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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,552 1,907 3,057
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.84% 12.47% 8.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 13.18% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,144 1,047 2,474
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £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 £83,845 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16,218 14,474 30,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.95% 94.61% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,673 8,396 23,766
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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% -9.69%

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 14 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 35 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.61%) Apache
3 23 (1.48%) Confluence
4 19 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.58%) CMS
6 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.39%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.32%) WordPress
10 4 (0.26%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.19%) IIS
11 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.064%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.064%) JBoss
12 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.064%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
5 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.064%) Notion
6 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.64%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.064%) Magento
7 1 (0.064%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.064%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.064%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.064%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.064%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 838 (53.99%) Azure
2 519 (33.44%) AWS
3 446 (28.74%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (10.44%) GCP
5 156 (10.05%) GitHub
6 151 (9.73%) Serverless
7 135 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 132 (8.51%) SaaS
9 80 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 76 (4.90%) Entra ID
11 74 (4.77%) PaaS
12 73 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
13 70 (4.51%) Azure AKS
14 68 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
15 63 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 55 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
17 54 (3.48%) Azure AI
18 52 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
19 50 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
20 49 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.12%) Broadband
2 50 (3.22%) Firewall
3 29 (1.87%) DNS
4 24 (1.55%) VPN
5 22 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.97%) DHCP
7 9 (0.58%) Network Security
8 8 (0.52%) Internet
9 6 (0.39%) BGP
9 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.39%) LAN
9 6 (0.39%) NGFW
9 6 (0.39%) OSPF
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
10 5 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.32%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.19%) DSL
12 3 (0.19%) SSL
12 3 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (8.83%) MongoDB
2 134 (8.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 98 (6.31%) SQL Server
4 80 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 71 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (3.67%) Power BI
7 41 (2.64%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.45%) Metadata
9 37 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 24 (1.55%) MySQL
14 21 (1.35%) DynamoDB
14 21 (1.35%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.16%) Redis
16 15 (0.97%) Delta Lake
17 12 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 135 (8.70%) Git
2 113 (7.28%) GitLab
3 111 (7.15%) Jenkins
4 90 (5.80%) JIRA
5 43 (2.77%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.74%) Selenium
7 20 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 19 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.16%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.03%) Postman
11 13 (0.84%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.71%) JMeter
13 10 (0.64%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.58%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.45%) Maven
15 7 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.39%) NUnit
17 5 (0.32%) Locust
17 5 (0.32%) SpecFlow
18 4 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 330 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 311 (20.04%) Finance
3 159 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 133 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 123 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (4.83%) Law
7 68 (4.38%) Banking
8 64 (4.12%) Marketing
9 61 (3.93%) Games
10 60 (3.87%) Retail
11 46 (2.96%) Legal
12 24 (1.55%) Back Office
13 23 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.22%) Advertising
14 19 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.97%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.90%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.77%) Billing
19 9 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 337 (21.71%) Senior
2 324 (20.88%) Developer
3 243 (15.66%) Lead
4 237 (15.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 154 (9.92%) Architect
6 136 (8.76%) Software Engineer
7 119 (7.67%) .NET Developer
8 89 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 85 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
10 79 (5.09%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 64 (4.12%) Data Engineer
13 63 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
14 62 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
15 61 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
16 57 (3.67%) Senior Developer
17 54 (3.48%) Lead Developer
18 53 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
19 52 (3.35%) Consultant
20 51 (3.29%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (18.56%) .NET
2 181 (11.66%) React
3 127 (8.18%) .NET Core
4 125 (8.05%) ASP.NET
5 113 (7.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 113 (7.28%) RESTful
6 109 (7.02%) REST
7 107 (6.89%) Node.js
8 97 (6.25%) CSS
9 94 (6.06%) HTML
10 63 (4.06%) Blazor
11 62 (3.99%) Spring
12 61 (3.93%) Entity Framework
13 57 (3.67%) SOAP
13 57 (3.67%) Spring Boot
14 55 (3.54%) Lightning Web Components
15 53 (3.41%) AngularJS
16 52 (3.35%) Visualforce
17 50 (3.22%) ML.NET
18 49 (3.16%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 266 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 122 (7.86%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
4 52 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 35 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 28 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.55%) Driving Licence
9 24 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.35%) Low-Code
12 19 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 17 (1.10%) Podcast
14 16 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.97%) Cyberattack
15 15 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 163 (10.50%) Linux
2 70 (4.51%) Windows
3 52 (3.35%) Unix
4 26 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.35%) Android
6 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.52%) Debian
7 8 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.52%) VMS
8 7 (0.45%) CentOS
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (53.87%) CI/CD
2 692 (44.59%) Agile
3 387 (24.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 337 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 307 (19.78%) Mentoring
6 273 (17.59%) AI
7 265 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 261 (16.82%) Software Engineering
9 241 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 240 (15.46%) Microservices
11 222 (14.30%) Containerisation
12 216 (13.92%) Test Automation
13 206 (13.27%) Scrum
14 198 (12.76%) Roadmaps
15 172 (11.08%) Coaching
16 170 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
17 169 (10.89%) Observability
18 159 (10.24%) Analytics
19 150 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
20 147 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 359 (23.13%) SQL
2 343 (22.10%) Python
3 277 (17.85%) C#
4 228 (14.69%) JavaScript
5 220 (14.18%) Java
6 120 (7.73%) TypeScript
7 108 (6.96%) Bash
8 88 (5.67%) PowerShell
9 58 (3.74%) Apex Code
10 56 (3.61%) Bicep
10 56 (3.61%) Go
11 36 (2.32%) SOQL
11 36 (2.32%) SOSL
12 33 (2.13%) C++
13 23 (1.48%) PHP
14 17 (1.10%) Scala
15 14 (0.90%) Rust
16 12 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (11.60%) Security Cleared
2 154 (9.92%) Degree
3 139 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.10%) CISSP
10 17 (1.10%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.58%) PMP
14 8 (0.52%) PhD
14 8 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.45%) CCNP
16 6 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (9.09%) QA
2 60 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.68%) NIST
6 23 (1.48%) GDPR
7 17 (1.10%) GRC
8 13 (0.84%) WCAG
9 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS
12 4 (0.26%) PMO
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.19%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.13%) SEPA
14 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (16.43%) Docker
2 63 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.71%) vSphere
6 8 (0.52%) Firmware
7 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.064%) iptables
12 1 (0.064%) KVM
12 1 (0.064%) QEMU
12 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 372 (23.97%) Terraform
2 303 (19.52%) Kubernetes
3 123 (7.93%) Ansible
4 76 (4.90%) Grafana
5 62 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.84%) Argo
7 18 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.10%) Puppet
9 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.77%) Istio
11 9 (0.58%) Packer
11 9 (0.58%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.39%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.32%) Kibana
15 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.32%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 393 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.35%) Google
3 80 (5.15%) Salesforce
4 44 (2.84%) Oracle
5 43 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.71%) Splunk
6 42 (2.71%) VMware
7 38 (2.45%) Databricks
7 38 (2.45%) SAP
8 24 (1.55%) Facebook
9 17 (1.10%) Cisco
9 17 (1.10%) MuleSoft
10 15 (0.97%) Palo Alto
11 13 (0.84%) Apple
11 13 (0.84%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.77%) F5
13 11 (0.71%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.71%) Sony
13 11 (0.71%) Yahoo!
13 11 (0.71%) YouTube