Debian Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Debian skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Debian 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 717 810 1051
Rank change year-on-year +93 +241 -265
Permanent jobs citing Debian 174 167 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.25% 1.05% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 92 139 136
10th Percentile £31,150 £44,250 £29,375
25th Percentile £42,250 £53,500 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +34.72% -3.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £82,875 £92,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +64.29% -17.65%

All Operating Systems
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,973 15,925 30,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 16.06% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,731 10,713 16,468
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Debian.

Salary trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK 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
England +89 162 £52,500 -19.23% 16
UK excluding London +41 138 £50,000 -13.04% 13
South East +36 43 £75,000 +36.36% 3
South West +7 38 £44,500 -11.00% 3
Work from Home +9 37 £60,000 -4.00% 11
London +37 26 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Midlands - 20 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands - 18 £50,000 - 4
East of England -23 17 £57,500 -8.00%
North of England +64 16 £22,000 -60.00%
North West +18 15 £22,000 -62.80%
Scotland -63 3 £48,500 +29.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £32,000 - 1
Yorkshire +83 1 £40,681 -
Wales - 1 £50,000 - 1

Debian
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 29 (16.67%) Apache
2 27 (15.52%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.72%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.87%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 97 (55.75%) Azure
2 58 (33.33%) AWS
3 47 (27.01%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.99%) IBM Cloud
5 34 (19.54%) GCP
6 29 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (15.52%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (15.52%) OpenShift
7 27 (15.52%) Serverless
8 13 (7.47%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.87%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.72%) AWS IoT
13 2 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.15%) Amazon ELB
13 2 (1.15%) AWS OpsWorks
13 2 (1.15%) CloudFront
13 2 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.52%) AMQP
2 19 (10.92%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.32%) Internet
4 9 (5.17%) VLAN
5 7 (4.02%) VPN
6 6 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (3.45%) VSAN
7 5 (2.87%) DNS
7 5 (2.87%) Firewall
8 4 (2.30%) RTP
9 3 (1.72%) DHCP
9 3 (1.72%) Wireless
10 2 (1.15%) BGP
10 2 (1.15%) GPON
10 2 (1.15%) OSPF
10 2 (1.15%) PPP
11 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.57%) HSRP
11 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.57%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.67%) Big Data
1 29 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 27 (15.52%) Cloudera CDH
3 15 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (8.05%) MySQL
5 13 (7.47%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.75%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.02%) Ingres
9 3 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.15%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Git
2 6 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 40 (22.99%) Public Sector
2 29 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 17 (9.77%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.17%) Finance
5 8 (4.60%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.57%) Back Office
7 1 (0.57%) Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Electronics
7 1 (0.57%) Front Office
7 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (30.46%) Software Engineer
2 39 (22.41%) Linux Engineer
3 27 (15.52%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (12.64%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (9.20%) Administrator
6 15 (8.62%) Systems Administrator
7 13 (7.47%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Linux Administrator
9 11 (6.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.75%) Ubuntu Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Lead
13 6 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) Network Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) QA Engineer
14 5 (2.87%) 3rd Line Support
14 5 (2.87%) DBA
14 5 (2.87%) Junior
14 5 (2.87%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.52%) AngularJS
1 27 (15.52%) gRPC
1 27 (15.52%) Material-UI
1 27 (15.52%) Node.js
1 27 (15.52%) OpenAPI
1 27 (15.52%) RabbitMQ
1 27 (15.52%) React
1 27 (15.52%) REST
1 27 (15.52%) Spring
1 27 (15.52%) Spring Boot
1 27 (15.52%) Swagger
2 10 (5.75%) GTK
3 7 (4.02%) EDI
4 4 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.30%) XMPP
5 2 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.15%) Kafka
5 2 (1.15%) LDAP
5 2 (1.15%) Qt
6 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.99%) Blockchain
1 40 (22.99%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (22.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (15.52%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.20%) PKI
4 10 (5.75%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.72%) IoT
6 3 (1.72%) Replication
7 2 (1.15%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.57%) Derivative
8 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.57%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 174 (100.00%) Linux
2 92 (52.87%) Ubuntu
3 86 (49.43%) CentOS
4 41 (23.56%) Alpine Linux
4 41 (23.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (16.67%) Windows
6 11 (6.32%) SUSE
7 9 (5.17%) Unix
8 8 (4.60%) Solaris
9 5 (2.87%) Windows Server
10 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.15%) Fedora
12 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.57%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.57%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.78%) DevOps
2 53 (30.46%) Configuration Management
2 53 (30.46%) Software Engineering
3 46 (26.44%) CI/CD
4 45 (25.86%) Open Source
5 42 (24.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 40 (22.99%) Co-Creation
6 40 (22.99%) Containerisation
6 40 (22.99%) Data Science
6 40 (22.99%) Functional Testing
6 40 (22.99%) Separation of Concerns
6 40 (22.99%) Task Automation
6 40 (22.99%) Technology Transformation
7 35 (20.11%) Agile
8 29 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
9 27 (15.52%) API Development
9 27 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (15.52%) Microservices
9 27 (15.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 27 (15.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.68%) Python
2 49 (28.16%) Bash
3 29 (16.67%) Java
3 29 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.64%) C
5 21 (12.07%) SQL
6 14 (8.05%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.32%) C++
8 4 (2.30%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.72%) AWK
9 3 (1.72%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.72%) sed
10 2 (1.15%) C#
10 2 (1.15%) Perl
10 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) Go
11 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (28.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (27.01%) MCSE
3 43 (24.71%) MCSA
4 40 (22.99%) Azure Certification
5 35 (20.11%) Security Cleared
6 30 (17.24%) Degree
6 30 (17.24%) DV Cleared
7 28 (16.09%) SC Cleared
8 10 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.30%) CCNA
10 4 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.72%) RHCT
12 2 (1.15%) CCNP
12 2 (1.15%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.57%) HNC
13 1 (0.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) PMO
2 7 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.45%) QA
4 4 (2.30%) SLA
5 1 (0.57%) MISRA
System Software
1 46 (26.44%) Docker
2 19 (10.92%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.75%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (5.75%) vSphere
4 5 (2.87%) KVM
5 3 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.57%) LXC
7 1 (0.57%) Samba
7 1 (0.57%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 76 (43.68%) Kubernetes
2 71 (40.80%) Terraform
3 35 (20.11%) Ansible
4 33 (18.97%) Puppet
5 7 (4.02%) ZABBIX
6 6 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.30%) Podman
7 4 (2.30%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.15%) Icinga
8 2 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.57%) Grafana
9 1 (0.57%) Juju
9 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 89 (51.15%) Red Hat
2 40 (22.99%) IBM
3 37 (21.26%) VMware
4 27 (15.52%) Google
4 27 (15.52%) SaltStack
5 18 (10.34%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.30%) Citrix
7 3 (1.72%) Veeam
8 2 (1.15%) Juniper
8 2 (1.15%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.15%) TP-LINK
8 2 (1.15%) ZyXEL
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco
9 1 (0.57%) Fortinet