Linux Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 33 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,328 4,175 7,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.04% 7.08% 10.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.96% 42.93% 49.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 2,355 3,574
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,500 £67,638 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,567 9,726 14,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 16.49% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,150 6,103 9,299
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
South East -1 1,184 £55,000 +10.00% 311
South West +3 855 £52,500 -4.55% 189
North of England +21 834 £50,000 - 133
North West +25 526 £52,500 - 70
Midlands +20 497 £50,000 -9.09% 136
East of England +13 427 £52,500 -8.70% 142
Scotland -41 356 £52,500 -4.55% 62
East Midlands +32 287 £50,000 -9.09% 66
Yorkshire +19 253 £47,500 -5.00% 56
West Midlands -9 210 £54,000 -1.82% 70
Wales +24 132 £47,500 -7.32% 19
North East -16 55 £52,500 +31.25% 8
Northern Ireland -9 44 £52,500 +0.96% 9
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Linux
UK

Linux
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
1 222 (5.13%) Apache
2 131 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.13%) WebLogic
4 82 (1.89%) nginx
4 82 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 80 (1.85%) IIS
6 52 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 52 (1.20%) Confluence
7 51 (1.18%) OpenStack
8 47 (1.09%) ArcGIS
9 44 (1.02%) Oracle Service Bus
10 40 (0.92%) GeoServer
11 36 (0.83%) Tomcat
12 32 (0.74%) WebSphere
13 24 (0.55%) Jupyter
14 17 (0.39%) Captiva
14 17 (0.39%) FileNet
15 14 (0.32%) WordPress
16 13 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
17 11 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 121 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 39 (0.90%) Simulink
5 11 (0.25%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.12%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.092%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.092%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.046%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.046%) CATIA
11 2 (0.046%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.023%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 44 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.37%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.092%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.069%) Maximo
8 2 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.046%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.046%) Shopify
8 2 (0.046%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.023%) Magento
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.023%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,289 (29.78%) Azure
2 921 (21.28%) AWS
3 306 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
4 269 (6.22%) IBM Cloud
5 212 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 195 (4.51%) GCP
7 186 (4.30%) Serverless
8 174 (4.02%) Entra ID
9 147 (3.40%) OpenShift
10 144 (3.33%) SaaS
11 125 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 118 (2.73%) Azure Functions
13 116 (2.68%) Azure API Management
14 115 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
15 109 (2.52%) GitHub
16 101 (2.33%) Amazon S3
17 89 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
18 70 (1.62%) IaaS
19 64 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
20 58 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 557 (12.87%) Firewall
2 340 (7.86%) DNS
3 288 (6.65%) TCP/IP
4 222 (5.13%) DHCP
5 192 (4.44%) VPN
6 167 (3.86%) SAN
7 143 (3.30%) Internet
8 134 (3.10%) WAN
9 133 (3.07%) Wireless
10 106 (2.45%) 5G
11 105 (2.43%) LAN
12 100 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
13 92 (2.13%) Network Security
14 86 (1.99%) Broadband
15 81 (1.87%) HTTP
16 80 (1.85%) SNMP
17 75 (1.73%) VLAN
18 72 (1.66%) NAS
19 70 (1.62%) SSL
20 67 (1.55%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 369 (8.53%) MongoDB
3 307 (7.09%) NoSQL
4 283 (6.54%) MySQL
5 257 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 254 (5.87%) DB2
7 251 (5.80%) SQL Server
8 134 (3.10%) Oracle Database
9 88 (2.03%) Big Data
10 87 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
11 77 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 60 (1.39%) RDBMS
13 58 (1.34%) GIS
14 50 (1.16%) Hadoop
15 45 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
16 44 (1.02%) Oracle Database 10g
16 44 (1.02%) VLDB
17 40 (0.92%) QGIS
18 37 (0.85%) MariaDB
19 36 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 330 (7.62%) Git
2 275 (6.35%) JIRA
3 194 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 96 (2.22%) Subversion
5 84 (1.94%) GitLab
6 64 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 39 (0.90%) Eclipse
8 34 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 24 (0.55%) Ant
10 24 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
11 23 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
12 22 (0.51%) Robot Framework
13 21 (0.49%) Vagrant
14 20 (0.46%) CMake
15 18 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 16 (0.37%) Trac
17 15 (0.35%) Maven
18 13 (0.30%) Gradle
19 12 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 881 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 485 (11.21%) Finance
3 437 (10.10%) Public Sector
4 379 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 376 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
6 258 (5.96%) Aerospace
7 204 (4.71%) Electronics
8 171 (3.95%) Manufacturing
9 141 (3.26%) Law
10 140 (3.23%) Marketing
11 134 (3.10%) Telecoms
12 83 (1.92%) Automotive
13 75 (1.73%) Military
14 74 (1.71%) Banking
14 74 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
15 71 (1.64%) Retail
16 54 (1.25%) Legal
17 35 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.60%) Games
19 23 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 892 (20.61%) Software Engineer
2 808 (18.67%) Senior
3 587 (13.56%) Developer
4 428 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 324 (7.49%) Embedded Engineer
6 282 (6.52%) Lead
7 270 (6.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 259 (5.98%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 234 (5.41%) Support Engineer
10 233 (5.38%) Linux Engineer
11 225 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
12 205 (4.74%) Administrator
13 180 (4.16%) Architect
14 170 (3.93%) Analyst
15 163 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
16 160 (3.70%) IT Support
17 156 (3.60%) IT Engineer
18 145 (3.35%) Systems Engineer
19 139 (3.21%) Consultant
20 137 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (10.79%) HTML
2 435 (10.05%) React
3 409 (9.45%) CSS
4 381 (8.80%) REST
5 353 (8.16%) .NET
6 324 (7.49%) Web Services
7 318 (7.35%) AngularJS
8 290 (6.70%) jQuery
9 284 (6.56%) Vue
10 263 (6.08%) Node.js
11 248 (5.73%) ASP.NET
12 236 (5.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 228 (5.27%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (5.27%) Backbone.js
13 228 (5.27%) Ember.js
14 158 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
15 110 (2.54%) XML
16 86 (1.99%) Laravel
17 85 (1.96%) Middleware
18 81 (1.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 380 (8.78%) Algorithms
2 329 (7.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 286 (6.61%) Data Centre
4 268 (6.19%) Blockchain
5 242 (5.59%) Data Structures
6 206 (4.76%) Public Cloud
7 191 (4.41%) IoT
8 142 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
9 120 (2.77%) Embedded Systems
10 114 (2.63%) e-Learning
11 96 (2.22%) Cloud Native
12 91 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
13 88 (2.03%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
15 73 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
16 67 (1.55%) Social Media
17 63 (1.46%) Device Driver
18 59 (1.36%) Replication
19 53 (1.22%) PKI
20 48 (1.11%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1,883 (43.51%) Windows
2 458 (10.58%) Windows Server
3 382 (8.83%) Unix
4 313 (7.23%) Android
5 311 (7.19%) Ubuntu
6 306 (7.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 270 (6.24%) Apple iOS
7 270 (6.24%) Embedded Linux
8 253 (5.85%) CentOS
9 161 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 138 (3.19%) Debian
11 101 (2.33%) Windows 10
11 101 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 98 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
13 83 (1.92%) Solaris
14 71 (1.64%) Mac OS
15 50 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
16 47 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
17 43 (0.99%) AIX
18 37 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (26.46%) Software Engineering
2 1,045 (24.15%) Agile
3 902 (20.84%) DevOps
4 753 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
5 565 (13.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 523 (12.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 470 (10.86%) Mentoring
8 466 (10.77%) CI/CD
9 412 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
10 407 (9.40%) Computer Science
11 392 (9.06%) OO
12 363 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
13 348 (8.04%) Web Development
14 342 (7.90%) Full Stack Development
14 342 (7.90%) User Experience
15 315 (7.28%) OOP
16 304 (7.02%) Collaborative Working
17 296 (6.84%) MVC
18 287 (6.63%) SDLC
19 284 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,342 (31.01%) Python
2 912 (21.07%) SQL
3 741 (17.12%) Java
4 698 (16.13%) C
5 648 (14.97%) JavaScript
6 566 (13.08%) Bash
7 553 (12.78%) C++
8 480 (11.09%) C#
9 407 (9.40%) PowerShell
10 173 (4.00%) Embedded C
11 168 (3.88%) PHP
12 138 (3.19%) Shell Script
13 108 (2.50%) PL/SQL
14 91 (2.10%) Perl
15 89 (2.06%) TypeScript
16 88 (2.03%) Rust
17 70 (1.62%) VB
18 53 (1.22%) Kotlin
19 49 (1.13%) Go
20 37 (0.85%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,022 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 788 (18.21%) Degree
3 562 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 389 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 235 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
7 128 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 124 (2.87%) Azure Certification
8 124 (2.87%) CCNA
9 94 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 93 (2.15%) MCSE
11 88 (2.03%) Master's Degree
12 63 (1.46%) MCSA
12 63 (1.46%) PhD
13 61 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 55 (1.27%) CCNP
15 36 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
16 35 (0.81%) HND
16 35 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 28 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (2.61%) SLA
2 83 (1.92%) QA
3 55 (1.27%) GDPR
4 44 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (0.72%) PMO
6 21 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.44%) NIST
8 18 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.32%) MISRA
11 13 (0.30%) Data Quality
12 11 (0.25%) ITGC
13 10 (0.23%) JTAG
14 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
15 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
15 7 (0.16%) NCSC
16 6 (0.14%) Def Stans
17 4 (0.092%) IEC 61131
17 4 (0.092%) ISO 9001
17 4 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 537 (12.41%) Docker
2 503 (11.62%) Active Directory
3 473 (10.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 251 (5.80%) Hyper-V
5 152 (3.51%) Firmware
6 93 (2.15%) vSphere
7 92 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
8 89 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
10 52 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
11 35 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 30 (0.69%) VMware NSX
13 21 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
14 18 (0.42%) KVM
14 18 (0.42%) pfSense
15 15 (0.35%) NFS
16 14 (0.32%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 8 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 665 (15.37%) Kubernetes
2 611 (14.12%) Ansible
3 407 (9.40%) Terraform
4 201 (4.64%) Puppet
5 146 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 137 (3.17%) vCenter Server
7 100 (2.31%) Prometheus
8 81 (1.87%) Grafana
8 81 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 72 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
10 69 (1.59%) SCCM
11 67 (1.55%) ZABBIX
12 65 (1.50%) SCOM
13 56 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
14 54 (1.25%) WSUS
15 51 (1.18%) Data Guard
16 49 (1.13%) Nagios
17 35 (0.81%) FortiGate
18 34 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 32 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 765 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 695 (16.06%) VMware
3 608 (14.05%) Red Hat
4 421 (9.73%) Oracle
5 354 (8.18%) IBM
6 226 (5.22%) Cisco
7 122 (2.82%) Veeam
8 112 (2.59%) NetApp
9 99 (2.29%) Google
10 85 (1.96%) SAP
11 74 (1.71%) Dell
12 73 (1.69%) Palo Alto
13 71 (1.64%) CyberArk
14 69 (1.59%) Citrix
15 68 (1.57%) Tanium
16 63 (1.46%) EMC
17 60 (1.39%) Juniper
18 58 (1.34%) Remedy
19 55 (1.27%) SolarWinds
20 50 (1.16%) Splunk