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

 6 months to
15 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,466 1,695 3,082
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.39% 12.93% 9.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.09% 13.65% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,032 1,312 2,549
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% -6.64%
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 14,527 12,420 29,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.78% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,146 8,885 23,513
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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% -10.54%

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 15 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 24 (1.64%) Confluence
2 22 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.23%) Apache
5 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.14%) WordPress
12 1 (0.068%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) Drupal
12 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.068%) SAS
12 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (1.09%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.068%) Magento
7 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.068%) Primavera
7 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.068%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.068%) Shopify
7 1 (0.068%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 850 (57.98%) Azure
2 533 (36.36%) AWS
3 415 (28.31%) Azure DevOps
4 279 (19.03%) GitHub
5 194 (13.23%) GCP
6 153 (10.44%) Serverless
7 138 (9.41%) SaaS
8 134 (9.14%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (8.05%) Power Platform
10 86 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
10 86 (5.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 86 (5.87%) Entra ID
11 85 (5.80%) Amazon S3
12 73 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 70 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (4.09%) dbt
15 58 (3.96%) PaaS
16 57 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 53 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
18 52 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.02%) Firewall
2 58 (3.96%) Broadband
3 27 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.50%) DNS
4 22 (1.50%) VPN
5 17 (1.16%) DHCP
6 12 (0.82%) Network Security
7 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.41%) LAN
7 6 (0.41%) WAN
8 4 (0.27%) AMQP
8 4 (0.27%) SAN
9 3 (0.20%) Internet
9 3 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.20%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.20%) SCCP
9 3 (0.20%) SSL
9 3 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.14%) DSL
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 102 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 77 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (3.55%) Power BI
5 51 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (3.21%) MongoDB
8 45 (3.07%) Metadata
9 41 (2.80%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (2.52%) Data Lake
12 26 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.77%) Redis
13 25 (1.71%) DynamoDB
14 24 (1.64%) MySQL
14 24 (1.64%) Tableau
15 20 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.30%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.23%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 146 (9.96%) Git
2 140 (9.55%) Jenkins
3 109 (7.44%) GitLab
4 82 (5.59%) JIRA
5 50 (3.41%) SonarQube
6 33 (2.25%) Selenium
7 19 (1.30%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
10 14 (0.95%) JMeter
11 12 (0.82%) Postman
12 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.61%) Maven
13 9 (0.61%) Subversion
14 8 (0.55%) JUnit
15 7 (0.48%) NUnit
15 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 392 (26.74%) Finance
2 391 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 164 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 76 (5.18%) Banking
6 76 (5.18%) Marketing
7 73 (4.98%) Law
8 58 (3.96%) Retail
9 49 (3.34%) Games
10 39 (2.66%) Legal
10 39 (2.66%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.77%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.43%) Back Office
14 16 (1.09%) Front Office
15 15 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.95%) Tech for Good
17 12 (0.82%) Billing
17 12 (0.82%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 360 (24.56%) Senior
2 251 (17.12%) Developer
3 212 (14.46%) Lead
4 174 (11.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (9.41%) Architect
6 133 (9.07%) Software Engineer
7 101 (6.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
9 77 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
10 63 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
11 61 (4.16%) Consultant
12 60 (4.09%) Data Engineer
13 59 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 55 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
15 53 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 52 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
17 50 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 45 (3.07%) .NET Developer
18 45 (3.07%) Applications Engineer
18 45 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (15.55%) .NET
2 158 (10.78%) React
3 129 (8.80%) REST
4 119 (8.12%) RESTful
5 90 (6.14%) SOAP
6 79 (5.39%) CSS
7 78 (5.32%) Kafka
8 77 (5.25%) Spring
9 76 (5.18%) HTML
9 76 (5.18%) Lightning Web Components
9 76 (5.18%) Node.js
10 70 (4.77%) Spring Boot
11 57 (3.89%) Visualforce
12 56 (3.82%) .NET Core
13 52 (3.55%) OAuth
14 51 (3.48%) AngularJS
15 48 (3.27%) .NET Framework
16 44 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (2.80%) ASP.NET
18 40 (2.73%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 263 (17.94%) Cloud Native
2 132 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.39%) Low-Code
7 34 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 31 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
12 16 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.95%) Cyberattack
14 14 (0.95%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.89%) Podcast
16 12 (0.82%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 156 (10.64%) Linux
2 82 (5.59%) Windows
3 54 (3.68%) Unix
4 38 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.36%) Android
6 11 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.68%) VMS
8 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.61%) CentOS
9 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Debian
11 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (57.98%) CI/CD
2 654 (44.61%) Agile
3 389 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 357 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 287 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
6 278 (18.96%) Mentoring
7 273 (18.62%) Software Engineering
8 241 (16.44%) Test Automation
9 239 (16.30%) AI
10 235 (16.03%) Containerisation
11 232 (15.83%) Microservices
12 219 (14.94%) Coaching
13 217 (14.80%) Observability
14 175 (11.94%) Roadmaps
15 174 (11.87%) Analytics
16 172 (11.73%) Scrum
17 153 (10.44%) Data Modelling
17 153 (10.44%) Event-Driven
18 142 (9.69%) Full-Stack Development
19 138 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 397 (27.08%) Python
2 330 (22.51%) SQL
3 228 (15.55%) Java
4 188 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 176 (12.01%) C#
6 103 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 95 (6.48%) Bash
8 94 (6.41%) PowerShell
9 81 (5.53%) Apex Code
9 81 (5.53%) Go
10 63 (4.30%) Bicep
11 36 (2.46%) SOQL
11 36 (2.46%) SOSL
12 22 (1.50%) Scala
13 21 (1.43%) C++
14 19 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.16%) PHP
15 17 (1.16%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.95%) Rust
17 13 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (11.80%) Degree
2 164 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 122 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.95%) CISSP
10 14 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.68%) PMP
13 9 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.61%) PhD
14 8 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.25%) QA
2 65 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.59%) GDPR
6 29 (1.98%) NIST
7 19 (1.30%) GRC
8 13 (0.89%) WCAG
9 10 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
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 (0.14%) HL7
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 286 (19.51%) Docker
2 69 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.68%) vSphere
5 8 (0.55%) Firmware
6 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.20%) Postfix
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) vCloud
10 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.068%) KVM
10 1 (0.068%) QEMU
10 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 409 (27.90%) Terraform
2 339 (23.12%) Kubernetes
3 130 (8.87%) Ansible
4 111 (7.57%) Grafana
5 83 (5.66%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.86%) Argo
7 26 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 15 (1.02%) Puppet
10 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.55%) Istio
12 7 (0.48%) Kibana
12 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.41%) Packer
13 6 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 312 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.41%) Salesforce
3 73 (4.98%) Google
4 51 (3.48%) Oracle
5 48 (3.27%) Databricks
6 46 (3.14%) Splunk
7 35 (2.39%) VMware
8 26 (1.77%) SAP
9 23 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.30%) Cisco
12 18 (1.23%) Okta
13 16 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.95%) Ab Initio
15 11 (0.75%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.68%) IBM
17 9 (0.61%) Palo Alto
18 8 (0.55%) New Relic
18 8 (0.55%) PagerDuty
18 8 (0.55%) Veeam
723 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs