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

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,828 4,357 4,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.33% 5.85% 7.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.12% 45.33% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,199 2,593 3,206
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,125 £44,750 £46,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £63,928
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.06% +6.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,991 £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 7,048 9,612 11,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.28% 12.90% 16.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,398 6,772 8,325
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.40% -7.62% -

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 August 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 August 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 +23 1,085 £47,500 -5.00% 190
North West +25 949 £53,125 +1.19% 111
London -6 712 £80,000 +3.23% 636
South East -52 370 £52,500 -4.55% 307
Midlands -43 210 £57,500 +15.00% 141
South West -27 197 £51,779 -5.86% 164
East of England -47 149 £55,000 -8.33% 163
West Midlands -15 136 £67,500 +16.38% 94
Yorkshire -29 117 £37,500 -11.76% 57
East Midlands -59 72 £40,000 -15.79% 46
North East -9 19 £65,000 +16.07% 23
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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (3.04%) Confluence
3 51 (1.80%) IIS
4 36 (1.27%) Apache
4 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 28 (0.99%) nginx
6 15 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 11 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.35%) CMS
9 9 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.21%) GemFire
11 5 (0.18%) JBoss
11 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.18%) SAS
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.11%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.071%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.071%) R Markdown
Applications
1 56 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.14%) Simulink
6 2 (0.071%) EngageOne
6 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.071%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.035%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.035%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.035%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.071%) MFGPRO
4 2 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.071%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.035%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.035%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 929 (32.85%) AWS
2 713 (25.21%) Azure
3 255 (9.02%) GCP
4 222 (7.85%) Pulumi
5 192 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
6 106 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
7 93 (3.29%) Amazon S3
8 84 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 76 (2.69%) Entra ID
10 75 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 73 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (2.48%) SaaS
13 65 (2.30%) GitHub
13 65 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 59 (2.09%) AWS KMS
15 48 (1.70%) Amazon ELB
16 43 (1.52%) PaaS
17 40 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (1.41%) Serverless
18 39 (1.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 832 (29.42%) VPN
2 571 (20.19%) DNS
3 291 (10.29%) Cisco IOS
4 265 (9.37%) Firewall
5 220 (7.78%) Broadband
6 172 (6.08%) TCP/IP
7 119 (4.21%) DHCP
8 84 (2.97%) VLAN
9 80 (2.83%) WAN
10 78 (2.76%) SAN
11 74 (2.62%) Wireless
12 66 (2.33%) VoIP
13 54 (1.91%) LAN
14 47 (1.66%) HTTP
15 45 (1.59%) Network Security
16 40 (1.41%) SSH
17 38 (1.34%) Software-Defined Radio
18 35 (1.24%) SMTP
19 32 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
20 30 (1.06%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (9.72%) NoSQL
2 266 (9.41%) Relational Database
3 224 (7.92%) RDBMS
4 130 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 118 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 117 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
7 85 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
8 76 (2.69%) MySQL
9 47 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 23 (0.81%) Redis
11 22 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (0.74%) DB2
13 14 (0.50%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.32%) Power BI
16 6 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.21%) InfluxDB
17 5 (0.18%) Big Data
17 5 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 246 (8.70%) Git
2 216 (7.64%) Jaeger
3 168 (5.94%) Jenkins
4 150 (5.30%) JIRA
5 76 (2.69%) GitLab
6 73 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 64 (2.26%) Robot Framework
8 46 (1.63%) JUnit
8 46 (1.63%) Maven
8 46 (1.63%) Vagrant
9 37 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 34 (1.20%) SonarQube
11 28 (0.99%) Mockito
12 21 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.64%) Artifactory
14 17 (0.60%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
16 14 (0.50%) webpack
17 11 (0.39%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.39%) DbUnit
General
1 1,240 (43.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 839 (29.67%) Analytical Skills
3 799 (28.25%) Finance
4 546 (19.31%) Social Skills
5 128 (4.53%) Banking
5 128 (4.53%) Telecoms
6 87 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 72 (2.55%) Law
8 51 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 50 (1.77%) Electronics
10 47 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (1.56%) Front Office
12 42 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 33 (1.17%) Retail
15 28 (0.99%) Marketing
16 22 (0.78%) Aerospace
16 22 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 21 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (0.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 655 (23.16%) Developer
2 467 (16.51%) Software Developer
3 458 (16.20%) Senior
4 407 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 335 (11.85%) Software Engineer
6 333 (11.78%) Lead
7 230 (8.13%) Team Leader
8 225 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 177 (6.26%) Support Engineer
10 134 (4.74%) Administrator
11 116 (4.10%) Linux Engineer
12 115 (4.07%) Analyst
13 111 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
14 96 (3.39%) IT Support
15 90 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
15 90 (3.18%) Systems Administrator
16 75 (2.65%) Support Analyst
17 72 (2.55%) Test Engineer
18 69 (2.44%) Embedded Engineer
18 69 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (18.25%) Elastic Stack
2 263 (9.30%) .NET
3 262 (9.26%) Node.js
4 217 (7.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 73 (2.58%) React
6 59 (2.09%) Pandas
7 48 (1.70%) REST
7 48 (1.70%) Spring
8 45 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
9 44 (1.56%) HTML
10 41 (1.45%) AngularJS
11 36 (1.27%) CSS
11 36 (1.27%) Spring Boot
12 33 (1.17%) Hibernate
13 32 (1.13%) RESTful
14 26 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 26 (0.92%) Kafka
14 26 (0.92%) Middleware
14 26 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
15 25 (0.88%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 889 (31.44%) Cyberattack
2 315 (11.14%) Linux Command Line
3 242 (8.56%) Self-Motivation
4 93 (3.29%) e-Learning
5 86 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 86 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 76 (2.69%) Algorithms
6 76 (2.69%) Embedded Systems
7 73 (2.58%) Cloud Native
8 65 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 55 (1.94%) Equities
10 49 (1.73%) Driving Licence
10 49 (1.73%) Hedge funds
11 48 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 48 (1.70%) Public Cloud
12 47 (1.66%) Clustering
13 46 (1.63%) Data Structures
14 42 (1.49%) Replication
15 34 (1.20%) MicroBlaze
15 34 (1.20%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 1,031 (36.46%) Windows
2 748 (26.45%) Android
3 419 (14.82%) Unix
4 275 (9.72%) Windows Server
5 170 (6.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 70 (2.48%) Mac OS
7 63 (2.23%) Embedded Linux
8 62 (2.19%) CentOS
9 60 (2.12%) Ubuntu
10 57 (2.02%) VMS
11 53 (1.87%) Windows 10
11 53 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
12 48 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
13 35 (1.24%) Debian
14 31 (1.10%) Apple iOS
15 28 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
16 27 (0.95%) Solaris
17 26 (0.92%) Mac OS X
18 22 (0.78%) Rocky
19 10 (0.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,121 (39.64%) Agile
2 925 (32.71%) DevOps
3 764 (27.02%) Mathematics
4 712 (25.18%) Line Management
5 631 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
6 609 (21.53%) Mentoring
7 528 (18.67%) Task Automation
8 507 (17.93%) OO
9 487 (17.22%) OOP
10 458 (16.20%) Software Engineering
11 456 (16.12%) Design Patterns
12 452 (15.98%) Android Development
13 438 (15.49%) Containerisation
14 433 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 408 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 357 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
17 331 (11.70%) High Availability
18 318 (11.24%) CI/CD
19 297 (10.50%) Risk Management
20 283 (10.01%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1,738 (61.46%) Python
2 1,056 (37.34%) Java
3 905 (32.00%) Go
4 869 (30.73%) C++
5 789 (27.90%) Bash
6 656 (23.20%) JavaScript
7 626 (22.14%) PowerShell
8 287 (10.15%) SQL
9 272 (9.62%) Rust
10 159 (5.62%) C
11 75 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 74 (2.62%) Perl
13 50 (1.77%) Groovy
14 46 (1.63%) PHP
15 45 (1.59%) TypeScript
16 37 (1.31%) C#
17 31 (1.10%) R
18 24 (0.85%) Korn
19 20 (0.71%) MATLAB
20 19 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 984 (34.79%) Security Cleared
2 768 (27.16%) DV Cleared
3 450 (15.91%) AWS Certification
4 377 (13.33%) Degree
5 245 (8.66%) SC Cleared
6 185 (6.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 180 (6.36%) AWS Certified Developer
8 120 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
9 105 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 90 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 83 (2.93%) CCNP
12 74 (2.62%) CCNA
13 43 (1.52%) Azure Certification
13 43 (1.52%) MCSE
14 42 (1.49%) MCSA
14 42 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
15 31 (1.10%) RHCSA
16 30 (1.06%) PhD
17 26 (0.92%) CISSP
17 26 (0.92%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (4.14%) QA
2 55 (1.94%) SLA
3 43 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (1.27%) GDPR
5 26 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (0.78%) NIST
7 15 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.35%) ISO 9001
9 9 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.25%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.21%) MIL-STD-1553
12 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.21%) PMO
13 5 (0.18%) Def Stans
13 5 (0.18%) ITGC
14 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.14%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.11%) JTAG
16 2 (0.071%) COBIT
System Software
1 1,188 (42.01%) Docker
2 377 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 319 (11.28%) vSphere
4 283 (10.01%) Active Directory
5 266 (9.41%) VMware NSX
6 205 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 68 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
8 61 (2.16%) Firmware
9 45 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
10 43 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
11 29 (1.03%) DFS Replication
12 22 (0.78%) NFS
13 18 (0.64%) Postfix
14 13 (0.46%) Dovecot
15 12 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
16 10 (0.35%) Squid
17 9 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 7 (0.25%) BitLocker
18 7 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
19 6 (0.21%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 1,219 (43.10%) Ansible
2 814 (28.78%) Terraform
3 548 (19.38%) Kubernetes
4 320 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 223 (7.89%) Argo
6 215 (7.60%) Kustomize
7 125 (4.42%) Grafana
8 109 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 47 (1.66%) Puppet
10 31 (1.10%) SCCM
11 27 (0.95%) Nagios
12 25 (0.88%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.74%) FortiGate
14 20 (0.71%) Nessus
14 20 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
15 19 (0.67%) Progress Chef
16 18 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
17 17 (0.60%) Proxmox
18 16 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 16 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 444 (15.70%) Cisco
2 388 (13.72%) Microsoft
3 314 (11.10%) Splunk
4 297 (10.50%) Juniper
5 289 (10.22%) VMware
6 262 (9.26%) 3PAR
7 257 (9.09%) Google
8 185 (6.54%) Red Hat
9 130 (4.60%) Oracle
10 61 (2.16%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.94%) Dell
12 47 (1.66%) IBM
13 41 (1.45%) HP
14 40 (1.41%) Apple
14 40 (1.41%) Atlassian
15 32 (1.13%) Veeam
16 31 (1.10%) Citrix
16 31 (1.10%) SAP
17 27 (0.95%) Commvault
18 24 (0.85%) Fortinet