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

 6 months to
22 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,416 2,154 2,894
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.15% 13.14% 12.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.52% 13.97% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1,450 2,429
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +6.06% -6.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 13,454 15,421 22,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.93% 94.05% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,565 9,081 18,236
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 January 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 41 (2.90%) Confluence
2 27 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.92%) Apache
7 12 (0.85%) IIS
8 10 (0.71%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.071%) Camunda
11 1 (0.071%) nginx
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) SAS
11 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.071%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (2.75%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.06%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.14%) Shopify
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.071%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.071%) Primavera
7 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.071%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 930 (65.68%) Azure
2 512 (36.16%) Azure DevOps
3 497 (35.10%) AWS
4 345 (24.36%) GitHub
5 162 (11.44%) GCP
6 153 (10.81%) Power Platform
7 152 (10.73%) GitHub Actions
8 134 (9.46%) SaaS
9 130 (9.18%) Serverless
10 100 (7.06%) Entra ID
11 91 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (5.65%) Snowflake
13 75 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 74 (5.23%) GitHub Copilot
15 69 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
16 68 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 68 (4.80%) Amazon S3
16 68 (4.80%) dbt
17 66 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
18 59 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.60%) Firewall
2 37 (2.61%) Broadband
3 34 (2.40%) VPN
4 33 (2.33%) DNS
5 21 (1.48%) DHCP
5 21 (1.48%) Network Security
6 20 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.41%) WAN
7 16 (1.13%) LAN
8 12 (0.85%) SAN
9 11 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.64%) VoIP
11 8 (0.56%) VLAN
12 6 (0.42%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.35%) BGP
13 5 (0.35%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.35%) Internet
14 3 (0.21%) DMZ
14 3 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.32%) SQL Server
2 99 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (6.57%) NoSQL
4 85 (6.00%) Power BI
5 74 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (3.95%) Tableau
7 53 (3.74%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (3.39%) Metadata
9 44 (3.11%) MongoDB
10 40 (2.82%) Data Lake
11 31 (2.19%) MySQL
12 29 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (1.69%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (1.48%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.27%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.27%) Redis
17 16 (1.13%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 166 (11.72%) Git
2 145 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 114 (8.05%) JIRA
4 86 (6.07%) GitLab
5 37 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
6 31 (2.19%) SonarQube
7 30 (2.12%) Selenium
8 21 (1.48%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.34%) Jaeger
10 14 (0.99%) Postman
11 13 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.92%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.85%) JMeter
13 11 (0.78%) git-flow
13 11 (0.78%) JUnit
13 11 (0.78%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.64%) Subversion
15 8 (0.56%) Storybook
16 7 (0.49%) Maven
16 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 431 (30.44%) Finance
2 415 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 167 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 80 (5.65%) Marketing
7 49 (3.46%) Law
8 46 (3.25%) Retail
9 43 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 41 (2.90%) Banking
11 26 (1.84%) Front Office
12 24 (1.69%) Games
13 20 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.34%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.06%) Legal
15 15 (1.06%) Tech for Good
16 14 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.92%) Back Office
18 11 (0.78%) Billing
19 10 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 356 (25.14%) Senior
2 254 (17.94%) Developer
3 181 (12.78%) Lead
4 130 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 126 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 119 (8.40%) Software Engineer
7 87 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
8 82 (5.79%) Architect
9 79 (5.58%) Senior Developer
10 68 (4.80%) Data Engineer
11 67 (4.73%) Applications Engineer
12 63 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
13 55 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 54 (3.81%) Analyst
15 49 (3.46%) .NET Developer
16 47 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
17 43 (3.04%) Consultant
18 42 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
19 38 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
19 38 (2.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (17.02%) .NET
2 166 (11.72%) React
3 139 (9.82%) RESTful
4 95 (6.71%) REST
5 77 (5.44%) SOAP
6 69 (4.87%) CSS
7 68 (4.80%) Node.js
7 68 (4.80%) Spring
8 67 (4.73%) Spring Boot
9 66 (4.66%) HTML
10 62 (4.38%) Kafka
11 60 (4.24%) AngularJS
12 57 (4.03%) .NET Framework
13 56 (3.95%) OAuth
14 50 (3.53%) JSON
15 49 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
15 49 (3.46%) Lightning Web Components
16 48 (3.39%) .NET Core
17 39 (2.75%) OAuth2
18 38 (2.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 260 (18.36%) Cloud Native
2 131 (9.25%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.19%) Low-Code
8 28 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 28 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 19 (1.34%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.27%) IoT
13 15 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 13 (0.92%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (0.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.59%) Linux
2 108 (7.63%) Windows
3 51 (3.60%) Unix
4 41 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.55%) Android
6 19 (1.34%) VMS
7 12 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.56%) Debian
11 7 (0.49%) CentOS
12 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (58.19%) CI/CD
2 678 (47.88%) Agile
3 373 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 353 (24.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 313 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
6 287 (20.27%) Mentoring
7 282 (19.92%) AI
8 265 (18.71%) Coaching
9 234 (16.53%) Test Automation
10 223 (15.75%) Software Engineering
11 215 (15.18%) Analytics
12 211 (14.90%) Microservices
13 205 (14.48%) Observability
14 200 (14.12%) Asset Management
15 195 (13.77%) Containerisation
16 172 (12.15%) Data Modelling
17 157 (11.09%) Clean Code
18 149 (10.52%) Roadmaps
19 134 (9.46%) Scrum
20 132 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 449 (31.71%) Python
2 405 (28.60%) SQL
3 211 (14.90%) Java
4 187 (13.21%) C#
5 169 (11.94%) JavaScript
6 147 (10.38%) PowerShell
7 125 (8.83%) Bash
8 113 (7.98%) TypeScript
9 78 (5.51%) Go
10 76 (5.37%) Bicep
11 53 (3.74%) Apex Code
12 40 (2.82%) PL/SQL
13 39 (2.75%) Shell Script
14 28 (1.98%) Scala
15 20 (1.41%) T-SQL
16 19 (1.34%) C++
17 17 (1.20%) SOQL
17 17 (1.20%) SOSL
18 15 (1.06%) R
19 14 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 165 (11.65%) Degree
2 143 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 107 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.40%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.34%) ISTQB
11 16 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.92%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.85%) CCNP
14 12 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 12 (0.85%) PMP
15 11 (0.78%) CISSP
16 9 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (9.18%) QA
2 72 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.46%) Accessibility
4 48 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (3.18%) GDPR
6 22 (1.55%) NIST
7 13 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.56%) WCAG
10 7 (0.49%) NCSC
10 7 (0.49%) SLA
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.35%) PMO
13 4 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) GRC
16 1 (0.071%) Basel III
16 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.071%) P3O
System Software
1 262 (18.50%) Docker
2 85 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.99%) vSphere
7 13 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 5 (0.35%) NFS
9 5 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.21%) Postfix
11 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.14%) vCloud
12 1 (0.071%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 427 (30.16%) Terraform
2 324 (22.88%) Kubernetes
3 137 (9.68%) Ansible
4 107 (7.56%) Grafana
5 91 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (3.11%) Argo
8 24 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.41%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.92%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.85%) SCCM
12 7 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.42%) HP Fortify
13 6 (0.42%) Kibana
14 5 (0.35%) Control-M
15 4 (0.28%) logstash
15 4 (0.28%) Puppet
16 3 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
16 3 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 321 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.44%) Oracle
3 75 (5.30%) Salesforce
4 66 (4.66%) Google
5 58 (4.10%) Databricks
6 37 (2.61%) VMware
7 28 (1.98%) Splunk
8 25 (1.77%) Cisco
9 23 (1.62%) SAP
10 21 (1.48%) Okta
10 21 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.41%) SolarWinds
12 18 (1.27%) Ab Initio
12 18 (1.27%) Veeam
13 17 (1.20%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.99%) IBM
15 13 (0.92%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.92%) NetApp
16 12 (0.85%) 3PAR
17 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
1,080 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs