Linux/Unix DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 734 839
Rank change year-on-year -10 +105 -195
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 11 16 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.027% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.031% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 26
10th Percentile £41,000 £61,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £65,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +35.27% +3.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £58,750 - £76,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +2.19% -2.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 69,645 52,139 69,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.14% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 49,228 29,915 42,540
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
East of England +15 4 £46,000 -40.65%
East Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 1
Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 1
South East -1 2 £56,250 -27.42% 1
South West -16 2 £47,500 -26.92%
Linux/Unix DevOps
UK

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Git
3 7 (63.64%) Ansible
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) SaaS
5 5 (45.45%) QA
5 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) Scrum
5 5 (45.45%) Firewall
5 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
5 5 (45.45%) Docker
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (36.36%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 4 (36.36%) Analytics
6 4 (36.36%) Customer Experience
6 4 (36.36%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (27.27%) Puppet
7 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
7 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
7 3 (27.27%) Advertising
7 3 (27.27%) VMware
7 3 (27.27%) Degree
7 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) SaaS
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) ClearCase
4 1 (9.09%) ClearQuest
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Redmine
4 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 3 (27.27%) Advertising
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Scrum
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Customer Experience
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Fintech
8 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
8 1 (9.09%) Migration
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) KVM
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) iptables
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
4 3 (27.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) IBM