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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 728 771 1067
Rank change year-on-year +43 +296 -247
Permanent jobs citing Debian 178 175 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.26% 1.13% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 92 148 136
10th Percentile £31,150 £44,475 £28,588
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £64,500 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +33.68% -3.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £82,875 £87,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +66.67% -11.76%

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 14,112 15,500 31,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 16.35% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,734 10,456 16,364
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 £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 2 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 2 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 +61 166 £52,500 -19.23% 19
UK excluding London +28 142 £50,000 -20.00% 16
South East +22 44 £63,750 +2.00% 4
Work from Home -16 40 £62,500 - 7
South West +2 39 £52,500 -2.78%
London +38 27 £65,000 -3.70% 4
Midlands +8 20 £50,000 -23.08% 5
East of England -31 18 £57,500 -8.00% 3
East Midlands - 18 £50,000 - 4
North of England +42 16 £22,000 -57.39% 2
North West 0 15 £22,000 -65.08%
Scotland -67 4 £48,500 +29.33% 2
West Midlands -9 2 £32,000 -50.77% 1
Yorkshire +59 1 £40,681 +1.66% 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 (16.29%) Apache
1 29 (16.29%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.93%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.25%) IIS
3 4 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.81%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.62%) Azure
2 60 (33.71%) AWS
3 47 (26.40%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.47%) IBM Cloud
5 38 (21.35%) GCP
6 30 (16.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (16.29%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (16.29%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (16.29%) OpenShift
7 29 (16.29%) Serverless
8 14 (7.87%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.81%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.69%) AWS IoT
13 2 (1.12%) GitHub
13 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.12%) Sentry
14 1 (0.56%) Amazon ELB
14 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.29%) AMQP
2 19 (10.67%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.18%) VLAN
4 9 (5.06%) Internet
4 9 (5.06%) VPN
5 7 (3.93%) Firewall
5 7 (3.93%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (3.37%) DNS
6 6 (3.37%) VSAN
7 4 (2.25%) DHCP
7 4 (2.25%) RTP
8 3 (1.69%) BGP
8 3 (1.69%) OSPF
8 3 (1.69%) Wireless
9 2 (1.12%) GPON
9 2 (1.12%) PPP
9 2 (1.12%) WAN
10 1 (0.56%) HSRP
10 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.56%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.42%) Big Data
1 31 (17.42%) Hadoop
2 29 (16.29%) Cloudera CDH
3 17 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.87%) MySQL
4 14 (7.87%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.62%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.93%) Ingres
8 3 (1.69%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.49%) Git
2 6 (3.37%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 40 (22.47%) Public Sector
2 31 (17.42%) Aerospace
3 17 (9.55%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.62%) Finance
5 8 (4.49%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.56%) Back Office
7 1 (0.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Electronics
7 1 (0.56%) Front Office
7 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (31.46%) Software Engineer
2 38 (21.35%) Linux Engineer
3 29 (16.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 20 (11.24%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) Administrator
6 14 (7.87%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (6.18%) Linux Administrator
7 11 (6.18%) Support Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.62%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Ubuntu Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Lead
10 7 (3.93%) Network Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Network Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) 3rd Line Support
11 6 (3.37%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Junior
12 5 (2.81%) Junior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.29%) AngularJS
1 29 (16.29%) gRPC
1 29 (16.29%) Material-UI
1 29 (16.29%) Node.js
1 29 (16.29%) OpenAPI
1 29 (16.29%) RabbitMQ
1 29 (16.29%) React
1 29 (16.29%) REST
1 29 (16.29%) Spring
1 29 (16.29%) Spring Boot
1 29 (16.29%) Swagger
2 10 (5.62%) GTK
3 7 (3.93%) EDI
4 4 (2.25%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.25%) Kafka
4 4 (2.25%) XMPP
5 2 (1.12%) Django
5 2 (1.12%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.12%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.47%) Blockchain
1 40 (22.47%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (22.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 29 (16.29%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.99%) PKI
4 10 (5.62%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.69%) IoT
6 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.69%) Replication
7 2 (1.12%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Derivative
8 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.56%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 178 (100.00%) Linux
2 91 (51.12%) Ubuntu
3 90 (50.56%) CentOS
4 45 (25.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (23.60%) Alpine Linux
6 28 (15.73%) Windows
7 11 (6.18%) SUSE
8 7 (3.93%) Windows Server
9 5 (2.81%) Unix
10 4 (2.25%) Solaris
10 4 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.12%) Fedora
12 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.56%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.56%) Scientific Linux
12 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.08%) DevOps
2 56 (31.46%) Software Engineering
3 54 (30.34%) Configuration Management
4 47 (26.40%) CI/CD
5 45 (25.28%) Open Source
6 42 (23.60%) Artificial Intelligence
6 42 (23.60%) Containerisation
7 40 (22.47%) Co-Creation
7 40 (22.47%) Data Science
7 40 (22.47%) Functional Testing
7 40 (22.47%) Separation of Concerns
7 40 (22.47%) Task Automation
7 40 (22.47%) Technology Transformation
8 37 (20.79%) Agile
9 31 (17.42%) Collaborative Working
10 29 (16.29%) API Development
10 29 (16.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (16.29%) Microservices
10 29 (16.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 29 (16.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (44.38%) Python
2 47 (26.40%) Bash
3 32 (17.98%) Java
4 31 (17.42%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.36%) C
6 20 (11.24%) SQL
7 12 (6.74%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.18%) C++
9 4 (2.25%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.69%) AWK
10 3 (1.69%) C#
10 3 (1.69%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.69%) sed
11 2 (1.12%) Perl
11 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (28.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (26.97%) MCSE
3 44 (24.72%) MCSA
4 40 (22.47%) Azure Certification
5 38 (21.35%) Security Cleared
6 34 (19.10%) DV Cleared
7 31 (17.42%) Degree
8 29 (16.29%) SC Cleared
9 11 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.25%) CCNA
11 4 (2.25%) RHCT
11 4 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.12%) CCNP
12 2 (1.12%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.56%) HNC
13 1 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) PMO
2 7 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.81%) QA
4 4 (2.25%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) MISRA
System Software
1 48 (26.97%) Docker
2 22 (12.36%) Active Directory
3 20 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.18%) vSphere
5 10 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.37%) KVM
7 4 (2.25%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.69%) Firmware
9 1 (0.56%) LXC
9 1 (0.56%) NFS
9 1 (0.56%) pfSense
9 1 (0.56%) Samba
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (44.94%) Kubernetes
2 73 (41.01%) Terraform
3 37 (20.79%) Ansible
4 35 (19.66%) Puppet
5 8 (4.49%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.25%) Podman
6 4 (2.25%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.12%) Grafana
8 2 (1.12%) Icinga
8 2 (1.12%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.12%) Nagios
9 1 (0.56%) Juju
9 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 95 (53.37%) Red Hat
2 40 (22.47%) IBM
3 38 (21.35%) VMware
4 29 (16.29%) Google
4 29 (16.29%) SaltStack
5 20 (11.24%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.37%) Citrix
7 3 (1.69%) Veeam
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco
8 2 (1.12%) Juniper
8 2 (1.12%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.12%) TP-LINK
8 2 (1.12%) ZyXEL
9 1 (0.56%) Aruba
9 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.56%) NetApp
9 1 (0.56%) QNAP
9 1 (0.56%) Synology
9 1 (0.56%) Ubiquiti