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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 32 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,783 7,169 14,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.84% 7.08% 9.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.41% 44.24% 48.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,816 4,487 6,695
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £35,040
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 13,964 16,203 30,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.10% 16.01% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10,750 10,941 16,625
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
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 13 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 13 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 5,091 £56,504 -13.07% 1,294
UK excluding London -1 4,304 £52,500 - 906
Work from Home +1 2,221 £57,500 -8.00% 640
London -5 1,288 £75,000 -6.25% 411
South East -1 1,184 £55,000 +10.00% 250
South West +1 845 £54,000 -1.82% 189
North of England +19 829 £50,000 - 154
North West +21 521 £53,847 +2.57% 89
Midlands +14 488 £50,000 -9.09% 126
East of England +14 423 £54,000 -6.09% 133
Scotland -41 359 £52,500 -4.55% 57
East Midlands +26 282 £50,000 -9.09% 63
Yorkshire +19 254 £47,500 -5.00% 54
West Midlands -12 206 £54,000 -1.82% 63
Wales +27 133 £48,750 -2.50% 14
North East -15 54 £52,500 +31.25% 14
Northern Ireland -5 45 £55,000 +5.77% 5
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 (4.62%) Apache
2 178 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 120 (2.08%) nginx
4 114 (1.97%) IIS
5 105 (1.82%) WebLogic
6 104 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 90 (1.56%) Confluence
8 68 (1.18%) 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 27 (0.47%) Jupyter
16 23 (0.40%) WordPress
17 20 (0.35%) JBoss
18 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 132 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 35 (0.61%) 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 (0.42%) 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 1,796 (31.06%) Azure
2 1,346 (23.28%) AWS
3 367 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 335 (5.79%) Entra ID
5 315 (5.45%) GCP
6 279 (4.82%) IBM Cloud
7 262 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
8 239 (4.13%) Serverless
9 186 (3.22%) GitHub
10 176 (3.04%) SaaS
11 156 (2.70%) OpenShift
12 143 (2.47%) Amazon S3
13 135 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 134 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
15 132 (2.28%) Azure Functions
16 129 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
17 126 (2.18%) Azure API Management
18 106 (1.83%) IaaS
19 85 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
19 85 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 786 (13.59%) Firewall
2 460 (7.95%) DNS
3 414 (7.16%) TCP/IP
4 308 (5.33%) VPN
5 267 (4.62%) DHCP
6 256 (4.43%) 5G
7 233 (4.03%) Broadband
8 222 (3.84%) WAN
9 217 (3.75%) SAN
10 206 (3.56%) Internet
11 186 (3.22%) LAN
12 164 (2.84%) Wireless
13 145 (2.51%) Network Security
14 111 (1.92%) SNMP
15 108 (1.87%) HTTP
16 101 (1.75%) VLAN
17 100 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
18 95 (1.64%) BGP
18 95 (1.64%) SSL
19 90 (1.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
2 449 (7.76%) MongoDB
3 396 (6.85%) SQL Server
4 365 (6.31%) NoSQL
5 354 (6.12%) MySQL
6 289 (5.00%) DB2
7 287 (4.96%) Relational Database
8 161 (2.78%) Oracle Database
9 124 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 112 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
11 104 (1.80%) Big Data
12 74 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 68 (1.18%) GIS
14 55 (0.95%) Redis
15 54 (0.93%) Hadoop
16 53 (0.92%) Power BI
17 48 (0.83%) QGIS
18 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
19 44 (0.76%) Oracle Database 10g
19 44 (0.76%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 420 (7.26%) Git
2 363 (6.28%) JIRA
3 313 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 152 (2.63%) GitLab
5 101 (1.75%) Subversion
6 66 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 65 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 37 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
10 34 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 28 (0.48%) Ant
11 28 (0.48%) Burp Suite
11 28 (0.48%) Metasploit
12 26 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
13 24 (0.42%) TeamCity
13 24 (0.42%) Vagrant
14 23 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 21 (0.36%) Maven
16 20 (0.35%) CMake
16 20 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,231 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 881 (15.23%) Finance
3 673 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 573 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 494 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 283 (4.89%) Aerospace
7 241 (4.17%) Banking
8 221 (3.82%) Electronics
9 199 (3.44%) Telecoms
10 181 (3.13%) Law
10 181 (3.13%) Manufacturing
11 163 (2.82%) Marketing
12 116 (2.01%) Retail
13 87 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 76 (1.31%) Automotive
14 76 (1.31%) Legal
15 75 (1.30%) Military
16 58 (1.00%) Front Office
17 49 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
18 46 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,138 (19.68%) Senior
2 1,014 (17.53%) Software Engineer
3 763 (13.19%) Developer
4 530 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 406 (7.02%) Lead
6 363 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
7 360 (6.23%) Linux Engineer
8 331 (5.72%) Embedded Engineer
9 320 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 313 (5.41%) Architect
11 290 (5.01%) Support Engineer
12 265 (4.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 257 (4.44%) Analyst
14 241 (4.17%) Administrator
15 219 (3.79%) Linux Specialist
16 214 (3.70%) Technical Specialist
17 200 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
18 185 (3.20%) Full Stack Developer
19 179 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
20 176 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (8.89%) React
2 508 (8.78%) HTML
3 452 (7.82%) REST
4 451 (7.80%) CSS
5 445 (7.69%) .NET
6 367 (6.35%) Web Services
7 342 (5.91%) AngularJS
8 308 (5.33%) Node.js
9 307 (5.31%) jQuery
10 295 (5.10%) Vue
11 272 (4.70%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.12%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.12%) Ember.js
14 185 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
15 139 (2.40%) XML
16 115 (1.99%) Middleware
17 112 (1.94%) YAML
18 100 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 404 (6.99%) Algorithms
2 371 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 363 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 300 (5.19%) Public Cloud
5 280 (4.84%) Blockchain
6 256 (4.43%) Data Structures
7 211 (3.65%) Social Media
8 207 (3.58%) IoT
9 177 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
10 154 (2.66%) Management Information System
11 147 (2.54%) Cloud Native
12 141 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
13 139 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
14 124 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
15 116 (2.01%) PKI
16 113 (1.95%) e-Learning
17 103 (1.78%) Replication
18 96 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 75 (1.30%) FPGA
20 71 (1.23%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,379 (41.14%) Windows
2 616 (10.65%) Unix
3 592 (10.24%) Ubuntu
3 592 (10.24%) Windows Server
4 420 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 345 (5.97%) Android
6 334 (5.78%) CentOS
7 303 (5.24%) Apple iOS
8 269 (4.65%) Embedded Linux
9 174 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 172 (2.97%) Debian
11 128 (2.21%) Solaris
12 124 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 122 (2.11%) Windows 10
14 113 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
15 103 (1.78%) Mac OS
16 65 (1.12%) VMS
17 57 (0.99%) AIX
18 56 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
19 46 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,393 (24.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,306 (22.58%) Agile
3 1,274 (22.03%) DevOps
4 991 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 767 (13.26%) Artificial Intelligence
6 714 (12.35%) CI/CD
7 656 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 655 (11.33%) Cybersecurity
9 564 (9.75%) Mentoring
10 544 (9.41%) Computer Science
11 479 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
12 428 (7.40%) OO
13 427 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 404 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
15 370 (6.40%) Containerisation
16 369 (6.38%) Web Development
17 350 (6.05%) User Experience
18 338 (5.84%) OOP
19 334 (5.78%) ITIL
20 330 (5.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,817 (31.42%) Python
2 1,220 (21.10%) SQL
3 923 (15.96%) Java
4 914 (15.80%) Bash
5 837 (14.47%) C
6 767 (13.26%) JavaScript
7 668 (11.55%) C++
8 609 (10.53%) C#
9 595 (10.29%) PowerShell
10 201 (3.48%) Shell Script
11 190 (3.29%) PHP
12 174 (3.01%) Embedded C
13 173 (2.99%) Perl
14 135 (2.33%) Rust
15 130 (2.25%) Go
16 125 (2.16%) TypeScript
17 111 (1.92%) PL/SQL
18 91 (1.57%) Ruby
19 78 (1.35%) VB
20 49 (0.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,184 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 1,019 (17.62%) Degree
3 629 (10.88%) SC Cleared
4 459 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 331 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 177 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
7 154 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 150 (2.59%) 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 (1.18%) PhD
16 57 (0.99%) 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
1 826 (14.28%) Active Directory
2 767 (13.26%) Docker
3 606 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 271 (4.69%) Hyper-V
5 157 (2.71%) Firmware
6 133 (2.30%) vSphere
7 132 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
8 112 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
10 53 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
11 40 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
12 34 (0.59%) KVM
13 31 (0.54%) VMware NSX
14 24 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
15 23 (0.40%) NFS
16 18 (0.31%) pfSense
16 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
17 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
18 13 (0.22%) vCloud
19 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 945 (16.34%) Kubernetes
2 858 (14.84%) Ansible
3 638 (11.03%) Terraform
4 310 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 280 (4.84%) Puppet
6 216 (3.74%) Jamf Pro
7 157 (2.71%) vCenter Server
8 143 (2.47%) Prometheus
9 138 (2.39%) Progress Chef
10 131 (2.27%) 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 35 (0.61%) HAProxy
20 34 (0.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,115 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 878 (15.18%) VMware
3 751 (12.99%) Red Hat
4 606 (10.48%) Oracle
5 408 (7.06%) IBM
6 316 (5.46%) Cisco
7 215 (3.72%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.67%) Tanium
9 159 (2.75%) Google
10 152 (2.63%) Veeam
11 130 (2.25%) NetApp
12 112 (1.94%) Palo Alto
13 107 (1.85%) SAP
14 94 (1.63%) Splunk
15 93 (1.61%) Citrix
16 87 (1.50%) Dell
17 81 (1.40%) Juniper
18 70 (1.21%) EMC
19 68 (1.18%) Remedy
20 67 (1.16%) Atlassian