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

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,912 1,721 2,239
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.69% 10.36% 10.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 11.04% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 891 1,506
10th Percentile £45,674 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,375 £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 £68,500
% change year-on-year - +2.19% -2.14%

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 20,041 15,592 19,047
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.56% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,414 11,252
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £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 £77,500 £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 11 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 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.99%) Confluence
3 26 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.31%) Apache
5 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) nginx
7 9 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.42%) CMS
8 8 (0.42%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 5 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) JBoss
12 2 (0.10%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 37 (1.94%) 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
8 3 (0.16%) Notion
9 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (2.41%) 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 1,055 (55.18%) Azure
2 599 (31.33%) AWS
3 591 (30.91%) Azure DevOps
4 269 (14.07%) SaaS
5 190 (9.94%) GCP
6 185 (9.68%) Power Platform
7 157 (8.21%) GitHub
8 142 (7.43%) Serverless
9 95 (4.97%) PaaS
10 93 (4.86%) Azure AI
11 82 (4.29%) PowerApps
12 80 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
13 78 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 77 (4.03%) Power Automate
15 74 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 70 (3.66%) Azure AKS
16 70 (3.66%) Azure Functions
16 70 (3.66%) Entra ID
17 68 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
17 68 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.25%) VPN
2 30 (1.57%) Firewall
3 29 (1.52%) DNS
4 27 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.73%) Internet
6 13 (0.68%) Broadband
7 10 (0.52%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
9 6 (0.31%) WAN
10 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.26%) HTTP
10 5 (0.26%) NGFW
10 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) DHCP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 4 (0.21%) TETRA
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (11.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 205 (10.72%) MongoDB
3 168 (8.79%) SQL Server
4 96 (5.02%) Power BI
5 84 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 46 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (2.35%) Metadata
10 40 (2.09%) Data Lake
10 40 (2.09%) MySQL
11 39 (2.04%) Relational Database
12 27 (1.41%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.15%) Redis
15 19 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.99%) Star Schema
16 15 (0.78%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 186 (9.73%) Git
2 129 (6.75%) JIRA
3 82 (4.29%) GitLab
4 73 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 49 (2.56%) TeamCity
6 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 20 (1.05%) Selenium
7 16 (0.84%) Postman
8 12 (0.63%) JUnit
9 10 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.47%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.37%) Mockito
13 6 (0.31%) Maven
13 6 (0.31%) NUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.31%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 485 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 356 (18.62%) Finance
3 219 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.64%) Law
5 130 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (5.54%) Legal
8 76 (3.97%) Banking
8 76 (3.97%) Retail
9 46 (2.41%) Back Office
10 43 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.83%) Marketing
12 26 (1.36%) Advertising
13 23 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.10%) Games
16 14 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 523 (27.35%) Senior
2 382 (19.98%) Developer
3 379 (19.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 241 (12.60%) Lead
5 190 (9.94%) .NET Developer
6 168 (8.79%) Software Engineer
7 129 (6.75%) Architect
8 119 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
9 110 (5.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 107 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
11 88 (4.60%) IT Manager
12 71 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
13 69 (3.61%) Data Engineer
13 69 (3.61%) Senior Developer
14 63 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
15 60 (3.14%) Senior Manager
16 54 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (2.77%) Analyst
17 53 (2.77%) Service Manager
17 53 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (20.35%) Terraform
2 377 (19.72%) .NET
3 210 (10.98%) ASP.NET
4 198 (10.36%) React
5 185 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 175 (9.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 137 (7.17%) Node.js
7 137 (7.17%) RESTful
8 118 (6.17%) CSS
9 117 (6.12%) REST
10 109 (5.70%) HTML
11 101 (5.28%) Blazor
12 90 (4.71%) Entity Framework
13 78 (4.08%) ML.NET
14 71 (3.71%) Middleware
15 56 (2.93%) Spring Boot
16 55 (2.88%) AngularJS
17 53 (2.77%) Spring
18 47 (2.46%) Kafka
19 35 (1.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 319 (16.68%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 116 (6.07%) Enterprise Software
4 88 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 62 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
7 61 (3.19%) Virtual Team
8 49 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 40 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.94%) Mobile App
11 32 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 31 (1.62%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.20%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.10%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.10%) Social Media
16 20 (1.05%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 162 (8.47%) Linux
2 95 (4.97%) Windows
3 62 (3.24%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 13 (0.68%) VMS
6 11 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.26%) Debian
9 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.10%) Rocky
11 2 (0.10%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) CentOS
12 1 (0.052%) macOS
12 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (50.31%) CI/CD
2 846 (44.25%) Agile
3 476 (24.90%) Mentoring
4 440 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 415 (21.71%) Software Engineering
6 397 (20.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 396 (20.71%) AI
8 354 (18.51%) Test Automation
9 328 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
10 267 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
11 248 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 246 (12.87%) Microservices
13 235 (12.29%) Coaching
14 215 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
15 207 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 198 (10.36%) Scrum
17 182 (9.52%) Observability
18 180 (9.41%) Containerisation
19 172 (9.00%) Analytics
20 171 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 471 (24.63%) C#
2 455 (23.80%) SQL
3 393 (20.55%) Python
4 303 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 220 (11.51%) Java
6 176 (9.21%) PowerShell
7 171 (8.94%) TypeScript
8 107 (5.60%) Bash
9 87 (4.55%) Bicep
10 32 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.52%) Go
12 28 (1.46%) C++
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
1 257 (13.44%) Security Cleared
2 210 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.06%) Degree
4 63 (3.29%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.14%) CISSP
6 57 (2.98%) CISM
6 57 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
7 42 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.36%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.42%) PMP
15 7 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (10.72%) QA
2 89 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 67 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 67 (3.50%) NIST
4 48 (2.51%) ISO 22301
5 34 (1.78%) GDPR
6 29 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.84%) GRC
8 10 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
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%) IFRS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 251 (13.13%) Docker
2 51 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.78%) vSphere
6 4 (0.21%) Firmware
7 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.10%) iptables
9 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.052%) KVM
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 306 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.81%) Grafana
3 76 (3.97%) Ansible
4 40 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.46%) Argo
6 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.58%) Packer
7 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.42%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Puppet
10 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.16%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.052%) Cilium
14 1 (0.052%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 530 (27.72%) Microsoft
2 91 (4.76%) Google
3 77 (4.03%) Oracle
4 47 (2.46%) Databricks
5 43 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 38 (1.99%) YouTube
7 37 (1.94%) Facebook
8 36 (1.88%) SAP
9 35 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.67%) VMware
11 28 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.46%) Pega
12 19 (0.99%) MuleSoft
13 18 (0.94%) Informatica
13 18 (0.94%) Sony
14 17 (0.89%) Apple
14 17 (0.89%) Foundry
15 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
16 14 (0.73%) Dynatrace
17 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
2,012 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs