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 3 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 40 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,054 1,163 3,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.64% 5.91% 7.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.48% 37.67% 44.84%
Number of salaries quoted 634 929 2,342
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.65% +6.21%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 2,424 3,087 8,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.98% 15.69% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 2,630 5,372
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £106,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,950 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.86% -2.95% +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 3 November 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 3 November 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 +6 252 £60,000 -20.00% 28
West London -21 23 £51,250 -14.58% 7
East London +21 9 £56,594 -1.58% 4
South London -42 9 £60,000 -17.24% 9
North London +1 4 £48,750 +48.99% 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 43 (4.08%) Confluence
2 29 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (2.28%) nginx
4 19 (1.80%) Apache
5 15 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.33%) OpenStack
7 12 (1.14%) Apache Solr
8 8 (0.76%) CloudStack
9 7 (0.66%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.66%) IIS
10 5 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.28%) WordPress
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) WinCC
13 1 (0.095%) DataSynapse
13 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) 3ds Max
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) InDesign
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.095%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (1.90%) NEC Housing
2 16 (1.52%) Unit4 Business World
3 10 (0.95%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.19%) Magento
6 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.095%) Endur
7 1 (0.095%) Findur
7 1 (0.095%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.095%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 258 (24.48%) AWS
2 250 (23.72%) Azure
3 60 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (5.50%) GCP
5 33 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 33 (3.13%) SaaS
6 27 (2.56%) Serverless
7 21 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (1.99%) IaaS
7 21 (1.99%) PaaS
8 20 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (1.71%) GitHub
11 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.14%) Datadog
14 11 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (1.04%) Azure AKS
14 11 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 142 (13.47%) Broadband
2 111 (10.53%) Firewall
3 83 (7.87%) DNS
4 56 (5.31%) TCP/IP
5 54 (5.12%) DHCP
6 48 (4.55%) WAN
7 46 (4.36%) LAN
8 45 (4.27%) VPN
9 27 (2.56%) SAN
10 22 (2.09%) NAS
10 22 (2.09%) Network Security
11 21 (1.99%) Internet
12 20 (1.90%) Wireshark
13 14 (1.33%) HTTP
13 14 (1.33%) VLAN
14 12 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
15 11 (1.04%) Multicast
16 10 (0.95%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.85%) FTP
17 9 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.83%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.65%) MySQL
3 46 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 26 (2.47%) MongoDB
6 21 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.80%) DB2
8 17 (1.61%) Big Data
9 16 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
10 15 (1.42%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.33%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.85%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.66%) Tableau
14 6 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.57%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.57%) Redis
15 5 (0.47%) KDB
16 4 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 115 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 87 (8.25%) Git
3 57 (5.41%) JIRA
4 47 (4.46%) GitLab
5 30 (2.85%) Maven
6 29 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 22 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (1.99%) Ant
9 20 (1.90%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.52%) Burp Suite
11 13 (1.23%) Gradle
12 12 (1.14%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.76%) JUnit
14 6 (0.57%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.57%) Metasploit
14 6 (0.57%) Mockito
15 5 (0.47%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.47%) CMake
15 5 (0.47%) Selenium
16 4 (0.38%) GCC
General
1 360 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 310 (29.41%) Finance
3 183 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.53%) Banking
5 54 (5.12%) Front Office
6 40 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 35 (3.32%) Games
8 32 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.75%) Investment Banking
10 26 (2.47%) Law
10 26 (2.47%) Local Government
11 24 (2.28%) Back Office
12 22 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.90%) Police
15 16 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.33%) Retail
17 10 (0.95%) Advertising
18 6 (0.57%) Electronics
18 6 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 215 (20.40%) Senior
2 171 (16.22%) Lead
3 143 (13.57%) Developer
4 125 (11.86%) Team Leader
5 98 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 89 (8.44%) Analyst
6 89 (8.44%) Linux Engineer
7 76 (7.21%) Software Engineer
8 66 (6.26%) Applications Support
9 60 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 58 (5.50%) Support Analyst
11 45 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 43 (4.08%) Senior Developer
13 42 (3.98%) Python Developer
14 38 (3.61%) Administrator
15 35 (3.32%) Applications Support Analyst
15 35 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 34 (3.23%) Consultant
17 33 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (11.67%) Elastic Stack
2 54 (5.12%) FIX Protocol
3 36 (3.42%) Django
4 28 (2.66%) LDAP
5 27 (2.56%) HTML
6 26 (2.47%) REST
7 25 (2.37%) JSON
7 25 (2.37%) React
7 25 (2.37%) WebSockets
8 24 (2.28%) Kafka
8 24 (2.28%) RESTful
9 21 (1.99%) .NET
9 21 (1.99%) CSS
10 20 (1.90%) jQuery
11 16 (1.52%) GraphQL
12 15 (1.42%) Node.js
12 15 (1.42%) Spring
13 12 (1.14%) Flask
14 11 (1.04%) NumPy
15 10 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 114 (10.82%) Private Cloud
2 94 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
4 50 (4.74%) Cloud Native
5 45 (4.27%) Data Centre
6 39 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 39 (3.70%) Equities
6 39 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (3.42%) Legacy Code
8 35 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.85%) Hedge funds
9 30 (2.85%) Public Cloud
10 25 (2.37%) Derivative
11 23 (2.18%) Security Posture
12 21 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.80%) FPGA
14 18 (1.71%) Clustering
15 17 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 365 (34.63%) Windows
2 140 (13.28%) Unix
3 101 (9.58%) Windows Server
4 96 (9.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 70 (6.64%) Ubuntu
6 53 (5.03%) CentOS
7 48 (4.55%) Solaris
8 27 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (2.09%) Mac OS
10 21 (1.99%) Windows 10
11 18 (1.71%) Debian
12 15 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
13 12 (1.14%) Android
14 11 (1.04%) AIX
15 9 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
15 9 (0.85%) Rocky
16 8 (0.76%) SUSE
17 7 (0.66%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (33.40%) DevOps
2 263 (24.95%) CI/CD
3 209 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
4 192 (18.22%) Computer Science
5 179 (16.98%) Mentoring
6 171 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 165 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
8 156 (14.80%) Configuration Management
9 151 (14.33%) Agile
10 150 (14.23%) Task Automation
11 149 (14.14%) Containerisation
11 149 (14.14%) Roadmaps
12 136 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 134 (12.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 134 (12.71%) Validation
14 132 (12.52%) Observability
15 131 (12.43%) Deployment Automation
16 122 (11.57%) Software Engineering
17 119 (11.29%) Continuous Deployment
18 118 (11.20%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 455 (43.17%) Python
2 303 (28.75%) Bash
3 236 (22.39%) SQL
4 160 (15.18%) Java
5 149 (14.14%) PowerShell
6 141 (13.38%) Shell Script
7 122 (11.57%) C++
8 99 (9.39%) JavaScript
9 71 (6.74%) Perl
10 70 (6.64%) Rust
11 67 (6.36%) C
12 64 (6.07%) Go
13 44 (4.17%) C#
14 43 (4.08%) Ruby
15 27 (2.56%) TypeScript
16 14 (1.33%) Haskell
16 14 (1.33%) Korn
17 12 (1.14%) Scala
18 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 240 (22.77%) Degree
2 160 (15.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 127 (12.05%) Master's Degree
4 122 (11.57%) LPIC
5 118 (11.20%) RHCSA
6 70 (6.64%) Security Cleared
7 28 (2.66%) SC Cleared
8 26 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.09%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.80%) CISSP
11 18 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.71%) CISA
11 18 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.71%) MCSA
12 16 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.52%) DBS Check
13 15 (1.42%) GCIH
14 14 (1.33%) OSCP
15 13 (1.23%) Dell Certification
15 13 (1.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.76%) NIST
2 120 (11.39%) SOC 2
3 32 (3.04%) QA
4 24 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.52%) ISO 9001
6 16 (1.52%) ITGC
7 15 (1.42%) SLA
8 14 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.04%) GDPR
10 9 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.76%) PMO
12 6 (0.57%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.47%) COBIT
13 5 (0.47%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.28%) MiFID
15 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 1 (0.095%) JTAG
System Software
1 216 (20.49%) Docker
2 114 (10.82%) Active Directory
3 95 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 22 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (1.23%) pfSense
7 13 (1.23%) XenApp
8 12 (1.14%) NFS
8 12 (1.14%) XenDesktop
9 11 (1.04%) vSphere
10 7 (0.66%) Firmware
10 7 (0.66%) KVM
11 6 (0.57%) FreeRADIUS
11 6 (0.57%) Shibboleth
12 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.47%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.38%) Ceph
13 4 (0.38%) LXC
13 4 (0.38%) Squid
Systems Management
1 293 (27.80%) Ansible
2 154 (14.61%) Prometheus
3 148 (14.04%) Grafana
4 145 (13.76%) Kubernetes
5 129 (12.24%) Terraform
6 74 (7.02%) Puppet
7 41 (3.89%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.66%) Red Hat Satellite
9 26 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.99%) ZABBIX
11 18 (1.71%) Nagios
12 16 (1.52%) WSUS
13 12 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.95%) Nessus
15 7 (0.66%) Kibana
16 6 (0.57%) Istio
16 6 (0.57%) Nmap
17 5 (0.47%) CASB
17 5 (0.47%) Opsview
Vendors
1 191 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 136 (12.90%) VMware
3 119 (11.29%) Red Hat
4 100 (9.49%) Oracle
5 58 (5.50%) Cisco
6 54 (5.12%) Citrix
7 46 (4.36%) Google
8 37 (3.51%) ServiceNow
9 32 (3.04%) Dell
10 31 (2.94%) NetApp
11 27 (2.56%) IBM
12 23 (2.18%) SAP
13 21 (1.99%) Splunk
14 20 (1.90%) NEC
15 17 (1.61%) HP
15 17 (1.61%) Juniper
16 16 (1.52%) Bloomberg
16 16 (1.52%) Sage
17 15 (1.42%) Reuters
18 13 (1.23%) Fujitsu