Linux Jobs in Scotland

Linux
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 61 26
Rank change year-on-year -28 -35 +19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 81 330 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.50% 5.19% 8.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.09% 45.39% 51.06%
Number of salaries quoted 56 184 212
10th Percentile £41,625 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,563 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,360 £79,625 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 188 727 709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.81% 11.44% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 132 414 408
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,813 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £69,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,675 £74,925 £77,594
UK median annual salary £42,500 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.61% -12.38% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Scotland.

Salary trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Edinburgh -23 33 £60,000 - 30
Glasgow +35 26 £60,000 +20.00% 34
Lanarkshire -1 8 £66,000 - 14
Renfrewshire - 7 £45,000 - 8
West Lothian -10 5 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Fife +6 3 £51,250 - 3
Dundee +4 3 £44,195 -11.59% 2
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (7.41%) Apache
1 6 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.47%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.93%) Azure
2 15 (18.52%) AWS
3 5 (6.17%) Azure AKS
3 5 (6.17%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (6.17%) GCP
3 5 (6.17%) GitHub
4 4 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.94%) CloudBees
5 3 (3.70%) SaaS
5 3 (3.70%) Serverless
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.47%) Apigee
6 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.23%) IaaS
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.17%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) Modbus
3 3 (3.70%) DHCP
3 3 (3.70%) DNS
3 3 (3.70%) Ethernet
3 3 (3.70%) RS-232
4 2 (2.47%) FTP
4 2 (2.47%) VPN
5 1 (1.23%) BGP
5 1 (1.23%) Multicast
5 1 (1.23%) OSPF
5 1 (1.23%) RTP
5 1 (1.23%) RTSP
5 1 (1.23%) SpaceWire
5 1 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.47%) DB2
4 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.88%) Git
3 4 (4.94%) JUnit
4 2 (2.47%) Maven
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.23%) JIRA
5 1 (1.23%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (1.23%) Subversion
5 1 (1.23%) TestNG
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (18.52%) Finance
2 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.64%) Law
5 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Banking
6 4 (4.94%) Marketing
7 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.47%) Electronics
8 2 (2.47%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.23%) Front Office
9 1 (1.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.23%) Military
9 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (29.63%) Senior
2 16 (19.75%) Software Engineer
3 14 (17.28%) Analyst
4 11 (13.58%) Embedded Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Developer
5 10 (12.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 8 (9.88%) Java Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Firmware Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Lead
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Firmware Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Network Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Site Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) REST
2 5 (6.17%) .NET
2 5 (6.17%) Middleware
2 5 (6.17%) Spring
3 4 (4.94%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.94%) WebSockets
3 4 (4.94%) Yocto
4 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.70%) React
5 2 (2.47%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.47%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.47%) J2EE
5 2 (2.47%) Java EE
5 2 (2.47%) RESTful
5 2 (2.47%) SOAP
6 1 (1.23%) CSS
6 1 (1.23%) EDI
6 1 (1.23%) HTML
6 1 (1.23%) Node.js
6 1 (1.23%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Device Driver
2 7 (8.64%) Algorithms
2 7 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 5 (6.17%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.70%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.70%) Replication
7 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.23%) Clustering
8 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.23%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.23%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.23%) FMCG
8 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) IPTV
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (35.80%) Windows
2 16 (19.75%) Unix
3 9 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (9.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
6 5 (6.17%) Solaris
6 5 (6.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.70%) AIX
8 2 (2.47%) zOS
9 1 (1.23%) Android
9 1 (1.23%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (1.23%) Rocky
9 1 (1.23%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.04%) CI/CD
2 23 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.40%) Software Engineering
3 20 (24.69%) Agile
4 15 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (17.28%) DevOps
6 10 (12.35%) Fintech
7 9 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
7 9 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 8 (9.88%) SIEM
9 7 (8.64%) Incident Response
9 7 (8.64%) Kalman Filter
9 7 (8.64%) Open Source
9 7 (8.64%) OSINT
9 7 (8.64%) Service-Level Objective
10 6 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) Python
2 21 (25.93%) C
2 21 (25.93%) Java
3 17 (20.99%) SQL
4 16 (19.75%) C++
5 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
6 8 (9.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.94%) Bash
8 4 (4.94%) Embedded C
8 4 (4.94%) Perl
9 2 (2.47%) Go
10 1 (1.23%) C#
10 1 (1.23%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.23%) PHP
10 1 (1.23%) Scala
10 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) Degree
4 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.23%) CCDP
6 1 (1.23%) CCNP
6 1 (1.23%) CCSP
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) GCIA
6 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.23%) RHCE
6 1 (1.23%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.23%) ECSS
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 18 (22.22%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (7.41%) Firmware
3 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.70%) KVM
5 2 (2.47%) vSphere
6 1 (1.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 17 (20.99%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.05%) Terraform
3 9 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (4.94%) Grafana
4 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.47%) Istio
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.23%) Argo
6 1 (1.23%) OpenNebula
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
6 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Red Hat
2 7 (8.64%) VMware
3 6 (7.41%) IBM
3 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.17%) ArcSight
4 5 (6.17%) Splunk
5 4 (4.94%) IBM Sterling
6 3 (3.70%) Cisco
6 3 (3.70%) SAP
7 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.47%) Informatica
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle
7 2 (2.47%) Sybase
8 1 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.23%) Qualys
8 1 (1.23%) Veritas