Linux DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Linux Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £120,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 378 464
Rank change year-on-year -36 +86 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 10 15 3
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.042% 0.12% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.13% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £91,250 - -
25th Percentile £93,438 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile £125,000 £85,000 -
90th Percentile £132,500 £85,750 -
England median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +36.36% -21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

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

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 21,928 11,206 18,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.69% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15,013 7,272 12,981
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux DevOps Engineer in London

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 7 August 2026, Linux DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon ECR
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 9 (90.00%) Architectural Design
2 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Bash
2 9 (90.00%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (90.00%) CentOS
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Configuration Management
2 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (90.00%) Deployment Automation
2 9 (90.00%) Docker
2 9 (90.00%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (90.00%) GCP
2 9 (90.00%) Git
2 9 (90.00%) GitLab
2 9 (90.00%) Grafana
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (90.00%) Low Latency
2 9 (90.00%) MySQL
2 9 (90.00%) Nagios
2 9 (90.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) QA
2 9 (90.00%) Rapid7

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon ECR
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (90.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
1 9 (90.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Banking
2 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) Architectural Design
2 9 (90.00%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Configuration Management
2 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (90.00%) Deployment Automation
2 9 (90.00%) Low Latency
2 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Bash
1 9 (90.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
1 9 (90.00%) Grafana
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (90.00%) Nagios
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Rapid7
1 9 (90.00%) Red Hat
1 9 (90.00%) Splunk