Linux Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 33 33 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,377 4,128 7,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.91% 7.11% 10.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.15% 42.99% 49.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,839 2,324 3,587
10th Percentile £33,200 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,603 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,636 9,602 15,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.37% 16.53% 20.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,163 6,005 9,354
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,675
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK excluding 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
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
Scotland -44 351 £51,000 -7.27% 71
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
Wales +22 131 £47,500 -5.00% 17
North East -10 57 £52,500 +25.75% 9
Northern Ireland -10 44 £52,500 +1.94% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 224 (5.12%) Apache
2 137 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.10%) WebLogic
4 82 (1.87%) nginx
5 81 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 80 (1.83%) IIS
7 53 (1.21%) Apache Spark
8 52 (1.19%) Confluence
8 52 (1.19%) OpenStack
9 47 (1.07%) ArcGIS
10 44 (1.01%) Oracle Service Bus
11 40 (0.91%) GeoServer
12 37 (0.85%) Tomcat
13 24 (0.55%) Jupyter
14 23 (0.53%) WebSphere
15 13 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
15 13 (0.30%) WordPress
16 11 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
16 11 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
17 8 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 122 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 43 (0.98%) Simulink
5 11 (0.25%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.11%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.091%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.091%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.046%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.046%) CATIA
11 2 (0.046%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.023%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 44 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.37%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.091%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.069%) Maximo
7 3 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.046%) C-CURE
8 2 (0.046%) Magento
8 2 (0.046%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.046%) Shopify
8 2 (0.046%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.023%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.023%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,288 (29.43%) Azure
2 936 (21.38%) AWS
3 311 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
4 268 (6.12%) IBM Cloud
5 209 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
6 187 (4.27%) GCP
6 187 (4.27%) Serverless
7 176 (4.02%) Entra ID
8 153 (3.50%) OpenShift
9 144 (3.29%) SaaS
10 125 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
11 118 (2.70%) Azure Functions
12 116 (2.65%) Azure API Management
13 115 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
14 100 (2.28%) Amazon S3
14 100 (2.28%) GitHub
15 89 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (1.58%) IaaS
17 65 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
18 58 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 564 (12.89%) Firewall
2 346 (7.90%) DNS
3 286 (6.53%) TCP/IP
4 225 (5.14%) DHCP
5 192 (4.39%) VPN
6 171 (3.91%) SAN
7 144 (3.29%) Internet
8 134 (3.06%) WAN
9 132 (3.02%) Wireless
10 106 (2.42%) 5G
11 105 (2.40%) LAN
12 103 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
13 97 (2.22%) Network Security
14 87 (1.99%) Broadband
15 86 (1.96%) HTTP
16 79 (1.80%) SNMP
17 77 (1.76%) VLAN
18 73 (1.67%) NAS
19 71 (1.62%) SSL
20 66 (1.51%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 371 (8.48%) MongoDB
3 312 (7.13%) NoSQL
4 283 (6.47%) MySQL
5 257 (5.87%) DB2
5 257 (5.87%) Relational Database
6 251 (5.73%) SQL Server
7 131 (2.99%) Oracle Database
8 88 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (2.01%) Big Data
9 75 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
10 59 (1.35%) GIS
11 58 (1.33%) RDBMS
12 54 (1.23%) Hadoop
13 45 (1.03%) Oracle Database 11g
14 44 (1.01%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (1.01%) VLDB
15 40 (0.91%) QGIS
16 37 (0.85%) Power BI
16 37 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 329 (7.52%) Git
2 270 (6.17%) JIRA
3 192 (4.39%) Jenkins
4 94 (2.15%) Subversion
5 86 (1.96%) GitLab
6 65 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 40 (0.91%) Eclipse
8 36 (0.82%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 23 (0.53%) Ant
10 23 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 23 (0.53%) Vagrant
11 22 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
12 19 (0.43%) CMake
13 18 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 16 (0.37%) Trac
15 14 (0.32%) Maven
16 12 (0.27%) Gradle
16 12 (0.27%) webpack
17 11 (0.25%) GDB
General
1 891 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 474 (10.83%) Finance
3 435 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 385 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 374 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 269 (6.15%) Aerospace
7 207 (4.73%) Electronics
8 172 (3.93%) Manufacturing
9 140 (3.20%) Law
10 138 (3.15%) Marketing
11 137 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 88 (2.01%) Automotive
13 74 (1.69%) Military
13 74 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 69 (1.58%) Retail
15 60 (1.37%) Banking
16 55 (1.26%) Legal
17 35 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
18 23 (0.53%) Aviation
18 23 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 904 (20.65%) Software Engineer
2 818 (18.69%) Senior
3 585 (13.37%) Developer
4 436 (9.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 329 (7.52%) Embedded Engineer
6 279 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
7 277 (6.33%) Lead
8 265 (6.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 247 (5.64%) Linux Engineer
10 231 (5.28%) Support Engineer
11 221 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 207 (4.73%) Administrator
13 188 (4.30%) Architect
14 170 (3.88%) Analyst
15 163 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
16 162 (3.70%) IT Support
17 156 (3.56%) IT Engineer
18 148 (3.38%) Systems Engineer
19 139 (3.18%) Consultant
20 136 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 472 (10.78%) HTML
2 435 (9.94%) React
3 415 (9.48%) CSS
4 385 (8.80%) REST
5 355 (8.11%) .NET
6 325 (7.43%) Web Services
7 319 (7.29%) AngularJS
8 290 (6.63%) jQuery
9 284 (6.49%) Vue
10 264 (6.03%) Node.js
11 248 (5.67%) ASP.NET
12 236 (5.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 228 (5.21%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (5.21%) Backbone.js
13 228 (5.21%) Ember.js
14 159 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
15 109 (2.49%) XML
16 91 (2.08%) Middleware
17 87 (1.99%) Laravel
18 79 (1.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 389 (8.89%) Algorithms
2 330 (7.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 290 (6.63%) Data Centre
4 268 (6.12%) Blockchain
5 242 (5.53%) Data Structures
6 204 (4.66%) Public Cloud
7 190 (4.34%) IoT
8 147 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
9 117 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
10 115 (2.63%) e-Learning
11 92 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
12 90 (2.06%) Cloud Native
13 89 (2.03%) Management Information System
14 80 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
15 72 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
16 67 (1.53%) Social Media
17 60 (1.37%) Device Driver
18 59 (1.35%) Replication
19 57 (1.30%) PKI
20 50 (1.14%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1,902 (43.45%) Windows
2 468 (10.69%) Windows Server
3 387 (8.84%) Unix
4 316 (7.22%) Ubuntu
5 315 (7.20%) Android
6 303 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 283 (6.47%) Embedded Linux
8 269 (6.15%) Apple iOS
9 258 (5.89%) CentOS
10 169 (3.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 142 (3.24%) Debian
12 109 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 102 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 101 (2.31%) Windows 10
15 91 (2.08%) Solaris
16 63 (1.44%) Mac OS
17 50 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
18 48 (1.10%) Alpine Linux
19 45 (1.03%) AIX
20 39 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,161 (26.53%) Software Engineering
2 1,051 (24.01%) Agile
3 894 (20.42%) DevOps
4 754 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
5 569 (13.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 533 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 472 (10.78%) Mentoring
8 469 (10.72%) CI/CD
9 426 (9.73%) Computer Science
10 409 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
11 392 (8.96%) OO
12 354 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
13 349 (7.97%) Web Development
14 344 (7.86%) User Experience
15 343 (7.84%) Full Stack Development
16 321 (7.33%) Collaborative Working
17 312 (7.13%) OOP
18 298 (6.81%) MVC
19 297 (6.79%) SDLC
20 285 (6.51%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,362 (31.12%) Python
2 892 (20.38%) SQL
3 741 (16.93%) Java
4 705 (16.11%) C
5 653 (14.92%) JavaScript
6 574 (13.11%) Bash
7 567 (12.95%) C++
8 485 (11.08%) C#
9 411 (9.39%) PowerShell
10 176 (4.02%) Embedded C
11 169 (3.86%) PHP
12 135 (3.08%) Shell Script
13 105 (2.40%) PL/SQL
14 91 (2.08%) Perl
14 91 (2.08%) TypeScript
15 87 (1.99%) Rust
16 74 (1.69%) VB
17 58 (1.33%) Kotlin
18 49 (1.12%) Go
19 46 (1.05%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,062 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 808 (18.46%) Degree
3 589 (13.46%) SC Cleared
4 415 (9.48%) DV Cleared
5 243 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 146 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
7 129 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 127 (2.90%) Azure Certification
9 125 (2.86%) CCNA
10 99 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 95 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 94 (2.15%) MCSE
13 72 (1.64%) PhD
14 64 (1.46%) MCSA
15 62 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 56 (1.28%) CCNP
17 38 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 36 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
19 35 (0.80%) HND
20 29 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (2.60%) SLA
2 84 (1.92%) QA
3 45 (1.03%) GDPR
3 45 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (0.71%) PMO
5 22 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (0.41%) NIST
7 15 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 14 (0.32%) MISRA
9 13 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.25%) ITGC
11 10 (0.23%) JTAG
12 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.14%) Def Stans
14 6 (0.14%) NCSC
15 4 (0.091%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.069%) GRC
System Software
1 544 (12.43%) Docker
2 504 (11.51%) Active Directory
3 477 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 258 (5.89%) Hyper-V
5 153 (3.50%) Firmware
6 95 (2.17%) vSphere
7 92 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
8 90 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
10 51 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
11 37 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
12 30 (0.69%) VMware NSX
13 27 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
14 19 (0.43%) KVM
14 19 (0.43%) pfSense
15 16 (0.37%) NFS
16 15 (0.34%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.18%) XenApp
19 7 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 678 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 612 (13.98%) Ansible
3 403 (9.21%) Terraform
4 205 (4.68%) Puppet
5 148 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 136 (3.11%) vCenter Server
7 99 (2.26%) Prometheus
8 81 (1.85%) Progress Chef
9 80 (1.83%) Grafana
10 75 (1.71%) SCCM
11 72 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
12 71 (1.62%) SCOM
13 70 (1.60%) ZABBIX
14 57 (1.30%) WSUS
15 55 (1.26%) Oracle RMAN
16 52 (1.19%) Nagios
17 50 (1.14%) Data Guard
18 38 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 35 (0.80%) FortiGate
20 34 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 787 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 706 (16.13%) VMware
3 622 (14.21%) Red Hat
4 414 (9.46%) Oracle
5 343 (7.84%) IBM
6 226 (5.16%) Cisco
7 124 (2.83%) Veeam
8 114 (2.60%) NetApp
9 100 (2.28%) Google
10 74 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 74 (1.69%) SAP
11 72 (1.64%) Citrix
12 71 (1.62%) CyberArk
13 68 (1.55%) Dell
13 68 (1.55%) Tanium
14 65 (1.49%) EMC
15 60 (1.37%) Juniper
16 58 (1.33%) Remedy
16 58 (1.33%) SolarWinds
17 56 (1.28%) Splunk