linkerd Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring linkerd skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 - 768
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing linkerd 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.003%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.18% - 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £55,250 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £107,500 -
% change year-on-year -41.86% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

linkerd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,718 3,201 6,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.12% 10.87% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,092 1,577 4,284
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing linkerd relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

linkerd job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing linkerd.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing linkerd

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing linkerd within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
North West - 4 £62,500 - 1
North of England - 4 £62,500 - 1
South West - 1 - -
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (20.00%) AutoML
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) GitOps
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Istio
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (20.00%) Mesos
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google