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 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 718 780 1046
Rank change year-on-year +62 +266 -243
Permanent jobs citing Debian 177 172 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.27% 1.09% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 93 144 135
10th Percentile £31,300 £42,375 £28,556
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,813 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +36.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £91,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +65.71% -15.15%

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 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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% - -

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 23 May 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 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
England +93 164 £52,500 -19.23% 12
UK excluding London +81 141 £50,000 -13.79% 9
South East +44 44 £63,750 +15.91% 3
Work from Home -4 39 £56,250 -10.00% 9
South West +18 38 £45,000 -10.00%
London +43 26 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Midlands +10 20 £50,000 -23.08% 2
East of England -18 18 £57,500 -8.00%
East Midlands - 18 £50,000 - 2
North of England +50 16 £22,000 -57.39% 1
North West +14 15 £22,000 -62.80%
Scotland -57 4 £48,500 +29.33% 2
West Midlands +9 2 £32,000 -50.77%
Yorkshire +80 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 (16.38%) Apache
2 28 (15.82%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.95%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.26%) IIS
4 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.93%) Azure
2 59 (33.33%) AWS
3 47 (26.55%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.60%) IBM Cloud
5 36 (20.34%) GCP
6 30 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (15.82%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (15.82%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (15.82%) OpenShift
7 28 (15.82%) Serverless
8 14 (7.91%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.82%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.69%) AWS IoT
13 2 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.13%) Amazon ELB
13 2 (1.13%) AWS OpsWorks
13 2 (1.13%) CloudFront
13 2 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.82%) AMQP
2 19 (10.73%) TCP/IP
3 10 (5.65%) Internet
3 10 (5.65%) VLAN
4 8 (4.52%) VPN
5 7 (3.95%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (3.39%) Firewall
6 6 (3.39%) VSAN
7 5 (2.82%) DNS
8 4 (2.26%) RTP
9 3 (1.69%) BGP
9 3 (1.69%) DHCP
9 3 (1.69%) OSPF
9 3 (1.69%) Wireless
10 2 (1.13%) GPON
10 2 (1.13%) PPP
11 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.56%) RIP
11 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.95%) Big Data
1 30 (16.95%) Hadoop
2 28 (15.82%) Cloudera CDH
3 15 (8.47%) MySQL
3 15 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.65%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.95%) Ingres
8 3 (1.69%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Git
2 6 (3.39%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 40 (22.60%) Public Sector
2 30 (16.95%) Aerospace
3 17 (9.60%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.65%) Finance
5 8 (4.52%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.13%) 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 54 (30.51%) Software Engineer
2 39 (22.03%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (15.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (12.43%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (8.47%) Administrator
6 14 (7.91%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (6.78%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 11 (6.21%) Linux Administrator
9 10 (5.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.65%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Ubuntu Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Lead
11 7 (3.95%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Network Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) 3rd Line Support
12 6 (3.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Junior
12 6 (3.39%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.82%) AngularJS
1 28 (15.82%) gRPC
1 28 (15.82%) Material-UI
1 28 (15.82%) Node.js
1 28 (15.82%) OpenAPI
1 28 (15.82%) RabbitMQ
1 28 (15.82%) React
1 28 (15.82%) REST
1 28 (15.82%) Spring
1 28 (15.82%) Spring Boot
1 28 (15.82%) Swagger
2 10 (5.65%) GTK
3 7 (3.95%) EDI
4 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.26%) XMPP
5 3 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.69%) Kafka
6 2 (1.13%) LDAP
6 2 (1.13%) Qt
7 1 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.60%) Blockchain
1 40 (22.60%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (22.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (15.82%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.04%) PKI
4 10 (5.65%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.69%) IoT
7 3 (1.69%) Replication
8 2 (1.13%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Derivative
9 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.56%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.56%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 177 (100.00%) Linux
2 93 (52.54%) Ubuntu
3 88 (49.72%) CentOS
4 43 (24.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (23.16%) Alpine Linux
6 29 (16.38%) Windows
7 11 (6.21%) SUSE
8 7 (3.95%) Unix
8 7 (3.95%) Windows Server
9 6 (3.39%) Solaris
10 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.13%) Fedora
12 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.56%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.56%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.72%) DevOps
2 54 (30.51%) Software Engineering
3 53 (29.94%) Configuration Management
4 47 (26.55%) CI/CD
5 46 (25.99%) Open Source
6 42 (23.73%) Artificial Intelligence
7 41 (23.16%) Containerisation
8 40 (22.60%) Co-Creation
8 40 (22.60%) Data Science
8 40 (22.60%) Functional Testing
8 40 (22.60%) Separation of Concerns
8 40 (22.60%) Task Automation
8 40 (22.60%) Technology Transformation
9 36 (20.34%) Agile
10 30 (16.95%) Collaborative Working
11 28 (15.82%) API Development
11 28 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (15.82%) Microservices
11 28 (15.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 28 (15.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.50%) Python
2 48 (27.12%) Bash
3 30 (16.95%) Java
3 30 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.43%) C
5 21 (11.86%) SQL
6 14 (7.91%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.21%) C++
8 4 (2.26%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.69%) AWK
9 3 (1.69%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.69%) sed
10 2 (1.13%) C#
10 2 (1.13%) Perl
10 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.56%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (28.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (27.12%) MCSE
3 44 (24.86%) MCSA
4 40 (22.60%) Azure Certification
5 37 (20.90%) Security Cleared
6 32 (18.08%) DV Cleared
7 30 (16.95%) Degree
8 29 (16.38%) SC Cleared
9 10 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.26%) CCNA
11 4 (2.26%) RHCT
11 4 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.13%) CCNP
12 2 (1.13%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.56%) HNC
13 1 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) PMO
2 7 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.39%) QA
4 4 (2.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) MISRA
System Software
1 47 (26.55%) Docker
2 21 (11.86%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.21%) vSphere
4 10 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.39%) KVM
6 4 (2.26%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.69%) Firmware
8 1 (0.56%) LXC
8 1 (0.56%) NFS
8 1 (0.56%) pfSense
8 1 (0.56%) Samba
8 1 (0.56%) Shibboleth
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (44.07%) Kubernetes
2 72 (40.68%) Terraform
3 36 (20.34%) Ansible
4 34 (19.21%) Puppet
5 8 (4.52%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.26%) Podman
6 4 (2.26%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.26%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.13%) Icinga
7 2 (1.13%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.13%) Nagios
8 1 (0.56%) Grafana
8 1 (0.56%) Juju
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 93 (52.54%) Red Hat
2 40 (22.60%) IBM
3 39 (22.03%) VMware
4 28 (15.82%) Google
4 28 (15.82%) SaltStack
5 20 (11.30%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.39%) Citrix
7 3 (1.69%) Veeam
8 2 (1.13%) Cisco
8 2 (1.13%) Juniper
8 2 (1.13%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.13%) TP-LINK
8 2 (1.13%) 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