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

 6 months to
9 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,518 1,922 3,015
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.80% 12.73% 8.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.51% 13.46% 9.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 1,067 2,463
10th Percentile £43,977 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,950 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 15,967 14,283 30,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.63% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 8,372 23,637
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 29 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.65%) Apache
3 21 (1.38%) Confluence
4 19 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.59%) CMS
7 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.066%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.066%) SAS
13 1 (0.066%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Blender
5 3 (0.20%) Maya
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.066%) Notion
7 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.86%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.066%) Magento
8 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.066%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.066%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.066%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.066%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 811 (53.43%) Azure
2 520 (34.26%) AWS
3 415 (27.34%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (11.20%) GitHub
5 166 (10.94%) GCP
6 152 (10.01%) Serverless
7 129 (8.50%) Power Platform
8 127 (8.37%) SaaS
9 81 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
10 80 (5.27%) Amazon S3
11 79 (5.20%) Entra ID
12 72 (4.74%) PaaS
13 71 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (4.55%) Azure AKS
15 64 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 53 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
16 53 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
17 48 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 45 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
18 45 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.15%) Broadband
2 51 (3.36%) Firewall
3 29 (1.91%) DNS
4 22 (1.45%) VPN
5 20 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.99%) DHCP
7 9 (0.59%) Network Security
8 6 (0.40%) BGP
8 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.40%) Internet
8 6 (0.40%) LAN
8 6 (0.40%) NGFW
8 6 (0.40%) OSPF
8 6 (0.40%) WAN
9 5 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.33%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) DSL
11 3 (0.20%) SSL
11 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.58%) MongoDB
2 109 (7.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (6.13%) SQL Server
4 84 (5.53%) NoSQL
5 71 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (3.75%) Power BI
7 41 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 40 (2.64%) Metadata
9 32 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (1.78%) Data Lake
12 25 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (1.45%) MySQL
14 21 (1.38%) DynamoDB
15 20 (1.32%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.05%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.05%) Redis
17 12 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 136 (8.96%) Git
2 116 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 113 (7.44%) GitLab
4 85 (5.60%) JIRA
5 42 (2.77%) SonarQube
6 27 (1.78%) Selenium
7 20 (1.32%) TeamCity
8 19 (1.25%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.19%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.05%) Postman
11 13 (0.86%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.66%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.66%) JMeter
14 7 (0.46%) Maven
14 7 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.33%) Locust
15 5 (0.33%) NUnit
15 5 (0.33%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 327 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 318 (20.95%) Finance
3 157 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 128 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (4.87%) Law
7 70 (4.61%) Banking
8 62 (4.08%) Marketing
9 60 (3.95%) Retail
10 58 (3.82%) Games
11 46 (3.03%) Legal
12 24 (1.58%) Back Office
12 24 (1.58%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.12%) Advertising
15 16 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.92%) Health Technology
17 13 (0.86%) Billing
18 11 (0.72%) Telecoms
19 10 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 336 (22.13%) Senior
2 295 (19.43%) Developer
3 242 (15.94%) Lead
4 233 (15.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 154 (10.14%) Architect
6 136 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 95 (6.26%) .NET Developer
8 93 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 86 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
10 80 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
11 68 (4.48%) Data Engineer
12 65 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 62 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 62 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
14 61 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
15 54 (3.56%) Senior Developer
16 53 (3.49%) Lead Developer
16 53 (3.49%) Lead DevOps
17 52 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
18 51 (3.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (17.13%) .NET
2 169 (11.13%) React
3 112 (7.38%) REST
4 106 (6.98%) RESTful
5 104 (6.85%) Node.js
6 102 (6.72%) .NET Core
7 96 (6.32%) ASP.NET
8 88 (5.80%) CSS
9 86 (5.67%) ASP.NET Core
9 86 (5.67%) HTML
10 64 (4.22%) Spring
11 61 (4.02%) SOAP
12 58 (3.82%) Spring Boot
13 57 (3.75%) Lightning Web Components
14 54 (3.56%) Kafka
15 52 (3.43%) AngularJS
15 52 (3.43%) Visualforce
16 50 (3.29%) Entity Framework
17 46 (3.03%) Blazor
18 39 (2.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 264 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 126 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 28 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.78%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.38%) Driving Licence
13 21 (1.38%) Low-Code
14 19 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 16 (1.05%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.99%) Cyberattack
17 15 (0.99%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.41%) Linux
2 68 (4.48%) Windows
3 52 (3.43%) Unix
4 27 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.38%) Android
6 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 6 (0.40%) Debian
8 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.40%) VMS
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (54.81%) CI/CD
2 667 (43.94%) Agile
3 384 (25.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 335 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 303 (19.96%) Mentoring
6 267 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
7 259 (17.06%) Software Engineering
8 253 (16.67%) AI
9 242 (15.94%) Microservices
10 225 (14.82%) Containerisation
11 223 (14.69%) Test Automation
12 214 (14.10%) Full-Stack Development
13 204 (13.44%) Scrum
14 193 (12.71%) Roadmaps
15 178 (11.73%) Coaching
16 170 (11.20%) Observability
17 168 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
18 161 (10.61%) Analytics
19 150 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
20 148 (9.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 353 (23.25%) Python
2 340 (22.40%) SQL
3 244 (16.07%) C#
4 225 (14.82%) Java
5 212 (13.97%) JavaScript
6 117 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 103 (6.79%) Bash
8 87 (5.73%) PowerShell
9 61 (4.02%) Go
10 60 (3.95%) Apex Code
11 53 (3.49%) Bicep
12 36 (2.37%) SOQL
12 36 (2.37%) SOSL
13 34 (2.24%) C++
14 22 (1.45%) Scala
15 21 (1.38%) PHP
16 14 (0.92%) Rust
17 12 (0.79%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.79%) T-SQL
18 10 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 179 (11.79%) Security Cleared
2 153 (10.08%) Degree
3 138 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 55 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 46 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.12%) CISSP
9 17 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 14 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 13 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.59%) PMP
13 8 (0.53%) PhD
13 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.46%) CCNP
15 6 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (9.16%) QA
2 66 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.78%) NIST
6 25 (1.65%) GDPR
7 17 (1.12%) GRC
8 14 (0.92%) WCAG
9 8 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) PMO
12 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (16.80%) Docker
2 65 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.59%) vSphere
6 8 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.066%) iptables
11 1 (0.066%) KVM
11 1 (0.066%) QEMU
11 1 (0.066%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 377 (24.84%) Terraform
2 307 (20.22%) Kubernetes
3 121 (7.97%) Ansible
4 76 (5.01%) Grafana
5 61 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.96%) Argo
7 18 (1.19%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.12%) Puppet
9 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.72%) Istio
11 9 (0.59%) Packer
12 8 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.53%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.33%) Kibana
16 4 (0.26%) SCCM
16 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 362 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.40%) Salesforce
3 78 (5.14%) Google
4 43 (2.83%) Oracle
5 42 (2.77%) Splunk
6 40 (2.64%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.64%) VMware
7 39 (2.57%) Databricks
8 38 (2.50%) SAP
9 18 (1.19%) Facebook
10 17 (1.12%) Cisco
10 17 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 13 (0.86%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.79%) F5
14 11 (0.72%) Okta
15 10 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.59%) Apple
16 9 (0.59%) YouTube
17 8 (0.53%) IBM
815 hybrid/remote DevOps jobs