Linux Jobs in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 39 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,294 2,377 5,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.46% 7.15% 7.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.06% 45.09% 45.27%
Number of salaries quoted 857 1,742 2,552
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,784 £46,084
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,005 5,272 12,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.68% 15.85% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 4,029 6,069
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the London 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
Central London -43 138 £70,000 -17.65% 43
West London +2 115 £52,501 -12.50% 19
South London +1 36 £71,875 +36.90% 7
East London +18 15 £57,500 - 2
North London -1 2 £67,500 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 46 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (3.25%) Apache
3 35 (2.70%) nginx
4 34 (2.63%) Confluence
5 32 (2.47%) IIS
6 20 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.39%) Tomcat
8 16 (1.24%) Apache Spark
8 16 (1.24%) WebSphere
9 14 (1.08%) JBoss
10 11 (0.85%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.70%) WordPress
12 7 (0.54%) WildFly
13 6 (0.46%) SAS
14 5 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
14 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.23%) CMS
16 3 (0.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (1.31%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.62%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.077%) Endur
7 1 (0.077%) Findur
7 1 (0.077%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.077%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 425 (32.84%) Azure
2 355 (27.43%) AWS
3 161 (12.44%) Entra ID
4 79 (6.11%) GCP
5 55 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (3.25%) Serverless
7 39 (3.01%) Amazon S3
8 37 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (2.78%) GitHub
10 30 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (1.78%) IaaS
15 22 (1.70%) SaaS
16 19 (1.47%) Azure AKS
16 19 (1.47%) PaaS
17 18 (1.39%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 209 (16.15%) Firewall
2 147 (11.36%) 5G
2 147 (11.36%) Broadband
3 122 (9.43%) TCP/IP
4 119 (9.20%) DNS
5 104 (8.04%) VPN
6 86 (6.65%) WAN
7 82 (6.34%) LAN
8 63 (4.87%) Internet
9 48 (3.71%) DHCP
10 47 (3.63%) SAN
11 45 (3.48%) Network Security
12 30 (2.32%) SNMP
13 26 (2.01%) HTTP
14 24 (1.85%) BGP
15 22 (1.70%) Wireless
16 21 (1.62%) MPLS
16 21 (1.62%) NAS
16 21 (1.62%) SSL
17 17 (1.31%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 94 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.18%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.71%) MySQL
5 56 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.78%) DB2
7 32 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.85%) Oracle Database
11 19 (1.47%) Redis
12 17 (1.31%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.31%) Power BI
13 15 (1.16%) Tableau
14 12 (0.93%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (0.85%) Big Data
16 10 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 113 (8.73%) Jenkins
2 77 (5.95%) JIRA
3 74 (5.72%) Git
4 59 (4.56%) GitLab
5 30 (2.32%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.16%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.16%) Metasploit
7 19 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 11 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.54%) GDB
10 7 (0.54%) JUnit
10 7 (0.54%) Snyk
11 6 (0.46%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.39%) DTrace
12 5 (0.39%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.39%) Maven
12 5 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
13 4 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 368 (28.44%) Finance
2 324 (25.04%) Social Skills
3 275 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (13.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (12.13%) Banking
6 51 (3.94%) Front Office
7 45 (3.48%) Retail
8 43 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 38 (2.94%) Law
9 38 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 35 (2.70%) Financial Institution
11 33 (2.55%) Investment Banking
12 20 (1.55%) Marketing
13 15 (1.16%) Back Office
14 13 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.93%) Police
16 11 (0.85%) Billing
17 10 (0.77%) Games
17 10 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (22.64%) Senior
2 148 (11.44%) Linux Specialist
3 145 (11.21%) Developer
4 144 (11.13%) Technical Specialist
5 125 (9.66%) Architect
6 110 (8.50%) Linux Engineer
7 99 (7.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 97 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 94 (7.26%) Lead
9 94 (7.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 92 (7.11%) Senior Linux Specialist
10 92 (7.11%) Software Engineer
11 90 (6.96%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 90 (6.96%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 88 (6.80%) Analyst
13 64 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
14 57 (4.40%) Applications Support
14 57 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
15 52 (4.02%) Support Analyst
16 48 (3.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.95%) .NET
2 69 (5.33%) REST
3 67 (5.18%) React
4 58 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
5 46 (3.55%) Kafka
6 41 (3.17%) HTML
7 38 (2.94%) CSS
8 32 (2.47%) Web Services
8 32 (2.47%) YAML
9 31 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
9 31 (2.40%) XML
10 28 (2.16%) Node.js
11 27 (2.09%) JSON
11 27 (2.09%) LDAP
12 25 (1.93%) Middleware
12 25 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (1.85%) ASP.NET
14 21 (1.62%) AngularJS
15 19 (1.47%) SOAP
16 16 (1.24%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.13%) Social Media
2 81 (6.26%) Public Cloud
3 78 (6.03%) Data Centre
4 64 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (4.25%) PKI
6 48 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.55%) Cloud Native
7 46 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
8 40 (3.09%) Replication
9 38 (2.94%) Hedge funds
10 34 (2.63%) Legacy Code
11 33 (2.55%) Clustering
12 32 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 31 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (2.32%) FPGA
15 26 (2.01%) Algorithms
16 25 (1.93%) Client/Server
16 25 (1.93%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 478 (36.94%) Windows
2 262 (20.25%) Ubuntu
3 210 (16.23%) Unix
4 132 (10.20%) Windows Server
5 108 (8.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 73 (5.64%) CentOS
7 49 (3.79%) VMS
8 44 (3.40%) Solaris
9 32 (2.47%) Android
10 29 (2.24%) Apple iOS
10 29 (2.24%) Kali Linux
11 26 (2.01%) Debian
11 26 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (1.85%) Mac OS
13 22 (1.70%) Windows 10
13 22 (1.70%) zOS
14 18 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
15 17 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
16 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
17 13 (1.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (23.65%) DevOps
2 272 (21.02%) Cybersecurity
3 224 (17.31%) Agile
4 210 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (15.53%) Software Engineering
6 198 (15.30%) Artificial Intelligence
7 196 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 151 (11.67%) IT Strategy
9 150 (11.59%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (11.05%) CRM
11 136 (10.51%) Computer Science
12 120 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 112 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 98 (7.57%) Containerisation
15 84 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
16 80 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (6.03%) Fintech
18 74 (5.72%) Application Security
18 74 (5.72%) Mentoring
19 71 (5.49%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 435 (33.62%) Python
2 334 (25.81%) Bash
3 266 (20.56%) SQL
4 178 (13.76%) PowerShell
5 166 (12.83%) Java
6 130 (10.05%) C
7 115 (8.89%) C++
8 110 (8.50%) C#
9 100 (7.73%) JavaScript
10 82 (6.34%) Perl
11 69 (5.33%) Go
12 54 (4.17%) Rust
13 46 (3.55%) Shell Script
14 39 (3.01%) Ruby
15 25 (1.93%) TypeScript
16 17 (1.31%) PHP
17 14 (1.08%) Groovy
18 12 (0.93%) Korn
19 11 (0.85%) Scala
20 8 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (16.38%) Degree
2 150 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 95 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (5.72%) DV Cleared
5 60 (4.64%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.85%) CCNA
10 18 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.31%) CISSP
12 15 (1.16%) CISA
13 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (1.00%) MCSE
15 12 (0.93%) MCSA
15 12 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 9 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (1.93%) SLA
2 23 (1.78%) QA
3 19 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.47%) NIST
4 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.54%) GDPR
7 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.46%) ITGC
7 6 (0.46%) PMO
8 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.31%) GRC
9 4 (0.31%) JTAG
9 4 (0.31%) MiFID
10 3 (0.23%) COBIT
10 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 300 (23.18%) Active Directory
2 188 (14.53%) Docker
3 124 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (3.17%) vSphere
5 38 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.31%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.24%) KVM
9 11 (0.85%) vCloud
10 8 (0.62%) Ceph
10 8 (0.62%) NFS
11 6 (0.46%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
11 6 (0.46%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.39%) Firmware
13 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.31%) XenApp
14 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 238 (18.39%) Kubernetes
2 220 (17.00%) Ansible
3 200 (15.46%) Terraform
4 161 (12.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.13%) Jamf Pro
6 77 (5.95%) Puppet
7 56 (4.33%) Progress Chef
8 44 (3.40%) Grafana
9 43 (3.32%) Prometheus
10 34 (2.63%) SCCM
11 21 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
12 19 (1.47%) Nagios
12 19 (1.47%) vCenter Server
13 17 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
14 14 (1.08%) HAProxy
14 14 (1.08%) Nessus
15 11 (0.85%) Graphite
16 10 (0.77%) WSUS
17 8 (0.62%) Salt
18 7 (0.54%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 331 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 177 (13.68%) VMware
3 162 (12.52%) Oracle
4 148 (11.44%) Red Hat
5 144 (11.13%) CyberArk
5 144 (11.13%) Tanium
6 87 (6.72%) Cisco
7 48 (3.71%) Google
8 40 (3.09%) IBM
8 40 (3.09%) Palo Alto
9 38 (2.94%) Splunk
10 35 (2.70%) F5
11 29 (2.24%) Atlassian
12 27 (2.09%) Bloomberg
13 26 (2.01%) ION Trading
14 25 (1.93%) Qualys
14 25 (1.93%) Veeam
15 23 (1.78%) Citrix
16 22 (1.70%) Juniper
16 22 (1.70%) Reuters