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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 34 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,749 7,320 14,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.86% 7.04% 9.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.84% 44.08% 48.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,822 4,571 6,763
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £35,000
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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,875 £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 14,077 16,606 29,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 15.96% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,883 11,199 16,775
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,450
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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +6 5,049 £55,343 -14.86% 1,253
UK excluding London -2 4,259 £52,500 - 885
Work from Home -1 2,228 £57,500 -8.00% 601
London -2 1,301 £75,000 -6.25% 406
South East -2 1,165 £55,000 +10.00% 234
South West +4 836 £54,000 -1.82% 178
North of England +21 829 £50,000 - 143
North West +24 523 £52,500 +0.96% 85
Midlands +9 467 £50,000 -9.09% 124
East of England +11 423 £52,500 -8.70% 142
Scotland -36 361 £52,500 -4.55% 72
East Midlands +16 261 £50,000 -9.09% 58
Yorkshire +13 253 £47,500 -5.00% 50
West Midlands -4 206 £53,250 -3.18% 66
Wales +33 136 £50,000 - 10
North East -18 53 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Northern Ireland 0 46 £61,250 +20.69% 4
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
1 253 (4.40%) Apache
2 180 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 120 (2.09%) nginx
4 107 (1.86%) WebLogic
5 106 (1.84%) IIS
5 106 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 101 (1.76%) Confluence
7 59 (1.03%) Apache Spark
8 58 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 56 (0.97%) OpenStack
10 55 (0.96%) ArcGIS
11 51 (0.89%) Tomcat
12 48 (0.83%) GeoServer
13 45 (0.78%) Oracle Service Bus
14 28 (0.49%) Captiva
14 28 (0.49%) FileNet
15 26 (0.45%) WordPress
16 24 (0.42%) Jupyter
17 20 (0.35%) JBoss
18 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 131 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.45%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) GNU Octave
6 9 (0.16%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.087%) Trello
9 4 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.070%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.070%) 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 50 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 48 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 18 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
4 16 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 14 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.087%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.070%) 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%) FLEXCUBE
12 1 (0.017%) Misys Opics
12 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
12 1 (0.017%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,795 (31.22%) Azure
2 1,352 (23.52%) AWS
3 376 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
4 333 (5.79%) Entra ID
5 328 (5.71%) GCP
6 271 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
7 265 (4.61%) IBM Cloud
8 244 (4.24%) Serverless
9 196 (3.41%) GitHub
10 174 (3.03%) SaaS
11 154 (2.68%) OpenShift
12 144 (2.50%) Amazon S3
13 138 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
14 129 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
15 126 (2.19%) Azure Functions
16 123 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
17 120 (2.09%) Azure API Management
18 104 (1.81%) IaaS
19 99 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
20 88 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 793 (13.79%) Firewall
2 463 (8.05%) DNS
3 418 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 313 (5.44%) VPN
5 270 (4.70%) DHCP
6 255 (4.44%) 5G
7 234 (4.07%) Broadband
8 226 (3.93%) WAN
9 219 (3.81%) SAN
10 207 (3.60%) Internet
11 191 (3.32%) LAN
12 165 (2.87%) Wireless
13 141 (2.45%) Network Security
14 113 (1.97%) SNMP
15 111 (1.93%) HTTP
16 105 (1.83%) VLAN
17 101 (1.76%) BGP
17 101 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
18 96 (1.67%) SSL
19 90 (1.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 495 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
2 437 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 396 (6.89%) SQL Server
4 369 (6.42%) MySQL
5 334 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 285 (4.96%) Relational Database
7 273 (4.75%) DB2
8 153 (2.66%) Oracle Database
9 127 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 120 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
11 96 (1.67%) Big Data
12 76 (1.32%) RDBMS
13 68 (1.18%) GIS
14 56 (0.97%) Redis
15 53 (0.92%) Power BI
16 50 (0.87%) Hadoop
17 48 (0.83%) QGIS
18 46 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
19 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
19 45 (0.78%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 421 (7.32%) Git
2 371 (6.45%) JIRA
3 329 (5.72%) Jenkins
4 173 (3.01%) GitLab
5 104 (1.81%) Subversion
6 68 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 65 (1.13%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.68%) 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 (0.49%) Ant
14 25 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 25 (0.43%) Maven
15 23 (0.40%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.38%) CircleCI
17 21 (0.37%) CMake
General
1 1,226 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 893 (15.53%) Finance
3 683 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 569 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 465 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 253 (4.40%) Banking
7 250 (4.35%) Aerospace
8 213 (3.70%) Electronics
9 199 (3.46%) Telecoms
10 183 (3.18%) Law
11 182 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 164 (2.85%) Marketing
13 121 (2.10%) Retail
14 83 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 77 (1.34%) Military
16 75 (1.30%) Legal
17 71 (1.23%) Automotive
18 55 (0.96%) Front Office
19 52 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
20 48 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,133 (19.71%) Senior
2 990 (17.22%) Software Engineer
3 752 (13.08%) Developer
4 530 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 414 (7.20%) Lead
6 391 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 357 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
8 320 (5.57%) Embedded Engineer
9 315 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 303 (5.27%) Support Engineer
11 292 (5.08%) Architect
12 266 (4.63%) Analyst
13 257 (4.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 236 (4.11%) Administrator
15 223 (3.88%) Linux Specialist
16 216 (3.76%) Technical Specialist
17 207 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
18 184 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
19 181 (3.15%) Full Stack Developer
20 176 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (8.71%) React
2 492 (8.56%) HTML
3 435 (7.57%) REST
4 434 (7.55%) CSS
5 425 (7.39%) .NET
6 340 (5.91%) Web Services
7 328 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 306 (5.32%) Node.js
9 293 (5.10%) jQuery
10 282 (4.91%) Vue
11 257 (4.47%) ASP.NET
12 231 (4.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 223 (3.88%) ASP.NET Core
13 223 (3.88%) Backbone.js
13 223 (3.88%) Ember.js
14 182 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
15 143 (2.49%) XML
16 110 (1.91%) YAML
17 101 (1.76%) Middleware
18 98 (1.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 389 (6.77%) Algorithms
2 377 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 349 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 312 (5.43%) Public Cloud
5 267 (4.64%) Blockchain
6 238 (4.14%) Data Structures
7 211 (3.67%) Social Media
8 206 (3.58%) IoT
9 172 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 157 (2.73%) Management Information System
11 152 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
12 142 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
13 138 (2.40%) Cloud Native
14 124 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
15 119 (2.07%) PKI
16 105 (1.83%) Replication
17 104 (1.81%) e-Learning
18 95 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
19 70 (1.22%) Client/Server
20 69 (1.20%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 2,387 (41.52%) Windows
2 606 (10.54%) Unix
3 601 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 583 (10.14%) Ubuntu
5 423 (7.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 325 (5.65%) CentOS
7 324 (5.64%) Android
8 289 (5.03%) Apple iOS
9 258 (4.49%) Embedded Linux
10 175 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
11 169 (2.94%) Debian
12 128 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 121 (2.10%) Windows 10
14 118 (2.05%) Solaris
15 116 (2.02%) Mac OS
16 114 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
17 67 (1.17%) VMS
18 57 (0.99%) AIX
19 55 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
20 46 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,378 (23.97%) Software Engineering
2 1,299 (22.60%) DevOps
3 1,270 (22.09%) Agile
4 974 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 741 (12.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 735 (12.78%) CI/CD
7 670 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
8 650 (11.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 561 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 528 (9.18%) Computer Science
11 510 (8.87%) Actionable Insight
12 415 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 407 (7.08%) OO
14 397 (6.91%) Full Stack Development
15 383 (6.66%) Containerisation
16 352 (6.12%) Web Development
17 336 (5.84%) ITIL
17 336 (5.84%) User Experience
18 331 (5.76%) Project Management
19 320 (5.57%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,818 (31.62%) Python
2 1,193 (20.75%) SQL
3 936 (16.28%) Bash
4 902 (15.69%) Java
5 813 (14.14%) C
6 752 (13.08%) JavaScript
7 642 (11.17%) C++
8 620 (10.78%) PowerShell
9 591 (10.28%) C#
10 199 (3.46%) Shell Script
11 196 (3.41%) PHP
12 180 (3.13%) Perl
13 168 (2.92%) Embedded C
14 137 (2.38%) Go
15 134 (2.33%) Rust
16 132 (2.30%) TypeScript
17 113 (1.97%) PL/SQL
18 97 (1.69%) Ruby
19 78 (1.36%) VB
20 44 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,160 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 996 (17.32%) Degree
3 619 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 456 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 322 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 180 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 159 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 153 (2.66%) CCNA
9 143 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 133 (2.31%) AWS Certification
11 122 (2.12%) Master's Degree
12 117 (2.04%) MCSE
13 83 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 79 (1.37%) MCSA
15 68 (1.18%) PhD
16 56 (0.97%) CCNP
17 44 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 41 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
19 38 (0.66%) CISSP
20 36 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (2.45%) SLA
2 111 (1.93%) QA
3 86 (1.50%) GDPR
4 72 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (0.70%) NIST
6 39 (0.68%) PMO
7 32 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.31%) ITGC
11 17 (0.30%) NCSC
12 15 (0.26%) ISO 13485
13 13 (0.23%) JTAG
13 13 (0.23%) MISRA
14 9 (0.16%) Data Quality
14 9 (0.16%) GRC
15 8 (0.14%) IEC 62304
15 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.14%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 851 (14.80%) Active Directory
2 795 (13.83%) Docker
3 612 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 279 (4.85%) Hyper-V
5 147 (2.56%) Firmware
6 139 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
7 134 (2.33%) vSphere
8 106 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
10 54 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
11 37 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 31 (0.54%) KVM
12 31 (0.54%) VMware NSX
13 23 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
14 22 (0.38%) NFS
15 18 (0.31%) pfSense
15 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
16 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
17 15 (0.26%) vCloud
18 9 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 964 (16.77%) Kubernetes
2 858 (14.92%) Ansible
3 650 (11.31%) Terraform
4 312 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 282 (4.91%) Puppet
6 216 (3.76%) Jamf Pro
7 162 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 147 (2.56%) Prometheus
9 139 (2.42%) Progress Chef
10 136 (2.37%) Grafana
11 110 (1.91%) SCCM
12 73 (1.27%) ZABBIX
13 72 (1.25%) SCOM
14 66 (1.15%) WSUS
15 62 (1.08%) Nagios
16 56 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
17 52 (0.90%) Data Guard
18 38 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 36 (0.63%) FortiGate
20 33 (0.57%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1,110 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 881 (15.32%) VMware
3 738 (12.84%) Red Hat
4 595 (10.35%) Oracle
5 397 (6.91%) IBM
6 317 (5.51%) Cisco
7 215 (3.74%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.69%) Tanium
9 176 (3.06%) Google
10 159 (2.77%) Veeam
11 128 (2.23%) NetApp
12 118 (2.05%) Palo Alto
13 108 (1.88%) SAP
14 90 (1.57%) Citrix
14 90 (1.57%) Splunk
15 89 (1.55%) Dell
16 83 (1.44%) Juniper
17 78 (1.36%) Atlassian
18 69 (1.20%) EMC
19 68 (1.18%) Remedy