Linux Jobs in the City of London

Linux
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 69 35
Rank change year-on-year +22 -34 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 105 126 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.15% 3.77% 7.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.92% 25.61% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 86 90 293
10th Percentile £43,125 £43,525 £48,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £61,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £87,188 £96,875 £106,250
90th Percentile £106,875 £131,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% +17.24%

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 319 492 843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.66% 14.72% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 279 388 716
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £76,875 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £106,250 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £55,500 £58,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.13% -6.40% -3.85%

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 17 May 2025.

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 20 (19.05%) Confluence
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.90%) nginx
3 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.95%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) Camunda
4 1 (0.95%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) Drupal
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.48%) Azure
2 34 (32.38%) AWS
3 10 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (9.52%) GCP
4 7 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.71%) SaaS
6 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.76%) PaaS
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.81%) GitHub
7 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.90%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) VPN
2 6 (5.71%) Firewall
3 5 (4.76%) HTTP
3 5 (4.76%) Multicast
4 4 (3.81%) DNS
4 4 (3.81%) Network Security
5 3 (2.86%) NetScaler
5 3 (2.86%) VLAN
5 3 (2.86%) WAN
6 2 (1.90%) Broadband
6 2 (1.90%) SAN
6 2 (1.90%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.90%) Telnet
6 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.95%) DHCP
7 1 (0.95%) Internet
7 1 (0.95%) LAN
7 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.67%) MySQL
2 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.90%) ClickHouse
3 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (23.81%) JIRA
2 24 (22.86%) Git
3 21 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 19 (18.10%) Ant
4 19 (18.10%) Maven
4 19 (18.10%) SonarQube
4 19 (18.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 19 (18.10%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.86%) GitLab
6 2 (1.90%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.95%) Gradle
7 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (32.38%) Finance
2 28 (26.67%) Banking
3 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.81%) Advertising
7 3 (2.86%) Back Office
8 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.90%) Legal
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Games
9 1 (0.95%) Law
9 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (18.10%) Architect
1 19 (18.10%) DevOps Architect
2 17 (16.19%) Senior
3 12 (11.43%) Analyst
4 11 (10.48%) Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Lead
6 8 (7.62%) Support Analyst
6 8 (7.62%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Administrator
7 6 (5.71%) Applications Support
7 6 (5.71%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) IT Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Linux Administrator
7 6 (5.71%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Linux Support
8 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Technical Manager
8 5 (4.76%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (7.62%) Pandas
3 6 (5.71%) .NET
3 6 (5.71%) REST
4 5 (4.76%) JSON
4 5 (4.76%) Node.js
4 5 (4.76%) Puppeteer
4 5 (4.76%) Scrapy
5 4 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.86%) Middleware
6 3 (2.86%) pytest
7 2 (1.90%) HTML
7 2 (1.90%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.90%) React
8 1 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.95%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (5.71%) Equities
3 5 (4.76%) Derivative
3 5 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.86%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.90%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.62%) Windows
2 19 (18.10%) Unix
3 17 (16.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (11.43%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.67%) CentOS
6 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.81%) Rocky
8 3 (2.86%) Android
8 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.95%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.95%) Solaris
10 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.90%) DevOps
2 32 (30.48%) Agile
3 26 (24.76%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 20 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 19 (18.10%) Static Code Analysis
7 15 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 12 (11.43%) Customer Service
9 11 (10.48%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (9.52%) Mentoring
11 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (7.62%) ETL
12 8 (7.62%) Software Engineering
13 7 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
13 7 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (6.67%) Fintech
13 7 (6.67%) Low Latency
13 7 (6.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.05%) Python
2 33 (31.43%) JavaScript
3 26 (24.76%) SQL
4 23 (21.90%) Bash
5 13 (12.38%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.48%) Java
7 9 (8.57%) C++
8 5 (4.76%) Go
9 3 (2.86%) Rust
9 3 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.90%) Perl
11 1 (0.95%) PHP
11 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (14.29%) Degree
2 12 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) MCSA
4 4 (3.81%) RHCSA
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.90%) CCNA
5 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CCNP
6 1 (0.95%) CEH
6 1 (0.95%) CISSP
6 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) MCSE
6 1 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.95%) OSCP
6 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) QA
2 7 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (12.38%) Docker
3 11 (10.48%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.90%) Firmware
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (21.90%) Ansible
2 19 (18.10%) Terraform
3 11 (10.48%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.57%) Nagios
5 6 (5.71%) Grafana
6 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.81%) SCCM
8 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.86%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.90%) Argo
9 2 (1.90%) Kibana
9 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.90%) logstash
9 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.90%) SCOM
10 1 (0.95%) Avamar
10 1 (0.95%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.95%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (24.76%) VMware
2 22 (20.95%) Microsoft
3 18 (17.14%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.52%) Citrix
5 6 (5.71%) Cisco
5 6 (5.71%) NetApp
5 6 (5.71%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.81%) Veeam
7 3 (2.86%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.86%) FactSet
7 3 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.86%) Google
7 3 (2.86%) Mitel
7 3 (2.86%) Oracle
7 3 (2.86%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.90%) Dell
8 2 (1.90%) EMC
8 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.90%) Splunk