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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,106 6,320 11,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.95% 7.00% 9.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.73% 43.57% 46.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,457 4,052 5,917
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £106,250 £99,250
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 12,535 14,504 25,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.61% 16.07% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,912 9,974 14,948
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -5 1,295 £75,000 -6.25% 384
South East -1 1,190 £55,000 +10.00% 227
South West +2 843 £52,500 -4.55% 167
North of England +19 832 £50,000 - 143
North West +21 523 £54,424 +4.66% 83
Midlands +15 491 £50,000 -9.09% 119
East of England +13 422 £53,250 -7.39% 129
East Midlands +23 283 £50,000 -9.09% 62
Yorkshire +18 255 £47,500 -5.00% 51
West Midlands -10 208 £54,000 -1.82% 57
North East -17 54 £52,500 +31.25% 12
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
1 226 (4.43%) Apache
2 173 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 114 (2.23%) nginx
4 103 (2.02%) IIS
5 92 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 85 (1.66%) Confluence
7 65 (1.27%) Apache Spark
8 57 (1.12%) WebLogic
9 43 (0.84%) WebSphere
10 41 (0.80%) OpenStack
11 39 (0.76%) Tomcat
12 35 (0.69%) ArcGIS
13 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
14 23 (0.45%) WordPress
15 22 (0.43%) Jupyter
16 20 (0.39%) JBoss
17 18 (0.35%) Captiva
17 18 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
17 18 (0.35%) FileNet
18 14 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 87 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.67%) Simulink
4 17 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.20%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.078%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.078%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.039%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.039%) CATIA
10 2 (0.039%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.039%) Trello
11 1 (0.020%) 1Password
11 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 19 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 18 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.12%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.098%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.078%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.078%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.039%) Shopify
11 1 (0.020%) Magento
11 1 (0.020%) Sage X3
11 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.020%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.020%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.020%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,616 (31.65%) Azure
2 1,206 (23.62%) AWS
3 329 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 319 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 279 (5.46%) IBM Cloud
6 253 (4.95%) GCP
7 245 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
8 231 (4.52%) Serverless
9 150 (2.94%) GitHub
10 145 (2.84%) OpenShift
11 135 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 134 (2.62%) SaaS
13 132 (2.59%) Azure Functions
14 129 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.47%) Azure API Management
16 115 (2.25%) Amazon S3
17 106 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
18 81 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
19 76 (1.49%) IaaS
20 73 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 696 (13.63%) Firewall
2 419 (8.21%) DNS
3 370 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 255 (4.99%) VPN
5 252 (4.94%) 5G
6 246 (4.82%) DHCP
7 230 (4.50%) Broadband
8 203 (3.98%) SAN
9 196 (3.84%) WAN
10 175 (3.43%) LAN
11 171 (3.35%) Internet
12 131 (2.57%) Wireless
13 115 (2.25%) Network Security
14 109 (2.13%) HTTP
15 90 (1.76%) SNMP
16 89 (1.74%) NAS
17 88 (1.72%) VLAN
18 83 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
19 77 (1.51%) BGP
20 68 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 421 (8.25%) MongoDB
3 356 (6.97%) NoSQL
4 353 (6.91%) SQL Server
5 340 (6.66%) MySQL
6 278 (5.44%) DB2
7 247 (4.84%) Relational Database
8 100 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
9 99 (1.94%) Oracle Database
10 90 (1.76%) Big Data
11 89 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
12 53 (1.04%) Redis
13 52 (1.02%) Hadoop
14 51 (1.00%) Power BI
15 48 (0.94%) GIS
16 43 (0.84%) RDBMS
17 41 (0.80%) MariaDB
18 28 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
18 28 (0.55%) QGIS
19 27 (0.53%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 397 (7.78%) Git
2 332 (6.50%) JIRA
3 282 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 146 (2.86%) GitLab
5 98 (1.92%) Subversion
6 60 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 58 (1.14%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 34 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.55%) Ant
10 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 24 (0.47%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 22 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
13 22 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.39%) CMake
14 20 (0.39%) Robot Framework
15 18 (0.35%) GDB
16 16 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 1,083 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 677 (13.26%) Finance
3 614 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 464 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 400 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (4.78%) Aerospace
7 207 (4.05%) Banking
8 200 (3.92%) Electronics
9 162 (3.17%) Telecoms
10 149 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 106 (2.08%) Retail
12 102 (2.00%) Marketing
13 77 (1.51%) Law
13 77 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (1.45%) Automotive
15 61 (1.19%) Military
16 57 (1.12%) Front Office
17 45 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
18 42 (0.82%) Financial Institution
19 39 (0.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 984 (19.27%) Senior
2 764 (14.96%) Software Engineer
3 728 (14.26%) Developer
4 491 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 328 (6.42%) Lead
6 326 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 317 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
8 299 (5.86%) Embedded Engineer
9 269 (5.27%) Architect
10 255 (4.99%) Support Engineer
11 241 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 235 (4.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 226 (4.43%) Administrator
14 220 (4.31%) Linux Specialist
15 214 (4.19%) Technical Specialist
16 208 (4.07%) Analyst
17 187 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
18 183 (3.58%) Full Stack Developer
19 181 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
20 156 (3.06%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (9.67%) HTML
2 492 (9.64%) React
3 442 (8.66%) REST
4 438 (8.58%) CSS
5 427 (8.36%) .NET
6 339 (6.64%) Web Services
7 338 (6.62%) AngularJS
8 303 (5.93%) jQuery
9 292 (5.72%) Vue
10 286 (5.60%) Node.js
11 273 (5.35%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.66%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.66%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.66%) Ember.js
14 145 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
15 136 (2.66%) XML
16 109 (2.13%) Middleware
17 91 (1.78%) YAML
18 86 (1.68%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 362 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 355 (6.95%) Algorithms
3 306 (5.99%) Data Centre
4 282 (5.52%) Blockchain
5 255 (4.99%) Data Structures
6 251 (4.92%) Public Cloud
7 211 (4.13%) Social Media
8 201 (3.94%) IoT
9 166 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
10 135 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
10 135 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
11 129 (2.53%) Management Information System
12 119 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
13 117 (2.29%) Cloud Native
14 113 (2.21%) e-Learning
15 108 (2.12%) PKI
16 85 (1.66%) Replication
17 72 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
18 71 (1.39%) FPGA
19 69 (1.35%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,167 (42.44%) Windows
2 545 (10.67%) Ubuntu
3 521 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 490 (9.60%) Unix
5 386 (7.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 339 (6.64%) Android
7 312 (6.11%) CentOS
8 299 (5.86%) Apple iOS
9 242 (4.74%) Embedded Linux
10 167 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 161 (3.15%) Debian
12 121 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 113 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 112 (2.19%) Windows 10
15 91 (1.78%) Mac OS
16 89 (1.74%) Solaris
17 65 (1.27%) VMS
18 51 (1.00%) AIX
19 46 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
20 42 (0.82%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,133 (22.19%) DevOps
2 1,122 (21.97%) Software Engineering
3 1,068 (20.92%) Agile
4 882 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
5 661 (12.95%) Artificial Intelligence
6 605 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 604 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
8 578 (11.32%) CI/CD
9 503 (9.85%) Mentoring
10 488 (9.56%) Computer Science
11 415 (8.13%) OO
12 404 (7.91%) Full Stack Development
13 385 (7.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 381 (7.46%) Actionable Insight
15 347 (6.80%) User Experience
16 346 (6.78%) Web Development
17 341 (6.68%) Containerisation
18 333 (6.52%) OOP
19 309 (6.05%) MVC
20 297 (5.82%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1,586 (31.06%) Python
2 1,009 (19.76%) SQL
3 865 (16.94%) Bash
4 768 (15.04%) Java
5 736 (14.41%) C
6 728 (14.26%) JavaScript
7 616 (12.06%) C++
8 583 (11.42%) PowerShell
9 576 (11.28%) C#
10 187 (3.66%) PHP
11 158 (3.09%) Perl
11 158 (3.09%) Shell Script
12 139 (2.72%) Embedded C
13 137 (2.68%) Rust
14 124 (2.43%) TypeScript
15 120 (2.35%) Go
16 74 (1.45%) VB
17 73 (1.43%) Ruby
18 49 (0.96%) Kotlin
19 40 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,074 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 871 (17.06%) Degree
3 538 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 449 (8.79%) DV Cleared
5 299 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 136 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 122 (2.39%) CCNA
9 115 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 115 (2.25%) Master's Degree
10 103 (2.02%) AWS Certification
10 103 (2.02%) MCSE
11 70 (1.37%) MCSA
12 61 (1.19%) PhD
13 53 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 49 (0.96%) CCNP
15 40 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 33 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
17 30 (0.59%) HND
17 30 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (1.98%) SLA
2 86 (1.68%) QA
3 64 (1.25%) GDPR
4 62 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (0.69%) NIST
6 33 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 27 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (0.47%) PMO
9 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.27%) NCSC
11 12 (0.24%) MISRA
12 8 (0.16%) GRC
12 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
12 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 8 (0.16%) JTAG
13 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
14 6 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 788 (15.43%) Active Directory
2 675 (13.22%) Docker
3 542 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 240 (4.70%) Hyper-V
5 137 (2.68%) Firmware
6 131 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
6 131 (2.57%) vSphere
7 100 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 37 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
10 29 (0.57%) KVM
11 24 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.45%) NFS
12 23 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
13 18 (0.35%) pfSense
13 18 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
14 17 (0.33%) VMware NSX
15 16 (0.31%) VMware Server
16 13 (0.25%) vCloud
17 10 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 763 (14.94%) Kubernetes
2 749 (14.67%) Ansible
3 565 (11.07%) Terraform
4 299 (5.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 272 (5.33%) Puppet
6 215 (4.21%) Jamf Pro
7 136 (2.66%) vCenter Server
8 123 (2.41%) Grafana
8 123 (2.41%) Prometheus
9 121 (2.37%) Progress Chef
10 96 (1.88%) SCCM
11 70 (1.37%) SCOM
12 69 (1.35%) ZABBIX
13 66 (1.29%) Nagios
14 65 (1.27%) WSUS
15 39 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 32 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
17 31 (0.61%) HAProxy
18 28 (0.55%) Rancher
19 25 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,027 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 782 (15.32%) VMware
3 722 (14.14%) Red Hat
4 395 (7.74%) Oracle
5 388 (7.60%) IBM
6 282 (5.52%) Cisco
7 212 (4.15%) Tanium
8 211 (4.13%) CyberArk
9 142 (2.78%) Veeam
10 131 (2.57%) Google
11 96 (1.88%) NetApp
12 93 (1.82%) Palo Alto
13 86 (1.68%) Citrix
13 86 (1.68%) SAP
14 84 (1.65%) Splunk
15 80 (1.57%) Juniper
16 66 (1.29%) Atlassian
17 65 (1.27%) EMC
18 64 (1.25%) SolarWinds
19 61 (1.19%) Dell