Linux Jobs in Edinburgh

Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 129 173 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.46% 9.32% 9.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.45% 58.84% 53.27%
Number of salaries quoted 77 106 150
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,494 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,411 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,548 £80,000 £81,375
Scotland median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +21.05%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 217 294 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.23% 15.83% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 156 173 293
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +27.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,774 £80,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +16.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (3.88%) Apache
2 4 (3.10%) ArcGIS
2 4 (3.10%) Captiva
2 4 (3.10%) FileNet
2 4 (3.10%) GeoServer
2 4 (3.10%) WebLogic
2 4 (3.10%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (3.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.91%) Azure
2 25 (19.38%) AWS
3 16 (12.40%) SaaS
4 11 (8.53%) GCP
5 6 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.10%) GitHub
7 4 (3.10%) Google Docs
8 3 (2.33%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.93%) Network Security
2 16 (12.40%) Firewall
3 11 (8.53%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.98%) DNS
5 7 (5.43%) Internet
6 6 (4.65%) SNMP
6 6 (4.65%) VPN
7 5 (3.88%) DHCP
7 5 (3.88%) IPsec
7 5 (3.88%) Wireless
8 4 (3.10%) BGP
8 4 (3.10%) SSL
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.78%) LAN
9 1 (0.78%) VLAN
9 1 (0.78%) WAN
9 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.53%) DB2
2 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.43%) RDBMS
4 6 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.10%) GIS
6 4 (3.10%) QGIS
7 3 (2.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.78%) MySQL
8 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.75%) JIRA
2 6 (4.65%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (3.88%) Git
4 4 (3.10%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.78%) GitLab
5 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 47 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 39 (30.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (29.46%) Finance
4 16 (12.40%) Banking
5 14 (10.85%) Military
6 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.20%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.88%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.10%) Legal
9 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.10%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.55%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Aviation
11 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (37.98%) Software Engineer
2 33 (25.58%) Senior
3 16 (12.40%) Senior Software Engineer
4 15 (11.63%) Analyst
5 14 (10.85%) Support Analyst
5 14 (10.85%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 12 (9.30%) Java Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Consultant
8 9 (6.98%) IT Manager
9 8 (6.20%) Architect
9 8 (6.20%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) C++ Software Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Lead
9 8 (6.20%) Senior C Software Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Audit Manager
10 7 (5.43%) IT Audit Manager
11 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.75%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (5.43%) React
3 5 (3.88%) LDAP
3 5 (3.88%) Spring Boot
3 5 (3.88%) YAML
4 4 (3.10%) CSS
4 4 (3.10%) Django
4 4 (3.10%) HTML
4 4 (3.10%) Leaflet
4 4 (3.10%) OpenLayers
4 4 (3.10%) PostGIS
5 2 (1.55%) DPDK
5 2 (1.55%) Middleware
5 2 (1.55%) Web Services
6 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.78%) Java EE
6 1 (0.78%) Node.js
6 1 (0.78%) REST
6 1 (0.78%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.20%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.88%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.10%) DataPower
7 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.55%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.55%) PACS
7 2 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.78%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 55 (42.64%) Windows
2 38 (29.46%) Unix
3 22 (17.05%) Windows Server
4 14 (10.85%) Mac OS X
5 7 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.88%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (3.88%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.55%) Android
7 2 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.55%) CentOS
7 2 (1.55%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.78%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.98%) Software Engineering
2 37 (28.68%) Agile
2 37 (28.68%) DevOps
3 28 (21.71%) Actionable Insight
4 27 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (17.83%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (17.05%) ITIL
7 20 (15.50%) Project Management
8 18 (13.95%) Migration
8 18 (13.95%) Open Source
9 17 (13.18%) Customer Service
10 15 (11.63%) Creative Thinking
10 15 (11.63%) Incident Management
10 15 (11.63%) Incident Response
10 15 (11.63%) Service Delivery
11 14 (10.85%) Analytics
11 14 (10.85%) Computer Science
11 14 (10.85%) Information Security
11 14 (10.85%) Resource Management
11 14 (10.85%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.58%) Python
2 30 (23.26%) SQL
3 24 (18.60%) Java
4 22 (17.05%) C
5 17 (13.18%) Bash
6 12 (9.30%) C++
7 9 (6.98%) Embedded C
7 9 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.98%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.33%) Groovy
9 2 (1.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.78%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.78%) Elixir
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (33.33%) Degree
2 14 (10.85%) CISM
2 14 (10.85%) CISSP
2 14 (10.85%) GCIA
2 14 (10.85%) GCIH
2 14 (10.85%) GREM
3 11 (8.53%) CISA
4 10 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.98%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.10%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CCNA
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) ITGC
1 11 (8.53%) PMO
2 4 (3.10%) GDPR
3 2 (1.55%) DICOM
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (6.98%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.88%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.55%) KVM
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.55%) Xen
6 1 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (14.73%) Ansible
2 13 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.75%) Terraform
4 9 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.88%) Grafana
6 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.88%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (17.05%) Oracle
2 16 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.40%) VMware
3 15 (11.63%) SAP
4 14 (10.85%) Dell
5 11 (8.53%) Sage
6 9 (6.98%) Google
6 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.20%) IBM
8 6 (4.65%) Cisco
9 5 (3.88%) NetApp
9 5 (3.88%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.88%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.88%) SolidFire
10 4 (3.10%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (3.10%) CyberArk
10 4 (3.10%) ESRI
10 4 (3.10%) Juniper
10 4 (3.10%) Kofax
10 4 (3.10%) Sparx