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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 44 36
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 763 1,178 2,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.82% 5.21% 7.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.83% 38.41% 45.35%
Number of salaries quoted 522 863 2,015
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £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 £103,438 £95,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% -13.08% +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 1,824 3,067 5,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.91% 13.58% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 2,431 4,544
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 £52,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.88% -0.48%

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 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 3 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 +15 132 £60,000 -17.24% 31
West London +3 29 £49,000 -10.91% 19
East London +2 19 £75,000 +30.43% 4
South London -2 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 (7.21%) Confluence
2 29 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (3.28%) nginx
4 16 (2.10%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.31%) Apache
6 9 (1.18%) IIS
7 8 (1.05%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.79%) WordPress
9 5 (0.66%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.52%) WinCC
11 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) GemFire
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.13%) Drupal
13 1 (0.13%) Jetty
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 31 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 31 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.66%) 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 (1.70%) Fidessa
2 9 (1.18%) 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
1 242 (31.72%) AWS
2 187 (24.51%) Azure
3 68 (8.91%) GCP
4 52 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (5.90%) GitHub
6 42 (5.50%) SaaS
7 38 (4.98%) Amazon S3
8 35 (4.59%) Serverless
9 34 (4.46%) Entra ID
10 31 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
11 28 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (3.28%) Pulumi
13 23 (3.01%) PaaS
14 22 (2.88%) Datadog
15 20 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
18 13 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.11%) Firewall
2 72 (9.44%) TCP/IP
3 46 (6.03%) DNS
4 29 (3.80%) DHCP
5 27 (3.54%) VLAN
5 27 (3.54%) VPN
6 21 (2.75%) WAN
7 20 (2.62%) Multicast
8 15 (1.97%) LAN
8 15 (1.97%) SAN
9 13 (1.70%) Wireshark
10 12 (1.57%) Network Security
10 12 (1.57%) SSL
11 11 (1.44%) Wireless
12 10 (1.31%) FIX Connectivity
13 9 (1.18%) HTTP
14 7 (0.92%) Link 16
14 7 (0.92%) RS-232
14 7 (0.92%) RS-485
14 7 (0.92%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.85%) MySQL
5 28 (3.67%) MongoDB
6 21 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (1.83%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (1.05%) Redis
11 5 (0.66%) Big Data
12 4 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.52%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.52%) HBase
12 4 (0.52%) Tick Data
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.39%) Kdb+
13 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 99 (12.98%) Git
2 84 (11.01%) Jenkins
3 69 (9.04%) JIRA
4 43 (5.64%) Maven
5 31 (4.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 30 (3.93%) TeamCity
7 29 (3.80%) GitLab
8 28 (3.67%) SonarQube
9 25 (3.28%) Ant
10 21 (2.75%) JUnit
11 15 (1.97%) IntelliJ
11 15 (1.97%) Mockito
12 14 (1.83%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.70%) Burp Suite
14 9 (1.18%) Gradle
15 8 (1.05%) Artifactory
16 6 (0.79%) Metasploit
17 5 (0.66%) Bitbucket
18 4 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
19 3 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 273 (35.78%) Finance
2 178 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 112 (14.68%) Banking
4 64 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.82%) Front Office
6 35 (4.59%) Games
7 32 (4.19%) Investment Banking
8 24 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 23 (3.01%) Back Office
10 20 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.70%) Legal
13 12 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.57%) Law
13 12 (1.57%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.31%) Local Government
14 10 (1.31%) Police
15 8 (1.05%) Military
16 6 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 184 (24.12%) Senior
2 151 (19.79%) Developer
3 80 (10.48%) Analyst
4 73 (9.57%) Software Engineer
5 68 (8.91%) C++ Developer
6 66 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 65 (8.52%) Senior Developer
8 61 (7.99%) Lead
9 57 (7.47%) Linux Engineer
10 50 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
12 45 (5.90%) Support Analyst
13 43 (5.64%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 43 (5.64%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 40 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (5.11%) Applications Support
15 39 (5.11%) Architect
15 39 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
15 39 (5.11%) Support Engineer
16 37 (4.85%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.50%) FIX Protocol
2 25 (3.28%) Node.js
3 23 (3.01%) Django
4 22 (2.88%) REST
5 21 (2.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 20 (2.62%) React
6 20 (2.62%) Spring
7 18 (2.36%) Spring Boot
8 16 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (1.97%) HTML
10 14 (1.83%) CSS
10 14 (1.83%) JMS
10 14 (1.83%) Middleware
10 14 (1.83%) RESTful
11 13 (1.70%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (1.70%) Kafka
12 11 (1.44%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.44%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.44%) JSON
13 10 (1.31%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (12.32%) Management Information System
2 75 (9.83%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (8.26%) Equities
4 57 (7.47%) Cloud Native
4 57 (7.47%) Hedge funds
5 55 (7.21%) Data Centre
6 43 (5.64%) Algorithms
6 43 (5.64%) Legacy Code
7 40 (5.24%) Public Cloud
8 30 (3.93%) Derivative
9 24 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (3.01%) Onboarding
10 23 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
13 20 (2.62%) Clustering
13 20 (2.62%) Data Structures
13 20 (2.62%) Fixed Income
14 19 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (2.36%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 273 (35.78%) Windows
2 115 (15.07%) Unix
3 79 (10.35%) Windows Server
4 68 (8.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (5.11%) Ubuntu
6 36 (4.72%) CentOS
7 29 (3.80%) Mac OS
8 21 (2.75%) Solaris
9 20 (2.62%) Debian
10 18 (2.36%) Windows 10
11 14 (1.83%) AIX
11 14 (1.83%) Android
12 12 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (1.44%) Apple iOS
13 11 (1.44%) Rocky
14 7 (0.92%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.92%) zOS
15 6 (0.79%) VMS
16 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (25.29%) DevOps
2 147 (19.27%) CI/CD
3 121 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (14.81%) Agile
5 112 (14.68%) Low Latency
6 106 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 100 (13.11%) Computer Science
8 91 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 88 (11.53%) ITIL
10 80 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 65 (8.52%) Fintech
12 64 (8.39%) Disaster Recovery
13 59 (7.73%) Deployment Automation
14 54 (7.08%) Platform Engineering
15 51 (6.68%) Continuous Integration
15 51 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
16 46 (6.03%) Analytics
16 46 (6.03%) Change Management
16 46 (6.03%) Test Automation
17 42 (5.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 297 (38.93%) Python
2 189 (24.77%) SQL
3 159 (20.84%) C++
4 102 (13.37%) Bash
5 98 (12.84%) Java
6 90 (11.80%) PowerShell
7 86 (11.27%) C
8 85 (11.14%) JavaScript
9 76 (9.96%) Go
10 58 (7.60%) Rust
11 27 (3.54%) Shell Script
12 26 (3.41%) Perl
12 26 (3.41%) TypeScript
13 22 (2.88%) Bicep
14 21 (2.75%) T-SQL
15 16 (2.10%) Ruby
16 15 (1.97%) Kotlin
17 14 (1.83%) C#
18 12 (1.57%) Objective-C
19 10 (1.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 121 (15.86%) Degree
2 50 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (3.15%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.10%) CCNP
7 14 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (1.83%) OSCP
8 13 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.44%) CCNA
10 11 (1.44%) GCIH
11 10 (1.31%) CISSP
11 10 (1.31%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.18%) IBM AIX Certification
13 8 (1.05%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.05%) GSEC
14 7 (0.92%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.37%) QA
2 34 (4.46%) SLA
3 13 (1.70%) GDPR
4 10 (1.31%) ISO 9001
5 9 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.92%) MIL-STD-1553
8 6 (0.79%) FINRA
8 6 (0.79%) PMO
8 6 (0.79%) 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
1 110 (14.42%) Docker
2 88 (11.53%) Active Directory
3 79 (10.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 22 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.44%) vSphere
8 8 (1.05%) pfSense
9 6 (0.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.66%) Firmware
11 3 (0.39%) Samba
11 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.39%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.26%) Postfix
12 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.13%) GPFS
13 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 144 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 140 (18.35%) Ansible
3 119 (15.60%) Terraform
4 38 (4.98%) Puppet
5 28 (3.67%) Progress Chef
6 26 (3.41%) Grafana
7 24 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (3.15%) SCCM
8 23 (3.01%) Prometheus
9 20 (2.62%) Podman
10 16 (2.10%) Nagios
11 14 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.44%) Nessus
13 10 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.05%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.92%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.79%) Argo
16 6 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 124 (16.25%) VMware
2 123 (16.12%) Microsoft
3 80 (10.48%) Red Hat
4 64 (8.39%) Oracle
5 63 (8.26%) Cisco
6 39 (5.11%) Citrix
7 24 (3.15%) IBM
7 24 (3.15%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.01%) Google
9 20 (2.62%) Dell
10 16 (2.10%) Bloomberg
10 16 (2.10%) NetApp
10 16 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 16 (2.10%) Splunk
10 16 (2.10%) Veeam
11 15 (1.97%) Reuters
12 12 (1.57%) CQG
12 12 (1.57%) ION Trading
12 12 (1.57%) Trayport
13 11 (1.44%) Patsystems