
3 137 (9.31%) Ansible
4 113 (7.68%) Grafana
5 84 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.65%) Argo
7 26 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.95%) Puppet
10 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.54%) Istio
11 8 (0.54%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.48%) Kibana
12 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.34%) SCCM
15 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 312 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 100 (6.80%) Salesforce
3 77 (5.23%) Google
4 55 (3.74%) Splunk
5 53 (3.60%) Oracle
6 49 (3.33%) Databricks
7 36 (2.45%) VMware
8 26 (1.77%) SAP
9 23 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 21 (1.43%) Cisco
10 21 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.09%) Okta
11 16 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.95%) Ab Initio
13 13 (0.88%) IBM
14 11 (0.75%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.61%) Veeam
17 8 (0.54%) New Relic
17 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty
782 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs