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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 72 28
Rank change year-on-year +2 -44 -5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 103 355 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.36% 5.28% 8.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 44.94% 51.32%
Number of salaries quoted 81 169 220
10th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £67,125
90th Percentile £75,360 £80,000 £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 206 790 760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.71% 11.76% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 159 413 425
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,050 £28,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,875 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,200 £77,500 £74,600
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 46 £57,500 -4.17% 50
Glasgow +72 21 £62,500 +25.00% 35
Lanarkshire -2 11 £62,500 +127.27% 8
West Lothian -4 9 £62,500 +4.17% 6
Renfrewshire - 5 £45,000 - 13
Fife -6 4 £50,000 - 1
Aberdeen +28 2 £50,000 - 4
Dundee +4 2 £50,890 +1.80% 5
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 -
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 12 (11.65%) Apache
2 6 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.94%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.42%) Azure
2 18 (17.48%) AWS
3 10 (9.71%) GCP
4 9 (8.74%) GitHub
5 5 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.88%) CloudBees
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.91%) SaaS
7 3 (2.91%) Serverless
8 2 (1.94%) Apigee
8 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.94%) Sentry
9 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.97%) OCI
9 1 (0.97%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.65%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.77%) Modbus
3 6 (5.83%) Firewall
4 5 (4.85%) Ethernet
4 5 (4.85%) RS-232
5 4 (3.88%) DNS
6 3 (2.91%) DHCP
6 3 (2.91%) VPN
7 2 (1.94%) FTP
7 2 (1.94%) SSL
8 1 (0.97%) BGP
8 1 (0.97%) HTTP
8 1 (0.97%) Multicast
8 1 (0.97%) OSPF
8 1 (0.97%) RTP
8 1 (0.97%) RTSP
8 1 (0.97%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.94%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.94%) DB2
5 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.97%) MySQL
6 1 (0.97%) Power BI
6 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.77%) JUnit
3 7 (6.80%) Git
4 5 (4.85%) Eclipse
4 5 (4.85%) Eclipse RCP
4 5 (4.85%) Selenium
4 5 (4.85%) TestNG
5 4 (3.88%) GitLab
6 3 (2.91%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.94%) JIRA
7 2 (1.94%) Maven
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.94%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.97%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.97%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.97%) Subversion
8 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (18.45%) Finance
1 19 (18.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Banking
5 5 (4.85%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.85%) Tech for Good
6 4 (3.88%) Electronics
7 3 (2.91%) Law
7 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.97%) Front Office
8 1 (0.97%) Legal
8 1 (0.97%) Military
8 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (34.95%) Senior
2 26 (25.24%) Software Engineer
3 16 (15.53%) Analyst
3 16 (15.53%) Embedded Engineer
4 14 (13.59%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.68%) Developer
7 9 (8.74%) Firmware Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Senior Firmware Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Lead
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Junior Software Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.85%) Team Leader
11 5 (4.85%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.71%) Middleware
2 9 (8.74%) CSS
2 9 (8.74%) HTML
3 6 (5.83%) REST
4 5 (4.85%) JSP
4 5 (4.85%) React
4 5 (4.85%) Spring
5 4 (3.88%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.88%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.88%) WebSockets
5 4 (3.88%) Yocto
6 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.91%) OpenFin
6 3 (2.91%) RESTful
7 2 (1.94%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.94%) J2EE
7 2 (1.94%) Java EE
7 2 (1.94%) SOAP
8 1 (0.97%) .NET
8 1 (0.97%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Device Driver
2 10 (9.71%) Algorithms
2 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.80%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.83%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.85%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.85%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.91%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.94%) Life Science
8 2 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.97%) FMCG
9 1 (0.97%) IPTV
9 1 (0.97%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.98%) Windows
2 18 (17.48%) Unix
3 14 (13.59%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (7.77%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.85%) Solaris
6 4 (3.88%) VMS
7 3 (2.91%) AIX
8 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.94%) zOS
9 1 (0.97%) Android
9 1 (0.97%) Debian
9 1 (0.97%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.97%) Rocky
9 1 (0.97%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.95%) CI/CD
2 31 (30.10%) Software Engineering
3 25 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.39%) Agile
5 19 (18.45%) SDLC
6 17 (16.50%) Mentoring
7 16 (15.53%) DevOps
8 14 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (11.65%) Continuous Deployment
10 11 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.71%) Fintech
11 10 (9.71%) OO
12 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.74%) Multithreading
12 9 (8.74%) SIEM
13 8 (7.77%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (7.77%) Incident Response
13 8 (7.77%) Software Architecture
13 8 (7.77%) Test Automation
14 7 (6.80%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.95%) Python
2 29 (28.16%) Java
3 25 (24.27%) C
3 25 (24.27%) C++
3 25 (24.27%) SQL
4 18 (17.48%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.74%) Bash
6 8 (7.77%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (5.83%) C#
7 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.85%) Ada
8 5 (4.85%) Rust
9 4 (3.88%) Embedded C
9 4 (3.88%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.91%) JCL
11 2 (1.94%) Go
12 1 (0.97%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.97%) Perl
12 1 (0.97%) PHP
12 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) Degree
2 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) DV Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.94%) CCNP
6 2 (1.94%) CISSP
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) CCDP
7 1 (0.97%) CCNA
7 1 (0.97%) CCSP
7 1 (0.97%) CISM
7 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.97%) PhD
7 1 (0.97%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.97%) ECSS
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 16 (15.53%) Docker
2 11 (10.68%) Embedded Firmware
2 11 (10.68%) Firmware
3 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) KVM
4 2 (1.94%) vSphere
5 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 19 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.74%) Terraform
3 8 (7.77%) Ansible
4 3 (2.91%) CA Endevor
5 2 (1.94%) Grafana
5 2 (1.94%) Istio
5 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.94%) Puppet
6 1 (0.97%) Argo
6 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.97%) OpenNebula
6 1 (0.97%) Opsview
Vendors
1 9 (8.74%) VMware
2 7 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.85%) ArcSight
3 5 (4.85%) IBM
3 5 (4.85%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.88%) IBM Sterling
5 3 (2.91%) Oracle
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco
6 2 (1.94%) Informatica
6 2 (1.94%) New Relic
6 2 (1.94%) Sybase
7 1 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.97%) Qualys
7 1 (0.97%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.97%) Splunk
7 1 (0.97%) Veritas