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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,884 1,710 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.86% 10.56% 9.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 11.34% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 925 1,604
10th Percentile £45,150 £46,344 £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% -2.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
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 19,495 15,078 20,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.33% 93.14% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,036 8,555 12,692
10th Percentile £34,250 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 15 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 55 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.65%) Confluence
3 25 (1.33%) Apache
4 24 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.48%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) CMS
8 8 (0.42%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.32%) SAS
10 6 (0.32%) WordPress
11 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.053%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.64%) Trello
4 10 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.053%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.27%) 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%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Magento
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (55.79%) Azure
2 592 (31.42%) AWS
3 577 (30.63%) Azure DevOps
4 258 (13.69%) SaaS
5 193 (10.24%) GCP
6 169 (8.97%) Power Platform
7 140 (7.43%) Serverless
8 135 (7.17%) GitHub
9 91 (4.83%) Azure AI
10 81 (4.30%) PaaS
11 77 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
12 75 (3.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 74 (3.93%) PowerApps
14 71 (3.77%) Entra ID
15 69 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
15 69 (3.66%) Power Automate
16 68 (3.61%) Azure AKS
17 67 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
18 65 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
19 62 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.86%) VPN
2 31 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 25 (1.33%) DNS
3 25 (1.33%) Firewall
4 21 (1.11%) Broadband
5 13 (0.69%) Internet
6 9 (0.48%) Network Security
7 7 (0.37%) BGP
7 7 (0.37%) WAN
8 6 (0.32%) DHCP
8 6 (0.32%) OSPF
9 5 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.27%) NGFW
9 5 (0.27%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.21%) HTTP
10 4 (0.21%) SSH
10 4 (0.21%) TETRA
11 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.16%) LAN
11 3 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (11.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 206 (10.93%) MongoDB
3 158 (8.39%) SQL Server
4 85 (4.51%) Power BI
5 80 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 52 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.12%) MySQL
10 39 (2.07%) Metadata
11 38 (2.02%) Relational Database
12 37 (1.96%) Data Lake
13 27 (1.43%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.06%) Redis
17 16 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.85%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
18 11 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 178 (9.45%) Git
2 123 (6.53%) JIRA
3 81 (4.30%) GitLab
4 80 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.18%) TeamCity
6 26 (1.38%) Selenium
7 20 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.85%) Postman
10 10 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.48%) NUnit
11 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.37%) JMeter
13 7 (0.37%) JUnit
13 7 (0.37%) Maven
13 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 454 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 356 (18.90%) Finance
3 180 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.75%) Law
5 140 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 113 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (5.89%) Legal
8 82 (4.35%) Banking
9 67 (3.56%) Retail
10 41 (2.18%) Marketing
11 40 (2.12%) Back Office
12 37 (1.96%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.59%) Advertising
13 30 (1.59%) Games
14 24 (1.27%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.80%) Legal Technology
17 13 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.64%) Local Government
19 11 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 486 (25.80%) Senior
2 373 (19.80%) Developer
3 351 (18.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 250 (13.27%) Lead
5 187 (9.93%) .NET Developer
6 160 (8.49%) Software Engineer
7 139 (7.38%) Architect
8 102 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
9 99 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
10 93 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (4.56%) IT Manager
12 74 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 67 (3.56%) Data Engineer
14 66 (3.50%) Senior Developer
15 63 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
16 62 (3.29%) Senior Manager
17 58 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
17 58 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
18 55 (2.92%) Service Manager
19 51 (2.71%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (19.96%) Terraform
2 367 (19.48%) .NET
3 208 (11.04%) ASP.NET
4 198 (10.51%) React
5 185 (9.82%) .NET Core
6 177 (9.39%) ASP.NET Core
7 136 (7.22%) Node.js
8 134 (7.11%) RESTful
9 117 (6.21%) CSS
10 110 (5.84%) HTML
11 104 (5.52%) Blazor
12 100 (5.31%) REST
13 96 (5.10%) Entity Framework
14 79 (4.19%) ML.NET
15 65 (3.45%) Middleware
16 59 (3.13%) AngularJS
17 50 (2.65%) Kafka
18 49 (2.60%) Spring Boot
19 47 (2.49%) Spring
20 35 (1.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 315 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 144 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 103 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
4 80 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 64 (3.40%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
7 55 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
8 42 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 29 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 29 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.22%) Social Media
14 20 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (1.06%) Podcast
14 20 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 17 (0.90%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 157 (8.33%) Linux
2 97 (5.15%) Windows
3 54 (2.87%) Unix
4 20 (1.06%) Android
5 16 (0.85%) VMS
6 14 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.42%) Debian
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) CentOS
8 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.11%) Solaris
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 835 (44.32%) Agile
3 442 (23.46%) Mentoring
4 419 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 395 (20.97%) Software Engineering
6 383 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 381 (20.22%) AI
8 335 (17.78%) Test Automation
9 303 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
10 277 (14.70%) Full-Stack Development
11 251 (13.32%) Microservices
12 240 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 217 (11.52%) Coaching
14 215 (11.41%) Scrum
15 208 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
16 194 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
17 187 (9.93%) Roadmaps
18 182 (9.66%) Observability
19 180 (9.55%) Containerisation
20 167 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 452 (23.99%) C#
2 443 (23.51%) SQL
3 373 (19.80%) Python
4 298 (15.82%) JavaScript
5 208 (11.04%) Java
6 167 (8.86%) PowerShell
6 167 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 97 (5.15%) Bash
8 76 (4.03%) Bicep
9 29 (1.54%) C++
10 27 (1.43%) Go
11 25 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 19 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (0.90%) Apex Code
14 16 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.80%) PHP
15 15 (0.80%) Ruby
16 12 (0.64%) Groovy
17 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 236 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.48%) Degree
4 61 (3.24%) CISSP
5 60 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 58 (3.08%) CISM
7 56 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
8 43 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 40 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 35 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.96%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.64%) PMP
16 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (11.52%) QA
2 77 (4.09%) NIST
3 74 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 61 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.55%) ISO 22301
6 31 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.49%) GDPR
8 22 (1.17%) GRC
9 9 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.48%) SLA
9 9 (0.48%) WCAG
10 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.32%) PMO
12 5 (0.27%) IFRS
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 249 (13.22%) Docker
2 59 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.74%) vSphere
7 5 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
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%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.053%) QEMU
11 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 288 (15.29%) Kubernetes
2 80 (4.25%) Grafana
3 79 (4.19%) Ansible
4 40 (2.12%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.54%) Argo
6 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.85%) Puppet
8 14 (0.74%) Istio
9 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.42%) Packer
11 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.21%) Kibana
14 4 (0.21%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.11%) Nagios
16 1 (0.053%) Data Guard
16 1 (0.053%) MIIS
16 1 (0.053%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 512 (27.18%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.35%) Google
3 65 (3.45%) Oracle
4 45 (2.39%) Databricks
5 44 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.12%) Facebook
7 38 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.80%) SAP
9 32 (1.70%) VMware
9 32 (1.70%) YouTube
10 28 (1.49%) Pega
11 26 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.01%) Sony
13 18 (0.96%) Apple
13 18 (0.96%) MuleSoft
14 17 (0.90%) Yahoo!
15 15 (0.80%) Informatica
16 14 (0.74%) Foundry
17 13 (0.69%) Splunk
18 12 (0.64%) ScienceLogic
2,477 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs