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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,173 6,062 12,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.82% 7.00% 8.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.33% 43.29% 47.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,457 3,863 5,915
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 12,516 14,003 26,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.09% 16.17% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,804 9,588 14,949
10th Percentile £25,759 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,250
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 £93,750 £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 28 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 28 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 -8 1,290 £75,000 -5.06% 384
South East -2 1,197 £55,000 +10.00% 239
South West +4 872 £52,500 -4.55% 170
North of England +16 827 £50,000 - 141
North West +22 526 £52,500 - 80
Midlands +24 518 £50,000 -9.09% 123
East of England +13 436 £52,500 -8.70% 139
East Midlands +34 299 £50,000 -13.04% 55
Yorkshire +10 244 £47,500 -4.04% 52
West Midlands -11 219 £54,000 -1.82% 68
North East -10 57 £52,500 +25.75% 9
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
1 237 (4.58%) Apache
2 177 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (2.18%) nginx
4 107 (2.07%) IIS
5 88 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 81 (1.57%) Confluence
7 67 (1.30%) Apache Spark
8 57 (1.10%) WebLogic
9 45 (0.87%) Tomcat
10 42 (0.81%) OpenStack
11 35 (0.68%) ArcGIS
12 29 (0.56%) WebSphere
13 28 (0.54%) 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 90 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (0.83%) Simulink
3 40 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.077%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.077%) 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%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.019%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.019%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.46%) NEC Housing
3 21 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.17%) 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 (0.077%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.058%) Maximo
9 3 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.039%) C-CURE
10 2 (0.039%) Magento
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.039%) Shopify
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 1,598 (30.89%) Azure
2 1,208 (23.35%) AWS
3 336 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 326 (6.30%) Entra ID
5 278 (5.37%) IBM Cloud
6 233 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 230 (4.45%) GCP
8 228 (4.41%) Serverless
9 153 (2.96%) OpenShift
10 144 (2.78%) SaaS
11 135 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 132 (2.55%) Azure Functions
13 129 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
14 127 (2.46%) GitHub
15 126 (2.44%) Azure API Management
16 115 (2.22%) Amazon S3
17 107 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
18 75 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
18 75 (1.45%) IaaS
19 74 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 711 (13.74%) Firewall
2 430 (8.31%) DNS
3 372 (7.19%) TCP/IP
4 257 (4.97%) VPN
5 253 (4.89%) 5G
5 253 (4.89%) DHCP
6 231 (4.47%) Broadband
7 212 (4.10%) SAN
8 202 (3.90%) WAN
9 183 (3.54%) LAN
10 181 (3.50%) Internet
11 134 (2.59%) Wireless
12 115 (2.22%) Network Security
13 112 (2.17%) HTTP
14 95 (1.84%) NAS
15 90 (1.74%) VLAN
15 90 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
16 87 (1.68%) SNMP
17 76 (1.47%) BGP
18 72 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 425 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 365 (7.06%) NoSQL
4 360 (6.96%) SQL Server
5 331 (6.40%) MySQL
6 283 (5.47%) DB2
7 250 (4.83%) Relational Database
8 108 (2.09%) Oracle Database
9 100 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (1.70%) Big Data
11 84 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
12 56 (1.08%) Redis
13 55 (1.06%) Hadoop
14 52 (1.01%) Power BI
15 49 (0.95%) GIS
16 42 (0.81%) MariaDB
16 42 (0.81%) RDBMS
17 28 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
17 28 (0.54%) QGIS
18 24 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 391 (7.56%) Git
2 324 (6.26%) JIRA
3 277 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 137 (2.65%) GitLab
5 94 (1.82%) Subversion
6 61 (1.18%) Visual Studio
7 59 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.79%) Eclipse
9 30 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.54%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.54%) Metasploit
11 26 (0.50%) Ant
11 26 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.44%) Robot Framework
13 20 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 20 (0.39%) CMake
13 20 (0.39%) Vagrant
14 18 (0.35%) GDB
15 16 (0.31%) Trac
16 15 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,102 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 679 (13.13%) Finance
3 603 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
4 467 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 398 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 266 (5.14%) Aerospace
7 202 (3.90%) Electronics
8 197 (3.81%) Banking
9 164 (3.17%) Telecoms
10 151 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 108 (2.09%) Retail
12 102 (1.97%) Marketing
13 83 (1.60%) Automotive
14 80 (1.55%) Law
15 77 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 60 (1.16%) Front Office
16 60 (1.16%) Military
17 46 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
18 39 (0.75%) Financial Institution
19 34 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,003 (19.39%) Senior
2 781 (15.10%) Software Engineer
3 725 (14.02%) Developer
4 516 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 339 (6.55%) Linux Engineer
6 312 (6.03%) Lead
7 305 (5.90%) Embedded Engineer
8 300 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 276 (5.34%) Architect
10 260 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 245 (4.74%) Support Engineer
12 242 (4.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 233 (4.50%) Administrator
14 216 (4.18%) Linux Specialist
15 215 (4.16%) Analyst
16 214 (4.14%) Technical Specialist
17 188 (3.63%) Systems Engineer
18 185 (3.58%) Full Stack Developer
19 170 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
20 162 (3.13%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 502 (9.70%) HTML
2 483 (9.34%) React
3 450 (8.70%) REST
4 443 (8.56%) CSS
5 420 (8.12%) .NET
6 347 (6.71%) Web Services
7 336 (6.50%) AngularJS
8 305 (5.90%) jQuery
9 292 (5.64%) Vue
10 282 (5.45%) Node.js
11 272 (5.26%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.60%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.60%) Ember.js
14 147 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
15 136 (2.63%) XML
16 118 (2.28%) Middleware
17 90 (1.74%) YAML
18 87 (1.68%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 367 (7.09%) Algorithms
2 360 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 310 (5.99%) Data Centre
4 280 (5.41%) Blockchain
5 257 (4.97%) Data Structures
6 244 (4.72%) Public Cloud
7 210 (4.06%) Social Media
8 199 (3.85%) IoT
9 172 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
10 138 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
11 134 (2.59%) Management Information System
12 124 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
13 117 (2.26%) Embedded Systems
14 115 (2.22%) e-Learning
15 111 (2.15%) PKI
16 109 (2.11%) Cloud Native
17 85 (1.64%) Replication
18 76 (1.47%) FPGA
19 74 (1.43%) Client/Server
19 74 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,212 (42.76%) Windows
2 556 (10.75%) Ubuntu
3 534 (10.32%) Windows Server
4 510 (9.86%) Unix
5 388 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 345 (6.67%) Android
7 317 (6.13%) CentOS
8 298 (5.76%) Apple iOS
9 263 (5.08%) Embedded Linux
10 178 (3.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 166 (3.21%) Debian
12 124 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 123 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
14 114 (2.20%) Windows 10
15 110 (2.13%) Solaris
16 83 (1.60%) Mac OS
17 69 (1.33%) VMS
18 56 (1.08%) AIX
19 48 (0.93%) Alpine Linux
20 43 (0.83%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (21.81%) Software Engineering
2 1,101 (21.28%) DevOps
3 1,089 (21.05%) Agile
4 881 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
5 671 (12.97%) Artificial Intelligence
6 633 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 600 (11.60%) Cybersecurity
8 552 (10.67%) CI/CD
9 516 (9.97%) Computer Science
10 503 (9.72%) Mentoring
11 418 (8.08%) OO
12 398 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
13 382 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 363 (7.02%) Actionable Insight
15 354 (6.84%) User Experience
16 349 (6.75%) Web Development
17 334 (6.46%) Containerisation
18 330 (6.38%) OOP
19 316 (6.11%) Collaborative Working
20 313 (6.05%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,597 (30.87%) Python
2 988 (19.10%) SQL
3 863 (16.68%) Bash
4 765 (14.79%) Java
5 751 (14.52%) C
6 724 (14.00%) JavaScript
7 631 (12.20%) C++
8 577 (11.15%) PowerShell
9 572 (11.06%) C#
10 180 (3.48%) PHP
11 161 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 158 (3.05%) Perl
13 144 (2.78%) Embedded C
14 138 (2.67%) Rust
15 117 (2.26%) TypeScript
16 112 (2.17%) Go
17 75 (1.45%) VB
18 70 (1.35%) Ruby
19 57 (1.10%) Kotlin
20 46 (0.89%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,139 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 900 (17.40%) Degree
3 574 (11.10%) SC Cleared
4 491 (9.49%) DV Cleared
5 308 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 134 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 123 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 122 (2.36%) CCNA
10 121 (2.34%) Master's Degree
11 108 (2.09%) AWS Certification
12 100 (1.93%) MCSE
13 70 (1.35%) PhD
14 69 (1.33%) MCSA
15 55 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 50 (0.97%) CCNP
17 40 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 34 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 32 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
20 30 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (2.07%) SLA
2 89 (1.72%) QA
3 63 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (0.93%) GDPR
5 39 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 38 (0.73%) NIST
7 27 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.15%) IEC 62304
14 8 (0.15%) 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
1 777 (15.02%) Active Directory
2 667 (12.89%) Docker
3 551 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 248 (4.79%) Hyper-V
5 139 (2.69%) Firmware
6 133 (2.57%) vSphere
7 127 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
8 111 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 41 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
11 33 (0.64%) KVM
12 31 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
13 25 (0.48%) 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
1 763 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 751 (14.52%) Ansible
3 558 (10.79%) Terraform
4 298 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 272 (5.26%) Puppet
6 215 (4.16%) Jamf Pro
7 135 (2.61%) vCenter Server
8 120 (2.32%) Prometheus
9 116 (2.24%) Progress Chef
10 112 (2.17%) Grafana
11 100 (1.93%) SCCM
12 78 (1.51%) SCOM
13 74 (1.43%) ZABBIX
14 73 (1.41%) Nagios
15 67 (1.30%) WSUS
16 40 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 34 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
18 31 (0.60%) HAProxy
19 28 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
20 25 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,074 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 802 (15.50%) VMware
3 751 (14.52%) Red Hat
4 405 (7.83%) Oracle
5 376 (7.27%) IBM
6 286 (5.53%) Cisco
7 212 (4.10%) Tanium
8 211 (4.08%) CyberArk
9 140 (2.71%) Veeam
10 132 (2.55%) Google
11 100 (1.93%) NetApp
12 92 (1.78%) Palo Alto
13 91 (1.76%) Citrix
14 87 (1.68%) Splunk
15 81 (1.57%) Juniper
16 69 (1.33%) SAP
17 67 (1.30%) EMC
18 65 (1.26%) SolarWinds
19 63 (1.22%) Dell
20 62 (1.20%) Atlassian