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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,458 1,968 2,948
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.87% 13.10% 10.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.32% 13.78% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 989 1,386 2,467
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 14,124 14,280 25,656
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.91% 95.08% 92.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 8,724 21,327
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,000 £34,756
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,750
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 £82,500 £76,250
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% -12.00%

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 25 February 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 37 (2.54%) Confluence
2 25 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.03%) Apache
5 15 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 12 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.55%) IIS
8 4 (0.27%) CMS
8 4 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.069%) Camunda
10 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.069%) SAS
10 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.069%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 35 (2.40%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.03%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Markit EDM
5 5 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.14%) Shopify
9 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.069%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.069%) Primavera
9 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.069%) SAP MII
9 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.069%) TIBCO iProcess
9 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 912 (62.55%) Azure
2 527 (36.15%) AWS
3 483 (33.13%) Azure DevOps
4 334 (22.91%) GitHub
5 180 (12.35%) GCP
6 149 (10.22%) GitHub Actions
7 144 (9.88%) Power Platform
8 143 (9.81%) Serverless
9 140 (9.60%) SaaS
10 95 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (6.52%) Entra ID
11 79 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
12 78 (5.35%) Amazon S3
13 74 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (4.80%) GitHub Copilot
15 69 (4.73%) Snowflake
16 67 (4.60%) PaaS
17 65 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
17 65 (4.46%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.91%) Broadband
2 53 (3.64%) Firewall
3 27 (1.85%) DNS
4 26 (1.78%) VPN
5 22 (1.51%) DHCP
6 20 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.75%) Network Security
8 10 (0.69%) WAN
9 9 (0.62%) SAN
10 7 (0.48%) LAN
11 6 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.34%) Internet
13 4 (0.27%) AMQP
13 4 (0.27%) VLAN
14 3 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
14 3 (0.21%) SCCP
15 2 (0.14%) OSPF
15 2 (0.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 95 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 84 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 71 (4.87%) Power BI
6 51 (3.50%) Metadata
7 48 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.16%) Tableau
9 44 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (2.81%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.61%) Data Lake
12 33 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (1.85%) MySQL
14 23 (1.58%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.58%) Redis
15 20 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.30%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.17%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 164 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 151 (10.36%) Git
3 107 (7.34%) GitLab
4 100 (6.86%) JIRA
5 51 (3.50%) SonarQube
6 33 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
7 29 (1.99%) Selenium
8 19 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.30%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.82%) Postman
13 10 (0.69%) git-flow
13 10 (0.69%) JMeter
13 10 (0.69%) JUnit
14 9 (0.62%) Subversion
15 8 (0.55%) Maven
15 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 431 (29.56%) Finance
2 421 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 167 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 121 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 87 (5.97%) Marketing
7 60 (4.12%) Law
8 55 (3.77%) Retail
9 54 (3.70%) Banking
10 47 (3.22%) Games
11 41 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.92%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.78%) Legal
14 22 (1.51%) Back Office
15 21 (1.44%) Front Office
16 17 (1.17%) Tech for Good
17 15 (1.03%) Billing
18 12 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
19 11 (0.75%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 364 (24.97%) Senior
2 258 (17.70%) Developer
3 193 (13.24%) Lead
4 140 (9.60%) Software Engineer
5 130 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 127 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 117 (8.02%) Architect
8 84 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
10 65 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 63 (4.32%) Data Engineer
12 58 (3.98%) Applications Engineer
13 55 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (3.50%) Consultant
15 50 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
16 47 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 46 (3.16%) .NET Developer
18 44 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
19 41 (2.81%) Analyst
19 41 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (16.12%) .NET
2 164 (11.25%) React
3 136 (9.33%) RESTful
4 124 (8.50%) REST
5 103 (7.06%) SOAP
6 82 (5.62%) Spring
7 79 (5.42%) Spring Boot
8 78 (5.35%) Lightning Web Components
9 73 (5.01%) CSS
10 71 (4.87%) Node.js
11 70 (4.80%) HTML
12 67 (4.60%) Kafka
13 58 (3.98%) OAuth
14 57 (3.91%) AngularJS
15 55 (3.77%) Visualforce
16 54 (3.70%) .NET Framework
17 52 (3.57%) .NET Core
18 49 (3.36%) JSON
19 46 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
20 37 (2.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 271 (18.59%) Cloud Native
2 150 (10.29%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
5 46 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.54%) Low-Code
8 31 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.85%) Mobile App
9 27 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (1.03%) IoT
15 13 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.82%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.62%) Data Centre
18 8 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 155 (10.63%) Linux
2 92 (6.31%) Windows
3 56 (3.84%) Unix
4 34 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.51%) Android
6 15 (1.03%) VMS
7 11 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.41%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Debian
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (59.81%) CI/CD
2 683 (46.84%) Agile
3 377 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 376 (25.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 311 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
6 294 (20.16%) Mentoring
7 274 (18.79%) Coaching
8 270 (18.52%) AI
9 246 (16.87%) Software Engineering
10 240 (16.46%) Test Automation
11 229 (15.71%) Microservices
12 212 (14.54%) Observability
13 210 (14.40%) Containerisation
14 204 (13.99%) Analytics
15 182 (12.48%) Asset Management
16 173 (11.87%) Data Modelling
17 160 (10.97%) Roadmaps
18 158 (10.84%) Clean Code
19 153 (10.49%) Scrum
20 148 (10.15%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 441 (30.25%) Python
2 377 (25.86%) SQL
3 240 (16.46%) Java
4 183 (12.55%) JavaScript
5 175 (12.00%) C#
6 130 (8.92%) PowerShell
7 119 (8.16%) Bash
8 111 (7.61%) TypeScript
9 82 (5.62%) Apex Code
10 75 (5.14%) Go
11 72 (4.94%) Bicep
12 36 (2.47%) SOQL
12 36 (2.47%) SOSL
13 35 (2.40%) PL/SQL
13 35 (2.40%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.58%) Scala
15 18 (1.23%) C++
16 17 (1.17%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 176 (12.07%) Degree
2 165 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 126 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 52 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.10%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.03%) CISSP
12 11 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.55%) PhD
14 8 (0.55%) PMP
15 7 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.50%) QA
2 69 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.88%) GDPR
5 40 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.30%) NIST
7 12 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.48%) WCAG
9 6 (0.41%) SLA
10 4 (0.27%) GRC
10 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) NCSC
11 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) SEPA
13 1 (0.069%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 280 (19.20%) Docker
2 79 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.75%) vSphere
6 7 (0.48%) Firmware
7 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.21%) Postfix
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.14%) vCloud
11 1 (0.069%) NFS
Systems Management
1 422 (28.94%) Terraform
2 335 (22.98%) Kubernetes
3 134 (9.19%) Ansible
4 114 (7.82%) Grafana
5 89 (6.10%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.81%) Argo
8 20 (1.37%) Kustomize
9 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.75%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.62%) SCCM
12 8 (0.55%) Kibana
13 6 (0.41%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) Control-M
14 5 (0.34%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.34%) Puppet
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
15 4 (0.27%) Packer
16 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 318 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 98 (6.72%) Salesforce
3 79 (5.42%) Google
4 71 (4.87%) Oracle
5 52 (3.57%) Databricks
6 48 (3.29%) Splunk
7 36 (2.47%) VMware
8 24 (1.65%) SAP
9 23 (1.58%) Okta
10 21 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.23%) Ab Initio
12 18 (1.23%) Cisco
13 15 (1.03%) Veeam
14 14 (0.96%) IBM
14 14 (0.96%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.96%) SolarWinds
15 11 (0.75%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.69%) NetApp
17 9 (0.62%) 3PAR
703 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs