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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 33 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,824 6,966 15,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.77% 7.07% 9.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.80% 44.02% 48.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,831 4,332 6,628
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,250
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 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 23 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 23 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 +6 5,133 £55,000 -15.38% 1,142
UK excluding London -1 4,336 £52,500 - 844
Work from Home 0 2,234 £57,500 -10.35% 570
London -5 1,294 £75,000 -6.25% 368
South East -1 1,180 £55,000 +10.00% 216
South West +2 867 £52,500 -4.55% 168
North of England +18 827 £50,000 - 129
North West +21 524 £52,500 - 73
Midlands +21 507 £50,000 -9.09% 127
East of England +13 425 £52,500 -8.70% 131
Scotland -42 354 £51,750 -5.91% 74
East Midlands +31 292 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Yorkshire +14 247 £47,250 -4.55% 50
West Midlands -8 215 £54,000 -1.82% 72
Wales +24 131 £47,500 -5.00% 15
North East -13 56 £52,500 +25.75% 7
Northern Ireland -7 44 £52,500 +1.94% 8
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
1 273 (4.69%) Apache
2 180 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 119 (2.04%) nginx
4 115 (1.97%) IIS
5 105 (1.80%) WebLogic
6 104 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 89 (1.53%) Confluence
8 69 (1.18%) Apache Spark
9 57 (0.98%) Tomcat
10 55 (0.94%) ArcGIS
11 54 (0.93%) OpenStack
12 48 (0.82%) GeoServer
13 45 (0.77%) WebSphere
14 44 (0.76%) Oracle Service Bus
15 26 (0.45%) Jupyter
16 22 (0.38%) JBoss
16 22 (0.38%) WordPress
17 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
18 15 (0.26%) Captiva
18 15 (0.26%) FileNet
Applications
1 135 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 39 (0.67%) 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 (0.034%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.034%) CATIA
11 2 (0.034%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.017%) 1Password
12 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 51 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 48 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 17 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.086%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.069%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.052%) Maximo
9 3 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.034%) Shopify
11 1 (0.017%) C-CURE
11 1 (0.017%) Magento
11 1 (0.017%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 1 (0.017%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.017%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,781 (30.58%) Azure
2 1,351 (23.20%) AWS
3 366 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
4 336 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 299 (5.13%) GCP
6 278 (4.77%) IBM Cloud
7 257 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 238 (4.09%) Serverless
9 183 (3.14%) SaaS
10 168 (2.88%) GitHub
11 163 (2.80%) OpenShift
12 142 (2.44%) Amazon S3
13 137 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
14 135 (2.32%) Azure Logic Apps
15 132 (2.27%) Azure Functions
16 129 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
17 126 (2.16%) Azure API Management
18 103 (1.77%) IaaS
19 90 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
20 86 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 790 (13.56%) Firewall
2 467 (8.02%) DNS
3 413 (7.09%) TCP/IP
4 309 (5.31%) VPN
5 269 (4.62%) DHCP
6 256 (4.40%) 5G
7 233 (4.00%) Broadband
8 225 (3.86%) WAN
9 222 (3.81%) SAN
10 210 (3.61%) Internet
11 191 (3.28%) LAN
12 164 (2.82%) Wireless
13 145 (2.49%) Network Security
14 113 (1.94%) HTTP
15 109 (1.87%) SNMP
16 103 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
17 102 (1.75%) VLAN
18 99 (1.70%) SSL
19 95 (1.63%) NAS
20 94 (1.61%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
2 450 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 397 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 370 (6.35%) NoSQL
5 349 (5.99%) MySQL
6 291 (5.00%) DB2
7 286 (4.91%) Relational Database
8 162 (2.78%) Oracle Database
9 124 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 110 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 100 (1.72%) Big Data
12 71 (1.22%) RDBMS
13 68 (1.17%) GIS
14 56 (0.96%) Hadoop
14 56 (0.96%) Redis
15 53 (0.91%) Power BI
16 48 (0.82%) QGIS
17 45 (0.77%) Oracle Database 11g
18 44 (0.76%) Oracle Database 10g
18 44 (0.76%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 418 (7.18%) Git
2 358 (6.15%) JIRA
3 323 (5.55%) Jenkins
4 152 (2.61%) GitLab
5 99 (1.70%) Subversion
6 67 (1.15%) Visual Studio
7 66 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.70%) Eclipse
9 33 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.48%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.48%) Metasploit
11 26 (0.45%) Ant
11 26 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 26 (0.45%) Vagrant
12 24 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 23 (0.39%) Robot Framework
14 22 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
15 21 (0.36%) CMake
16 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 19 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 1,233 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 875 (15.02%) Finance
3 670 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 578 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 492 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 295 (5.07%) Aerospace
7 230 (3.95%) Banking
8 220 (3.78%) Electronics
9 197 (3.38%) Telecoms
10 180 (3.09%) Law
11 179 (3.07%) Manufacturing
12 161 (2.76%) Marketing
13 118 (2.03%) Retail
14 86 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
15 85 (1.46%) Automotive
16 77 (1.32%) Legal
17 75 (1.29%) Military
18 60 (1.03%) Front Office
19 50 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
20 42 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,148 (19.71%) Senior
2 1,012 (17.38%) Software Engineer
3 759 (13.03%) Developer
4 550 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 398 (6.83%) Lead
6 375 (6.44%) Linux Engineer
7 351 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 329 (5.65%) Embedded Engineer
9 324 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 318 (5.46%) Architect
11 283 (4.86%) Support Engineer
12 264 (4.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 262 (4.50%) Analyst
14 245 (4.21%) Administrator
15 217 (3.73%) Linux Specialist
16 215 (3.69%) Technical Specialist
17 198 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
18 187 (3.21%) Full Stack Developer
19 178 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
20 176 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (8.89%) HTML
2 513 (8.81%) React
3 458 (7.86%) REST
4 457 (7.85%) CSS
5 441 (7.57%) .NET
6 371 (6.37%) Web Services
7 342 (5.87%) AngularJS
8 310 (5.32%) jQuery
9 308 (5.29%) Node.js
10 294 (5.05%) Vue
11 272 (4.67%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.09%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.09%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.09%) Ember.js
14 186 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
15 141 (2.42%) XML
16 120 (2.06%) Middleware
17 110 (1.89%) YAML
18 101 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 408 (7.01%) Algorithms
2 371 (6.37%) Data Centre
3 361 (6.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 295 (5.07%) Public Cloud
5 280 (4.81%) Blockchain
6 257 (4.41%) Data Structures
7 211 (3.62%) Social Media
8 204 (3.50%) IoT
9 179 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
10 154 (2.64%) Management Information System
11 143 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
12 142 (2.44%) Cloud Native
12 142 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
13 121 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
14 115 (1.97%) PKI
15 114 (1.96%) e-Learning
16 101 (1.73%) Replication
17 95 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
18 78 (1.34%) FPGA
19 75 (1.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,410 (41.38%) Windows
2 617 (10.59%) Unix
3 604 (10.37%) Windows Server
4 599 (10.29%) Ubuntu
5 427 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 348 (5.98%) Android
7 336 (5.77%) CentOS
8 302 (5.19%) Apple iOS
9 277 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
10 182 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 177 (3.04%) Debian
12 141 (2.42%) Solaris
13 127 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
14 122 (2.09%) Windows 10
14 122 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
15 97 (1.67%) Mac OS
16 68 (1.17%) VMS
17 58 (1.00%) AIX
18 56 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
19 49 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,391 (23.88%) Software Engineering
2 1,315 (22.58%) Agile
3 1,257 (21.58%) DevOps
4 991 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
5 773 (13.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 706 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 676 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 645 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
9 559 (9.60%) Mentoring
10 557 (9.56%) Computer Science
11 476 (8.17%) Actionable Insight
12 427 (7.33%) OO
13 426 (7.31%) Infrastructure as Code
14 403 (6.92%) Full Stack Development
15 373 (6.40%) Containerisation
16 371 (6.37%) Web Development
17 355 (6.10%) User Experience
18 338 (5.80%) Collaborative Working
19 336 (5.77%) OOP
20 333 (5.72%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1,823 (31.30%) Python
2 1,199 (20.59%) SQL
3 921 (15.81%) Java
4 914 (15.69%) Bash
5 844 (14.49%) C
6 770 (13.22%) JavaScript
7 675 (11.59%) C++
8 605 (10.39%) C#
9 596 (10.23%) PowerShell
10 200 (3.43%) Shell Script
11 186 (3.19%) PHP
12 179 (3.07%) Embedded C
13 176 (3.02%) Perl
14 142 (2.44%) Rust
15 132 (2.27%) Go
16 122 (2.09%) TypeScript
17 109 (1.87%) PL/SQL
18 93 (1.60%) Ruby
19 78 (1.34%) VB
20 54 (0.93%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,217 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 1,028 (17.65%) Degree
3 651 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 487 (8.36%) DV Cleared
5 338 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 179 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 153 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 152 (2.61%) CCNA
9 151 (2.59%) Azure Certification
10 139 (2.39%) AWS Certification
11 120 (2.06%) Master's Degree
12 112 (1.92%) MCSE
13 84 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 76 (1.30%) MCSA
15 69 (1.18%) PhD
16 57 (0.98%) CCNP
17 42 (0.72%) CISSP
17 42 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 37 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
19 36 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (2.47%) SLA
2 111 (1.91%) QA
3 72 (1.24%) GDPR
4 64 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 40 (0.69%) NIST
7 38 (0.65%) PMO
8 27 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.29%) ITGC
10 16 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 15 (0.26%) ISO 13485
12 14 (0.24%) JTAG
12 14 (0.24%) MISRA
12 14 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.22%) NCSC
14 9 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.14%) IEC 62304
16 7 (0.12%) GRC
16 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 815 (13.99%) Active Directory
2 776 (13.32%) Docker
3 610 (10.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 281 (4.82%) Hyper-V
5 156 (2.68%) Firmware
6 135 (2.32%) vSphere
7 129 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
8 119 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
10 52 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
11 42 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
12 37 (0.64%) KVM
13 31 (0.53%) VMware NSX
14 28 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
15 24 (0.41%) NFS
16 19 (0.33%) pfSense
17 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
18 16 (0.27%) VMware Server
19 12 (0.21%) XenApp
20 11 (0.19%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 961 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 868 (14.90%) Ansible
3 641 (11.01%) Terraform
4 307 (5.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 281 (4.82%) Puppet
6 216 (3.71%) Jamf Pro
7 155 (2.66%) vCenter Server
8 145 (2.49%) Prometheus
9 137 (2.35%) Progress Chef
10 127 (2.18%) Grafana
11 106 (1.82%) SCCM
12 76 (1.30%) ZABBIX
13 75 (1.29%) SCOM
14 71 (1.22%) Nagios
15 65 (1.12%) WSUS
16 55 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
17 50 (0.86%) Data Guard
18 38 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 35 (0.60%) FortiGate
20 34 (0.58%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1,139 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 893 (15.33%) VMware
3 776 (13.32%) Red Hat
4 604 (10.37%) Oracle
5 393 (6.75%) IBM
6 321 (5.51%) Cisco
7 215 (3.69%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.64%) Tanium
9 160 (2.75%) Google
10 148 (2.54%) Veeam
11 132 (2.27%) NetApp
12 114 (1.96%) Palo Alto
13 97 (1.67%) Citrix
13 97 (1.67%) Splunk
14 92 (1.58%) SAP
15 85 (1.46%) Juniper
16 83 (1.43%) Dell
17 69 (1.18%) EMC
18 67 (1.15%) Atlassian
18 67 (1.15%) Remedy