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

 6 months to
22 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,316 2,337 3,101
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.61% 11.58% 14.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 13.00% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,574 2,610
10th Percentile £42,525 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,991 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 13,960 17,980 20,394
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.28% 89.12% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,790 10,859 16,513
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,644
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 November 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 39 (2.96%) Confluence
2 27 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.22%) IIS
5 12 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.68%) Apache
8 7 (0.53%) nginx
9 4 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.076%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.076%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.076%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.076%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 29 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.53%) Shopify
5 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.076%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.076%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.076%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.076%) Primavera
6 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 892 (67.78%) Azure
2 488 (37.08%) Azure DevOps
3 436 (33.13%) AWS
4 294 (22.34%) GitHub
5 151 (11.47%) GCP
6 146 (11.09%) SaaS
7 137 (10.41%) Power Platform
8 132 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
9 105 (7.98%) Serverless
10 84 (6.38%) Entra ID
11 78 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
13 66 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
14 62 (4.71%) PaaS
15 60 (4.56%) Snowflake
16 57 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
18 52 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
18 52 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
19 50 (3.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.65%) Firewall
2 38 (2.89%) VPN
3 32 (2.43%) DNS
4 28 (2.13%) WAN
5 25 (1.90%) LAN
6 21 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.52%) Network Security
8 19 (1.44%) Broadband
9 18 (1.37%) DHCP
10 13 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.91%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.91%) VoIP
12 10 (0.76%) SAN
12 10 (0.76%) VLAN
13 7 (0.53%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.46%) BGP
14 6 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (0.46%) Internet
15 5 (0.38%) DMZ
15 5 (0.38%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 73 (5.55%) Power BI
5 64 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 43 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (3.27%) Tableau
7 40 (3.04%) Relational Database
8 37 (2.81%) MongoDB
9 33 (2.51%) MySQL
10 28 (2.13%) Data Lake
11 24 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 19 (1.44%) Metadata
15 18 (1.37%) Redis
16 14 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
17 13 (0.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 13 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 11 (0.84%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 162 (12.31%) Git
2 125 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 102 (7.75%) JIRA
4 78 (5.93%) GitLab
5 32 (2.43%) SonarQube
6 27 (2.05%) Oracle Forms
7 22 (1.67%) Selenium
8 16 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.91%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.84%) git-flow
10 11 (0.84%) JUnit
10 11 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.68%) JMeter
12 9 (0.68%) Postman
12 9 (0.68%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.53%) MSBuild
General
1 387 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 379 (28.80%) Finance
3 125 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (6.38%) Marketing
6 67 (5.09%) Retail
7 66 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 65 (4.94%) Law
9 40 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 31 (2.36%) Banking
11 30 (2.28%) Back Office
12 27 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.75%) Games
14 22 (1.67%) Front Office
15 19 (1.44%) Legal
16 18 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.99%) Financial Institution
19 11 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 304 (23.10%) Senior
2 246 (18.69%) Developer
3 139 (10.56%) Lead
4 138 (10.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 109 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 95 (7.22%) Software Engineer
7 94 (7.14%) Architect
8 84 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 77 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (5.02%) Analyst
11 55 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 54 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
13 52 (3.95%) .NET Developer
13 52 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
14 50 (3.80%) Data Engineer
15 44 (3.34%) Consultant
16 43 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
17 41 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
18 38 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
19 33 (2.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (19.91%) .NET
2 159 (12.08%) React
3 109 (8.28%) RESTful
4 89 (6.76%) REST
5 71 (5.40%) CSS
6 69 (5.24%) HTML
7 68 (5.17%) .NET Framework
8 63 (4.79%) Node.js
9 59 (4.48%) AngularJS
10 55 (4.18%) SOAP
11 52 (3.95%) Spring Boot
12 51 (3.88%) JSON
13 49 (3.72%) Spring
14 48 (3.65%) .NET Core
14 48 (3.65%) Kafka
15 43 (3.27%) XML
16 42 (3.19%) OAuth
17 38 (2.89%) ASP.NET
18 37 (2.81%) Entity Framework
19 36 (2.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (18.24%) Cloud Native
2 121 (9.19%) Product Ownership
3 57 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 50 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.75%) IoT
9 23 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.44%) Low-Code
12 18 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.29%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.14%) AI Agents
15 14 (1.06%) NHS
15 14 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.76%) Data Structures
17 9 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.80%) Linux
2 114 (8.66%) Windows
3 36 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.28%) Unix
5 16 (1.22%) VMS
6 13 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.91%) Android
8 11 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.61%) CentOS
10 8 (0.61%) Debian
11 7 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.076%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (55.40%) CI/CD
2 633 (48.10%) Agile
3 338 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 309 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 297 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
6 260 (19.76%) Mentoring
7 239 (18.16%) AI
8 215 (16.34%) Microservices
9 213 (16.19%) Test Automation
10 201 (15.27%) Software Engineering
11 187 (14.21%) Coaching
12 178 (13.53%) Containerisation
13 171 (12.99%) Analytics
14 160 (12.16%) Observability
15 153 (11.63%) Asset Management
16 142 (10.79%) Roadmaps
16 142 (10.79%) Scrum
17 135 (10.26%) Clean Code
18 131 (9.95%) Computer Science
19 115 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 395 (30.02%) Python
2 362 (27.51%) SQL
3 241 (18.31%) C#
4 165 (12.54%) JavaScript
5 160 (12.16%) PowerShell
6 153 (11.63%) Java
7 119 (9.04%) Bash
8 116 (8.81%) TypeScript
9 72 (5.47%) Bicep
10 42 (3.19%) Go
11 38 (2.89%) Apex Code
12 33 (2.51%) PL/SQL
13 28 (2.13%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.82%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.44%) PHP
16 15 (1.14%) C
16 15 (1.14%) SOQL
16 15 (1.14%) SOSL
17 14 (1.06%) R
17 14 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (13.60%) Degree
2 121 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 102 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 98 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 49 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.81%) Master's Degree
8 30 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.22%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.14%) CCNP
11 15 (1.14%) CISSP
12 13 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 13 (0.99%) PMP
13 12 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (0.53%) ACCA
15 7 (0.53%) CIMA
15 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (10.56%) QA
2 67 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (4.56%) GDPR
4 36 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 35 (2.66%) Data Quality
6 33 (2.51%) NIST
7 17 (1.29%) ISO 9001
8 16 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.91%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.84%) NCSC
11 10 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.68%) PMO
12 9 (0.68%) SLA
12 9 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.46%) WCAG
14 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.23%) GRC
15 3 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 252 (19.15%) Docker
2 74 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.29%) vSphere
6 16 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.46%) NFS
9 5 (0.38%) Firmware
9 5 (0.38%) Kamailio
10 4 (0.30%) Postfix
11 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.15%) vCloud
13 1 (0.076%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.076%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 356 (27.05%) Terraform
2 296 (22.49%) Kubernetes
3 122 (9.27%) Ansible
4 90 (6.84%) Grafana
5 64 (4.86%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (1.67%) Argo
9 11 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (0.84%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.76%) SCCM
11 6 (0.46%) Kibana
12 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.30%) Puppet
13 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 317 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.24%) Oracle
3 59 (4.48%) Salesforce
4 48 (3.65%) Databricks
5 40 (3.04%) Google
6 36 (2.74%) VMware
7 33 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.28%) Cisco
9 26 (1.98%) Splunk
10 19 (1.44%) SolarWinds
11 17 (1.29%) Okta
12 16 (1.22%) Veeam
13 15 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.84%) NetApp
15 10 (0.76%) 3PAR
15 10 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.76%) SAP
16 9 (0.68%) Guidewire
16 9 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.68%) Zoho
1,492 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs