Linux/Unix DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix daily rate for remote or hybrid work 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 297 337 458
Rank change year-on-year +40 +121 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 7 8 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.052% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.056% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 17
10th Percentile £520 - £500
25th Percentile £586 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £594
90th Percentile £753 - £630
UK median daily rate £626 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.25% +9.09% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux/Unix DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux/Unix DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux/Unix DevOps.

Linux/Unix DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux/Unix DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Linux/Unix DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Linux/Unix DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (57.14%) Bash
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
5 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (42.86%) Ansible
5 3 (42.86%) Puppet
6 2 (28.57%) Parallel Processing
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) Docker
6 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
6 2 (28.57%) Packer
6 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (28.57%) GCP
6 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 2 (28.57%) Unix
6 2 (28.57%) HTTP
6 2 (28.57%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Open Source
6 2 (28.57%) Resource Management

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Route 53
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Parallel Processing
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Canary Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Puppet
4 2 (28.57%) Packer
5 1 (14.29%) Grafana
5 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Black Duck
2 1 (14.29%) Checkmarx
2 1 (14.29%) New Relic
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Tenable