CompTIA Linux+ Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Linux+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 892 983 545
Rank change year-on-year +91 -438 +166
Permanent jobs citing Linux+ Certification 2 6 887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.006% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.007% 0.017% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £44,125
25th Percentile - £67,500 £53,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +22.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Linux+ Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,325 34,428 41,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.74% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,299 15,366 18,926
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

Linux+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux+ Certification in the UK

Linux+ Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux+ Certification in the UK

Linux+ Certification
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux+ Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +107 2 - - 4
UK excluding London +5 2 - - 2
North of England - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -

Linux+ Certification
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DMZ
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft