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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,901 1,710 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.65% 10.33% 10.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.45% 11.03% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,339 899 1,537
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £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% -1.46%
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 20,108 15,510 19,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.68% 88.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 8,405 11,799
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,188
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,015 £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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 29 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 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.74%) Confluence
3 25 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.26%) Apache
5 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.58%) 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 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.63%) Trello
4 10 (0.53%) 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
9 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.053%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (2.31%) 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
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (55.81%) Azure
2 599 (31.51%) AWS
3 593 (31.19%) Azure DevOps
4 270 (14.20%) SaaS
5 188 (9.89%) GCP
6 179 (9.42%) Power Platform
7 147 (7.73%) Serverless
8 144 (7.57%) GitHub
9 93 (4.89%) Azure AI
10 85 (4.47%) PaaS
11 80 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (4.10%) PowerApps
13 76 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 74 (3.89%) Entra ID
15 73 (3.84%) Power Automate
16 71 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
17 70 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 70 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
18 69 (3.63%) Azure AKS
19 64 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.10%) VPN
2 30 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.53%) Firewall
4 26 (1.37%) DNS
5 15 (0.79%) Internet
6 14 (0.74%) Broadband
7 11 (0.58%) Network Security
8 7 (0.37%) BGP
8 7 (0.37%) WAN
9 6 (0.32%) DHCP
9 6 (0.32%) 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
1 218 (11.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 207 (10.89%) MongoDB
3 163 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 91 (4.79%) Power BI
5 88 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (2.95%) NoSQL
8 48 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (2.37%) Metadata
10 41 (2.16%) MySQL
10 41 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 39 (2.05%) Data Lake
12 27 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 24 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.16%) Redis
15 21 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (1.05%) Star Schema
17 15 (0.79%) Delta Lake
18 13 (0.68%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 191 (10.05%) Git
2 124 (6.52%) JIRA
3 80 (4.21%) GitLab
4 74 (3.89%) Jenkins
5 45 (2.37%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.26%) Selenium
7 19 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.84%) Postman
9 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.58%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.42%) NUnit
10 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.37%) JUnit
11 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.32%) Maven
12 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 480 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 358 (18.83%) Finance
3 206 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 145 (7.63%) Law
5 131 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 123 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
7 104 (5.47%) Legal
8 79 (4.16%) Banking
9 74 (3.89%) Retail
10 45 (2.37%) Back Office
11 42 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.84%) Marketing
13 29 (1.53%) Advertising
14 23 (1.21%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.16%) Games
15 22 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 510 (26.83%) Senior
2 377 (19.83%) Developer
3 358 (18.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 251 (13.20%) Lead
5 188 (9.89%) .NET Developer
6 167 (8.78%) Software Engineer
7 138 (7.26%) Architect
8 107 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
8 107 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
9 101 (5.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 85 (4.47%) IT Manager
11 77 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 70 (3.68%) Data Engineer
13 67 (3.52%) Senior Developer
14 65 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
15 61 (3.21%) Senior Manager
16 59 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
17 55 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
18 52 (2.74%) Analyst
18 52 (2.74%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (20.25%) Terraform
2 373 (19.62%) .NET
3 208 (10.94%) ASP.NET
4 201 (10.57%) React
5 186 (9.78%) .NET Core
6 176 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 137 (7.21%) Node.js
8 135 (7.10%) RESTful
9 118 (6.21%) CSS
10 110 (5.79%) HTML
11 108 (5.68%) REST
12 102 (5.37%) Blazor
13 94 (4.94%) Entity Framework
14 78 (4.10%) ML.NET
15 70 (3.68%) Middleware
16 61 (3.21%) AngularJS
17 51 (2.68%) Spring Boot
18 49 (2.58%) Spring
19 47 (2.47%) Kafka
20 34 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 320 (16.83%) Cloud Native
2 143 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 111 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
4 87 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.31%) Virtual Team
6 62 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 56 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
8 48 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.47%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.21%) Data Centre
13 23 (1.21%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.16%) Social Media
15 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.05%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 19 (1.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.42%) Linux
2 104 (5.47%) Windows
3 60 (3.16%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Android
5 14 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.68%) VMS
7 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.32%) Debian
9 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.16%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Rocky
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 954 (50.18%) CI/CD
2 837 (44.03%) Agile
3 466 (24.51%) Mentoring
4 435 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 410 (21.57%) Software Engineering
6 402 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 389 (20.46%) AI
8 346 (18.20%) Test Automation
9 312 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
10 270 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 258 (13.57%) Microservices
12 243 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 233 (12.26%) Coaching
14 215 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
15 205 (10.78%) Scrum
16 203 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 189 (9.94%) Observability
18 179 (9.42%) Containerisation
19 176 (9.26%) Roadmaps
20 171 (9.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 467 (24.57%) C#
2 451 (23.72%) SQL
3 386 (20.31%) Python
4 298 (15.68%) JavaScript
5 215 (11.31%) Java
6 174 (9.15%) PowerShell
7 169 (8.89%) TypeScript
8 103 (5.42%) Bash
9 84 (4.42%) Bicep
10 29 (1.53%) C++
10 29 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.26%) Go
12 19 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.79%) PHP
15 14 (0.74%) Ruby
16 12 (0.63%) Groovy
17 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 244 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 200 (10.52%) SC Cleared
3 136 (7.15%) Degree
4 64 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 60 (3.16%) CISSP
6 58 (3.05%) CISM
7 56 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (2.10%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.63%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.47%) PMP
15 9 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.26%) QA
2 79 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.84%) NIST
4 61 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.52%) ISO 22301
6 36 (1.89%) GDPR
7 34 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.95%) GRC
9 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.47%) SLA
10 8 (0.42%) WCAG
11 7 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) PMO
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS
14 3 (0.16%) NCSC
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 244 (12.84%) Docker
2 55 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.79%) vSphere
7 4 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) iptables
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) QEMU
10 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 300 (15.78%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.79%) Grafana
3 78 (4.10%) Ansible
4 40 (2.10%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.53%) Argo
6 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.63%) Puppet
8 11 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.53%) Packer
10 8 (0.42%) Istio
10 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.26%) Kibana
11 5 (0.26%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 1 (0.053%) Check_MK
15 1 (0.053%) Nagios
Vendors
1 524 (27.56%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.31%) Google
3 69 (3.63%) Oracle
4 47 (2.47%) Databricks
5 42 (2.21%) ServiceNow
6 38 (2.00%) Facebook
7 35 (1.84%) VMware
8 34 (1.79%) SAP
8 34 (1.79%) YouTube
9 32 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.47%) Pega
11 26 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 18 (0.95%) Sony
13 17 (0.89%) Apple
13 17 (0.89%) Foundry
13 17 (0.89%) Informatica
14 16 (0.84%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.63%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic