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

 6 months to
28 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,327 2,333 3,025
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.68% 11.75% 14.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 13.03% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 957 1,572 2,556
10th Percentile £42,500 £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 £84,616 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,375 £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 13,887 17,901 19,845
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.86% 90.19% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,778 10,780 16,075
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
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 £80,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 28 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 40 (3.01%) Confluence
2 25 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.21%) IIS
5 13 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.68%) Apache
9 7 (0.53%) nginx
10 5 (0.38%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.075%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.075%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.075%) MetaMask
12 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 29 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
2 17 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.45%) Shopify
5 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.075%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.075%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.075%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.075%) Primavera
7 1 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.075%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.075%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 897 (67.60%) Azure
2 488 (36.77%) Azure DevOps
3 442 (33.31%) AWS
4 296 (22.31%) GitHub
5 153 (11.53%) GCP
6 145 (10.93%) SaaS
7 135 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
8 134 (10.10%) Power Platform
9 105 (7.91%) Serverless
10 84 (6.33%) Entra ID
11 78 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (5.28%) Dynamics 365
13 63 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
14 59 (4.45%) PaaS
14 59 (4.45%) Snowflake
15 57 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
16 52 (3.92%) GitHub Copilot
17 51 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
18 50 (3.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.54%) Firewall
2 37 (2.79%) VPN
3 33 (2.49%) DNS
4 27 (2.03%) WAN
5 24 (1.81%) LAN
6 22 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.43%) Broadband
7 19 (1.43%) Network Security
8 18 (1.36%) DHCP
9 13 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.90%) VoIP
11 10 (0.75%) SAN
11 10 (0.75%) VLAN
12 7 (0.53%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.45%) BGP
13 6 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (0.45%) Internet
14 5 (0.38%) DMZ
14 5 (0.38%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (11.53%) SQL Server
2 93 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
4 73 (5.50%) Power BI
5 64 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 45 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 45 (3.39%) Tableau
7 41 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 36 (2.71%) MongoDB
9 34 (2.56%) MySQL
10 29 (2.19%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (1.58%) DynamoDB
14 20 (1.51%) Metadata
15 18 (1.36%) Redis
16 14 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
17 13 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 13 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 12 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 165 (12.43%) Git
2 129 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 104 (7.84%) JIRA
4 83 (6.25%) GitLab
5 34 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 27 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
7 23 (1.73%) Selenium
8 18 (1.36%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.90%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.83%) git-flow
10 11 (0.83%) JUnit
10 11 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.75%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.75%) JMeter
11 10 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (0.75%) Postman
12 9 (0.68%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 385 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 379 (28.56%) Finance
3 126 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (6.33%) Marketing
6 69 (5.20%) Retail
7 65 (4.90%) Public Sector
8 64 (4.82%) Law
9 42 (3.17%) Telecoms
10 31 (2.34%) Back Office
10 31 (2.34%) Banking
11 27 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.73%) Games
13 21 (1.58%) Front Office
14 19 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.36%) Legal
16 16 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 310 (23.36%) Senior
2 247 (18.61%) Developer
3 144 (10.85%) Lead
4 139 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 107 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 100 (7.54%) Software Engineer
7 92 (6.93%) Architect
8 86 (6.48%) Senior Developer
9 76 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.82%) Analyst
11 56 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 54 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
13 52 (3.92%) .NET Developer
13 52 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
14 50 (3.77%) Data Engineer
15 46 (3.47%) Consultant
16 44 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
17 41 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
19 34 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (19.97%) .NET
2 162 (12.21%) React
3 111 (8.36%) RESTful
4 90 (6.78%) REST
5 73 (5.50%) CSS
6 71 (5.35%) HTML
7 69 (5.20%) .NET Framework
8 62 (4.67%) AngularJS
8 62 (4.67%) Node.js
9 56 (4.22%) SOAP
10 54 (4.07%) Spring Boot
11 52 (3.92%) .NET Core
12 51 (3.84%) Kafka
13 50 (3.77%) Spring
14 49 (3.69%) JSON
15 43 (3.24%) OAuth
16 42 (3.17%) XML
17 40 (3.01%) ASP.NET
18 37 (2.79%) Entity Framework
19 36 (2.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 243 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 118 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 58 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 52 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.73%) IoT
8 23 (1.73%) Public Cloud
9 20 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.43%) Low-Code
10 19 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.13%) NHS
14 14 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.68%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.87%) Linux
2 113 (8.52%) Windows
3 38 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.34%) Unix
5 17 (1.28%) VMS
6 13 (0.98%) Android
7 12 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.60%) Debian
11 7 (0.53%) CentOS
11 7 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (55.46%) CI/CD
2 633 (47.70%) Agile
3 335 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 310 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 299 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
6 264 (19.89%) Mentoring
7 241 (18.16%) AI
8 216 (16.28%) Microservices
9 213 (16.05%) Test Automation
10 205 (15.45%) Software Engineering
11 187 (14.09%) Coaching
12 181 (13.64%) Containerisation
13 171 (12.89%) Analytics
14 162 (12.21%) Observability
15 153 (11.53%) Asset Management
16 142 (10.70%) Roadmaps
16 142 (10.70%) Scrum
17 135 (10.17%) Clean Code
18 134 (10.10%) Computer Science
19 118 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 396 (29.84%) Python
2 368 (27.73%) SQL
3 239 (18.01%) C#
4 166 (12.51%) JavaScript
5 160 (12.06%) PowerShell
6 155 (11.68%) Java
7 122 (9.19%) Bash
8 118 (8.89%) TypeScript
9 72 (5.43%) Bicep
10 43 (3.24%) Go
11 38 (2.86%) Apex Code
12 32 (2.41%) PL/SQL
13 28 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.81%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.36%) PHP
16 15 (1.13%) C
16 15 (1.13%) Scala
16 15 (1.13%) SOQL
16 15 (1.13%) SOSL
17 14 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 180 (13.56%) Degree
2 121 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 102 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 101 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 48 (3.62%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.79%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.43%) ISTQB
12 15 (1.13%) CCNP
12 15 (1.13%) CISSP
13 13 (0.98%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.98%) PMP
14 12 (0.90%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.53%) ACCA
17 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (10.40%) QA
2 68 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (4.60%) GDPR
4 37 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 35 (2.64%) Data Quality
6 32 (2.41%) NIST
7 17 (1.28%) ISO 9001
8 16 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.83%) NCSC
11 10 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.68%) SLA
12 9 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.60%) PMO
14 6 (0.45%) WCAG
15 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.23%) GRC
16 3 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
17 2 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 259 (19.52%) Docker
2 73 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.28%) vSphere
6 16 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.45%) 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 (0.075%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.075%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 355 (26.75%) Terraform
2 300 (22.61%) Kubernetes
3 123 (9.27%) Ansible
4 92 (6.93%) Grafana
5 65 (4.90%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.58%) Argo
9 11 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (0.83%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.75%) SCCM
11 6 (0.45%) Kibana
12 5 (0.38%) Puppet
13 4 (0.30%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 316 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.28%) Oracle
3 58 (4.37%) Salesforce
4 48 (3.62%) Databricks
5 41 (3.09%) Google
6 37 (2.79%) VMware
7 34 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.26%) Cisco
9 26 (1.96%) Splunk
10 19 (1.43%) SolarWinds
11 17 (1.28%) Okta
12 16 (1.21%) Veeam
13 15 (1.13%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.83%) NetApp
15 10 (0.75%) 3PAR
15 10 (0.75%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.75%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.75%) SAP
16 9 (0.68%) Foundry
16 9 (0.68%) Zoho
783 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs