Linux Jobs in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 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 37 35 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,309 2,499 5,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.54% 7.08% 7.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.08% 45.30% 44.81%
Number of salaries quoted 878 1,845 2,628
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.31% +8.33% +4.35%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,111 5,517 11,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.16% 15.63% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,370 4,214 6,259
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,125 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the London 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
Central London -38 145 £70,000 -17.65% 41
West London +4 112 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South London -8 34 £64,375 +22.62% 9
East London +13 19 £57,500 - 3
North London +2 4 £62,750 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 45 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (2.83%) Confluence
3 35 (2.67%) Apache
4 34 (2.60%) nginx
5 27 (2.06%) IIS
6 22 (1.68%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.38%) WebSphere
8 15 (1.15%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.99%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.99%) JBoss
10 11 (0.84%) WebLogic
10 11 (0.84%) WordPress
11 7 (0.53%) WildFly
12 6 (0.46%) SAS
13 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
14 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.31%) CMS
14 4 (0.31%) Drupal
14 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.15%) Trello
4 1 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 15 (1.15%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.53%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.46%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
4 5 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.31%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.076%) Endur
7 1 (0.076%) Findur
7 1 (0.076%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.076%) Misys Opics
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 436 (33.31%) Azure
2 364 (27.81%) AWS
3 159 (12.15%) Entra ID
4 87 (6.65%) GCP
5 59 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (3.74%) GitHub
7 48 (3.67%) Serverless
8 39 (2.98%) Amazon S3
8 39 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (1.68%) IaaS
15 21 (1.60%) Azure AKS
15 21 (1.60%) SaaS
16 17 (1.30%) PaaS
16 17 (1.30%) Power Platform
17 14 (1.07%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 215 (16.42%) Firewall
2 147 (11.23%) 5G
2 147 (11.23%) Broadband
3 119 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 116 (8.86%) DNS
5 107 (8.17%) VPN
6 86 (6.57%) WAN
7 81 (6.19%) LAN
8 64 (4.89%) Internet
9 48 (3.67%) SAN
10 46 (3.51%) DHCP
11 44 (3.36%) Network Security
12 31 (2.37%) SNMP
13 28 (2.14%) BGP
13 28 (2.14%) HTTP
14 24 (1.83%) Wireless
15 23 (1.76%) MPLS
16 18 (1.38%) NAS
17 17 (1.30%) PBX
17 17 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (9.40%) SQL Server
2 96 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (6.19%) MongoDB
4 69 (5.27%) MySQL
5 53 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.75%) DB2
6 36 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.38%) Oracle Database
9 18 (1.38%) Redis
10 17 (1.30%) BigQuery
11 16 (1.22%) Power BI
12 14 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (0.99%) Big Data
13 13 (0.99%) Tableau
14 12 (0.92%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.76%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 107 (8.17%) Jenkins
2 80 (6.11%) JIRA
3 76 (5.81%) Git
4 60 (4.58%) GitLab
5 32 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.14%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.14%) Metasploit
7 17 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.53%) GDB
10 7 (0.53%) JUnit
10 7 (0.53%) Maven
10 7 (0.53%) Snyk
11 5 (0.38%) DTrace
11 5 (0.38%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 365 (27.88%) Finance
2 333 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 282 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (13.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 155 (11.84%) Banking
6 47 (3.59%) Front Office
7 45 (3.44%) Retail
8 42 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 41 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.98%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.83%) Law
12 35 (2.67%) Investment Banking
13 21 (1.60%) Marketing
14 14 (1.07%) Back Office
14 14 (1.07%) Billing
15 13 (0.99%) Games
16 11 (0.84%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.69%) Legal
17 9 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 295 (22.54%) Senior
2 151 (11.54%) Linux Specialist
3 150 (11.46%) Developer
4 145 (11.08%) Technical Specialist
5 135 (10.31%) Architect
6 111 (8.48%) Linux Engineer
7 109 (8.33%) Lead
8 108 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 95 (7.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 92 (7.03%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 91 (6.95%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 91 (6.95%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 88 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 86 (6.57%) Software Engineer
14 81 (6.19%) Analyst
15 70 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
16 65 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
17 54 (4.13%) Infrastructure Architect
18 51 (3.90%) Applications Support
18 51 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (5.81%) .NET
2 74 (5.65%) React
3 68 (5.19%) REST
4 52 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
5 40 (3.06%) Kafka
6 38 (2.90%) HTML
7 36 (2.75%) CSS
8 33 (2.52%) Node.js
8 33 (2.52%) YAML
9 32 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
10 31 (2.37%) XML
11 28 (2.14%) Middleware
11 28 (2.14%) Web Services
12 26 (1.99%) JSON
13 25 (1.91%) LDAP
14 24 (1.83%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
15 23 (1.76%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.38%) SOAP
17 16 (1.22%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.00%) Social Media
2 87 (6.65%) Data Centre
3 81 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 64 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
5 57 (4.35%) PKI
6 54 (4.13%) Cloud Native
7 47 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 47 (3.59%) Management Information System
8 45 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
9 43 (3.28%) Replication
10 38 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (2.90%) Legacy Code
11 36 (2.75%) Hedge funds
12 31 (2.37%) Clustering
13 29 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (2.14%) Onboarding
15 26 (1.99%) Client/Server
15 26 (1.99%) FPGA
16 25 (1.91%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 469 (35.83%) Windows
2 262 (20.02%) Ubuntu
3 198 (15.13%) Unix
4 132 (10.08%) Windows Server
5 103 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 74 (5.65%) CentOS
7 50 (3.82%) VMS
8 36 (2.75%) Solaris
9 29 (2.22%) Android
9 29 (2.22%) Kali Linux
9 29 (2.22%) Mac OS
10 28 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 27 (2.06%) Apple iOS
12 26 (1.99%) Debian
13 23 (1.76%) zOS
14 21 (1.60%) Windows 10
15 17 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
16 16 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
17 15 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
18 13 (0.99%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (24.75%) DevOps
2 274 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
3 226 (17.27%) Agile
4 220 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (16.42%) CI/CD
6 208 (15.89%) Software Engineering
7 196 (14.97%) Artificial Intelligence
8 150 (11.46%) IT Strategy
9 149 (11.38%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (10.92%) CRM
11 138 (10.54%) Computer Science
12 110 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 109 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 103 (7.87%) Containerisation
15 86 (6.57%) Disaster Recovery
16 85 (6.49%) Mentoring
17 79 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 77 (5.88%) Fintech
19 75 (5.73%) Configuration Management
20 72 (5.50%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 452 (34.53%) Python
2 348 (26.59%) Bash
3 266 (20.32%) SQL
4 180 (13.75%) PowerShell
5 168 (12.83%) Java
6 123 (9.40%) C
7 114 (8.71%) C#
8 113 (8.63%) C++
9 105 (8.02%) JavaScript
10 82 (6.26%) Perl
11 71 (5.42%) Go
12 47 (3.59%) Rust
13 43 (3.28%) Shell Script
14 40 (3.06%) Ruby
15 34 (2.60%) TypeScript
16 25 (1.91%) PHP
17 14 (1.07%) Korn
18 11 (0.84%) Groovy
19 9 (0.69%) Scala
20 8 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 212 (16.20%) Degree
2 135 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 98 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 57 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 35 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 28 (2.14%) CCNA
10 18 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.15%) CISSP
12 15 (1.15%) MCSE
13 14 (1.07%) CISA
13 14 (1.07%) MCSA
13 14 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 11 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.61%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.83%) SLA
2 23 (1.76%) QA
3 21 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.22%) NIST
5 15 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.84%) GDPR
8 10 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.46%) ITGC
9 6 (0.46%) PMO
10 5 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.31%) GRC
11 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.23%) JTAG
12 3 (0.23%) MiFID
12 3 (0.23%) NCSC
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 311 (23.76%) Active Directory
2 196 (14.97%) Docker
3 124 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
4 42 (3.21%) vSphere
5 24 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 15 (1.15%) KVM
8 14 (1.07%) vCloud
9 10 (0.76%) NFS
10 6 (0.46%) Forefront TMG
10 6 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.31%) Ceph
12 3 (0.23%) Firmware
12 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) HDFS
13 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.15%) Varnish
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 242 (18.49%) Kubernetes
2 217 (16.58%) Ansible
3 195 (14.90%) Terraform
4 163 (12.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.00%) Jamf Pro
6 81 (6.19%) Puppet
7 60 (4.58%) Progress Chef
8 46 (3.51%) Grafana
9 36 (2.75%) Prometheus
10 34 (2.60%) SCCM
11 19 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 17 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (1.30%) vCenter Server
13 16 (1.22%) Nagios
14 15 (1.15%) Nessus
14 15 (1.15%) Salt
15 14 (1.07%) HAProxy
16 12 (0.92%) Graphite
17 11 (0.84%) WSUS
18 7 (0.53%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 322 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 174 (13.29%) VMware
3 151 (11.54%) Oracle
4 144 (11.00%) CyberArk
4 144 (11.00%) Tanium
5 142 (10.85%) Red Hat
6 85 (6.49%) Cisco
7 50 (3.82%) Google
8 46 (3.51%) Palo Alto
9 41 (3.13%) IBM
10 35 (2.67%) Splunk
11 33 (2.52%) Atlassian
12 30 (2.29%) Veeam
13 28 (2.14%) F5
14 26 (1.99%) Juniper
15 25 (1.91%) Qualys
16 24 (1.83%) Bloomberg
16 24 (1.83%) ION Trading
17 23 (1.76%) HP
18 19 (1.45%) Reuters