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 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 880 963 577
Rank change year-on-year +83 -386 +179
Permanent jobs citing Linux+ Certification 4 12 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.012% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.037% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £71,375 - £41,200
25th Percentile £71,563 £67,500 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +42.86% -10.91%
75th Percentile £76,563 £72,500 £58,500
90th Percentile £77,125 - £64,200
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 27,500 32,829 43,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.52% 33.01% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 17,231 14,784 19,165
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%

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 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
England +78 4 £73,750 +5.36% 2
London +110 2 £73,750 +5.36% 2
UK excluding London -15 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DMZ
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) SMTP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (50.00%) CASP
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (50.00%) RHCE
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) KVM
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) VMware