Linux Job Trends in Glasgow

Linux
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 46 74
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 -30
Permanent jobs citing Linux 6 24 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.90% 3.47% 4.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.22% 33.80% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 26
10th Percentile - £34,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,250 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -23.24% +9.55%
75th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £76,250
90th Percentile - £57,875 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year +12.73% -8.71% +4.78%

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 27 71 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.06% 10.27% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13 37 91
10th Percentile £29,200 £31,250 £25,200
25th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - £62,500 £71,250
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £52,750 £51,250
% change year-on-year -33.65% +2.93% -2.38%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Linux
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
1 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Windows DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (66.67%) FPGA
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Release Management
1 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Groovy
1 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Podman
1 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) VMware