Linux+ Certification Jobs

CompTIA Linux+ Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Linux+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered 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 902 936 594
Rank change year-on-year +34 -342 +163
Permanent jobs citing Linux+ Certification 5 11 885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.012% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.018% 0.034% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £71,375 - £42,175
25th Percentile £71,563 £67,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +41.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £76,563 £72,500 £54,500
90th Percentile £77,125 - £62,600
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Linux+ Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,927 31,974 45,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.61% 33.78% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,434 19,201
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,503 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Linux+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Linux+ Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux+ Certification in the UK

Linux+ Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux+ Certification in the UK

Linux+ Certification
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux+ Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +31 5 £73,750 +5.36%
London +116 3 £73,750 +5.36%
UK excluding London -39 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -

Linux+ Certification
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 3 (60.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 5 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) DMZ
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) HTTP
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Keycloak
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) CentOS
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Cost Control
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Blue Team
2 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) RHCE
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (40.00%) CASP
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) KVM
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (60.00%) SaltStack
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft