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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,951 5,189 6,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.03% 5.80% 6.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.95% 41.32% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 3,458 3,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £88,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 6,714 12,557 14,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.71% 14.03% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,914 9,806 9,542
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,759 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,110 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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
North of England +20 1,068 £55,000 +10.00% 1,033
North West +19 949 £55,000 +4.76% 540
London -6 755 £80,000 +6.67% 739
South East -34 408 £52,500 -4.55% 1,440
Midlands -25 240 £47,500 -5.00% 822
South West -21 214 £46,500 -11.43% 618
East of England -38 159 £55,320 +5.37% 754
West Midlands +12 154 £52,500 -2.78% 450
Yorkshire -27 96 £42,500 -8.21% 380
East Midlands -48 83 £40,101 -19.80% 318
North East +13 23 £63,000 +20.00% 116
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
1 119 (4.03%) Confluence
2 71 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (1.69%) Apache
4 35 (1.19%) IIS
5 31 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.98%) nginx
7 17 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 14 (0.47%) OpenEdge
9 10 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.20%) GemFire
11 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.17%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) WordPress
12 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.14%) CMS
13 3 (0.10%) Alfresco
13 3 (0.10%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.10%) WinCC
Applications
1 67 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 5 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.14%) Simulink
7 2 (0.068%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.068%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.034%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.034%) Trello
8 1 (0.034%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.27%) Fidessa
1 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.10%) Sage 50
5 2 (0.068%) MFGPRO
5 2 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.068%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.034%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.034%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 897 (30.40%) AWS
2 673 (22.81%) Azure
3 297 (10.06%) GCP
4 239 (8.10%) Pulumi
5 162 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
6 86 (2.91%) SaaS
7 80 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
8 79 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 77 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
10 73 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 69 (2.34%) GitHub
12 56 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 47 (1.59%) PaaS
13 47 (1.59%) Serverless
14 40 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 34 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
19 32 (1.08%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 817 (27.69%) VPN
2 552 (18.71%) DNS
3 287 (9.73%) Cisco IOS
4 228 (7.73%) Firewall
5 215 (7.29%) Broadband
6 178 (6.03%) TCP/IP
7 113 (3.83%) DHCP
8 75 (2.54%) VLAN
9 70 (2.37%) WAN
10 60 (2.03%) Network Security
11 50 (1.69%) LAN
11 50 (1.69%) Wireless
12 49 (1.66%) SAN
13 43 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
14 40 (1.36%) Internet
14 40 (1.36%) WLAN
15 39 (1.32%) Wireshark
16 25 (0.85%) NAS
16 25 (0.85%) SD-WAN
17 24 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (10.20%) Relational Database
2 278 (9.42%) NoSQL
3 224 (7.59%) RDBMS
4 137 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 121 (4.10%) MySQL
6 117 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
7 89 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
8 77 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
9 59 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 24 (0.81%) Redis
11 16 (0.54%) DB2
11 16 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.37%) Big Data
16 9 (0.30%) Power BI
17 7 (0.24%) Oracle Exadata
18 6 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 259 (8.78%) Git
2 216 (7.32%) Jaeger
3 201 (6.81%) JIRA
4 161 (5.46%) Jenkins
5 82 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 66 (2.24%) Robot Framework
7 60 (2.03%) GitLab
8 59 (2.00%) JUnit
9 57 (1.93%) Maven
10 56 (1.90%) Bitbucket
11 43 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 42 (1.42%) Mockito
13 41 (1.39%) SonarQube
14 36 (1.22%) Eclipse
15 32 (1.08%) Visual Studio
16 29 (0.98%) IntelliJ
17 27 (0.91%) TeamCity
18 19 (0.64%) Eclipse RCP
19 18 (0.61%) Ant
19 18 (0.61%) Vagrant
General
1 1,251 (42.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 849 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
3 764 (25.89%) Finance
4 511 (17.32%) Social Skills
5 144 (4.88%) Banking
6 128 (4.34%) Telecoms
7 71 (2.41%) Law
8 52 (1.76%) Electronics
8 52 (1.76%) Manufacturing
8 52 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (1.63%) Front Office
9 48 (1.63%) Public Sector
10 47 (1.59%) Retail
11 35 (1.19%) Investment Banking
12 28 (0.95%) Avionics
12 28 (0.95%) Games
13 26 (0.88%) Automotive
14 24 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (0.75%) Legal
16 21 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 701 (23.75%) Developer
2 525 (17.79%) Senior
3 470 (15.93%) Software Developer
4 387 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 373 (12.64%) Software Engineer
6 343 (11.62%) Lead
7 256 (8.68%) Senior Software Engineer
8 232 (7.86%) Team Leader
9 164 (5.56%) Support Engineer
10 136 (4.61%) Analyst
11 119 (4.03%) IT Support
12 113 (3.83%) Administrator
13 110 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
14 102 (3.46%) IT Engineer
14 102 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
15 95 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
15 95 (3.22%) Support Analyst
16 87 (2.95%) Linux Engineer
17 80 (2.71%) Test Engineer
18 77 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 508 (17.21%) Elastic Stack
2 298 (10.10%) .NET
3 268 (9.08%) Node.js
4 215 (7.29%) OpenTelemetry
5 74 (2.51%) React
6 62 (2.10%) Middleware
7 61 (2.07%) HTML
8 59 (2.00%) Pandas
9 57 (1.93%) REST
10 51 (1.73%) CSS
11 50 (1.69%) AngularJS
12 48 (1.63%) Spring
13 43 (1.46%) Hibernate
14 39 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
15 37 (1.25%) Spring Boot
16 35 (1.19%) Web Services
17 32 (1.08%) JPA
17 32 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
17 32 (1.08%) RESTful
18 26 (0.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 888 (30.09%) Cyberattack
2 300 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
3 239 (8.10%) Self-Motivation
4 131 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 103 (3.49%) Algorithms
6 102 (3.46%) Data Centre
7 74 (2.51%) Cloud Native
8 71 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
9 66 (2.24%) Equities
10 64 (2.17%) Driving Licence
11 61 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 59 (2.00%) Hedge funds
13 58 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 54 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
15 50 (1.69%) e-Learning
16 43 (1.46%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.36%) Clustering
18 37 (1.25%) Legacy Code
19 30 (1.02%) FPGA
20 29 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,112 (37.68%) Windows
2 748 (25.35%) Android
3 405 (13.72%) Unix
4 249 (8.44%) Windows Server
5 150 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 72 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 66 (2.24%) CentOS
8 58 (1.97%) Windows 10
9 53 (1.80%) Mac OS
9 53 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 41 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
11 31 (1.05%) Apple iOS
11 31 (1.05%) Mac OS X
12 30 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
13 27 (0.91%) Debian
14 26 (0.88%) VMS
15 24 (0.81%) Rocky
16 18 (0.61%) Solaris
17 14 (0.47%) AIX
18 10 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,149 (38.94%) Agile
2 907 (30.74%) DevOps
3 810 (27.45%) Mathematics
4 715 (24.23%) Line Management
5 682 (23.11%) Problem-Solving
6 623 (21.11%) Mentoring
7 540 (18.30%) OO
8 519 (17.59%) Task Automation
9 511 (17.32%) OOP
10 506 (17.15%) Software Engineering
11 464 (15.72%) Design Patterns
12 457 (15.49%) Android Development
13 428 (14.50%) Containerisation
14 416 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 413 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 353 (11.96%) CI/CD
17 345 (11.69%) Platform Engineering
18 325 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
19 315 (10.67%) High Availability
20 293 (9.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,770 (59.98%) Python
2 1,080 (36.60%) Java
3 922 (31.24%) Go
4 896 (30.36%) C++
5 774 (26.23%) Bash
6 669 (22.67%) JavaScript
7 599 (20.30%) PowerShell
8 381 (12.91%) SQL
9 295 (10.00%) Rust
10 197 (6.68%) C
11 90 (3.05%) C#
12 71 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 53 (1.80%) Perl
14 50 (1.69%) PHP
15 44 (1.49%) TypeScript
16 33 (1.12%) PL/SQL
17 25 (0.85%) R
18 23 (0.78%) T-SQL
19 22 (0.75%) Bicep
19 22 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 893 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 723 (24.50%) DV Cleared
3 481 (16.30%) Degree
4 431 (14.61%) AWS Certification
5 186 (6.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 179 (6.07%) AWS Certified Developer
7 167 (5.66%) SC Cleared
8 123 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 115 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
9 115 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 89 (3.02%) CCNP
11 77 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 75 (2.54%) CCNA
13 72 (2.44%) MCSE
14 48 (1.63%) MCP
15 42 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
16 41 (1.39%) MCSA
17 37 (1.25%) PhD
18 34 (1.15%) HND
19 30 (1.02%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (4.30%) QA
2 72 (2.44%) SLA
3 32 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (0.98%) GDPR
5 13 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.30%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.30%) NIST
7 9 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.24%) MIL-STD-1553
8 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.20%) PMO
10 5 (0.17%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.10%) ITGC
11 3 (0.10%) JTAG
12 2 (0.068%) FINRA
12 2 (0.068%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,180 (39.99%) Docker
2 333 (11.28%) Hyper-V
3 314 (10.64%) vSphere
4 269 (9.12%) VMware NSX
5 251 (8.51%) Active Directory
6 221 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
7 60 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (1.36%) Firmware
9 35 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
10 24 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
11 19 (0.64%) NFS
11 19 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (0.37%) DFS Replication
13 10 (0.34%) Postfix
14 9 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 8 (0.27%) KVM
16 7 (0.24%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.20%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,240 (42.02%) Ansible
2 802 (27.18%) Terraform
3 517 (17.52%) Kubernetes
4 275 (9.32%) Prometheus
5 222 (7.52%) Argo
6 216 (7.32%) Kustomize
7 85 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 78 (2.64%) Puppet
9 71 (2.41%) Grafana
10 36 (1.22%) Nagios
11 35 (1.19%) Progress Chef
12 32 (1.08%) SCCM
13 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
14 17 (0.58%) Podman
14 17 (0.58%) Proxmox
15 15 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.51%) Nessus
16 14 (0.47%) Kibana
17 12 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 12 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 473 (16.03%) Cisco
2 433 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 311 (10.54%) VMware
4 300 (10.17%) Juniper
5 294 (9.96%) Splunk
6 275 (9.32%) Google
7 262 (8.88%) 3PAR
8 169 (5.73%) Red Hat
9 138 (4.68%) Oracle
10 75 (2.54%) Atlassian
11 59 (2.00%) IBM
12 43 (1.46%) Citrix
13 40 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 40 (1.36%) Veeam
14 38 (1.29%) Dell
15 35 (1.19%) Apple
16 31 (1.05%) SAP
17 26 (0.88%) Fortinet
18 22 (0.75%) HP
19 20 (0.68%) NetApp