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

 6 months to
22 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,850 1,923 2,500
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.54% 11.67% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 12.51% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,352 1,051 2,023
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,787
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 £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,620
% change year-on-year - +6.68% -6.26%

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 17,944 15,366 25,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 93.22% 88.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,066 9,085 19,242
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,789 £34,089
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%

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 July 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 44 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.46%) Confluence
3 24 (1.30%) Apache
4 20 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.49%) IIS
7 8 (0.43%) CMS
7 8 (0.43%) nginx
7 8 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.32%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) WordPress
9 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.054%) Drupal
11 1 (0.054%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.59%) Trello
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Blender
5 3 (0.16%) Maya
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.054%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.054%) Notion
Business Applications
1 46 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.054%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.054%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.054%) Magento
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.054%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.054%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.054%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (54.97%) Azure
2 593 (32.05%) AWS
3 549 (29.68%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (13.41%) SaaS
5 177 (9.57%) GCP
6 153 (8.27%) Serverless
7 147 (7.95%) Power Platform
8 143 (7.73%) GitHub
9 95 (5.14%) PaaS
10 87 (4.70%) Azure AI
11 75 (4.05%) Azure AKS
12 73 (3.95%) Entra ID
13 71 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
15 66 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
16 62 (3.35%) Amazon S3
17 61 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
18 60 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 59 (3.19%) Power Automate
20 57 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.65%) Broadband
2 44 (2.38%) Firewall
3 40 (2.16%) VPN
4 30 (1.62%) DNS
4 30 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.70%) Internet
6 12 (0.65%) DHCP
7 9 (0.49%) Network Security
8 6 (0.32%) BGP
8 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.32%) LAN
8 6 (0.32%) NGFW
8 6 (0.32%) OSPF
8 6 (0.32%) WAN
9 5 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.27%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.22%) SSH
10 4 (0.22%) SSL
11 3 (0.16%) HTTP
11 3 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (10.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 200 (10.81%) MongoDB
3 124 (6.70%) SQL Server
4 85 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (3.24%) Power BI
6 51 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 48 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
8 33 (1.78%) MySQL
9 29 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 28 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (1.30%) Metadata
12 21 (1.14%) Redis
13 18 (0.97%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (0.86%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.70%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
18 10 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 140 (7.57%) Git
2 114 (6.16%) Jenkins
3 113 (6.11%) GitLab
4 108 (5.84%) JIRA
5 41 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.46%) Selenium
6 27 (1.46%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 17 (0.92%) Postman
9 12 (0.65%) JMeter
10 11 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.59%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.43%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.38%) Maven
13 7 (0.38%) NUnit
14 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.27%) Locust
16 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 418 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 332 (17.95%) Finance
3 160 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 148 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 145 (7.84%) Law
6 116 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 107 (5.78%) Legal
8 75 (4.05%) Banking
9 69 (3.73%) Marketing
10 68 (3.68%) Retail
11 63 (3.41%) Games
12 31 (1.68%) Advertising
12 31 (1.68%) Back Office
13 27 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.81%) Legal Technology
16 13 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.70%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 437 (23.62%) Senior
2 385 (20.81%) Developer
3 319 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 246 (13.30%) Lead
5 186 (10.05%) .NET Developer
6 170 (9.19%) Architect
7 141 (7.62%) Software Engineer
8 109 (5.89%) Senior DevOps
9 93 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 92 (4.97%) Azure Engineer
11 83 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 83 (4.49%) IT Manager
12 70 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
13 69 (3.73%) Senior Manager
14 68 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (3.46%) Senior Developer
16 59 (3.19%) Consultant
17 56 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
17 56 (3.03%) Data Engineer
18 52 (2.81%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (19.84%) .NET
2 203 (10.97%) React
3 199 (10.76%) ASP.NET
4 186 (10.05%) .NET Core
5 180 (9.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 143 (7.73%) RESTful
7 126 (6.81%) REST
8 123 (6.65%) CSS
9 121 (6.54%) HTML
10 111 (6.00%) Node.js
11 101 (5.46%) Blazor
12 97 (5.24%) Entity Framework
13 81 (4.38%) ML.NET
14 73 (3.95%) Middleware
15 57 (3.08%) Kafka
16 56 (3.03%) Spring
16 56 (3.03%) Spring Boot
17 52 (2.81%) SOAP
18 51 (2.76%) AngularJS
18 51 (2.76%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 299 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 133 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 87 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
4 72 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 53 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 50 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
8 38 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 28 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 28 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (1.35%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.35%) Podcast
13 24 (1.30%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.19%) Social Media
15 19 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 169 (9.14%) Linux
2 98 (5.30%) Windows
3 53 (2.86%) Unix
4 21 (1.14%) Android
5 20 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.86%) VMS
7 8 (0.43%) Debian
7 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.27%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.054%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (49.89%) CI/CD
2 838 (45.30%) Agile
3 442 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 397 (21.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 392 (21.19%) Mentoring
6 348 (18.81%) Software Engineering
7 345 (18.65%) AI
8 332 (17.95%) Test Automation
9 298 (16.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 292 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
11 268 (14.49%) Microservices
12 247 (13.35%) Scrum
13 230 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 215 (11.62%) Roadmaps
15 207 (11.19%) Containerisation
16 190 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
17 186 (10.05%) Coaching
18 183 (9.89%) Observability
18 183 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
19 171 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 422 (22.81%) C#
2 416 (22.49%) SQL
3 376 (20.32%) Python
4 308 (16.65%) JavaScript
5 204 (11.03%) Java
6 168 (9.08%) TypeScript
7 163 (8.81%) PowerShell
8 102 (5.51%) Bash
9 73 (3.95%) Bicep
10 53 (2.86%) Apex Code
11 34 (1.84%) SOQL
11 34 (1.84%) SOSL
12 30 (1.62%) C++
12 30 (1.62%) Go
13 25 (1.35%) PHP
14 20 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.92%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.70%) Ruby
17 12 (0.65%) Groovy
18 10 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 195 (10.54%) Security Cleared
2 157 (8.49%) Degree
3 155 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.78%) CISSP
5 65 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 58 (3.14%) CISM
6 58 (3.14%) ITIL Certification
7 42 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 19 (1.03%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.97%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.76%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.70%) PMP
16 8 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (11.46%) QA
2 80 (4.32%) NIST
3 48 (2.59%) ISO 22301
4 46 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 45 (2.43%) Accessibility
6 35 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.62%) GDPR
8 23 (1.24%) GRC
9 15 (0.81%) WCAG
10 8 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.32%) PMO
13 5 (0.27%) IFRS
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.22%) SLA
15 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) SEPA
15 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 252 (13.62%) Docker
2 63 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.97%) vSphere
6 13 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.43%) Firmware
8 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.054%) QEMU
11 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 360 (19.46%) Terraform
2 304 (16.43%) Kubernetes
3 94 (5.08%) Ansible
4 83 (4.49%) Grafana
5 45 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.57%) Argo
7 21 (1.14%) Puppet
8 13 (0.70%) Istio
8 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.49%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.38%) Packer
11 6 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.27%) Kibana
13 3 (0.16%) Nagios
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) MIIS
14 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 486 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 77 (4.16%) Google
3 74 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 52 (2.81%) Oracle
5 50 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.27%) VMware
7 40 (2.16%) Facebook
7 40 (2.16%) Splunk
8 34 (1.84%) Databricks
9 33 (1.78%) SAP
10 29 (1.57%) Pega
11 24 (1.30%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.14%) YouTube
13 19 (1.03%) Apple
14 17 (0.92%) Cisco
14 17 (0.92%) Sony
14 17 (0.92%) Yahoo!
15 16 (0.86%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.81%) Palo Alto
17 13 (0.70%) Red Hat
791 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs