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

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,815 1,947 2,729
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.50% 11.79% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.28% 12.64% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 1,075 2,217
10th Percentile £44,600 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,128 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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 16 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 44 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.49%) Confluence
3 23 (1.27%) Apache
4 18 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.50%) IIS
7 8 (0.44%) CMS
7 8 (0.44%) nginx
7 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.33%) SAS
8 6 (0.33%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.055%) Drupal
12 1 (0.055%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.61%) Trello
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
Business Applications
1 49 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.055%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.055%) Magento
7 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.055%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (55.26%) Azure
2 586 (32.29%) AWS
3 547 (30.14%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (12.40%) SaaS
5 170 (9.37%) GCP
6 156 (8.60%) Serverless
7 151 (8.32%) GitHub
8 146 (8.04%) Power Platform
9 92 (5.07%) PaaS
10 86 (4.74%) Azure AI
11 77 (4.24%) Azure AKS
12 75 (4.13%) Entra ID
13 74 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
14 72 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
15 66 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
16 63 (3.47%) Amazon S3
17 57 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 57 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
18 56 (3.09%) Power Automate
19 53 (2.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.03%) Broadband
2 45 (2.48%) Firewall
3 39 (2.15%) VPN
4 29 (1.60%) DNS
5 27 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.72%) Internet
7 12 (0.66%) DHCP
8 8 (0.44%) Network Security
9 6 (0.33%) BGP
9 6 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.33%) LAN
9 6 (0.33%) NGFW
9 6 (0.33%) OSPF
9 6 (0.33%) WAN
10 5 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.28%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.22%) SSH
11 4 (0.22%) SSL
12 3 (0.17%) HTTP
12 3 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (11.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 200 (11.02%) MongoDB
3 123 (6.78%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 58 (3.20%) Power BI
7 47 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.82%) MySQL
10 28 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.27%) Metadata
13 21 (1.16%) Redis
14 18 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 18 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (0.94%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.72%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
18 9 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 137 (7.55%) Git
2 114 (6.28%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.06%) GitLab
4 107 (5.90%) JIRA
5 42 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 26 (1.43%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.38%) Selenium
8 18 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.99%) Postman
9 12 (0.66%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.66%) JMeter
10 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.44%) Maven
13 7 (0.39%) NUnit
13 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.33%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.28%) Locust
General
1 398 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 327 (18.02%) Finance
3 163 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 146 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.93%) Law
6 117 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (5.12%) Legal
8 73 (4.02%) Banking
9 71 (3.91%) Marketing
10 67 (3.69%) Retail
11 66 (3.64%) Games
12 30 (1.65%) Advertising
12 30 (1.65%) Back Office
13 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.83%) Legal Technology
17 13 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.66%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 417 (22.98%) Senior
2 385 (21.21%) Developer
3 308 (16.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 240 (13.22%) Lead
5 186 (10.25%) .NET Developer
6 168 (9.26%) Architect
7 144 (7.93%) Software Engineer
8 105 (5.79%) Senior DevOps
9 89 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
10 88 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 83 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 79 (4.35%) IT Manager
13 68 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
14 62 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
14 62 (3.42%) Senior Developer
15 59 (3.25%) Consultant
16 57 (3.14%) Senior Manager
17 55 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
17 55 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
18 54 (2.98%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (20.28%) .NET
2 204 (11.24%) React
3 200 (11.02%) ASP.NET
4 184 (10.14%) .NET Core
5 182 (10.03%) ASP.NET Core
6 145 (7.99%) RESTful
7 125 (6.89%) CSS
8 123 (6.78%) HTML
8 123 (6.78%) REST
9 110 (6.06%) Node.js
10 98 (5.40%) Blazor
10 98 (5.40%) Entity Framework
11 81 (4.46%) ML.NET
12 71 (3.91%) Middleware
13 55 (3.03%) Spring
14 54 (2.98%) Kafka
14 54 (2.98%) Spring Boot
15 53 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
15 53 (2.92%) SOAP
16 51 (2.81%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 294 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 131 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 51 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 49 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 45 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
8 40 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 37 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 35 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 27 (1.49%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.38%) Driving Licence
13 25 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.38%) Podcast
14 21 (1.16%) Social Media
15 19 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 18 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.53%) Linux
2 97 (5.34%) Windows
3 57 (3.14%) Unix
4 22 (1.21%) Android
5 19 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.88%) VMS
7 8 (0.44%) Debian
7 8 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.28%) CentOS
10 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (50.63%) CI/CD
2 835 (46.01%) Agile
3 422 (23.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 395 (21.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 379 (20.88%) Mentoring
6 335 (18.46%) AI
7 334 (18.40%) Software Engineering
8 318 (17.52%) Test Automation
9 296 (16.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 290 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
11 263 (14.49%) Microservices
12 249 (13.72%) Scrum
13 219 (12.07%) Roadmaps
14 211 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 210 (11.57%) Containerisation
16 191 (10.52%) Technical Leadership
17 185 (10.19%) Coaching
18 183 (10.08%) Observability
19 177 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
20 162 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 418 (23.03%) SQL
2 408 (22.48%) C#
3 371 (20.44%) Python
4 302 (16.64%) JavaScript
5 212 (11.68%) Java
6 157 (8.65%) TypeScript
7 151 (8.32%) PowerShell
8 110 (6.06%) Bash
9 73 (4.02%) Bicep
10 55 (3.03%) Apex Code
11 39 (2.15%) Go
12 35 (1.93%) SOQL
12 35 (1.93%) SOSL
13 33 (1.82%) C++
14 25 (1.38%) PHP
15 20 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.72%) Ruby
18 12 (0.66%) Groovy
18 12 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 188 (10.36%) Security Cleared
2 160 (8.82%) Degree
3 149 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 67 (3.69%) CISSP
5 63 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.98%) CISM
6 54 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
7 44 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 25 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 18 (0.99%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.72%) PMP
15 8 (0.44%) PhD
15 8 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (10.74%) QA
2 76 (4.19%) NIST
3 46 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.42%) ISO 22301
6 35 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.71%) GDPR
8 23 (1.27%) GRC
9 14 (0.77%) WCAG
10 8 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.28%) IFRS
13 5 (0.28%) PMO
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.17%) SLA
15 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 253 (13.94%) Docker
2 66 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.99%) vSphere
6 13 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 359 (19.78%) Terraform
2 303 (16.69%) Kubernetes
3 98 (5.40%) Ansible
4 83 (4.57%) Grafana
5 51 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.93%) Argo
7 21 (1.16%) Puppet
8 13 (0.72%) Istio
9 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.39%) Packer
13 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.33%) ZABBIX
14 5 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.28%) Kibana
15 3 (0.17%) Nagios
15 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.11%) MIIS
Vendors
1 484 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 79 (4.35%) Google
3 76 (4.19%) Salesforce
4 50 (2.75%) Oracle
4 50 (2.75%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.37%) VMware
6 40 (2.20%) Facebook
6 40 (2.20%) Splunk
7 34 (1.87%) Databricks
8 32 (1.76%) SAP
9 29 (1.60%) Pega
10 24 (1.32%) MuleSoft
11 21 (1.16%) YouTube
12 19 (1.05%) Apple
13 17 (0.94%) Cisco
13 17 (0.94%) Sony
13 17 (0.94%) Yahoo!
14 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.72%) Red Hat
631 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs