Linux Jobs in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,113 6,161 12,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.91% 7.01% 9.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.07% 43.39% 46.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,446 3,932 5,923
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,450 14,199 26,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.39% 16.15% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9,802 9,730 15,005
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,214
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London -4 1,287 £75,000 -6.25% 363
South East -2 1,177 £55,000 +10.00% 217
South West +2 860 £52,500 -4.55% 171
North of England +19 830 £50,000 - 134
North West +23 524 £52,500 - 75
Midlands +18 500 £50,000 -9.09% 135
East of England +13 426 £52,500 -8.70% 126
East Midlands +28 290 £50,000 -9.09% 64
Yorkshire +14 251 £47,500 -5.00% 48
West Midlands -11 210 £54,000 -1.82% 71
North East -16 55 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 234 (4.58%) Apache
2 172 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (2.21%) nginx
4 106 (2.07%) IIS
5 91 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 83 (1.62%) Confluence
7 69 (1.35%) Apache Spark
8 57 (1.11%) WebLogic
9 45 (0.88%) Tomcat
10 41 (0.80%) OpenStack
11 38 (0.74%) WebSphere
12 35 (0.68%) ArcGIS
13 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
14 23 (0.45%) Jupyter
14 23 (0.45%) WordPress
15 21 (0.41%) JBoss
16 18 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
17 14 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
18 13 (0.25%) Captiva
18 13 (0.25%) FileNet
Applications
1 89 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (0.76%) Simulink
3 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.20%) OrCAD
5 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
7 4 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.078%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.078%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.039%) Abaqus
9 2 (0.039%) CATIA
9 2 (0.039%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.039%) Trello
10 1 (0.020%) 1Password
10 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.47%) NEC Housing
3 20 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.12%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.098%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.078%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.078%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.039%) Shopify
11 1 (0.020%) Magento
11 1 (0.020%) Misys Opics
11 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.020%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.020%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.020%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,598 (31.25%) Azure
2 1,195 (23.37%) AWS
3 333 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
4 323 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 278 (5.44%) IBM Cloud
6 240 (4.69%) GCP
7 232 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
8 228 (4.46%) Serverless
9 148 (2.89%) OpenShift
10 140 (2.74%) GitHub
11 139 (2.72%) SaaS
12 135 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
13 132 (2.58%) Azure Functions
14 129 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.46%) Azure API Management
16 116 (2.27%) Amazon S3
17 108 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
18 77 (1.51%) IaaS
19 74 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
20 73 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 702 (13.73%) Firewall
2 424 (8.29%) DNS
3 370 (7.24%) TCP/IP
4 253 (4.95%) 5G
4 253 (4.95%) VPN
5 249 (4.87%) DHCP
6 230 (4.50%) Broadband
7 208 (4.07%) SAN
8 196 (3.83%) WAN
9 177 (3.46%) LAN
10 176 (3.44%) Internet
11 136 (2.66%) Wireless
12 113 (2.21%) Network Security
13 108 (2.11%) HTTP
14 94 (1.84%) NAS
15 89 (1.74%) SNMP
15 89 (1.74%) VLAN
16 87 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
17 74 (1.45%) BGP
18 70 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 421 (8.23%) MongoDB
3 361 (7.06%) NoSQL
4 353 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 329 (6.43%) MySQL
6 279 (5.46%) DB2
7 247 (4.83%) Relational Database
8 108 (2.11%) Oracle Database
9 100 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 91 (1.78%) Big Data
11 86 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
12 55 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 53 (1.04%) Redis
14 52 (1.02%) Power BI
15 48 (0.94%) GIS
16 42 (0.82%) RDBMS
17 41 (0.80%) MariaDB
18 28 (0.55%) QGIS
19 27 (0.53%) Cloudera CDH
20 26 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 389 (7.61%) Git
2 329 (6.43%) JIRA
3 278 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 134 (2.62%) GitLab
5 95 (1.86%) Subversion
6 60 (1.17%) Visual Studio
7 59 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 32 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 27 (0.53%) Ant
12 25 (0.49%) TeamCity
13 22 (0.43%) Robot Framework
14 21 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 21 (0.41%) CMake
15 19 (0.37%) GDB
16 18 (0.35%) Vagrant
17 17 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
18 16 (0.31%) Trac
General
1 1,091 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 680 (13.30%) Finance
3 607 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 398 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (4.97%) Aerospace
7 206 (4.03%) Banking
8 201 (3.93%) Electronics
9 159 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 150 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 106 (2.07%) Retail
12 102 (1.99%) Marketing
13 80 (1.56%) Automotive
14 78 (1.53%) Law
15 76 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 61 (1.19%) Military
17 59 (1.15%) Front Office
18 46 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
19 39 (0.76%) Financial Institution
20 36 (0.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 982 (19.21%) Senior
2 765 (14.96%) Software Engineer
3 724 (14.16%) Developer
4 500 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 323 (6.32%) Linux Engineer
6 314 (6.14%) Lead
7 305 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 299 (5.85%) Embedded Engineer
9 272 (5.32%) Architect
10 249 (4.87%) Support Engineer
11 245 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
12 236 (4.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 230 (4.50%) Administrator
14 217 (4.24%) Linux Specialist
15 214 (4.19%) Technical Specialist
16 211 (4.13%) Analyst
17 185 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
18 183 (3.58%) Full Stack Developer
19 170 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
20 159 (3.11%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (9.76%) HTML
2 487 (9.52%) React
3 446 (8.72%) REST
4 440 (8.61%) CSS
5 421 (8.23%) .NET
6 346 (6.77%) Web Services
7 337 (6.59%) AngularJS
8 304 (5.95%) jQuery
9 292 (5.71%) Vue
10 283 (5.53%) Node.js
11 272 (5.32%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.65%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.65%) Ember.js
14 147 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
15 138 (2.70%) XML
16 112 (2.19%) Middleware
17 91 (1.78%) YAML
18 86 (1.68%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 362 (7.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 358 (7.00%) Algorithms
3 305 (5.97%) Data Centre
4 280 (5.48%) Blockchain
5 257 (5.03%) Data Structures
6 248 (4.85%) Public Cloud
7 211 (4.13%) Social Media
8 199 (3.89%) IoT
9 169 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
10 136 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
11 132 (2.58%) Management Information System
12 125 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
13 118 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
14 114 (2.23%) e-Learning
15 112 (2.19%) Cloud Native
16 109 (2.13%) PKI
17 85 (1.66%) Replication
18 76 (1.49%) FPGA
19 71 (1.39%) Client/Server
20 70 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,179 (42.62%) Windows
2 548 (10.72%) Ubuntu
3 526 (10.29%) Windows Server
4 500 (9.78%) Unix
5 382 (7.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 342 (6.69%) Android
7 308 (6.02%) CentOS
8 299 (5.85%) Apple iOS
9 250 (4.89%) Embedded Linux
10 173 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 162 (3.17%) Debian
12 121 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 118 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
14 113 (2.21%) Windows 10
15 102 (1.99%) Solaris
16 86 (1.68%) Mac OS
17 66 (1.29%) VMS
18 52 (1.02%) AIX
19 47 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
20 42 (0.82%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (21.71%) Software Engineering
2 1,105 (21.61%) DevOps
3 1,076 (21.04%) Agile
4 879 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 664 (12.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 614 (12.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 602 (11.77%) Cybersecurity
8 552 (10.80%) CI/CD
9 500 (9.78%) Computer Science
10 499 (9.76%) Mentoring
11 419 (8.19%) OO
12 399 (7.80%) Full Stack Development
13 382 (7.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 366 (7.16%) Actionable Insight
15 353 (6.90%) User Experience
16 348 (6.81%) Web Development
17 338 (6.61%) Containerisation
18 330 (6.45%) OOP
19 311 (6.08%) MVC
20 301 (5.89%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1,577 (30.84%) Python
2 999 (19.54%) SQL
3 852 (16.66%) Bash
4 766 (14.98%) Java
5 739 (14.45%) C
6 722 (14.12%) JavaScript
7 617 (12.07%) C++
8 567 (11.09%) PowerShell
9 566 (11.07%) C#
10 180 (3.52%) PHP
11 162 (3.17%) Shell Script
12 156 (3.05%) Perl
13 143 (2.80%) Embedded C
14 139 (2.72%) Rust
15 117 (2.29%) TypeScript
16 114 (2.23%) Go
17 74 (1.45%) VB
18 68 (1.33%) Ruby
19 53 (1.04%) Kotlin
20 39 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,099 (21.49%) Security Cleared
2 888 (17.37%) Degree
3 554 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 468 (9.15%) DV Cleared
5 304 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 135 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 122 (2.39%) CCNA
9 119 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 115 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 106 (2.07%) AWS Certification
12 101 (1.98%) MCSE
13 70 (1.37%) MCSA
14 61 (1.19%) PhD
15 54 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 49 (0.96%) CCNP
17 41 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 32 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 32 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
19 30 (0.59%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (2.03%) SLA
2 87 (1.70%) QA
3 64 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.15%) GDPR
5 39 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 38 (0.74%) NIST
7 29 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.51%) PMO
9 16 (0.31%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.27%) NCSC
12 13 (0.25%) MISRA
13 9 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.16%) GRC
14 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
14 8 (0.16%) JTAG
15 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
16 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
16 6 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 779 (15.24%) Active Directory
2 664 (12.99%) Docker
3 545 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 243 (4.75%) Hyper-V
5 137 (2.68%) Firmware
6 132 (2.58%) vSphere
7 129 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
8 106 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 40 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
11 30 (0.59%) KVM
12 26 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
13 23 (0.45%) NFS
13 23 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
14 18 (0.35%) pfSense
14 18 (0.35%) VMware NSX
14 18 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
15 15 (0.29%) VMware Server
16 12 (0.23%) vCloud
17 11 (0.22%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 756 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 744 (14.55%) Ansible
3 554 (10.84%) Terraform
4 297 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 267 (5.22%) Puppet
6 215 (4.20%) Jamf Pro
7 135 (2.64%) vCenter Server
8 120 (2.35%) Prometheus
9 118 (2.31%) Progress Chef
10 113 (2.21%) Grafana
11 97 (1.90%) SCCM
12 75 (1.47%) SCOM
13 72 (1.41%) ZABBIX
14 70 (1.37%) Nagios
15 65 (1.27%) WSUS
16 39 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 32 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
17 32 (0.63%) HAProxy
18 27 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
19 26 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,052 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 789 (15.43%) VMware
3 732 (14.32%) Red Hat
4 406 (7.94%) Oracle
5 382 (7.47%) IBM
6 284 (5.55%) Cisco
7 212 (4.15%) Tanium
8 211 (4.13%) CyberArk
9 140 (2.74%) Veeam
10 132 (2.58%) Google
11 98 (1.92%) NetApp
12 93 (1.82%) Palo Alto
13 86 (1.68%) Citrix
14 83 (1.62%) Splunk
15 81 (1.58%) Juniper
16 79 (1.55%) SAP
17 65 (1.27%) EMC
18 64 (1.25%) Atlassian
19 62 (1.21%) Dell
19 62 (1.21%) SolarWinds