Linux/Unix DevOps Contracts in England

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > England

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 535 641
Rank change year-on-year +62 +106 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 12 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.019% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.020% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £510 £514 £395
25th Percentile £573 £515 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £565 £640
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -11.72% +11.30%
75th Percentile £666 £625 £725
90th Percentile £725 - £750
UK median daily rate £626 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.25% +9.09% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in England

Linux/Unix DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux/Unix DevOps in England

Linux/Unix DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 6 £625 +4.17% 5
South West - 5 £568 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Linux/Unix DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux/Unix DevOps contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (91.67%) Python
3 9 (75.00%) AWS
3 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (66.67%) Bash
4 8 (66.67%) Ansible
4 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 8 (66.67%) Terraform
5 6 (50.00%) Docker
5 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (41.67%) Puppet
6 5 (41.67%) Task Automation
6 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
7 4 (33.33%) High Availability
7 4 (33.33%) DNS
7 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
7 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 4 (33.33%) Firewall
7 4 (33.33%) VMware
7 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
7 4 (33.33%) Grafana
7 4 (33.33%) GitLab
8 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 3 (25.00%) Security Hardening
8 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
8 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack

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 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) JBoss
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) CloudBees
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) Maven
4 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (8.33%) Ant
5 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) CentOS
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Debian
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (41.67%) Task Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 4 (33.33%) High Availability
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (25.00%) GitOps
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (25.00%) Security Hardening
6 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 2 (16.67%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Open Source
7 2 (16.67%) Parallel Processing
7 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 3 (25.00%) Perl
5 2 (16.67%) Groovy
6 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Ansible
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Puppet
3 4 (33.33%) Grafana
3 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Nessus
4 1 (8.33%) Packer
4 1 (8.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (8.33%) Black Duck
2 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Sophos
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Tenable