Linux Jobs in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 35 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,301 2,510 5,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.54% 7.01% 7.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.73% 45.25% 44.64%
Number of salaries quoted 872 1,856 2,639
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,052
25th Percentile £59,688 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,343 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.86% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,118 5,547 11,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.28% 15.49% 17.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,372 4,239 6,291
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,548 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
Central London -39 144 £70,000 -17.65% 37
West London +12 113 £55,001 -8.33% 13
South London -7 33 £62,500 +19.05% 12
East London +21 20 £57,500 - 6
North London 0 4 £62,750 - 1
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 46 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (2.92%) Confluence
3 34 (2.61%) Apache
3 34 (2.61%) nginx
4 27 (2.08%) IIS
5 22 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.38%) WebSphere
7 15 (1.15%) Tomcat
8 13 (1.00%) JBoss
9 12 (0.92%) Apache Spark
10 11 (0.85%) WebLogic
10 11 (0.85%) WordPress
11 7 (0.54%) WildFly
12 6 (0.46%) SAS
13 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.31%) CMS
14 4 (0.31%) Drupal
14 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.15%) Trello
4 1 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (1.23%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.46%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.077%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.077%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.077%) Misys Opics
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 432 (33.21%) Azure
2 363 (27.90%) AWS
3 158 (12.14%) Entra ID
4 88 (6.76%) GCP
5 62 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (3.92%) GitHub
7 47 (3.61%) Serverless
8 39 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (3.00%) Amazon S3
9 36 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (1.69%) Azure AKS
14 22 (1.69%) IaaS
14 22 (1.69%) SaaS
15 16 (1.23%) PaaS
15 16 (1.23%) Power Platform
16 14 (1.08%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 219 (16.83%) Firewall
2 147 (11.30%) 5G
2 147 (11.30%) Broadband
3 117 (8.99%) TCP/IP
4 112 (8.61%) DNS
5 106 (8.15%) VPN
6 84 (6.46%) WAN
7 79 (6.07%) LAN
8 63 (4.84%) Internet
9 46 (3.54%) DHCP
9 46 (3.54%) SAN
10 44 (3.38%) Network Security
11 30 (2.31%) SNMP
12 28 (2.15%) BGP
12 28 (2.15%) HTTP
13 27 (2.08%) Wireless
14 23 (1.77%) MPLS
15 18 (1.38%) PBX
16 17 (1.31%) SSL
16 17 (1.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (9.53%) SQL Server
2 94 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.07%) MongoDB
4 70 (5.38%) MySQL
5 50 (3.84%) NoSQL
6 37 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (2.61%) DB2
8 25 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.38%) Oracle Database
9 18 (1.38%) Redis
10 17 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.15%) Power BI
12 14 (1.08%) Big Data
13 12 (0.92%) Data Hub
13 12 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.85%) Tableau
15 10 (0.77%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 111 (8.53%) Jenkins
2 81 (6.23%) JIRA
3 76 (5.84%) Git
4 61 (4.69%) GitLab
5 33 (2.54%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.15%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.15%) Metasploit
7 17 (1.31%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 8 (0.61%) Maven
10 7 (0.54%) GDB
10 7 (0.54%) JUnit
10 7 (0.54%) Snyk
11 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.38%) DTrace
11 5 (0.38%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 365 (28.06%) Finance
2 330 (25.37%) Social Skills
3 282 (21.68%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (13.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (11.84%) Banking
6 46 (3.54%) Front Office
7 44 (3.38%) Retail
8 43 (3.31%) Telecoms
9 40 (3.07%) Financial Institution
10 38 (2.92%) Public Sector
11 36 (2.77%) Law
12 35 (2.69%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.69%) Marketing
14 15 (1.15%) Back Office
14 15 (1.15%) Billing
15 13 (1.00%) Games
16 11 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.69%) Legal
17 9 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 292 (22.44%) Senior
2 151 (11.61%) Linux Specialist
3 147 (11.30%) Developer
4 146 (11.22%) Technical Specialist
5 135 (10.38%) Architect
6 109 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 109 (8.38%) Linux Engineer
7 108 (8.30%) Lead
8 96 (7.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 92 (7.07%) Senior Linux Specialist
9 92 (7.07%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 92 (7.07%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 89 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 82 (6.30%) Analyst
11 82 (6.30%) Software Engineer
12 67 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 65 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
14 55 (4.23%) Infrastructure Architect
15 52 (4.00%) Applications Support
16 51 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (5.69%) .NET
2 72 (5.53%) React
3 66 (5.07%) REST
4 51 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
5 40 (3.07%) Kafka
6 36 (2.77%) HTML
7 34 (2.61%) CSS
8 32 (2.46%) XML
8 32 (2.46%) YAML
9 31 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
9 31 (2.38%) Node.js
10 28 (2.15%) Middleware
11 27 (2.08%) JSON
12 26 (2.00%) Web Services
13 24 (1.84%) LDAP
13 24 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (1.69%) AngularJS
15 20 (1.54%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.38%) SOAP
17 17 (1.31%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.07%) Social Media
2 90 (6.92%) Data Centre
3 82 (6.30%) Public Cloud
4 60 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
5 57 (4.38%) PKI
6 52 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 46 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 44 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
8 44 (3.38%) Replication
9 37 (2.84%) Hedge funds
10 36 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (2.77%) Legacy Code
11 31 (2.38%) Clustering
12 29 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (2.08%) Onboarding
15 26 (2.00%) Client/Server
16 25 (1.92%) Cyberattack
16 25 (1.92%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 463 (35.59%) Windows
2 261 (20.06%) Ubuntu
3 195 (14.99%) Unix
4 131 (10.07%) Windows Server
5 102 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 73 (5.61%) CentOS
7 48 (3.69%) VMS
8 37 (2.84%) Solaris
9 33 (2.54%) Mac OS
10 29 (2.23%) Kali Linux
11 28 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 27 (2.08%) Android
13 26 (2.00%) Debian
14 25 (1.92%) Apple iOS
15 23 (1.77%) zOS
16 20 (1.54%) Windows 10
17 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
18 15 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
19 14 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
19 14 (1.08%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (24.60%) DevOps
2 278 (21.37%) Cybersecurity
3 224 (17.22%) Agile
4 221 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
5 214 (16.45%) CI/CD
6 205 (15.76%) Software Engineering
7 194 (14.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 150 (11.53%) IT Strategy
9 149 (11.45%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (10.99%) CRM
11 137 (10.53%) Computer Science
12 110 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 105 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 102 (7.84%) Containerisation
15 89 (6.84%) Disaster Recovery
16 88 (6.76%) Mentoring
17 78 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
18 77 (5.92%) Fintech
19 72 (5.53%) Configuration Management
20 71 (5.46%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 453 (34.82%) Python
2 349 (26.83%) Bash
3 265 (20.37%) SQL
4 181 (13.91%) PowerShell
5 164 (12.61%) Java
6 119 (9.15%) C
7 112 (8.61%) C#
8 109 (8.38%) C++
9 107 (8.22%) JavaScript
10 82 (6.30%) Perl
11 67 (5.15%) Go
12 44 (3.38%) Shell Script
13 42 (3.23%) Ruby
13 42 (3.23%) Rust
14 34 (2.61%) TypeScript
15 26 (2.00%) PHP
16 15 (1.15%) Korn
17 11 (0.85%) Groovy
18 9 (0.69%) Scala
18 9 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 214 (16.45%) Degree
2 129 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 97 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 53 (4.07%) SC Cleared
6 35 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (2.38%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.23%) CCNA
10 18 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.23%) MCSE
13 15 (1.15%) CISSP
13 15 (1.15%) MCSA
13 15 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 14 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 14 (1.08%) CISA
15 11 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.61%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.77%) QA
1 23 (1.77%) SLA
2 21 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.23%) NIST
4 15 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.85%) GDPR
6 10 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.46%) ITGC
7 6 (0.46%) PMO
8 5 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.31%) GRC
9 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.23%) JTAG
10 3 (0.23%) MiFID
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.15%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 311 (23.90%) Active Directory
2 197 (15.14%) Docker
3 124 (9.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
4 42 (3.23%) vSphere
5 21 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.31%) Hyper-V
7 15 (1.15%) vCloud
8 13 (1.00%) KVM
9 9 (0.69%) NFS
10 6 (0.46%) Forefront TMG
10 6 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.31%) Firmware
12 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) Ceph
13 2 (0.15%) HDFS
13 2 (0.15%) OpenSIPS
13 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 237 (18.22%) Kubernetes
2 212 (16.30%) Ansible
3 192 (14.76%) Terraform
4 163 (12.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.07%) Jamf Pro
6 81 (6.23%) Puppet
7 59 (4.53%) Progress Chef
8 45 (3.46%) Grafana
9 34 (2.61%) Prometheus
10 33 (2.54%) SCCM
11 20 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
12 17 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (1.23%) Nagios
13 16 (1.23%) vCenter Server
14 15 (1.15%) Salt
15 14 (1.08%) Nessus
16 13 (1.00%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.92%) Graphite
18 11 (0.85%) WSUS
19 7 (0.54%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 323 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 174 (13.37%) VMware
3 151 (11.61%) Oracle
4 144 (11.07%) CyberArk
4 144 (11.07%) Tanium
5 139 (10.68%) Red Hat
6 84 (6.46%) Cisco
7 51 (3.92%) Google
8 47 (3.61%) Palo Alto
9 39 (3.00%) IBM
10 35 (2.69%) Atlassian
11 34 (2.61%) Splunk
11 34 (2.61%) Veeam
12 26 (2.00%) Bloomberg
12 26 (2.00%) F5
12 26 (2.00%) ION Trading
12 26 (2.00%) Juniper
13 24 (1.84%) HP
13 24 (1.84%) Qualys
14 20 (1.54%) Reuters