Linux/Unix DevOps Jobs in England

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > England

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 639 795 909
Rank change year-on-year +156 +114 +173
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 9 27 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.020% 0.032% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.034% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 37
10th Percentile £44,000 £43,400 £62,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +10.71% +5.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -29.03% +10.71% +2.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

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

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +99 5 £82,500 +3.13% 6
Midlands +81 2 £47,500 -13.64%
East of England +55 2 £46,250 +0.54%
North of England - 2 £51,250 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £47,500 -
South East +108 1 £47,500 -15.56%
North West - 1 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £47,500 -
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 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 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (55.56%) Docker
4 5 (55.56%) Python
5 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
5 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
5 4 (44.44%) VMware
5 4 (44.44%) Azure
5 4 (44.44%) AWS
5 4 (44.44%) Ansible
5 4 (44.44%) Terraform
5 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (33.33%) GitHub
6 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 3 (33.33%) Git
7 2 (22.22%) Bash
7 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
7 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
7 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 2 (22.22%) CentOS
7 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (22.22%) Nessus
7 2 (22.22%) Agile
7 2 (22.22%) Degree
7 2 (22.22%) SSL
7 2 (22.22%) Citrix

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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) FTP
2 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aviation
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Health
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Health Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) EDI
1 1 (11.11%) LAMP
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Loki
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (11.11%) Life Science
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) NHS
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) CentOS
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
6 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Data Science
6 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Project Management
6 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
6 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) AWK
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Korn
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
2 1 (11.11%) RHCSA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) KVM
3 1 (11.11%) Postfix
3 1 (11.11%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Sophos
3 1 (11.11%) Tenable