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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 14 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,387 2,209 2,783
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.04% 12.55% 13.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.14% 13.58% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 978 1,506 2,353
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -

All Process and 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 13,678 16,269 18,914
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.17% 92.44% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,770 9,885 15,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,387
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +1.81% -1.78%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%

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 December 2025.

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 42 (3.03%) Confluence
2 22 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 15 (1.08%) IIS
6 14 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.87%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.65%) Apache
9 5 (0.36%) CMS
9 5 (0.36%) nginx
10 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.072%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.072%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.072%) Camunda
11 1 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.072%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.072%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 37 (2.67%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.36%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.22%) Shopify
8 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.072%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.072%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.072%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.072%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.072%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.072%) Primavera
9 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 938 (67.63%) Azure
2 520 (37.49%) Azure DevOps
3 462 (33.31%) AWS
4 339 (24.44%) GitHub
5 154 (11.10%) GCP
6 151 (10.89%) GitHub Actions
7 147 (10.60%) SaaS
8 145 (10.45%) Power Platform
9 112 (8.07%) Serverless
10 95 (6.85%) Entra ID
11 82 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 76 (5.48%) Snowflake
13 70 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
14 67 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
15 63 (4.54%) Amazon EKS
15 63 (4.54%) dbt
15 63 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
16 62 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
17 61 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 60 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.39%) Firewall
2 38 (2.74%) VPN
3 33 (2.38%) DNS
4 26 (1.87%) WAN
5 22 (1.59%) LAN
5 22 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.37%) Broadband
6 19 (1.37%) DHCP
6 19 (1.37%) Network Security
7 13 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.87%) VoIP
9 11 (0.79%) VLAN
10 10 (0.72%) SAN
11 7 (0.50%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.43%) BGP
12 6 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (0.43%) Internet
13 5 (0.36%) DMZ
13 5 (0.36%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.89%) SQL Server
2 102 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (5.84%) Power BI
4 76 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
5 65 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 51 (3.68%) Tableau
7 48 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 39 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 37 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 34 (2.45%) MongoDB
11 33 (2.38%) Metadata
11 33 (2.38%) MySQL
12 28 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.66%) DynamoDB
14 22 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (1.30%) Redis
16 15 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
17 13 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 13 (0.94%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 168 (12.11%) Git
2 142 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 116 (8.36%) JIRA
4 87 (6.27%) GitLab
5 35 (2.52%) Oracle Forms
6 31 (2.24%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.87%) Selenium
8 17 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.87%) Postman
9 12 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.79%) git-flow
10 11 (0.79%) JMeter
10 11 (0.79%) JUnit
11 9 (0.65%) Subversion
11 9 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 422 (30.43%) Finance
2 402 (28.98%) Social Skills
3 149 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (6.63%) Marketing
6 78 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 65 (4.69%) Retail
8 58 (4.18%) Law
9 46 (3.32%) Telecoms
10 37 (2.67%) Banking
11 31 (2.24%) Back Office
12 29 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (1.87%) Front Office
14 20 (1.44%) Games
14 20 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.37%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.23%) Legal
17 16 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 334 (24.08%) Senior
2 246 (17.74%) Developer
3 152 (10.96%) Lead
4 142 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 116 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 101 (7.28%) Software Engineer
7 92 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
8 88 (6.34%) Architect
9 81 (5.84%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.83%) Applications Engineer
11 61 (4.40%) Data Engineer
12 59 (4.25%) Analyst
13 58 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
14 55 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 52 (3.75%) Consultant
16 51 (3.68%) .NET Developer
17 44 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
18 42 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
19 36 (2.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 36 (2.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (18.17%) .NET
2 162 (11.68%) React
3 129 (9.30%) RESTful
4 92 (6.63%) REST
5 71 (5.12%) SOAP
6 65 (4.69%) CSS
6 65 (4.69%) HTML
7 63 (4.54%) Node.js
8 62 (4.47%) .NET Framework
9 61 (4.40%) Kafka
10 59 (4.25%) Spring Boot
11 55 (3.97%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.97%) JSON
11 55 (3.97%) OAuth
11 55 (3.97%) Spring
12 48 (3.46%) .NET Core
13 45 (3.24%) XML
14 43 (3.10%) Lightning Web Components
15 39 (2.81%) OAuth2
16 38 (2.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 261 (18.82%) Cloud Native
2 125 (9.01%) Product Ownership
3 59 (4.25%) Management Information System
4 57 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 54 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 34 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (1.87%) Low-Code
10 21 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 21 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.44%) IoT
12 19 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 16 (1.15%) NHS
15 12 (0.87%) Security Posture
16 11 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
17 10 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
18 9 (0.65%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 137 (9.88%) Linux
2 114 (8.22%) Windows
3 41 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.16%) Unix
5 19 (1.37%) VMS
6 15 (1.08%) Android
7 12 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.58%) Debian
11 7 (0.50%) CentOS
11 7 (0.50%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.072%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (57.17%) CI/CD
2 660 (47.58%) Agile
3 348 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 323 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 304 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 270 (19.47%) Mentoring
7 269 (19.39%) AI
8 239 (17.23%) Test Automation
9 230 (16.58%) Coaching
10 214 (15.43%) Microservices
10 214 (15.43%) Software Engineering
11 203 (14.64%) Analytics
12 196 (14.13%) Observability
13 194 (13.99%) Asset Management
14 180 (12.98%) Containerisation
15 152 (10.96%) Clean Code
16 147 (10.60%) Data Modelling
17 142 (10.24%) Scrum
18 138 (9.95%) Computer Science
19 136 (9.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 436 (31.43%) Python
2 393 (28.33%) SQL
3 220 (15.86%) C#
4 174 (12.55%) Java
5 172 (12.40%) PowerShell
6 156 (11.25%) JavaScript
7 125 (9.01%) Bash
8 116 (8.36%) TypeScript
9 81 (5.84%) Bicep
10 52 (3.75%) Go
11 46 (3.32%) Apex Code
12 40 (2.88%) PL/SQL
13 36 (2.60%) Shell Script
14 26 (1.87%) Scala
15 25 (1.80%) T-SQL
16 16 (1.15%) PHP
17 15 (1.08%) C
17 15 (1.08%) R
17 15 (1.08%) SOQL
17 15 (1.08%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 179 (12.91%) Degree
2 126 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 106 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 104 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 74 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.37%) ISTQB
11 18 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (1.08%) CCNP
12 15 (1.08%) DV Cleared
13 14 (1.01%) CISSP
14 13 (0.94%) PMP
15 12 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 9 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 7 (0.50%) ACCA
18 7 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (10.24%) QA
2 68 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (4.11%) GDPR
4 55 (3.97%) Data Quality
5 42 (3.03%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.09%) NIST
7 17 (1.23%) ISO 9001
8 14 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.79%) NCSC
9 11 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.50%) SLA
12 7 (0.50%) WCAG
13 6 (0.43%) PMO
14 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.14%) GRC
16 2 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 256 (18.46%) Docker
2 83 (5.98%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.23%) vSphere
6 11 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.43%) Firmware
7 6 (0.43%) NFS
8 5 (0.36%) Kamailio
9 4 (0.29%) Postfix
9 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.14%) vCloud
12 1 (0.072%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.072%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 396 (28.55%) Terraform
2 314 (22.64%) Kubernetes
3 123 (8.87%) Ansible
4 103 (7.43%) Grafana
5 74 (5.34%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.95%) Argo
8 22 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
10 10 (0.72%) SCCM
11 6 (0.43%) Kibana
12 5 (0.36%) Control-M
12 5 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.36%) Puppet
13 4 (0.29%) logstash
13 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 334 (24.08%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.62%) Oracle
3 68 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.97%) Databricks
5 39 (2.81%) VMware
6 36 (2.60%) Google
7 33 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.16%) Cisco
9 26 (1.87%) Splunk
10 21 (1.51%) Okta
11 20 (1.44%) SolarWinds
12 16 (1.15%) Ab Initio
12 16 (1.15%) Veeam
13 15 (1.08%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.01%) IBM
14 14 (1.01%) SAP
15 12 (0.87%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.79%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.79%) NetApp
17 10 (0.72%) Atlassian
767 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs