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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 25 44
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 -21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 295 343 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.18% 9.04% 6.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.38% 50.07% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 169 206 269
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,227 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £69,035
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +7.14%

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 636 685 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.16% 18.05% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 361 396 588
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,709
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,610 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -9.32% +23.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Glasgow -70 121 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Edinburgh +8 106 £55,000 - 22
West Lothian -1 22 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Aberdeen -10 12 £50,000 -18.37% 5
Dundee +2 11 £49,990 +33.31%
Aberdeenshire -7 6 £38,000 -41.54% 7
Fife -12 2 - -
Lanarkshire -13 1 - - 8
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 -
Scottish Borders - 1 £25,000 -
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 16 (5.42%) Apache
2 11 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.71%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.37%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.69%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.36%) WildFly
8 3 (1.02%) IIS
9 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.68%) Windchill
4 1 (0.34%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (3.05%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (2.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.68%) Azure
2 51 (17.29%) AWS
3 24 (8.14%) GCP
4 17 (5.76%) IaaS
4 17 (5.76%) PaaS
5 15 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.73%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.05%) SaaS
9 8 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.69%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.36%) Google Docs
12 3 (1.02%) Asana
12 3 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.02%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.02%) Slack
13 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.68%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.85%) Firewall
2 29 (9.83%) Network Security
3 28 (9.49%) VPN
4 16 (5.42%) WAN
4 16 (5.42%) Wireless
5 15 (5.08%) SD-WAN
6 12 (4.07%) Ethernet
7 11 (3.73%) RS-232
7 11 (3.73%) SNMP
7 11 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.39%) DNS
8 10 (3.39%) Internet
8 10 (3.39%) IPsec
9 9 (3.05%) TCP/IP
10 8 (2.71%) BGP
10 8 (2.71%) SSL
11 4 (1.36%) LAN
11 4 (1.36%) VoIP
12 2 (0.68%) DHCP
13 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.08%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.75%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.07%) RDBMS
5 11 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.05%) DB2
7 8 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.71%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.03%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.69%) Big Data
10 5 (1.69%) Pentaho
11 4 (1.36%) MySQL
12 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.02%) Ingres
13 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
14 1 (0.34%) Event Store
14 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
14 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (4.07%) Git
2 10 (3.39%) JIRA
3 8 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.02%) GitLab
5 3 (1.02%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) JUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.34%) GoCD
7 1 (0.34%) Gradle
7 1 (0.34%) Subversion
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (44.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 87 (29.49%) Finance
3 69 (23.39%) Social Skills
4 56 (18.98%) Law
5 34 (11.53%) Legal
6 26 (8.81%) Marketing
7 23 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (7.12%) Manufacturing
9 16 (5.42%) Aerospace
9 16 (5.42%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.05%) Banking
11 7 (2.37%) Automotive
12 6 (2.03%) Electronics
13 5 (1.69%) Military
14 4 (1.36%) Retail
14 4 (1.36%) Retail Banking
15 3 (1.02%) Aviation
15 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (46.44%) Software Engineer
2 46 (15.59%) Senior
3 34 (11.53%) Lead
4 32 (10.85%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (8.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 23 (7.80%) Developer
7 22 (7.46%) Embedded Engineer
8 21 (7.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (6.44%) Support Engineer
10 18 (6.10%) Architect
11 16 (5.42%) C Software Engineer
11 16 (5.42%) C++ Software Engineer
12 14 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (4.75%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 14 (4.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 13 (4.41%) Consultant
14 12 (4.07%) Java Engineer
14 12 (4.07%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.73%) .NET Developer
15 11 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (5.42%) .NET
3 14 (4.75%) Spring Boot
4 13 (4.41%) Yocto
5 11 (3.73%) Blazor
6 10 (3.39%) HTML
6 10 (3.39%) YAML
7 9 (3.05%) CSS
7 9 (3.05%) Web Services
8 8 (2.71%) REST
8 8 (2.71%) SOAP
9 6 (2.03%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.03%) Spring
10 5 (1.69%) Kafka
10 5 (1.69%) LDAP
10 5 (1.69%) OpenCV
10 5 (1.69%) OpenVINO
10 5 (1.69%) React
10 5 (1.69%) RESTful
11 4 (1.36%) OpenJDK
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.53%) Data Centre
2 31 (10.51%) Algorithms
3 26 (8.81%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.07%) Device Driver
5 12 (4.07%) Replication
6 8 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.69%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.68%) IoT
10 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.68%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.68%) PACS
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 104 (35.25%) Windows
2 41 (13.90%) Unix
3 38 (12.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.08%) Embedded Linux
5 13 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.39%) Data ONTAP
7 6 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.69%) Mac OS X
8 5 (1.69%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.36%) AIX
9 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.36%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.02%) Android
10 3 (1.02%) CentOS
10 3 (1.02%) Debian
10 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.68%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (51.19%) Software Engineering
2 95 (32.20%) Agile
3 75 (25.42%) SDLC
4 58 (19.66%) CI/CD
5 57 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (17.29%) Community of Practice
7 42 (14.24%) DevOps
8 35 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (11.53%) Artificial Intelligence
9 34 (11.53%) Machine Learning
10 33 (11.19%) Visualisation
11 32 (10.85%) Risk Management
12 30 (10.17%) Project Management
13 27 (9.15%) Mentoring
14 26 (8.81%) Operational Stability
15 25 (8.47%) Actionable Insight
15 25 (8.47%) Continuous Delivery
15 25 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (8.14%) Architectural Design
16 24 (8.14%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 118 (40.00%) Python
2 91 (30.85%) Java
3 80 (27.12%) SQL
4 50 (16.95%) C
5 40 (13.56%) C++
6 28 (9.49%) Embedded C
7 25 (8.47%) PL/SQL
8 20 (6.78%) Bash
9 13 (4.41%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.39%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.03%) Embedded C++
11 6 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.69%) C#
13 4 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.36%) VB
14 3 (1.02%) Perl
14 3 (1.02%) Ruby
15 2 (0.68%) Elixir
15 2 (0.68%) Groovy
15 2 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (13.90%) Degree
2 20 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (5.42%) CCNA
3 16 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (4.75%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (3.39%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.05%) CISA
9 6 (2.03%) CISSP
9 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.69%) CISM
10 5 (1.69%) GCIA
10 5 (1.69%) GCIH
10 5 (1.69%) GREM
11 4 (1.36%) CCDP
11 4 (1.36%) CCNP
11 4 (1.36%) CCSP
11 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.05%) ITGC
1 9 (3.05%) PMO
2 4 (1.36%) QA
3 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.68%) DICOM
3 2 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.34%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.34%) JTAG
4 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (8.14%) Docker
3 12 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.07%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.03%) Firmware
6 5 (1.69%) KVM
7 4 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.68%) vSphere
8 2 (0.68%) Xen
9 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 77 (26.10%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.20%) Ansible
3 27 (9.15%) Terraform
4 12 (4.07%) FortiGate
5 10 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.39%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.37%) Grafana
7 5 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.02%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) Puppet
11 1 (0.34%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 79 (26.78%) Oracle
2 43 (14.58%) VMware
3 23 (7.80%) Microsoft
4 22 (7.46%) NetApp
5 19 (6.44%) Cisco
6 13 (4.41%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.73%) Splunk
8 10 (3.39%) Google
8 10 (3.39%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.39%) SAP
8 10 (3.39%) SolidFire
9 9 (3.05%) Sage
9 9 (3.05%) Sybase
10 8 (2.71%) Sparx
11 7 (2.37%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.69%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.69%) CA
12 5 (1.69%) Dell
13 4 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.36%) CyberArk