Linux DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the North East

Linux Development Operations Engineer
England > North East

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer salary in the North East 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 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.074% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% - -
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 - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £78,500
% change year-on-year -2.44% -34.71% +12.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 1,306 676 1,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.38% 97.27% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 919 301 1,187
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £27,873
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,809 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +11.18% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,320 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North East

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £47,500 - 1
Linux DevOps Engineer
England

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

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 North East 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 the North East 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