Rocky Job Trends in England

Rocky Linux
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 728 623 714
Rank change year-on-year -105 +91 -11
Permanent jobs citing Rocky 34 12 18
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.033% 0.028% 0.027%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.56% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 14
10th Percentile £52,500 £28,750 £49,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £40,000 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £80,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +25.49% +15.91%
75th Percentile £90,000 - £83,875
90th Percentile £92,500 - £90,275
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +39.13% +4.55%

All Operating Systems
England

Rocky 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 6,034 5,898 8,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.80% 13.65% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 3,781 5,099
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Rocky job vacancy trend in England

Rocky
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rocky.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rocky

Rocky
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rocky in England over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Rocky in England

Rocky
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rocky within the England region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 - 17 £85,000 - 8
South East - 11 £56,250 - 5
East of England - 4 - -
South West -81 2 - -
Rocky
UK

Rocky
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 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Entra ID
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.65%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (52.94%) DNS
1 18 (52.94%) TCP/IP
2 15 (44.12%) DHCP
3 11 (32.35%) Firewall
4 8 (23.53%) FIX Connectivity
5 7 (20.59%) VPN
6 6 (17.65%) VLAN
7 4 (11.76%) SAN
8 2 (5.88%) HTTP
8 2 (5.88%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Big Data
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 14 (41.18%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Banking
3 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Administrator
2 8 (23.53%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (23.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 8 (23.53%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (20.59%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) IT Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) IT Support
4 6 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Support Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 5 (14.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (14.71%) Banking Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (5.88%) OpenTofu
3 2 (5.88%) Redfish
3 2 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Onboarding
2 10 (29.41%) Replication
3 8 (23.53%) Eurex
4 3 (8.82%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (8.82%) Reference Data
5 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (52.94%) CentOS
3 16 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (47.06%) Windows
4 14 (41.18%) Ubuntu
5 9 (26.47%) Unix
5 9 (26.47%) Windows Server
6 5 (14.71%) Solaris
7 2 (5.88%) Debian
8 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (35.29%) DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) Customer Service
4 9 (26.47%) ITIL
4 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 8 (23.53%) Client Onboarding
5 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (17.65%) Asset Management
6 6 (17.65%) IT Asset Management
6 6 (17.65%) Server Management
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 4 (11.76%) Project Planning
9 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
9 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (8.82%) Data Science
9 3 (8.82%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Bash
2 16 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 16 (47.06%) Python
3 10 (29.41%) SQL
4 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 8 (23.53%) Perl
4 8 (23.53%) Ruby
5 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) RHCSA
5 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (11.76%) vSphere
4 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Xen
6 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) NetBackup
4 2 (5.88%) FlexNet
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Nagios
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.88%) Rancher
4 2 (5.88%) ZABBIX
5 1 (2.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) Red Hat
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (35.29%) VMware
3 10 (29.41%) Veeam
4 8 (23.53%) Bloomberg
4 8 (23.53%) CQG
4 8 (23.53%) ION Trading
4 8 (23.53%) Oracle
4 8 (23.53%) Patsystems
4 8 (23.53%) Reuters
4 8 (23.53%) Trayport
5 6 (17.65%) Dell
5 6 (17.65%) Google
5 6 (17.65%) NetApp
6 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.94%) Atlassian