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

 6 months to
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,917 1,776 2,374
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.28% 10.73% 9.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.07% 11.54% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 976 1,780
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,800
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 19,038 15,384 21,698
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 92.95% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,740 8,914 14,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 25 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 49 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.56%) Confluence
3 28 (1.46%) Apache
4 25 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.42%) CMS
8 8 (0.42%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) Drupal
13 1 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 41 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.052%) Notion
8 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (2.30%) 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 ERP
4 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (55.40%) Azure
2 606 (31.61%) AWS
3 584 (30.46%) Azure DevOps
4 263 (13.72%) SaaS
5 189 (9.86%) GCP
6 158 (8.24%) Power Platform
7 146 (7.62%) Serverless
8 141 (7.36%) GitHub
9 92 (4.80%) Azure AI
10 86 (4.49%) PaaS
11 72 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 72 (3.76%) Azure AKS
12 71 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 69 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
14 68 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 68 (3.55%) Entra ID
15 67 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
16 66 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
17 65 (3.39%) Power Automate
18 63 (3.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.98%) VPN
2 36 (1.88%) TCP/IP
3 35 (1.83%) Firewall
4 29 (1.51%) DNS
5 28 (1.46%) Broadband
6 13 (0.68%) Internet
7 10 (0.52%) Network Security
8 8 (0.42%) DHCP
9 7 (0.37%) BGP
10 6 (0.31%) NGFW
10 6 (0.31%) OSPF
10 6 (0.31%) WAN
11 5 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.26%) LAN
11 5 (0.26%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.21%) HTTP
12 4 (0.21%) SSH
12 4 (0.21%) SSL
13 3 (0.16%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.16%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 207 (10.80%) MongoDB
3 159 (8.29%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (3.86%) Power BI
6 57 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 50 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
8 44 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 41 (2.14%) MySQL
10 37 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 30 (1.56%) Metadata
12 26 (1.36%) Data Lake
13 24 (1.25%) DynamoDB
14 22 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (1.04%) Redis
17 17 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
18 16 (0.83%) Delta Lake
19 12 (0.63%) Star Schema
20 11 (0.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 166 (8.66%) Git
2 122 (6.36%) JIRA
3 91 (4.75%) GitLab
4 90 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 27 (1.41%) Selenium
7 24 (1.25%) SonarQube
8 20 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.89%) Postman
10 12 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.57%) JMeter
11 11 (0.57%) NUnit
12 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.31%) JUnit
15 6 (0.31%) Maven
15 6 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 462 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 349 (18.21%) Finance
3 167 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 148 (7.72%) Law
5 147 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
7 116 (6.05%) Legal
8 82 (4.28%) Banking
9 64 (3.34%) Retail
10 48 (2.50%) Marketing
11 40 (2.09%) Games
12 33 (1.72%) Back Office
13 30 (1.56%) Advertising
13 30 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.20%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.04%) Legal Technology
16 19 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.73%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.73%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 476 (24.83%) Senior
2 386 (20.14%) Developer
3 350 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 252 (13.15%) Lead
5 195 (10.17%) .NET Developer
6 156 (8.14%) Software Engineer
7 142 (7.41%) Architect
8 105 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
9 97 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
10 96 (5.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 85 (4.43%) IT Manager
12 76 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 67 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
13 67 (3.50%) Senior Developer
14 63 (3.29%) Senior Manager
15 62 (3.23%) Data Engineer
16 58 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
17 57 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
18 56 (2.92%) Analyst
19 55 (2.87%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (20.29%) .NET
2 388 (20.24%) Terraform
3 216 (11.27%) ASP.NET
4 204 (10.64%) React
5 197 (10.28%) .NET Core
6 184 (9.60%) ASP.NET Core
7 142 (7.41%) RESTful
8 132 (6.89%) Node.js
9 126 (6.57%) CSS
10 120 (6.26%) HTML
11 116 (6.05%) REST
12 107 (5.58%) Blazor
13 98 (5.11%) Entity Framework
14 82 (4.28%) ML.NET
15 68 (3.55%) Middleware
16 60 (3.13%) AngularJS
17 57 (2.97%) Kafka
18 48 (2.50%) Spring Boot
19 46 (2.40%) Spring
20 36 (1.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 307 (16.01%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 101 (5.27%) Enterprise Software
4 84 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.29%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
8 41 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.98%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.46%) Data Centre
13 27 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 26 (1.36%) Driving Licence
15 25 (1.30%) Podcast
16 23 (1.20%) Social Media
17 22 (1.15%) Security Posture
18 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
19 18 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (8.56%) Linux
2 100 (5.22%) Windows
3 57 (2.97%) Unix
4 20 (1.04%) Android
5 17 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.83%) VMS
7 8 (0.42%) Debian
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.26%) CentOS
8 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.10%) Solaris
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (49.19%) CI/CD
2 852 (44.44%) Agile
3 434 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 426 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 412 (21.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 402 (20.97%) Software Engineering
7 378 (19.72%) AI
8 337 (17.58%) Test Automation
9 295 (15.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 293 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
11 259 (13.51%) Microservices
12 240 (12.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 233 (12.15%) Scrum
14 212 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
15 203 (10.59%) Coaching
15 203 (10.59%) Containerisation
16 197 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 195 (10.17%) Observability
18 193 (10.07%) Roadmaps
19 180 (9.39%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 456 (23.79%) C#
2 453 (23.63%) SQL
3 384 (20.03%) Python
4 305 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 202 (10.54%) Java
6 165 (8.61%) PowerShell
7 164 (8.56%) TypeScript
8 100 (5.22%) Bash
9 79 (4.12%) Bicep
10 32 (1.67%) C++
11 29 (1.51%) Go
12 27 (1.41%) Apex Code
13 24 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 21 (1.10%) PHP
15 20 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 16 (0.83%) Ruby
17 14 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.73%) SOQL
17 14 (0.73%) SOSL
18 13 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 229 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 186 (9.70%) SC Cleared
3 151 (7.88%) Degree
4 64 (3.34%) Azure Certification
5 61 (3.18%) CISSP
6 58 (3.03%) CISM
7 57 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
8 45 (2.35%) DV Cleared
9 44 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 35 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.30%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.99%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.94%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.89%) ISTQB
16 14 (0.73%) PMP
17 13 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (0.31%) CCNP
18 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (11.63%) QA
2 77 (4.02%) NIST
3 60 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 60 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.50%) ISO 22301
5 34 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.41%) GDPR
7 24 (1.25%) GRC
8 14 (0.73%) WCAG
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
10 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.31%) PMO
12 5 (0.26%) IFRS
12 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 259 (13.51%) Docker
2 62 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.89%) vSphere
6 8 (0.42%) Firmware
7 4 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.10%) iptables
9 2 (0.10%) KVM
9 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
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%) Xen
Systems Management
1 298 (15.55%) Kubernetes
2 85 (4.43%) Ansible
3 81 (4.23%) Grafana
4 42 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.56%) Argo
6 19 (0.99%) Puppet
7 16 (0.83%) Istio
7 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.31%) Packer
9 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.16%) Kibana
13 2 (0.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.10%) MIIS
13 2 (0.10%) Nagios
14 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 512 (26.71%) Microsoft
2 80 (4.17%) Google
3 61 (3.18%) Oracle
4 49 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.30%) Databricks
7 40 (2.09%) Facebook
8 37 (1.93%) VMware
9 32 (1.67%) SAP
10 28 (1.46%) Pega
11 27 (1.41%) YouTube
12 23 (1.20%) OpenAI
13 20 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.04%) Splunk
14 19 (0.99%) Sony
15 18 (0.94%) Apple
16 17 (0.89%) Yahoo!
17 14 (0.73%) Cisco
18 13 (0.68%) Foundry
19 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
1,099 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs