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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 43 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 771 1,179 2,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.87% 5.22% 7.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.04% 38.43% 45.40%
Number of salaries quoted 527 866 2,033
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £104,375 £95,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £131,000 £115,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +8.33%

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 1,834 3,068 5,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.97% 13.59% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 2,435 4,577
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £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 £90,000 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 April 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 April 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 +12 132 £60,000 -17.24% 33
West London +4 28 £49,000 -10.91% 16
East London +2 19 £75,000 +30.43% 2
South London -5 18 £60,000 +17.76% 6
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 55 (7.13%) Confluence
2 28 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (3.37%) nginx
4 16 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.30%) Apache
6 9 (1.17%) IIS
7 8 (1.04%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.78%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.78%) WordPress
9 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.65%) WinCC
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) GemFire
11 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 31 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 31 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.26%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.69%) Fidessa
2 10 (1.30%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.26%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (31.65%) AWS
2 185 (23.99%) Azure
3 69 (8.95%) GCP
4 51 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (5.84%) GitHub
6 44 (5.71%) SaaS
7 39 (5.06%) Amazon S3
8 36 (4.67%) Serverless
9 33 (4.28%) Entra ID
10 31 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
11 29 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (3.24%) Pulumi
13 23 (2.98%) Datadog
13 23 (2.98%) PaaS
14 20 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 100 (12.97%) Firewall
2 75 (9.73%) TCP/IP
3 45 (5.84%) DNS
4 28 (3.63%) DHCP
5 27 (3.50%) VLAN
5 27 (3.50%) VPN
6 20 (2.59%) Multicast
7 19 (2.46%) WAN
8 14 (1.82%) SAN
9 13 (1.69%) LAN
9 13 (1.69%) Wireshark
10 12 (1.56%) Network Security
10 12 (1.56%) SSL
11 11 (1.43%) Wireless
12 10 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
13 9 (1.17%) HTTP
14 7 (0.91%) Link 16
14 7 (0.91%) RS-232
14 7 (0.91%) RS-485
14 7 (0.91%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.91%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 38 (4.93%) MySQL
5 28 (3.63%) MongoDB
6 22 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (1.04%) Big Data
10 8 (1.04%) Redis
11 6 (0.78%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.52%) HBase
13 4 (0.52%) Power BI
13 4 (0.52%) Tableau
13 4 (0.52%) Tick Data
14 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.39%) KDB
Development Applications
1 101 (13.10%) Git
2 85 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.95%) JIRA
4 44 (5.71%) Maven
5 31 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 30 (3.89%) GitLab
6 30 (3.89%) TeamCity
7 28 (3.63%) SonarQube
8 25 (3.24%) Ant
9 22 (2.85%) JUnit
10 16 (2.08%) IntelliJ
10 16 (2.08%) Mockito
11 15 (1.95%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.69%) Burp Suite
13 9 (1.17%) Gradle
14 8 (1.04%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.78%) Metasploit
16 5 (0.65%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
18 3 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 278 (36.06%) Finance
2 179 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 113 (14.66%) Banking
4 64 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.74%) Front Office
6 35 (4.54%) Games
7 33 (4.28%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.98%) Back Office
8 23 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 20 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.69%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.56%) Law
12 12 (1.56%) Legal
13 11 (1.43%) Local Government
13 11 (1.43%) Police
14 8 (1.04%) Military
15 6 (0.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 187 (24.25%) Senior
2 155 (20.10%) Developer
3 81 (10.51%) Analyst
4 74 (9.60%) Software Engineer
5 69 (8.95%) C++ Developer
6 66 (8.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 66 (8.56%) Senior Developer
7 63 (8.17%) Lead
8 57 (7.39%) Linux Engineer
9 49 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 46 (5.97%) Support Analyst
12 43 (5.58%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 43 (5.58%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 41 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
14 40 (5.19%) Applications Support
15 39 (5.06%) Architect
15 39 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
15 39 (5.06%) Support Engineer
16 37 (4.80%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.45%) FIX Protocol
2 25 (3.24%) Node.js
3 23 (2.98%) Django
4 22 (2.85%) REST
5 21 (2.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 21 (2.72%) Spring
6 20 (2.59%) React
7 19 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 16 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (1.95%) HTML
9 15 (1.95%) JMS
10 14 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (1.82%) CSS
10 14 (1.82%) Middleware
10 14 (1.82%) RESTful
11 13 (1.69%) Kafka
12 11 (1.43%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.43%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.43%) JSON
13 10 (1.30%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 96 (12.45%) Management Information System
2 77 (9.99%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (8.17%) Equities
4 57 (7.39%) Cloud Native
5 56 (7.26%) Hedge funds
6 55 (7.13%) Data Centre
7 43 (5.58%) Algorithms
7 43 (5.58%) Legacy Code
8 40 (5.19%) Public Cloud
9 30 (3.89%) Derivative
10 24 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (2.98%) Onboarding
11 23 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
13 20 (2.59%) Clustering
13 20 (2.59%) Data Structures
13 20 (2.59%) Fixed Income
14 19 (2.46%) FPGA
14 19 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 276 (35.80%) Windows
2 115 (14.92%) Unix
3 79 (10.25%) Windows Server
4 68 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (5.06%) Ubuntu
6 36 (4.67%) CentOS
7 29 (3.76%) Mac OS
8 22 (2.85%) Solaris
9 20 (2.59%) Debian
10 18 (2.33%) Windows 10
11 14 (1.82%) AIX
11 14 (1.82%) Android
12 11 (1.43%) Apple iOS
12 11 (1.43%) Rocky
12 11 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.91%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.91%) zOS
14 6 (0.78%) VMS
15 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (25.42%) DevOps
2 148 (19.20%) CI/CD
3 121 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (15.05%) Agile
5 114 (14.79%) Low Latency
6 109 (14.14%) Software Engineering
7 101 (13.10%) Computer Science
8 92 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (11.54%) ITIL
10 80 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 66 (8.56%) Fintech
12 64 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
13 60 (7.78%) Deployment Automation
14 55 (7.13%) Platform Engineering
15 51 (6.61%) Continuous Integration
15 51 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
16 47 (6.10%) Analytics
17 46 (5.97%) Change Management
17 46 (5.97%) Test Automation
18 44 (5.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 300 (38.91%) Python
2 193 (25.03%) SQL
3 162 (21.01%) C++
4 105 (13.62%) Bash
5 101 (13.10%) Java
6 90 (11.67%) PowerShell
7 88 (11.41%) C
8 86 (11.15%) JavaScript
9 77 (9.99%) Go
10 59 (7.65%) Rust
11 27 (3.50%) Shell Script
12 26 (3.37%) Perl
12 26 (3.37%) TypeScript
13 22 (2.85%) Bicep
14 21 (2.72%) T-SQL
15 16 (2.08%) C#
15 16 (2.08%) Ruby
16 15 (1.95%) Kotlin
17 12 (1.56%) Objective-C
18 10 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (15.69%) Degree
2 51 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.24%) SC Cleared
7 16 (2.08%) CCNP
8 14 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (1.82%) OSCP
9 13 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.43%) CCNA
10 11 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.43%) GCIH
10 11 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.30%) CISSP
11 10 (1.30%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.17%) IBM AIX Certification
13 8 (1.04%) GSEC
14 7 (0.91%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.32%) QA
2 34 (4.41%) SLA
3 14 (1.82%) GDPR
4 11 (1.43%) ISO 9001
5 10 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.91%) MIL-STD-1553
8 6 (0.78%) FINRA
8 6 (0.78%) PMO
8 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.52%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.39%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.26%) MiFID
11 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
System Software
1 111 (14.40%) Docker
2 86 (11.15%) Active Directory
3 79 (10.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (3.63%) Hyper-V
5 22 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (1.43%) vSphere
9 8 (1.04%) pfSense
10 6 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.65%) Firmware
12 3 (0.39%) Samba
12 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.39%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.26%) Postfix
13 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.13%) GPFS
14 1 (0.13%) HDFS
14 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 144 (18.68%) Kubernetes
2 141 (18.29%) Ansible
3 120 (15.56%) Terraform
4 38 (4.93%) Puppet
5 28 (3.63%) Progress Chef
6 26 (3.37%) Grafana
7 24 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (3.11%) SCCM
8 23 (2.98%) Prometheus
9 20 (2.59%) Podman
10 16 (2.08%) Nagios
11 14 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.43%) Nessus
13 9 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.04%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.91%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.78%) Argo
16 6 (0.78%) Graylog
16 6 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 123 (15.95%) VMware
2 122 (15.82%) Microsoft
3 80 (10.38%) Red Hat
4 65 (8.43%) Oracle
5 62 (8.04%) Cisco
6 40 (5.19%) Citrix
7 26 (3.37%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.24%) IBM
9 24 (3.11%) Google
10 19 (2.46%) Dell
11 16 (2.08%) Bloomberg
11 16 (2.08%) NetApp
11 16 (2.08%) Palo Alto
11 16 (2.08%) Splunk
11 16 (2.08%) Veeam
12 15 (1.95%) Reuters
13 12 (1.56%) CQG
13 12 (1.56%) ION Trading
13 12 (1.56%) Trayport
14 11 (1.43%) Patsystems