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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 789 1035
Rank change year-on-year +62 +246 -274
Permanent jobs citing Debian 169 181 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.20% 1.09% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 93 155 139
10th Percentile £31,300 £45,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,625 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £37,250
% change year-on-year -13.04% +54.36% -6.88%

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 14,079 16,671 29,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.93% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,884 11,238 16,744
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,398
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
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 £92,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +94 157 £52,500 -19.23% 21
UK excluding London +83 134 £50,000 -13.04% 22
South East +63 42 £75,000 +87.50% 6
Work from Home +14 34 £62,500 +4.17% 11
South West +28 32 £44,000 -12.00% 4
London +47 26 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Midlands - 21 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands - 19 £50,000 - 2
North of England +66 18 £22,000 -60.00% 1
East of England -15 17 £57,500 -4.17% 3
North West +26 16 £22,000 -62.80% 1
Scotland -64 3 £48,500 +29.33% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £51,591 -
West Midlands - 2 £32,000 - 3
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 26 (15.38%) Apache
2 24 (14.20%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.55%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.37%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.78%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.96%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 94 (55.62%) Azure
2 57 (33.73%) AWS
3 47 (27.81%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (23.67%) IBM Cloud
5 30 (17.75%) GCP
6 28 (16.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (14.20%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (14.20%) OpenShift
7 24 (14.20%) Serverless
8 13 (7.69%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.96%) ClickUp
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.78%) AWS IoT
14 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (1.18%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.20%) AMQP
2 19 (11.24%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.51%) Internet
4 8 (4.73%) VPN
5 7 (4.14%) VLAN
6 6 (3.55%) DNS
6 6 (3.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (3.55%) VSAN
7 5 (2.96%) Firewall
8 4 (2.37%) BGP
8 4 (2.37%) RTP
9 3 (1.78%) DHCP
9 3 (1.78%) IPv6
10 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.59%) GPON
10 1 (0.59%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.59%) OSPF
10 1 (0.59%) PPP
10 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.79%) Big Data
1 25 (14.79%) Hadoop
2 24 (14.20%) Cloudera CDH
3 15 (8.88%) MySQL
3 15 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.92%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.14%) Ingres
8 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.18%) GitLab
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 40 (23.67%) Public Sector
2 25 (14.79%) Aerospace
3 17 (10.06%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.73%) Finance
4 8 (4.73%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.78%) Games
6 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Back Office
7 1 (0.59%) Banking
7 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Electronics
7 1 (0.59%) Front Office
7 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (28.99%) Software Engineer
2 39 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (14.20%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (13.02%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (8.88%) Administrator
5 15 (8.88%) Systems Administrator
6 13 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 11 (6.51%) Linux Administrator
7 11 (6.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.92%) Ubuntu Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Lead
9 9 (5.33%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Network Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) QA Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) IT Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) IT Support
11 5 (2.96%) Junior
11 5 (2.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.20%) AngularJS
1 24 (14.20%) gRPC
1 24 (14.20%) Material-UI
1 24 (14.20%) Node.js
1 24 (14.20%) OpenAPI
1 24 (14.20%) RabbitMQ
1 24 (14.20%) React
1 24 (14.20%) REST
1 24 (14.20%) Spring
1 24 (14.20%) Spring Boot
1 24 (14.20%) Swagger
2 10 (5.92%) GTK
3 7 (4.14%) EDI
4 6 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.37%) XMPP
6 3 (1.78%) LDAP
7 2 (1.18%) Qt
8 1 (0.59%) Redfish
8 1 (0.59%) SAML
8 1 (0.59%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 40 (23.67%) Blockchain
1 40 (23.67%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (23.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (14.20%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.47%) PKI
4 10 (5.92%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.78%) IoT
6 3 (1.78%) Replication
7 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.59%) Derivative
8 1 (0.59%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.59%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (100.00%) Linux
2 89 (52.66%) Ubuntu
3 82 (48.52%) CentOS
4 40 (23.67%) Alpine Linux
5 35 (20.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (17.16%) Windows
7 11 (6.51%) SUSE
8 9 (5.33%) Unix
9 8 (4.73%) Solaris
10 5 (2.96%) Windows Server
11 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.18%) Fedora
13 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.59%) openSUSE
13 1 (0.59%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (37.87%) DevOps
2 51 (30.18%) Configuration Management
3 49 (28.99%) CI/CD
3 49 (28.99%) Software Engineering
4 42 (24.85%) Artificial Intelligence
5 41 (24.26%) Open Source
6 40 (23.67%) Co-Creation
6 40 (23.67%) Data Science
6 40 (23.67%) Functional Testing
6 40 (23.67%) Separation of Concerns
6 40 (23.67%) Task Automation
6 40 (23.67%) Technology Transformation
7 39 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 30 (17.75%) Agile
9 26 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (14.79%) Collaborative Working
11 24 (14.20%) Actionable Insight
11 24 (14.20%) Microservices
11 24 (14.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 24 (14.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.38%) Python
2 53 (31.36%) Bash
3 26 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.79%) Java
5 22 (13.02%) C
6 21 (12.43%) SQL
7 14 (8.28%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.51%) C++
9 4 (2.37%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.78%) AWK
10 3 (1.78%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.78%) sed
11 2 (1.18%) C#
11 2 (1.18%) Go
11 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.59%) Perl
12 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (28.99%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (27.81%) MCSE
3 43 (25.44%) MCSA
4 40 (23.67%) Azure Certification
5 30 (17.75%) Security Cleared
6 28 (16.57%) Degree
7 25 (14.79%) DV Cleared
7 25 (14.79%) SC Cleared
8 9 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.37%) CCNA
10 4 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.78%) RHCT
12 1 (0.59%) CCNP
12 1 (0.59%) HNC
12 1 (0.59%) HND
12 1 (0.59%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.73%) PMO
2 7 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.55%) QA
4 4 (2.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) MISRA
System Software
1 47 (27.81%) Docker
2 19 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.65%) Active Directory
4 10 (5.92%) vSphere
5 9 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.96%) KVM
7 3 (1.78%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.59%) LXC
9 1 (0.59%) Samba
9 1 (0.59%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 72 (42.60%) Kubernetes
2 69 (40.83%) Terraform
3 35 (20.71%) Ansible
4 29 (17.16%) Puppet
5 9 (5.33%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.55%) ZABBIX
7 4 (2.37%) Podman
7 4 (2.37%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.78%) Salt
9 2 (1.18%) Grafana
9 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.59%) Icinga
10 1 (0.59%) Juju
10 1 (0.59%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.59%) Nagios
10 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 86 (50.89%) Red Hat
2 40 (23.67%) IBM
3 37 (21.89%) VMware
4 24 (14.20%) Google
4 24 (14.20%) SaltStack
5 17 (10.06%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.37%) Juniper
7 3 (1.78%) Cisco
7 3 (1.78%) Citrix
7 3 (1.78%) Veeam
8 2 (1.18%) Splunk
9 1 (0.59%) MikroTik
9 1 (0.59%) TP-LINK
9 1 (0.59%) ZyXEL