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

 6 months to
9 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,921 1,707 2,271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.08% 10.54% 9.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.86% 11.34% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,366 934 1,615
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,490 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

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 19,480 15,052 20,418
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.91% 92.98% 87.54%
Number of salaries quoted 14,035 8,660 12,878
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,838 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 9 September 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 55 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.56%) Confluence
3 27 (1.41%) Apache
4 24 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) CMS
8 8 (0.42%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.62%) Trello
4 10 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.052%) Notion
9 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (55.75%) Azure
2 599 (31.18%) AWS
3 593 (30.87%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (13.38%) SaaS
5 194 (10.10%) GCP
6 169 (8.80%) Power Platform
7 139 (7.24%) GitHub
8 138 (7.18%) Serverless
9 93 (4.84%) Azure AI
10 81 (4.22%) PaaS
11 75 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
12 74 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 72 (3.75%) PowerApps
14 71 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 70 (3.64%) Azure AKS
15 70 (3.64%) Entra ID
16 69 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
17 68 (3.54%) Power Automate
18 66 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
18 66 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.87%) VPN
2 33 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.51%) Firewall
4 28 (1.46%) DNS
5 26 (1.35%) Broadband
6 13 (0.68%) Internet
7 9 (0.47%) Network Security
8 7 (0.36%) BGP
8 7 (0.36%) DHCP
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
9 6 (0.31%) WAN
10 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.26%) NGFW
10 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) HTTP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
12 3 (0.16%) SSL
12 3 (0.16%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (11.40%) Azure SQL Database
2 212 (11.04%) MongoDB
3 160 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 85 (4.42%) Power BI
5 82 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 51 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 42 (2.19%) MySQL
10 39 (2.03%) Metadata
11 37 (1.93%) Relational Database
12 32 (1.67%) Data Lake
13 27 (1.41%) DynamoDB
14 24 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.99%) Redis
16 18 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.83%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.83%) Star Schema
18 11 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 175 (9.11%) Git
2 123 (6.40%) JIRA
3 91 (4.74%) GitLab
4 86 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 38 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 28 (1.46%) Selenium
7 23 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 21 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.88%) Postman
10 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.57%) NUnit
11 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.42%) JMeter
13 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.36%) JUnit
14 7 (0.36%) Maven
15 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 457 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 355 (18.48%) Finance
3 176 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 148 (7.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (7.60%) Law
6 114 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 114 (5.93%) Legal
7 79 (4.11%) Banking
8 65 (3.38%) Retail
9 47 (2.45%) Marketing
10 37 (1.93%) Games
11 36 (1.87%) Back Office
12 33 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.56%) Advertising
14 23 (1.20%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.94%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.68%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 489 (25.46%) Senior
2 379 (19.73%) Developer
3 357 (18.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 256 (13.33%) Lead
5 192 (9.99%) .NET Developer
6 158 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 143 (7.44%) Architect
8 103 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
9 100 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
10 96 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (4.48%) IT Manager
12 77 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 67 (3.49%) Data Engineer
13 67 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
14 64 (3.33%) Senior Developer
15 63 (3.28%) Senior Manager
16 60 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
17 59 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
18 55 (2.86%) Service Manager
19 54 (2.81%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (19.89%) Terraform
2 379 (19.73%) .NET
3 216 (11.24%) ASP.NET
4 202 (10.52%) React
5 192 (9.99%) .NET Core
6 184 (9.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (7.34%) RESTful
8 136 (7.08%) Node.js
9 123 (6.40%) CSS
10 116 (6.04%) HTML
11 111 (5.78%) REST
12 107 (5.57%) Blazor
13 99 (5.15%) Entity Framework
14 82 (4.27%) ML.NET
15 67 (3.49%) Middleware
16 58 (3.02%) AngularJS
17 51 (2.65%) Kafka
18 45 (2.34%) Spring Boot
19 43 (2.24%) Spring
20 34 (1.77%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 308 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 147 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 103 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 81 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 63 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 54 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
7 43 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 31 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.46%) Driving Licence
10 28 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 25 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.20%) Podcast
13 23 (1.20%) Social Media
14 21 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 20 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
16 17 (0.88%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.33%) Linux
2 100 (5.21%) Windows
3 56 (2.92%) Unix
4 20 (1.04%) Android
5 16 (0.83%) VMS
5 16 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.42%) Debian
6 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.26%) CentOS
7 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.10%) Solaris
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (48.98%) CI/CD
2 851 (44.30%) Agile
3 435 (22.64%) Mentoring
4 432 (22.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 400 (20.82%) Software Engineering
6 397 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 382 (19.89%) AI
8 339 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 297 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
10 289 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 253 (13.17%) Microservices
12 239 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 229 (11.92%) Scrum
14 213 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
15 211 (10.98%) Coaching
16 199 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
17 198 (10.31%) Roadmaps
18 192 (9.99%) Containerisation
19 191 (9.94%) Observability
20 178 (9.27%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 461 (24.00%) C#
2 450 (23.43%) SQL
3 382 (19.89%) Python
4 307 (15.98%) JavaScript
5 199 (10.36%) Java
6 167 (8.69%) PowerShell
7 166 (8.64%) TypeScript
8 100 (5.21%) Bash
9 78 (4.06%) Bicep
10 30 (1.56%) C++
11 27 (1.41%) Go
12 25 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 22 (1.15%) Apex Code
14 19 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.99%) PHP
15 16 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.78%) Ruby
17 13 (0.68%) Groovy
18 12 (0.62%) SOQL
18 12 (0.62%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 234 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 189 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.70%) Degree
4 61 (3.18%) Azure Certification
4 61 (3.18%) CISSP
5 58 (3.02%) CISM
6 56 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
7 44 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 42 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.94%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.73%) PMP
14 11 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.31%) CISA
15 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (11.50%) QA
2 77 (4.01%) NIST
3 70 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 61 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.50%) ISO 22301
6 34 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.51%) GDPR
8 26 (1.35%) GRC
9 10 (0.52%) WCAG
10 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.47%) SLA
11 7 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) PMO
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS
14 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 251 (13.07%) Docker
2 59 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.78%) vSphere
7 6 (0.31%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.10%) iptables
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 293 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 82 (4.27%) Ansible
3 80 (4.16%) Grafana
4 41 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.56%) Argo
6 18 (0.94%) Puppet
7 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.73%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.31%) Packer
10 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.21%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.16%) Kibana
13 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.10%) MIIS
13 2 (0.10%) Nagios
14 1 (0.052%) Check_MK
14 1 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 520 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.22%) Google
3 63 (3.28%) Oracle
4 46 (2.39%) Databricks
5 44 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 44 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.08%) Facebook
7 33 (1.72%) SAP
7 33 (1.72%) VMware
8 29 (1.51%) YouTube
9 28 (1.46%) Pega
10 26 (1.35%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 19 (0.99%) Sony
12 18 (0.94%) Apple
12 18 (0.94%) Splunk
13 17 (0.88%) Yahoo!
14 15 (0.78%) Informatica
15 13 (0.68%) Foundry
16 12 (0.62%) ScienceLogic
2,934 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs