Linux Jobs in the City of London

Linux
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 36 33
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 134 348 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.97% 7.41% 7.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.43% 40.85% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 97 298 451
10th Percentile £44,500 £48,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £95,625
90th Percentile £130,000 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% -3.33%

All Operating Systems
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 507 852 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.03% 18.13% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 404 726 1,009
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,875 £35,200
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +1.89%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £64,140 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.32% +4.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the City of London.

Salary trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 11 (8.21%) Apache
2 5 (3.73%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.73%) nginx
2 5 (3.73%) WebLogic
3 4 (2.99%) ArcGIS
3 4 (2.99%) GeoServer
3 4 (2.99%) WordPress
4 3 (2.24%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.24%) IIS
4 3 (2.24%) SAS
5 2 (1.49%) CMS
5 2 (1.49%) Drupal
5 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.75%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) Site Server
6 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.75%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.06%) Azure
2 35 (26.12%) AWS
3 13 (9.70%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.48%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.48%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.73%) Azure Storage
6 5 (3.73%) WhatsApp
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.99%) SaaS
8 3 (2.24%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.24%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.49%) ClickUp
9 2 (1.49%) GCP
9 2 (1.49%) GitHub
9 2 (1.49%) PaaS
9 2 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.45%) TCP/IP
2 13 (9.70%) SAN
3 11 (8.21%) DNS
3 11 (8.21%) Firewall
4 9 (6.72%) NAS
5 6 (4.48%) Internet
5 6 (4.48%) VPN
6 5 (3.73%) IPsec
6 5 (3.73%) SNMP
6 5 (3.73%) SSL
7 4 (2.99%) BGP
8 3 (2.24%) Multicast
8 3 (2.24%) PSTN
8 3 (2.24%) WAN
9 2 (1.49%) DHCP
9 2 (1.49%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.49%) Wireless
10 1 (0.75%) FTP
10 1 (0.75%) LAN
10 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.21%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.99%) GIS
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.99%) QGIS
8 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.24%) MySQL
9 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.75%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.75%) KDB
9 1 (0.75%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.75%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Jenkins
1 10 (7.46%) JIRA
2 8 (5.97%) Git
3 7 (5.22%) GitLab
4 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.24%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.49%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.75%) Ant
7 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.75%) git-flow
7 1 (0.75%) JUnit
7 1 (0.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.75%) MLflow
7 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.75%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (34.33%) Finance
2 24 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.93%) Banking
4 18 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.46%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.97%) Front Office
7 5 (3.73%) Law
8 4 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.24%) Advertising
10 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Marketing
10 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.49%) Retail
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
11 1 (0.75%) French Language
11 1 (0.75%) Games
11 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (23.13%) Senior
2 17 (12.69%) Developer
3 15 (11.19%) Lead
4 12 (8.96%) Architect
4 12 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (8.96%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (8.96%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) Analyst
5 10 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.97%) Java Developer
6 8 (5.97%) Senior Developer
6 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Applications Support
7 7 (5.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Quantitative Developer
8 6 (4.48%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.46%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (5.97%) .NET
3 6 (4.48%) YAML
4 5 (3.73%) Django
4 5 (3.73%) REST
5 4 (2.99%) Leaflet
5 4 (2.99%) OpenLayers
5 4 (2.99%) PostGIS
5 4 (2.99%) React
5 4 (2.99%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.24%) ASP.NET
6 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.24%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.24%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.49%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.49%) GTK
8 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.75%) CSS
8 1 (0.75%) Kafka
8 1 (0.75%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.96%) Public Cloud
2 10 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (5.22%) Equities
5 6 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.99%) PKI
8 3 (2.24%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.24%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.49%) CCTV
9 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.49%) FPGA
9 2 (1.49%) Replication
9 2 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.75%) Anti-Spyware
10 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (41.04%) Windows
2 26 (19.40%) Windows Server
3 17 (12.69%) Unix
4 13 (9.70%) Ubuntu
5 10 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.97%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (4.48%) Debian
8 5 (3.73%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (3.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.99%) CentOS
10 3 (2.24%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.24%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.75%) AIX
11 1 (0.75%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.75%) Solaris
11 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.36%) DevOps
2 30 (22.39%) CI/CD
3 25 (18.66%) Software Engineering
4 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (14.18%) Agile
6 18 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (12.69%) Actionable Insight
8 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (9.70%) Project Management
10 11 (8.21%) Analytics
10 11 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (8.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (7.46%) Computer Science
11 10 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (7.46%) Low Latency
12 8 (5.97%) Change Management
12 8 (5.97%) Open Source
13 7 (5.22%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (5.22%) Configuration Management
13 7 (5.22%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 49 (36.57%) Python
2 34 (25.37%) SQL
3 25 (18.66%) Java
3 25 (18.66%) PowerShell
4 24 (17.91%) Bash
5 18 (13.43%) C#
6 10 (7.46%) C++
7 9 (6.72%) C
8 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.73%) Perl
10 3 (2.24%) PHP
10 3 (2.24%) SAS Macro
11 2 (1.49%) Go
12 1 (0.75%) Ruby
12 1 (0.75%) Scala
12 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.19%) Degree
3 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.72%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.97%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.48%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.75%) CCNA
10 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.75%) GCIA
10 1 (0.75%) GCIH
10 1 (0.75%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.75%) LPIC
10 1 (0.75%) MCP
10 1 (0.75%) MCSE
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.99%) GDPR
3 3 (2.24%) NIST
3 3 (2.24%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) GRC
4 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (15.67%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.43%) Docker
3 12 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.22%) vSphere
5 2 (1.49%) KVM
6 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.75%) LXC
6 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (22.39%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.16%) Ansible
3 13 (9.70%) Terraform
4 11 (8.21%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.97%) SCCM
6 5 (3.73%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.99%) HP Data Protector
7 4 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.24%) Backup Exec
8 3 (2.24%) Puppet
9 2 (1.49%) Grafana
9 2 (1.49%) Kibana
9 2 (1.49%) logstash
9 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.49%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.75%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.75%) Nagios
10 1 (0.75%) Packer
10 1 (0.75%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.93%) VMware
3 18 (13.43%) Red Hat
4 14 (10.45%) Oracle
5 11 (8.21%) Cisco
5 11 (8.21%) NetApp
6 10 (7.46%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.48%) Commvault
8 5 (3.73%) BMC
8 5 (3.73%) Dell
8 5 (3.73%) HP
8 5 (3.73%) Remedy
8 5 (3.73%) SolidFire
9 4 (2.99%) EMC
9 4 (2.99%) ESRI
9 4 (2.99%) Sparx
9 4 (2.99%) Veeam
10 3 (2.24%) Avaya
10 3 (2.24%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.24%) Symantec