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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 35 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,287 2,445 5,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.49% 7.09% 7.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.06% 45.24% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 858 1,800 2,591
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
25th Percentile £59,063 £60,000 £56,250
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 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,843 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.09% +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 3,060 5,404 11,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.04% 15.68% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,325 4,128 6,185
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 £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £101,250
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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -37 142 £70,000 -17.65% 39
West London +7 115 £52,501 -12.50% 21
South London -8 34 £64,375 +22.62% 9
East London +14 18 £57,500 - 2
North London -1 4 £62,750 - 2
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 45 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (2.72%) Apache
2 35 (2.72%) Confluence
3 33 (2.56%) nginx
4 28 (2.18%) IIS
5 22 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.40%) WebSphere
7 15 (1.17%) Tomcat
8 13 (1.01%) Apache Spark
8 13 (1.01%) JBoss
9 11 (0.85%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.78%) WordPress
11 7 (0.54%) WildFly
12 6 (0.47%) SAS
13 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
14 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.23%) CMS
15 3 (0.23%) FileNet
Applications
1 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.16%) Trello
4 1 (0.078%) Weka
Business Applications
1 15 (1.17%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
4 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.31%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.078%) Endur
7 1 (0.078%) Findur
7 1 (0.078%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.078%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.078%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 433 (33.64%) Azure
2 358 (27.82%) AWS
3 159 (12.35%) Entra ID
4 88 (6.84%) GCP
5 58 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (3.65%) Serverless
7 45 (3.50%) GitHub
8 39 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 38 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (1.79%) IaaS
16 22 (1.71%) SaaS
17 20 (1.55%) Azure AKS
18 18 (1.40%) PaaS
19 17 (1.32%) Power Platform
20 14 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 210 (16.32%) Firewall
2 147 (11.42%) 5G
2 147 (11.42%) Broadband
3 120 (9.32%) TCP/IP
4 114 (8.86%) DNS
5 103 (8.00%) VPN
6 83 (6.45%) WAN
7 79 (6.14%) LAN
8 63 (4.90%) Internet
9 46 (3.57%) SAN
10 45 (3.50%) DHCP
11 44 (3.42%) Network Security
12 30 (2.33%) SNMP
13 27 (2.10%) HTTP
14 24 (1.86%) BGP
14 24 (1.86%) Wireless
15 22 (1.71%) MPLS
16 19 (1.48%) NAS
17 17 (1.32%) SSL
18 16 (1.24%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (9.48%) SQL Server
2 94 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.14%) MongoDB
4 67 (5.21%) MySQL
5 53 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.80%) DB2
7 35 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.02%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.40%) Redis
11 17 (1.32%) BigQuery
11 17 (1.32%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.24%) Power BI
13 13 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.01%) Big Data
13 13 (1.01%) Tableau
14 12 (0.93%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.78%) RDBMS
16 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 106 (8.24%) Jenkins
2 77 (5.98%) JIRA
3 75 (5.83%) Git
4 56 (4.35%) GitLab
5 31 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.18%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.18%) Metasploit
7 18 (1.40%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 12 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.54%) Snyk
10 6 (0.47%) GDB
10 6 (0.47%) JUnit
10 6 (0.47%) Maven
11 5 (0.39%) DTrace
11 5 (0.39%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 361 (28.05%) Finance
2 327 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 279 (21.68%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (13.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (11.97%) Banking
6 47 (3.65%) Front Office
7 45 (3.50%) Retail
8 41 (3.19%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.19%) Telecoms
9 38 (2.95%) Financial Institution
10 36 (2.80%) Law
11 33 (2.56%) Investment Banking
12 21 (1.63%) Marketing
13 13 (1.01%) Back Office
13 13 (1.01%) Billing
14 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.85%) Games
15 11 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.78%) Electronics
16 10 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (22.38%) Senior
2 150 (11.66%) Linux Specialist
3 148 (11.50%) Developer
4 145 (11.27%) Technical Specialist
5 133 (10.33%) Architect
6 106 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 104 (8.08%) Linux Engineer
8 103 (8.00%) Lead
9 95 (7.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 92 (7.15%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 91 (7.07%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 91 (7.07%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 88 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 85 (6.60%) Software Engineer
14 82 (6.37%) Analyst
15 66 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
16 62 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
17 53 (4.12%) Infrastructure Architect
18 51 (3.96%) Applications Support
19 48 (3.73%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (6.14%) .NET
2 72 (5.59%) React
3 66 (5.13%) REST
4 53 (4.12%) FIX Protocol
5 41 (3.19%) Kafka
6 38 (2.95%) HTML
7 36 (2.80%) CSS
8 33 (2.56%) YAML
9 32 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
10 31 (2.41%) Node.js
10 31 (2.41%) XML
11 27 (2.10%) JSON
11 27 (2.10%) Web Services
12 26 (2.02%) Middleware
13 24 (1.86%) LDAP
13 24 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (1.79%) AngularJS
14 23 (1.79%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.40%) SOAP
16 17 (1.32%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.19%) Social Media
2 82 (6.37%) Data Centre
3 80 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 60 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
5 54 (4.20%) PKI
6 50 (3.89%) Cloud Native
7 46 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 45 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
9 43 (3.34%) Replication
10 38 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 36 (2.80%) Hedge funds
12 34 (2.64%) Legacy Code
13 32 (2.49%) Clustering
14 30 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (2.10%) FPGA
16 27 (2.10%) Onboarding
17 26 (2.02%) Client/Server
18 25 (1.94%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 467 (36.29%) Windows
2 261 (20.28%) Ubuntu
3 196 (15.23%) Unix
4 131 (10.18%) Windows Server
5 101 (7.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 71 (5.52%) CentOS
7 49 (3.81%) VMS
8 37 (2.87%) Solaris
9 31 (2.41%) Android
10 29 (2.25%) Kali Linux
11 28 (2.18%) Apple iOS
12 27 (2.10%) Mac OS
12 27 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 25 (1.94%) Debian
14 23 (1.79%) zOS
15 21 (1.63%) Windows 10
16 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
17 15 (1.17%) Oracle Linux
17 15 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
18 12 (0.93%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (24.55%) DevOps
2 272 (21.13%) Cybersecurity
3 227 (17.64%) Agile
4 215 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
5 206 (16.01%) CI/CD
6 205 (15.93%) Software Engineering
7 196 (15.23%) Artificial Intelligence
8 150 (11.66%) IT Strategy
9 149 (11.58%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (11.11%) CRM
11 134 (10.41%) Computer Science
12 111 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 109 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 101 (7.85%) Containerisation
15 85 (6.60%) Disaster Recovery
16 82 (6.37%) Mentoring
17 78 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 76 (5.91%) Fintech
19 72 (5.59%) Application Security
19 72 (5.59%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 438 (34.03%) Python
2 336 (26.11%) Bash
3 264 (20.51%) SQL
4 175 (13.60%) PowerShell
5 170 (13.21%) Java
6 121 (9.40%) C
7 114 (8.86%) C#
8 110 (8.55%) C++
9 104 (8.08%) JavaScript
10 79 (6.14%) Perl
11 65 (5.05%) Go
12 44 (3.42%) Rust
13 43 (3.34%) Shell Script
14 38 (2.95%) Ruby
15 32 (2.49%) TypeScript
16 22 (1.71%) PHP
17 12 (0.93%) Korn
18 11 (0.85%) Groovy
19 9 (0.70%) Scala
20 8 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 211 (16.39%) Degree
2 135 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 96 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 56 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 35 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.02%) CCNA
9 18 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.24%) CISSP
11 15 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.17%) CISA
11 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.09%) MCSE
13 13 (1.01%) MCSA
13 13 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 11 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.86%) SLA
2 22 (1.71%) QA
3 20 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.24%) NIST
5 15 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.78%) GDPR
8 6 (0.47%) ITGC
8 6 (0.47%) PMO
9 5 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.31%) GRC
10 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.31%) JTAG
10 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.23%) MiFID
11 3 (0.23%) NCSC
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.078%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 307 (23.85%) Active Directory
2 191 (14.84%) Docker
3 118 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (3.26%) vSphere
5 39 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 14 (1.09%) KVM
9 13 (1.01%) vCloud
10 8 (0.62%) NFS
11 6 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.39%) Firmware
13 4 (0.31%) Ceph
14 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.16%) HDFS
15 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.16%) Varnish
15 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 233 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 209 (16.24%) Ansible
3 193 (15.00%) Terraform
4 163 (12.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.19%) Jamf Pro
6 77 (5.98%) Puppet
7 57 (4.43%) Progress Chef
8 46 (3.57%) Grafana
9 37 (2.87%) Prometheus
10 35 (2.72%) SCCM
11 17 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
11 17 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 17 (1.32%) vCenter Server
12 16 (1.24%) Nagios
13 14 (1.09%) HAProxy
13 14 (1.09%) Nessus
14 13 (1.01%) Salt
15 12 (0.93%) Graphite
16 10 (0.78%) WSUS
17 7 (0.54%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 319 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 169 (13.13%) VMware
3 150 (11.66%) Oracle
4 144 (11.19%) CyberArk
4 144 (11.19%) Tanium
5 135 (10.49%) Red Hat
6 83 (6.45%) Cisco
7 50 (3.89%) Google
8 44 (3.42%) Palo Alto
9 41 (3.19%) IBM
10 36 (2.80%) Splunk
11 32 (2.49%) Atlassian
12 29 (2.25%) Veeam
13 28 (2.18%) F5
14 25 (1.94%) Qualys
15 24 (1.86%) Bloomberg
15 24 (1.86%) ION Trading
16 23 (1.79%) Juniper
17 22 (1.71%) HP
18 19 (1.48%) Reuters