Linux Job Trends in England

Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 36 31
Rank change year-on-year -35 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,037 2,615 4,986
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.33% 6.05% 5.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.98% 40.26% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,415 1,210 3,406
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 5,661 6,495 12,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.49% 15.02% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,303 4,306 9,419
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,998
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.60% -12.39%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Linux job vacancy trend in England

Linux
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 2026. 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 -20 625 £77,500 -3.13% 208
South East +2 465 £65,000 +23.15% 188
South West 0 353 £55,000 +7.72% 94
North of England -113 258 £56,500 +7.62% 112
Midlands -41 162 £45,000 -21.74% 60
East of England +13 161 £60,000 +8.46% 76
North West -116 126 £52,500 -2.33% 66
East Midlands -17 84 £44,472 +4.64% 28
West Midlands -49 77 £50,000 -16.67% 32
Yorkshire -56 70 £57,500 +35.29% 26
North East -6 62 £69,310 +6.63% 21
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 161 (7.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.91%) Apache
3 39 (1.91%) Confluence
4 24 (1.18%) IIS
5 19 (0.93%) nginx
6 15 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.54%) CMS
7 11 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.54%) WordPress
8 10 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2007
8 10 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
9 8 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.25%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.20%) SAS
12 2 (0.098%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.098%) Moodle
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 28 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.20%) Weka
5 3 (0.15%) Lightworks
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.15%) Simulink
6 2 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.098%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.049%) Houdini
7 1 (0.049%) NUKE
7 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
2 10 (0.49%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.25%) Magento
3 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.25%) Shopify
4 4 (0.20%) Line 50
5 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.049%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.049%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 605 (29.70%) Azure
2 587 (28.82%) AWS
3 314 (15.41%) Microsoft 365
4 170 (8.35%) GCP
5 135 (6.63%) Entra ID
6 114 (5.60%) GitHub
7 98 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (4.07%) SaaS
9 72 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (3.34%) Serverless
11 66 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (2.99%) OpenShift
13 56 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
13 56 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.91%) Azure AKS
16 35 (1.72%) Amazon S3
17 34 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
19 32 (1.57%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 295 (14.48%) DNS
2 282 (13.84%) Firewall
3 151 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 144 (7.07%) DHCP
5 141 (6.92%) VPN
6 84 (4.12%) Network Security
7 80 (3.93%) LAN
8 77 (3.78%) WAN
9 53 (2.60%) VLAN
9 53 (2.60%) VoIP
10 42 (2.06%) SAN
11 40 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (1.77%) HTTP
13 33 (1.62%) Wireshark
14 31 (1.52%) BGP
14 31 (1.52%) Multicast
15 28 (1.37%) MQTT
16 27 (1.33%) Wireless
17 21 (1.03%) SSL
18 20 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 121 (5.94%) MySQL
3 97 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 90 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 41 (2.01%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.98%) Oracle Database
10 19 (0.93%) Power BI
11 16 (0.79%) Big Data
12 14 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 13 (0.64%) Redis
14 10 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.49%) SAP HANA
14 10 (0.49%) Tableau
15 9 (0.44%) InfluxDB
16 8 (0.39%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.29%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 256 (12.57%) Git
2 154 (7.56%) Jenkins
3 153 (7.51%) GitLab
4 133 (6.53%) JIRA
5 46 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.23%) Subversion
7 21 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 21 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
8 20 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 15 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.69%) Robot Framework
10 14 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.59%) Burp Suite
11 12 (0.59%) Maven
11 12 (0.59%) Selenium
12 11 (0.54%) GDB
12 11 (0.54%) Metasploit
13 10 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.49%) JUnit
14 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
General
1 537 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 368 (18.07%) Finance
3 224 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (5.50%) Banking
5 84 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.68%) Aerospace
6 75 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 74 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 68 (3.34%) Telecoms
9 66 (3.24%) Law
9 66 (3.24%) Retail
10 60 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (2.41%) Electronics
12 47 (2.31%) Front Office
13 41 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 34 (1.67%) Legal
15 31 (1.52%) Automotive
15 31 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 19 (0.93%) Military
17 18 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 376 (18.46%) Senior
2 261 (12.81%) Software Engineer
3 193 (9.47%) Linux Engineer
4 184 (9.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 180 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 176 (8.64%) Developer
7 170 (8.35%) Systems Engineer
8 129 (6.33%) IT Support
9 128 (6.28%) Support Engineer
10 119 (5.84%) Administrator
11 114 (5.60%) Analyst
12 110 (5.40%) IT Engineer
12 110 (5.40%) Lead
13 92 (4.52%) Embedded Engineer
14 85 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
15 84 (4.12%) IT Support Engineer
15 84 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
16 80 (3.93%) C++ Software Engineer
17 66 (3.24%) Architect
17 66 (3.24%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.85%) Node.js
1 58 (2.85%) React
2 50 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
2 50 (2.45%) JSON
2 50 (2.45%) REST
3 49 (2.41%) HTML
4 44 (2.16%) FIX Protocol
4 44 (2.16%) YAML
5 43 (2.11%) Kafka
6 42 (2.06%) CSS
7 37 (1.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 36 (1.77%) pytest
8 36 (1.77%) Web Services
9 31 (1.52%) XML
10 28 (1.37%) .NET
10 28 (1.37%) Django
11 27 (1.33%) XMPP
11 27 (1.33%) Yocto
12 26 (1.28%) RESTful
13 25 (1.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.43%) Data Centre
2 95 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 86 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
4 81 (3.98%) Embedded Systems
5 67 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 66 (3.24%) Algorithms
6 66 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 62 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
7 62 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
8 61 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.60%) Replication
10 50 (2.45%) IoT
11 49 (2.41%) Equities
11 49 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
12 48 (2.36%) PKI
13 47 (2.31%) Security Posture
14 46 (2.26%) Public Cloud
15 40 (1.96%) Product Ownership
16 38 (1.87%) Fixed Income
17 36 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 842 (41.34%) Windows
2 351 (17.23%) Windows Server
3 182 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 162 (7.95%) Unix
5 119 (5.84%) Ubuntu
6 104 (5.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 88 (4.32%) CentOS
8 66 (3.24%) Embedded Linux
9 64 (3.14%) Mac OS
10 51 (2.50%) Debian
11 20 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.88%) Android
13 16 (0.79%) VMS
14 15 (0.74%) AIX
15 11 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
15 11 (0.54%) Solaris
16 10 (0.49%) Rocky
16 10 (0.49%) Windows 7
16 10 (0.49%) Windows 8
16 10 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
2 480 (23.56%) CI/CD
3 452 (22.19%) DevOps
4 397 (19.49%) Software Engineering
5 351 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 346 (16.99%) Agile
7 305 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 249 (12.22%) Containerisation
10 209 (10.26%) Computer Science
11 192 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
12 176 (8.64%) Mentoring
13 172 (8.44%) Test Automation
14 162 (7.95%) High Availability
15 161 (7.90%) Platform Engineering
16 160 (7.85%) AI
17 159 (7.81%) SIEM
18 145 (7.12%) ITIL
19 137 (6.73%) Migration
20 136 (6.68%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 699 (34.32%) Python
2 319 (15.66%) Bash
3 315 (15.46%) C++
4 303 (14.87%) PowerShell
5 240 (11.78%) SQL
6 220 (10.80%) Java
7 132 (6.48%) C
8 124 (6.09%) JavaScript
9 99 (4.86%) C#
10 92 (4.52%) Rust
11 73 (3.58%) Shell Script
12 63 (3.09%) PHP
13 60 (2.95%) Go
14 34 (1.67%) TypeScript
15 31 (1.52%) Perl
16 27 (1.33%) Embedded C++
16 27 (1.33%) Ruby
17 21 (1.03%) Groovy
18 18 (0.88%) PL/SQL
19 17 (0.83%) Korn
Qualifications
1 534 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 309 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 294 (14.43%) Degree
4 204 (10.01%) DV Cleared
5 106 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
7 46 (2.26%) CCNA
8 45 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 44 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 41 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
11 37 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 36 (1.77%) GIAC
12 36 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (1.57%) CISSP
14 28 (1.37%) OSCP
15 26 (1.28%) CCNP
15 26 (1.28%) RHCSA
16 23 (1.13%) CREST Certified
17 19 (0.93%) GCIA
17 19 (0.93%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 95 (4.66%) QA
3 91 (4.47%) PCI DSS
4 76 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.45%) NIST
6 34 (1.67%) GDPR
7 25 (1.23%) SLA
8 14 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.54%) JTAG
10 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.25%) ECSS
13 4 (0.20%) ISO 14001
13 4 (0.20%) NCSC
14 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.15%) MISRA
14 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.098%) Def Stans
System Software
1 349 (17.13%) Active Directory
2 339 (16.64%) Docker
3 227 (11.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 183 (8.98%) Hyper-V
5 87 (4.27%) vSphere
6 70 (3.44%) Terminal Server
7 35 (1.72%) Firmware
8 32 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
9 31 (1.52%) KVM
10 30 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
11 28 (1.37%) VMware NSX
12 13 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
12 13 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 10 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
14 10 (0.49%) iptables
14 10 (0.49%) Squid
15 9 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 409 (20.08%) Kubernetes
2 398 (19.54%) Terraform
3 344 (16.89%) Ansible
4 119 (5.84%) Grafana
5 86 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 83 (4.07%) Puppet
7 60 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 56 (2.75%) Argo
9 53 (2.60%) Nagios
10 39 (1.91%) ZABBIX
11 34 (1.67%) Progress Chef
12 32 (1.57%) Proxmox
13 31 (1.52%) vCenter Server
14 29 (1.42%) Packer
15 19 (0.93%) Kibana
16 18 (0.88%) WSUS
17 17 (0.83%) Rancher
18 16 (0.79%) Podman
19 15 (0.74%) Graylog
20 13 (0.64%) Nessus
Vendors
1 549 (26.95%) Microsoft
2 384 (18.85%) VMware
3 207 (10.16%) Red Hat
4 166 (8.15%) Splunk
5 111 (5.45%) Cisco
6 107 (5.25%) Veeam
7 95 (4.66%) SolarWinds
8 90 (4.42%) Oracle
9 71 (3.49%) Brocade
9 71 (3.49%) Google
10 70 (3.44%) Nimble Storage
10 70 (3.44%) Tanium
11 37 (1.82%) IBM
12 32 (1.57%) Dell
13 31 (1.52%) NetApp
14 29 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
14 29 (1.42%) ServiceNow
15 28 (1.37%) Palo Alto
16 27 (1.33%) HP
17 26 (1.28%) McAfee