Linux Jobs in Edinburgh

Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 23 31
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 42 127 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.81% 8.42% 9.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.60% 58.80% 57.93%
Number of salaries quoted 31 77 109
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.97%
75th Percentile £73,305 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £82,548 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -4.35%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 83 216 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.50% 14.31% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 63 157 179
10th Percentile £48,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £34,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £82,625 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £146,300 £83,529 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% +2.04% -6.67%

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 29 May 2025.

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 6 (14.29%) Apache
1 6 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.76%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) GCP
3 7 (16.67%) Azure
4 5 (11.90%) GitHub
5 4 (9.52%) CloudBees
6 3 (7.14%) Serverless
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.76%) Apigee
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.76%) SaaS
7 2 (4.76%) Sentry
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) FTP
2 1 (2.38%) SpaceWire
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) JUnit
3 3 (7.14%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) Selenium
3 3 (7.14%) TestNG
4 2 (4.76%) Maven
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.38%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 11 (26.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (14.29%) Banking
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Tech for Good
4 3 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Senior
2 8 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Lead
5 5 (11.90%) Team Leader
6 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Database Team Leader
7 3 (7.14%) Development Team Leader
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Angular Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) REST
2 5 (11.90%) Middleware
3 4 (9.52%) FastAPI
3 4 (9.52%) React
3 4 (9.52%) WebSockets
4 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.76%) J2EE
4 2 (4.76%) Java EE
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 2 (4.76%) SOAP
4 2 (4.76%) Spring
4 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.38%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) CSS
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 5 (11.90%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.38%) Clustering
6 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.38%) iSeries
6 1 (2.38%) Lidar
6 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Unix
2 7 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (4.76%) VMS
3 2 (4.76%) zOS
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Solaris
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (30.95%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (19.05%) SDLC
7 7 (16.67%) Fintech
7 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (11.90%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
10 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
10 4 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (9.52%) Data Science
10 4 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (9.52%) Distributed Cache
10 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
11 3 (7.14%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) Java
3 12 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 10 (23.81%) SQL
5 5 (11.90%) C
5 5 (11.90%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Go
6 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) JCL
7 1 (2.38%) Perl
7 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (2.38%) CEH
2 1 (2.38%) CISM
2 1 (2.38%) GCIA
2 1 (2.38%) GIAC
2 1 (2.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) ISO 9001
2 2 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.38%) ECSS
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 4 (9.52%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (4.76%) Istio
4 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) IBM
1 4 (9.52%) IBM Sterling
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Informatica
3 2 (4.76%) New Relic
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.38%) Qualys
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.38%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) VMware