Linux Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Linux
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 32 17
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2 19 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 3.23% 7.45% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.57% 67.86% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -32.33%
75th Percentile - - £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -22.58% -3.13%

All Operating Systems
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 28 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 11.29% 10.98% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5 21 5
10th Percentile - £43,750 £45,900
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -9.09% -11.39%
75th Percentile - - £61,250
90th Percentile - £62,500 £75,500
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -1.64%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Linux job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Linux
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) npm
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) D3.js
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google