Linux/Unix DevOps Jobs in England

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > England

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix salary in England is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 788 885 1086
Rank change year-on-year +97 +201 -368
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 27 42 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.045% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.050% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 27 37 54
10th Percentile £43,400 £62,500 £44,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £49,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £84,625
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +2.19% +9.60%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in England

Linux/Unix DevOps
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps in England.

Salary trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in England

Linux/Unix DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux/Unix DevOps in England

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +129 16 £80,000 +14.29%
East of England +15 4 £46,000 -40.65%
East Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 1
Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 1
South East +11 2 £56,250 -27.42% 2
South West -22 2 £47,500 -29.63%
Linux/Unix DevOps
UK

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Linux/Unix DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Linux
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (81.48%) Ansible
2 22 (81.48%) AWS
2 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
3 18 (66.67%) Docker
3 18 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 17 (62.96%) Azure
5 16 (59.26%) Python
6 15 (55.56%) Terraform
6 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (51.85%) Firewall
7 14 (51.85%) Agile
8 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
9 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
9 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (44.44%) Puppet
10 11 (40.74%) Bash
10 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
10 11 (40.74%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (40.74%) Grafana
10 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
11 10 (37.04%) Migration
11 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (33.33%) GCP
12 9 (33.33%) Graphite
12 9 (33.33%) Security Hardening
12 9 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
12 9 (33.33%) tcpdump

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (81.48%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Azure
3 9 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 9 (33.33%) GCP
4 5 (18.52%) SaaS
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Pipelines
5 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) Firewall
2 9 (33.33%) DNS
2 9 (33.33%) Internet
2 9 (33.33%) SNMP
2 9 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 9 (33.33%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 9 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Git
3 5 (18.52%) Artifactory
3 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 5 (18.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 2 (7.41%) Maven
5 2 (7.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.70%) ClearCase
6 1 (3.70%) ClearQuest
6 1 (3.70%) Redmine
6 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.11%) Advertising
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (33.33%) YAML
3 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Clustering
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.41%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) AIX
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
6 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (37.04%) Migration
8 9 (33.33%) Business Continuity
8 9 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
8 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (33.33%) High Availability
8 9 (33.33%) Load Balancing
8 9 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (33.33%) Security Hardening
8 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 9 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) Bash
2 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
3 9 (33.33%) Perl
4 4 (14.81%) C#
4 4 (14.81%) Go
4 4 (14.81%) Java
4 4 (14.81%) Ruby
4 4 (14.81%) Rust
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
System Software
1 18 (66.67%) Docker
2 9 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.11%) KVM
5 1 (3.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 22 (81.48%) Ansible
2 15 (55.56%) Terraform
3 12 (44.44%) Puppet
4 11 (40.74%) Grafana
4 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
5 9 (33.33%) Graphite
5 9 (33.33%) HAProxy
5 9 (33.33%) Nagios
5 9 (33.33%) vCenter Server
6 7 (25.93%) Progress Chef
7 4 (14.81%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (7.41%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) VMware
2 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.70%) IBM
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat