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

 6 months to
12 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,360 2,134 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.10% 12.99% 12.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.41% 13.87% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,439 2,329
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £69,308 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +2.68% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 13,070 15,388 20,350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.64% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,286 9,071 16,480
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £45,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 12 January 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 39 (2.87%) Confluence
2 22 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (0.88%) IIS
6 11 (0.81%) Apache
7 10 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.074%) Camunda
10 1 (0.074%) nginx
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.074%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (2.87%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.96%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.44%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.074%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.074%) Primavera
7 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.074%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 905 (66.54%) Azure
2 506 (37.21%) Azure DevOps
3 466 (34.26%) AWS
4 336 (24.71%) GitHub
5 148 (10.88%) GCP
5 148 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
6 144 (10.59%) Power Platform
7 131 (9.63%) SaaS
8 117 (8.60%) Serverless
9 97 (7.13%) Entra ID
10 85 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 80 (5.88%) Snowflake
12 73 (5.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 71 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 67 (4.93%) dbt
15 64 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
15 64 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
16 63 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 62 (4.56%) Amazon S3
18 58 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.75%) Firewall
2 35 (2.57%) DNS
2 35 (2.57%) VPN
3 31 (2.28%) Broadband
4 24 (1.76%) WAN
5 22 (1.62%) DHCP
5 22 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.54%) Network Security
7 20 (1.47%) LAN
8 13 (0.96%) SAN
8 13 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.88%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.81%) VoIP
11 10 (0.74%) VLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (0.37%) BGP
15 4 (0.29%) AMQP
15 4 (0.29%) DMZ
15 4 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 99 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (6.03%) Power BI
4 81 (5.96%) NoSQL
5 74 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (4.12%) Tableau
7 48 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 39 (2.87%) MongoDB
10 38 (2.79%) Data Lake
10 38 (2.79%) Metadata
11 30 (2.21%) MySQL
12 28 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.69%) DynamoDB
14 22 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (1.32%) Redis
16 16 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (1.18%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.18%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 164 (12.06%) Git
2 145 (10.66%) Jenkins
3 114 (8.38%) JIRA
4 87 (6.40%) GitLab
5 37 (2.72%) Oracle Forms
6 30 (2.21%) Selenium
7 28 (2.06%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.10%) Postman
10 13 (0.96%) Jaeger
11 12 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.81%) git-flow
12 11 (0.81%) JMeter
12 11 (0.81%) JUnit
13 9 (0.66%) Subversion
13 9 (0.66%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.59%) Storybook
15 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 420 (30.88%) Finance
2 402 (29.56%) Social Skills
3 161 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 81 (5.96%) Marketing
7 51 (3.75%) Law
8 47 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 46 (3.38%) Retail
10 37 (2.72%) Banking
11 26 (1.91%) Front Office
12 20 (1.47%) Games
12 20 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.25%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.18%) Legal
15 13 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 12 (0.88%) Back Office
17 11 (0.81%) Billing
17 11 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 333 (24.49%) Senior
2 233 (17.13%) Developer
3 167 (12.28%) Lead
4 126 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 124 (9.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 107 (7.87%) Software Engineer
7 87 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
8 73 (5.37%) Architect
9 72 (5.29%) Senior Developer
10 68 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
11 64 (4.71%) Data Engineer
12 60 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
13 56 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (3.97%) Analyst
15 47 (3.46%) .NET Developer
15 47 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
16 46 (3.38%) Consultant
17 38 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
18 37 (2.72%) Senior Software Engineer
18 37 (2.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (16.84%) .NET
2 159 (11.69%) React
3 135 (9.93%) RESTful
4 87 (6.40%) REST
5 73 (5.37%) SOAP
6 66 (4.85%) Node.js
7 64 (4.71%) Spring
7 64 (4.71%) Spring Boot
8 63 (4.63%) CSS
9 60 (4.41%) HTML
10 59 (4.34%) Kafka
11 55 (4.04%) OAuth
12 54 (3.97%) .NET Framework
13 53 (3.90%) AngularJS
14 51 (3.75%) JSON
15 47 (3.46%) .NET Core
16 44 (3.24%) Lightning Web Components
17 42 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
18 39 (2.87%) OAuth2
19 36 (2.65%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 256 (18.82%) Cloud Native
2 126 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 55 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.06%) Low-Code
9 26 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.32%) IoT
11 18 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 12 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 142 (10.44%) Linux
2 114 (8.38%) Windows
3 44 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 42 (3.09%) Unix
5 20 (1.47%) Android
6 19 (1.40%) VMS
7 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.66%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.59%) Debian
12 7 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.37%) CentOS
14 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (57.87%) CI/CD
2 647 (47.57%) Agile
3 361 (26.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 335 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 302 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
6 274 (20.15%) AI
7 269 (19.78%) Mentoring
8 245 (18.01%) Coaching
9 230 (16.91%) Test Automation
10 207 (15.22%) Analytics
11 206 (15.15%) Software Engineering
12 204 (15.00%) Microservices
13 200 (14.71%) Asset Management
14 198 (14.56%) Observability
15 176 (12.94%) Containerisation
16 154 (11.32%) Data Modelling
17 146 (10.74%) Clean Code
18 141 (10.37%) Roadmaps
19 133 (9.78%) Scrum
20 128 (9.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 429 (31.54%) Python
2 388 (28.53%) SQL
3 188 (13.82%) Java
4 180 (13.24%) C#
5 155 (11.40%) JavaScript
6 147 (10.81%) PowerShell
7 117 (8.60%) Bash
8 110 (8.09%) TypeScript
9 75 (5.51%) Bicep
10 65 (4.78%) Go
11 48 (3.53%) Apex Code
12 40 (2.94%) PL/SQL
13 39 (2.87%) Shell Script
14 27 (1.99%) Scala
15 22 (1.62%) T-SQL
16 16 (1.18%) R
17 15 (1.10%) C++
17 15 (1.10%) PHP
17 15 (1.10%) SOQL
17 15 (1.10%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 158 (11.62%) Degree
2 124 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 98 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 53 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.62%) ISTQB
10 19 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (1.03%) CCNP
14 12 (0.88%) CISSP
14 12 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 12 (0.88%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.88%) PMP
15 9 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.51%) CIMA
16 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (10.00%) QA
2 65 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.38%) GDPR
5 25 (1.84%) NIST
6 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.66%) NCSC
9 8 (0.59%) WCAG
10 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.51%) SLA
11 6 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.37%) PMO
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.15%) GRC
14 2 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.074%) Basel III
System Software
1 243 (17.87%) Docker
2 84 (6.18%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.10%) vSphere
6 14 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.44%) Firmware
7 6 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.29%) Kamailio
8 4 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.22%) Postfix
10 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.15%) vCloud
11 1 (0.074%) HDFS
11 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 411 (30.22%) Terraform
2 313 (23.01%) Kubernetes
3 130 (9.56%) Ansible
4 103 (7.57%) Grafana
5 83 (6.10%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.79%) Argo
8 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 14 (1.03%) vCenter Server
10 13 (0.96%) SCCM
11 8 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.44%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.44%) Kibana
13 5 (0.37%) Control-M
14 4 (0.29%) logstash
14 4 (0.29%) Puppet
15 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 314 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.44%) Oracle
3 70 (5.15%) Salesforce
4 55 (4.04%) Databricks
5 51 (3.75%) Google
6 38 (2.79%) VMware
7 29 (2.13%) Cisco
8 26 (1.91%) Splunk
9 24 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.54%) Okta
10 21 (1.54%) SAP
10 21 (1.54%) SolarWinds
11 19 (1.40%) Veeam
12 18 (1.32%) Ab Initio
13 16 (1.18%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.03%) IBM
14 14 (1.03%) NetApp
15 13 (0.96%) 3PAR
16 11 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.81%) MuleSoft
897 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs