Linux Jobs in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 35 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,133 6,123 12,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.87% 6.99% 9.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.19% 43.30% 47.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,456 3,916 5,880
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,350 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,461 14,141 26,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.26% 16.15% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,810 9,684 14,875
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in England.

Salary trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London -5 1,294 £75,000 -6.25% 561
South East -1 1,180 £55,000 +10.00% 411
South West +2 867 £52,500 -4.55% 168
North of England +18 827 £50,000 - 132
North West +21 524 £52,500 - 72
Midlands +21 507 £50,000 -9.09% 134
East of England +13 425 £52,500 -8.70% 170
East Midlands +31 292 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Yorkshire +14 247 £47,250 -4.55% 50
West Midlands -8 215 £54,000 -1.82% 76
North East -13 56 £52,500 +25.75% 11
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 235 (4.58%) Apache
2 174 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (2.20%) nginx
4 107 (2.08%) IIS
5 90 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 82 (1.60%) Confluence
7 68 (1.32%) Apache Spark
8 57 (1.11%) WebLogic
9 44 (0.86%) Tomcat
10 41 (0.80%) OpenStack
11 35 (0.68%) ArcGIS
12 33 (0.64%) WebSphere
13 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
14 22 (0.43%) JBoss
14 22 (0.43%) Jupyter
14 22 (0.43%) WordPress
15 18 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
16 14 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
17 11 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
17 11 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 89 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.76%) Simulink
4 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.078%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.078%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.039%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.039%) CATIA
10 2 (0.039%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.039%) Trello
11 1 (0.019%) 1Password
11 1 (0.019%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.019%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.47%) NEC Housing
3 20 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.12%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.097%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.097%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.078%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.058%) Maximo
9 3 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.039%) Shopify
11 1 (0.019%) C-CURE
11 1 (0.019%) Magento
11 1 (0.019%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 1 (0.019%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.019%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.019%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,596 (31.09%) Azure
2 1,203 (23.44%) AWS
3 331 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 323 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 278 (5.42%) IBM Cloud
6 235 (4.58%) GCP
7 233 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
8 229 (4.46%) Serverless
9 152 (2.96%) OpenShift
10 144 (2.81%) SaaS
11 135 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 134 (2.61%) GitHub
13 132 (2.57%) Azure Functions
14 129 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.45%) Azure API Management
16 115 (2.24%) Amazon S3
17 109 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
18 76 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
18 76 (1.48%) IaaS
19 75 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 704 (13.72%) Firewall
2 424 (8.26%) DNS
3 367 (7.15%) TCP/IP
4 256 (4.99%) VPN
5 253 (4.93%) 5G
6 247 (4.81%) DHCP
7 230 (4.48%) Broadband
8 209 (4.07%) SAN
9 200 (3.90%) WAN
10 180 (3.51%) LAN
11 177 (3.45%) Internet
12 133 (2.59%) Wireless
13 113 (2.20%) Network Security
14 111 (2.16%) HTTP
15 95 (1.85%) NAS
16 88 (1.71%) SNMP
16 88 (1.71%) VLAN
17 87 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
18 75 (1.46%) BGP
19 72 (1.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 424 (8.26%) MongoDB
3 361 (7.03%) NoSQL
4 357 (6.95%) SQL Server
5 331 (6.45%) MySQL
6 280 (5.45%) DB2
7 247 (4.81%) Relational Database
8 107 (2.08%) Oracle Database
9 101 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (1.73%) Big Data
11 87 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
12 55 (1.07%) Hadoop
12 55 (1.07%) Redis
13 52 (1.01%) Power BI
14 48 (0.94%) GIS
15 42 (0.82%) MariaDB
15 42 (0.82%) RDBMS
16 28 (0.55%) Cloudera CDH
16 28 (0.55%) QGIS
17 26 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 389 (7.58%) Git
2 327 (6.37%) JIRA
3 283 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 138 (2.69%) GitLab
5 95 (1.85%) Subversion
6 61 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 61 (1.19%) Visual Studio
7 41 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 32 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
9 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
10 26 (0.51%) Ant
10 26 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 23 (0.45%) Robot Framework
12 21 (0.41%) CMake
13 20 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.35%) GDB
14 18 (0.35%) Vagrant
15 16 (0.31%) Trac
16 15 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1,091 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 680 (13.25%) Finance
3 607 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 466 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 398 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 262 (5.10%) Aerospace
7 201 (3.92%) Banking
8 198 (3.86%) Electronics
9 160 (3.12%) Telecoms
10 149 (2.90%) Manufacturing
11 107 (2.08%) Retail
12 102 (1.99%) Marketing
13 82 (1.60%) Automotive
14 78 (1.52%) Law
15 76 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
16 61 (1.19%) Military
17 59 (1.15%) Front Office
18 47 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
19 39 (0.76%) Financial Institution
20 36 (0.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 993 (19.35%) Senior
2 765 (14.90%) Software Engineer
3 721 (14.05%) Developer
4 513 (9.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 332 (6.47%) Linux Engineer
6 314 (6.12%) Lead
7 306 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 298 (5.81%) Embedded Engineer
9 273 (5.32%) Architect
10 249 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 245 (4.77%) Support Engineer
12 235 (4.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 230 (4.48%) Administrator
14 217 (4.23%) Linux Specialist
15 214 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
16 212 (4.13%) Analyst
17 185 (3.60%) Full Stack Developer
17 185 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
18 171 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
19 159 (3.10%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (9.76%) HTML
2 487 (9.49%) React
3 448 (8.73%) REST
4 442 (8.61%) CSS
5 422 (8.22%) .NET
6 347 (6.76%) Web Services
7 337 (6.57%) AngularJS
8 305 (5.94%) jQuery
9 291 (5.67%) Vue
10 284 (5.53%) Node.js
11 272 (5.30%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.64%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.64%) Ember.js
14 147 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
15 138 (2.69%) XML
16 114 (2.22%) Middleware
17 90 (1.75%) YAML
18 86 (1.68%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 360 (7.01%) Algorithms
1 360 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
2 304 (5.92%) Data Centre
3 280 (5.45%) Blockchain
4 257 (5.01%) Data Structures
5 243 (4.73%) Public Cloud
6 211 (4.11%) Social Media
7 199 (3.88%) IoT
8 169 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
9 137 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
10 131 (2.55%) Management Information System
11 128 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
12 117 (2.28%) Embedded Systems
13 114 (2.22%) Cloud Native
13 114 (2.22%) e-Learning
14 110 (2.14%) PKI
15 83 (1.62%) Replication
16 75 (1.46%) FPGA
17 73 (1.42%) Client/Server
18 71 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,194 (42.74%) Windows
2 552 (10.75%) Ubuntu
3 530 (10.33%) Windows Server
4 499 (9.72%) Unix
5 390 (7.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 342 (6.66%) Android
7 313 (6.10%) CentOS
8 298 (5.81%) Apple iOS
9 252 (4.91%) Embedded Linux
10 174 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 164 (3.20%) Debian
12 123 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
13 121 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
14 112 (2.18%) Windows 10
15 105 (2.05%) Solaris
16 87 (1.69%) Mac OS
17 68 (1.32%) VMS
18 52 (1.01%) AIX
19 47 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
20 41 (0.80%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (21.64%) Software Engineering
2 1,105 (21.53%) DevOps
3 1,082 (21.08%) Agile
4 880 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 663 (12.92%) Artificial Intelligence
6 626 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 600 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
8 557 (10.85%) CI/CD
9 501 (9.76%) Computer Science
9 501 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 417 (8.12%) OO
11 399 (7.77%) Full Stack Development
12 382 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 364 (7.09%) Actionable Insight
14 353 (6.88%) User Experience
15 348 (6.78%) Web Development
16 339 (6.60%) Containerisation
17 331 (6.45%) OOP
18 312 (6.08%) MVC
19 306 (5.96%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1,581 (30.80%) Python
2 992 (19.33%) SQL
3 859 (16.73%) Bash
4 763 (14.86%) Java
5 742 (14.46%) C
6 724 (14.10%) JavaScript
7 617 (12.02%) C++
8 578 (11.26%) PowerShell
9 570 (11.10%) C#
10 181 (3.53%) PHP
11 160 (3.12%) Shell Script
12 159 (3.10%) Perl
13 143 (2.79%) Embedded C
14 141 (2.75%) Rust
15 118 (2.30%) TypeScript
16 117 (2.28%) Go
17 74 (1.44%) VB
18 71 (1.38%) Ruby
19 53 (1.03%) Kotlin
20 38 (0.74%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,112 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 883 (17.20%) Degree
3 562 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 479 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 304 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 146 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 134 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 123 (2.40%) CCNA
9 121 (2.36%) Azure Certification
10 112 (2.18%) Master's Degree
11 108 (2.10%) AWS Certification
12 100 (1.95%) MCSE
13 69 (1.34%) MCSA
14 62 (1.21%) PhD
15 55 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 49 (0.95%) CCNP
17 40 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 32 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 32 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
19 30 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (2.05%) SLA
2 88 (1.71%) QA
3 62 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (1.01%) GDPR
5 39 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 38 (0.74%) NIST
7 27 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.51%) PMO
9 16 (0.31%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
11 14 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.25%) MISRA
12 13 (0.25%) NCSC
13 9 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
14 8 (0.16%) JTAG
15 7 (0.14%) GRC
15 7 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
16 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
System Software
1 776 (15.12%) Active Directory
2 670 (13.05%) Docker
3 547 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 247 (4.81%) Hyper-V
5 137 (2.67%) Firmware
6 133 (2.59%) vSphere
7 128 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
8 108 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 40 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
11 31 (0.60%) KVM
12 28 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
13 24 (0.47%) NFS
14 22 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
15 19 (0.37%) pfSense
16 18 (0.35%) VMware NSX
16 18 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
17 16 (0.31%) VMware Server
18 12 (0.23%) XenApp
19 11 (0.21%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 764 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 753 (14.67%) Ansible
3 560 (10.91%) Terraform
4 296 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 272 (5.30%) Puppet
6 215 (4.19%) Jamf Pro
7 134 (2.61%) vCenter Server
8 119 (2.32%) Prometheus
9 118 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 112 (2.18%) Grafana
11 98 (1.91%) SCCM
12 75 (1.46%) SCOM
13 72 (1.40%) ZABBIX
14 71 (1.38%) Nagios
15 65 (1.27%) WSUS
16 38 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 32 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
18 31 (0.60%) HAProxy
19 28 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
20 25 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,059 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 796 (15.51%) VMware
3 745 (14.51%) Red Hat
4 406 (7.91%) Oracle
5 377 (7.34%) IBM
6 285 (5.55%) Cisco
7 212 (4.13%) Tanium
8 211 (4.11%) CyberArk
9 138 (2.69%) Veeam
10 132 (2.57%) Google
11 99 (1.93%) NetApp
12 93 (1.81%) Palo Alto
13 89 (1.73%) Citrix
14 86 (1.68%) Splunk
15 81 (1.58%) Juniper
16 74 (1.44%) SAP
17 65 (1.27%) Atlassian
18 64 (1.25%) EMC
19 63 (1.23%) Dell
20 62 (1.21%) SolarWinds