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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,047 6,510 11,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.95% 6.98% 8.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.18% 43.40% 46.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,440 4,160 6,020
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,343 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 12,562 14,999 25,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.81% 16.09% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9,968 10,270 15,180
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -2 1,301 £75,000 -6.25% 385
South East -2 1,163 £55,000 +10.00% 234
South West +4 836 £54,000 -1.82% 180
North of England +24 829 £50,000 - 141
North West +24 523 £52,500 - 84
Midlands +9 467 £50,000 -9.09% 121
East of England +11 423 £52,500 -8.70% 131
East Midlands +15 261 £50,000 -9.09% 56
Yorkshire +14 253 £47,500 -5.00% 49
West Midlands -8 206 £53,250 -3.18% 65
North East -14 53 £52,500 +31.25% 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
1 217 (4.30%) Apache
2 175 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 115 (2.28%) nginx
4 99 (1.96%) IIS
5 94 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 92 (1.82%) Confluence
7 59 (1.17%) WebLogic
8 57 (1.13%) Apache Spark
9 43 (0.85%) OpenStack
9 43 (0.85%) WebSphere
10 37 (0.73%) Tomcat
11 35 (0.69%) ArcGIS
12 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
13 26 (0.52%) WordPress
14 20 (0.40%) JBoss
14 20 (0.40%) Jupyter
15 18 (0.36%) Captiva
15 18 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
15 18 (0.36%) FileNet
16 15 (0.30%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 85 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.52%) Simulink
4 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.18%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.079%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.079%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.040%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.040%) CATIA
10 2 (0.040%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.040%) Trello
11 1 (0.020%) 1Password
11 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 19 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.32%) Fidessa
4 12 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.12%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.099%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
9 3 (0.059%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.040%) Magento
10 2 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.040%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.040%) Shopify
11 1 (0.020%) FLEXCUBE
11 1 (0.020%) Misys Opics
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.020%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,594 (31.58%) Azure
2 1,199 (23.76%) AWS
3 339 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
4 319 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 263 (5.21%) IBM Cloud
6 257 (5.09%) GCP
7 237 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
8 228 (4.52%) Serverless
9 156 (3.09%) GitHub
10 142 (2.81%) OpenShift
11 132 (2.62%) SaaS
12 127 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 124 (2.46%) Azure Functions
14 121 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
15 118 (2.34%) Azure API Management
16 116 (2.30%) Amazon S3
17 107 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
18 83 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
19 76 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
19 76 (1.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 702 (13.91%) Firewall
2 419 (8.30%) DNS
3 368 (7.29%) TCP/IP
4 260 (5.15%) VPN
5 250 (4.95%) 5G
6 247 (4.89%) DHCP
7 231 (4.58%) Broadband
8 206 (4.08%) SAN
9 196 (3.88%) WAN
10 178 (3.53%) LAN
11 173 (3.43%) Internet
12 130 (2.58%) Wireless
13 112 (2.22%) Network Security
14 109 (2.16%) HTTP
15 92 (1.82%) SNMP
15 92 (1.82%) VLAN
16 90 (1.78%) NAS
17 84 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
18 82 (1.62%) BGP
19 67 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 460 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
2 406 (8.04%) MongoDB
3 352 (6.97%) SQL Server
4 347 (6.88%) MySQL
5 323 (6.40%) NoSQL
6 259 (5.13%) DB2
7 242 (4.79%) Relational Database
8 102 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 96 (1.90%) Oracle Database
10 94 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
11 84 (1.66%) Big Data
12 54 (1.07%) Redis
13 50 (0.99%) Power BI
14 49 (0.97%) Hadoop
15 48 (0.95%) GIS
16 44 (0.87%) RDBMS
17 43 (0.85%) MariaDB
18 29 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
19 28 (0.55%) QGIS
20 26 (0.52%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 391 (7.75%) Git
2 334 (6.62%) JIRA
3 280 (5.55%) Jenkins
4 149 (2.95%) GitLab
5 100 (1.98%) Subversion
6 62 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 56 (1.11%) Visual Studio
8 38 (0.75%) Eclipse
9 37 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.55%) Ant
10 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 25 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 23 (0.46%) TeamCity
14 22 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
15 21 (0.42%) CMake
16 20 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
17 19 (0.38%) GDB
17 19 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 1,076 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 685 (13.57%) Finance
3 620 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 433 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 397 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 219 (4.34%) Aerospace
7 215 (4.26%) Banking
8 193 (3.82%) Electronics
9 162 (3.21%) Telecoms
10 150 (2.97%) Manufacturing
11 109 (2.16%) Retail
12 102 (2.02%) Marketing
13 79 (1.57%) Law
14 73 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 71 (1.41%) Automotive
16 63 (1.25%) Military
17 54 (1.07%) Front Office
18 44 (0.87%) Financial Institution
18 44 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
19 41 (0.81%) Games
Job Titles
1 973 (19.28%) Senior
2 740 (14.66%) Software Engineer
3 711 (14.09%) Developer
4 491 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 332 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 331 (6.56%) Lead
7 317 (6.28%) Linux Engineer
8 290 (5.75%) Embedded Engineer
9 263 (5.21%) Support Engineer
10 254 (5.03%) Architect
11 235 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 229 (4.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 223 (4.42%) Administrator
13 223 (4.42%) Linux Specialist
14 216 (4.28%) Technical Specialist
15 213 (4.22%) Analyst
16 195 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
17 176 (3.49%) Full Stack Developer
18 175 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
19 155 (3.07%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (9.39%) React
2 473 (9.37%) HTML
3 423 (8.38%) REST
4 417 (8.26%) CSS
5 404 (8.00%) .NET
6 321 (6.36%) AngularJS
7 314 (6.22%) Web Services
8 287 (5.69%) jQuery
9 280 (5.55%) Node.js
10 276 (5.47%) Vue
11 255 (5.05%) ASP.NET
12 229 (4.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 221 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 221 (4.38%) Backbone.js
13 221 (4.38%) Ember.js
14 143 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
15 140 (2.77%) XML
16 95 (1.88%) Middleware
17 90 (1.78%) YAML
18 86 (1.70%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 346 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 338 (6.70%) Algorithms
3 311 (6.16%) Data Centre
4 265 (5.25%) Blockchain
5 254 (5.03%) Public Cloud
6 235 (4.66%) Data Structures
7 211 (4.18%) Social Media
8 201 (3.98%) IoT
9 161 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
10 136 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
11 132 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
12 129 (2.56%) Management Information System
13 120 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
14 114 (2.26%) PKI
15 108 (2.14%) Cloud Native
16 104 (2.06%) e-Learning
17 87 (1.72%) Replication
18 71 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
19 68 (1.35%) Client/Server
20 65 (1.29%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2,154 (42.68%) Windows
2 535 (10.60%) Ubuntu
3 528 (10.46%) Windows Server
4 481 (9.53%) Unix
5 383 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 315 (6.24%) Android
7 302 (5.98%) CentOS
8 282 (5.59%) Apple iOS
9 232 (4.60%) Embedded Linux
10 168 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 157 (3.11%) Debian
12 125 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
13 113 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 111 (2.20%) Windows 10
15 97 (1.92%) Mac OS
16 83 (1.64%) Solaris
17 67 (1.33%) VMS
18 51 (1.01%) AIX
19 46 (0.91%) Alpine Linux
20 45 (0.89%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,126 (22.31%) DevOps
2 1,089 (21.58%) Software Engineering
3 1,017 (20.15%) Agile
4 868 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
5 634 (12.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 610 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
7 601 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 576 (11.41%) CI/CD
9 493 (9.77%) Mentoring
10 472 (9.35%) Computer Science
11 392 (7.77%) Actionable Insight
11 392 (7.77%) OO
12 391 (7.75%) Full Stack Development
13 360 (7.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 339 (6.72%) Containerisation
15 331 (6.56%) User Experience
16 327 (6.48%) Web Development
17 313 (6.20%) OOP
18 293 (5.81%) Configuration Management
19 288 (5.71%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,572 (31.15%) Python
2 978 (19.38%) SQL
3 871 (17.26%) Bash
4 739 (14.64%) Java
5 714 (14.15%) C
6 706 (13.99%) JavaScript
7 593 (11.75%) PowerShell
8 588 (11.65%) C++
9 554 (10.98%) C#
10 189 (3.74%) PHP
11 160 (3.17%) Perl
12 156 (3.09%) Shell Script
13 135 (2.67%) Embedded C
14 133 (2.64%) Rust
15 127 (2.52%) TypeScript
16 121 (2.40%) Go
17 77 (1.53%) Ruby
18 73 (1.45%) VB
19 42 (0.83%) PL/SQL
20 37 (0.73%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,053 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 845 (16.74%) Degree
3 525 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 448 (8.88%) DV Cleared
5 289 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 147 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
7 141 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 124 (2.46%) CCNA
9 115 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 113 (2.24%) Azure Certification
11 106 (2.10%) MCSE
12 101 (2.00%) AWS Certification
13 73 (1.45%) MCSA
14 61 (1.21%) PhD
15 54 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 48 (0.95%) CCNP
17 42 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 36 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
19 30 (0.59%) HND
20 29 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.02%) SLA
2 88 (1.74%) QA
3 64 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 63 (1.25%) GDPR
5 36 (0.71%) NIST
6 30 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 23 (0.46%) PMO
9 19 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.34%) NCSC
11 15 (0.30%) ISO 13485
12 12 (0.24%) MISRA
13 9 (0.18%) Data Quality
13 9 (0.18%) GRC
14 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
14 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
15 7 (0.14%) JTAG
16 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
16 6 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 806 (15.97%) Active Directory
2 682 (13.51%) Docker
3 547 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 247 (4.89%) Hyper-V
5 137 (2.71%) VMware ESXi
6 133 (2.64%) vSphere
7 131 (2.60%) Firmware
8 94 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
10 35 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
11 27 (0.53%) KVM
12 24 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
13 23 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
14 22 (0.44%) NFS
15 18 (0.36%) pfSense
15 18 (0.36%) VMware NSX
15 18 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
16 16 (0.32%) VMware Server
17 15 (0.30%) vCloud
18 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 759 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 733 (14.52%) Ansible
3 558 (11.06%) Terraform
4 301 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 272 (5.39%) Puppet
6 215 (4.26%) Jamf Pro
7 140 (2.77%) vCenter Server
8 120 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 115 (2.28%) Grafana
9 115 (2.28%) Prometheus
10 102 (2.02%) SCCM
11 72 (1.43%) SCOM
12 69 (1.37%) ZABBIX
13 66 (1.31%) WSUS
14 62 (1.23%) Nagios
15 38 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 33 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
17 30 (0.59%) HAProxy
18 29 (0.57%) Rancher
19 26 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,029 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 783 (15.51%) VMware
3 705 (13.97%) Red Hat
4 389 (7.71%) Oracle
5 373 (7.39%) IBM
6 283 (5.61%) Cisco
7 212 (4.20%) Tanium
8 211 (4.18%) CyberArk
9 149 (2.95%) Veeam
10 139 (2.75%) Google
11 98 (1.94%) Palo Alto
12 95 (1.88%) NetApp
13 86 (1.70%) SAP
14 83 (1.64%) Citrix
15 81 (1.60%) Juniper
16 79 (1.57%) Splunk
17 71 (1.41%) Atlassian
18 67 (1.33%) SolarWinds
19 65 (1.29%) EMC
20 63 (1.25%) Dell