Linux/Unix DevOps Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 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 394 572 651
Rank change year-on-year +178 +79 +168
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 3 20 22
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.059% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.062% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 20
10th Percentile £43,500 £41,000 £63,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £77,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +12.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £55,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £56,500 £85,875 £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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Linux/Unix DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux/Unix DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux/Unix DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux/Unix DevOps.

Linux/Unix DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Linux/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) EDI
3 1 (33.33%) FTP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) RHCE
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (33.33%) Korn
3 1 (33.33%) Life Science
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (33.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (33.33%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) AWK
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Korn
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
1 1 (33.33%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Postfix
1 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Tenable
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