Linux DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Linux Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 566 534
Rank change year-on-year +59 -32 +240
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 6 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.005% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.006% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £51,600 £39,000
25th Percentile - £51,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £62,000 £57,200 £56,000
UK median annual salary £55,289 £54,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.39% -32.50% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,008 35,441 26,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 93.47% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 23,085 17,749 20,353
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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 East - 3 £50,000 - 9
West Midlands - 2 - - 5
Midlands - 2 - - 9
North West +33 1 - - 4
North of England +16 1 - - 10
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Linux DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Bash
4 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Groovy
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) FTP
5 2 (33.33%) HTTP

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (33.33%) Vagrant
3 1 (16.67%) Ant
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Groovy
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Nagios
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Podman
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle