Linux Job Trends in the City of London

Linux
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 58 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 104 86 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.92% 4.67% 4.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.06% 33.59% 29.78%
Number of salaries quoted 81 68 99
10th Percentile £46,000 £48,550 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +19.23% -22.39%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £120,500
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.90% +14.81% -20.59%

All Operating Systems
City of London

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 221 256 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.20% 13.91% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 172 224 321
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,225 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -4.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -4.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Linux job vacancy trend in the City of London

Linux
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.96%) MTS
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.81%) Autodesk Flame
2 5 (4.81%) Baselight
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.96%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.96%) Avid Media Composer
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.96%) Quicktime
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.92%) Azure
2 18 (17.31%) AWS
3 14 (13.46%) Entra ID
4 10 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.69%) SaaS
6 6 (5.77%) GCP
7 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.92%) IaaS
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.92%) PaaS
9 1 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.96%) GitHub
9 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.54%) Network Security
2 5 (4.81%) Firewall
3 4 (3.85%) DNS
3 4 (3.85%) WAN
4 3 (2.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.88%) DHCP
4 3 (2.88%) LAN
4 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.88%) VPN
4 3 (2.88%) WLAN
5 1 (0.96%) BGP
5 1 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.96%) HTTP
5 1 (0.96%) MPLS
5 1 (0.96%) OSPF
5 1 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.96%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) KDB
2 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.92%) Big Data
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.96%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.96%) MySQL
4 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.96%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Git
2 4 (3.85%) GitLab
3 3 (2.88%) JIRA
3 3 (2.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (36.54%) Finance
2 20 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.62%) Banking
5 9 (8.65%) Retail
6 7 (6.73%) Law
7 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.77%) Front Office
8 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) French Language
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 17 (16.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (12.50%) Lead
2 13 (12.50%) Senior
3 11 (10.58%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (10.58%) Software Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Principal Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) C++ Software Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (6.73%) Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Developer
8 6 (5.77%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Security Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.65%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.88%) Web Services
4 2 (1.92%) .NET
4 2 (1.92%) Pandas
4 2 (1.92%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.96%) CSS
5 1 (0.96%) HTML
5 1 (0.96%) JSP
5 1 (0.96%) Kafka
5 1 (0.96%) Keras
5 1 (0.96%) OAuth
5 1 (0.96%) OpenID
5 1 (0.96%) Plotly
5 1 (0.96%) REST
5 1 (0.96%) SAML
5 1 (0.96%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.96%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.96%) SOAP
5 1 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.73%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (6.73%) Fixed Income
3 7 (6.73%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.73%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) CCTV
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.96%) Equities
7 1 (0.96%) Eurex
7 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.85%) Windows
2 13 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.81%) Unix
4 4 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.96%) Fintech
2 26 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (16.35%) Low Latency
5 15 (14.42%) Software Engineering
6 13 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 13 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (12.50%) DevOps
6 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (10.58%) Incident Response
8 11 (10.58%) Process Improvement
9 10 (9.62%) Containerisation
9 10 (9.62%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.65%) SIEM
10 9 (8.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 8 (7.69%) Security Operations
11 8 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
11 8 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 48 (46.15%) Python
2 24 (23.08%) SQL
3 23 (22.12%) C++
3 23 (22.12%) PowerShell
4 14 (13.46%) Java
5 13 (12.50%) Bash
5 13 (12.50%) C#
6 9 (8.65%) Rust
7 7 (6.73%) VBA
8 5 (4.81%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.85%) C
10 3 (2.88%) Go
10 3 (2.88%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.88%) Perl
10 3 (2.88%) Ruby
11 1 (0.96%) Bicep
11 1 (0.96%) Tcl
11 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (14.42%) Degree
2 7 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.77%) GIAC
4 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.88%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.88%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.88%) GPEN
5 3 (2.88%) GXPN
5 3 (2.88%) OSCE
5 3 (2.88%) OSCP
6 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) CCIE
7 1 (0.96%) CCNP
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.96%) PhD
7 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) NIST
2 5 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.96%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 19 (18.27%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.62%) Docker
4 6 (5.77%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (3.85%) GPFS
5 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.85%) StorNext
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.96%) vSphere
7 1 (0.96%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.27%) Terraform
3 17 (16.35%) Ansible
4 7 (6.73%) Grafana
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.92%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.92%) Puppet
5 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.96%) QRadar
6 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (27.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.19%) VMware
3 10 (9.62%) Red Hat
4 9 (8.65%) Splunk
5 8 (7.69%) Oracle
6 5 (4.81%) Avid
7 4 (3.85%) Autodesk
7 4 (3.85%) Cisco
8 3 (2.88%) Meraki
8 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.92%) JDA
9 2 (1.92%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.96%) Adobe
10 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.96%) Google
10 1 (0.96%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.96%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.96%) SunGard
10 1 (0.96%) Tradeweb
10 1 (0.96%) Veeam