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 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 34 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,926 6,755 15,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.63% 7.13% 9.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.99% 43.58% 48.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,868 4,254 6,607
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £35,960
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £98,000
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 14,112 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% - -

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 2 June 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 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 +3 5,239 £55,000 -13.39% 1,283
UK excluding London -2 4,434 £52,500 - 891
Work from Home -1 2,254 £57,500 -8.00% 556
London -7 1,298 £75,000 -3.23% 455
South East -3 1,219 £55,000 +10.00% 242
South West +2 881 £52,500 -4.55% 180
North of England +16 841 £50,000 - 152
North West +19 534 £52,500 -4.55% 94
Midlands +21 524 £50,000 -9.09% 112
East of England +12 444 £54,000 -6.09% 141
Scotland -46 351 £51,000 -7.27% 79
East Midlands +29 301 £50,000 -13.04% 50
Yorkshire +14 250 £46,304 -2.52% 49
West Midlands -11 223 £54,000 -1.82% 62
Wales +18 130 £47,500 -5.00% 14
North East -15 57 £52,500 +20.69% 9
Northern Ireland -10 43 £52,500 +3.45% 6
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

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
1 273 (4.61%) Apache
2 186 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 118 (1.99%) nginx
4 115 (1.94%) IIS
5 106 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 103 (1.74%) WebLogic
7 88 (1.48%) Confluence
8 68 (1.15%) Apache Spark
9 58 (0.98%) Tomcat
10 55 (0.93%) ArcGIS
10 55 (0.93%) OpenStack
11 48 (0.81%) GeoServer
12 44 (0.74%) Oracle Service Bus
13 37 (0.62%) WebSphere
14 25 (0.42%) Jupyter
15 22 (0.37%) JBoss
15 22 (0.37%) WordPress
16 18 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
17 11 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
17 11 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 135 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 47 (0.79%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) GNU Octave
5 11 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.084%) Trello
9 4 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.067%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.034%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.034%) CATIA
11 2 (0.034%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.034%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.017%) 1Password
12 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 53 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 48 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 17 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.084%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.067%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.051%) Maximo
10 2 (0.034%) C-CURE
10 2 (0.034%) Magento
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.034%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 2 (0.034%) Shopify
11 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,780 (30.04%) Azure
2 1,375 (23.20%) AWS
3 376 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
4 344 (5.80%) Entra ID
5 285 (4.81%) GCP
6 278 (4.69%) IBM Cloud
7 256 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 237 (4.00%) Serverless
9 187 (3.16%) SaaS
10 161 (2.72%) GitHub
11 158 (2.67%) OpenShift
12 139 (2.35%) Amazon S3
13 135 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
13 135 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 132 (2.23%) Azure Functions
15 129 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
16 126 (2.13%) Azure API Management
17 98 (1.65%) IaaS
18 90 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
19 85 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 794 (13.40%) Firewall
2 471 (7.95%) DNS
3 418 (7.05%) TCP/IP
4 307 (5.18%) VPN
5 276 (4.66%) DHCP
6 255 (4.30%) 5G
7 234 (3.95%) Broadband
8 227 (3.83%) WAN
9 222 (3.75%) SAN
10 212 (3.58%) Internet
11 195 (3.29%) LAN
12 164 (2.77%) Wireless
13 152 (2.56%) Network Security
14 114 (1.92%) HTTP
15 108 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
16 106 (1.79%) SNMP
17 103 (1.74%) VLAN
18 100 (1.69%) SSL
19 94 (1.59%) BGP
20 93 (1.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 513 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 453 (7.64%) MongoDB
3 404 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 380 (6.41%) NoSQL
5 355 (5.99%) MySQL
6 295 (4.98%) DB2
7 289 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 163 (2.75%) Oracle Database
9 127 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 105 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 99 (1.67%) Big Data
12 71 (1.20%) RDBMS
13 69 (1.16%) GIS
14 58 (0.98%) Hadoop
15 57 (0.96%) Redis
16 53 (0.89%) Power BI
17 48 (0.81%) QGIS
18 45 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
19 44 (0.74%) Oracle Database 10g
19 44 (0.74%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 425 (7.17%) Git
2 352 (5.94%) JIRA
3 318 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 153 (2.58%) GitLab
5 99 (1.67%) Subversion
6 67 (1.13%) Visual Studio
7 64 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 31 (0.52%) Artifactory
10 30 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 28 (0.47%) Burp Suite
11 28 (0.47%) Metasploit
12 26 (0.44%) TeamCity
13 24 (0.40%) Ant
14 23 (0.39%) Robot Framework
15 20 (0.34%) CMake
15 20 (0.34%) Maven
16 19 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.30%) GDB
17 18 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,243 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 864 (14.58%) Finance
3 671 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 580 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 493 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 300 (5.06%) Aerospace
7 226 (3.81%) Electronics
8 221 (3.73%) Banking
9 200 (3.37%) Telecoms
10 185 (3.12%) Manufacturing
11 179 (3.02%) Law
12 156 (2.63%) Marketing
13 121 (2.04%) Retail
14 92 (1.55%) Automotive
15 82 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
16 78 (1.32%) Legal
17 74 (1.25%) Military
18 60 (1.01%) Front Office
19 49 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
20 42 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,152 (19.44%) Senior
2 1,045 (17.63%) Software Engineer
3 773 (13.04%) Developer
4 566 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 398 (6.72%) Lead
6 392 (6.61%) Linux Engineer
7 342 (5.77%) Embedded Engineer
8 338 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 336 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 327 (5.52%) Architect
11 282 (4.76%) Support Engineer
12 277 (4.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 267 (4.51%) Analyst
14 250 (4.22%) Administrator
15 215 (3.63%) Linux Specialist
15 215 (3.63%) Technical Specialist
16 198 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
17 188 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
18 181 (3.05%) IT Engineer
19 180 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 525 (8.86%) HTML
2 513 (8.66%) React
3 465 (7.85%) REST
4 463 (7.81%) CSS
5 441 (7.44%) .NET
6 371 (6.26%) Web Services
7 343 (5.79%) AngularJS
8 311 (5.25%) jQuery
9 308 (5.20%) Node.js
10 296 (4.99%) Vue
11 272 (4.59%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.02%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.02%) Ember.js
14 186 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
15 141 (2.38%) XML
16 127 (2.14%) Middleware
17 108 (1.82%) YAML
18 100 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 414 (6.99%) Algorithms
2 380 (6.41%) Data Centre
3 360 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 290 (4.89%) Public Cloud
5 280 (4.72%) Blockchain
6 257 (4.34%) Data Structures
7 210 (3.54%) Social Media
8 206 (3.48%) IoT
9 183 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
10 159 (2.68%) Management Information System
11 148 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
12 143 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
13 134 (2.26%) Cloud Native
14 125 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
15 116 (1.96%) e-Learning
16 114 (1.92%) PKI
17 106 (1.79%) Replication
18 98 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
19 79 (1.33%) FPGA
20 77 (1.30%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,428 (40.97%) Windows
2 627 (10.58%) Unix
3 611 (10.31%) Ubuntu
4 610 (10.29%) Windows Server
5 432 (7.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 357 (6.02%) Android
7 344 (5.80%) CentOS
8 302 (5.10%) Apple iOS
8 302 (5.10%) Embedded Linux
9 188 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 178 (3.00%) Debian
11 146 (2.46%) Solaris
12 127 (2.14%) Windows 10
12 127 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 125 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 88 (1.48%) Mac OS
15 68 (1.15%) VMS
16 64 (1.08%) AIX
17 56 (0.94%) Data ONTAP
18 50 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,432 (24.16%) Software Engineering
2 1,308 (22.07%) Agile
3 1,248 (21.06%) DevOps
4 1,001 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
5 787 (13.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 699 (11.80%) CI/CD
7 697 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 638 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
9 578 (9.75%) Computer Science
10 560 (9.45%) Mentoring
11 473 (7.98%) Actionable Insight
12 432 (7.29%) OO
13 424 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 405 (6.83%) Full Stack Development
15 374 (6.31%) Web Development
16 365 (6.16%) Containerisation
17 360 (6.07%) User Experience
18 353 (5.96%) Collaborative Working
19 339 (5.72%) OOP
20 332 (5.60%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1,853 (31.27%) Python
2 1,194 (20.15%) SQL
3 925 (15.61%) Java
4 919 (15.51%) Bash
5 873 (14.73%) C
6 777 (13.11%) JavaScript
7 718 (12.12%) C++
8 609 (10.28%) C#
9 599 (10.11%) PowerShell
10 197 (3.32%) Shell Script
11 190 (3.21%) PHP
12 182 (3.07%) Embedded C
13 175 (2.95%) Perl
14 145 (2.45%) Rust
15 129 (2.18%) Go
16 122 (2.06%) TypeScript
17 108 (1.82%) PL/SQL
18 94 (1.59%) Ruby
19 79 (1.33%) VB
20 58 (0.98%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,250 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,056 (17.82%) Degree
3 662 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 498 (8.40%) DV Cleared
5 351 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 178 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
7 156 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 151 (2.55%) CCNA
8 151 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 142 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 129 (2.18%) Master's Degree
11 110 (1.86%) MCSE
12 84 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 78 (1.32%) PhD
14 75 (1.27%) MCSA
15 59 (1.00%) CCNP
16 42 (0.71%) CISSP
17 40 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 39 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 37 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (2.51%) SLA
2 111 (1.87%) QA
3 70 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 66 (1.11%) GDPR
5 43 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 42 (0.71%) NIST
7 37 (0.62%) PMO
8 27 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.29%) ITGC
10 15 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.25%) ISO 13485
11 14 (0.24%) JTAG
11 14 (0.24%) MISRA
11 14 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.22%) NCSC
13 9 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.13%) IEC 62304
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
15 7 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 818 (13.80%) Active Directory
2 775 (13.08%) Docker
3 617 (10.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 281 (4.74%) Hyper-V
5 161 (2.72%) Firmware
6 135 (2.28%) vSphere
7 127 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
8 123 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
9 64 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
10 50 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
11 44 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
12 39 (0.66%) KVM
13 31 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
13 31 (0.52%) VMware NSX
14 25 (0.42%) NFS
15 19 (0.32%) pfSense
16 18 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
17 16 (0.27%) VMware Server
18 14 (0.24%) XenApp
19 11 (0.19%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 959 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 864 (14.58%) Ansible
3 644 (10.87%) Terraform
4 313 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 282 (4.76%) Puppet
6 216 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
7 155 (2.62%) vCenter Server
8 146 (2.46%) Prometheus
9 128 (2.16%) Progress Chef
10 124 (2.09%) Grafana
11 106 (1.79%) SCCM
12 78 (1.32%) SCOM
12 78 (1.32%) ZABBIX
13 73 (1.23%) Nagios
14 66 (1.11%) WSUS
15 53 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
16 48 (0.81%) Data Guard
17 40 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 35 (0.59%) FortiGate
19 34 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,164 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 906 (15.29%) VMware
3 792 (13.36%) Red Hat
4 601 (10.14%) Oracle
5 383 (6.46%) IBM
6 324 (5.47%) Cisco
7 215 (3.63%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.58%) Tanium
9 157 (2.65%) Google
10 148 (2.50%) Veeam
11 132 (2.23%) NetApp
12 113 (1.91%) Palo Alto
13 105 (1.77%) Citrix
14 101 (1.70%) Splunk
15 86 (1.45%) Juniper
16 82 (1.38%) SAP
17 79 (1.33%) Dell
18 72 (1.21%) EMC
19 69 (1.16%) Remedy
20 65 (1.10%) SolarWinds