Linux Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 958 1162
Rank change year-on-year +99 +204 -387
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 26 28 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.027% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.029% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 26 23 58
10th Percentile £43,000 £61,500 £44,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £49,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year -18.52% +29.19% +16.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,044 95,188 149,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,821 59,863 85,291
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK

Linux DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK

Linux DevOps Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
England +110 26 £77,500 +12.73% 4
Work from Home +80 19 £77,500 +14.81% 1
London +122 15 £80,000 +14.29% 1
UK excluding London +11 11 £55,000 -18.52% 3
East of England - 4 £46,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 1
Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 1
South East +10 2 £56,250 -13.46% 2
South West -17 2 £47,500 -29.63%

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Linux DevOps Engineer 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 featuring Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Linux
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) Ansible
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 21 (80.77%) AWS
4 18 (69.23%) Docker
4 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
5 17 (65.38%) Azure
6 15 (57.69%) Terraform
6 15 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (57.69%) Python
7 14 (53.85%) Firewall
7 14 (53.85%) Agile
8 13 (50.00%) Containerisation
9 12 (46.15%) Puppet
9 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
9 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (42.31%) Grafana
10 11 (42.31%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (42.31%) Kubernetes
10 11 (42.31%) Bash
10 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
11 10 (38.46%) Migration
11 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (34.62%) HAProxy
12 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (34.62%) GCP
12 9 (34.62%) Graphite
12 9 (34.62%) tcpdump

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 17 (65.38%) Azure
3 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
3 9 (34.62%) GCP
4 5 (19.23%) SaaS
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Pipelines
5 4 (15.38%) GitHub
5 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
2 9 (34.62%) DNS
2 9 (34.62%) Internet
2 9 (34.62%) SNMP
2 9 (34.62%) TCP/IP
2 9 (34.62%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (34.62%) MongoDB
1 9 (34.62%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 8 (30.77%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) Artifactory
3 5 (19.23%) JIRA
3 5 (19.23%) SonarQube
3 5 (19.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (15.38%) GitLab
5 2 (7.69%) Maven
5 2 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.85%) ClearCase
6 1 (3.85%) ClearQuest
6 1 (3.85%) Redmine
6 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.54%) Advertising
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (34.62%) YAML
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Clustering
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.69%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (53.85%) Agile
5 13 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (38.46%) Migration
8 9 (34.62%) Business Continuity
8 9 (34.62%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (34.62%) Continuous Deployment
8 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (34.62%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (34.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (34.62%) High Availability
8 9 (34.62%) Load Balancing
8 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (34.62%) Security Hardening
8 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
8 9 (34.62%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Bash
2 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
3 9 (34.62%) Perl
4 4 (15.38%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) Go
4 4 (15.38%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) Ruby
4 4 (15.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Docker
2 9 (34.62%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.54%) KVM
5 1 (3.85%) iptables
Systems Management
1 22 (84.62%) Ansible
2 15 (57.69%) Terraform
3 12 (46.15%) Puppet
4 11 (42.31%) Grafana
4 11 (42.31%) Kubernetes
5 9 (34.62%) Graphite
5 9 (34.62%) HAProxy
5 9 (34.62%) Nagios
5 9 (34.62%) vCenter Server
6 7 (26.92%) Progress Chef
7 4 (15.38%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
8 2 (7.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) VMware
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.85%) IBM