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

 6 months to
14 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,881 1,720 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.87% 10.57% 9.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.67% 11.35% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 933 1,620
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,297 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
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 19,442 15,153 20,421
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.35% 93.11% 87.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,983 8,632 12,822
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,854 £35,500
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 14 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 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.65%) Confluence
3 25 (1.33%) Apache
4 24 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.48%) IIS
8 8 (0.43%) CMS
8 8 (0.43%) nginx
8 8 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.32%) SAS
10 6 (0.32%) WordPress
11 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.053%) Drupal
13 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 40 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.64%) Trello
4 10 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.053%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.27%) 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 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Magento
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (55.66%) Azure
2 588 (31.26%) AWS
3 577 (30.68%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (13.66%) SaaS
5 192 (10.21%) GCP
6 167 (8.88%) Power Platform
7 140 (7.44%) Serverless
8 135 (7.18%) GitHub
9 90 (4.78%) Azure AI
10 80 (4.25%) PaaS
11 76 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
12 75 (3.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 72 (3.83%) PowerApps
14 70 (3.72%) Entra ID
15 68 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
15 68 (3.62%) Azure AKS
16 67 (3.56%) Power Automate
17 66 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 65 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
19 62 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.81%) VPN
2 31 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 25 (1.33%) DNS
4 24 (1.28%) Firewall
5 21 (1.12%) Broadband
6 13 (0.69%) Internet
7 9 (0.48%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
9 6 (0.32%) DHCP
9 6 (0.32%) OSPF
9 6 (0.32%) WAN
10 5 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.27%) NGFW
10 5 (0.27%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) HTTP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 4 (0.21%) TETRA
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
12 3 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (11.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 206 (10.95%) MongoDB
3 156 (8.29%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.47%) Power BI
5 79 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 52 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.13%) MySQL
10 39 (2.07%) Metadata
11 38 (2.02%) Relational Database
12 37 (1.97%) Data Lake
13 27 (1.44%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.06%) Redis
17 16 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.85%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
18 11 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 177 (9.41%) Git
2 122 (6.49%) JIRA
3 81 (4.31%) GitLab
4 80 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.13%) TeamCity
6 26 (1.38%) Selenium
7 20 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.85%) Postman
10 10 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.48%) NUnit
11 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.43%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.37%) JMeter
13 7 (0.37%) JUnit
13 7 (0.37%) Maven
13 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 449 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 356 (18.93%) Finance
3 178 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 144 (7.66%) Law
5 140 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 113 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (5.90%) Legal
8 81 (4.31%) Banking
9 66 (3.51%) Retail
10 41 (2.18%) Marketing
11 39 (2.07%) Back Office
12 36 (1.91%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.59%) Advertising
13 30 (1.59%) Games
14 24 (1.28%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.80%) Legal Technology
17 13 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.64%) Local Government
19 11 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 484 (25.73%) Senior
2 373 (19.83%) Developer
3 352 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 250 (13.29%) Lead
5 187 (9.94%) .NET Developer
6 160 (8.51%) Software Engineer
7 138 (7.34%) Architect
8 101 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
9 100 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
10 94 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (4.57%) IT Manager
12 74 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 67 (3.56%) Data Engineer
14 66 (3.51%) Senior Developer
15 62 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
15 62 (3.30%) Senior Manager
16 58 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
17 57 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
18 55 (2.92%) Service Manager
19 52 (2.76%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (19.83%) Terraform
2 367 (19.51%) .NET
3 208 (11.06%) ASP.NET
4 199 (10.58%) React
5 185 (9.84%) .NET Core
6 177 (9.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 136 (7.23%) Node.js
8 134 (7.12%) RESTful
9 117 (6.22%) CSS
10 110 (5.85%) HTML
11 104 (5.53%) Blazor
12 100 (5.32%) REST
13 96 (5.10%) Entity Framework
14 79 (4.20%) ML.NET
15 65 (3.46%) Middleware
16 59 (3.14%) AngularJS
17 50 (2.66%) Kafka
18 49 (2.60%) Spring Boot
19 47 (2.50%) Spring
20 35 (1.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 314 (16.69%) Cloud Native
2 143 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 101 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
4 80 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 64 (3.40%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 54 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 29 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 24 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.22%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.22%) Social Media
15 20 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (1.06%) Podcast
15 20 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 17 (0.90%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 156 (8.29%) Linux
2 97 (5.16%) Windows
3 54 (2.87%) Unix
4 20 (1.06%) Android
5 16 (0.85%) VMS
6 14 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.43%) Debian
7 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) CentOS
8 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.11%) Solaris
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (48.80%) CI/CD
2 836 (44.44%) Agile
3 438 (23.29%) Mentoring
4 417 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 395 (21.00%) Software Engineering
6 381 (20.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 377 (20.04%) AI
8 333 (17.70%) Test Automation
9 300 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
10 278 (14.78%) Full-Stack Development
11 251 (13.34%) Microservices
12 237 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 215 (11.43%) Scrum
14 214 (11.38%) Coaching
15 206 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
16 193 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
17 187 (9.94%) Roadmaps
18 182 (9.68%) Observability
19 180 (9.57%) Containerisation
20 167 (8.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 452 (24.03%) C#
2 441 (23.44%) SQL
3 374 (19.88%) Python
4 299 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 207 (11.00%) Java
6 168 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 166 (8.83%) PowerShell
8 97 (5.16%) Bash
9 76 (4.04%) Bicep
10 29 (1.54%) C++
11 27 (1.44%) Go
12 25 (1.33%) T-SQL
13 19 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.90%) Apex Code
15 16 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.80%) PHP
16 15 (0.80%) Ruby
17 12 (0.64%) Groovy
18 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 236 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.15%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.50%) Degree
4 61 (3.24%) CISSP
5 58 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 58 (3.08%) CISM
6 56 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
7 43 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 40 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 17 (0.90%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.64%) PMP
16 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (11.48%) QA
2 77 (4.09%) NIST
3 74 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 61 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.55%) ISO 22301
6 31 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.49%) GDPR
8 22 (1.17%) GRC
9 9 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.48%) SLA
9 9 (0.48%) WCAG
10 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.32%) PMO
12 5 (0.27%) IFRS
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 249 (13.24%) Docker
2 59 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.74%) vSphere
7 5 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.053%) QEMU
11 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 287 (15.26%) Kubernetes
2 79 (4.20%) Grafana
3 78 (4.15%) Ansible
4 40 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.54%) Argo
6 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.90%) Puppet
7 14 (0.74%) Istio
8 10 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.43%) Packer
10 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.32%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 4 (0.21%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.11%) Nagios
14 1 (0.053%) Consul
14 1 (0.053%) MIIS
14 1 (0.053%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 508 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.31%) Google
3 64 (3.40%) Oracle
4 45 (2.39%) Databricks
5 43 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.13%) Facebook
7 38 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 33 (1.75%) SAP
9 32 (1.70%) VMware
10 31 (1.65%) YouTube
11 28 (1.49%) Pega
12 26 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 19 (1.01%) Sony
14 18 (0.96%) Apple
14 18 (0.96%) MuleSoft
15 17 (0.90%) Yahoo!
16 15 (0.80%) Informatica
17 14 (0.74%) Foundry
18 13 (0.69%) Splunk
19 12 (0.64%) ScienceLogic
3,198 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs