Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 33 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,876 6,867 15,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.69% 7.07% 9.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.89% 43.82% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 4,257 6,611
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,548 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,027 15,670 31,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.58% 16.13% 18.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 10,460 16,389
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% - -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux.

Salary trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK

Linux
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +4 5,189 £55,000 -15.38% 1,179
UK excluding London 0 4,390 £52,500 - 865
Work from Home 0 2,238 £57,500 -8.00% 545
London -6 1,293 £75,000 -3.25% 377
South East -2 1,201 £55,000 +10.00% 233
South West +4 870 £52,500 -4.55% 166
North of England +19 832 £50,000 - 137
North West +24 529 £52,500 - 78
Midlands +23 523 £50,000 -9.09% 121
East of England +13 437 £52,500 -8.70% 139
Scotland -44 352 £51,000 -7.27% 70
East Midlands +28 302 £50,000 -13.04% 54
Yorkshire +13 246 £46,304 -2.52% 50
West Midlands -2 221 £54,000 -1.82% 67
Wales +17 130 £47,500 -5.00% 17
North East -6 57 £52,500 +20.69% 9
Northern Ireland -9 44 £52,500 +1.94% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

Linux
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
1 272 (4.63%) Apache
2 183 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 118 (2.01%) nginx
4 115 (1.96%) IIS
5 105 (1.79%) WebLogic
6 103 (1.75%) SharePoint
7 88 (1.50%) Confluence
8 67 (1.14%) Apache Spark
9 58 (0.99%) Tomcat
10 55 (0.94%) ArcGIS
10 55 (0.94%) OpenStack
11 48 (0.82%) GeoServer
12 44 (0.75%) Oracle Service Bus
13 38 (0.65%) WebSphere
14 25 (0.43%) Jupyter
15 22 (0.37%) JBoss
15 22 (0.37%) WordPress
16 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
17 11 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
17 11 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 137 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 43 (0.73%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) GNU Octave
5 11 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.085%) Trello
9 4 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.068%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.068%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.034%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.034%) CATIA
11 2 (0.034%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.034%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.017%) 1Password
12 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 52 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 48 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 17 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.085%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.085%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.068%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.051%) Maximo
10 2 (0.034%) C-CURE
10 2 (0.034%) Magento
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.034%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 2 (0.034%) Shopify
11 1 (0.017%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,776 (30.22%) Azure
2 1,361 (23.16%) AWS
3 372 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 339 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 287 (4.88%) GCP
6 278 (4.73%) IBM Cloud
7 256 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
8 236 (4.02%) Serverless
9 180 (3.06%) SaaS
10 160 (2.72%) GitHub
11 158 (2.69%) OpenShift
12 140 (2.38%) Amazon S3
13 135 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 134 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
15 132 (2.25%) Azure Functions
16 129 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
17 126 (2.14%) Azure API Management
18 100 (1.70%) IaaS
19 90 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
20 84 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 795 (13.53%) Firewall
2 473 (8.05%) DNS
3 420 (7.15%) TCP/IP
4 309 (5.26%) VPN
5 275 (4.68%) DHCP
6 255 (4.34%) 5G
7 234 (3.98%) Broadband
8 225 (3.83%) SAN
9 224 (3.81%) WAN
10 211 (3.59%) Internet
11 192 (3.27%) LAN
12 165 (2.81%) Wireless
13 152 (2.59%) Network Security
14 114 (1.94%) HTTP
15 108 (1.84%) SNMP
16 107 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
17 104 (1.77%) VLAN
18 99 (1.68%) SSL
19 95 (1.62%) BGP
19 95 (1.62%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 510 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
2 452 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 401 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 375 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 352 (5.99%) MySQL
6 294 (5.00%) DB2
7 289 (4.92%) Relational Database
8 162 (2.76%) Oracle Database
9 123 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 107 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 98 (1.67%) Big Data
12 71 (1.21%) RDBMS
13 69 (1.17%) GIS
14 57 (0.97%) Hadoop
14 57 (0.97%) Redis
15 53 (0.90%) Power BI
16 48 (0.82%) QGIS
17 45 (0.77%) Oracle Database 11g
18 44 (0.75%) Oracle Database 10g
18 44 (0.75%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 421 (7.16%) Git
2 352 (5.99%) JIRA
3 316 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 152 (2.59%) GitLab
5 98 (1.67%) Subversion
6 66 (1.12%) Visual Studio
7 64 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.70%) Eclipse
9 31 (0.53%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.48%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.48%) Metasploit
10 28 (0.48%) Vagrant
11 26 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 25 (0.43%) Ant
13 23 (0.39%) Robot Framework
14 20 (0.34%) CMake
14 20 (0.34%) Maven
15 19 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 18 (0.31%) GDB
16 18 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,245 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 862 (14.67%) Finance
3 668 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 583 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 494 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 298 (5.07%) Aerospace
7 225 (3.83%) Electronics
8 216 (3.68%) Banking
9 202 (3.44%) Telecoms
10 185 (3.15%) Manufacturing
11 181 (3.08%) Law
12 159 (2.71%) Marketing
13 120 (2.04%) Retail
14 89 (1.51%) Automotive
15 82 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 78 (1.33%) Legal
17 74 (1.26%) Military
18 61 (1.04%) Front Office
19 48 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
20 42 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,149 (19.55%) Senior
2 1,034 (17.60%) Software Engineer
3 767 (13.05%) Developer
4 554 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 396 (6.74%) Lead
6 382 (6.50%) Linux Engineer
7 341 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 340 (5.79%) Embedded Engineer
9 332 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 322 (5.48%) Architect
11 278 (4.73%) Support Engineer
12 275 (4.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 265 (4.51%) Analyst
14 250 (4.25%) Administrator
15 216 (3.68%) Linux Specialist
16 215 (3.66%) Technical Specialist
17 200 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
18 188 (3.20%) Full Stack Developer
19 177 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
19 177 (3.01%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 522 (8.88%) HTML
2 510 (8.68%) React
3 461 (7.85%) CSS
3 461 (7.85%) REST
4 439 (7.47%) .NET
5 371 (6.31%) Web Services
6 341 (5.80%) AngularJS
7 311 (5.29%) jQuery
8 307 (5.22%) Node.js
9 296 (5.04%) Vue
10 272 (4.63%) ASP.NET
11 246 (4.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 238 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
12 238 (4.05%) Backbone.js
12 238 (4.05%) Ember.js
13 185 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
14 139 (2.37%) XML
15 124 (2.11%) Middleware
16 109 (1.86%) YAML
17 98 (1.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 416 (7.08%) Algorithms
2 375 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 360 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 290 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 280 (4.77%) Blockchain
6 257 (4.37%) Data Structures
7 210 (3.57%) Social Media
8 204 (3.47%) IoT
9 183 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
10 156 (2.65%) Management Information System
11 146 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
12 142 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
13 134 (2.28%) Cloud Native
14 121 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
15 116 (1.97%) e-Learning
15 116 (1.97%) PKI
16 104 (1.77%) Replication
17 98 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
18 79 (1.34%) FPGA
19 76 (1.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,419 (41.17%) Windows
2 621 (10.57%) Unix
3 609 (10.36%) Windows Server
4 604 (10.28%) Ubuntu
5 426 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 351 (5.97%) Android
7 339 (5.77%) CentOS
8 302 (5.14%) Apple iOS
9 292 (4.97%) Embedded Linux
10 186 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 177 (3.01%) Debian
12 144 (2.45%) Solaris
13 127 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
14 125 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 124 (2.11%) Windows 10
16 89 (1.51%) Mac OS
17 69 (1.17%) VMS
18 62 (1.06%) AIX
19 56 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
20 50 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,413 (24.05%) Software Engineering
2 1,310 (22.29%) Agile
3 1,245 (21.19%) DevOps
4 996 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
5 781 (13.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 703 (11.96%) CI/CD
7 683 (11.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 641 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
9 573 (9.75%) Computer Science
10 558 (9.50%) Mentoring
11 474 (8.07%) Actionable Insight
12 430 (7.32%) OO
13 419 (7.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 403 (6.86%) Full Stack Development
15 372 (6.33%) Web Development
16 366 (6.23%) Containerisation
17 358 (6.09%) User Experience
18 347 (5.91%) Collaborative Working
19 337 (5.74%) OOP
20 330 (5.62%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1,845 (31.40%) Python
2 1,188 (20.22%) SQL
3 921 (15.67%) Java
4 916 (15.59%) Bash
5 859 (14.62%) C
6 774 (13.17%) JavaScript
7 698 (11.88%) C++
8 607 (10.33%) C#
9 595 (10.13%) PowerShell
10 196 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 188 (3.20%) PHP
12 181 (3.08%) Embedded C
13 175 (2.98%) Perl
14 142 (2.42%) Rust
15 129 (2.20%) Go
16 121 (2.06%) TypeScript
17 110 (1.87%) PL/SQL
18 92 (1.57%) Ruby
19 79 (1.34%) VB
20 58 (0.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,247 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 1,048 (17.84%) Degree
3 663 (11.28%) SC Cleared
4 497 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 343 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 178 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 154 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 152 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 151 (2.57%) CCNA
10 139 (2.37%) AWS Certification
11 129 (2.20%) Master's Degree
12 111 (1.89%) MCSE
13 84 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 78 (1.33%) PhD
15 76 (1.29%) MCSA
16 58 (0.99%) CCNP
17 43 (0.73%) CISSP
18 42 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 39 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 37 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (2.48%) SLA
2 112 (1.91%) QA
3 67 (1.14%) GDPR
4 66 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 41 (0.70%) NIST
7 37 (0.63%) PMO
8 27 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.29%) ITGC
10 15 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.26%) ISO 13485
11 14 (0.24%) JTAG
11 14 (0.24%) MISRA
11 14 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.22%) NCSC
13 9 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.14%) IEC 62304
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
15 7 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 815 (13.87%) Active Directory
2 778 (13.24%) Docker
3 612 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 280 (4.77%) Hyper-V
5 159 (2.71%) Firmware
6 136 (2.31%) vSphere
7 128 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
8 122 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
9 62 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
10 52 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 43 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
12 39 (0.66%) KVM
13 31 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
13 31 (0.53%) VMware NSX
14 25 (0.43%) NFS
15 19 (0.32%) pfSense
16 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
17 16 (0.27%) VMware Server
18 12 (0.20%) XenApp
19 11 (0.19%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 965 (16.42%) Kubernetes
2 859 (14.62%) Ansible
3 635 (10.81%) Terraform
4 310 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 281 (4.78%) Puppet
6 216 (3.68%) Jamf Pro
7 157 (2.67%) vCenter Server
8 145 (2.47%) Prometheus
9 129 (2.20%) Progress Chef
10 126 (2.14%) Grafana
11 108 (1.84%) SCCM
12 78 (1.33%) SCOM
12 78 (1.33%) ZABBIX
13 73 (1.24%) Nagios
14 67 (1.14%) WSUS
15 55 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
16 50 (0.85%) Data Guard
17 40 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 35 (0.60%) FortiGate
19 34 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,158 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 898 (15.28%) VMware
3 783 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 601 (10.23%) Oracle
5 383 (6.52%) IBM
6 322 (5.48%) Cisco
7 215 (3.66%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.61%) Tanium
9 155 (2.64%) Google
10 150 (2.55%) Veeam
11 133 (2.26%) NetApp
12 113 (1.92%) Palo Alto
13 101 (1.72%) Citrix
14 100 (1.70%) Splunk
15 86 (1.46%) Juniper
16 84 (1.43%) SAP
17 79 (1.34%) Dell
18 72 (1.23%) EMC
19 68 (1.16%) Remedy
20 65 (1.11%) SolarWinds