Linux Jobs in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,292 2,360 5,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.44% 7.13% 7.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.05% 44.97% 45.33%
Number of salaries quoted 855 1,727 2,554
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,001 5,248 12,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.64% 15.85% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 4,011 6,060
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London -37 138 £70,000 -17.65% 41
West London +1 115 £52,501 -12.50% 19
South London 0 35 £66,250 +23.26% 5
East London +14 15 £57,500 - 3
North London -1 2 £67,500 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 46 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (3.25%) Apache
3 35 (2.71%) nginx
4 34 (2.63%) Confluence
5 32 (2.48%) IIS
6 20 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.39%) Tomcat
8 16 (1.24%) Apache Spark
8 16 (1.24%) WebSphere
9 14 (1.08%) JBoss
10 11 (0.85%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.70%) WordPress
12 7 (0.54%) WildFly
13 6 (0.46%) SAS
14 5 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
14 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.23%) CMS
16 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (1.32%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.62%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.077%) Endur
7 1 (0.077%) Findur
7 1 (0.077%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.077%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 422 (32.66%) Azure
2 351 (27.17%) AWS
3 162 (12.54%) Entra ID
4 78 (6.04%) GCP
5 56 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (3.25%) Serverless
7 39 (3.02%) Amazon S3
8 37 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.63%) GitHub
10 30 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (1.78%) IaaS
15 22 (1.70%) SaaS
16 19 (1.47%) Azure AKS
16 19 (1.47%) PaaS
17 17 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 209 (16.18%) Firewall
2 147 (11.38%) 5G
2 147 (11.38%) Broadband
3 122 (9.44%) TCP/IP
4 119 (9.21%) DNS
5 104 (8.05%) VPN
6 86 (6.66%) WAN
7 82 (6.35%) LAN
8 63 (4.88%) Internet
9 48 (3.72%) DHCP
10 47 (3.64%) SAN
11 45 (3.48%) Network Security
12 30 (2.32%) SNMP
13 25 (1.93%) HTTP
14 24 (1.86%) BGP
15 22 (1.70%) Wireless
16 21 (1.63%) MPLS
16 21 (1.63%) NAS
16 21 (1.63%) SSL
17 17 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 94 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.19%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.64%) MySQL
5 56 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.79%) DB2
7 31 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.86%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.47%) Redis
11 17 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 16 (1.24%) Power BI
13 15 (1.16%) Tableau
14 12 (0.93%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (0.85%) Big Data
16 10 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 110 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 76 (5.88%) JIRA
3 74 (5.73%) Git
4 57 (4.41%) GitLab
5 30 (2.32%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.17%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.17%) Metasploit
7 19 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.54%) GDB
10 7 (0.54%) JUnit
10 7 (0.54%) Snyk
11 5 (0.39%) DTrace
11 5 (0.39%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.39%) Maven
11 5 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
12 4 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 369 (28.56%) Finance
2 325 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 276 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 158 (12.23%) Banking
6 51 (3.95%) Front Office
7 45 (3.48%) Retail
8 43 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 39 (3.02%) Law
10 38 (2.94%) Telecoms
11 35 (2.71%) Financial Institution
12 33 (2.55%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.55%) Marketing
14 15 (1.16%) Back Office
15 13 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.93%) Police
17 11 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.77%) Billing
18 10 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 290 (22.45%) Senior
2 147 (11.38%) Linux Specialist
3 145 (11.22%) Developer
4 144 (11.15%) Technical Specialist
5 125 (9.67%) Architect
6 111 (8.59%) Linux Engineer
7 98 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 94 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 94 (7.28%) Lead
8 94 (7.28%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 92 (7.12%) Senior Linux Specialist
9 92 (7.12%) Software Engineer
10 90 (6.97%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 90 (6.97%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 88 (6.81%) Analyst
12 65 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (4.41%) Applications Support
14 56 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
15 52 (4.02%) Support Analyst
16 48 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.80%) .NET
2 69 (5.34%) REST
3 66 (5.11%) React
4 58 (4.49%) FIX Protocol
5 46 (3.56%) Kafka
6 41 (3.17%) HTML
7 38 (2.94%) CSS
8 32 (2.48%) Web Services
8 32 (2.48%) YAML
9 31 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
9 31 (2.40%) XML
10 28 (2.17%) Node.js
11 27 (2.09%) JSON
11 27 (2.09%) LDAP
12 25 (1.93%) Middleware
12 25 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (1.86%) ASP.NET
14 20 (1.55%) AngularJS
15 19 (1.47%) SOAP
16 16 (1.24%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.15%) Social Media
2 82 (6.35%) Public Cloud
3 80 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 64 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (4.26%) PKI
6 48 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 47 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
8 46 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 45 (3.48%) Cloud Native
10 40 (3.10%) Replication
11 37 (2.86%) Hedge funds
12 34 (2.63%) Legacy Code
13 33 (2.55%) Clustering
14 32 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 31 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
16 30 (2.32%) FPGA
17 26 (2.01%) Algorithms
18 25 (1.93%) Client/Server
18 25 (1.93%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 478 (37.00%) Windows
2 262 (20.28%) Ubuntu
3 212 (16.41%) Unix
4 131 (10.14%) Windows Server
5 109 (8.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 72 (5.57%) CentOS
7 49 (3.79%) VMS
8 46 (3.56%) Solaris
9 32 (2.48%) Android
10 29 (2.24%) Apple iOS
10 29 (2.24%) Kali Linux
11 26 (2.01%) Debian
12 25 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
13 24 (1.86%) Mac OS
14 22 (1.70%) Windows 10
14 22 (1.70%) zOS
15 18 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
16 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
17 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
18 14 (1.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (23.53%) DevOps
2 272 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
3 224 (17.34%) Agile
4 210 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (15.48%) Software Engineering
6 198 (15.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 194 (15.02%) CI/CD
8 151 (11.69%) IT Strategy
9 150 (11.61%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (11.07%) CRM
11 136 (10.53%) Computer Science
12 120 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 113 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 95 (7.35%) Containerisation
15 84 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
16 82 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 77 (5.96%) Fintech
18 74 (5.73%) Application Security
19 73 (5.65%) Mentoring
20 71 (5.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 433 (33.51%) Python
2 336 (26.01%) Bash
3 266 (20.59%) SQL
4 178 (13.78%) PowerShell
5 164 (12.69%) Java
6 130 (10.06%) C
7 115 (8.90%) C++
8 108 (8.36%) C#
9 99 (7.66%) JavaScript
10 81 (6.27%) Perl
11 68 (5.26%) Go
12 53 (4.10%) Rust
13 47 (3.64%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.86%) Ruby
15 24 (1.86%) TypeScript
16 15 (1.16%) PHP
17 13 (1.01%) Groovy
18 12 (0.93%) Korn
19 11 (0.85%) Scala
20 8 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (16.41%) Degree
2 150 (11.61%) Security Cleared
3 95 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (5.73%) DV Cleared
5 59 (4.57%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.86%) CCNA
10 19 (1.47%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (1.32%) CISSP
13 15 (1.16%) CISA
14 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (1.01%) MCSE
16 12 (0.93%) MCSA
16 12 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.01%) SLA
2 23 (1.78%) QA
3 19 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.47%) NIST
4 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.54%) GDPR
7 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.46%) ITGC
7 6 (0.46%) PMO
8 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.31%) GRC
9 4 (0.31%) JTAG
9 4 (0.31%) MiFID
10 3 (0.23%) COBIT
10 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 300 (23.22%) Active Directory
2 185 (14.32%) Docker
3 124 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (3.10%) vSphere
5 38 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.32%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.24%) KVM
9 11 (0.85%) vCloud
10 9 (0.70%) NFS
11 8 (0.62%) Ceph
12 6 (0.46%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (0.46%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.39%) Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) XenApp
15 3 (0.23%) LXC
15 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 236 (18.27%) Kubernetes
2 218 (16.87%) Ansible
3 197 (15.25%) Terraform
4 161 (12.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.15%) Jamf Pro
6 77 (5.96%) Puppet
7 54 (4.18%) Progress Chef
8 44 (3.41%) Grafana
8 44 (3.41%) Prometheus
9 33 (2.55%) SCCM
10 21 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
11 19 (1.47%) Nagios
11 19 (1.47%) vCenter Server
12 17 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
13 14 (1.08%) HAProxy
13 14 (1.08%) Nessus
14 11 (0.85%) Graphite
15 10 (0.77%) WSUS
16 8 (0.62%) Salt
17 7 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 331 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 178 (13.78%) VMware
3 163 (12.62%) Oracle
4 150 (11.61%) Red Hat
5 144 (11.15%) CyberArk
5 144 (11.15%) Tanium
6 86 (6.66%) Cisco
7 48 (3.72%) Google
8 41 (3.17%) IBM
9 40 (3.10%) Palo Alto
10 39 (3.02%) Splunk
11 35 (2.71%) F5
12 29 (2.24%) Atlassian
13 27 (2.09%) Bloomberg
14 26 (2.01%) ION Trading
15 25 (1.93%) Qualys
15 25 (1.93%) Veeam
16 23 (1.78%) Citrix
17 22 (1.70%) Juniper
17 22 (1.70%) Reuters