Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 34 34 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,748 7,375 13,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.86% 7.05% 9.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.83% 44.24% 47.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,822 4,606 6,748
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,875 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 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% - -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK

Linux
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux 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 +5 5,047 £55,343 -14.86% 1,212
UK excluding London -2 4,258 £52,500 - 879
Work from Home 0 2,229 £57,500 -8.00% 602
London -2 1,301 £75,000 -6.25% 384
South East -2 1,163 £55,000 +10.00% 234
South West +4 836 £54,000 -1.82% 180
North of England +24 829 £50,000 - 141
North West +24 523 £52,500 - 84
Midlands +9 467 £50,000 -9.09% 121
East of England +11 423 £52,500 -8.70% 132
Scotland -39 362 £52,500 -4.55% 78
East Midlands +15 261 £50,000 -9.09% 56
Yorkshire +14 253 £47,500 -5.00% 49
West Midlands -8 206 £53,250 -3.18% 65
Wales +33 136 £50,000 - 10
North East -14 53 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Northern Ireland -2 46 £61,250 +18.93% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 1

Linux
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
1 253 (4.40%) Apache
2 180 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 120 (2.09%) nginx
4 107 (1.86%) WebLogic
5 106 (1.84%) IIS
5 106 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 101 (1.76%) Confluence
7 59 (1.03%) Apache Spark
8 58 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 56 (0.97%) OpenStack
10 55 (0.96%) ArcGIS
11 51 (0.89%) Tomcat
12 48 (0.84%) GeoServer
13 45 (0.78%) Oracle Service Bus
14 28 (0.49%) Captiva
14 28 (0.49%) FileNet
15 26 (0.45%) WordPress
16 24 (0.42%) Jupyter
17 20 (0.35%) JBoss
18 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 131 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.45%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) GNU Octave
6 9 (0.16%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.087%) Trello
9 4 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.070%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.070%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.035%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.035%) CATIA
11 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.017%) 1Password
12 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 50 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 48 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
4 16 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 14 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.087%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.070%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.052%) Magento
10 3 (0.052%) Maximo
10 3 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.035%) Shopify
12 1 (0.017%) FLEXCUBE
12 1 (0.017%) Misys Opics
12 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
12 1 (0.017%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,793 (31.19%) Azure
2 1,352 (23.52%) AWS
3 376 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
4 333 (5.79%) Entra ID
5 328 (5.71%) GCP
6 269 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 263 (4.58%) IBM Cloud
8 242 (4.21%) Serverless
9 196 (3.41%) GitHub
10 174 (3.03%) SaaS
11 154 (2.68%) OpenShift
12 144 (2.51%) Amazon S3
13 138 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
14 127 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 124 (2.16%) Azure Functions
16 121 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
17 118 (2.05%) Azure API Management
18 104 (1.81%) IaaS
19 99 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
20 88 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 793 (13.80%) Firewall
2 463 (8.05%) DNS
3 418 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 313 (5.45%) VPN
5 270 (4.70%) DHCP
6 255 (4.44%) 5G
7 234 (4.07%) Broadband
8 226 (3.93%) WAN
9 219 (3.81%) SAN
10 207 (3.60%) Internet
11 191 (3.32%) LAN
12 165 (2.87%) Wireless
13 141 (2.45%) Network Security
14 113 (1.97%) SNMP
15 111 (1.93%) HTTP
16 105 (1.83%) VLAN
17 101 (1.76%) BGP
17 101 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
18 96 (1.67%) SSL
19 90 (1.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 493 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
2 435 (7.57%) MongoDB
3 396 (6.89%) SQL Server
4 369 (6.42%) MySQL
5 332 (5.78%) NoSQL
6 283 (4.92%) Relational Database
7 272 (4.73%) DB2
8 153 (2.66%) Oracle Database
9 127 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 120 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
11 96 (1.67%) Big Data
12 76 (1.32%) RDBMS
13 68 (1.18%) GIS
14 56 (0.97%) Redis
15 53 (0.92%) Power BI
16 50 (0.87%) Hadoop
17 48 (0.84%) QGIS
18 46 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
19 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
19 45 (0.78%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 421 (7.32%) Git
2 371 (6.45%) JIRA
3 329 (5.72%) Jenkins
4 173 (3.01%) GitLab
5 104 (1.81%) Subversion
6 68 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 65 (1.13%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.68%) Eclipse
9 38 (0.66%) Artifactory
9 38 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
10 34 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
11 30 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.50%) Burp Suite
12 29 (0.50%) Metasploit
13 28 (0.49%) Ant
14 25 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 25 (0.43%) Maven
15 23 (0.40%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.38%) CircleCI
17 21 (0.37%) CMake
General
1 1,227 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 894 (15.55%) Finance
3 683 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 569 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 464 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 253 (4.40%) Banking
7 250 (4.35%) Aerospace
8 213 (3.71%) Electronics
9 199 (3.46%) Telecoms
10 183 (3.18%) Law
11 182 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 164 (2.85%) Marketing
13 121 (2.11%) Retail
14 83 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 77 (1.34%) Military
16 75 (1.30%) Legal
17 71 (1.24%) Automotive
18 55 (0.96%) Front Office
19 52 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
20 48 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,134 (19.73%) Senior
2 990 (17.22%) Software Engineer
3 750 (13.05%) Developer
4 530 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 414 (7.20%) Lead
6 391 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 357 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
8 320 (5.57%) Embedded Engineer
9 315 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 303 (5.27%) Support Engineer
11 292 (5.08%) Architect
12 266 (4.63%) Analyst
13 257 (4.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 236 (4.11%) Administrator
15 223 (3.88%) Linux Specialist
16 216 (3.76%) Technical Specialist
17 207 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
18 184 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
19 179 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
20 176 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (8.68%) React
2 490 (8.52%) HTML
3 433 (7.53%) REST
4 432 (7.52%) CSS
5 423 (7.36%) .NET
6 338 (5.88%) Web Services
7 326 (5.67%) AngularJS
8 304 (5.29%) Node.js
9 291 (5.06%) jQuery
10 280 (4.87%) Vue
11 255 (4.44%) ASP.NET
12 229 (3.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 221 (3.84%) ASP.NET Core
13 221 (3.84%) Backbone.js
13 221 (3.84%) Ember.js
14 182 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
15 143 (2.49%) XML
16 110 (1.91%) YAML
17 101 (1.76%) Middleware
18 98 (1.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 387 (6.73%) Algorithms
2 377 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 347 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 312 (5.43%) Public Cloud
5 265 (4.61%) Blockchain
6 236 (4.11%) Data Structures
7 211 (3.67%) Social Media
8 206 (3.58%) IoT
9 172 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 157 (2.73%) Management Information System
11 152 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
12 142 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
13 138 (2.40%) Cloud Native
14 124 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
15 119 (2.07%) PKI
16 105 (1.83%) Replication
17 104 (1.81%) e-Learning
18 95 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
19 70 (1.22%) Client/Server
20 69 (1.20%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 2,386 (41.51%) Windows
2 607 (10.56%) Unix
3 602 (10.47%) Windows Server
4 583 (10.14%) Ubuntu
5 423 (7.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 325 (5.65%) CentOS
7 322 (5.60%) Android
8 287 (4.99%) Apple iOS
9 258 (4.49%) Embedded Linux
10 175 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
11 169 (2.94%) Debian
12 128 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 121 (2.11%) Windows 10
14 118 (2.05%) Solaris
15 116 (2.02%) Mac OS
16 114 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
17 67 (1.17%) VMS
18 57 (0.99%) AIX
19 55 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
20 46 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,378 (23.97%) Software Engineering
2 1,297 (22.56%) DevOps
3 1,271 (22.11%) Agile
4 974 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
5 739 (12.86%) Artificial Intelligence
6 735 (12.79%) CI/CD
7 670 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
8 650 (11.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 561 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 528 (9.19%) Computer Science
11 510 (8.87%) Actionable Insight
12 415 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 405 (7.05%) OO
14 395 (6.87%) Full Stack Development
15 383 (6.66%) Containerisation
16 350 (6.09%) Web Development
17 336 (5.85%) ITIL
18 334 (5.81%) User Experience
19 332 (5.78%) Project Management
20 318 (5.53%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,816 (31.59%) Python
2 1,192 (20.74%) SQL
3 936 (16.28%) Bash
4 900 (15.66%) Java
5 813 (14.14%) C
6 750 (13.05%) JavaScript
7 642 (11.17%) C++
8 620 (10.79%) PowerShell
9 589 (10.25%) C#
10 199 (3.46%) Shell Script
11 196 (3.41%) PHP
12 180 (3.13%) Perl
13 168 (2.92%) Embedded C
14 137 (2.38%) Go
15 134 (2.33%) Rust
16 132 (2.30%) TypeScript
17 113 (1.97%) PL/SQL
18 97 (1.69%) Ruby
19 78 (1.36%) VB
20 44 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,160 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 997 (17.35%) Degree
3 619 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 456 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 322 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 180 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 159 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 153 (2.66%) CCNA
9 143 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 133 (2.31%) AWS Certification
11 122 (2.12%) Master's Degree
12 117 (2.04%) MCSE
13 83 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 79 (1.37%) MCSA
15 68 (1.18%) PhD
16 56 (0.97%) CCNP
17 44 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 41 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
19 38 (0.66%) CISSP
20 36 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (2.45%) SLA
2 111 (1.93%) QA
3 86 (1.50%) GDPR
4 72 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (0.70%) NIST
5 40 (0.70%) PMO
6 32 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.33%) ITGC
8 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.30%) NCSC
10 15 (0.26%) ISO 13485
11 13 (0.23%) JTAG
11 13 (0.23%) MISRA
12 9 (0.16%) Data Quality
12 9 (0.16%) GRC
13 8 (0.14%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 851 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 795 (13.83%) Docker
3 612 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 279 (4.85%) Hyper-V
5 147 (2.56%) Firmware
6 139 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
7 134 (2.33%) vSphere
8 106 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
10 54 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
11 37 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 31 (0.54%) KVM
12 31 (0.54%) VMware NSX
13 23 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
14 22 (0.38%) NFS
15 18 (0.31%) pfSense
15 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
16 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
17 15 (0.26%) vCloud
18 9 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 964 (16.77%) Kubernetes
2 858 (14.93%) Ansible
3 650 (11.31%) Terraform
4 312 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 282 (4.91%) Puppet
6 216 (3.76%) Jamf Pro
7 162 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 147 (2.56%) Prometheus
9 139 (2.42%) Progress Chef
10 136 (2.37%) Grafana
11 110 (1.91%) SCCM
12 73 (1.27%) ZABBIX
13 72 (1.25%) SCOM
14 66 (1.15%) WSUS
15 62 (1.08%) Nagios
16 56 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
17 52 (0.90%) Data Guard
18 38 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 36 (0.63%) FortiGate
20 33 (0.57%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1,111 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 881 (15.33%) VMware
3 736 (12.80%) Red Hat
4 596 (10.37%) Oracle
5 395 (6.87%) IBM
6 317 (5.51%) Cisco
7 215 (3.74%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.69%) Tanium
9 176 (3.06%) Google
10 159 (2.77%) Veeam
11 128 (2.23%) NetApp
12 118 (2.05%) Palo Alto
13 109 (1.90%) SAP
14 90 (1.57%) Citrix
14 90 (1.57%) Splunk
15 89 (1.55%) Dell
16 83 (1.44%) Juniper
17 78 (1.36%) Atlassian
18 69 (1.20%) EMC
19 68 (1.18%) Remedy