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 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 31 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,505 4,355 6,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.28% 5.71% 6.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.54% 37.18% 42.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 3,237 4,422
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +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 6,336 11,713 16,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.36% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,128 9,623 11,037
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,759 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £81,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% -

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 15 March 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 15 March 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
London +5 871 £79,000 +5.33% 544
South East -9 481 £55,000 - 297
Midlands +25 370 £43,750 -12.50% 147
North of England -37 312 £52,500 - 270
South West -7 278 £46,500 -14.12% 160
West Midlands +38 258 £37,500 -31.82% 84
North West -54 188 £52,500 - 153
East of England -16 174 £55,320 +5.37% 175
East Midlands -4 107 £52,500 +5.00% 57
Yorkshire -15 95 £42,500 -15.00% 91
North East +18 29 £61,000 +13.49% 28
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
1 127 (5.07%) Confluence
2 88 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 85 (3.39%) Apache
4 57 (2.28%) nginx
5 48 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 28 (1.12%) IIS
7 27 (1.08%) OpenStack
8 24 (0.96%) Tomcat
9 23 (0.92%) OpenEdge
10 11 (0.44%) CloudStack
11 9 (0.36%) WordPress
12 8 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (0.32%) Apache Spark
13 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.24%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.20%) Alfresco
14 5 (0.20%) Documentum
14 5 (0.20%) GemFire
14 5 (0.20%) WinCC
15 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 85 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.52%) Simulink
4 8 (0.32%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.20%) OrCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.080%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.080%) InDesign
8 2 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.040%) Weka
Business Applications
1 53 (2.12%) NEC Housing
2 12 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.080%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.080%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.080%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.080%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.040%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.040%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 573 (22.87%) AWS
2 530 (21.16%) Azure
3 208 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
4 167 (6.67%) GCP
5 121 (4.83%) SaaS
6 73 (2.91%) GitHub
7 60 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 60 (2.40%) PaaS
8 56 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
9 52 (2.08%) Serverless
10 51 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (2.00%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
13 42 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (1.52%) Pulumi
15 36 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (1.32%) Datadog
17 32 (1.28%) IaaS
18 30 (1.20%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 341 (13.61%) Firewall
2 215 (8.58%) Network Security
3 200 (7.98%) DNS
4 199 (7.94%) Internet
5 192 (7.66%) WLAN
6 187 (7.47%) TCP/IP
7 133 (5.31%) DHCP
8 121 (4.83%) VPN
9 104 (4.15%) VLAN
10 84 (3.35%) Broadband
11 75 (2.99%) WAN
12 67 (2.67%) LAN
13 51 (2.04%) Wireless
14 48 (1.92%) SAN
15 47 (1.88%) Wireshark
16 36 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (1.32%) HTTP
18 31 (1.24%) BGP
18 31 (1.24%) SSL
19 30 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 176 (7.03%) MySQL
3 149 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
4 110 (4.39%) Relational Database
5 62 (2.48%) BusinessObjects
5 62 (2.48%) MongoDB
6 57 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 47 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
8 46 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 34 (1.36%) Redis
10 23 (0.92%) Power BI
11 18 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (0.68%) DB2
13 15 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 14 (0.56%) Big Data
15 12 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (0.44%) Tableau
17 10 (0.40%) RDBMS
18 9 (0.36%) MariaDB
19 8 (0.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 261 (10.42%) Git
2 219 (8.74%) JIRA
3 178 (7.11%) Jenkins
4 81 (3.23%) GitLab
5 67 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 52 (2.08%) Eclipse
7 50 (2.00%) JUnit
8 47 (1.88%) Maven
9 42 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 40 (1.60%) Visual Studio
11 38 (1.52%) Mockito
12 36 (1.44%) IntelliJ
13 35 (1.40%) SonarQube
13 35 (1.40%) TeamCity
14 28 (1.12%) Ant
14 28 (1.12%) Eclipse RCP
15 22 (0.88%) Jasmine
15 22 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.88%) Protractor
16 19 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 605 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 420 (16.77%) Finance
3 259 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (5.67%) Banking
5 103 (4.11%) Electronics
6 102 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 93 (3.71%) Manufacturing
8 88 (3.51%) Retail
9 80 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 65 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 63 (2.51%) Local Government
12 60 (2.40%) Front Office
13 55 (2.20%) Games
13 55 (2.20%) Police
13 55 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 51 (2.04%) Law
15 47 (1.88%) Aerospace
16 44 (1.76%) Automotive
17 35 (1.40%) Avionics
17 35 (1.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 497 (19.84%) Senior
2 332 (13.25%) Developer
3 295 (11.78%) Support Engineer
4 271 (10.82%) IT Engineer
5 265 (10.58%) Software Engineer
6 259 (10.34%) IT Support
7 212 (8.46%) Lead
8 188 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 184 (7.35%) IT Support Engineer
10 168 (6.71%) Analyst
11 133 (5.31%) Systems Engineer
12 125 (4.99%) Linux Engineer
13 106 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
14 104 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
15 103 (4.11%) Support Analyst
16 102 (4.07%) Administrator
17 100 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
18 93 (3.71%) Consultant
19 92 (3.67%) Team Leader
20 91 (3.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
2 96 (3.83%) .NET
3 94 (3.75%) HTML
4 83 (3.31%) React
5 78 (3.11%) REST
6 76 (3.03%) CSS
7 74 (2.95%) Django
8 66 (2.63%) Middleware
9 58 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
10 54 (2.16%) Web Services
11 53 (2.12%) AngularJS
12 44 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
13 43 (1.72%) Node.js
14 37 (1.48%) Spring
15 33 (1.32%) LDAP
16 31 (1.24%) LAMP
17 30 (1.20%) Hibernate
18 29 (1.16%) JSP
19 26 (1.04%) JPA
19 26 (1.04%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 191 (7.62%) Driving Licence
2 169 (6.75%) Management Information System
3 138 (5.51%) Data Centre
4 125 (4.99%) Algorithms
5 92 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 83 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 83 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
7 81 (3.23%) Private Cloud
8 77 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
9 71 (2.83%) Public Cloud
10 66 (2.63%) Equities
11 53 (2.12%) IoT
12 52 (2.08%) Hedge funds
13 45 (1.80%) Legacy Code
14 44 (1.76%) FPGA
15 41 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
16 39 (1.56%) Derivative
17 36 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
17 36 (1.44%) Onboarding
18 34 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,220 (48.70%) Windows
2 282 (11.26%) Windows Server
3 240 (9.58%) Unix
4 157 (6.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 134 (5.35%) Ubuntu
6 92 (3.67%) Windows 10
7 83 (3.31%) CentOS
8 78 (3.11%) Solaris
9 65 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 64 (2.55%) Mac OS
11 51 (2.04%) Debian
11 51 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
12 41 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
13 40 (1.60%) Mac OS X
14 37 (1.48%) Android
15 26 (1.04%) Rocky
16 25 (1.00%) AIX
17 22 (0.88%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.64%) Windows 7
19 15 (0.60%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
2 506 (20.20%) DevOps
3 464 (18.52%) Computer Science
4 417 (16.65%) Mentoring
5 403 (16.09%) CI/CD
6 390 (15.57%) ITIL
7 362 (14.45%) Agile
8 360 (14.37%) Software Engineering
9 255 (10.18%) Containerisation
10 246 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 213 (8.50%) Continuous Integration
12 193 (7.70%) Asset Management
13 192 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 188 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 188 (7.50%) Network Management
15 172 (6.87%) Roadmaps
16 163 (6.51%) IT Asset Management
17 152 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
18 147 (5.87%) Disaster Recovery
19 142 (5.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 823 (32.85%) Python
2 541 (21.60%) SQL
3 338 (13.49%) Bash
4 330 (13.17%) C++
5 299 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 274 (10.94%) C
7 272 (10.86%) Java
8 194 (7.74%) JavaScript
9 142 (5.67%) C#
10 119 (4.75%) Shell Script
11 97 (3.87%) Go
12 90 (3.59%) Rust
13 64 (2.55%) Perl
14 62 (2.48%) PHP
15 42 (1.68%) TypeScript
16 38 (1.52%) PL/SQL
17 34 (1.36%) MATLAB
18 31 (1.24%) T-SQL
19 27 (1.08%) Progress 4GL
19 27 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 738 (29.46%) Degree
2 356 (14.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 342 (13.65%) Security Cleared
4 246 (9.82%) Cisco Certification
5 237 (9.46%) LPIC
6 233 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 206 (8.22%) CCNA
8 205 (8.18%) CCNP
9 197 (7.86%) MCSE
10 189 (7.54%) SC Cleared
11 167 (6.67%) MCP
12 143 (5.71%) DV Cleared
13 107 (4.27%) Master's Degree
14 76 (3.03%) RHCSA
15 74 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
16 60 (2.40%) DBS Check
17 49 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
18 43 (1.72%) AWS Certification
19 41 (1.64%) HND
20 39 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (3.55%) SLA
2 81 (3.23%) NIST
3 76 (3.03%) SOC 2
4 63 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 62 (2.48%) ISO 9001
5 62 (2.48%) QA
6 37 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 31 (1.24%) GDPR
9 15 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.44%) PMO
13 8 (0.32%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.24%) FINRA
14 6 (0.24%) MIL-STD-1553
15 4 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
17 2 (0.080%) MiFID
System Software
1 396 (15.81%) Docker
2 294 (11.74%) Active Directory
3 263 (10.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 97 (3.87%) Hyper-V
5 60 (2.40%) vSphere
6 59 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
7 57 (2.28%) Firmware
8 36 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
10 23 (0.92%) pfSense
11 22 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
12 20 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
13 19 (0.76%) VMware NSX
14 10 (0.40%) NFS
15 9 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 7 (0.28%) KVM
16 7 (0.28%) NDS
16 7 (0.28%) NetIQ eDirectory
16 7 (0.28%) Postfix
16 7 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 414 (16.53%) Ansible
2 325 (12.97%) Kubernetes
3 286 (11.42%) Terraform
4 121 (4.83%) Grafana
5 113 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 107 (4.27%) Puppet
7 53 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 51 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 40 (1.60%) SCCM
10 36 (1.44%) Nagios
11 24 (0.96%) vCenter Server
11 24 (0.96%) ZABBIX
12 23 (0.92%) Podman
13 19 (0.76%) WSUS
14 18 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
14 18 (0.72%) Nessus
14 18 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
15 16 (0.64%) Graylog
16 13 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
16 13 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 680 (27.15%) Microsoft
2 386 (15.41%) VMware
3 353 (14.09%) Cisco
4 211 (8.42%) Red Hat
5 144 (5.75%) Oracle
6 92 (3.67%) Google
7 88 (3.51%) Citrix
8 79 (3.15%) Atlassian
9 69 (2.75%) Dell
10 64 (2.55%) IBM
11 55 (2.20%) ServiceNow
12 54 (2.16%) Veeam
13 53 (2.12%) NEC
14 45 (1.80%) Fortinet
15 44 (1.76%) Palo Alto
16 42 (1.68%) Apple
17 35 (1.40%) SAP
18 34 (1.36%) NetApp
19 31 (1.24%) Juniper
20 29 (1.16%) Ubiquiti