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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,912 1,720 2,289
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.87% 10.59% 9.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 11.36% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 935 1,604
10th Percentile £45,499 £46,492 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
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 19,802 15,135 20,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.49% 93.17% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,194 8,610 12,632
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 17 September 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 56 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.67%) Confluence
3 25 (1.31%) Apache
4 24 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) CMS
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
7 9 (0.47%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 41 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 10 (0.52%) 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 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.052%) Notion
9 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,069 (55.91%) Azure
2 597 (31.22%) AWS
3 587 (30.70%) Azure DevOps
4 264 (13.81%) SaaS
5 192 (10.04%) GCP
6 174 (9.10%) Power Platform
7 145 (7.58%) Serverless
8 140 (7.32%) GitHub
9 93 (4.86%) Azure AI
10 82 (4.29%) PaaS
11 79 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 75 (3.92%) PowerApps
14 72 (3.77%) Entra ID
15 70 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 69 (3.61%) Power Automate
17 68 (3.56%) Azure AKS
18 67 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
19 66 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
19 66 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.94%) VPN
2 31 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 27 (1.41%) Firewall
4 25 (1.31%) DNS
5 21 (1.10%) Broadband
6 14 (0.73%) Internet
7 9 (0.47%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
8 7 (0.37%) WAN
9 6 (0.31%) DHCP
9 6 (0.31%) OSPF
10 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.26%) NGFW
10 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.21%) HTTP
11 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 4 (0.21%) SSL
11 4 (0.21%) TETRA
12 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (11.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (10.88%) MongoDB
3 163 (8.53%) SQL Server
4 90 (4.71%) Power BI
5 83 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 57 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (2.25%) Metadata
10 42 (2.20%) MySQL
11 39 (2.04%) Data Lake
11 39 (2.04%) Relational Database
12 29 (1.52%) DynamoDB
13 22 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (1.10%) Redis
15 19 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.99%) Star Schema
16 16 (0.84%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 188 (9.83%) Git
2 125 (6.54%) JIRA
3 85 (4.45%) GitLab
4 83 (4.34%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.25%) TeamCity
6 26 (1.36%) Selenium
7 19 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.84%) Postman
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (0.47%) NUnit
13 8 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.37%) JUnit
14 7 (0.37%) Maven
15 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.31%) JMeter
15 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 461 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 356 (18.62%) Finance
3 189 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 147 (7.69%) Law
5 140 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (5.70%) Legal
8 78 (4.08%) Banking
9 70 (3.66%) Retail
10 42 (2.20%) Back Office
10 42 (2.20%) Marketing
11 39 (2.04%) Financial Institution
12 30 (1.57%) Advertising
12 30 (1.57%) Games
13 24 (1.26%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.68%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 493 (25.78%) Senior
2 378 (19.77%) Developer
3 350 (18.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 254 (13.28%) Lead
5 188 (9.83%) .NET Developer
6 166 (8.68%) Software Engineer
7 139 (7.27%) Architect
8 108 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
9 97 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
10 90 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 87 (4.55%) IT Manager
12 76 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
13 70 (3.66%) Data Engineer
14 67 (3.50%) Senior Developer
15 65 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
16 63 (3.29%) Senior Manager
17 58 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
18 57 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
19 55 (2.88%) Service Manager
20 52 (2.72%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (19.87%) Terraform
2 372 (19.46%) .NET
3 209 (10.93%) ASP.NET
4 204 (10.67%) React
5 187 (9.78%) .NET Core
6 177 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (7.37%) Node.js
8 135 (7.06%) RESTful
9 119 (6.22%) CSS
10 111 (5.81%) HTML
11 107 (5.60%) REST
12 104 (5.44%) Blazor
13 96 (5.02%) Entity Framework
14 79 (4.13%) ML.NET
15 66 (3.45%) Middleware
16 62 (3.24%) AngularJS
17 49 (2.56%) Spring Boot
18 47 (2.46%) Spring
19 45 (2.35%) Kafka
20 36 (1.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 321 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 148 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 109 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
4 82 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 64 (3.35%) Virtual Team
6 63 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
7 56 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
8 44 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (1.94%) Mobile App
10 30 (1.57%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.20%) Social Media
14 20 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (1.05%) Security Posture
15 19 (0.99%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.94%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 164 (8.58%) Linux
2 104 (5.44%) Windows
3 58 (3.03%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 15 (0.78%) VMS
5 15 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.37%) Debian
8 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.21%) CentOS
8 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.10%) Solaris
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (49.48%) CI/CD
2 849 (44.40%) Agile
3 456 (23.85%) Mentoring
4 430 (22.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 406 (21.23%) Software Engineering
6 395 (20.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 390 (20.40%) AI
8 347 (18.15%) Test Automation
9 310 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (14.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 254 (13.28%) Microservices
12 244 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 222 (11.61%) Coaching
14 214 (11.19%) Scrum
15 213 (11.14%) Technical Leadership
16 195 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 186 (9.73%) Observability
17 186 (9.73%) Roadmaps
18 177 (9.26%) Containerisation
19 169 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 465 (24.32%) C#
2 455 (23.80%) SQL
3 383 (20.03%) Python
4 304 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 210 (10.98%) Java
6 171 (8.94%) TypeScript
7 170 (8.89%) PowerShell
8 100 (5.23%) Bash
9 79 (4.13%) Bicep
10 29 (1.52%) C++
11 27 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 23 (1.20%) Go
13 20 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.89%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.84%) PHP
16 14 (0.73%) Ruby
17 13 (0.68%) Groovy
18 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 238 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 192 (10.04%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.37%) Degree
4 62 (3.24%) Azure Certification
5 61 (3.19%) CISSP
6 58 (3.03%) CISM
7 56 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.84%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.63%) PMP
15 10 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (11.51%) QA
2 78 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 76 (3.97%) NIST
4 59 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.51%) ISO 22301
6 33 (1.73%) GDPR
6 33 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.10%) GRC
8 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 9 (0.47%) SLA
8 9 (0.47%) WCAG
9 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.31%) PMO
10 5 (0.26%) IFRS
11 4 (0.21%) NCSC
11 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 244 (12.76%) Docker
2 60 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.73%) vSphere
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.10%) iptables
9 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) QEMU
10 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 288 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 82 (4.29%) Grafana
3 80 (4.18%) Ansible
4 41 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.52%) Argo
6 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.78%) Puppet
8 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.42%) Istio
9 8 (0.42%) Packer
10 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.26%) Kibana
11 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.10%) Nagios
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.052%) Consul
13 1 (0.052%) linkerd
Vendors
1 523 (27.35%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.39%) Google
3 67 (3.50%) Oracle
4 46 (2.41%) Databricks
5 45 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.09%) Facebook
7 39 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.78%) SAP
9 33 (1.73%) VMware
10 32 (1.67%) YouTube
11 28 (1.46%) Pega
12 26 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.99%) MuleSoft
13 19 (0.99%) Sony
14 18 (0.94%) Apple
15 17 (0.89%) Informatica
15 17 (0.89%) Yahoo!
16 16 (0.84%) Foundry
17 13 (0.68%) Splunk
18 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
2,588 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs