Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 32 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,795 7,128 14,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.84% 7.06% 9.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.36% 44.26% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,829 4,465 6,656
10th Percentile £34,980 £36,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,012 16,106 29,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.12% 15.96% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,794 10,892 16,523
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,275
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK

Linux
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +5 5,102 £56,504 -13.07% 1,216
UK excluding London -1 4,308 £52,500 - 844
Work from Home 0 2,227 £57,500 -8.00% 584
London -5 1,295 £75,000 -6.25% 395
South East -1 1,188 £55,000 +10.00% 237
South West +2 843 £52,750 -4.09% 170
North of England +20 830 £50,000 - 145
North West +22 522 £54,424 +3.66% 87
Midlands +14 488 £50,000 -9.09% 120
East of England +13 424 £54,000 -6.09% 127
Scotland -39 360 £52,500 -4.55% 52
East Midlands +23 281 £50,000 -9.09% 62
Yorkshire +16 254 £47,500 -5.00% 48
West Midlands -12 207 £54,000 -1.82% 58
Wales +24 133 £48,750 -2.50% 13
North East -15 54 £52,500 +31.25% 13
Northern Ireland -3 45 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

Linux
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
1 267 (4.61%) Apache
2 178 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 119 (2.05%) nginx
4 114 (1.97%) IIS
5 105 (1.81%) WebLogic
6 104 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 92 (1.59%) Confluence
8 67 (1.16%) Apache Spark
9 58 (1.00%) WebSphere
10 55 (0.95%) ArcGIS
10 55 (0.95%) Tomcat
11 54 (0.93%) OpenStack
12 48 (0.83%) GeoServer
13 44 (0.76%) Oracle Service Bus
14 28 (0.48%) Captiva
14 28 (0.48%) FileNet
15 26 (0.45%) Jupyter
16 23 (0.40%) WordPress
17 20 (0.35%) JBoss
18 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 134 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 35 (0.60%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) GNU Octave
5 11 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.086%) Trello
9 4 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.069%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.069%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.035%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.035%) CATIA
11 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.017%) 1Password
12 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 51 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 48 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 24 (0.41%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 16 (0.28%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.069%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.069%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.052%) Maximo
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.035%) Shopify
12 1 (0.017%) Endur
12 1 (0.017%) Magento
12 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.017%) Sage X3
12 1 (0.017%) SAP CRM
12 1 (0.017%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,799 (31.04%) Azure
2 1,352 (23.33%) AWS
3 367 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 335 (5.78%) Entra ID
5 317 (5.47%) GCP
6 279 (4.81%) IBM Cloud
7 262 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
8 240 (4.14%) Serverless
9 187 (3.23%) GitHub
10 175 (3.02%) SaaS
11 155 (2.67%) OpenShift
12 142 (2.45%) Amazon S3
13 135 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 134 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
15 132 (2.28%) Azure Functions
16 129 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
17 126 (2.17%) Azure API Management
18 105 (1.81%) IaaS
19 84 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
19 84 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 786 (13.56%) Firewall
2 459 (7.92%) DNS
3 415 (7.16%) TCP/IP
4 309 (5.33%) VPN
5 267 (4.61%) DHCP
6 256 (4.42%) 5G
7 233 (4.02%) Broadband
8 223 (3.85%) WAN
9 217 (3.74%) SAN
10 207 (3.57%) Internet
11 187 (3.23%) LAN
12 164 (2.83%) Wireless
13 145 (2.50%) Network Security
14 111 (1.92%) SNMP
15 108 (1.86%) HTTP
16 102 (1.76%) VLAN
17 100 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
18 95 (1.64%) BGP
18 95 (1.64%) SSL
19 90 (1.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 509 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
2 449 (7.75%) MongoDB
3 396 (6.83%) SQL Server
4 366 (6.32%) NoSQL
5 356 (6.14%) MySQL
6 289 (4.99%) DB2
7 287 (4.95%) Relational Database
8 161 (2.78%) Oracle Database
9 124 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 112 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
11 102 (1.76%) Big Data
12 74 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 68 (1.17%) GIS
14 55 (0.95%) Redis
15 53 (0.91%) Hadoop
15 53 (0.91%) Power BI
16 48 (0.83%) QGIS
17 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
18 44 (0.76%) Oracle Database 10g
18 44 (0.76%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 422 (7.28%) Git
2 366 (6.32%) JIRA
3 314 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 153 (2.64%) GitLab
5 101 (1.74%) Subversion
6 66 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 66 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 40 (0.69%) Eclipse
8 37 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
9 34 (0.59%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.48%) Ant
10 28 (0.48%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.48%) Metasploit
11 26 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
12 24 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 24 (0.41%) Vagrant
13 22 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 21 (0.36%) Maven
15 20 (0.35%) CMake
15 20 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,234 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 883 (15.24%) Finance
3 675 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 574 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 494 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 280 (4.83%) Aerospace
7 242 (4.18%) Banking
8 221 (3.81%) Electronics
9 199 (3.43%) Telecoms
10 182 (3.14%) Law
11 181 (3.12%) Manufacturing
12 163 (2.81%) Marketing
13 117 (2.02%) Retail
14 87 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 76 (1.31%) Automotive
15 76 (1.31%) Legal
16 75 (1.29%) Military
17 58 (1.00%) Front Office
18 49 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
19 46 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,142 (19.71%) Senior
2 1,018 (17.57%) Software Engineer
3 765 (13.20%) Developer
4 529 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 409 (7.06%) Lead
6 365 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 360 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
8 331 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
9 321 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 313 (5.40%) Architect
11 292 (5.04%) Support Engineer
12 265 (4.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 258 (4.45%) Analyst
14 239 (4.12%) Administrator
15 219 (3.78%) Linux Specialist
16 214 (3.69%) Technical Specialist
17 202 (3.49%) Systems Engineer
18 185 (3.19%) Full Stack Developer
19 180 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
19 180 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (8.90%) React
2 510 (8.80%) HTML
3 452 (7.80%) CSS
3 452 (7.80%) REST
4 445 (7.68%) .NET
5 367 (6.33%) Web Services
6 342 (5.90%) AngularJS
7 310 (5.35%) Node.js
8 307 (5.30%) jQuery
9 295 (5.09%) Vue
10 272 (4.69%) ASP.NET
11 246 (4.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 238 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
12 238 (4.11%) Backbone.js
12 238 (4.11%) Ember.js
13 184 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
14 139 (2.40%) XML
15 115 (1.98%) Middleware
16 111 (1.92%) YAML
17 100 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 404 (6.97%) Algorithms
2 371 (6.40%) Data Centre
3 363 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 299 (5.16%) Public Cloud
5 282 (4.87%) Blockchain
6 256 (4.42%) Data Structures
7 211 (3.64%) Social Media
8 207 (3.57%) IoT
9 177 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
10 154 (2.66%) Management Information System
11 150 (2.59%) Cloud Native
12 143 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
13 142 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
14 124 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
15 114 (1.97%) PKI
16 113 (1.95%) e-Learning
17 103 (1.78%) Replication
18 96 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 75 (1.29%) FPGA
20 70 (1.21%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,384 (41.14%) Windows
2 616 (10.63%) Unix
3 593 (10.23%) Ubuntu
3 593 (10.23%) Windows Server
4 422 (7.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 345 (5.95%) Android
6 335 (5.78%) CentOS
7 303 (5.23%) Apple iOS
8 269 (4.64%) Embedded Linux
9 175 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 172 (2.97%) Debian
11 128 (2.21%) Solaris
12 124 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 123 (2.12%) Windows 10
14 114 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
15 105 (1.81%) Mac OS
16 66 (1.14%) VMS
17 57 (0.98%) AIX
18 55 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
19 46 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,400 (24.16%) Software Engineering
2 1,308 (22.57%) Agile
3 1,279 (22.07%) DevOps
4 993 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 769 (13.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 719 (12.41%) CI/CD
7 657 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
8 655 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 566 (9.77%) Mentoring
10 544 (9.39%) Computer Science
11 483 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
12 428 (7.39%) OO
13 426 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 406 (7.01%) Full Stack Development
15 369 (6.37%) Web Development
16 368 (6.35%) Containerisation
17 350 (6.04%) User Experience
18 338 (5.83%) OOP
19 335 (5.78%) ITIL
20 331 (5.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,821 (31.42%) Python
2 1,221 (21.07%) SQL
3 927 (16.00%) Java
4 915 (15.79%) Bash
5 839 (14.48%) C
6 770 (13.29%) JavaScript
7 674 (11.63%) C++
8 610 (10.53%) C#
9 597 (10.30%) PowerShell
10 200 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 190 (3.28%) PHP
12 175 (3.02%) Perl
13 174 (3.00%) Embedded C
14 137 (2.36%) Rust
15 135 (2.33%) Go
16 127 (2.19%) TypeScript
17 111 (1.92%) PL/SQL
18 92 (1.59%) Ruby
19 78 (1.35%) VB
20 50 (0.86%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,184 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 1,022 (17.64%) Degree
3 629 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 457 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 332 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 178 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 154 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 151 (2.61%) CCNA
9 147 (2.54%) Azure Certification
10 135 (2.33%) AWS Certification
11 122 (2.11%) Master's Degree
12 114 (1.97%) MCSE
13 82 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 77 (1.33%) MCSA
15 68 (1.17%) PhD
16 57 (0.98%) CCNP
17 43 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 40 (0.69%) CISSP
19 38 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
20 36 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (2.42%) SLA
2 109 (1.88%) QA
3 88 (1.52%) GDPR
4 66 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 39 (0.67%) NIST
7 38 (0.66%) PMO
8 28 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.29%) ITGC
10 15 (0.26%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.24%) Data Quality
11 14 (0.24%) JTAG
11 14 (0.24%) MISRA
11 14 (0.24%) NCSC
12 9 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.14%) GRC
13 8 (0.14%) IEC 62304
14 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 831 (14.34%) Active Directory
2 769 (13.27%) Docker
3 606 (10.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 271 (4.68%) Hyper-V
5 157 (2.71%) Firmware
6 133 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
6 133 (2.30%) vSphere
7 112 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
9 53 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
10 40 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
11 34 (0.59%) KVM
12 30 (0.52%) VMware NSX
13 24 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.40%) NFS
15 18 (0.31%) pfSense
15 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
16 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
17 13 (0.22%) vCloud
18 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 951 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 858 (14.81%) Ansible
3 640 (11.04%) Terraform
4 310 (5.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 281 (4.85%) Puppet
6 216 (3.73%) Jamf Pro
7 158 (2.73%) vCenter Server
8 143 (2.47%) Prometheus
9 139 (2.40%) Progress Chef
10 131 (2.26%) Grafana
11 103 (1.78%) SCCM
12 74 (1.28%) ZABBIX
13 71 (1.23%) SCOM
14 67 (1.16%) Nagios
15 65 (1.12%) WSUS
16 55 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
17 51 (0.88%) Data Guard
18 39 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 34 (0.59%) FortiGate
19 34 (0.59%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1,117 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 879 (15.17%) VMware
3 752 (12.98%) Red Hat
4 606 (10.46%) Oracle
5 408 (7.04%) IBM
6 315 (5.44%) Cisco
7 215 (3.71%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.66%) Tanium
9 160 (2.76%) Google
10 152 (2.62%) Veeam
11 129 (2.23%) NetApp
12 113 (1.95%) Palo Alto
13 107 (1.85%) SAP
14 94 (1.62%) Splunk
15 93 (1.60%) Citrix
16 87 (1.50%) Dell
17 81 (1.40%) Juniper
18 70 (1.21%) EMC
19 68 (1.17%) Atlassian
19 68 (1.17%) Remedy