Linux/Unix DevOps Jobs in London

Development Operations Linux/Unix
England > London

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix salary in London is £82,500 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 387 486 609
Rank change year-on-year +99 +123 +234
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 5 16 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.068% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.072% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 17
10th Percentile - £73,750 £63,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £77,375 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -29.03% +10.71% +5.66%

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 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in London

Linux/Unix DevOps
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/Unix DevOps within the London 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
South London - 1 - -
Linux/Unix DevOps
England

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

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Git
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Patch Management

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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) RHCE
2 1 (20.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Sophos