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

 6 months to
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,473 1,709 3,104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.50% 13.14% 9.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 13.86% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,327 2,570
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -5.71%

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 14,440 12,333 28,995
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.32% 94.79% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,085 8,884 23,507
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,761
25th Percentile £44,972 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 11 April 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 24 (1.63%) Confluence
2 23 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.22%) Apache
5 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.34%) CMS
10 4 (0.27%) IIS
11 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
13 1 (0.068%) Camunda
13 1 (0.068%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.068%) Drupal
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.068%) SAS
13 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (1.09%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.068%) Magento
7 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.068%) Primavera
7 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.068%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.068%) Shopify
7 1 (0.068%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 855 (58.04%) Azure
2 542 (36.80%) AWS
3 419 (28.45%) Azure DevOps
4 282 (19.14%) GitHub
5 198 (13.44%) GCP
6 154 (10.45%) Serverless
7 137 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
7 137 (9.30%) SaaS
8 120 (8.15%) Power Platform
9 91 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 86 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
11 85 (5.77%) Amazon S3
12 84 (5.70%) Entra ID
13 73 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 71 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
15 61 (4.14%) dbt
16 60 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 59 (4.01%) PaaS
18 53 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
19 51 (3.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.01%) Firewall
2 58 (3.94%) Broadband
3 27 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.56%) VPN
5 22 (1.49%) DNS
6 17 (1.15%) DHCP
7 12 (0.81%) Network Security
8 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.41%) LAN
8 6 (0.41%) WAN
9 5 (0.34%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) AMQP
11 3 (0.20%) Internet
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.20%) SCCP
11 3 (0.20%) SSL
11 3 (0.20%) Wireless
12 2 (0.14%) DSL
12 2 (0.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (7.88%) SQL Server
2 105 (7.13%) NoSQL
3 79 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (3.60%) Power BI
5 51 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 48 (3.26%) MongoDB
7 45 (3.05%) Metadata
8 41 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 41 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 37 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 27 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (1.83%) Redis
11 25 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 25 (1.70%) Tableau
12 24 (1.63%) MySQL
13 20 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.22%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 146 (9.91%) Git
2 144 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 111 (7.54%) GitLab
4 82 (5.57%) JIRA
5 50 (3.39%) SonarQube
6 33 (2.24%) Selenium
7 19 (1.29%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
11 14 (0.95%) JMeter
12 12 (0.81%) Postman
13 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.61%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) Subversion
15 8 (0.54%) JUnit
16 7 (0.48%) NUnit
16 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 398 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 391 (26.54%) Finance
3 166 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 76 (5.16%) Banking
6 76 (5.16%) Marketing
7 73 (4.96%) Law
8 58 (3.94%) Retail
9 49 (3.33%) Games
10 41 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.65%) Legal
12 30 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.83%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.43%) Back Office
15 16 (1.09%) Front Office
16 15 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.95%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.81%) Billing
19 11 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 360 (24.44%) Senior
2 252 (17.11%) Developer
3 211 (14.32%) Lead
4 173 (11.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 137 (9.30%) Architect
6 135 (9.16%) Software Engineer
7 103 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
9 77 (5.23%) Senior DevOps
10 65 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
11 60 (4.07%) Consultant
11 60 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 60 (4.07%) Senior Developer
12 55 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
13 53 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
14 52 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
15 50 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 45 (3.05%) .NET Developer
16 45 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
17 44 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (15.48%) .NET
2 159 (10.79%) React
3 129 (8.76%) REST
4 119 (8.08%) RESTful
5 90 (6.11%) SOAP
6 79 (5.36%) CSS
7 78 (5.30%) Spring
8 77 (5.23%) Kafka
8 77 (5.23%) Node.js
9 76 (5.16%) HTML
9 76 (5.16%) Lightning Web Components
10 71 (4.82%) Spring Boot
11 57 (3.87%) Visualforce
12 56 (3.80%) .NET Core
13 52 (3.53%) OAuth
14 51 (3.46%) AngularJS
15 49 (3.33%) .NET Framework
16 47 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
17 42 (2.85%) Django
18 41 (2.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 262 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 132 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 35 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 31 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 29 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
12 16 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.95%) Cyberattack
15 13 (0.88%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.88%) Podcast
16 12 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 163 (11.07%) Linux
2 87 (5.91%) Windows
3 59 (4.01%) Unix
4 39 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.36%) Android
6 12 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.68%) CentOS
7 10 (0.68%) VMS
8 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Debian
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 856 (58.11%) CI/CD
2 656 (44.53%) Agile
3 395 (26.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 359 (24.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
6 279 (18.94%) Mentoring
7 275 (18.67%) Software Engineering
8 241 (16.36%) AI
8 241 (16.36%) Test Automation
9 237 (16.09%) Containerisation
10 231 (15.68%) Microservices
11 220 (14.94%) Observability
12 218 (14.80%) Coaching
13 174 (11.81%) Analytics
14 173 (11.74%) Roadmaps
15 172 (11.68%) Scrum
16 153 (10.39%) Data Modelling
17 152 (10.32%) Event-Driven
18 142 (9.64%) Full-Stack Development
19 137 (9.30%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 408 (27.70%) Python
2 335 (22.74%) SQL
3 229 (15.55%) Java
4 189 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 174 (11.81%) C#
6 103 (6.99%) TypeScript
7 99 (6.72%) Bash
7 99 (6.72%) PowerShell
8 82 (5.57%) Go
9 81 (5.50%) Apex Code
10 66 (4.48%) Bicep
11 36 (2.44%) SOQL
11 36 (2.44%) SOSL
12 22 (1.49%) Scala
13 20 (1.36%) C++
14 19 (1.29%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.15%) PHP
15 17 (1.15%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.95%) Rust
17 13 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (12.02%) Degree
2 168 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 125 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.02%) CISSP
10 15 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.68%) PMP
14 9 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.61%) PhD
15 8 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.21%) QA
2 64 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.58%) GDPR
6 29 (1.97%) NIST
7 19 (1.29%) GRC
8 13 (0.88%) WCAG
9 10 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.27%) SLA
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 293 (19.89%) Docker
2 69 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.75%) vSphere
5 8 (0.54%) Firmware
5 8 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.20%) Postfix
7 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) vCloud
9 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.068%) KVM
9 1 (0.068%) QEMU
9 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 415 (28.17%) Terraform
2 344 (23.35%) Kubernetes
3 135 (9.16%) Ansible
4 114 (7.74%) Grafana
5 85 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.85%) Argo
7 26 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 15 (1.02%) Puppet
10 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.54%) Istio
11 8 (0.54%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.48%) Kibana
12 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.41%) Packer
13 6 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) SCCM
15 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 315 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 75 (5.09%) Google
4 52 (3.53%) Oracle
5 49 (3.33%) Splunk
6 48 (3.26%) Databricks
7 37 (2.51%) VMware
8 26 (1.77%) SAP
9 23 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.36%) Cisco
12 17 (1.15%) Okta
13 16 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.95%) Ab Initio
15 11 (0.75%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.68%) IBM
16 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.61%) Veeam
18 8 (0.54%) New Relic
18 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty
782 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs