Debian Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Debian over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 749 1063
Rank change year-on-year +27 +314 -224
Permanent jobs citing Debian 183 172 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.27% 1.14% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 97 145 137
10th Percentile £31,900 £43,950 £29,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £49,150
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +32.25% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £87,500 £71,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £37,550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +66.44% -16.56%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,390 15,119 32,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.10% 16.35% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,771 10,301 16,333
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
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 £91,250 £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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +34 172 £52,500 -19.23% 28
UK excluding London +18 145 £50,000 -20.00% 24
South East +8 46 £52,500 -16.00% 7
Work from Home -29 42 £60,000 -4.00% 14
South West -11 38 £52,500 -2.78%
London +29 30 £65,000 -3.70% 4
Midlands -18 20 £47,500 -26.92% 8
East of England -33 20 £57,500 -8.00% 7
East Midlands - 19 £50,000 - 7
North of England +20 16 £22,000 -57.39% 3
North West -11 15 £22,000 -65.08% 1
Scotland -67 4 £48,500 +29.33% 1
Yorkshire +64 1 £40,681 +1.66% 1
West Midlands -10 1 £32,000 -50.77% 1
Wales - 1 £50,000 - 1

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 29 (15.85%) Apache
1 29 (15.85%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.83%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.19%) Confluence
3 4 (2.19%) IIS
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.73%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 99 (54.10%) Azure
2 58 (31.69%) AWS
3 47 (25.68%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (21.86%) Azure AI
4 40 (21.86%) IBM Cloud
5 38 (20.77%) GCP
6 29 (15.85%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (15.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (15.85%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (15.85%) OpenShift
6 29 (15.85%) Serverless
7 14 (7.65%) Entra ID
8 12 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.73%) ClickUp
11 3 (1.64%) AWS IoT
11 3 (1.64%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.64%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.09%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.85%) AMQP
2 19 (10.38%) TCP/IP
3 13 (7.10%) VLAN
4 12 (6.56%) Firewall
4 12 (6.56%) VPN
5 8 (4.37%) DNS
5 8 (4.37%) Internet
6 7 (3.83%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.28%) DHCP
7 6 (3.28%) VSAN
8 5 (2.73%) BGP
8 5 (2.73%) OSPF
9 4 (2.19%) RTP
9 4 (2.19%) WAN
10 3 (1.64%) FTP
10 3 (1.64%) HTTP
10 3 (1.64%) HTTPS
10 3 (1.64%) LAN
10 3 (1.64%) RIP
10 3 (1.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.94%) Big Data
1 31 (16.94%) Hadoop
2 29 (15.85%) Cloudera CDH
3 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.20%) MySQL
6 10 (5.46%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.83%) Ingres
8 5 (2.73%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.09%) Redis
9 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.92%) JIRA
2 8 (4.37%) Git
3 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 40 (21.86%) Public Sector
2 31 (16.94%) Aerospace
3 18 (9.84%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.01%) Finance
5 8 (4.37%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.09%) Banking
6 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.55%) Back Office
7 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Electronics
7 1 (0.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (30.60%) Software Engineer
2 39 (21.31%) Linux Engineer
3 29 (15.85%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 19 (10.38%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (8.20%) Administrator
7 14 (7.65%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (7.10%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Linux Administrator
9 10 (5.46%) Ubuntu Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.92%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Junior
11 8 (4.37%) Lead
12 7 (3.83%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Network Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 6 (3.28%) 3rd Line Support
13 6 (3.28%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 6 (3.28%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.85%) AngularJS
1 29 (15.85%) gRPC
1 29 (15.85%) Material-UI
1 29 (15.85%) Node.js
1 29 (15.85%) OpenAPI
1 29 (15.85%) RabbitMQ
1 29 (15.85%) React
1 29 (15.85%) REST
1 29 (15.85%) Spring
1 29 (15.85%) Spring Boot
1 29 (15.85%) Swagger
2 10 (5.46%) GTK
3 7 (3.83%) EDI
4 5 (2.73%) LDAP
5 4 (2.19%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.19%) Kafka
5 4 (2.19%) XMPP
6 2 (1.09%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.09%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.86%) Blockchain
1 40 (21.86%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (21.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 29 (15.85%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.74%) PKI
4 10 (5.46%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.83%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.64%) IoT
7 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.64%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.55%) Derivative
9 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.55%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.55%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 183 (100.00%) Linux
2 92 (50.27%) CentOS
2 92 (50.27%) Ubuntu
3 47 (25.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (22.95%) Alpine Linux
5 31 (16.94%) Windows
6 11 (6.01%) SUSE
7 9 (4.92%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.19%) Unix
8 4 (2.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.64%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.09%) Fedora
10 2 (1.09%) Rocky
10 2 (1.09%) Solaris
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.55%) openSUSE
11 1 (0.55%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.07%) DevOps
2 56 (30.60%) Configuration Management
2 56 (30.60%) Software Engineering
3 47 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 44 (24.04%) Open Source
5 41 (22.40%) Artificial Intelligence
5 41 (22.40%) Containerisation
6 40 (21.86%) Co-Creation
6 40 (21.86%) Data Science
6 40 (21.86%) Functional Testing
6 40 (21.86%) Separation of Concerns
6 40 (21.86%) Task Automation
6 40 (21.86%) Technology Transformation
7 37 (20.22%) Agile
8 32 (17.49%) Collaborative Working
9 29 (15.85%) API Development
9 29 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (15.85%) Microservices
9 29 (15.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 29 (15.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (43.17%) Python
2 49 (26.78%) Bash
3 34 (18.58%) Java
4 31 (16.94%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.02%) C
6 19 (10.38%) SQL
7 11 (6.01%) C++
8 10 (5.46%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.73%) C#
10 4 (2.19%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.19%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.64%) AWK
11 3 (1.64%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.64%) Perl
11 3 (1.64%) sed
12 1 (0.55%) Go
12 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (27.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (26.23%) MCSE
3 44 (24.04%) MCSA
4 40 (21.86%) Azure Certification
5 38 (20.77%) Security Cleared
6 34 (18.58%) DV Cleared
7 31 (16.94%) Degree
8 29 (15.85%) SC Cleared
9 11 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.19%) CCNA
11 4 (2.19%) RHCT
11 4 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.09%) CCNP
12 2 (1.09%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.55%) HNC
13 1 (0.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.37%) PMO
2 7 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.73%) QA
4 4 (2.19%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) MISRA
System Software
1 49 (26.78%) Docker
2 24 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 24 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.10%) vSphere
4 10 (5.46%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.28%) KVM
6 5 (2.73%) Firmware
7 4 (2.19%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.64%) NFS
8 3 (1.64%) pfSense
8 3 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.55%) LXC
10 1 (0.55%) Samba
Systems Management
1 83 (45.36%) Kubernetes
2 74 (40.44%) Terraform
3 40 (21.86%) Ansible
4 38 (20.77%) Puppet
5 9 (4.92%) ZABBIX
6 6 (3.28%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.19%) Podman
8 3 (1.64%) SCCM
9 2 (1.09%) Grafana
9 2 (1.09%) Icinga
9 2 (1.09%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.09%) Nagios
9 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.55%) Juju
10 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 95 (51.91%) Red Hat
2 41 (22.40%) VMware
3 40 (21.86%) IBM
4 30 (16.39%) Google
5 29 (15.85%) SaltStack
6 23 (12.57%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.37%) Citrix
8 3 (1.64%) Aruba
8 3 (1.64%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.64%) Cisco
8 3 (1.64%) NetApp
8 3 (1.64%) QNAP
8 3 (1.64%) Synology
8 3 (1.64%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (1.64%) Veeam
9 2 (1.09%) Juniper
9 2 (1.09%) MikroTik
9 2 (1.09%) TP-LINK
9 2 (1.09%) ZyXEL
10 1 (0.55%) Apple