Linux/Unix DevOps Contracts in London

Development Operations Linux/Unix
England > London

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix daily rate in London 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 347 387 488
Rank change year-on-year +40 +101 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 6 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.022% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.024% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £576 - £427
25th Percentile £599 £575 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £672 £625 £650
90th Percentile £734 - £695
England median daily rate £625 £565 £640
% change year-on-year +10.62% -11.72% +11.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux/Unix DevOps in London

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

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 London region featuring Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) Puppet
4 3 (50.00%) GitLab
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Groovy
5 2 (33.33%) Apache
5 2 (33.33%) Open Source
5 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (33.33%) HTTP

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (16.67%) CloudBees
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Ant
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Open Source
5 2 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
5 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 1 (16.67%) Microservices
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
6 1 (16.67%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) Groovy
5 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Packer
3 1 (16.67%) Podman
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
1 1 (16.67%) Black Duck
1 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
1 1 (16.67%) Tenable