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

 6 months to
21 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,484 1,693 3,030
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.31% 12.69% 9.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.99% 13.39% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 1,307 2,518
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 14,857 12,645 29,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.17% 94.76% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,372 8,952 23,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -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% -10.86%

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 21 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 25 (1.68%) Confluence
2 24 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.35%) Apache
5 14 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) WordPress
11 1 (0.067%) Camunda
11 1 (0.067%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.067%) Drupal
11 1 (0.067%) JBoss
11 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.067%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.067%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (1.01%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.067%) Magento
8 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.067%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.067%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.067%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.067%) Shopify
8 1 (0.067%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.067%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 855 (57.61%) Azure
2 535 (36.05%) AWS
3 416 (28.03%) Azure DevOps
4 278 (18.73%) GitHub
5 191 (12.87%) GCP
6 152 (10.24%) Serverless
7 137 (9.23%) SaaS
8 135 (9.10%) GitHub Actions
9 119 (8.02%) Power Platform
10 87 (5.86%) Entra ID
11 85 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (5.66%) Amazon S3
13 83 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 75 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 69 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
16 59 (3.98%) dbt
17 56 (3.77%) PaaS
18 55 (3.71%) GitHub Copilot
19 54 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 54 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.91%) Broadband
1 58 (3.91%) Firewall
2 26 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.48%) DNS
3 22 (1.48%) VPN
4 17 (1.15%) DHCP
5 13 (0.88%) Network Security
6 7 (0.47%) LAN
6 7 (0.47%) WAN
7 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.27%) AMQP
8 4 (0.27%) SAN
9 3 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (0.20%) Internet
9 3 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.20%) SCCP
9 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.20%) SSL
9 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (7.95%) SQL Server
2 100 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 79 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 51 (3.44%) Power BI
7 49 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 49 (3.30%) Metadata
8 42 (2.83%) Relational Database
9 39 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (2.56%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 24 (1.62%) Redis
13 23 (1.55%) MySQL
14 22 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.48%) Tableau
15 19 (1.28%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.28%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 147 (9.91%) Git
2 140 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 112 (7.55%) GitLab
4 88 (5.93%) JIRA
5 50 (3.37%) SonarQube
6 34 (2.29%) Selenium
7 19 (1.28%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.28%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (0.88%) JMeter
12 12 (0.81%) Postman
12 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.74%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) JUnit
14 9 (0.61%) Subversion
15 7 (0.47%) Locust
15 7 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 388 (26.15%) Finance
2 386 (26.01%) Social Skills
3 165 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 75 (5.05%) Banking
7 74 (4.99%) Marketing
8 72 (4.85%) Law
9 57 (3.84%) Retail
10 50 (3.37%) Games
11 38 (2.56%) Legal
11 38 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.68%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.55%) Back Office
15 16 (1.08%) Front Office
16 15 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.81%) Billing
17 12 (0.81%) Health Technology
17 12 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 360 (24.26%) Senior
2 251 (16.91%) Developer
3 225 (15.16%) Lead
4 183 (12.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 137 (9.23%) Architect
6 129 (8.69%) Software Engineer
7 106 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
8 82 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
9 65 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
10 64 (4.31%) Consultant
11 63 (4.25%) Data Engineer
12 56 (3.77%) Senior Developer
13 55 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
14 54 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 53 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
15 53 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
16 46 (3.10%) Applications Engineer
17 45 (3.03%) Lead Developer
18 44 (2.96%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (15.03%) .NET
2 157 (10.58%) React
3 130 (8.76%) REST
4 119 (8.02%) RESTful
5 90 (6.06%) SOAP
6 83 (5.59%) Node.js
7 78 (5.26%) CSS
8 75 (5.05%) HTML
8 75 (5.05%) Kafka
8 75 (5.05%) Lightning Web Components
8 75 (5.05%) Spring
9 69 (4.65%) Spring Boot
10 56 (3.77%) .NET Core
10 56 (3.77%) Visualforce
11 55 (3.71%) AngularJS
12 52 (3.50%) OAuth
13 48 (3.23%) .NET Framework
14 45 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
15 41 (2.76%) ASP.NET
15 41 (2.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 264 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 133 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 33 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 31 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 31 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 27 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
11 17 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.01%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.94%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.58%) Linux
2 82 (5.53%) Windows
3 54 (3.64%) Unix
4 36 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.35%) Android
6 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.67%) VMS
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.54%) CentOS
9 5 (0.34%) Debian
9 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (58.29%) CI/CD
2 652 (43.94%) Agile
3 392 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 359 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 293 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
6 289 (19.47%) Mentoring
7 270 (18.19%) Software Engineering
8 252 (16.98%) Test Automation
9 244 (16.44%) AI
10 238 (16.04%) Containerisation
10 238 (16.04%) Microservices
11 229 (15.43%) Coaching
12 216 (14.56%) Observability
13 186 (12.53%) Roadmaps
14 183 (12.33%) Scrum
15 174 (11.73%) Analytics
16 154 (10.38%) Event-Driven
17 152 (10.24%) Data Modelling
18 146 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
19 140 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 398 (26.82%) Python
2 331 (22.30%) SQL
3 231 (15.57%) Java
4 187 (12.60%) JavaScript
5 177 (11.93%) C#
6 104 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 98 (6.60%) Bash
8 96 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 80 (5.39%) Go
10 79 (5.32%) Apex Code
11 62 (4.18%) Bicep
12 36 (2.43%) SOQL
12 36 (2.43%) SOSL
13 25 (1.68%) Scala
14 21 (1.42%) C++
15 20 (1.35%) PHP
16 19 (1.28%) Shell Script
17 17 (1.15%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.94%) Rust
18 14 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (11.66%) Degree
2 162 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.01%) CISSP
12 14 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.61%) PMP
16 8 (0.54%) PhD
16 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.47%) CCNP
18 6 (0.40%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.22%) QA
2 67 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.56%) GDPR
6 31 (2.09%) NIST
7 19 (1.28%) GRC
8 13 (0.88%) WCAG
9 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.27%) IFRS
11 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.20%) NCSC
11 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.13%) HL7
12 2 (0.13%) SEPA
12 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 285 (19.20%) Docker
2 71 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.67%) vSphere
6 8 (0.54%) Firmware
7 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Postfix
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.067%) KVM
11 1 (0.067%) QEMU
11 1 (0.067%) vCloud
11 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 416 (28.03%) Terraform
2 340 (22.91%) Kubernetes
3 136 (9.16%) Ansible
4 108 (7.28%) Grafana
5 81 (5.46%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.03%) Argo
7 26 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.28%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.21%) Puppet
10 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.54%) Istio
12 7 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.47%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.40%) Packer
13 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.34%) Kibana
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 314 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.33%) Salesforce
3 71 (4.78%) Google
4 51 (3.44%) Databricks
5 50 (3.37%) Oracle
6 44 (2.96%) Splunk
7 36 (2.43%) VMware
8 26 (1.75%) SAP
9 25 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.48%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.28%) Cisco
12 18 (1.21%) Okta
13 16 (1.08%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.94%) Ab Initio
15 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.67%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.61%) IBM
18 8 (0.54%) Confluent
18 8 (0.54%) Juniper
18 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty
758 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs