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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,906 1,731 2,264
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.68% 10.31% 10.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 10.98% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,334 906 1,518
10th Percentile £45,399 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £68,513 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%

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 19,983 15,760 19,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.57% 93.83% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,257 8,411 11,456
10th Percentile £33,900 £29,750 £35,134
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 8 October 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 60 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.99%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache
3 25 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.47%) nginx
7 8 (0.42%) CMS
7 8 (0.42%) IIS
7 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) Hedera
Applications
1 36 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (55.19%) Azure
2 602 (31.58%) AWS
3 591 (31.01%) Azure DevOps
4 268 (14.06%) SaaS
5 190 (9.97%) GCP
6 181 (9.50%) Power Platform
7 151 (7.92%) GitHub
8 143 (7.50%) Serverless
9 93 (4.88%) Azure AI
10 92 (4.83%) PaaS
11 81 (4.25%) PowerApps
12 78 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
13 76 (3.99%) Power Automate
14 75 (3.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 73 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 70 (3.67%) Azure AKS
16 70 (3.67%) Entra ID
17 69 (3.62%) Azure Functions
17 69 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
18 68 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.26%) VPN
2 31 (1.63%) Firewall
3 29 (1.52%) DNS
4 27 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.73%) Broadband
5 14 (0.73%) Internet
6 11 (0.58%) Network Security
7 7 (0.37%) BGP
8 6 (0.31%) OSPF
8 6 (0.31%) WAN
9 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.26%) HTTP
9 5 (0.26%) NGFW
9 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.21%) DHCP
10 4 (0.21%) SSH
10 4 (0.21%) TETRA
11 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.16%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (11.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (10.91%) MongoDB
3 167 (8.76%) SQL Server
4 95 (4.98%) Power BI
5 86 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 46 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (2.36%) Metadata
10 40 (2.10%) MySQL
11 39 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 39 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 27 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.05%) Redis
16 19 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (1.00%) Star Schema
17 15 (0.79%) Delta Lake
18 14 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 186 (9.76%) Git
2 129 (6.77%) JIRA
3 84 (4.41%) GitLab
4 73 (3.83%) Jenkins
5 49 (2.57%) TeamCity
6 22 (1.15%) Selenium
7 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.84%) Postman
9 11 (0.58%) JUnit
10 10 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.31%) Maven
13 6 (0.31%) Mockito
13 6 (0.31%) NUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 480 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 356 (18.68%) Finance
3 216 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.66%) Law
5 129 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
7 104 (5.46%) Legal
8 77 (4.04%) Banking
9 74 (3.88%) Retail
10 46 (2.41%) Back Office
11 43 (2.26%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.84%) Marketing
13 28 (1.47%) Advertising
14 23 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.15%) Games
16 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 515 (27.02%) Senior
2 379 (19.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 376 (19.73%) Developer
4 241 (12.64%) Lead
5 189 (9.92%) .NET Developer
6 166 (8.71%) Software Engineer
7 131 (6.87%) Architect
8 118 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
9 110 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 108 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
11 87 (4.56%) IT Manager
12 72 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 69 (3.62%) Data Engineer
14 65 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
15 64 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 60 (3.15%) Senior Manager
17 56 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
18 53 (2.78%) Analyst
18 53 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
19 52 (2.73%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (20.41%) Terraform
2 370 (19.41%) .NET
3 208 (10.91%) ASP.NET
4 195 (10.23%) React
5 185 (9.71%) .NET Core
6 174 (9.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 137 (7.19%) Node.js
8 132 (6.93%) RESTful
9 119 (6.24%) CSS
10 113 (5.93%) REST
11 110 (5.77%) HTML
12 101 (5.30%) Blazor
13 90 (4.72%) Entity Framework
14 78 (4.09%) ML.NET
15 71 (3.73%) Middleware
16 54 (2.83%) AngularJS
17 53 (2.78%) Spring Boot
18 50 (2.62%) Spring
19 45 (2.36%) Kafka
20 34 (1.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 319 (16.74%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 113 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
4 85 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
6 61 (3.20%) Virtual Team
7 60 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
8 48 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.05%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.94%) Mobile App
11 31 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.52%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
13 23 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.15%) Social Media
15 21 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.10%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.10%) Onboarding
16 20 (1.05%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.39%) Linux
2 99 (5.19%) Windows
3 64 (3.36%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 12 (0.63%) VMS
5 12 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.26%) Debian
8 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.10%) Rocky
10 2 (0.10%) Solaris
11 1 (0.052%) CentOS
11 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 954 (50.05%) CI/CD
2 841 (44.12%) Agile
3 475 (24.92%) Mentoring
4 433 (22.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 412 (21.62%) Software Engineering
6 398 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 391 (20.51%) AI
8 348 (18.26%) Test Automation
9 320 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
10 266 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
11 247 (12.96%) Microservices
12 245 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 234 (12.28%) Coaching
14 209 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
15 208 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 204 (10.70%) Scrum
17 185 (9.71%) Observability
18 177 (9.29%) Containerisation
19 173 (9.08%) Analytics
20 171 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 465 (24.40%) C#
2 452 (23.71%) SQL
3 387 (20.30%) Python
4 300 (15.74%) JavaScript
5 218 (11.44%) Java
6 173 (9.08%) PowerShell
7 167 (8.76%) TypeScript
8 105 (5.51%) Bash
9 85 (4.46%) Bicep
10 31 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.47%) C++
12 27 (1.42%) Go
13 18 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.73%) PHP
15 14 (0.73%) Ruby
16 11 (0.58%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.58%) Groovy
16 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 249 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 204 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 136 (7.14%) Degree
4 63 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.15%) CISSP
6 57 (2.99%) CISM
6 57 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
7 43 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 40 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.36%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.84%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.58%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.42%) PMP
16 6 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (10.86%) QA
2 85 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 70 (3.67%) NIST
4 62 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.52%) ISO 22301
6 33 (1.73%) GDPR
7 30 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.84%) GRC
9 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.37%) WCAG
12 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) PMO
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 244 (12.80%) Docker
2 51 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.79%) vSphere
7 4 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) iptables
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 298 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.83%) Grafana
3 75 (3.93%) Ansible
4 40 (2.10%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.63%) Argo
6 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.52%) Packer
9 9 (0.47%) Puppet
10 8 (0.42%) Istio
10 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.21%) Kibana
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.16%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 1 (0.052%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.052%) linkerd
Vendors
1 522 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.56%) Google
3 75 (3.93%) Oracle
4 46 (2.41%) Databricks
5 42 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 37 (1.94%) Facebook
7 36 (1.89%) YouTube
8 35 (1.84%) SAP
9 34 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.68%) VMware
11 28 (1.47%) Pega
12 27 (1.42%) OpenAI
13 19 (1.00%) MuleSoft
14 18 (0.94%) Sony
15 17 (0.89%) Apple
15 17 (0.89%) Foundry
15 17 (0.89%) Informatica
16 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
17 14 (0.73%) Dynatrace
18 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
2,094 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs