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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,906 1,922 2,272
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.58% 11.62% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.33% 12.50% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,392 1,052 1,840
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £98,501
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 18,446 15,378 22,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.04% 92.99% 87.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,393 9,086 16,698
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%

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 1 August 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 45 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.57%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache
4 23 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) nginx
10 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) Drupal
13 1 (0.052%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.052%) Notion
Business Applications
1 43 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.052%) Magento
7 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.052%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.052%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.052%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.052%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (55.72%) Azure
2 607 (31.85%) AWS
3 571 (29.96%) Azure DevOps
4 255 (13.38%) SaaS
5 187 (9.81%) GCP
6 148 (7.76%) Power Platform
6 148 (7.76%) Serverless
7 144 (7.56%) GitHub
8 94 (4.93%) PaaS
9 89 (4.67%) Azure AI
10 75 (3.93%) Azure AKS
11 71 (3.73%) Entra ID
12 68 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
13 67 (3.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 67 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 65 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
14 65 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (3.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 63 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
17 60 (3.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.15%) Broadband
2 40 (2.10%) Firewall
2 40 (2.10%) VPN
3 38 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.52%) DNS
5 13 (0.68%) Internet
6 10 (0.52%) DHCP
6 10 (0.52%) Network Security
7 6 (0.31%) BGP
7 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.31%) LAN
7 6 (0.31%) NGFW
7 6 (0.31%) OSPF
7 6 (0.31%) WAN
8 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.21%) SSH
9 4 (0.21%) SSL
10 3 (0.16%) HTTP
10 3 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 202 (10.60%) MongoDB
3 139 (7.29%) SQL Server
4 86 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (3.15%) Power BI
6 52 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
7 50 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 35 (1.84%) MySQL
9 33 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 32 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.26%) Redis
13 22 (1.15%) Metadata
14 20 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.84%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
17 15 (0.79%) Delta Lake
18 11 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
19 10 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 146 (7.66%) Git
2 114 (5.98%) JIRA
3 106 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 104 (5.46%) GitLab
5 34 (1.78%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.52%) Selenium
7 27 (1.42%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.89%) Postman
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.58%) JMeter
10 11 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.52%) NUnit
11 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.37%) Maven
14 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.26%) JUnit
15 5 (0.26%) Locust
General
1 447 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 338 (17.73%) Finance
3 154 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 150 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 148 (7.76%) Law
6 117 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (5.82%) Legal
8 70 (3.67%) Banking
9 63 (3.31%) Retail
10 62 (3.25%) Marketing
11 54 (2.83%) Games
12 32 (1.68%) Advertising
13 27 (1.42%) Back Office
14 24 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.94%) Legal Technology
18 14 (0.73%) Telecoms
19 13 (0.68%) Aerospace
20 12 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 459 (24.08%) Senior
2 388 (20.36%) Developer
3 338 (17.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 255 (13.38%) Lead
5 192 (10.07%) .NET Developer
6 162 (8.50%) Architect
7 149 (7.82%) Software Engineer
8 112 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
9 99 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 95 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
11 84 (4.41%) IT Manager
12 82 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 70 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
14 66 (3.46%) Senior Manager
14 66 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 59 (3.10%) Data Engineer
17 57 (2.99%) Consultant
18 55 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
19 52 (2.73%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (20.15%) .NET
2 212 (11.12%) React
3 204 (10.70%) ASP.NET
4 193 (10.13%) .NET Core
5 181 (9.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 143 (7.50%) RESTful
7 127 (6.66%) REST
8 126 (6.61%) CSS
9 123 (6.45%) HTML
10 116 (6.09%) Node.js
11 105 (5.51%) Blazor
12 99 (5.19%) Entity Framework
13 82 (4.30%) ML.NET
14 71 (3.73%) Middleware
15 57 (2.99%) AngularJS
16 56 (2.94%) Kafka
17 50 (2.62%) Spring
17 50 (2.62%) Spring Boot
18 46 (2.41%) SOAP
19 43 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 301 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 132 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 93 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 82 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (3.25%) Virtual Team
6 58 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
8 41 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.89%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.47%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.31%) Podcast
14 24 (1.26%) Driving Licence
14 24 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.21%) Social Media
16 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 181 (9.50%) Linux
2 97 (5.09%) Windows
3 62 (3.25%) Unix
4 20 (1.05%) Android
4 20 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.84%) VMS
6 8 (0.42%) Debian
6 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.26%) CentOS
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.10%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.052%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (49.11%) CI/CD
2 848 (44.49%) Agile
3 448 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 414 (21.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 402 (21.09%) Mentoring
6 373 (19.57%) Software Engineering
7 363 (19.05%) AI
8 337 (17.68%) Test Automation
9 298 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 296 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
11 266 (13.96%) Microservices
12 241 (12.64%) Scrum
13 238 (12.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 213 (11.18%) Containerisation
15 210 (11.02%) Roadmaps
16 202 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
17 196 (10.28%) Observability
18 194 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
19 190 (9.97%) Coaching
20 177 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 439 (23.03%) C#
2 428 (22.46%) SQL
3 385 (20.20%) Python
4 312 (16.37%) JavaScript
5 202 (10.60%) Java
6 167 (8.76%) TypeScript
7 166 (8.71%) PowerShell
8 99 (5.19%) Bash
9 75 (3.93%) Bicep
10 45 (2.36%) Apex Code
11 32 (1.68%) C++
12 31 (1.63%) Go
13 26 (1.36%) SOQL
13 26 (1.36%) SOSL
14 24 (1.26%) PHP
15 20 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (1.05%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.73%) Ruby
17 13 (0.68%) Groovy
18 10 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 221 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 178 (9.34%) SC Cleared
3 155 (8.13%) Degree
4 68 (3.57%) CISSP
5 65 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 58 (3.04%) CISM
6 58 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
7 44 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.15%) DBS Check
11 21 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 20 (1.05%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.94%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.73%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.68%) PMP
17 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (11.49%) QA
2 80 (4.20%) NIST
3 53 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.52%) ISO 22301
5 32 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.47%) GDPR
7 23 (1.21%) GRC
8 15 (0.79%) WCAG
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.31%) PMO
11 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.26%) IFRS
12 5 (0.26%) SLA
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) SEPA
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 258 (13.54%) Docker
2 63 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.89%) vSphere
6 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.42%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.10%) iptables
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 377 (19.78%) Terraform
2 303 (15.90%) Kubernetes
3 94 (4.93%) Ansible
4 81 (4.25%) Grafana
5 45 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.52%) Argo
7 21 (1.10%) Puppet
8 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.73%) Istio
10 9 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.37%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.31%) Packer
12 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.26%) Kibana
14 3 (0.16%) Nagios
15 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.10%) MIIS
15 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 501 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.30%) Google
3 68 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 56 (2.94%) Oracle
5 50 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.10%) Facebook
6 40 (2.10%) VMware
7 39 (2.05%) Databricks
8 33 (1.73%) SAP
9 32 (1.68%) Splunk
10 29 (1.52%) Pega
11 24 (1.26%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.10%) YouTube
13 19 (1.00%) Apple
13 19 (1.00%) Sony
14 17 (0.89%) Cisco
14 17 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 17 (0.89%) Yahoo!
15 15 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.73%) Red Hat