Linux DevOps Engineer Job Trends in London

Linux Development Operations Engineer
England > London

As of 18 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Linux Development Operations Engineer salary in London.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 434 426
Rank change year-on-year +70 -8 +284
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 11 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.082% 0.031% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.033% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £77,450
25th Percentile - - £78,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.14%
75th Percentile - - £105,000
90th Percentile - - £106,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 12,155 15,090 16,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 93.55% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,065 8,950 13,672
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
South London - 2 - -
Linux DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Python
3 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
4 8 (72.73%) Ansible
4 8 (72.73%) Git
4 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (72.73%) Terraform
5 7 (63.64%) GitHub
6 6 (54.55%) Cisco
6 6 (54.55%) Commvault
6 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
6 6 (54.55%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (54.55%) Firewall
6 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (54.55%) LAN
6 6 (54.55%) NFS
6 6 (54.55%) Pure Storage
6 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
6 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
6 6 (54.55%) VMware
6 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (54.55%) vSphere
6 6 (54.55%) WAN
7 5 (45.45%) Windows
8 4 (36.36%) AWS
8 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
8 4 (36.36%) Groovy
8 4 (36.36%) Jenkins

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) JBoss
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
1 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) FTP
2 2 (18.18%) HTTP
2 2 (18.18%) SMTP
2 2 (18.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Ant
4 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
4 2 (18.18%) Maven
4 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (18.18%) Subversion
4 2 (18.18%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Windows
4 2 (18.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Release Management
4 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) NFS
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (54.55%) vSphere
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 8 (72.73%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Nagios
3 2 (18.18%) Podman
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
1 6 (54.55%) Commvault
1 6 (54.55%) Pure Storage
1 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle