Linux DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux Development Operations Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 750 401 828
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.66% 96.63% 98.34%
Number of salaries quoted 597 196 720
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,184 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -13.64%

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 3 March 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform