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

 6 months to
30 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,891 1,917 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.58% 11.65% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.34% 12.52% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,383 1,049 1,860
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,082 £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 £102,500 £97,597
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 18,280 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,282 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
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 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 30 July 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 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.53%) Confluence
3 24 (1.27%) Apache
4 22 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.48%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) CMS
9 7 (0.37%) nginx
10 6 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.32%) SAS
10 6 (0.32%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.053%) Drupal
13 1 (0.053%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 8 (0.42%) 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 (0.053%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.053%) Notion
Business Applications
1 43 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) 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
6 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.053%) Magento
7 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.053%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,056 (55.84%) Azure
2 606 (32.05%) AWS
3 566 (29.93%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (13.33%) SaaS
5 186 (9.84%) GCP
6 150 (7.93%) Serverless
7 148 (7.83%) GitHub
7 148 (7.83%) Power Platform
8 94 (4.97%) PaaS
9 88 (4.65%) Azure AI
10 75 (3.97%) Azure AKS
11 72 (3.81%) Entra ID
12 70 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
13 67 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
13 67 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
14 66 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
15 65 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
16 64 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 62 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
18 58 (3.07%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.17%) Broadband
1 41 (2.17%) Firewall
1 41 (2.17%) VPN
2 37 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.53%) DNS
4 13 (0.69%) Internet
5 10 (0.53%) DHCP
6 9 (0.48%) Network Security
7 6 (0.32%) BGP
7 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.32%) LAN
7 6 (0.32%) NGFW
7 6 (0.32%) OSPF
7 6 (0.32%) 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
1 205 (10.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 201 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 137 (7.24%) SQL Server
4 86 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (3.23%) Power BI
6 51 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 34 (1.80%) MySQL
8 32 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 31 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (1.16%) Metadata
11 22 (1.16%) Redis
12 20 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.85%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (0.74%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
18 10 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 145 (7.67%) Git
2 113 (5.98%) JIRA
3 107 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 104 (5.50%) GitLab
5 34 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.59%) Selenium
7 27 (1.43%) TeamCity
8 21 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 18 (0.95%) Postman
10 12 (0.63%) JMeter
11 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.53%) NUnit
13 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
15 7 (0.37%) Maven
16 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.26%) JUnit
17 5 (0.26%) Locust
General
1 440 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 337 (17.82%) Finance
3 152 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.72%) Law
6 117 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 110 (5.82%) Legal
8 71 (3.75%) Banking
9 64 (3.38%) Retail
10 61 (3.23%) Marketing
11 54 (2.86%) Games
12 32 (1.69%) Advertising
13 27 (1.43%) Back Office
14 24 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.95%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.74%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
19 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 456 (24.11%) Senior
2 386 (20.41%) Developer
3 334 (17.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 253 (13.38%) Lead
5 190 (10.05%) .NET Developer
6 160 (8.46%) Architect
7 148 (7.83%) Software Engineer
8 113 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
9 99 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 94 (4.97%) Azure Engineer
11 83 (4.39%) IT Manager
12 82 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 71 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
14 66 (3.49%) Senior Manager
14 66 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 58 (3.07%) Data Engineer
17 57 (3.01%) Consultant
18 56 (2.96%) Senior Software Engineer
19 52 (2.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (20.10%) .NET
2 212 (11.21%) React
3 202 (10.68%) ASP.NET
4 191 (10.10%) .NET Core
5 180 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
6 142 (7.51%) RESTful
7 125 (6.61%) REST
8 124 (6.56%) CSS
9 121 (6.40%) HTML
10 113 (5.98%) Node.js
11 104 (5.50%) Blazor
12 100 (5.29%) Entity Framework
13 81 (4.28%) ML.NET
14 71 (3.75%) Middleware
15 57 (3.01%) AngularJS
16 56 (2.96%) Kafka
17 52 (2.75%) Spring
17 52 (2.75%) Spring Boot
18 45 (2.38%) SOAP
19 43 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 301 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 130 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 94 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
4 80 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 56 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
8 40 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 35 (1.85%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.48%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.32%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.32%) Podcast
14 24 (1.27%) Driving Licence
14 24 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.22%) Social Media
16 20 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 180 (9.52%) Linux
2 98 (5.18%) Windows
3 61 (3.23%) Unix
4 21 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.06%) Android
6 16 (0.85%) VMS
7 8 (0.42%) Debian
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (49.50%) CI/CD
2 845 (44.69%) Agile
3 446 (23.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 412 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 402 (21.26%) Mentoring
6 369 (19.51%) Software Engineering
7 358 (18.93%) AI
8 337 (17.82%) Test Automation
9 300 (15.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 296 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
11 269 (14.23%) Microservices
12 243 (12.85%) Scrum
13 236 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 211 (11.16%) Containerisation
15 209 (11.05%) Roadmaps
16 199 (10.52%) Technical Leadership
17 194 (10.26%) Observability
18 192 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 190 (10.05%) Coaching
20 176 (9.31%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 435 (23.00%) C#
2 428 (22.63%) SQL
3 387 (20.47%) Python
4 310 (16.39%) JavaScript
5 203 (10.74%) Java
6 168 (8.88%) TypeScript
7 166 (8.78%) PowerShell
8 100 (5.29%) Bash
9 75 (3.97%) Bicep
10 45 (2.38%) Apex Code
11 32 (1.69%) Go
12 31 (1.64%) C++
13 26 (1.37%) SOQL
13 26 (1.37%) SOSL
14 24 (1.27%) PHP
15 20 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (1.06%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.74%) Ruby
17 13 (0.69%) Groovy
18 10 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 216 (11.42%) Security Cleared
2 174 (9.20%) SC Cleared
3 154 (8.14%) Degree
4 68 (3.60%) CISSP
5 65 (3.44%) Azure Certification
6 58 (3.07%) CISM
6 58 (3.07%) ITIL Certification
7 43 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 21 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 18 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 17 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.69%) PMP
15 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (11.63%) QA
2 80 (4.23%) NIST
3 51 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 49 (2.59%) Data Quality
5 48 (2.54%) ISO 22301
6 31 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.48%) GDPR
8 23 (1.22%) GRC
9 15 (0.79%) WCAG
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.32%) PMO
11 6 (0.32%) 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
1 259 (13.70%) Docker
2 63 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.90%) vSphere
6 14 (0.74%) 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 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.053%) QEMU
11 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 376 (19.88%) Terraform
2 307 (16.23%) Kubernetes
3 95 (5.02%) Ansible
4 82 (4.34%) Grafana
5 46 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.53%) Argo
7 21 (1.11%) Puppet
8 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.74%) Istio
10 10 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.42%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.37%) Packer
13 6 (0.32%) ZABBIX
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.26%) Kibana
15 3 (0.16%) Nagios
16 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
16 2 (0.11%) MIIS
16 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 495 (26.18%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.28%) Google
3 66 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 55 (2.91%) Oracle
5 51 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.17%) VMware
7 40 (2.12%) Facebook
8 38 (2.01%) Databricks
9 33 (1.75%) SAP
10 32 (1.69%) Splunk
11 29 (1.53%) Pega
12 24 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.11%) YouTube
14 19 (1.00%) Apple
15 18 (0.95%) Sony
16 17 (0.90%) Cisco
16 17 (0.90%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.90%) Yahoo!
17 15 (0.79%) Palo Alto
18 14 (0.74%) Red Hat
894 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs