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 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 736 778 1042
Rank change year-on-year +42 +264 -248
Permanent jobs citing Debian 179 174 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.28% 1.11% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 95 145 136
10th Percentile £31,600 £42,750 £28,588
25th Percentile £42,375 £52,000 £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 £80,250 £90,500 £71,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +54.67% -11.76%

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 13,986 15,669 31,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 16.10% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 10,509 16,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
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 £92,000 £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 28 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 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
England +69 166 £52,500 -19.23% 15
UK excluding London +48 142 £50,000 -13.79% 12
South East +36 44 £63,750 +15.91% 3
Work from Home +1 40 £60,000 -4.00% 9
South West +7 39 £48,750 -2.50%
London +72 27 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Midlands +14 20 £50,000 -23.08% 3
East of England -31 18 £57,500 -8.00% 1
East Midlands - 18 £50,000 - 3
North of England +58 16 £22,000 -54.42% 2
North West +19 15 £22,000 -62.80%
Scotland -56 4 £48,500 +29.33% 2
West Midlands +11 2 £32,000 -50.77%
Yorkshire +77 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 (16.20%) Apache
2 28 (15.64%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.91%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.23%) IIS
4 4 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.79%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.31%) Azure
2 60 (33.52%) AWS
3 47 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.35%) IBM Cloud
5 37 (20.67%) GCP
6 30 (16.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (15.64%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (15.64%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (15.64%) OpenShift
7 28 (15.64%) Serverless
8 14 (7.82%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.79%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.68%) AWS IoT
13 2 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (1.12%) AWS OpsWorks
13 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.12%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.64%) AMQP
2 19 (10.61%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.15%) VLAN
4 10 (5.59%) Internet
5 9 (5.03%) VPN
6 7 (3.91%) Firewall
6 7 (3.91%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.35%) DNS
7 6 (3.35%) VSAN
8 4 (2.23%) DHCP
8 4 (2.23%) RTP
9 3 (1.68%) BGP
9 3 (1.68%) OSPF
9 3 (1.68%) Wireless
10 2 (1.12%) GPON
10 2 (1.12%) PPP
10 2 (1.12%) WAN
11 1 (0.56%) HSRP
11 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.56%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.76%) Big Data
1 30 (16.76%) Hadoop
2 28 (15.64%) Cloudera CDH
3 17 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (8.38%) MySQL
5 14 (7.82%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.59%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.91%) Ingres
9 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.68%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.47%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 40 (22.35%) Public Sector
2 30 (16.76%) Aerospace
3 17 (9.50%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.59%) Finance
5 8 (4.47%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.12%) 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 55 (30.73%) Software Engineer
2 39 (21.79%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (15.64%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (12.29%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (8.38%) Administrator
6 14 (7.82%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (6.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Linux Administrator
8 11 (6.15%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.59%) Ubuntu Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Lead
12 7 (3.91%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Network Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) 3rd Line Support
13 6 (3.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Junior
13 6 (3.35%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.64%) AngularJS
1 28 (15.64%) gRPC
1 28 (15.64%) Material-UI
1 28 (15.64%) Node.js
1 28 (15.64%) OpenAPI
1 28 (15.64%) RabbitMQ
1 28 (15.64%) React
1 28 (15.64%) REST
1 28 (15.64%) Spring
1 28 (15.64%) Spring Boot
1 28 (15.64%) Swagger
2 10 (5.59%) GTK
3 7 (3.91%) EDI
4 4 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.23%) XMPP
5 3 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.68%) Kafka
5 3 (1.68%) LDAP
6 2 (1.12%) Django
6 2 (1.12%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.35%) Blockchain
1 40 (22.35%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (22.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (15.64%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.94%) PKI
4 10 (5.59%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.68%) IoT
7 3 (1.68%) Replication
8 2 (1.12%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.12%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Derivative
9 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
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
1 179 (100.00%) Linux
2 93 (51.96%) Ubuntu
3 89 (49.72%) CentOS
4 43 (24.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (23.46%) Alpine Linux
6 30 (16.76%) Windows
7 11 (6.15%) SUSE
8 7 (3.91%) Unix
8 7 (3.91%) Windows Server
9 6 (3.35%) Solaris
10 4 (2.23%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.12%) Fedora
12 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.56%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.56%) Scientific Linux
12 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.87%) DevOps
2 55 (30.73%) Software Engineering
3 54 (30.17%) Configuration Management
4 47 (26.26%) CI/CD
5 46 (25.70%) Open Source
6 42 (23.46%) Artificial Intelligence
7 41 (22.91%) Containerisation
8 40 (22.35%) Co-Creation
8 40 (22.35%) Data Science
8 40 (22.35%) Functional Testing
8 40 (22.35%) Separation of Concerns
8 40 (22.35%) Task Automation
8 40 (22.35%) Technology Transformation
9 37 (20.67%) Agile
10 30 (16.76%) Collaborative Working
11 28 (15.64%) API Development
11 28 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (15.64%) Microservices
11 28 (15.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 28 (15.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.58%) Python
2 49 (27.37%) Bash
3 31 (17.32%) Java
4 30 (16.76%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.29%) C
6 21 (11.73%) SQL
7 14 (7.82%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.15%) C++
9 4 (2.23%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.68%) AWK
10 3 (1.68%) C#
10 3 (1.68%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.68%) sed
11 2 (1.12%) Perl
11 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (27.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (26.82%) MCSE
3 44 (24.58%) MCSA
4 40 (22.35%) Azure Certification
5 37 (20.67%) Security Cleared
6 32 (17.88%) DV Cleared
7 31 (17.32%) Degree
8 29 (16.20%) SC Cleared
9 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.23%) CCNA
11 4 (2.23%) RHCT
11 4 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.12%) CCNP
12 2 (1.12%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.56%) HNC
13 1 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.47%) PMO
2 7 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.35%) QA
4 4 (2.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) MISRA
System Software
1 48 (26.82%) Docker
2 22 (12.29%) Active Directory
3 21 (11.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.15%) vSphere
5 10 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.35%) KVM
7 4 (2.23%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.68%) Firmware
9 1 (0.56%) LXC
9 1 (0.56%) NFS
9 1 (0.56%) pfSense
9 1 (0.56%) Samba
9 1 (0.56%) Shibboleth
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (44.13%) Kubernetes
2 73 (40.78%) Terraform
3 36 (20.11%) Ansible
4 34 (18.99%) Puppet
5 8 (4.47%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.23%) Podman
6 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.23%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.12%) Grafana
7 2 (1.12%) Icinga
7 2 (1.12%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.12%) Nagios
8 1 (0.56%) Juju
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 93 (51.96%) Red Hat
2 40 (22.35%) IBM
3 39 (21.79%) VMware
4 28 (15.64%) Google
4 28 (15.64%) SaltStack
5 20 (11.17%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.35%) Citrix
7 3 (1.68%) Veeam
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco
8 2 (1.12%) Juniper
8 2 (1.12%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.12%) TP-LINK
8 2 (1.12%) 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