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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,092 6,257 12,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.94% 7.01% 9.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.85% 43.51% 46.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,444 4,019 5,959
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £106,250 £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 12,466 14,381 25,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.54% 16.10% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,841 9,893 15,064
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
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 14 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 14 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 -5 1,291 £75,000 -6.25% 391
South East -2 1,176 £55,000 +10.00% 241
South West +2 844 £54,000 -1.82% 190
North of England +19 832 £50,000 - 143
North West +23 523 £53,847 +2.57% 81
Midlands +17 492 £50,000 -9.09% 122
East of England +11 423 £53,250 -7.39% 126
East Midlands +25 284 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Yorkshire +19 254 £47,500 -5.00% 51
West Midlands -15 208 £54,000 -1.82% 57
North East -14 55 £52,500 +31.25% 13
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
1 231 (4.54%) Apache
2 171 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (2.22%) nginx
4 105 (2.06%) IIS
5 92 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 83 (1.63%) Confluence
7 66 (1.30%) Apache Spark
8 57 (1.12%) WebLogic
9 43 (0.84%) WebSphere
10 42 (0.82%) Tomcat
11 41 (0.81%) OpenStack
12 35 (0.69%) ArcGIS
13 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
14 23 (0.45%) Jupyter
14 23 (0.45%) WordPress
15 20 (0.39%) JBoss
16 18 (0.35%) Captiva
16 18 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
16 18 (0.35%) FileNet
17 14 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 86 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.69%) Simulink
4 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.20%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.079%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.079%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.039%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.039%) CATIA
10 2 (0.039%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.039%) Trello
11 1 (0.020%) 1Password
11 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (0.41%) 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 (0.079%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.079%) 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%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (0.020%) SAP CRM
11 1 (0.020%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.020%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.020%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,605 (31.52%) Azure
2 1,194 (23.45%) AWS
3 330 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
4 321 (6.30%) Entra ID
5 279 (5.48%) IBM Cloud
6 248 (4.87%) GCP
7 237 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 228 (4.48%) Serverless
9 147 (2.89%) GitHub
10 144 (2.83%) OpenShift
11 135 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 134 (2.63%) SaaS
13 132 (2.59%) Azure Functions
14 129 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.47%) Azure API Management
16 116 (2.28%) Amazon S3
17 106 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
18 79 (1.55%) IaaS
19 73 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
20 72 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 698 (13.71%) Firewall
2 418 (8.21%) DNS
3 368 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 253 (4.97%) 5G
4 253 (4.97%) VPN
5 247 (4.85%) DHCP
6 230 (4.52%) Broadband
7 204 (4.01%) SAN
8 196 (3.85%) WAN
9 176 (3.46%) LAN
10 172 (3.38%) Internet
11 133 (2.61%) Wireless
12 115 (2.26%) Network Security
13 105 (2.06%) HTTP
14 91 (1.79%) NAS
15 90 (1.77%) SNMP
16 86 (1.69%) VLAN
17 84 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
18 75 (1.47%) BGP
19 68 (1.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 421 (8.27%) MongoDB
3 357 (7.01%) NoSQL
4 352 (6.91%) SQL Server
5 335 (6.58%) MySQL
6 278 (5.46%) DB2
7 247 (4.85%) Relational Database
8 104 (2.04%) Oracle Database
9 98 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
10 92 (1.81%) Big Data
11 88 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
12 53 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 53 (1.04%) Redis
13 52 (1.02%) Power BI
14 48 (0.94%) GIS
15 43 (0.84%) RDBMS
16 41 (0.81%) MariaDB
17 28 (0.55%) QGIS
18 27 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
19 26 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 393 (7.72%) Git
2 329 (6.46%) JIRA
3 274 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 135 (2.65%) GitLab
5 97 (1.90%) Subversion
6 60 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 59 (1.16%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.77%) Eclipse
9 33 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.55%) Ant
10 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 24 (0.47%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 22 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
14 20 (0.39%) CMake
15 19 (0.37%) Robot Framework
16 18 (0.35%) GDB
17 16 (0.31%) Trac
17 16 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 1,085 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 679 (13.33%) Finance
3 613 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 399 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (4.85%) Aerospace
7 208 (4.08%) Banking
8 202 (3.97%) Electronics
9 163 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 151 (2.97%) Manufacturing
11 105 (2.06%) Retail
12 103 (2.02%) Marketing
13 79 (1.55%) Law
14 77 (1.51%) Automotive
15 76 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 61 (1.20%) Military
17 58 (1.14%) Front Office
18 45 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
19 41 (0.81%) Financial Institution
20 37 (0.73%) Games
Job Titles
1 979 (19.23%) Senior
2 762 (14.96%) Software Engineer
3 725 (14.24%) Developer
4 492 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 322 (6.32%) Lead
6 318 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
7 313 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 301 (5.91%) Embedded Engineer
9 271 (5.32%) Architect
10 250 (4.91%) Support Engineer
11 240 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 236 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 227 (4.46%) Administrator
14 218 (4.28%) Linux Specialist
15 214 (4.20%) Technical Specialist
16 208 (4.08%) Analyst
17 186 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
18 183 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
19 174 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
20 157 (3.08%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (9.70%) HTML
2 488 (9.58%) React
3 443 (8.70%) REST
4 438 (8.60%) CSS
5 426 (8.37%) .NET
6 342 (6.72%) Web Services
7 337 (6.62%) AngularJS
8 303 (5.95%) jQuery
9 292 (5.73%) Vue
10 284 (5.58%) Node.js
11 272 (5.34%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.67%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.67%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.67%) Ember.js
14 146 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
15 136 (2.67%) XML
16 110 (2.16%) Middleware
17 92 (1.81%) YAML
18 85 (1.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 362 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 356 (6.99%) Algorithms
3 307 (6.03%) Data Centre
4 280 (5.50%) Blockchain
5 256 (5.03%) Data Structures
6 249 (4.89%) Public Cloud
7 211 (4.14%) Social Media
8 201 (3.95%) IoT
9 167 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
10 135 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
11 130 (2.55%) Management Information System
12 124 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
13 120 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
14 115 (2.26%) Cloud Native
15 113 (2.22%) e-Learning
16 111 (2.18%) PKI
17 86 (1.69%) Replication
18 73 (1.43%) FPGA
19 72 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
20 70 (1.37%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,164 (42.50%) Windows
2 545 (10.70%) Ubuntu
3 520 (10.21%) Windows Server
4 496 (9.74%) Unix
5 378 (7.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 340 (6.68%) Android
7 309 (6.07%) CentOS
8 299 (5.87%) Apple iOS
9 246 (4.83%) Embedded Linux
10 168 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 161 (3.16%) Debian
12 121 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
13 112 (2.20%) Windows 10
14 111 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 93 (1.83%) Solaris
16 88 (1.73%) Mac OS
17 65 (1.28%) VMS
18 51 (1.00%) AIX
19 46 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
20 43 (0.84%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (21.92%) DevOps
2 1,111 (21.82%) Software Engineering
3 1,065 (20.92%) Agile
4 882 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
5 660 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
6 607 (11.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 606 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
8 559 (10.98%) CI/CD
9 502 (9.86%) Mentoring
10 491 (9.64%) Computer Science
11 417 (8.19%) OO
12 400 (7.86%) Full Stack Development
13 379 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 366 (7.19%) Actionable Insight
15 349 (6.85%) User Experience
16 347 (6.81%) Web Development
17 335 (6.58%) Containerisation
18 332 (6.52%) OOP
19 309 (6.07%) MVC
20 295 (5.79%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1,576 (30.95%) Python
2 1,007 (19.78%) SQL
3 853 (16.75%) Bash
4 763 (14.98%) Java
5 735 (14.43%) C
6 723 (14.20%) JavaScript
7 613 (12.04%) C++
8 573 (11.25%) C#
8 573 (11.25%) PowerShell
9 184 (3.61%) PHP
10 159 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 155 (3.04%) Perl
12 140 (2.75%) Embedded C
13 135 (2.65%) Rust
14 121 (2.38%) TypeScript
15 115 (2.26%) Go
16 74 (1.45%) VB
17 71 (1.39%) Ruby
18 49 (0.96%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.77%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,078 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 874 (17.16%) Degree
3 539 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 451 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 299 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 144 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 136 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 121 (2.38%) CCNA
9 118 (2.32%) Azure Certification
10 115 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 104 (2.04%) AWS Certification
12 103 (2.02%) MCSE
13 71 (1.39%) MCSA
14 61 (1.20%) PhD
15 54 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 49 (0.96%) CCNP
17 41 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 32 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
19 30 (0.59%) HND
19 30 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (1.98%) SLA
2 87 (1.71%) QA
3 65 (1.28%) GDPR
4 64 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (0.73%) NIST
6 36 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 28 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (0.49%) PMO
9 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.27%) NCSC
11 13 (0.26%) MISRA
12 9 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.16%) GRC
13 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.16%) JTAG
14 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.12%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 784 (15.40%) Active Directory
2 663 (13.02%) Docker
3 542 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 240 (4.71%) Hyper-V
5 141 (2.77%) Firmware
6 132 (2.59%) vSphere
7 131 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
8 100 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 38 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
11 29 (0.57%) KVM
12 24 (0.47%) 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 16 (0.31%) VMware Server
16 13 (0.26%) vCloud
17 10 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 749 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 741 (14.55%) Ansible
3 554 (10.88%) Terraform
4 297 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 270 (5.30%) Puppet
6 215 (4.22%) Jamf Pro
7 136 (2.67%) vCenter Server
8 120 (2.36%) Progress Chef
9 117 (2.30%) Prometheus
10 115 (2.26%) Grafana
11 95 (1.87%) SCCM
12 72 (1.41%) SCOM
13 71 (1.39%) ZABBIX
14 67 (1.32%) Nagios
15 66 (1.30%) WSUS
16 39 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 32 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
17 32 (0.63%) HAProxy
18 26 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
18 26 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,035 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 780 (15.32%) VMware
3 718 (14.10%) Red Hat
4 402 (7.89%) Oracle
5 387 (7.60%) IBM
6 280 (5.50%) Cisco
7 212 (4.16%) Tanium
8 211 (4.14%) CyberArk
9 141 (2.77%) Veeam
10 130 (2.55%) Google
11 98 (1.92%) NetApp
12 92 (1.81%) Palo Alto
13 86 (1.69%) Citrix
13 86 (1.69%) SAP
14 83 (1.63%) Splunk
15 79 (1.55%) Juniper
16 65 (1.28%) EMC
17 64 (1.26%) Atlassian
18 63 (1.24%) SolarWinds
19 61 (1.20%) Dell