Linux/Unix DevOps Job Trends in the North East

Development Operations Linux/Unix
England > North East

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix salary in the North East is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.077% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% - -
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 £40,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -48.39% +6.90%

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 1,255 757 1,320
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.46% 96.80% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 888 316 1,119
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,875 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.44% +15.53% -4.58%
75th Percentile £65,160 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux/Unix DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Linux/Unix DevOps job vacancy trend in the North East

Linux/Unix DevOps
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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

Linux/Unix DevOps
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/Unix DevOps within the North East region over the 6 months to 21 February 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/Unix DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 2026, Linux/Unix DevOps 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/Unix DevOps 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/Unix DevOps 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