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

 6 months to
22 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,444 1,804 3,087
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.45% 13.45% 10.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.96% 14.13% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 990 1,355 2,571
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,065 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,709
% change year-on-year - +6.53% -6.13%

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 14,496 12,767 28,052
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.79% 95.16% 91.97%
Number of salaries quoted 9,559 8,815 23,028
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 22 March 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 29 (2.01%) Confluence
2 22 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.18%) Apache
5 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.42%) IIS
8 6 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) WordPress
11 1 (0.069%) Camunda
11 1 (0.069%) Drupal
11 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.069%) SAS
11 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.069%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
2 19 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.11%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.069%) Magento
8 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.069%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.069%) Primavera
8 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.069%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.069%) Shopify
8 1 (0.069%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 868 (60.11%) Azure
2 533 (36.91%) AWS
3 439 (30.40%) Azure DevOps
4 298 (20.64%) GitHub
5 192 (13.30%) GCP
6 147 (10.18%) Serverless
7 140 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
8 139 (9.63%) SaaS
9 128 (8.86%) Power Platform
10 93 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 87 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (5.89%) Entra ID
13 83 (5.75%) Amazon S3
14 73 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
16 64 (4.43%) dbt
17 63 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 62 (4.29%) PaaS
19 59 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
19 59 (4.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.43%) Broadband
2 55 (3.81%) Firewall
3 25 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.52%) VPN
5 21 (1.45%) DNS
6 16 (1.11%) DHCP
7 10 (0.69%) Network Security
8 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.42%) SAN
9 5 (0.35%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) WAN
10 4 (0.28%) AMQP
11 3 (0.21%) Internet
11 3 (0.21%) Modbus
11 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.21%) SCCP
11 3 (0.21%) Wireless
12 2 (0.14%) DSL
12 2 (0.14%) RFID
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.03%) SQL Server
2 101 (6.99%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (4.09%) Power BI
6 49 (3.39%) Metadata
7 45 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 40 (2.77%) MongoDB
9 39 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
9 39 (2.70%) Data Lake
10 35 (2.42%) Tableau
11 27 (1.87%) MySQL
12 25 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 25 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (1.73%) Redis
13 19 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.18%) Delta Lake
15 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 159 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 143 (9.90%) Git
3 113 (7.83%) GitLab
4 87 (6.02%) JIRA
5 58 (4.02%) SonarQube
6 31 (2.15%) Selenium
7 22 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
8 20 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 17 (1.18%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.11%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.04%) JMeter
14 13 (0.90%) Postman
15 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio
16 9 (0.62%) git-flow
16 9 (0.62%) JUnit
16 9 (0.62%) Subversion
17 8 (0.55%) Maven
18 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 404 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 402 (27.84%) Finance
3 167 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (10.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 86 (5.96%) Marketing
7 70 (4.85%) Banking
8 69 (4.78%) Law
9 58 (4.02%) Retail
10 54 (3.74%) Games
11 41 (2.84%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.42%) Legal
13 33 (2.29%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.87%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.52%) Back Office
16 19 (1.32%) Front Office
17 15 (1.04%) Tech for Good
18 14 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.83%) Billing
19 12 (0.83%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 348 (24.10%) Senior
2 265 (18.35%) Developer
3 200 (13.85%) Lead
4 143 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 134 (9.28%) Software Engineer
6 133 (9.21%) Architect
7 108 (7.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 78 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
9 65 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
9 65 (4.50%) Senior Developer
10 59 (4.09%) Consultant
11 58 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
12 55 (3.81%) Data Engineer
13 51 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
14 49 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (3.32%) .NET Developer
16 47 (3.25%) Applications Engineer
16 47 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
17 42 (2.91%) Lead DevOps
17 42 (2.91%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (16.20%) .NET
2 157 (10.87%) React
3 140 (9.70%) REST
4 128 (8.86%) RESTful
5 104 (7.20%) SOAP
6 86 (5.96%) Lightning Web Components
7 81 (5.61%) CSS
8 80 (5.54%) Spring
9 78 (5.40%) HTML
10 76 (5.26%) Kafka
10 76 (5.26%) Spring Boot
11 71 (4.92%) Node.js
12 65 (4.50%) Visualforce
13 60 (4.16%) .NET Core
14 56 (3.88%) OAuth
15 51 (3.53%) .NET Framework
16 50 (3.46%) AngularJS
17 46 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
18 45 (3.12%) JSON
19 40 (2.77%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 252 (17.45%) Cloud Native
2 139 (9.63%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.42%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 28 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.80%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.11%) IoT
14 16 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
15 15 (1.04%) AI Agents
15 15 (1.04%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.69%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.62%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 151 (10.46%) Linux
2 84 (5.82%) Windows
3 57 (3.95%) Unix
4 34 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.32%) Android
6 12 (0.83%) VMS
7 9 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) CentOS
9 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.21%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 859 (59.49%) CI/CD
2 659 (45.64%) Agile
3 382 (26.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 364 (25.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 288 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
6 282 (19.53%) Mentoring
7 257 (17.80%) Software Engineering
8 251 (17.38%) AI
9 238 (16.48%) Test Automation
10 231 (16.00%) Containerisation
11 227 (15.72%) Coaching
12 222 (15.37%) Microservices
13 212 (14.68%) Observability
14 182 (12.60%) Analytics
15 167 (11.57%) Roadmaps
16 165 (11.43%) Scrum
17 162 (11.22%) Data Modelling
18 155 (10.73%) Event-Driven
19 141 (9.76%) Clean Code
20 140 (9.70%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 414 (28.67%) Python
2 350 (24.24%) SQL
3 235 (16.27%) Java
4 187 (12.95%) JavaScript
5 173 (11.98%) C#
6 109 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 105 (7.27%) Bash
8 99 (6.86%) TypeScript
9 91 (6.30%) Apex Code
10 83 (5.75%) Go
11 72 (4.99%) Bicep
12 43 (2.98%) SOQL
12 43 (2.98%) SOSL
13 24 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 22 (1.52%) Scala
16 21 (1.45%) C++
16 21 (1.45%) PHP
17 14 (0.97%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 176 (12.19%) Degree
2 153 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 114 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.97%) CISSP
10 14 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 11 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.69%) PhD
14 9 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.62%) PMP
15 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.59%) QA
2 65 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (2.49%) GDPR
6 20 (1.39%) NIST
7 15 (1.04%) GRC
8 10 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.69%) WCAG
9 7 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.42%) SLA
11 4 (0.28%) NCSC
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) HL7
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
14 1 (0.069%) PMO
System Software
1 285 (19.74%) Docker
2 68 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.76%) vSphere
6 9 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.48%) Firmware
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.21%) Postfix
10 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) vCloud
12 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 409 (28.32%) Terraform
2 327 (22.65%) Kubernetes
3 129 (8.93%) Ansible
4 110 (7.62%) Grafana
5 83 (5.75%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.63%) Argo
7 32 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.62%) Puppet
10 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.55%) Istio
12 7 (0.48%) Kibana
13 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
13 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.42%) SCCM
14 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.35%) Control-M
14 5 (0.35%) Packer
15 4 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 313 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.34%) Salesforce
3 80 (5.54%) Google
4 58 (4.02%) Oracle
5 55 (3.81%) Splunk
6 47 (3.25%) Databricks
7 34 (2.35%) VMware
8 25 (1.73%) SAP
9 24 (1.66%) MuleSoft
10 21 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.39%) Cisco
12 19 (1.32%) Okta
13 16 (1.11%) Ab Initio
14 14 (0.97%) IBM
15 13 (0.90%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.76%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.76%) Veeam
17 10 (0.69%) Palo Alto
18 8 (0.55%) New Relic
18 8 (0.55%) PagerDuty
788 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs