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

 6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,444 1,727 3,115
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.58% 13.46% 10.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 14.16% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,349 2,593
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,652 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +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 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 14,184 12,193 28,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.28% 95.04% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,612 8,760 23,196
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 27 March 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 27 (1.87%) Confluence
2 21 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.25%) Apache
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.35%) IIS
10 4 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
13 1 (0.069%) Camunda
13 1 (0.069%) Drupal
13 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.069%) SAS
13 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.11%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.069%) Magento
8 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
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%) Shopify
8 1 (0.069%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 854 (59.14%) Azure
2 532 (36.84%) AWS
3 426 (29.50%) Azure DevOps
4 291 (20.15%) GitHub
5 193 (13.37%) GCP
6 149 (10.32%) Serverless
7 138 (9.56%) SaaS
8 137 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
9 125 (8.66%) Power Platform
10 92 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 85 (5.89%) Amazon S3
12 84 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
13 82 (5.68%) Entra ID
14 72 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
14 72 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 63 (4.36%) dbt
15 63 (4.36%) PaaS
16 62 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
17 56 (3.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.43%) Broadband
2 54 (3.74%) Firewall
3 25 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.52%) VPN
5 21 (1.45%) DNS
6 16 (1.11%) DHCP
7 10 (0.69%) Network Security
8 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.42%) SAN
9 5 (0.35%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) WAN
10 4 (0.28%) AMQP
11 3 (0.21%) Internet
11 3 (0.21%) Modbus
11 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.21%) SCCP
11 3 (0.21%) Wireless
12 2 (0.14%) DSL
12 2 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 103 (7.13%) NoSQL
3 77 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (4.02%) Power BI
6 48 (3.32%) Metadata
7 45 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (2.98%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
9 40 (2.77%) Data Lake
9 40 (2.77%) MongoDB
10 33 (2.29%) Tableau
11 27 (1.87%) DynamoDB
12 26 (1.80%) MySQL
13 25 (1.73%) Redis
14 24 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.25%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 156 (10.80%) Jenkins
2 142 (9.83%) Git
3 113 (7.83%) GitLab
4 85 (5.89%) JIRA
5 58 (4.02%) SonarQube
6 31 (2.15%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
8 18 (1.25%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.11%) JMeter
10 13 (0.90%) Postman
11 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.62%) git-flow
12 9 (0.62%) JUnit
12 9 (0.62%) Maven
12 9 (0.62%) Subversion
13 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 398 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 393 (27.22%) Finance
3 167 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 86 (5.96%) Marketing
7 70 (4.85%) Banking
7 70 (4.85%) Law
8 57 (3.95%) Retail
9 55 (3.81%) Games
10 41 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.56%) Legal
12 32 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.87%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.52%) Back Office
15 18 (1.25%) Front Office
16 15 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.04%) Tech for Good
17 12 (0.83%) Billing
17 12 (0.83%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 345 (23.89%) Senior
2 260 (18.01%) Developer
3 200 (13.85%) Lead
4 153 (10.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (9.35%) Architect
6 133 (9.21%) Software Engineer
7 102 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
9 64 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
10 63 (4.36%) Senior Developer
11 62 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
12 60 (4.16%) Consultant
13 55 (3.81%) Data Engineer
14 52 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
15 49 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
16 48 (3.32%) .NET Developer
16 48 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
17 44 (3.05%) Applications Engineer
18 43 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 43 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (15.93%) .NET
2 156 (10.80%) React
3 136 (9.42%) REST
4 120 (8.31%) RESTful
5 100 (6.93%) SOAP
6 84 (5.82%) Lightning Web Components
7 80 (5.54%) CSS
8 79 (5.47%) Spring
9 77 (5.33%) HTML
10 76 (5.26%) Kafka
11 75 (5.19%) Spring Boot
12 71 (4.92%) Node.js
13 64 (4.43%) Visualforce
14 59 (4.09%) .NET Core
15 54 (3.74%) OAuth
16 50 (3.46%) .NET Framework
16 50 (3.46%) AngularJS
17 46 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
18 42 (2.91%) JSON
19 40 (2.77%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 250 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 137 (9.49%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.42%) Low-Code
7 34 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 27 (1.87%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (1.04%) IoT
14 15 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.90%) AI Agents
16 11 (0.76%) Podcast
16 11 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.94%) Linux
2 86 (5.96%) Windows
3 57 (3.95%) Unix
4 37 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.32%) Android
6 12 (0.83%) VMS
7 11 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.62%) CentOS
9 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.28%) Debian
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (58.86%) CI/CD
2 649 (44.94%) Agile
3 380 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (24.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
6 277 (19.18%) Mentoring
7 259 (17.94%) Software Engineering
8 248 (17.17%) AI
9 235 (16.27%) Test Automation
10 232 (16.07%) Containerisation
11 220 (15.24%) Microservices
12 218 (15.10%) Coaching
13 212 (14.68%) Observability
14 180 (12.47%) Analytics
15 170 (11.77%) Roadmaps
16 162 (11.22%) Scrum
17 160 (11.08%) Data Modelling
18 152 (10.53%) Event-Driven
19 140 (9.70%) Full-Stack Development
20 137 (9.49%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 410 (28.39%) Python
2 342 (23.68%) SQL
3 231 (16.00%) Java
4 186 (12.88%) JavaScript
5 172 (11.91%) C#
6 105 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 103 (7.13%) Bash
8 98 (6.79%) TypeScript
9 89 (6.16%) Apex Code
10 83 (5.75%) Go
11 69 (4.78%) Bicep
12 43 (2.98%) SOQL
12 43 (2.98%) SOSL
13 22 (1.52%) Scala
14 21 (1.45%) C++
14 21 (1.45%) Shell Script
15 19 (1.32%) PHP
15 19 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.90%) Rust
16 13 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (12.05%) Degree
2 157 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 116 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 76 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.97%) CISSP
10 14 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 11 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.69%) PhD
14 8 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.55%) PMP
15 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.45%) QA
2 66 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.46%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.42%) GDPR
6 21 (1.45%) NIST
7 16 (1.11%) GRC
8 11 (0.76%) WCAG
9 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.42%) SLA
12 4 (0.28%) NCSC
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) HL7
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.14%) SEPA
15 1 (0.069%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 287 (19.88%) Docker
2 67 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.83%) vSphere
6 9 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.55%) Firmware
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.21%) Postfix
10 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) vCloud
12 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 406 (28.12%) Terraform
2 327 (22.65%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.07%) Ansible
4 112 (7.76%) Grafana
5 84 (5.82%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.63%) Argo
7 29 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.76%) Puppet
10 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.55%) Istio
13 7 (0.48%) Kibana
14 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
14 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.42%) SCCM
15 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.35%) Control-M
15 5 (0.35%) Packer
15 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 309 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.13%) Salesforce
3 79 (5.47%) Google
4 56 (3.88%) Oracle
4 56 (3.88%) Splunk
5 48 (3.32%) Databricks
6 36 (2.49%) VMware
7 25 (1.73%) SAP
8 24 (1.66%) MuleSoft
9 22 (1.52%) Cisco
9 22 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.18%) Okta
11 15 (1.04%) Ab Initio
11 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.97%) IBM
13 11 (0.76%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.76%) Veeam
14 10 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.55%) Confluent
15 8 (0.55%) New Relic
782 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs