Linux Jobs in Glasgow

Linux
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 94 32
Rank change year-on-year +57 -62 +12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 22 174 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.18% 4.31% 8.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.38% 40.00% 50.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 46 46
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £43,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £75,360 £56,625 £64,688
90th Percentile - £76,250 £74,375
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -4.35%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 435 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.98% 10.77% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 32 139 104
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,563 £38,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -3.00% +24.53%
75th Percentile £75,360 £56,875 £60,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,850 £68,375
Scotland median annual salary £56,500 £49,990 £49,000
% change year-on-year +13.02% +2.02% -6.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Glasgow

Linux
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Linux in Glasgow

Linux
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Glasgow

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) CloudBees
4 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) OCI
5 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DHCP
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) BGP
2 1 (4.55%) FTP
2 1 (4.55%) OSPF
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) DB2
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
2 1 (4.55%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) PyCharm
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Front Office
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Vision Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Java Server Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) EDI
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) OpenCV
3 1 (4.55%) OpenVINO
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) e-Learning
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (4.55%) FMCG
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.64%) Fintech
6 2 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) SDLC
6 2 (9.09%) SIEM
6 2 (9.09%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
5 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (4.55%) C
7 1 (4.55%) C++
7 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.55%) Perl
7 1 (4.55%) R
7 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PhD
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) KVM
3 2 (9.09%) vSphere
4 1 (4.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Ansible
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) OpenNebula
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) IBM
1 5 (22.73%) VMware
2 4 (18.18%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) Sybase
4 1 (4.55%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Veritas