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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,899 1,725 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.66% 10.27% 10.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 10.95% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 895 1,510
10th Percentile £45,486 £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 £68,500
% 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 19,953 15,755 19,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,223 8,440 11,340
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 £78,750 £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 9 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 58 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.00%) Confluence
3 25 (1.32%) Apache
3 25 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.53%) 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 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) Hedera
Applications
1 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.74%) 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 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
8 3 (0.16%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (55.13%) Azure
2 596 (31.38%) AWS
3 589 (31.02%) Azure DevOps
4 267 (14.06%) SaaS
5 189 (9.95%) GCP
6 181 (9.53%) Power Platform
7 152 (8.00%) GitHub
8 143 (7.53%) Serverless
9 93 (4.90%) Azure AI
10 91 (4.79%) PaaS
11 80 (4.21%) PowerApps
12 78 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
13 75 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 75 (3.95%) Power Automate
14 72 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 70 (3.69%) Azure AKS
15 70 (3.69%) Azure Functions
15 70 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 70 (3.69%) Entra ID
16 68 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.26%) VPN
2 30 (1.58%) Firewall
3 29 (1.53%) DNS
4 27 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.74%) Internet
6 13 (0.68%) Broadband
7 11 (0.58%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
9 6 (0.32%) OSPF
9 6 (0.32%) 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
1 217 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 206 (10.85%) MongoDB
3 166 (8.74%) SQL Server
4 94 (4.95%) Power BI
5 84 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 46 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (2.32%) Metadata
10 40 (2.11%) 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 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.05%) Redis
16 19 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (0.95%) Star Schema
18 15 (0.79%) Delta Lake
19 14 (0.74%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 186 (9.79%) Git
2 129 (6.79%) JIRA
3 83 (4.37%) GitLab
4 73 (3.84%) Jenkins
5 49 (2.58%) TeamCity
6 21 (1.11%) Selenium
7 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.84%) Postman
9 11 (0.58%) JUnit
10 10 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.32%) Maven
13 6 (0.32%) Mockito
13 6 (0.32%) NUnit
13 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 478 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 355 (18.69%) Finance
3 215 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.69%) Law
5 129 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
7 104 (5.48%) Legal
8 77 (4.05%) Banking
9 75 (3.95%) Retail
10 46 (2.42%) Back Office
11 43 (2.26%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.84%) Marketing
13 27 (1.42%) Advertising
14 23 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.16%) Games
16 13 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 515 (27.12%) Senior
2 378 (19.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 375 (19.75%) Developer
4 242 (12.74%) Lead
5 189 (9.95%) .NET Developer
6 165 (8.69%) Software Engineer
7 131 (6.90%) Architect
8 118 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
9 110 (5.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 108 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
11 87 (4.58%) IT Manager
12 72 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 68 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 65 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
15 64 (3.37%) Senior Developer
16 60 (3.16%) Senior Manager
17 55 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
18 53 (2.79%) Analyst
18 53 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
19 52 (2.74%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (20.38%) Terraform
2 370 (19.48%) .NET
3 208 (10.95%) ASP.NET
4 196 (10.32%) React
5 185 (9.74%) .NET Core
6 174 (9.16%) ASP.NET Core
7 137 (7.21%) Node.js
8 132 (6.95%) RESTful
9 118 (6.21%) CSS
10 113 (5.95%) REST
11 109 (5.74%) HTML
12 101 (5.32%) Blazor
13 90 (4.74%) Entity Framework
14 78 (4.11%) ML.NET
15 71 (3.74%) Middleware
16 55 (2.90%) AngularJS
17 53 (2.79%) Spring Boot
18 50 (2.63%) Spring
19 46 (2.42%) Kafka
20 34 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 318 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.37%) Product Ownership
3 114 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
4 85 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
6 61 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
6 61 (3.21%) Virtual Team
7 48 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 37 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 23 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 21 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 21 (1.11%) Social Media
14 20 (1.05%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.43%) Linux
2 97 (5.11%) Windows
3 64 (3.37%) Unix
4 21 (1.11%) Android
5 12 (0.63%) 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 (0.11%) Rocky
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (50.13%) CI/CD
2 838 (44.13%) Agile
3 474 (24.96%) Mentoring
4 432 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 411 (21.64%) Software Engineering
6 396 (20.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 390 (20.54%) AI
8 347 (18.27%) Test Automation
9 322 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
10 265 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 247 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 246 (12.95%) Microservices
13 234 (12.32%) Coaching
14 210 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
15 206 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
16 200 (10.53%) Scrum
17 184 (9.69%) Observability
18 177 (9.32%) Containerisation
19 172 (9.06%) Analytics
20 170 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 464 (24.43%) C#
2 450 (23.70%) SQL
3 386 (20.33%) Python
4 301 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 217 (11.43%) Java
6 173 (9.11%) PowerShell
7 168 (8.85%) TypeScript
8 105 (5.53%) Bash
9 85 (4.48%) Bicep
10 31 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.47%) C++
12 27 (1.42%) Go
13 18 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.74%) PHP
15 14 (0.74%) Ruby
16 11 (0.58%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.58%) Groovy
16 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 249 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 204 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.11%) Degree
4 63 (3.32%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.16%) CISSP
6 57 (3.00%) CISM
6 57 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 42 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 40 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.79%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.42%) PMP
17 6 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (10.85%) QA
2 87 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 70 (3.69%) NIST
4 63 (3.32%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.53%) ISO 22301
6 32 (1.69%) GDPR
7 29 (1.53%) 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 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.32%) PMO
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 245 (12.90%) Docker
2 51 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.79%) vSphere
6 4 (0.21%) Firmware
7 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) iptables
9 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.053%) KVM
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 298 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.79%) Grafana
3 76 (4.00%) Ansible
4 39 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.58%) Argo
6 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.58%) Packer
7 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.47%) Puppet
9 8 (0.42%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.16%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.053%) Cilium
14 1 (0.053%) Opsview
Vendors
1 520 (27.38%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.63%) Google
3 76 (4.00%) Oracle
4 45 (2.37%) Databricks
5 43 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 37 (1.95%) Facebook
7 36 (1.90%) SAP
7 36 (1.90%) YouTube
8 35 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.69%) VMware
10 28 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.47%) Pega
11 19 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 18 (0.95%) Sony
13 17 (0.90%) Apple
13 17 (0.90%) Foundry
13 17 (0.90%) Informatica
14 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
15 14 (0.74%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic