Linux Jobs in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,286 2,411 5,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.44% 7.15% 7.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.55% 45.14% 45.04%
Number of salaries quoted 851 1,775 2,570
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,059
25th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £103,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,022 5,341 12,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.78% 15.84% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,285 4,095 6,133
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London -42 136 £70,000 -17.65% 34
West London +4 115 £52,501 -12.50% 20
South London -5 35 £66,250 +26.19% 7
East London +14 16 £57,500 - 106
North London +2 4 £62,750 - 2
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 45 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (3.19%) Apache
3 35 (2.72%) Confluence
3 35 (2.72%) nginx
4 32 (2.49%) IIS
5 20 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 19 (1.48%) Tomcat
7 17 (1.32%) WebSphere
8 16 (1.24%) Apache Spark
9 14 (1.09%) JBoss
10 11 (0.86%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.70%) WordPress
12 7 (0.54%) WildFly
13 6 (0.47%) SAS
14 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
15 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.23%) CMS
16 3 (0.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.078%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (1.24%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.62%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.47%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.078%) Endur
6 1 (0.078%) Findur
6 1 (0.078%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.078%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.078%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 425 (33.05%) Azure
2 353 (27.45%) AWS
3 161 (12.52%) Entra ID
4 80 (6.22%) GCP
5 58 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (3.27%) Serverless
7 38 (2.95%) Amazon S3
7 38 (2.95%) GitHub
8 37 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.79%) IaaS
14 22 (1.71%) SaaS
15 20 (1.56%) Azure AKS
16 19 (1.48%) PaaS
17 17 (1.32%) Power Platform
18 16 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 208 (16.17%) Firewall
2 147 (11.43%) 5G
2 147 (11.43%) Broadband
3 122 (9.49%) TCP/IP
4 117 (9.10%) DNS
5 103 (8.01%) VPN
6 82 (6.38%) WAN
7 79 (6.14%) LAN
8 61 (4.74%) Internet
9 49 (3.81%) DHCP
10 46 (3.58%) SAN
11 45 (3.50%) Network Security
12 29 (2.26%) SNMP
13 25 (1.94%) HTTP
14 24 (1.87%) BGP
14 24 (1.87%) Wireless
15 22 (1.71%) MPLS
16 20 (1.56%) SSL
17 19 (1.48%) NAS
18 16 (1.24%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 93 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.14%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.82%) MySQL
5 54 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.80%) DB2
7 32 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.02%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.87%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.40%) Redis
12 17 (1.32%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.24%) Power BI
14 13 (1.01%) Tableau
15 12 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.93%) Big Data
15 12 (0.93%) Data Hub
15 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (8.32%) Jenkins
2 78 (6.07%) JIRA
3 73 (5.68%) Git
4 56 (4.35%) GitLab
5 31 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.18%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.18%) Metasploit
7 19 (1.48%) TeamCity
8 11 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.54%) GDB
10 7 (0.54%) Snyk
11 6 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.47%) JUnit
11 6 (0.47%) Maven
12 5 (0.39%) DTrace
12 5 (0.39%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 366 (28.46%) Finance
2 324 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 276 (21.46%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (13.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 155 (12.05%) Banking
6 50 (3.89%) Front Office
7 45 (3.50%) Public Sector
8 43 (3.34%) Retail
9 39 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.95%) Law
11 36 (2.80%) Financial Institution
12 31 (2.41%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.56%) Marketing
14 15 (1.17%) Back Office
15 13 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.93%) Billing
16 12 (0.93%) Police
17 10 (0.78%) Electronics
17 10 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 288 (22.40%) Senior
2 148 (11.51%) Developer
2 148 (11.51%) Linux Specialist
3 144 (11.20%) Technical Specialist
4 126 (9.80%) Architect
5 105 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
6 97 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 95 (7.39%) Lead
8 94 (7.31%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 93 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 92 (7.15%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 90 (7.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 90 (7.00%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 90 (7.00%) Software Engineer
12 85 (6.61%) Analyst
13 64 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 58 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
15 56 (4.35%) Applications Support
16 50 (3.89%) Support Analyst
17 49 (3.81%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.99%) .NET
2 69 (5.37%) React
3 67 (5.21%) REST
4 56 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
5 45 (3.50%) Kafka
6 41 (3.19%) HTML
7 38 (2.95%) CSS
8 32 (2.49%) YAML
9 31 (2.41%) Web Services
10 30 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (2.33%) XML
11 29 (2.26%) Node.js
12 26 (2.02%) JSON
12 26 (2.02%) Middleware
13 25 (1.94%) LDAP
13 25 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (1.87%) ASP.NET
15 22 (1.71%) AngularJS
16 18 (1.40%) SOAP
17 16 (1.24%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.20%) Social Media
2 84 (6.53%) Public Cloud
3 80 (6.22%) Data Centre
4 63 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (4.28%) PKI
6 48 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 47 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 46 (3.58%) Cloud Native
9 45 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
10 41 (3.19%) Replication
11 38 (2.95%) Hedge funds
12 34 (2.64%) Legacy Code
13 33 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (2.49%) Clustering
15 31 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
16 30 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
17 29 (2.26%) FPGA
18 25 (1.94%) Client/Server
18 25 (1.94%) Cyberattack
18 25 (1.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 470 (36.55%) Windows
2 259 (20.14%) Ubuntu
3 206 (16.02%) Unix
4 129 (10.03%) Windows Server
5 102 (7.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 71 (5.52%) CentOS
7 47 (3.65%) VMS
8 43 (3.34%) Solaris
9 32 (2.49%) Android
10 29 (2.26%) Apple iOS
10 29 (2.26%) Kali Linux
11 27 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 25 (1.94%) Debian
12 25 (1.94%) Mac OS
13 22 (1.71%) Windows 10
13 22 (1.71%) zOS
14 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
15 16 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
15 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
16 13 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (23.72%) DevOps
2 272 (21.15%) Cybersecurity
3 224 (17.42%) Agile
4 210 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
5 203 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 199 (15.47%) Artificial Intelligence
7 194 (15.09%) CI/CD
8 151 (11.74%) IT Strategy
9 150 (11.66%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (11.12%) CRM
11 134 (10.42%) Computer Science
12 114 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 111 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 97 (7.54%) Containerisation
15 85 (6.61%) Disaster Recovery
16 81 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 79 (6.14%) Fintech
18 77 (5.99%) Mentoring
19 72 (5.60%) Application Security
20 71 (5.52%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 428 (33.28%) Python
2 332 (25.82%) Bash
3 266 (20.68%) SQL
4 172 (13.37%) PowerShell
5 164 (12.75%) Java
6 128 (9.95%) C
7 117 (9.10%) C++
8 109 (8.48%) C#
9 101 (7.85%) JavaScript
10 77 (5.99%) Perl
11 68 (5.29%) Go
12 51 (3.97%) Rust
13 46 (3.58%) Shell Script
14 36 (2.80%) Ruby
15 28 (2.18%) TypeScript
16 18 (1.40%) PHP
17 13 (1.01%) Groovy
18 10 (0.78%) Korn
18 10 (0.78%) Scala
19 7 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 214 (16.64%) Degree
2 146 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 95 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 71 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 59 (4.59%) SC Cleared
6 36 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (1.87%) CCNA
10 18 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.32%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.24%) CISSP
13 15 (1.17%) CISA
13 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.09%) MCSE
15 13 (1.01%) MCSA
15 13 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 11 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (1.94%) SLA
2 22 (1.71%) QA
3 21 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.40%) NIST
6 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.70%) GDPR
9 6 (0.47%) ITGC
9 6 (0.47%) PMO
10 5 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.31%) GRC
11 4 (0.31%) JTAG
11 4 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.23%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 302 (23.48%) Active Directory
2 188 (14.62%) Docker
3 123 (9.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (3.19%) vSphere
5 38 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.24%) Hyper-V
8 15 (1.17%) KVM
9 12 (0.93%) vCloud
10 8 (0.62%) Ceph
10 8 (0.62%) NFS
11 6 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.39%) Firmware
13 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.31%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.16%) LXC
15 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 236 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 211 (16.41%) Ansible
3 195 (15.16%) Terraform
4 161 (12.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.20%) Jamf Pro
6 75 (5.83%) Puppet
7 56 (4.35%) Progress Chef
8 44 (3.42%) Grafana
9 41 (3.19%) Prometheus
10 34 (2.64%) SCCM
11 21 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (1.40%) Nagios
12 18 (1.40%) vCenter Server
13 15 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
14 14 (1.09%) HAProxy
14 14 (1.09%) Nessus
15 11 (0.86%) Graphite
16 10 (0.78%) WSUS
17 9 (0.70%) Salt
18 7 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 330 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 175 (13.61%) VMware
3 160 (12.44%) Oracle
4 144 (11.20%) CyberArk
4 144 (11.20%) Tanium
5 141 (10.96%) Red Hat
6 86 (6.69%) Cisco
7 48 (3.73%) Google
8 41 (3.19%) IBM
8 41 (3.19%) Palo Alto
9 38 (2.95%) Splunk
10 32 (2.49%) F5
11 31 (2.41%) Atlassian
12 26 (2.02%) Bloomberg
12 26 (2.02%) Veeam
13 25 (1.94%) ION Trading
13 25 (1.94%) Qualys
14 22 (1.71%) HP
14 22 (1.71%) Juniper
15 21 (1.63%) Citrix