Linux Jobs in London

Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 42 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 748 1,298 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.88% 5.37% 7.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.72% 43.38% 44.63%
Number of salaries quoted 440 849 1,682
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,250 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £122,875 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.39% +5.83%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,711 2,992 5,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.46% 12.38% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 2,255 3,925
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,477
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Central London +20 128 £70,000 - 98
West London -3 45 £40,000 -23.81% 229
South London -1 36 £65,000 -1.89% 11
East London -9 26 £72,500 +26.09% 13
North London -6 8 £70,000 +3.70%
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 47 (6.28%) Confluence
2 25 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.01%) nginx
4 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.94%) Apache
6 5 (0.67%) IIS
7 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.40%) WinCC
7 3 (0.40%) WordPress
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) GemFire
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.94%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.27%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 284 (37.97%) AWS
2 194 (25.94%) Azure
3 84 (11.23%) Pulumi
4 54 (7.22%) GCP
5 47 (6.28%) GitHub
6 37 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 33 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (3.48%) Serverless
12 25 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (3.07%) Entra ID
15 22 (2.94%) SaaS
16 20 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (2.67%) Datadog
16 20 (2.67%) PaaS
17 19 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (11.23%) Firewall
2 67 (8.96%) Broadband
3 63 (8.42%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.48%) DNS
5 31 (4.14%) VPN
6 25 (3.34%) WAN
7 23 (3.07%) DHCP
8 22 (2.94%) VLAN
9 21 (2.81%) LAN
10 18 (2.41%) Multicast
11 16 (2.14%) Network Security
12 12 (1.60%) SAN
13 10 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (1.34%) SSL
14 9 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (1.07%) HTTP
16 7 (0.94%) RS-232
16 7 (0.94%) RS-485
16 7 (0.94%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (13.24%) Relational Database
2 92 (12.30%) NoSQL
3 68 (9.09%) RDBMS
4 56 (7.49%) SQL Server
5 51 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (4.81%) MongoDB
7 32 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (3.74%) MySQL
9 15 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (1.87%) DB2
11 12 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.07%) Redis
13 4 (0.53%) Tick Data
14 3 (0.40%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.40%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.40%) HBase
14 3 (0.40%) KDB
14 3 (0.40%) Kdb+
14 3 (0.40%) Metadata
14 3 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 110 (14.71%) Git
2 79 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 67 (8.96%) Jaeger
4 65 (8.69%) JIRA
5 39 (5.21%) Maven
6 30 (4.01%) GitLab
7 23 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (2.94%) TeamCity
9 20 (2.67%) JUnit
9 20 (2.67%) SonarQube
10 18 (2.41%) Ant
11 16 (2.14%) Cucumber
12 15 (2.01%) Mockito
13 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
14 10 (1.34%) Artifactory
14 10 (1.34%) Bitbucket
15 9 (1.20%) Gradle
16 7 (0.94%) Burp Suite
17 5 (0.67%) webpack
18 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 269 (35.96%) Finance
2 157 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 120 (16.04%) Banking
4 117 (15.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (6.02%) Front Office
7 33 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.81%) Law
8 21 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 19 (2.54%) Games
10 18 (2.41%) Public Sector
11 17 (2.27%) Back Office
12 12 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.34%) Legal
15 9 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.07%) Military
17 7 (0.94%) Fire and Rescue
18 4 (0.53%) Advertising
18 4 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 161 (21.52%) Senior
2 147 (19.65%) Developer
3 127 (16.98%) Lead
4 70 (9.36%) Team Leader
5 66 (8.82%) C++ Developer
6 61 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 60 (8.02%) Software Engineer
8 59 (7.89%) Analyst
9 56 (7.49%) Senior Developer
10 47 (6.28%) Linux Engineer
11 44 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 44 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
14 36 (4.81%) Senior C++ Developer
15 35 (4.68%) Support Engineer
16 33 (4.41%) Administrator
16 33 (4.41%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 33 (4.41%) Linux Developer
16 33 (4.41%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (8.96%) OpenTelemetry
3 39 (5.21%) FIX Protocol
4 36 (4.81%) Node.js
4 36 (4.81%) React
5 26 (3.48%) REST
6 23 (3.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 21 (2.81%) Pandas
7 21 (2.81%) Spring
8 19 (2.54%) .NET
8 19 (2.54%) Spring Boot
9 17 (2.27%) AngularJS
10 15 (2.01%) Middleware
11 14 (1.87%) HTML
11 14 (1.87%) JMS
12 13 (1.74%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (1.74%) jQuery
13 12 (1.60%) Bootstrap
13 12 (1.60%) CSS
13 12 (1.60%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.56%) Management Information System
2 61 (8.16%) Equities
3 57 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (7.62%) Hedge funds
4 50 (6.68%) Algorithms
5 48 (6.42%) Data Centre
6 45 (6.02%) Cloud Native
7 38 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (4.95%) Data Structures
9 36 (4.81%) Public Cloud
10 33 (4.41%) Legacy Code
11 27 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
12 24 (3.21%) Derivative
13 22 (2.94%) Clustering
13 22 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (2.41%) FPGA
15 17 (2.27%) Fixed Income
16 16 (2.14%) Cyberattack
17 15 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
17 15 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 232 (31.02%) Windows
2 174 (23.26%) Unix
3 86 (11.50%) Windows Server
4 69 (9.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (5.08%) Android
6 29 (3.88%) CentOS
7 23 (3.07%) Apple iOS
8 20 (2.67%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (2.14%) Mac OS
10 15 (2.01%) Windows 10
11 11 (1.47%) Solaris
12 10 (1.34%) Rocky
13 9 (1.20%) AIX
13 9 (1.20%) Debian
14 8 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.80%) VMS
16 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.53%) zOS
17 3 (0.40%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (33.69%) DevOps
2 199 (26.60%) Agile
3 168 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (21.26%) CI/CD
5 120 (16.04%) Containerisation
6 111 (14.84%) Software Engineering
7 107 (14.30%) Low Latency
7 107 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
8 105 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 92 (12.30%) High Availability
10 82 (10.96%) Roadmaps
11 81 (10.83%) Task Automation
12 79 (10.56%) Computer Science
13 72 (9.63%) Performance Optimisation
14 70 (9.36%) GitOps
15 69 (9.22%) Cost Optimisation
15 69 (9.22%) Resource Management
16 68 (9.09%) Product Management
17 67 (8.96%) Budget Control
Programming Languages
1 346 (46.26%) Python
2 171 (22.86%) Bash
3 169 (22.59%) Java
4 160 (21.39%) C++
5 154 (20.59%) SQL
6 149 (19.92%) JavaScript
7 144 (19.25%) Go
8 95 (12.70%) PowerShell
9 70 (9.36%) C
10 56 (7.49%) Rust
11 37 (4.95%) Shell Script
12 22 (2.94%) TypeScript
13 21 (2.81%) T-SQL
14 18 (2.41%) Bicep
14 18 (2.41%) Perl
15 14 (1.87%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.74%) R
17 11 (1.47%) Objective-C
18 10 (1.34%) Swift
19 9 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (12.43%) Degree
2 83 (11.10%) AWS Certification
3 51 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 36 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.94%) SC Cleared
8 18 (2.41%) CCNA
9 16 (2.14%) CCNP
10 12 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (1.47%) GCIH
11 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.07%) GCIA
13 8 (1.07%) GSEC
13 8 (1.07%) OSCP
14 7 (0.94%) GCFA
14 7 (0.94%) RHCSA
14 7 (0.94%) SSCP
15 6 (0.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.61%) QA
2 38 (5.08%) SLA
3 17 (2.27%) GDPR
4 11 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.94%) MIL-STD-1553
6 7 (0.94%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.67%) NIST
8 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.40%) ITGC
9 2 (0.27%) FINRA
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 170 (22.73%) Docker
2 92 (12.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (10.16%) Active Directory
4 27 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (2.01%) Hyper-V
5 15 (2.01%) vSphere
6 14 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.67%) KVM
9 5 (0.67%) NFS
10 4 (0.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.40%) Firmware
11 3 (0.40%) Samba
11 3 (0.40%) Xen
12 2 (0.27%) Postfix
12 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.27%) zsh
13 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 226 (30.21%) Ansible
2 218 (29.14%) Kubernetes
3 200 (26.74%) Terraform
4 98 (13.10%) Prometheus
5 69 (9.22%) Argo
6 68 (9.09%) Kustomize
7 38 (5.08%) Grafana
8 33 (4.41%) Puppet
9 26 (3.48%) Progress Chef
10 23 (3.07%) Nagios
11 21 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (2.27%) SCCM
13 15 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (2.01%) Podman
14 9 (1.20%) Kibana
14 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.07%) Nessus
16 7 (0.94%) Proxmox
17 5 (0.67%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 135 (18.05%) VMware
2 112 (14.97%) Microsoft
3 86 (11.50%) Google
4 82 (10.96%) Red Hat
5 61 (8.16%) Cisco
6 60 (8.02%) Oracle
7 36 (4.81%) IBM
8 29 (3.88%) Citrix
9 24 (3.21%) Splunk
10 14 (1.87%) Apple
11 13 (1.74%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.60%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.60%) Commvault
12 12 (1.60%) Dell
12 12 (1.60%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.60%) Veeam
13 11 (1.47%) NetApp
14 10 (1.34%) Atlassian
14 10 (1.34%) Pure Storage
15 9 (1.20%) Meraki