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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,910 1,926 2,220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.56% 11.60% 8.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.32% 12.47% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 1,055 1,789
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £100,000
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 18,510 15,440 22,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 92.97% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,413 9,132 16,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 3 August 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 45 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.57%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache
4 23 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) nginx
10 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) Drupal
13 1 (0.052%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 8 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.052%) Notion
Business Applications
1 43 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.052%) Magento
7 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.052%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.052%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.052%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.052%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (55.60%) Azure
2 614 (32.15%) AWS
3 569 (29.79%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (13.46%) SaaS
5 192 (10.05%) GCP
6 148 (7.75%) Power Platform
6 148 (7.75%) Serverless
7 145 (7.59%) GitHub
8 93 (4.87%) PaaS
9 89 (4.66%) Azure AI
10 72 (3.77%) Azure AKS
11 69 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 69 (3.61%) Entra ID
12 68 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
12 68 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
13 67 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 64 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 62 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
16 60 (3.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.15%) Broadband
2 40 (2.09%) VPN
3 39 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 38 (1.99%) Firewall
5 29 (1.52%) DNS
6 13 (0.68%) Internet
7 10 (0.52%) DHCP
7 10 (0.52%) Network Security
8 6 (0.31%) BGP
8 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.31%) LAN
8 6 (0.31%) NGFW
8 6 (0.31%) OSPF
8 6 (0.31%) WAN
9 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.21%) SSH
10 4 (0.21%) SSL
11 3 (0.16%) HTTP
11 3 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (10.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 203 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 139 (7.28%) SQL Server
4 87 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (3.14%) Power BI
6 52 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
7 50 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 36 (1.88%) MySQL
9 33 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (1.68%) Relational Database
11 28 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.26%) Redis
13 22 (1.15%) Metadata
14 20 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.84%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.84%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
18 11 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
19 10 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 146 (7.64%) Git
2 115 (6.02%) JIRA
3 106 (5.55%) GitLab
3 106 (5.55%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 30 (1.57%) Selenium
6 29 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 21 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.94%) Postman
9 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.58%) JMeter
9 11 (0.58%) NUnit
9 11 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.37%) Maven
13 6 (0.31%) JUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.26%) Locust
General
1 450 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 344 (18.01%) Finance
3 158 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 153 (8.01%) Public Sector
5 151 (7.91%) Law
6 116 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
7 112 (5.86%) Legal
8 72 (3.77%) Banking
9 65 (3.40%) Retail
10 62 (3.25%) Marketing
11 54 (2.83%) Games
12 32 (1.68%) Advertising
13 29 (1.52%) Back Office
14 26 (1.36%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.20%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.94%) Legal Technology
18 16 (0.84%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.79%) Telecoms
20 12 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 460 (24.08%) Senior
2 389 (20.37%) Developer
3 340 (17.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 257 (13.46%) Lead
5 192 (10.05%) .NET Developer
6 163 (8.53%) Architect
7 150 (7.85%) Software Engineer
8 111 (5.81%) Senior DevOps
9 99 (5.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 94 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
11 84 (4.40%) IT Manager
12 80 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 69 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
14 66 (3.46%) Senior Manager
14 66 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (3.35%) Senior Developer
16 59 (3.09%) Data Engineer
17 57 (2.98%) Consultant
18 54 (2.83%) Senior Software Engineer
19 52 (2.72%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (20.05%) .NET
2 212 (11.10%) React
3 204 (10.68%) ASP.NET
4 194 (10.16%) .NET Core
5 181 (9.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 144 (7.54%) RESTful
7 127 (6.65%) REST
8 125 (6.54%) CSS
9 122 (6.39%) HTML
10 118 (6.18%) Node.js
11 105 (5.50%) Blazor
12 99 (5.18%) Entity Framework
13 82 (4.29%) ML.NET
14 71 (3.72%) Middleware
15 58 (3.04%) AngularJS
16 56 (2.93%) Kafka
17 50 (2.62%) Spring
17 50 (2.62%) Spring Boot
18 46 (2.41%) SOAP
19 43 (2.25%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 304 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 135 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 94 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
4 81 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (3.25%) Virtual Team
6 58 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 35 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 31 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.47%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.31%) Podcast
14 24 (1.26%) Driving Licence
14 24 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.20%) Social Media
16 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 183 (9.58%) Linux
2 98 (5.13%) Windows
3 63 (3.30%) Unix
4 20 (1.05%) Android
4 20 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.84%) VMS
6 8 (0.42%) Debian
6 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.26%) CentOS
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.10%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.052%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (49.32%) CI/CD
2 852 (44.61%) Agile
3 452 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 415 (21.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 405 (21.20%) Mentoring
6 378 (19.79%) Software Engineering
7 365 (19.11%) AI
8 340 (17.80%) Test Automation
9 299 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
10 294 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
11 268 (14.03%) Microservices
12 241 (12.62%) Scrum
13 237 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 214 (11.20%) Containerisation
15 210 (10.99%) Roadmaps
16 203 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
17 199 (10.42%) Observability
18 193 (10.10%) Coaching
18 193 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
19 176 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 437 (22.88%) C#
2 426 (22.30%) SQL
3 389 (20.37%) Python
4 313 (16.39%) JavaScript
5 206 (10.79%) Java
6 167 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 166 (8.69%) PowerShell
8 101 (5.29%) Bash
9 75 (3.93%) Bicep
10 45 (2.36%) Apex Code
11 33 (1.73%) C++
12 32 (1.68%) Go
13 26 (1.36%) SOQL
13 26 (1.36%) SOSL
14 24 (1.26%) PHP
15 20 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (1.05%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.73%) Ruby
17 13 (0.68%) Groovy
18 11 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 227 (11.88%) Security Cleared
2 184 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 156 (8.17%) Degree
4 68 (3.56%) CISSP
5 65 (3.40%) Azure Certification
6 58 (3.04%) CISM
6 58 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
7 43 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.09%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.15%) DBS Check
11 21 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.68%) PMP
15 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (11.52%) QA
2 81 (4.24%) NIST
3 56 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.51%) ISO 22301
5 32 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.47%) GDPR
7 23 (1.20%) GRC
8 15 (0.79%) WCAG
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.31%) PMO
11 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.26%) IFRS
12 5 (0.26%) SLA
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) SEPA
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 261 (13.66%) Docker
2 64 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.89%) vSphere
6 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.47%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
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%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 380 (19.90%) Terraform
2 306 (16.02%) Kubernetes
3 94 (4.92%) Ansible
4 85 (4.45%) Grafana
5 46 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.52%) Argo
7 21 (1.10%) Puppet
8 15 (0.79%) Istio
8 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.37%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.31%) Packer
11 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.26%) Kibana
13 3 (0.16%) Nagios
14 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.10%) MIIS
14 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 499 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.40%) Google
3 68 (3.56%) Salesforce
4 56 (2.93%) Oracle
5 49 (2.57%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.09%) Databricks
6 40 (2.09%) Facebook
6 40 (2.09%) VMware
7 33 (1.73%) SAP
8 32 (1.68%) Splunk
9 29 (1.52%) Pega
10 24 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 21 (1.10%) YouTube
12 19 (0.99%) Apple
12 19 (0.99%) Sony
13 17 (0.89%) Cisco
13 17 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 17 (0.89%) Yahoo!
14 15 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.79%) Red Hat
1,157 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs