Linux Jobs in the City of London

Linux
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 130 343 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.87% 7.41% 7.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.05% 40.69% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 94 292 449
10th Percentile £44,125 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% -3.33%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 499 843 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 14.87% 18.20% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 396 717 1,007
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £35,550
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £109,250 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £63,820 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.99% -1.82% +1.96%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 12 (9.23%) Apache
2 6 (4.62%) Confluence
2 6 (4.62%) nginx
3 5 (3.85%) WebLogic
4 4 (3.08%) ArcGIS
4 4 (3.08%) GeoServer
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.31%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (2.31%) SAS
6 2 (1.54%) IIS
6 2 (1.54%) WordPress
7 1 (0.77%) CMS
7 1 (0.77%) Drupal
7 1 (0.77%) JBoss
7 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.77%) Site Server
7 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.77%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (3.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.92%) Azure
2 35 (26.92%) AWS
3 13 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (4.62%) Azure Storage
6 5 (3.85%) WhatsApp
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.08%) SaaS
8 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.31%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.54%) ClickUp
9 2 (1.54%) GCP
9 2 (1.54%) GitHub
9 2 (1.54%) PaaS
9 2 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 14 (10.77%) SAN
3 11 (8.46%) DNS
4 10 (7.69%) Firewall
4 10 (7.69%) NAS
5 6 (4.62%) Internet
6 5 (3.85%) IPsec
6 5 (3.85%) SNMP
6 5 (3.85%) SSL
6 5 (3.85%) VPN
7 4 (3.08%) BGP
8 3 (2.31%) DHCP
8 3 (2.31%) Multicast
8 3 (2.31%) PSTN
8 3 (2.31%) WAN
9 2 (1.54%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.77%) FTP
10 1 (0.77%) LAN
10 1 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.38%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.62%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.08%) GIS
7 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.08%) QGIS
8 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.31%) MySQL
9 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.77%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.77%) KDB
10 1 (0.77%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.77%) Power BI
10 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.77%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) JIRA
2 8 (6.15%) Git
3 7 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.85%) GitLab
5 3 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.31%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.77%) Ant
7 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.77%) git-flow
7 1 (0.77%) JUnit
7 1 (0.77%) Maven
7 1 (0.77%) MLflow
7 1 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.77%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.77%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (34.62%) Finance
2 23 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.15%) Banking
4 19 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.38%) Front Office
7 6 (4.62%) Law
8 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.31%) Advertising
10 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Marketing
10 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.54%) Retail
11 1 (0.77%) Back Office
11 1 (0.77%) French Language
11 1 (0.77%) Games
11 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (21.54%) Senior
2 16 (12.31%) Developer
3 13 (10.00%) Architect
3 13 (10.00%) Lead
3 13 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Quantitative Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (6.15%) .NET
3 6 (4.62%) YAML
4 5 (3.85%) Django
4 5 (3.85%) REST
5 4 (3.08%) Leaflet
5 4 (3.08%) OpenLayers
5 4 (3.08%) PostGIS
5 4 (3.08%) React
5 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.31%) ASP.NET
6 3 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.31%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.54%) GTK
7 2 (1.54%) Kafka
8 1 (0.77%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.77%) CSS
8 1 (0.77%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Public Cloud
2 10 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (5.38%) Equities
4 6 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.08%) PKI
7 3 (2.31%) Blackberry
7 3 (2.31%) FPGA
7 3 (2.31%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.54%) CCTV
8 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.77%) Anti-Spyware
9 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 53 (40.77%) Windows
2 25 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 15 (11.54%) Unix
4 12 (9.23%) Ubuntu
5 11 (8.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (6.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (6.15%) Windows 10
8 6 (4.62%) Debian
9 5 (3.85%) CentOS
9 5 (3.85%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (2.31%) Windows 7
12 2 (1.54%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.77%) AIX
13 1 (0.77%) Android
13 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.77%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.77%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.15%) DevOps
2 27 (20.77%) CI/CD
3 23 (17.69%) Software Engineering
4 19 (14.62%) Agile
5 18 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (12.31%) Actionable Insight
7 14 (10.77%) Project Management
8 13 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (8.46%) Analytics
10 11 (8.46%) Change Management
10 11 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (7.69%) Computer Science
12 9 (6.92%) Incident Management
12 9 (6.92%) Low Latency
13 8 (6.15%) Fintech
13 8 (6.15%) Open Source
14 7 (5.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.15%) Python
2 32 (24.62%) SQL
3 25 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 24 (18.46%) Java
5 22 (16.92%) Bash
6 15 (11.54%) C#
7 9 (6.92%) C
7 9 (6.92%) C++
8 8 (6.15%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.62%) Perl
10 3 (2.31%) SAS Macro
11 2 (1.54%) Go
11 2 (1.54%) PHP
12 1 (0.77%) Ruby
12 1 (0.77%) Scala
12 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.54%) Degree
3 10 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.77%) GCIA
8 1 (0.77%) GCIH
8 1 (0.77%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.77%) LPIC
8 1 (0.77%) MCP
8 1 (0.77%) MCSE
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.08%) GDPR
3 3 (2.31%) NIST
3 3 (2.31%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.77%) GRC
4 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (16.15%) Active Directory
2 17 (13.08%) Docker
3 11 (8.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.38%) vSphere
5 2 (1.54%) KVM
6 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.77%) LXC
6 1 (0.77%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.69%) Ansible
3 11 (8.46%) Prometheus
3 11 (8.46%) Terraform
4 8 (6.15%) SCCM
5 5 (3.85%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.08%) HP Data Protector
6 4 (3.08%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.31%) Backup Exec
7 3 (2.31%) Puppet
8 2 (1.54%) Kibana
8 2 (1.54%) logstash
8 2 (1.54%) Nagios
8 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (1.54%) ZENworks
9 1 (0.77%) cPanel
9 1 (0.77%) Juju
9 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.77%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.62%) Red Hat
2 19 (14.62%) VMware
3 15 (11.54%) Oracle
4 12 (9.23%) Cisco
4 12 (9.23%) NetApp
5 9 (6.92%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.38%) Commvault
7 6 (4.62%) BMC
7 6 (4.62%) Dell
7 6 (4.62%) HP
7 6 (4.62%) Remedy
8 5 (3.85%) SolidFire
9 4 (3.08%) EMC
9 4 (3.08%) ESRI
9 4 (3.08%) F5
9 4 (3.08%) Sparx
10 3 (2.31%) Avaya
10 3 (2.31%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.31%) Symantec