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

 6 months to
20 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,489 1,693 3,049
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.35% 12.71% 9.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.04% 13.41% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 1,307 2,537
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 £82,500
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 14,826 12,623 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.16% 94.77% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,367 8,945 23,614
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,202 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,205 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +8.18% -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 20 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 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.34%) 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
2 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.067%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (1.07%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.067%) Magento
7 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.067%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.067%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.067%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.067%) Shopify
7 1 (0.067%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.067%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 859 (57.69%) Azure
2 537 (36.06%) AWS
3 417 (28.01%) Azure DevOps
4 279 (18.74%) GitHub
5 192 (12.89%) GCP
6 153 (10.28%) Serverless
7 139 (9.34%) SaaS
8 136 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (7.92%) Power Platform
10 87 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
10 87 (5.84%) Entra ID
11 85 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 84 (5.64%) Amazon S3
13 74 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 69 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
15 59 (3.96%) dbt
16 58 (3.90%) PaaS
17 56 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 54 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.90%) Broadband
1 58 (3.90%) Firewall
2 26 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 23 (1.54%) VPN
4 22 (1.48%) DNS
5 17 (1.14%) DHCP
6 13 (0.87%) Network Security
7 7 (0.47%) LAN
7 7 (0.47%) WAN
8 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.27%) AMQP
9 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (0.20%) Internet
10 3 (0.20%) Modbus
10 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
10 3 (0.20%) SCCP
10 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.20%) SSL
10 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.86%) SQL Server
2 101 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 79 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (3.43%) MongoDB
5 51 (3.43%) Power BI
6 50 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (3.22%) Metadata
8 42 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 39 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (2.55%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.68%) Redis
12 24 (1.61%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.54%) MySQL
14 22 (1.48%) Tableau
15 21 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.28%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.28%) RDBMS
17 14 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 149 (10.01%) Git
2 142 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 111 (7.45%) GitLab
4 87 (5.84%) JIRA
5 50 (3.36%) SonarQube
6 34 (2.28%) Selenium
7 20 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 19 (1.28%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.14%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
12 14 (0.94%) JMeter
13 12 (0.81%) Postman
13 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.67%) Maven
15 9 (0.60%) JUnit
15 9 (0.60%) Subversion
16 7 (0.47%) NUnit
16 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 393 (26.39%) Finance
2 390 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 165 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 77 (5.17%) Banking
7 74 (4.97%) Law
7 74 (4.97%) Marketing
8 58 (3.90%) Retail
9 50 (3.36%) Games
10 39 (2.62%) Legal
11 38 (2.55%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.75%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.61%) Back Office
15 16 (1.07%) Front Office
16 15 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.81%) Billing
17 12 (0.81%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 362 (24.31%) Senior
2 249 (16.72%) Developer
3 223 (14.98%) Lead
4 182 (12.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 139 (9.34%) Architect
6 131 (8.80%) Software Engineer
7 106 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.57%) Azure Engineer
9 80 (5.37%) Senior DevOps
10 64 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.23%) Consultant
12 62 (4.16%) Data Engineer
13 56 (3.76%) Senior Developer
14 55 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
15 54 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
16 53 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
16 53 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.09%) Applications Engineer
18 44 (2.96%) .NET Developer
18 44 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (15.11%) .NET
2 156 (10.48%) React
3 130 (8.73%) REST
4 119 (7.99%) RESTful
5 91 (6.11%) SOAP
6 82 (5.51%) Node.js
7 78 (5.24%) CSS
8 77 (5.17%) Kafka
9 76 (5.10%) Lightning Web Components
9 76 (5.10%) Spring
10 75 (5.04%) HTML
11 68 (4.57%) Spring Boot
12 57 (3.83%) Visualforce
13 56 (3.76%) .NET Core
14 53 (3.56%) AngularJS
15 52 (3.49%) OAuth
16 48 (3.22%) .NET Framework
17 45 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
18 41 (2.75%) ASP.NET
19 40 (2.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 266 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 133 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 33 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 31 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 20 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
11 17 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.07%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.07%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.01%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 13 (0.87%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.87%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.61%) Linux
2 82 (5.51%) Windows
3 53 (3.56%) Unix
4 37 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.34%) Android
6 11 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.67%) VMS
8 9 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.60%) CentOS
9 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Debian
11 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (58.29%) CI/CD
2 656 (44.06%) Agile
3 396 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 362 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 295 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
6 291 (19.54%) Mentoring
7 272 (18.27%) Software Engineering
8 250 (16.79%) Test Automation
9 244 (16.39%) AI
10 239 (16.05%) Containerisation
11 238 (15.98%) Microservices
12 228 (15.31%) Coaching
13 219 (14.71%) Observability
14 184 (12.36%) Roadmaps
15 182 (12.22%) Scrum
16 176 (11.82%) Analytics
17 155 (10.41%) Event-Driven
18 153 (10.28%) Data Modelling
19 144 (9.67%) Technical Leadership
20 139 (9.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 402 (27.00%) Python
2 332 (22.30%) SQL
3 230 (15.45%) Java
4 187 (12.56%) JavaScript
5 177 (11.89%) C#
6 103 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 98 (6.58%) Bash
8 97 (6.51%) PowerShell
9 80 (5.37%) Apex Code
9 80 (5.37%) Go
10 63 (4.23%) Bicep
11 36 (2.42%) SOQL
11 36 (2.42%) SOSL
12 24 (1.61%) Scala
13 20 (1.34%) C++
14 19 (1.28%) PHP
14 19 (1.28%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.94%) Rust
16 14 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 175 (11.75%) Degree
2 165 (11.08%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 69 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.07%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.01%) CISSP
12 14 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.60%) PMP
17 8 (0.54%) PhD
17 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.47%) CCNP
19 6 (0.40%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.19%) QA
2 67 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.55%) GDPR
6 32 (2.15%) NIST
7 19 (1.28%) GRC
8 13 (0.87%) WCAG
9 10 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.27%) IFRS
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%) SLA
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 289 (19.41%) Docker
2 71 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.07%) 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
10 2 (0.13%) vCloud
11 1 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.067%) KVM
11 1 (0.067%) QEMU
11 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 420 (28.21%) Terraform
2 344 (23.10%) Kubernetes
3 136 (9.13%) Ansible
4 112 (7.52%) Grafana
5 83 (5.57%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.96%) Argo
7 26 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.28%) Kustomize
9 17 (1.14%) 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%) Kibana
13 6 (0.40%) Packer
13 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 317 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 71 (4.77%) Google
4 50 (3.36%) Databricks
4 50 (3.36%) Oracle
5 46 (3.09%) Splunk
6 36 (2.42%) VMware
7 26 (1.75%) SAP
8 24 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 23 (1.54%) MuleSoft
10 19 (1.28%) Cisco
11 18 (1.21%) Okta
12 16 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.94%) Ab Initio
14 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.60%) IBM
17 8 (0.54%) Confluent
17 8 (0.54%) Juniper
17 8 (0.54%) PagerDuty
778 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs