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

 6 months to
10 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,903 1,720 2,235
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.66% 10.31% 10.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.51% 10.99% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,322 890 1,500
10th Percentile £45,289 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £69,384 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +2.79% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year - +2.19% -2.14%

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 20,009 15,647 19,099
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,419 11,293
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,540
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,312 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 10 October 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 60 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.00%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache
3 25 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.47%) nginx
6 9 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.42%) CMS
7 8 (0.42%) IIS
7 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.32%) SAS
9 5 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) Hedera
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 37 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 11 (0.58%) 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
8 3 (0.16%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (55.23%) Azure
2 595 (31.27%) AWS
3 591 (31.06%) Azure DevOps
4 269 (14.14%) SaaS
5 190 (9.98%) GCP
6 184 (9.67%) Power Platform
7 157 (8.25%) GitHub
8 143 (7.51%) Serverless
9 94 (4.94%) PaaS
10 93 (4.89%) Azure AI
11 82 (4.31%) PowerApps
12 79 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
13 77 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 77 (4.05%) Power Automate
14 73 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 70 (3.68%) Azure Functions
15 70 (3.68%) Entra ID
16 69 (3.63%) Azure AKS
17 68 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
17 68 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.26%) VPN
2 30 (1.58%) Firewall
3 29 (1.52%) DNS
4 27 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.74%) Internet
6 13 (0.68%) Broadband
7 11 (0.58%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
9 6 (0.32%) OSPF
9 6 (0.32%) WAN
10 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.26%) HTTP
10 5 (0.26%) NGFW
10 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) DHCP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 4 (0.21%) TETRA
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (11.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 203 (10.67%) MongoDB
3 168 (8.83%) SQL Server
4 95 (4.99%) Power BI
5 83 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 45 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
8 45 (2.36%) Metadata
9 40 (2.10%) MySQL
10 39 (2.05%) Data Lake
10 39 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.42%) DynamoDB
12 23 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (1.16%) Redis
14 19 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (1.00%) Star Schema
15 15 (0.79%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.74%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 186 (9.77%) Git
2 129 (6.78%) JIRA
3 81 (4.26%) GitLab
4 73 (3.84%) Jenkins
5 49 (2.57%) TeamCity
6 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 20 (1.05%) Selenium
7 16 (0.84%) Postman
8 12 (0.63%) JUnit
9 10 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.37%) Mockito
12 6 (0.32%) Maven
12 6 (0.32%) NUnit
12 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 484 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 357 (18.76%) Finance
3 215 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.67%) Law
5 127 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 106 (5.57%) Legal
7 78 (4.10%) Banking
8 75 (3.94%) Retail
9 46 (2.42%) Back Office
10 43 (2.26%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.84%) Marketing
12 26 (1.37%) Advertising
13 23 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.10%) Games
16 14 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 518 (27.22%) Senior
2 379 (19.92%) Developer
3 376 (19.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 242 (12.72%) Lead
5 190 (9.98%) .NET Developer
6 166 (8.72%) Software Engineer
7 130 (6.83%) Architect
8 117 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
9 109 (5.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 107 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
11 88 (4.62%) IT Manager
12 70 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
13 69 (3.63%) Data Engineer
14 67 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 64 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
16 60 (3.15%) Senior Manager
17 53 (2.79%) Analyst
17 53 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (2.79%) Service Manager
17 53 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (20.28%) Terraform
2 376 (19.76%) .NET
3 210 (11.04%) ASP.NET
4 197 (10.35%) React
5 185 (9.72%) .NET Core
6 175 (9.20%) ASP.NET Core
7 136 (7.15%) Node.js
8 135 (7.09%) RESTful
9 118 (6.20%) CSS
10 115 (6.04%) REST
11 109 (5.73%) HTML
12 101 (5.31%) Blazor
13 90 (4.73%) Entity Framework
14 78 (4.10%) ML.NET
15 71 (3.73%) Middleware
16 55 (2.89%) AngularJS
17 54 (2.84%) Spring Boot
18 51 (2.68%) Spring
19 47 (2.47%) Kafka
20 34 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 318 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 115 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
4 86 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 61 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
6 61 (3.21%) Virtual Team
7 49 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 37 (1.94%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 23 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.16%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.10%) Social Media
15 20 (1.05%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.41%) Linux
2 95 (4.99%) Windows
3 62 (3.26%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 12 (0.63%) VMS
6 11 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.26%) Debian
9 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.11%) Rocky
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 957 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 842 (44.25%) Agile
3 474 (24.91%) Mentoring
4 436 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 412 (21.65%) Software Engineering
6 396 (20.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 392 (20.60%) AI
8 349 (18.34%) Test Automation
9 326 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
10 266 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 248 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 246 (12.93%) Microservices
13 233 (12.24%) Coaching
14 213 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
15 207 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 198 (10.40%) Scrum
17 183 (9.62%) Observability
18 178 (9.35%) Containerisation
19 173 (9.09%) Analytics
20 170 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 470 (24.70%) C#
2 454 (23.86%) SQL
3 388 (20.39%) Python
4 302 (15.87%) JavaScript
5 217 (11.40%) Java
6 176 (9.25%) PowerShell
7 170 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 106 (5.57%) Bash
9 87 (4.57%) Bicep
10 32 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.47%) C++
12 27 (1.42%) Go
13 18 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.74%) PHP
15 14 (0.74%) Ruby
16 11 (0.58%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.58%) Groovy
16 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 253 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 207 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 134 (7.04%) Degree
4 63 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 61 (3.21%) CISSP
6 58 (3.05%) CISM
7 57 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 41 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 37 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.53%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.42%) PMP
16 6 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (10.77%) QA
2 88 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 68 (3.57%) NIST
4 65 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.52%) ISO 22301
6 33 (1.73%) GDPR
7 30 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.84%) GRC
9 10 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.47%) SLA
11 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.37%) WCAG
13 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.32%) PMO
14 4 (0.21%) NCSC
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 248 (13.03%) Docker
2 51 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.79%) vSphere
6 4 (0.21%) Firmware
7 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) iptables
9 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.053%) KVM
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 301 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.78%) Grafana
3 75 (3.94%) Ansible
4 39 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.47%) Argo
6 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.58%) Packer
7 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.42%) Istio
8 8 (0.42%) Puppet
8 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.21%) Kibana
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.16%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.053%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.053%) linkerd
Vendors
1 525 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.73%) Google
3 77 (4.05%) Oracle
4 47 (2.47%) Databricks
5 43 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 37 (1.94%) Facebook
6 37 (1.94%) YouTube
7 36 (1.89%) SAP
8 35 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.68%) VMware
10 28 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.47%) Pega
11 19 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 18 (0.95%) Informatica
12 18 (0.95%) Sony
13 17 (0.89%) Apple
13 17 (0.89%) Foundry
14 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
15 14 (0.74%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
2,174 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs