Linux Jobs in Edinburgh

Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 149 196 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.71% 9.13% 9.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.60% 59.57% 57.03%
Number of salaries quoted 87 120 137
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,227 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,513 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -0.02% +25.32%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,715 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,774 £80,000 £76,250
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 250 329 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.30% 15.32% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 176 198 262
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,941 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -0.11% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,608 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £80,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (4.70%) Apache
1 7 (4.70%) Captiva
1 7 (4.70%) FileNet
1 7 (4.70%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.68%) ArcGIS
2 4 (2.68%) GeoServer
2 4 (2.68%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (8.72%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (2.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.50%) Azure
2 24 (16.11%) SaaS
3 23 (15.44%) AWS
4 13 (8.72%) GCP
5 8 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.70%) GitHub
7 6 (4.03%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.68%) Google Docs
8 4 (2.68%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.68%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.09%) Network Security
2 18 (12.08%) Firewall
3 13 (8.72%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.04%) DNS
4 9 (6.04%) Wireless
5 8 (5.37%) Internet
5 8 (5.37%) VPN
6 7 (4.70%) DHCP
7 6 (4.03%) SNMP
8 5 (3.36%) IPsec
9 4 (2.68%) BGP
9 4 (2.68%) SSL
10 3 (2.01%) LAN
10 3 (2.01%) WAN
10 3 (2.01%) WLAN
11 1 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.72%) DB2
2 10 (6.71%) Oracle Database
3 9 (6.04%) RDBMS
3 9 (6.04%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.68%) GIS
7 4 (2.68%) QGIS
8 3 (2.01%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.34%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.67%) Apache Accumulo
10 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.67%) Big Data
10 1 (0.67%) Flink
10 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.67%) HBase
Development Applications
1 14 (9.40%) JIRA
2 13 (8.72%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (6.71%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (3.36%) Git
5 3 (2.01%) GitLab
6 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.67%) JUnit
7 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 53 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 49 (32.89%) Finance
3 38 (25.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (16.11%) Banking
5 14 (9.40%) Military
6 13 (8.72%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.70%) Aerospace
8 6 (4.03%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.68%) Legal
10 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.68%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.34%) Retail
13 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (39.60%) Software Engineer
2 47 (31.54%) Senior
3 25 (16.78%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (10.74%) Analyst
5 14 (9.40%) Support Analyst
5 14 (9.40%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 12 (8.05%) IT Manager
7 11 (7.38%) C Software Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Principal Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Principal Software Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Audit Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Consultant
9 9 (6.04%) IT Audit Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Senior Windows Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Windows Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Lead
10 8 (5.37%) Senior C Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.71%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (4.03%) React
3 5 (3.36%) LDAP
3 5 (3.36%) YAML
4 4 (2.68%) Django
4 4 (2.68%) Leaflet
4 4 (2.68%) OpenLayers
4 4 (2.68%) PostGIS
4 4 (2.68%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.01%) Web Services
6 2 (1.34%) DPDK
6 2 (1.34%) Middleware
7 1 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
1 11 (7.38%) Private Cloud
2 10 (6.71%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.04%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.04%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.70%) DataPower
5 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (3.36%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.01%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.34%) PACS
9 1 (0.67%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 75 (50.34%) Windows
2 41 (27.52%) Unix
3 25 (16.78%) Windows Server
4 14 (9.40%) Mac OS
4 14 (9.40%) Mac OS X
5 11 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.36%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (3.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.01%) Android
7 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.01%) CentOS
8 1 (0.67%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.67%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.27%) Software Engineering
2 56 (37.58%) Agile
3 47 (31.54%) DevOps
4 36 (24.16%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (19.46%) Actionable Insight
6 25 (16.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 25 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (16.78%) Threat Intelligence
7 24 (16.11%) Analytics
7 24 (16.11%) ITIL
8 22 (14.77%) Project Management
9 21 (14.09%) Customer Service
9 21 (14.09%) Migration
10 19 (12.75%) Coaching
11 18 (12.08%) Open Source
12 17 (11.41%) Creative Thinking
12 17 (11.41%) Mentoring
13 16 (10.74%) Incident Management
13 16 (10.74%) Incident Response
14 15 (10.07%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.17%) SQL
2 36 (24.16%) Python
3 29 (19.46%) Java
4 24 (16.11%) C
5 20 (13.42%) Bash
6 16 (10.74%) C++
7 11 (7.38%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.04%) Embedded C
9 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.67%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.67%) Go
11 1 (0.67%) Perl
11 1 (0.67%) Scala
11 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (30.20%) Degree
2 14 (9.40%) CISM
2 14 (9.40%) CISSP
2 14 (9.40%) GCIA
2 14 (9.40%) GCIH
2 14 (9.40%) GREM
3 13 (8.72%) CISA
4 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.04%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) ITGC
1 13 (8.72%) PMO
2 7 (4.70%) GDPR
3 5 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.68%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.34%) DICOM
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) QA
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 3
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) Docker
2 7 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) Firmware
5 1 (0.67%) KVM
5 1 (0.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (14.77%) Ansible
2 15 (10.07%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.05%) Terraform
4 10 (6.71%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.70%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.03%) Grafana
7 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.36%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.67%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.67%) CASB
8 1 (0.67%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (20.81%) Oracle
2 24 (16.11%) Dell
3 20 (13.42%) Microsoft
3 20 (13.42%) SAP
4 16 (10.74%) IBM
4 16 (10.74%) VMware
5 15 (10.07%) Google
6 13 (8.72%) Sage
7 12 (8.05%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.70%) Kofax
8 7 (4.70%) Pega
9 5 (3.36%) NetApp
9 5 (3.36%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.36%) SolidFire
10 4 (2.68%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (2.68%) Cisco
10 4 (2.68%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.68%) ESRI
10 4 (2.68%) Sparx