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

 6 months to
1 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,921 1,727 2,292
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.70% 10.27% 10.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.51% 10.94% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 911 1,540
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £69,384 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +2.79% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 20,204 15,782 19,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.97% 93.81% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,422 8,452 11,768
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,243
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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 1 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 59 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.77%) Confluence
3 25 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.25%) Apache
5 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) CMS
7 9 (0.47%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.26%) WordPress
12 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
Applications
1 38 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.62%) Trello
4 11 (0.57%) 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 47 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
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%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,072 (55.80%) Azure
2 608 (31.65%) AWS
3 598 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
4 270 (14.06%) SaaS
5 193 (10.05%) GCP
6 183 (9.53%) Power Platform
7 150 (7.81%) Serverless
8 149 (7.76%) GitHub
9 93 (4.84%) Azure AI
10 87 (4.53%) PaaS
11 81 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
12 80 (4.16%) PowerApps
13 76 (3.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 75 (3.90%) Power Automate
15 74 (3.85%) Entra ID
16 71 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
16 71 (3.70%) Azure AKS
17 70 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 70 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
18 67 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.19%) VPN
2 30 (1.56%) Firewall
2 30 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 27 (1.41%) DNS
4 15 (0.78%) Internet
5 14 (0.73%) Broadband
6 11 (0.57%) Network Security
7 7 (0.36%) BGP
7 7 (0.36%) WAN
8 6 (0.31%) DHCP
8 6 (0.31%) OSPF
9 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.26%) NGFW
9 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.21%) HTTP
10 4 (0.21%) SSH
10 4 (0.21%) SSL
10 4 (0.21%) TETRA
11 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (10.83%) MongoDB
3 166 (8.64%) SQL Server
4 94 (4.89%) Power BI
5 88 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 48 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (2.34%) Metadata
10 41 (2.13%) MySQL
11 40 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 39 (2.03%) Data Lake
13 27 (1.41%) DynamoDB
14 24 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (1.15%) Redis
16 21 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (1.04%) Star Schema
18 15 (0.78%) Delta Lake
19 14 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 193 (10.05%) Git
2 126 (6.56%) JIRA
3 82 (4.27%) GitLab
4 77 (4.01%) Jenkins
5 47 (2.45%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.20%) Selenium
7 20 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.83%) Postman
9 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.42%) NUnit
10 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.36%) JUnit
11 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.31%) Maven
12 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 482 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 361 (18.79%) Finance
3 213 (11.09%) Public Sector
4 147 (7.65%) Law
5 131 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
7 106 (5.52%) Legal
8 80 (4.16%) Banking
9 76 (3.96%) Retail
10 45 (2.34%) Back Office
11 42 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.82%) Marketing
13 29 (1.51%) Advertising
14 22 (1.15%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.15%) Games
14 22 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 518 (26.97%) Senior
2 379 (19.73%) Developer
3 367 (19.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 249 (12.96%) Lead
5 188 (9.79%) .NET Developer
6 167 (8.69%) Software Engineer
7 138 (7.18%) Architect
8 114 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
9 109 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
10 107 (5.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (4.48%) IT Manager
12 76 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 71 (3.70%) Data Engineer
14 67 (3.49%) Senior Developer
15 66 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
16 61 (3.18%) Senior Manager
17 59 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
18 55 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
19 53 (2.76%) Analyst
20 52 (2.71%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (20.46%) Terraform
2 372 (19.36%) .NET
3 208 (10.83%) ASP.NET
4 203 (10.57%) React
5 186 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 176 (9.16%) ASP.NET Core
7 139 (7.24%) Node.js
8 136 (7.08%) RESTful
9 119 (6.19%) CSS
10 110 (5.73%) HTML
10 110 (5.73%) REST
11 102 (5.31%) Blazor
12 94 (4.89%) Entity Framework
13 78 (4.06%) ML.NET
14 70 (3.64%) Middleware
15 60 (3.12%) AngularJS
16 51 (2.65%) Spring Boot
17 49 (2.55%) Spring
18 47 (2.45%) Kafka
19 34 (1.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 322 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 144 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 112 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
4 87 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
8 48 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.03%) Mobile App
10 37 (1.93%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.51%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 23 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.15%) Social Media
15 21 (1.09%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 20 (1.04%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 167 (8.69%) Linux
2 104 (5.41%) Windows
3 64 (3.33%) Unix
4 22 (1.15%) Android
5 14 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.68%) VMS
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.31%) Debian
9 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.10%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) Rocky
12 2 (0.10%) Solaris
13 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 846 (44.04%) Agile
3 476 (24.78%) Mentoring
4 439 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 414 (21.55%) Software Engineering
6 412 (21.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 396 (20.61%) AI
8 350 (18.22%) Test Automation
9 320 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
10 271 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 256 (13.33%) Microservices
12 244 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 240 (12.49%) Coaching
14 219 (11.40%) Technical Leadership
15 210 (10.93%) Scrum
16 204 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
17 189 (9.84%) Observability
18 181 (9.42%) Containerisation
19 176 (9.16%) Roadmaps
20 173 (9.01%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 466 (24.26%) C#
2 457 (23.79%) SQL
3 395 (20.56%) Python
4 303 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 217 (11.30%) Java
6 175 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 174 (9.06%) PowerShell
8 106 (5.52%) Bash
9 84 (4.37%) Bicep
10 31 (1.61%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.51%) C++
12 27 (1.41%) Go
13 19 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.78%) PHP
16 14 (0.73%) Ruby
17 12 (0.62%) Groovy
18 11 (0.57%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.52%) Apex Code
19 10 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 243 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 199 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.24%) Degree
4 65 (3.38%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.12%) CISSP
6 58 (3.02%) CISM
7 56 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 35 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (1.41%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.88%) ISTQB
12 17 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.47%) PMP
15 9 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (11.04%) QA
2 83 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.80%) NIST
4 62 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.50%) ISO 22301
6 37 (1.93%) GDPR
7 33 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.94%) GRC
9 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
10 7 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.36%) WCAG
11 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.31%) PMO
12 5 (0.26%) IFRS
13 3 (0.16%) NCSC
13 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 245 (12.75%) Docker
2 55 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.78%) vSphere
7 4 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) iptables
9 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) QEMU
10 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 306 (15.93%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.79%) Grafana
3 82 (4.27%) Ansible
4 41 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.56%) Argo
6 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 12 (0.62%) Puppet
8 10 (0.52%) Packer
9 8 (0.42%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.31%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) Kibana
12 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 1 (0.052%) Nagios
15 1 (0.052%) Opsview
Vendors
1 530 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.42%) Google
3 70 (3.64%) Oracle
4 48 (2.50%) Databricks
5 43 (2.24%) ServiceNow
6 38 (1.98%) Facebook
7 36 (1.87%) VMware
7 36 (1.87%) YouTube
8 35 (1.82%) SAP
9 32 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.46%) Pega
11 27 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 18 (0.94%) Sony
13 17 (0.88%) Apple
13 17 (0.88%) Foundry
13 17 (0.88%) Informatica
14 16 (0.83%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.62%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.62%) ScienceLogic
1,947 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs