Linux Jobs in England

Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 31 40
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,503 5,099 11,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.75% 7.17% 7.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.42% 42.33% 44.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,814 3,437 5,902
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,350 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £63,150 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +5.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +7.14%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,370 12,046 26,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.23% 16.95% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 7,651 8,843 14,776
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £26,475
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -12 1,102 £80,000 +6.67% 129
South East -2 1,099 £55,000 +5.77% 138
South West +5 771 £55,000 - 83
North of England +13 681 £50,000 -9.09% 94
Midlands +20 524 £50,000 -9.09% 66
North West +13 440 £52,500 -12.50% 57
East of England +12 298 £55,000 -8.33% 56
East Midlands +30 283 £47,500 -13.64% 18
West Midlands -5 241 £55,000 - 48
Yorkshire +11 195 £45,000 -13.46% 26
North East -2 46 £56,000 +24.44% 11
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 222 (4.93%) Apache
2 119 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 96 (2.13%) nginx
4 78 (1.73%) IIS
5 76 (1.69%) Confluence
6 63 (1.40%) Apache Spark
6 63 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 46 (1.02%) OpenStack
8 44 (0.98%) Tomcat
9 40 (0.89%) WebLogic
10 28 (0.62%) WebSphere
11 21 (0.47%) JBoss
12 20 (0.44%) Jupyter
13 13 (0.29%) WordPress
14 11 (0.24%) Moodle
14 11 (0.24%) Tuxedo
15 10 (0.22%) CMS
15 10 (0.22%) Drupal
16 9 (0.20%) Totara
16 9 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 72 (1.60%) Simulink
2 66 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.22%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
7 5 (0.11%) GNU Octave
7 5 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.089%) Stateflow
9 3 (0.067%) Fusion 360
9 3 (0.067%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.044%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.044%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.044%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.044%) Windchill
11 1 (0.022%) CATIA
11 1 (0.022%) Doxygen
11 1 (0.022%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.022%) Trello
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 14 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
5 10 (0.22%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.18%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.13%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.11%) Maximo
8 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.089%) C-CURE
9 4 (0.089%) Magento
9 4 (0.089%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.089%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 3 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.044%) Endur
11 2 (0.044%) Findur
11 2 (0.044%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,372 (30.47%) Azure
2 965 (21.43%) AWS
3 298 (6.62%) Entra ID
4 280 (6.22%) IBM Cloud
5 266 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
6 232 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (4.71%) Serverless
8 180 (4.00%) GCP
9 130 (2.89%) Azure Functions
9 130 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 129 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
11 128 (2.84%) SaaS
12 125 (2.78%) Azure API Management
13 118 (2.62%) OpenShift
14 104 (2.31%) Amazon S3
15 96 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
16 92 (2.04%) GitHub
17 75 (1.67%) IaaS
18 65 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
18 65 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 528 (11.73%) Firewall
2 336 (7.46%) DNS
3 266 (5.91%) TCP/IP
4 249 (5.53%) 5G
5 222 (4.93%) Internet
6 218 (4.84%) Broadband
7 212 (4.71%) VPN
8 194 (4.31%) DHCP
9 171 (3.80%) WAN
10 154 (3.42%) LAN
11 146 (3.24%) Network Security
12 140 (3.11%) SAN
13 105 (2.33%) HTTP
14 104 (2.31%) Wireless
15 83 (1.84%) WLAN
16 75 (1.67%) BGP
17 74 (1.64%) NAS
18 72 (1.60%) VLAN
19 68 (1.51%) SSL
20 64 (1.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (9.08%) MongoDB
2 400 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
3 387 (8.59%) NoSQL
4 307 (6.82%) SQL Server
5 298 (6.62%) DB2
6 261 (5.80%) MySQL
7 227 (5.04%) Relational Database
8 96 (2.13%) Oracle Database
9 95 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (1.98%) Big Data
11 73 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
12 53 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 41 (0.91%) Redis
14 38 (0.84%) RDBMS
15 33 (0.73%) MariaDB
16 31 (0.69%) Power BI
17 29 (0.64%) Cloudera CDH
18 24 (0.53%) BigQuery
19 20 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
19 20 (0.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 323 (7.17%) Git
2 261 (5.80%) JIRA
3 233 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 123 (2.73%) GitLab
5 53 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 49 (1.09%) Subversion
7 43 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 34 (0.76%) Vagrant
9 31 (0.69%) TeamCity
10 27 (0.60%) Eclipse
11 22 (0.49%) Maven
12 19 (0.42%) Robot Framework
13 17 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 16 (0.36%) Ant
14 16 (0.36%) CMake
14 16 (0.36%) GDB
15 14 (0.31%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.29%) SonarQube
17 10 (0.22%) IntelliJ
General
1 883 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 574 (12.75%) Finance
3 498 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 435 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 388 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (5.24%) Aerospace
7 189 (4.20%) Banking
8 155 (3.44%) Electronics
9 132 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 111 (2.47%) Retail
12 71 (1.58%) Law
13 69 (1.53%) Automotive
14 66 (1.47%) Marketing
15 56 (1.24%) Front Office
15 56 (1.24%) Military
16 48 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
18 38 (0.84%) Games
19 34 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 800 (17.77%) Senior
2 669 (14.86%) Software Engineer
3 606 (13.46%) Developer
4 449 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 310 (6.88%) Linux Engineer
6 255 (5.66%) Architect
7 254 (5.64%) Lead
8 242 (5.37%) Embedded Engineer
9 231 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 224 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
11 221 (4.91%) Support Engineer
12 214 (4.75%) Linux Specialist
13 211 (4.69%) Technical Specialist
14 200 (4.44%) Analyst
15 192 (4.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 187 (4.15%) IT Engineer
17 184 (4.09%) Full Stack Developer
18 171 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
19 169 (3.75%) Administrator
20 161 (3.58%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (10.77%) HTML
2 436 (9.68%) React
3 423 (9.39%) CSS
4 422 (9.37%) REST
5 380 (8.44%) .NET
6 336 (7.46%) Web Services
7 329 (7.31%) AngularJS
8 292 (6.48%) jQuery
9 281 (6.24%) Vue
10 259 (5.75%) ASP.NET
11 250 (5.55%) Node.js
11 250 (5.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 241 (5.35%) ASP.NET Core
12 241 (5.35%) Backbone.js
12 241 (5.35%) Ember.js
13 144 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
14 110 (2.44%) XML
15 109 (2.42%) Middleware
16 80 (1.78%) JSON
17 78 (1.73%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 363 (8.06%) Algorithms
2 355 (7.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 287 (6.37%) Blockchain
4 274 (6.08%) Data Centre
5 261 (5.80%) Data Structures
6 214 (4.75%) Social Media
7 180 (4.00%) Public Cloud
8 152 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
9 142 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
10 141 (3.13%) Management Information System
11 138 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
12 128 (2.84%) e-Learning
13 117 (2.60%) Cloud Native
14 109 (2.42%) IoT
15 97 (2.15%) Onboarding
16 89 (1.98%) Driving Licence
17 83 (1.84%) PKI
18 75 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
19 73 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
20 59 (1.31%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1,908 (42.37%) Windows
2 486 (10.79%) Ubuntu
3 437 (9.70%) Windows Server
4 433 (9.62%) Unix
5 375 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 359 (7.97%) Android
7 278 (6.17%) CentOS
8 277 (6.15%) Embedded Linux
9 275 (6.11%) Apple iOS
10 144 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 136 (3.02%) Debian
12 109 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 106 (2.35%) Solaris
14 94 (2.09%) Windows 10
15 79 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
16 52 (1.15%) AIX
17 49 (1.09%) VMS
18 48 (1.07%) Mac OS
19 46 (1.02%) Alpine Linux
20 37 (0.82%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 960 (21.32%) Agile
2 957 (21.25%) Software Engineering
3 914 (20.30%) DevOps
4 748 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
5 697 (15.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 542 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 512 (11.37%) Computer Science
8 503 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
9 489 (10.86%) CI/CD
10 460 (10.22%) Mentoring
11 402 (8.93%) OO
12 377 (8.37%) Full Stack Development
13 362 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 331 (7.35%) User Experience
15 319 (7.08%) MVC
16 318 (7.06%) Collaborative Working
17 316 (7.02%) OOP
18 313 (6.95%) Web Development
19 281 (6.24%) Scrum
20 280 (6.22%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 1,359 (30.18%) Python
2 886 (19.68%) SQL
3 745 (16.54%) Bash
4 687 (15.26%) C++
5 686 (15.23%) Java
6 663 (14.72%) JavaScript
7 605 (13.44%) C
8 494 (10.97%) C#
9 451 (10.02%) PowerShell
10 157 (3.49%) PHP
11 153 (3.40%) Perl
12 132 (2.93%) Rust
13 122 (2.71%) Shell Script
14 107 (2.38%) Embedded C
15 98 (2.18%) Go
16 92 (2.04%) TypeScript
17 70 (1.55%) Kotlin
18 59 (1.31%) VB
19 56 (1.24%) Ruby
20 50 (1.11%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 986 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 830 (18.43%) Degree
3 468 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 442 (9.82%) DV Cleared
5 331 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 166 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
6 166 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 144 (3.20%) CCNA
8 135 (3.00%) MCSE
9 129 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 107 (2.38%) CCNP
11 100 (2.22%) Master's Degree
12 94 (2.09%) AWS Certification
13 75 (1.67%) MCP
14 68 (1.51%) LPIC
15 65 (1.44%) PhD
16 60 (1.33%) MCSA
17 47 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 38 (0.84%) HND
19 34 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (1.91%) SLA
2 83 (1.84%) QA
3 73 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (1.11%) GDPR
5 44 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 43 (0.95%) NIST
7 31 (0.69%) PMO
8 26 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.36%) Data Quality
11 14 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.31%) ITGC
12 12 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.22%) NCSC
14 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
14 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.13%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.13%) JTAG
16 5 (0.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 648 (14.39%) Active Directory
2 571 (12.68%) Docker
3 445 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 173 (3.84%) Hyper-V
5 134 (2.98%) Firmware
6 117 (2.60%) vSphere
7 113 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
8 95 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
9 57 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
10 38 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 35 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
12 28 (0.62%) NFS
13 23 (0.51%) KVM
13 23 (0.51%) VMware NSX
14 20 (0.44%) XenDesktop
15 19 (0.42%) pfSense
16 18 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 17 (0.38%) XenApp
18 14 (0.31%) Ceph
18 14 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 707 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 649 (14.41%) Ansible
3 513 (11.39%) Terraform
4 270 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 243 (5.40%) Puppet
6 214 (4.75%) Jamf Pro
7 127 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 108 (2.40%) vCenter Server
9 101 (2.24%) Grafana
10 96 (2.13%) Progress Chef
11 67 (1.49%) SCCM
12 63 (1.40%) ZABBIX
13 58 (1.29%) SCOM
14 55 (1.22%) WSUS
15 54 (1.20%) Nagios
16 36 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 34 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
18 26 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
19 24 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
20 22 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,021 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 693 (15.39%) Red Hat
3 632 (14.04%) VMware
4 362 (8.04%) IBM
4 362 (8.04%) Oracle
5 296 (6.57%) Cisco
6 215 (4.77%) CyberArk
7 211 (4.69%) Tanium
8 103 (2.29%) Google
9 85 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 82 (1.82%) Veeam
11 76 (1.69%) Citrix
12 74 (1.64%) NetApp
13 73 (1.62%) Splunk
13 73 (1.62%) Xilinx
14 64 (1.42%) Juniper
15 61 (1.35%) Fortinet
16 59 (1.31%) Dell
17 56 (1.24%) SAP
18 55 (1.22%) EMC