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

 6 months to
28 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,698 1,924 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.26% 12.22% 8.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.05% 13.00% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 1,069 2,371
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,745 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 16,900 14,802 29,888
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.24% 94.02% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,326 8,674 23,017
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £78,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 28 June 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 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.65%) Confluence
3 22 (1.30%) Apache
4 17 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.53%) CMS
7 8 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.41%) IIS
9 6 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.35%) nginx
9 6 (0.35%) WordPress
10 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 3 (0.18%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.059%) Drupal
12 1 (0.059%) JBoss
12 1 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 35 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.41%) Trello
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 1 (0.059%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.059%) Notion
6 1 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.35%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.059%) Magento
5 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.059%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.059%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.059%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 926 (54.53%) Azure
2 547 (32.21%) AWS
3 519 (30.57%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (9.95%) GCP
5 166 (9.78%) Serverless
6 156 (9.19%) GitHub
7 151 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 142 (8.36%) SaaS
9 88 (5.18%) PaaS
10 77 (4.53%) Azure AKS
10 77 (4.53%) Entra ID
11 75 (4.42%) Azure AI
12 74 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (4.12%) Amazon S3
14 69 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
15 64 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 59 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 58 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
18 56 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
19 55 (3.24%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.59%) Broadband
2 49 (2.89%) Firewall
3 33 (1.94%) VPN
4 27 (1.59%) DNS
5 22 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.77%) DHCP
7 12 (0.71%) Internet
8 9 (0.53%) Network Security
9 6 (0.35%) BGP
9 6 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.35%) LAN
9 6 (0.35%) NGFW
9 6 (0.35%) OSPF
9 6 (0.35%) WAN
10 5 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.29%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.24%) SSL
12 3 (0.18%) AMQP
12 3 (0.18%) DSL
12 3 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (10.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 181 (10.66%) MongoDB
3 116 (6.83%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
5 69 (4.06%) NoSQL
6 60 (3.53%) Power BI
7 45 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 38 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 34 (2.00%) Metadata
10 32 (1.88%) MySQL
11 30 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.24%) Data Lake
14 21 (1.24%) Redis
15 19 (1.12%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.88%) Delta Lake
16 15 (0.88%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 10 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 144 (8.48%) Git
2 113 (6.65%) GitLab
3 112 (6.60%) Jenkins
4 100 (5.89%) JIRA
5 43 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 26 (1.53%) Selenium
7 24 (1.41%) TeamCity
8 17 (1.00%) Postman
9 16 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.71%) Jaeger
12 11 (0.65%) JMeter
13 10 (0.59%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.41%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.41%) Maven
14 7 (0.41%) NUnit
14 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.29%) Locust
15 5 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 354 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 321 (18.90%) Finance
3 167 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 152 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 122 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (5.24%) Law
7 71 (4.18%) Banking
8 68 (4.00%) Marketing
8 68 (4.00%) Retail
9 65 (3.83%) Games
10 51 (3.00%) Legal
11 28 (1.65%) Back Office
12 27 (1.59%) Advertising
13 24 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.88%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.71%) Health Technology
16 12 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 379 (22.32%) Developer
2 374 (22.03%) Senior
3 290 (17.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 245 (14.43%) Lead
5 171 (10.07%) Architect
6 166 (9.78%) .NET Developer
7 147 (8.66%) Software Engineer
8 105 (6.18%) Senior DevOps
9 87 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 87 (5.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 83 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
11 69 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
13 61 (3.59%) Senior Developer
14 59 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
15 57 (3.36%) Data Engineer
15 57 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
16 53 (3.12%) Consultant
17 52 (3.06%) Lead Developer
18 45 (2.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (20.97%) .NET
2 202 (11.90%) React
3 178 (10.48%) ASP.NET
4 171 (10.07%) .NET Core
5 161 (9.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 131 (7.71%) RESTful
7 119 (7.01%) REST
8 118 (6.95%) CSS
9 117 (6.89%) HTML
10 111 (6.54%) Node.js
11 88 (5.18%) Entity Framework
12 87 (5.12%) Blazor
13 71 (4.18%) ML.NET
14 62 (3.65%) Spring
15 59 (3.47%) Spring Boot
16 57 (3.36%) AngularJS
17 56 (3.30%) SOAP
18 54 (3.18%) Lightning Web Components
19 52 (3.06%) Visualforce
20 50 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 286 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 124 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 77 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 40 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 35 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 25 (1.47%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.47%) Podcast
12 22 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.30%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.24%) Low-Code
14 19 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
14 19 (1.12%) Social Media
15 16 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 178 (10.48%) Linux
2 92 (5.42%) Windows
3 58 (3.42%) Unix
4 23 (1.35%) Android
5 21 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.94%) VMS
7 9 (0.53%) Debian
7 9 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.35%) CentOS
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (53.65%) CI/CD
2 776 (45.70%) Agile
3 402 (23.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 368 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 344 (20.26%) Mentoring
6 315 (18.55%) AI
7 289 (17.02%) Software Engineering
8 285 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 278 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
10 261 (15.37%) Microservices
11 236 (13.90%) Scrum
12 233 (13.72%) Test Automation
13 223 (13.13%) Containerisation
14 216 (12.72%) Roadmaps
15 189 (11.13%) Coaching
16 180 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
17 179 (10.54%) Observability
18 165 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
19 157 (9.25%) Platform Engineering
20 154 (9.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 407 (23.97%) SQL
2 351 (20.67%) C#
3 334 (19.67%) Python
4 260 (15.31%) JavaScript
5 224 (13.19%) Java
6 124 (7.30%) TypeScript
7 112 (6.60%) Bash
8 105 (6.18%) PowerShell
9 70 (4.12%) Bicep
10 56 (3.30%) Apex Code
11 48 (2.83%) Go
12 36 (2.12%) SOQL
12 36 (2.12%) SOSL
13 33 (1.94%) C++
14 25 (1.47%) PHP
15 20 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 16 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.77%) Ruby
17 13 (0.77%) Rust
18 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 195 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 164 (9.66%) Degree
3 149 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.12%) CISSP
11 17 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.88%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.53%) PMP
14 9 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.47%) PhD
16 7 (0.41%) CCNP
17 6 (0.35%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (9.07%) QA
2 52 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 44 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.65%) NIST
6 26 (1.53%) GDPR
7 19 (1.12%) GRC
8 12 (0.71%) WCAG
9 8 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.41%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 5 (0.29%) IFRS
12 5 (0.29%) PMO
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) SEPA
14 2 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 256 (15.08%) Docker
2 68 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.12%) vSphere
6 13 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.47%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.12%) iptables
11 1 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.059%) KVM
11 1 (0.059%) QEMU
11 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.059%) Xen
Systems Management
1 366 (21.55%) Terraform
2 308 (18.14%) Kubernetes
3 113 (6.65%) Ansible
4 79 (4.65%) Grafana
5 55 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.30%) Argo
7 18 (1.06%) Puppet
8 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.77%) Istio
10 12 (0.71%) Kustomize
11 10 (0.59%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.53%) Packer
13 8 (0.47%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.35%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.29%) Kibana
17 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
18 3 (0.18%) Nagios
18 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 465 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.18%) Google
3 79 (4.65%) Salesforce
4 47 (2.77%) Oracle
5 46 (2.71%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.65%) VMware
7 42 (2.47%) Splunk
8 36 (2.12%) Databricks
9 35 (2.06%) Facebook
9 35 (2.06%) SAP
10 26 (1.53%) Pega
11 23 (1.35%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.06%) YouTube
13 17 (1.00%) Apple
13 17 (1.00%) Cisco
14 15 (0.88%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.88%) Sony
14 15 (0.88%) Yahoo!
15 14 (0.82%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.71%) ScienceLogic
617 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs