Loki C++ Library
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Loki skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 781 645 750
Rank change year-on-year -136 +105 +12
Permanent jobs citing Loki 20 28 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.057% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.33% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 30
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £77,188
90th Percentile £94,500 £85,000 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Loki falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,983 8,463 16,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 17.29% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,544 5,410 10,431
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,513 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +5.40% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

Loki
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Loki relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Loki job vacancy trend in the UK

Loki
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Loki.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Loki

Loki
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Loki over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Loki in the UK

Loki
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Loki within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 2026. 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 -135 20 £65,000 -7.14% 44
UK excluding London -140 16 £65,000 -7.14% 23
South East -37 15 £65,000 -10.34% 5
Work from Home -36 13 £65,000 -7.14% 22
London -75 2 £95,000 -20.83% 24
Midlands -50 1 £62,500 -7.41% 2
West Midlands -53 1 £62,500 -7.41%

Loki
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) IIS
1 5 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (25.00%) Cloudflare
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Datadog
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.00%) Finance
1 1 (5.00%) Legal
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Site Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) YAML
4 1 (5.00%) eBPF
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.00%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Hackathon
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (75.00%) Observability
3 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (55.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (50.00%) GitOps
6 9 (45.00%) DevOps
7 7 (35.00%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
9 5 (25.00%) Microservices
9 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (20.00%) Agile
10 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
11 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) Bash
3 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (30.00%) SQL
5 5 (25.00%) Bicep
5 5 (25.00%) C#
6 2 (10.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
2 5 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) Grafana
1 20 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (50.00%) Argo
4 9 (45.00%) Kustomize
5 6 (30.00%) Istio
6 1 (5.00%) Cilium
6 1 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (5.00%) Scalr
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Google