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

 6 months to
29 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,484 1,673 3,020
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.19% 12.42% 9.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.89% 13.11% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 1,283 2,515
10th Percentile £43,150 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,375 £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 £82,500
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 15,001 12,760 29,642
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 94.74% 91.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10,522 8,867 23,508
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +5.22% -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 29 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 26 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.62%) Confluence
3 23 (1.55%) Apache
4 20 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.47%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.40%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) WordPress
12 1 (0.067%) Camunda
12 1 (0.067%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.067%) Drupal
12 1 (0.067%) JBoss
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
12 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 28 (1.89%) 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
6 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
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%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.067%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 841 (56.67%) Azure
2 530 (35.71%) AWS
3 407 (27.43%) Azure DevOps
4 256 (17.25%) GitHub
5 180 (12.13%) GCP
6 146 (9.84%) Serverless
7 135 (9.10%) SaaS
8 127 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
9 126 (8.49%) Power Platform
10 89 (6.00%) Entra ID
11 79 (5.32%) Amazon S3
12 77 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 62 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (3.91%) Azure AKS
16 58 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
17 55 (3.71%) PaaS
18 52 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
19 50 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.91%) Broadband
2 56 (3.77%) Firewall
3 23 (1.55%) DNS
4 21 (1.42%) VPN
5 20 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.08%) DHCP
7 12 (0.81%) Network Security
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
8 7 (0.47%) WAN
9 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.27%) AMQP
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) SSL
11 3 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.20%) SCCP
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.20%) Wireless
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (7.82%) SQL Server
2 96 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 81 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (3.84%) MongoDB
5 53 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 52 (3.50%) Power BI
7 48 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (3.23%) Metadata
8 41 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 36 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 33 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (1.48%) Tableau
12 21 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (1.42%) DynamoDB
12 21 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.42%) MySQL
13 20 (1.35%) Redis
14 19 (1.28%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.28%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 143 (9.64%) Git
2 141 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 121 (8.15%) GitLab
4 88 (5.93%) JIRA
5 49 (3.30%) SonarQube
6 36 (2.43%) Selenium
7 19 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.28%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
10 14 (0.94%) Postman
11 12 (0.81%) JMeter
11 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.74%) Maven
13 9 (0.61%) JUnit
14 8 (0.54%) Subversion
15 7 (0.47%) Locust
15 7 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 374 (25.20%) Finance
2 361 (24.33%) Social Skills
3 159 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (8.63%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.92%) Banking
6 73 (4.92%) Marketing
7 67 (4.51%) Law
8 56 (3.77%) Retail
9 50 (3.37%) Games
10 39 (2.63%) Legal
11 37 (2.49%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.48%) Back Office
13 22 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.01%) Front Office
16 13 (0.88%) Billing
17 12 (0.81%) Health Technology
18 11 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 360 (24.26%) Senior
2 250 (16.85%) Developer
3 239 (16.11%) Lead
4 206 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 141 (9.50%) Architect
6 122 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 104 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
8 91 (6.13%) Senior DevOps
9 77 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.45%) Consultant
11 65 (4.38%) Data Engineer
12 64 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 62 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
14 58 (3.91%) Senior Developer
15 57 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
16 54 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
16 54 (3.64%) Lead DevOps
17 50 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
18 46 (3.10%) Lead Developer
19 44 (2.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (14.35%) .NET
2 149 (10.04%) React
3 127 (8.56%) REST
4 114 (7.68%) RESTful
5 87 (5.86%) Node.js
5 87 (5.86%) SOAP
6 75 (5.05%) Kafka
7 74 (4.99%) Spring
8 73 (4.92%) CSS
8 73 (4.92%) Lightning Web Components
9 70 (4.72%) HTML
10 69 (4.65%) Spring Boot
11 56 (3.77%) Visualforce
12 55 (3.71%) .NET Core
13 53 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 49 (3.30%) .NET Framework
15 48 (3.23%) OAuth
16 43 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (2.76%) PySpark
18 38 (2.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 253 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 125 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 29 (1.95%) Low-Code
7 29 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
11 18 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.01%) Cyberattack
14 14 (0.94%) Client/Server
14 14 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 160 (10.78%) Linux
2 86 (5.80%) Windows
3 55 (3.71%) Unix
4 34 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.35%) Android
6 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.61%) VMS
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
1 847 (57.08%) CI/CD
2 647 (43.60%) Agile
3 375 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 347 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (19.68%) Mentoring
6 281 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (17.05%) Software Engineering
8 251 (16.91%) Test Automation
9 243 (16.37%) Microservices
10 242 (16.31%) AI
11 235 (15.84%) Containerisation
12 215 (14.49%) Coaching
13 204 (13.75%) Observability
14 192 (12.94%) Scrum
15 183 (12.33%) Roadmaps
16 173 (11.66%) Analytics
17 158 (10.65%) Event-Driven
18 152 (10.24%) Data Modelling
19 151 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
20 139 (9.37%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 387 (26.08%) Python
2 328 (22.10%) SQL
3 239 (16.11%) Java
4 181 (12.20%) JavaScript
5 172 (11.59%) C#
6 102 (6.87%) TypeScript
7 96 (6.47%) Bash
8 87 (5.86%) PowerShell
9 79 (5.32%) Go
10 77 (5.19%) Apex Code
11 59 (3.98%) Bicep
12 36 (2.43%) SOQL
12 36 (2.43%) SOSL
13 26 (1.75%) Scala
14 23 (1.55%) C++
15 21 (1.42%) PHP
16 20 (1.35%) Shell Script
17 18 (1.21%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.94%) Rust
19 13 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (11.39%) Degree
2 160 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 65 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.01%) CISSP
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
17 7 (0.47%) CCNP
17 7 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
18 6 (0.40%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.22%) QA
2 72 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.49%) GDPR
6 31 (2.09%) NIST
7 19 (1.28%) GRC
8 11 (0.74%) WCAG
9 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.34%) IFRS
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 274 (18.46%) Docker
2 75 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.61%) vSphere
6 8 (0.54%) Firmware
7 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.13%) Postfix
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
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
1 398 (26.82%) Terraform
2 331 (22.30%) Kubernetes
3 130 (8.76%) Ansible
4 101 (6.81%) Grafana
5 76 (5.12%) Prometheus
6 51 (3.44%) Argo
7 26 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.28%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.21%) Puppet
10 9 (0.61%) Istio
10 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.54%) Packer
12 7 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.47%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.27%) Kibana
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 321 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.20%) Salesforce
3 68 (4.58%) Google
4 51 (3.44%) Oracle
5 50 (3.37%) Databricks
6 42 (2.83%) Splunk
7 37 (2.49%) VMware
8 27 (1.82%) SAP
8 27 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.21%) Cisco
11 17 (1.15%) Okta
12 16 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.81%) Ab Initio
14 10 (0.67%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.61%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.61%) IBM
16 8 (0.54%) Confluent
16 8 (0.54%) Juniper
17 6 (0.40%) OpenAI
656 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs