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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 31 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,797 7,330 14,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.88% 7.06% 9.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.11% 44.18% 48.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,843 4,576 6,742
10th Percentile £34,750 £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 £75,000 £84,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 14,101 16,590 29,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 15.99% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,896 11,178 16,749
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
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 3 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 3 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 5,095 £57,000 -12.31% 1,226
UK excluding London -1 4,299 £52,500 - 841
Work from Home -1 2,236 £58,250 -6.80% 550
London -2 1,309 £75,000 -6.25% 395
South East -1 1,183 £55,000 +10.00% 220
South West +4 845 £54,000 -1.82% 169
North of England +21 827 £51,364 +2.73% 149
North West +22 522 £55,000 +4.76% 85
Midlands +13 479 £50,000 -9.09% 118
East of England +12 422 £52,500 -8.70% 140
Scotland -37 365 £52,500 -4.55% 56
East Midlands +18 274 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Yorkshire +11 252 £47,500 -5.00% 54
West Midlands -13 205 £54,000 -1.82% 60
Wales +26 135 £48,750 -4.88% 7
North East -16 53 £52,500 +31.25% 13
Northern Ireland -2 46 £61,250 +18.93% 3
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 1

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
1 255 (4.40%) Apache
2 180 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 120 (2.07%) nginx
4 108 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 107 (1.85%) WebLogic
6 106 (1.83%) IIS
7 97 (1.67%) Confluence
8 62 (1.07%) Apache Spark
9 58 (1.00%) WebSphere
10 55 (0.95%) ArcGIS
10 55 (0.95%) OpenStack
11 49 (0.85%) Tomcat
12 48 (0.83%) GeoServer
13 45 (0.78%) Oracle Service Bus
14 28 (0.48%) Captiva
14 28 (0.48%) FileNet
15 26 (0.45%) WordPress
16 25 (0.43%) Jupyter
17 20 (0.35%) JBoss
18 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 133 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.52%) 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 18 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
4 15 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 14 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.069%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.052%) Magento
10 3 (0.052%) Maximo
10 3 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
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%) FLEXCUBE
12 1 (0.017%) Misys Opics
12 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.017%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,816 (31.33%) Azure
2 1,359 (23.44%) AWS
3 375 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
4 333 (5.74%) Entra ID
5 322 (5.55%) GCP
6 279 (4.81%) IBM Cloud
7 277 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
8 247 (4.26%) Serverless
9 194 (3.35%) GitHub
10 175 (3.02%) SaaS
11 156 (2.69%) OpenShift
12 143 (2.47%) Amazon S3
13 137 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
14 135 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 132 (2.28%) Azure Functions
16 129 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
17 126 (2.17%) Azure API Management
18 104 (1.79%) IaaS
19 96 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
20 85 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 789 (13.61%) Firewall
2 467 (8.06%) DNS
3 420 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 315 (5.43%) VPN
5 271 (4.67%) DHCP
6 257 (4.43%) 5G
7 234 (4.04%) Broadband
8 230 (3.97%) WAN
9 222 (3.83%) SAN
10 209 (3.61%) Internet
11 192 (3.31%) LAN
12 165 (2.85%) Wireless
13 142 (2.45%) Network Security
14 113 (1.95%) HTTP
14 113 (1.95%) SNMP
15 104 (1.79%) VLAN
16 102 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
17 100 (1.73%) BGP
18 95 (1.64%) SSL
19 92 (1.59%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 510 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
2 452 (7.80%) MongoDB
3 395 (6.81%) SQL Server
4 362 (6.24%) MySQL
5 356 (6.14%) NoSQL
6 289 (4.99%) DB2
6 289 (4.99%) Relational Database
7 152 (2.62%) Oracle Database
8 126 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 117 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 97 (1.67%) Big Data
11 75 (1.29%) RDBMS
12 68 (1.17%) GIS
13 55 (0.95%) Redis
14 53 (0.91%) Power BI
15 51 (0.88%) Hadoop
16 48 (0.83%) QGIS
17 46 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
18 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
18 45 (0.78%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 424 (7.31%) Git
2 371 (6.40%) JIRA
3 325 (5.61%) Jenkins
4 168 (2.90%) GitLab
5 104 (1.79%) Subversion
6 67 (1.16%) Visual Studio
7 66 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.67%) Eclipse
9 38 (0.66%) Artifactory
9 38 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
10 34 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
11 30 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.50%) Burp Suite
12 29 (0.50%) Metasploit
13 28 (0.48%) Ant
14 23 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 22 (0.38%) Maven
15 22 (0.38%) TeamCity
15 22 (0.38%) Vagrant
16 21 (0.36%) CMake
General
1 1,232 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 889 (15.34%) Finance
3 681 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
4 577 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 481 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 256 (4.42%) Aerospace
7 251 (4.33%) Banking
8 215 (3.71%) Electronics
9 198 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 182 (3.14%) Law
10 182 (3.14%) Manufacturing
11 164 (2.83%) Marketing
12 121 (2.09%) Retail
13 85 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 79 (1.36%) Military
15 74 (1.28%) Automotive
15 74 (1.28%) Legal
16 56 (0.97%) Front Office
17 50 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
18 47 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,147 (19.79%) Senior
2 1,007 (17.37%) Software Engineer
3 763 (13.16%) Developer
4 534 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 416 (7.18%) Lead
6 384 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 362 (6.24%) Linux Engineer
8 325 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
9 321 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 303 (5.23%) Architect
11 302 (5.21%) Support Engineer
12 263 (4.54%) Analyst
13 261 (4.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 240 (4.14%) Administrator
15 222 (3.83%) Linux Specialist
16 215 (3.71%) Technical Specialist
17 207 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
18 192 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
19 187 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
20 181 (3.12%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (8.94%) React
2 507 (8.75%) HTML
3 452 (7.80%) REST
4 450 (7.76%) CSS
5 441 (7.61%) .NET
6 356 (6.14%) Web Services
7 342 (5.90%) AngularJS
8 313 (5.40%) Node.js
9 307 (5.30%) jQuery
10 296 (5.11%) Vue
11 273 (4.71%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.11%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.11%) Ember.js
14 183 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
15 141 (2.43%) XML
16 111 (1.91%) YAML
17 109 (1.88%) Middleware
18 99 (1.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 405 (6.99%) Algorithms
2 375 (6.47%) Data Centre
3 365 (6.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 306 (5.28%) Public Cloud
5 282 (4.86%) Blockchain
6 255 (4.40%) Data Structures
7 211 (3.64%) Social Media
8 206 (3.55%) IoT
9 175 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
10 159 (2.74%) Management Information System
11 156 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
12 142 (2.45%) Cloud Native
13 140 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
14 124 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
15 118 (2.04%) PKI
16 113 (1.95%) e-Learning
17 103 (1.78%) Replication
18 95 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
19 72 (1.24%) FPGA
20 71 (1.22%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,411 (41.59%) Windows
2 606 (10.45%) Unix
3 604 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 588 (10.14%) Ubuntu
5 427 (7.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 341 (5.88%) Android
7 331 (5.71%) CentOS
8 303 (5.23%) Apple iOS
9 264 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
10 179 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
11 170 (2.93%) Debian
12 129 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 124 (2.14%) Windows 10
14 117 (2.02%) Solaris
14 117 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
15 113 (1.95%) Mac OS
16 69 (1.19%) VMS
17 57 (0.98%) AIX
18 55 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
19 46 (0.79%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,399 (24.13%) Software Engineering
2 1,308 (22.56%) DevOps
3 1,295 (22.34%) Agile
4 980 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
5 762 (13.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 733 (12.64%) CI/CD
7 664 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
8 655 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 576 (9.94%) Mentoring
10 542 (9.35%) Computer Science
11 512 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
12 426 (7.35%) OO
13 425 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 410 (7.07%) Full Stack Development
15 386 (6.66%) Containerisation
16 367 (6.33%) Web Development
17 350 (6.04%) User Experience
18 337 (5.81%) OOP
19 335 (5.78%) ITIL
20 332 (5.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,829 (31.55%) Python
2 1,216 (20.98%) SQL
3 939 (16.20%) Bash
4 924 (15.94%) Java
5 829 (14.30%) C
6 768 (13.25%) JavaScript
7 663 (11.44%) C++
8 621 (10.71%) PowerShell
9 609 (10.51%) C#
10 197 (3.40%) PHP
11 193 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 182 (3.14%) Perl
13 170 (2.93%) Embedded C
14 137 (2.36%) Go
15 136 (2.35%) Rust
16 132 (2.28%) TypeScript
17 113 (1.95%) PL/SQL
18 94 (1.62%) Ruby
19 79 (1.36%) VB
20 44 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,184 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 1,009 (17.41%) Degree
3 633 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 466 (8.04%) DV Cleared
5 331 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 178 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 156 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 152 (2.62%) CCNA
9 144 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 133 (2.29%) AWS Certification
11 123 (2.12%) Master's Degree
12 115 (1.98%) MCSE
13 82 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 77 (1.33%) MCSA
15 68 (1.17%) PhD
16 56 (0.97%) CCNP
17 43 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 40 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
19 38 (0.66%) CISSP
20 36 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (2.45%) SLA
2 112 (1.93%) QA
3 86 (1.48%) GDPR
4 69 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (0.69%) PMO
6 37 (0.64%) NIST
7 30 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 30 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (0.31%) ITGC
9 16 (0.28%) NCSC
10 15 (0.26%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.22%) JTAG
11 13 (0.22%) MISRA
12 11 (0.19%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.14%) GRC
13 8 (0.14%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 849 (14.65%) Active Directory
2 793 (13.68%) Docker
3 617 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 280 (4.83%) Hyper-V
5 151 (2.60%) Firmware
6 138 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
7 135 (2.33%) vSphere
8 110 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
10 54 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
11 37 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 34 (0.59%) KVM
13 32 (0.55%) VMware NSX
14 24 (0.41%) NFS
15 23 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
16 18 (0.31%) pfSense
16 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
17 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
18 14 (0.24%) vCloud
19 9 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 967 (16.68%) Kubernetes
2 870 (15.01%) Ansible
3 651 (11.23%) Terraform
4 312 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 285 (4.92%) Puppet
6 216 (3.73%) Jamf Pro
7 161 (2.78%) vCenter Server
8 147 (2.54%) Prometheus
9 141 (2.43%) Progress Chef
10 136 (2.35%) Grafana
11 109 (1.88%) SCCM
12 73 (1.26%) ZABBIX
13 70 (1.21%) SCOM
14 66 (1.14%) WSUS
15 63 (1.09%) Nagios
16 56 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
17 52 (0.90%) Data Guard
18 38 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 35 (0.60%) FortiGate
20 34 (0.59%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1,111 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 889 (15.34%) VMware
3 759 (13.09%) Red Hat
4 594 (10.25%) Oracle
5 411 (7.09%) IBM
6 317 (5.47%) Cisco
7 215 (3.71%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.66%) Tanium
9 174 (3.00%) Google
10 156 (2.69%) Veeam
11 128 (2.21%) NetApp
12 117 (2.02%) Palo Alto
13 108 (1.86%) SAP
14 92 (1.59%) Citrix
15 90 (1.55%) Splunk
16 88 (1.52%) Dell
17 83 (1.43%) Juniper
18 74 (1.28%) Atlassian
19 71 (1.22%) EMC
20 69 (1.19%) Remedy