Linux Jobs in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 33 35 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 3,200 7,705 8,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.77% 6.98% 7.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.42% 41.32% 43.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 4,982 5,877
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8,330 18,645 19,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.63% 16.89% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,672 12,715 14,435
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 30 November 2023.

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 30 November 2023. 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 -5 1,069 £80,000 +3.23% 596
South East +10 719 £52,500 - 341
South West +6 537 £54,000 -1.82% 197
North of England +13 465 £55,000 - 220
North West +29 274 £60,000 +9.09% 120
Midlands -18 222 £57,500 +15.00% 102
Yorkshire +3 176 £55,000 - 86
East of England +1 154 £65,000 +8.33% 159
West Midlands -10 126 £56,000 +12.00% 61
East Midlands -12 95 £60,000 +15.38% 41
North East -8 14 £61,250 +53.13% 22
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
1 113 (3.53%) Confluence
2 91 (2.84%) Apache
3 65 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 64 (2.00%) nginx
5 54 (1.69%) IIS
6 38 (1.19%) Apache Spark
7 31 (0.97%) WebSphere
8 29 (0.91%) Tomcat
9 23 (0.72%) WebLogic
10 20 (0.63%) OpenStack
11 16 (0.50%) Captiva
11 16 (0.50%) FileNet
11 16 (0.50%) MS Exchange
12 13 (0.41%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 10 (0.31%) JBoss
14 10 (0.31%) WordPress
15 8 (0.25%) Oracle Service Bus
16 6 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
17 5 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 45 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.34%) Simulink
4 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.063%) Mathcad
7 1 (0.031%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.19%) Exstream
4 3 (0.094%) ION Anvil
4 3 (0.094%) Magento
4 3 (0.094%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.063%) Salerio
5 2 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.031%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.031%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.031%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.031%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.031%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.031%) Shopify
6 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.031%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (32.75%) AWS
2 910 (28.44%) Azure
3 342 (10.69%) GCP
4 249 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
5 223 (6.97%) OpenShift
6 174 (5.44%) Serverless
7 161 (5.03%) SaaS
8 135 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 117 (3.66%) GitHub
10 107 (3.34%) IaaS
11 102 (3.19%) PaaS
12 100 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 84 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
14 72 (2.25%) Amazon S3
15 68 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
16 63 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
17 59 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
18 54 (1.69%) Entra ID
19 43 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 42 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 396 (12.38%) Firewall
2 327 (10.22%) TCP/IP
3 312 (9.75%) DNS
4 225 (7.03%) DHCP
5 154 (4.81%) SAN
6 150 (4.69%) VPN
7 147 (4.59%) HTTP
8 133 (4.16%) WAN
9 93 (2.91%) LAN
10 84 (2.63%) Internet
11 82 (2.56%) VLAN
12 74 (2.31%) Network Security
13 73 (2.28%) Wireless
14 55 (1.72%) OSPF
15 47 (1.47%) IPv4
15 47 (1.47%) VoIP
16 45 (1.41%) BGP
17 44 (1.38%) SD-WAN
18 38 (1.19%) SSL
19 37 (1.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (6.44%) MySQL
2 167 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 134 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (2.84%) Big Data
5 86 (2.69%) MongoDB
6 80 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 72 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
8 70 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 68 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 53 (1.66%) Oracle Database
11 42 (1.31%) Redis
12 34 (1.06%) Hadoop
13 26 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 24 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
15 20 (0.63%) Power BI
16 18 (0.56%) DB2
17 17 (0.53%) MariaDB
18 16 (0.50%) Data Lake
19 15 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
19 15 (0.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 329 (10.28%) Jenkins
2 318 (9.94%) Git
3 208 (6.50%) JIRA
4 166 (5.19%) GitLab
5 77 (2.41%) Maven
6 63 (1.97%) Artifactory
6 63 (1.97%) SonarQube
7 56 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 50 (1.56%) Selenium
9 46 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 31 (0.97%) Robot Framework
12 28 (0.88%) JUnit
13 27 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 27 (0.84%) Subversion
14 26 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
15 25 (0.78%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.66%) CMake
17 20 (0.63%) SoapUI
17 20 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 749 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 576 (18.00%) Finance
3 220 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (6.13%) Banking
5 179 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 110 (3.44%) Retail
7 93 (2.91%) Telecoms
8 92 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 88 (2.75%) Aerospace
10 83 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 79 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (2.16%) Electronics
13 63 (1.97%) Marketing
14 58 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 54 (1.69%) Law
16 46 (1.44%) Financial Institution
17 44 (1.38%) Games
18 37 (1.16%) Automotive
18 37 (1.16%) Front Office
19 34 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 556 (17.38%) Senior
2 437 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 353 (11.03%) Software Engineer
4 345 (10.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 316 (9.88%) Developer
6 229 (7.16%) Linux Engineer
7 225 (7.03%) Lead
8 222 (6.94%) Analyst
9 215 (6.72%) Architect
10 155 (4.84%) Administrator
11 154 (4.81%) Support Engineer
12 134 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 124 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
14 110 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
15 105 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
16 96 (3.00%) Embedded Engineer
17 93 (2.91%) Senior Developer
17 93 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
18 91 (2.84%) Infrastructure Architect
19 87 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
2 109 (3.41%) .NET
3 107 (3.34%) Kafka
3 107 (3.34%) React
4 96 (3.00%) REST
5 93 (2.91%) HTML
6 92 (2.88%) Node.js
7 77 (2.41%) CSS
8 75 (2.34%) XML
9 69 (2.16%) Spring
10 68 (2.13%) JSON
11 66 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
12 60 (1.88%) YAML
13 51 (1.59%) Middleware
14 47 (1.47%) Hibernate
14 47 (1.47%) LDAP
14 47 (1.47%) RESTful
15 46 (1.44%) AngularJS
16 39 (1.22%) Spring Boot
17 36 (1.13%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 191 (5.97%) Data Centre
2 186 (5.81%) Public Cloud
3 107 (3.34%) Linux Command Line
4 96 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 89 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 83 (2.59%) Private Cloud
7 78 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 77 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 74 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
10 62 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 62 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 50 (1.56%) Replication
12 49 (1.53%) PKI
13 47 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 46 (1.44%) Hedge funds
15 45 (1.41%) Product Ownership
16 42 (1.31%) Clustering
17 41 (1.28%) CMDB
18 39 (1.22%) IoT
18 39 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1,315 (41.09%) Windows
2 481 (15.03%) Unix
3 396 (12.38%) Windows Server
4 345 (10.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 176 (5.50%) Ubuntu
6 175 (5.47%) Android
7 151 (4.72%) CentOS
8 100 (3.13%) Mac OS
9 92 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 77 (2.41%) Solaris
11 75 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 72 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 69 (2.16%) Debian
14 58 (1.81%) Windows 10
15 56 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
16 36 (1.13%) Apple iOS
17 34 (1.06%) VMS
18 24 (0.75%) HPUX
19 23 (0.72%) AIX
20 20 (0.63%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (29.09%) DevOps
2 701 (21.91%) Agile
3 690 (21.56%) CI/CD
4 605 (18.91%) Software Engineering
5 449 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (13.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 390 (12.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 367 (11.47%) Configuration Management
9 356 (11.13%) Containerisation
10 315 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
11 298 (9.31%) Mentoring
12 267 (8.34%) Microservices
13 257 (8.03%) Computer Science
14 230 (7.19%) Continuous Integration
15 221 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
16 196 (6.13%) ITIL
17 184 (5.75%) Scrum
18 167 (5.22%) DevSecOps
19 154 (4.81%) Test Automation
20 149 (4.66%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,330 (41.56%) Python
2 634 (19.81%) Bash
3 601 (18.78%) Java
4 546 (17.06%) PowerShell
5 485 (15.16%) SQL
6 438 (13.69%) C++
7 295 (9.22%) C
8 244 (7.63%) JavaScript
9 163 (5.09%) Shell Script
10 154 (4.81%) Perl
11 147 (4.59%) PHP
12 143 (4.47%) C#
13 131 (4.09%) Go
14 116 (3.63%) Ruby
15 81 (2.53%) Rust
16 58 (1.81%) TypeScript
17 36 (1.13%) Groovy
17 36 (1.13%) PL/SQL
18 33 (1.03%) VBScript
19 32 (1.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 718 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 516 (16.13%) Degree
3 357 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 276 (8.63%) DV Cleared
5 149 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
6 146 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 87 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 85 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 68 (2.13%) MCSE
10 65 (2.03%) CCNA
11 64 (2.00%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.19%) CCNP
13 35 (1.09%) Linux+ Certification
14 34 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 30 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
16 29 (0.91%) CISSP
17 27 (0.84%) PhD
18 26 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 20 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (3.59%) QA
2 81 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (1.47%) SLA
4 35 (1.09%) GDPR
5 32 (1.00%) NIST
6 29 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 21 (0.66%) PMO
8 15 (0.47%) NCSC
9 12 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
10 7 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
10 7 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.19%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.16%) GRC
13 4 (0.13%) MISRA
14 3 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.094%) JTAG
15 2 (0.063%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 644 (20.13%) Docker
2 374 (11.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 369 (11.53%) Active Directory
4 172 (5.38%) Hyper-V
5 75 (2.34%) Firmware
6 74 (2.31%) vSphere
7 63 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
10 23 (0.72%) VMware NSX
11 20 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
12 17 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 16 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
13 16 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
14 15 (0.47%) KVM
15 13 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 13 (0.41%) vCloud
16 12 (0.38%) NFS
17 11 (0.34%) LXC
17 11 (0.34%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 733 (22.91%) Ansible
2 680 (21.25%) Terraform
3 649 (20.28%) Kubernetes
4 299 (9.34%) Puppet
5 98 (3.06%) Grafana
6 76 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 70 (2.19%) Prometheus
8 63 (1.97%) SCCM
9 49 (1.53%) SCOM
10 48 (1.50%) Nagios
11 42 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 32 (1.00%) vCenter Server
13 30 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
13 30 (0.94%) ZABBIX
14 26 (0.81%) Packer
15 22 (0.69%) NetBackup
16 20 (0.63%) Data Guard
16 20 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
16 20 (0.63%) Tivoli
17 18 (0.56%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 519 (16.22%) VMware
2 481 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 338 (10.56%) Red Hat
4 253 (7.91%) Oracle
5 207 (6.47%) Cisco
6 142 (4.44%) Google
7 105 (3.28%) Splunk
8 78 (2.44%) IBM
9 64 (2.00%) Atlassian
10 63 (1.97%) ServiceNow
11 62 (1.94%) Apple
12 60 (1.88%) HP
13 55 (1.72%) Veeam
14 50 (1.56%) Fortinet
15 46 (1.44%) NetApp
16 42 (1.31%) Palo Alto
17 40 (1.25%) SAP
18 39 (1.22%) CheckPoint
19 37 (1.16%) Dell
19 37 (1.16%) Sun