Linux/Unix DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 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 553 755 723
Rank change year-on-year +202 -32 +101
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 4 11 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.016% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.017% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 20
10th Percentile £43,250 £41,000 £62,375
25th Percentile £44,375 £43,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -25.42% +41.15%
75th Percentile £53,125 £57,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £55,750 £58,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -29.03% +10.71% +2.19%

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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
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/Unix DevOps within the UK excluding 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
Midlands +81 2 £47,500 -13.64%
East of England +55 2 £46,250 +0.54%
North of England - 2 £51,250 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £47,500 -
South East +108 1 £47,500 -15.56%
Yorkshire - 1 £47,500 -
North West - 1 £55,000 - 1
Linux/Unix DevOps
UK

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Nessus
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Aviation
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Tenable
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Server Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) FTP
2 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Aviation
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) Loki
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (25.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Log Aggregation
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) AWK
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
2 1 (25.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Sophos
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable