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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 36 31
Rank change year-on-year -29 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 136 352 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.04% 7.36% 7.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.20% 40.93% 43.93%
Number of salaries quoted 98 308 459
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £61,375 £61,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £106,875 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -3.45%

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 519 860 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.40% 17.98% 17.42%
Number of salaries quoted 414 741 1,014
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,900
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £82,313 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £64,140 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.32% +4.00%

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 26 April 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 11 (8.09%) Apache
2 5 (3.68%) Confluence
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.68%) nginx
2 5 (3.68%) WebLogic
3 4 (2.94%) ArcGIS
3 4 (2.94%) GeoServer
3 4 (2.94%) WordPress
4 3 (2.21%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.21%) IIS
4 3 (2.21%) SAS
5 2 (1.47%) CMS
5 2 (1.47%) Drupal
5 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.74%) JBoss
6 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.74%) Site Server
6 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.74%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.74%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (37.50%) Azure
2 32 (23.53%) AWS
3 12 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.41%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.68%) WhatsApp
7 4 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 4 (2.94%) SaaS
8 3 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.47%) ClickUp
9 2 (1.47%) GCP
9 2 (1.47%) GitHub
9 2 (1.47%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.29%) TCP/IP
2 13 (9.56%) SAN
3 11 (8.09%) Firewall
4 10 (7.35%) DNS
5 9 (6.62%) NAS
6 6 (4.41%) Internet
6 6 (4.41%) VPN
7 5 (3.68%) IPsec
7 5 (3.68%) SNMP
7 5 (3.68%) SSL
8 4 (2.94%) BGP
9 3 (2.21%) Multicast
9 3 (2.21%) PSTN
9 3 (2.21%) WAN
10 2 (1.47%) DHCP
10 2 (1.47%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.47%) Wireless
11 1 (0.74%) FTP
11 1 (0.74%) LAN
11 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.09%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (8.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.94%) GIS
5 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.94%) QGIS
6 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.21%) MySQL
7 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.74%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.74%) KDB
7 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.74%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.62%) JIRA
3 8 (5.88%) Git
4 7 (5.15%) GitLab
5 4 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.21%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.47%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.47%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.74%) Ant
8 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) git-flow
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) MLflow
8 1 (0.74%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (36.03%) Finance
2 24 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.97%) Banking
4 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.35%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.62%) Front Office
7 4 (2.94%) Advertising
7 4 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.94%) Law
8 2 (1.47%) Back Office
8 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Marketing
8 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.47%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) French Language
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (25.00%) Senior
2 19 (13.97%) Developer
3 16 (11.76%) Lead
4 13 (9.56%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Analyst
5 11 (8.09%) Architect
5 11 (8.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.62%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Support Analyst
10 6 (4.41%) VMware Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (5.15%) .NET
3 6 (4.41%) YAML
4 5 (3.68%) Django
4 5 (3.68%) REST
5 4 (2.94%) Leaflet
5 4 (2.94%) OpenLayers
5 4 (2.94%) PostGIS
5 4 (2.94%) React
5 4 (2.94%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.21%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.21%) WPF
7 2 (1.47%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.47%) GTK
8 1 (0.74%) CSS
8 1 (0.74%) Kafka
8 1 (0.74%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 10 (7.35%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (5.15%) Equities
5 6 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.94%) PKI
8 3 (2.21%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.21%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.47%) CCTV
9 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.47%) FPGA
9 2 (1.47%) Replication
9 2 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.74%) Anti-Spyware
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (38.97%) Windows
2 25 (18.38%) Windows Server
3 19 (13.97%) Unix
4 13 (9.56%) Ubuntu
5 10 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (4.41%) Debian
8 5 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.94%) CentOS
10 3 (2.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.21%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.74%) AIX
11 1 (0.74%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.74%) Solaris
11 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.21%) DevOps
2 30 (22.06%) CI/CD
3 26 (19.12%) Software Engineering
4 20 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.97%) Agile
6 17 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (9.56%) Project Management
8 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (8.82%) Low Latency
9 11 (8.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (7.35%) Analytics
10 10 (7.35%) Computer Science
10 10 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (5.88%) High-Frequency Trading
11 8 (5.88%) Microservices
11 8 (5.88%) Open Source
11 8 (5.88%) Project Delivery
11 8 (5.88%) Proprietary Trading
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.24%) Python
2 34 (25.00%) SQL
3 28 (20.59%) Java
4 24 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 23 (16.91%) Bash
6 21 (15.44%) C#
7 12 (8.82%) C++
8 9 (6.62%) C
9 8 (5.88%) JavaScript
10 5 (3.68%) Perl
11 3 (2.21%) PHP
11 3 (2.21%) SAS Macro
12 2 (1.47%) Go
12 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.74%) Ruby
13 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) Degree
3 11 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.41%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) CCNA
9 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.74%) GCIA
9 1 (0.74%) GCIH
9 1 (0.74%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.74%) LPIC
9 1 (0.74%) MCP
9 1 (0.74%) MCSE
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.94%) GDPR
3 3 (2.21%) NIST
3 3 (2.21%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
4 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.50%) Docker
3 12 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.15%) vSphere
5 1 (0.74%) Firmware
5 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.74%) KVM
5 1 (0.74%) LXC
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (22.06%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.18%) Ansible
3 12 (8.82%) Terraform
4 11 (8.09%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.88%) SCCM
6 5 (3.68%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.94%) HP Data Protector
7 4 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.21%) Backup Exec
8 3 (2.21%) Puppet
9 2 (1.47%) Grafana
9 2 (1.47%) Kibana
9 2 (1.47%) logstash
9 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.47%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.74%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.74%) Nagios
10 1 (0.74%) Packer
10 1 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.71%) VMware
3 18 (13.24%) Red Hat
4 14 (10.29%) Oracle
5 11 (8.09%) Cisco
5 11 (8.09%) NetApp
6 10 (7.35%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.41%) Commvault
7 6 (4.41%) Dell
8 5 (3.68%) HP
8 5 (3.68%) SolidFire
9 4 (2.94%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.94%) BMC
9 4 (2.94%) EMC
9 4 (2.94%) ESRI
9 4 (2.94%) Remedy
9 4 (2.94%) Sparx
9 4 (2.94%) Veeam
10 3 (2.21%) Avaya
10 3 (2.21%) Symantec