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

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,914 1,720 2,279
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.67% 10.26% 10.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 10.94% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 907 1,526
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -1.10%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%

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 20,199 15,729 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.99% 93.79% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 14,414 8,417 11,709
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,042
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%

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 30 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 59 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.78%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.25%) Apache
5 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) CMS
7 9 (0.47%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.26%) WordPress
12 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
Applications
1 37 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 10 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.052%) Notion
9 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (55.96%) Azure
2 604 (31.56%) AWS
3 598 (31.24%) Azure DevOps
4 270 (14.11%) SaaS
5 191 (9.98%) GCP
6 183 (9.56%) Power Platform
7 150 (7.84%) Serverless
8 147 (7.68%) GitHub
9 93 (4.86%) Azure AI
10 86 (4.49%) PaaS
11 81 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
12 80 (4.18%) PowerApps
13 76 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 75 (3.92%) Power Automate
15 74 (3.87%) Entra ID
16 72 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
17 71 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 70 (3.66%) Azure AKS
18 70 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
19 66 (3.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.14%) VPN
2 30 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.52%) Firewall
4 27 (1.41%) DNS
5 15 (0.78%) Internet
6 14 (0.73%) Broadband
7 11 (0.57%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
8 7 (0.37%) WAN
9 6 (0.31%) DHCP
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
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
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 207 (10.82%) MongoDB
3 165 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 94 (4.91%) Power BI
5 88 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (2.93%) NoSQL
8 48 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (2.35%) Metadata
10 41 (2.14%) MySQL
10 41 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 39 (2.04%) Data Lake
12 27 (1.41%) DynamoDB
13 24 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.15%) Redis
15 21 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (1.04%) Star Schema
17 15 (0.78%) Delta Lake
18 13 (0.68%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 194 (10.14%) Git
2 125 (6.53%) JIRA
3 82 (4.28%) GitLab
4 76 (3.97%) Jenkins
5 47 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.25%) Selenium
7 19 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.84%) Postman
9 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.42%) NUnit
10 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.37%) JUnit
11 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.31%) Maven
12 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 483 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 359 (18.76%) Finance
3 207 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 147 (7.68%) Law
5 131 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
7 106 (5.54%) Legal
8 79 (4.13%) Banking
9 75 (3.92%) Retail
10 45 (2.35%) Back Office
11 42 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.83%) Marketing
13 29 (1.52%) Advertising
14 23 (1.20%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.15%) Games
15 22 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 512 (26.75%) Senior
2 379 (19.80%) Developer
3 363 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 251 (13.11%) Lead
5 188 (9.82%) .NET Developer
6 167 (8.73%) Software Engineer
7 138 (7.21%) Architect
8 109 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
9 108 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
10 103 (5.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 85 (4.44%) IT Manager
12 77 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 71 (3.71%) Data Engineer
14 67 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
14 67 (3.50%) Senior Developer
15 61 (3.19%) Senior Manager
16 59 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
17 55 (2.87%) Senior Software Engineer
18 53 (2.77%) Analyst
19 52 (2.72%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (20.48%) Terraform
2 375 (19.59%) .NET
3 208 (10.87%) ASP.NET
4 202 (10.55%) React
5 186 (9.72%) .NET Core
6 176 (9.20%) ASP.NET Core
7 138 (7.21%) Node.js
8 135 (7.05%) RESTful
9 118 (6.17%) CSS
10 110 (5.75%) HTML
10 110 (5.75%) REST
11 102 (5.33%) Blazor
12 94 (4.91%) Entity Framework
13 78 (4.08%) ML.NET
14 70 (3.66%) Middleware
15 61 (3.19%) AngularJS
16 51 (2.66%) Spring Boot
17 49 (2.56%) Spring
18 47 (2.46%) Kafka
19 34 (1.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 322 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 144 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 111 (5.80%) Enterprise Software
4 87 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.29%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
7 58 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
8 48 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.99%) Mobile App
10 37 (1.93%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 23 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.15%) Social Media
15 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 20 (1.04%) Data Structures
17 19 (0.99%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 163 (8.52%) Linux
2 104 (5.43%) Windows
3 61 (3.19%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 14 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.68%) VMS
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.31%) Debian
9 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.10%) CentOS
11 2 (0.10%) Rocky
11 2 (0.10%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (50.26%) CI/CD
2 841 (43.94%) Agile
3 471 (24.61%) Mentoring
4 440 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 411 (21.47%) Software Engineering
6 409 (21.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 395 (20.64%) AI
8 348 (18.18%) Test Automation
9 319 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 270 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 258 (13.48%) Microservices
12 243 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 236 (12.33%) Coaching
14 219 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
15 206 (10.76%) Scrum
16 205 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 190 (9.93%) Observability
18 179 (9.35%) Containerisation
19 176 (9.20%) Roadmaps
20 173 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 469 (24.50%) C#
2 455 (23.77%) SQL
3 390 (20.38%) Python
4 299 (15.62%) JavaScript
5 217 (11.34%) Java
6 174 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 172 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 105 (5.49%) Bash
9 84 (4.39%) Bicep
10 31 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.52%) C++
12 26 (1.36%) Go
13 19 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.78%) PHP
16 14 (0.73%) Ruby
17 12 (0.63%) Groovy
18 11 (0.57%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.52%) Apex Code
19 10 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 246 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 202 (10.55%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.16%) Degree
4 65 (3.40%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.13%) CISSP
6 58 (3.03%) CISM
7 56 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (2.09%) DV Cleared
10 35 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.36%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.63%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.47%) PMP
15 9 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.18%) QA
2 83 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.81%) NIST
4 61 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.51%) ISO 22301
6 36 (1.88%) GDPR
7 34 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.94%) GRC
9 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
10 8 (0.42%) WCAG
11 7 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.31%) PMO
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS
14 3 (0.16%) NCSC
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 245 (12.80%) Docker
2 55 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.78%) vSphere
7 4 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) iptables
9 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) QEMU
10 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 304 (15.88%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.75%) Grafana
3 82 (4.28%) Ansible
4 40 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.62%) Argo
6 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 12 (0.63%) Puppet
8 10 (0.52%) Packer
9 8 (0.42%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.26%) Kibana
10 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.052%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.052%) Nagios
Vendors
1 529 (27.64%) Microsoft
2 83 (4.34%) Google
3 69 (3.61%) Oracle
4 48 (2.51%) Databricks
5 42 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 38 (1.99%) Facebook
7 36 (1.88%) YouTube
8 35 (1.83%) VMware
9 34 (1.78%) SAP
10 32 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.46%) Pega
12 26 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 18 (0.94%) Sony
14 17 (0.89%) Apple
14 17 (0.89%) Foundry
14 17 (0.89%) Informatica
15 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
16 12 (0.63%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
1,848 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs