Debian Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Debian skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Debian over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 800 1009
Rank change year-on-year +73 +209 -224
Permanent jobs citing Debian 172 180 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.23% 1.12% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 92 153 135
10th Percentile £31,150 £45,000 £31,675
25th Percentile £42,250 £54,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +36.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,875 £92,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year -13.42% +65.00% -12.50%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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 14,005 16,129 29,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.12% 15.97% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,789 10,915 16,509
10th Percentile £26,000 £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% - -

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Debian.

Salary trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +83 160 £52,500 -19.23% 21
UK excluding London +59 137 £50,000 -13.42% 15
South East +41 43 £75,000 +36.36% 4
South West +11 36 £44,000 -12.00% 3
Work from Home -8 36 £60,000 -1.64% 7
London +34 25 £65,000 -3.70% 6
Midlands - 20 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands - 18 £50,000 - 4
North of England +62 17 £22,000 -60.00% 1
East of England -10 17 £57,500 -8.00% 2
North West +17 16 £22,000 -62.80% 1
Scotland -59 3 £48,500 +29.33%
West Midlands - 2 £32,000 - 1
Wales - 1 £50,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £40,681 -

Debian
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 28 (16.28%) Apache
2 26 (15.12%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.49%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.74%) IIS
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.91%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 97 (56.40%) Azure
2 57 (33.14%) AWS
3 47 (27.33%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (23.26%) IBM Cloud
5 32 (18.60%) GCP
6 28 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (15.12%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (15.12%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (15.12%) OpenShift
7 26 (15.12%) Serverless
8 13 (7.56%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.91%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.74%) AWS IoT
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.16%) CloudFront
13 2 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.12%) AMQP
2 19 (11.05%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.40%) Internet
4 9 (5.23%) VLAN
5 7 (4.07%) VPN
6 6 (3.49%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (3.49%) VSAN
7 5 (2.91%) DNS
7 5 (2.91%) Firewall
8 4 (2.33%) RTP
9 3 (1.74%) DHCP
9 3 (1.74%) Wireless
10 2 (1.16%) BGP
10 2 (1.16%) GPON
10 2 (1.16%) OSPF
10 2 (1.16%) PPP
11 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.58%) HSRP
11 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.58%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.28%) Big Data
1 28 (16.28%) Hadoop
2 26 (15.12%) Cloudera CDH
3 15 (8.72%) MySQL
3 15 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.56%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.81%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.07%) Ingres
8 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.23%) Git
2 6 (3.49%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 40 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 28 (16.28%) Aerospace
3 18 (10.47%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.23%) Finance
5 8 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.58%) Back Office
7 1 (0.58%) Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Electronics
7 1 (0.58%) Front Office
7 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (29.65%) Software Engineer
2 38 (22.09%) Linux Engineer
3 26 (15.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (12.79%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (9.30%) Administrator
6 15 (8.72%) Systems Administrator
7 13 (7.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 12 (6.98%) Linux Administrator
9 11 (6.40%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.81%) Ubuntu Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Lead
13 6 (3.49%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.49%) Network Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.49%) QA Engineer
14 5 (2.91%) 3rd Line Support
14 5 (2.91%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 5 (2.91%) IT Engineer
14 5 (2.91%) IT Support
14 5 (2.91%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.12%) AngularJS
1 26 (15.12%) gRPC
1 26 (15.12%) Material-UI
1 26 (15.12%) Node.js
1 26 (15.12%) OpenAPI
1 26 (15.12%) RabbitMQ
1 26 (15.12%) React
1 26 (15.12%) REST
1 26 (15.12%) Spring
1 26 (15.12%) Spring Boot
1 26 (15.12%) Swagger
2 10 (5.81%) GTK
3 7 (4.07%) EDI
4 4 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.33%) XMPP
5 2 (1.16%) LDAP
5 2 (1.16%) Qt
6 1 (0.58%) Kafka
6 1 (0.58%) SAML
6 1 (0.58%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 40 (23.26%) Blockchain
1 40 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (23.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (15.12%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.30%) PKI
4 10 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.74%) IoT
6 3 (1.74%) Replication
7 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Derivative
8 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.58%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (100.00%) Linux
2 91 (52.91%) Ubuntu
3 86 (50.00%) CentOS
4 40 (23.26%) Alpine Linux
4 40 (23.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (16.86%) Windows
6 11 (6.40%) SUSE
7 10 (5.81%) Unix
8 8 (4.65%) Solaris
9 5 (2.91%) Windows Server
10 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.16%) Fedora
12 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.58%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.58%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.63%) DevOps
2 52 (30.23%) Configuration Management
3 51 (29.65%) Software Engineering
4 47 (27.33%) CI/CD
5 44 (25.58%) Open Source
6 42 (24.42%) Artificial Intelligence
7 40 (23.26%) Co-Creation
7 40 (23.26%) Data Science
7 40 (23.26%) Functional Testing
7 40 (23.26%) Separation of Concerns
7 40 (23.26%) Task Automation
7 40 (23.26%) Technology Transformation
8 39 (22.67%) Containerisation
9 33 (19.19%) Agile
10 28 (16.28%) Collaborative Working
11 26 (15.12%) API Development
11 26 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (15.12%) Microservices
11 26 (15.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 26 (15.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.02%) Python
2 49 (28.49%) Bash
3 29 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 28 (16.28%) Java
5 22 (12.79%) C
6 21 (12.21%) SQL
7 14 (8.14%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.40%) C++
9 4 (2.33%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.74%) AWK
10 3 (1.74%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.74%) sed
11 2 (1.16%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Go
11 2 (1.16%) Perl
11 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (28.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (27.33%) MCSE
3 43 (25.00%) MCSA
4 40 (23.26%) Azure Certification
5 33 (19.19%) Security Cleared
6 29 (16.86%) Degree
7 28 (16.28%) DV Cleared
8 27 (15.70%) SC Cleared
9 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.33%) CCNA
11 4 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.74%) RHCT
13 2 (1.16%) CCNP
13 2 (1.16%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.58%) HNC
14 1 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.65%) PMO
2 7 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.49%) QA
4 4 (2.33%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) MISRA
System Software
1 45 (26.16%) Docker
2 19 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (5.81%) vSphere
4 5 (2.91%) KVM
5 3 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.16%) Firmware
7 1 (0.58%) LXC
7 1 (0.58%) Samba
7 1 (0.58%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 74 (43.02%) Kubernetes
2 69 (40.12%) Terraform
3 34 (19.77%) Ansible
4 32 (18.60%) Puppet
5 7 (4.07%) ZABBIX
6 6 (3.49%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.33%) Podman
7 4 (2.33%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.16%) Icinga
8 2 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.16%) Nagios
9 1 (0.58%) Juju
9 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 88 (51.16%) Red Hat
2 40 (23.26%) IBM
3 37 (21.51%) VMware
4 26 (15.12%) Google
4 26 (15.12%) SaltStack
5 18 (10.47%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.33%) Citrix
7 3 (1.74%) Veeam
8 2 (1.16%) Juniper
8 2 (1.16%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.16%) TP-LINK
8 2 (1.16%) ZyXEL
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) Fortinet