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 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 41 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,290 2,343 5,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.40% 7.12% 8.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.33% 45.01% 45.34%
Number of salaries quoted 844 1,707 2,572
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% +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 2,977 5,206 12,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.47% 15.83% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,244 3,975 6,092
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,970 £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 28 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 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
Central London -44 139 £70,000 -17.65% 35
West London +4 115 £52,501 -12.50% 18
South London +1 35 £66,250 +23.26% 6
East London +20 14 £57,500 +2.22% 4
North London +3 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 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (3.33%) Apache
3 35 (2.71%) nginx
4 33 (2.56%) Confluence
5 32 (2.48%) IIS
6 20 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.40%) Tomcat
8 15 (1.16%) Apache Spark
8 15 (1.16%) WebSphere
9 14 (1.09%) JBoss
10 11 (0.85%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.70%) WordPress
12 7 (0.54%) WildFly
13 6 (0.47%) 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%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (1.32%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.62%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.47%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.078%) Endur
7 1 (0.078%) Findur
7 1 (0.078%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.078%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 424 (32.87%) Azure
2 353 (27.36%) AWS
3 162 (12.56%) Entra ID
4 77 (5.97%) GCP
5 57 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (3.18%) Serverless
7 39 (3.02%) Amazon S3
8 37 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (2.40%) GitHub
11 30 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (1.78%) IaaS
15 22 (1.71%) SaaS
16 19 (1.47%) PaaS
17 18 (1.40%) Azure AKS
18 17 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
18 17 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 210 (16.28%) Firewall
2 147 (11.40%) 5G
2 147 (11.40%) Broadband
3 124 (9.61%) TCP/IP
4 121 (9.38%) DNS
5 106 (8.22%) VPN
6 88 (6.82%) WAN
7 85 (6.59%) LAN
8 64 (4.96%) Internet
9 50 (3.88%) DHCP
10 48 (3.72%) SAN
11 46 (3.57%) Network Security
12 29 (2.25%) SNMP
13 26 (2.02%) HTTP
14 24 (1.86%) BGP
15 22 (1.71%) Wireless
16 21 (1.63%) NAS
16 21 (1.63%) SSL
17 20 (1.55%) MPLS
18 17 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.69%) SQL Server
2 92 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.20%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.50%) MySQL
5 55 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 37 (2.87%) DB2
7 31 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (2.09%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.94%) Oracle Database
11 19 (1.47%) Redis
12 17 (1.32%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.24%) Power BI
13 16 (1.24%) Tableau
14 12 (0.93%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.78%) Big Data
16 10 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 109 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 75 (5.81%) JIRA
3 73 (5.66%) Git
4 56 (4.34%) GitLab
5 28 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 28 (2.17%) Burp Suite
5 28 (2.17%) Metasploit
6 19 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.54%) GDB
9 7 (0.54%) JUnit
9 7 (0.54%) Snyk
10 6 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.39%) DTrace
11 5 (0.39%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.39%) Maven
12 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
12 4 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 371 (28.76%) Finance
2 323 (25.04%) Social Skills
3 272 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 158 (12.25%) Banking
6 52 (4.03%) Front Office
7 47 (3.64%) Retail
8 44 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 39 (3.02%) Law
9 39 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 35 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 31 (2.40%) Investment Banking
12 20 (1.55%) Marketing
13 16 (1.24%) Back Office
14 13 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.93%) Police
16 11 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.78%) Billing
17 10 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 289 (22.40%) Senior
2 147 (11.40%) Linux Specialist
3 146 (11.32%) Developer
4 144 (11.16%) Technical Specialist
5 124 (9.61%) Architect
6 111 (8.60%) Linux Engineer
7 101 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 94 (7.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 93 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 93 (7.21%) Lead
10 92 (7.13%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 91 (7.05%) Analyst
12 90 (6.98%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 90 (6.98%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 89 (6.90%) Software Engineer
14 60 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
15 57 (4.42%) Applications Support
16 54 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
17 53 (4.11%) Support Analyst
18 48 (3.72%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (5.74%) .NET
2 69 (5.35%) REST
3 64 (4.96%) React
4 60 (4.65%) FIX Protocol
5 47 (3.64%) Kafka
6 41 (3.18%) HTML
7 38 (2.95%) CSS
8 32 (2.48%) Web Services
8 32 (2.48%) YAML
9 31 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (2.33%) XML
11 28 (2.17%) LDAP
12 26 (2.02%) Node.js
13 25 (1.94%) JSON
13 25 (1.94%) Middleware
13 25 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (1.86%) ASP.NET
15 20 (1.55%) AngularJS
16 19 (1.47%) SOAP
17 16 (1.24%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 143 (11.09%) Social Media
2 82 (6.36%) Public Cloud
3 80 (6.20%) Data Centre
4 60 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (4.11%) PKI
6 49 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
8 41 (3.18%) Cloud Native
9 40 (3.10%) Replication
10 37 (2.87%) Hedge funds
11 34 (2.64%) Clustering
12 31 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
12 31 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 31 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (2.33%) FPGA
13 30 (2.33%) Legacy Code
14 26 (2.02%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.94%) Client/Server
15 25 (1.94%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 480 (37.21%) Windows
2 263 (20.39%) Ubuntu
3 215 (16.67%) Unix
4 131 (10.16%) Windows Server
5 108 (8.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 73 (5.66%) CentOS
7 50 (3.88%) VMS
8 46 (3.57%) Solaris
9 32 (2.48%) Android
10 29 (2.25%) Apple iOS
10 29 (2.25%) Kali Linux
11 27 (2.09%) Debian
12 25 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
13 23 (1.78%) Windows 10
14 22 (1.71%) Mac OS
14 22 (1.71%) zOS
15 18 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
16 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
17 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
18 15 (1.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (23.41%) DevOps
2 271 (21.01%) Cybersecurity
3 223 (17.29%) Agile
4 207 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (15.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 195 (15.12%) Software Engineering
7 191 (14.81%) CI/CD
8 151 (11.71%) IT Strategy
9 150 (11.63%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (11.09%) CRM
11 136 (10.54%) Computer Science
12 124 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 111 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 96 (7.44%) Containerisation
15 86 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
16 81 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (6.05%) Fintech
18 75 (5.81%) Application Security
19 72 (5.58%) Configuration Management
19 72 (5.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 430 (33.33%) Python
2 332 (25.74%) Bash
3 267 (20.70%) SQL
4 175 (13.57%) PowerShell
5 163 (12.64%) Java
6 128 (9.92%) C
7 113 (8.76%) C++
8 109 (8.45%) C#
9 98 (7.60%) JavaScript
10 80 (6.20%) Perl
11 64 (4.96%) Go
12 51 (3.95%) Rust
13 49 (3.80%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.87%) Ruby
15 23 (1.78%) TypeScript
16 15 (1.16%) PHP
17 13 (1.01%) Groovy
18 11 (0.85%) Korn
18 11 (0.85%) Scala
19 8 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (16.28%) Degree
2 154 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 94 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (5.89%) DV Cleared
5 60 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.71%) CCNA
9 19 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.32%) CISSP
12 15 (1.16%) CISA
13 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (1.01%) 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 27 (2.09%) SLA
2 24 (1.86%) QA
3 19 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.47%) NIST
4 18 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.47%) GDPR
7 6 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.47%) ITGC
7 6 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 298 (23.10%) Active Directory
2 183 (14.19%) Docker
3 126 (9.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (3.10%) vSphere
5 36 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (1.40%) KVM
8 17 (1.32%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.85%) vCloud
10 9 (0.70%) NFS
11 8 (0.62%) Ceph
12 6 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (0.47%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.39%) Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) XenApp
15 3 (0.23%) LXC
15 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 231 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 217 (16.82%) Ansible
3 196 (15.19%) Terraform
4 161 (12.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.16%) Jamf Pro
6 76 (5.89%) Puppet
7 54 (4.19%) Progress Chef
8 45 (3.49%) Prometheus
9 44 (3.41%) Grafana
10 33 (2.56%) SCCM
11 21 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
12 19 (1.47%) Nagios
12 19 (1.47%) vCenter Server
13 16 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 14 (1.09%) HAProxy
14 14 (1.09%) Nessus
15 11 (0.85%) Graphite
16 10 (0.78%) WSUS
17 7 (0.54%) SCOM
17 7 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 332 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 179 (13.88%) VMware
3 162 (12.56%) Oracle
4 150 (11.63%) Red Hat
5 144 (11.16%) CyberArk
5 144 (11.16%) Tanium
6 86 (6.67%) Cisco
7 48 (3.72%) Google
8 41 (3.18%) IBM
9 39 (3.02%) Splunk
10 38 (2.95%) Palo Alto
11 35 (2.71%) F5
12 27 (2.09%) Bloomberg
13 26 (2.02%) Atlassian
13 26 (2.02%) ION Trading
14 25 (1.94%) Qualys
14 25 (1.94%) Veeam
15 23 (1.78%) Citrix
16 22 (1.71%) Juniper
16 22 (1.71%) Reuters