Linux Jobs in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,095 6,444 11,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.97% 6.97% 8.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.47% 43.31% 46.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,460 4,129 6,002
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,589 14,879 25,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.76% 16.10% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9,982 10,202 15,172
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London -2 1,309 £75,000 -6.25% 392
South East -1 1,183 £55,000 +10.00% 219
South West +4 845 £54,000 -1.82% 173
North of England +21 827 £51,364 +2.73% 151
North West +22 522 £55,000 +4.76% 86
Midlands +13 479 £50,000 -9.09% 121
East of England +12 422 £52,500 -8.70% 143
East Midlands +18 274 £50,000 -9.09% 59
Yorkshire +11 252 £47,500 -5.00% 56
West Midlands -13 205 £54,000 -1.82% 62
North East -16 53 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 219 (4.30%) Apache
2 174 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 115 (2.26%) nginx
4 99 (1.94%) IIS
5 95 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 89 (1.75%) Confluence
7 60 (1.18%) Apache Spark
8 59 (1.16%) WebLogic
9 43 (0.84%) WebSphere
10 42 (0.82%) OpenStack
11 36 (0.71%) Tomcat
12 35 (0.69%) ArcGIS
13 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
14 26 (0.51%) WordPress
15 21 (0.41%) Jupyter
16 20 (0.39%) JBoss
17 18 (0.35%) Captiva
17 18 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
17 18 (0.35%) FileNet
18 15 (0.29%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 87 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (0.59%) Simulink
4 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.20%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.079%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.079%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.039%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.039%) CATIA
10 2 (0.039%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.039%) Trello
11 1 (0.020%) 1Password
11 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 20 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 15 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 12 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.12%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.098%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
9 3 (0.059%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.039%) Magento
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.039%) Shopify
11 1 (0.020%) Endur
11 1 (0.020%) FLEXCUBE
11 1 (0.020%) Misys Opics
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (0.020%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,616 (31.72%) Azure
2 1,204 (23.63%) AWS
3 338 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
4 319 (6.26%) Entra ID
5 279 (5.48%) IBM Cloud
6 253 (4.97%) GCP
7 245 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
8 234 (4.59%) Serverless
9 155 (3.04%) GitHub
10 144 (2.83%) OpenShift
11 135 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 133 (2.61%) SaaS
13 132 (2.59%) Azure Functions
14 129 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.47%) Azure API Management
16 115 (2.26%) Amazon S3
17 107 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
18 80 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
19 76 (1.49%) IaaS
20 74 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 699 (13.72%) Firewall
2 424 (8.32%) DNS
3 372 (7.30%) TCP/IP
4 261 (5.12%) VPN
5 252 (4.95%) 5G
6 249 (4.89%) DHCP
7 231 (4.53%) Broadband
8 209 (4.10%) SAN
9 200 (3.93%) WAN
10 179 (3.51%) LAN
11 175 (3.43%) Internet
12 130 (2.55%) Wireless
13 112 (2.20%) Network Security
14 111 (2.18%) HTTP
15 92 (1.81%) NAS
15 92 (1.81%) SNMP
16 91 (1.79%) VLAN
17 84 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
18 81 (1.59%) BGP
19 67 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 423 (8.30%) MongoDB
3 351 (6.89%) SQL Server
4 347 (6.81%) NoSQL
5 342 (6.71%) MySQL
6 277 (5.44%) DB2
7 248 (4.87%) Relational Database
8 101 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 95 (1.86%) Oracle Database
10 91 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (1.67%) Big Data
12 53 (1.04%) Redis
13 51 (1.00%) Power BI
14 50 (0.98%) Hadoop
15 48 (0.94%) GIS
16 43 (0.84%) RDBMS
17 41 (0.80%) MariaDB
18 29 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
19 28 (0.55%) QGIS
20 26 (0.51%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 395 (7.75%) Git
2 335 (6.58%) JIRA
3 277 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 145 (2.85%) GitLab
5 100 (1.96%) Subversion
6 60 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 58 (1.14%) Visual Studio
8 38 (0.75%) Eclipse
9 37 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.55%) Ant
10 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 24 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 22 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
13 22 (0.43%) TeamCity
14 21 (0.41%) CMake
15 20 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
16 19 (0.37%) GDB
17 18 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,082 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 681 (13.37%) Finance
3 619 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 452 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 404 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 225 (4.42%) Aerospace
7 213 (4.18%) Banking
8 195 (3.83%) Electronics
9 162 (3.18%) Telecoms
10 149 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 109 (2.14%) Retail
12 102 (2.00%) Marketing
13 78 (1.53%) Law
14 75 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.45%) Automotive
16 65 (1.28%) Military
17 55 (1.08%) Front Office
18 43 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 43 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
19 40 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 986 (19.35%) Senior
2 755 (14.82%) Software Engineer
3 724 (14.21%) Developer
4 495 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 333 (6.54%) Lead
6 327 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 320 (6.28%) Linux Engineer
8 294 (5.77%) Embedded Engineer
9 264 (5.18%) Architect
10 263 (5.16%) Support Engineer
11 240 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 232 (4.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 227 (4.46%) Administrator
14 222 (4.36%) Linux Specialist
15 215 (4.22%) Technical Specialist
16 211 (4.14%) Analyst
17 194 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
18 184 (3.61%) Full Stack Developer
19 182 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
20 158 (3.10%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (9.68%) React
2 490 (9.62%) HTML
3 442 (8.68%) REST
4 435 (8.54%) CSS
5 422 (8.28%) .NET
6 337 (6.61%) AngularJS
7 332 (6.52%) Web Services
8 303 (5.95%) jQuery
9 292 (5.73%) Vue
10 289 (5.67%) Node.js
11 273 (5.36%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.67%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.67%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.67%) Ember.js
14 144 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
15 138 (2.71%) XML
16 103 (2.02%) Middleware
17 91 (1.79%) YAML
18 86 (1.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 364 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 356 (6.99%) Algorithms
3 309 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 282 (5.53%) Blockchain
5 254 (4.99%) Data Structures
6 249 (4.89%) Public Cloud
7 211 (4.14%) Social Media
8 201 (3.95%) IoT
9 164 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
10 136 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
11 134 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
12 133 (2.61%) Management Information System
13 120 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
14 113 (2.22%) e-Learning
14 113 (2.22%) PKI
15 112 (2.20%) Cloud Native
16 85 (1.67%) Replication
17 71 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
18 69 (1.35%) Client/Server
18 69 (1.35%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2,181 (42.81%) Windows
2 540 (10.60%) Ubuntu
3 530 (10.40%) Windows Server
4 482 (9.46%) Unix
5 388 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 334 (6.56%) Android
7 308 (6.05%) CentOS
8 298 (5.85%) Apple iOS
9 237 (4.65%) Embedded Linux
10 172 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 158 (3.10%) Debian
12 126 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
13 116 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 114 (2.24%) Windows 10
15 94 (1.84%) Mac OS
16 82 (1.61%) Solaris
17 69 (1.35%) VMS
18 51 (1.00%) AIX
19 46 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
20 43 (0.84%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,137 (22.32%) DevOps
2 1,109 (21.77%) Software Engineering
3 1,044 (20.49%) Agile
4 874 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
5 657 (12.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 606 (11.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 605 (11.87%) Cybersecurity
8 574 (11.27%) CI/CD
9 509 (9.99%) Mentoring
10 486 (9.54%) Computer Science
11 413 (8.11%) OO
12 406 (7.97%) Full Stack Development
13 394 (7.73%) Actionable Insight
14 371 (7.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 347 (6.81%) User Experience
16 344 (6.75%) Web Development
17 342 (6.71%) Containerisation
18 332 (6.52%) OOP
19 308 (6.05%) MVC
20 295 (5.79%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1,586 (31.13%) Python
2 1,002 (19.67%) SQL
3 874 (17.15%) Bash
4 762 (14.96%) Java
5 729 (14.31%) C
6 724 (14.21%) JavaScript
7 609 (11.95%) C++
8 594 (11.66%) PowerShell
9 574 (11.27%) C#
10 190 (3.73%) PHP
11 162 (3.18%) Perl
12 152 (2.98%) Shell Script
13 136 (2.67%) Embedded C
14 135 (2.65%) Rust
15 127 (2.49%) TypeScript
16 121 (2.37%) Go
17 74 (1.45%) Ruby
17 74 (1.45%) VB
18 42 (0.82%) PL/SQL
19 41 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,078 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 859 (16.86%) Degree
3 540 (10.60%) SC Cleared
4 458 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 298 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
7 138 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 123 (2.41%) CCNA
9 116 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 114 (2.24%) Azure Certification
11 104 (2.04%) MCSE
12 101 (1.98%) AWS Certification
13 71 (1.39%) MCSA
14 61 (1.20%) PhD
15 53 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 48 (0.94%) CCNP
17 41 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 35 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
19 30 (0.59%) HND
19 30 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (2.02%) SLA
2 89 (1.75%) QA
3 63 (1.24%) GDPR
4 62 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (0.67%) NIST
6 29 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 24 (0.47%) PMO
9 16 (0.31%) NCSC
10 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.24%) MISRA
12 11 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.16%) GRC
13 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
14 7 (0.14%) JTAG
15 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 805 (15.80%) Active Directory
2 681 (13.37%) Docker
3 552 (10.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 248 (4.87%) Hyper-V
5 136 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
6 134 (2.63%) Firmware
6 134 (2.63%) vSphere
7 98 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 35 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
10 29 (0.57%) KVM
11 24 (0.47%) NFS
11 24 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
12 23 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
13 19 (0.37%) VMware NSX
14 18 (0.35%) pfSense
14 18 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
15 16 (0.31%) VMware Server
16 14 (0.27%) vCloud
17 9 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 763 (14.98%) Kubernetes
2 746 (14.64%) Ansible
3 560 (10.99%) Terraform
4 301 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 275 (5.40%) Puppet
6 215 (4.22%) Jamf Pro
7 139 (2.73%) vCenter Server
8 122 (2.39%) Progress Chef
9 115 (2.26%) Grafana
9 115 (2.26%) Prometheus
10 101 (1.98%) SCCM
11 70 (1.37%) SCOM
12 69 (1.35%) ZABBIX
13 66 (1.30%) WSUS
14 63 (1.24%) Nagios
15 38 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 33 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
17 31 (0.61%) HAProxy
18 28 (0.55%) Rancher
19 26 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,029 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 791 (15.53%) VMware
3 729 (14.31%) Red Hat
4 389 (7.63%) IBM
4 389 (7.63%) Oracle
5 283 (5.55%) Cisco
6 212 (4.16%) Tanium
7 211 (4.14%) CyberArk
8 146 (2.87%) Veeam
9 138 (2.71%) Google
10 97 (1.90%) Palo Alto
11 95 (1.86%) NetApp
12 86 (1.69%) SAP
13 85 (1.67%) Citrix
14 81 (1.59%) Juniper
15 79 (1.55%) Splunk
16 68 (1.33%) Atlassian
17 66 (1.30%) EMC
17 66 (1.30%) SolarWinds
18 62 (1.22%) Dell