Linux Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 29 40 26
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,388 4,572 5,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.50% 6.85% 8.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.71% 38.65% 43.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,547 2,808 3,569
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £69,800 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,029 £80,000 £74,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,013 11,830 12,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.88% 17.73% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,519 7,832 9,266
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £57,688
90th Percentile £73,800 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
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 Linux within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
South East +10 719 £52,500 - 343
South West +6 537 £54,000 -1.82% 200
North of England +13 465 £55,000 - 221
North West +29 274 £60,000 +9.09% 120
Midlands -18 222 £57,500 +15.00% 103
Scotland +6 211 £60,000 +2.64% 85
Yorkshire +3 176 £55,000 - 87
East of England +1 154 £65,000 +8.33% 162
West Midlands -10 126 £56,000 +12.00% 61
East Midlands -12 95 £60,000 +15.38% 42
Wales +8 55 £62,500 +38.89% 16
Northern Ireland +8 50 £50,000 -4.76% 13
North East -8 14 £61,250 +53.13% 22
Channel Islands +9 1 £55,000 +10.00%
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 68 (2.85%) Confluence
2 65 (2.72%) Apache
3 42 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 40 (1.68%) nginx
5 39 (1.63%) IIS
6 27 (1.13%) WebSphere
7 24 (1.01%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.88%) Apache Spark
9 19 (0.80%) WebLogic
10 16 (0.67%) Captiva
10 16 (0.67%) FileNet
11 12 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.50%) MS Exchange
12 11 (0.46%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
13 8 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.25%) WordPress
15 5 (0.21%) JBoss
16 3 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
16 3 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.46%) Simulink
4 8 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.17%) OrCAD
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.084%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.25%) Exstream
3 4 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.084%) Magento
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.042%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.042%) Shopify
6 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 716 (29.98%) AWS
2 687 (28.77%) Azure
3 253 (10.59%) GCP
4 197 (8.25%) OpenShift
5 181 (7.58%) SaaS
6 176 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
7 150 (6.28%) Serverless
8 117 (4.90%) IaaS
9 116 (4.86%) PaaS
10 104 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
11 82 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 81 (3.39%) GitHub
13 67 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
14 60 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
15 57 (2.39%) Amazon S3
16 56 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
17 45 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
18 37 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
19 35 (1.47%) Entra ID
20 30 (1.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 296 (12.40%) TCP/IP
2 270 (11.31%) DNS
3 256 (10.72%) Firewall
4 215 (9.00%) DHCP
5 138 (5.78%) HTTP
6 123 (5.15%) SAN
7 83 (3.48%) WAN
8 81 (3.39%) VPN
9 69 (2.89%) Wireless
10 55 (2.30%) Network Security
11 53 (2.22%) VLAN
12 52 (2.18%) LAN
13 45 (1.88%) Internet
14 38 (1.59%) IPv4
15 33 (1.38%) SD-WAN
16 30 (1.26%) OSPF
17 29 (1.21%) VoIP
18 27 (1.13%) SNMP
18 27 (1.13%) SSL
18 27 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (6.95%) MySQL
2 103 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 92 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 84 (3.52%) Relational Database
5 60 (2.51%) Big Data
6 48 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (2.01%) NoSQL
7 47 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 43 (1.80%) RDBMS
9 39 (1.63%) Oracle Database
10 30 (1.26%) Redis
11 21 (0.88%) Power BI
12 20 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (0.84%) InfluxDB
13 19 (0.80%) DB2
13 19 (0.80%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.67%) MariaDB
15 14 (0.59%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.54%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 243 (10.18%) Jenkins
2 216 (9.05%) Git
3 162 (6.78%) JIRA
4 94 (3.94%) GitLab
5 63 (2.64%) Maven
6 56 (2.35%) SonarQube
7 45 (1.88%) Selenium
8 36 (1.51%) Artifactory
9 28 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
10 27 (1.13%) Robot Framework
11 25 (1.05%) Subversion
12 21 (0.88%) Bitbucket
13 20 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 19 (0.80%) CMake
15 16 (0.67%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.67%) Gradle
15 16 (0.67%) IBM UrbanCode
16 15 (0.63%) SoapUI
17 14 (0.59%) Visual Studio
18 12 (0.50%) MSI
General
1 593 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 297 (12.44%) Finance
3 193 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (4.86%) Banking
6 98 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 94 (3.94%) Aerospace
8 86 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 80 (3.35%) Retail
10 78 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (3.10%) Public Sector
12 65 (2.72%) Electronics
13 49 (2.05%) Telecoms
14 47 (1.97%) Law
14 47 (1.97%) Marketing
15 45 (1.88%) Automotive
16 39 (1.63%) Games
17 32 (1.34%) Military
18 23 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.75%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 412 (17.25%) Senior
2 357 (14.95%) Software Engineer
3 301 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 290 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 212 (8.88%) Developer
6 183 (7.66%) Architect
7 160 (6.70%) Analyst
8 156 (6.53%) Linux Engineer
9 129 (5.40%) Support Engineer
10 125 (5.23%) Lead
11 123 (5.15%) Administrator
12 117 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
13 101 (4.23%) Embedded Engineer
14 92 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
15 85 (3.56%) Infrastructure Architect
16 79 (3.31%) Junior
17 78 (3.27%) DBA
17 78 (3.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
18 67 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
19 64 (2.68%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
2 82 (3.43%) HTML
3 74 (3.10%) Node.js
4 70 (2.93%) .NET
5 62 (2.60%) REST
6 61 (2.55%) XML
7 60 (2.51%) CSS
8 54 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
8 54 (2.26%) React
9 42 (1.76%) JSON
9 42 (1.76%) YAML
9 42 (1.76%) Yocto
10 41 (1.72%) Kafka
11 37 (1.55%) Spring
12 33 (1.38%) LAMP
12 33 (1.38%) Protocol Buffers
13 32 (1.34%) LDAP
14 29 (1.21%) AngularJS
15 27 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
15 27 (1.13%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 175 (7.33%) Public Cloud
2 140 (5.86%) Data Centre
3 100 (4.19%) Private Cloud
4 78 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 76 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
6 75 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 68 (2.85%) Embedded Systems
8 63 (2.64%) Virtual Team
9 60 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 48 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
12 45 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 38 (1.59%) IoT
14 34 (1.42%) Cyberattack
14 34 (1.42%) Mainframe
15 32 (1.34%) PKI
16 30 (1.26%) CMDB
16 30 (1.26%) Mali
16 30 (1.26%) Replication
16 30 (1.26%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,122 (46.98%) Windows
2 331 (13.86%) Unix
3 315 (13.19%) Windows Server
4 242 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 166 (6.95%) Android
6 120 (5.03%) CentOS
7 110 (4.61%) Ubuntu
8 70 (2.93%) Mac OS
9 68 (2.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 67 (2.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 63 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
12 54 (2.26%) Debian
12 54 (2.26%) Embedded Linux
13 40 (1.68%) Windows 10
14 39 (1.63%) Solaris
15 31 (1.30%) Apple iOS
16 12 (0.50%) HPUX
17 11 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
18 10 (0.42%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.38%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (26.55%) DevOps
2 611 (25.59%) Agile
3 511 (21.40%) Software Engineering
4 456 (19.10%) CI/CD
5 378 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 354 (14.82%) Actionable Insight
7 339 (14.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 308 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 281 (11.77%) Configuration Management
10 263 (11.01%) Mentoring
11 256 (10.72%) Containerisation
12 204 (8.54%) Microservices
13 192 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
14 180 (7.54%) Continuous Integration
15 158 (6.62%) Computer Science
16 155 (6.49%) ITIL
17 137 (5.74%) Scrum
18 131 (5.49%) Project Management
19 121 (5.07%) Test Automation
20 119 (4.98%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 912 (38.19%) Python
2 474 (19.85%) Java
3 427 (17.88%) Bash
4 362 (15.16%) PowerShell
5 322 (13.48%) C++
5 322 (13.48%) SQL
6 271 (11.35%) C
7 169 (7.08%) JavaScript
8 117 (4.90%) PHP
9 109 (4.56%) Shell Script
10 94 (3.94%) Perl
11 74 (3.10%) Ruby
12 73 (3.06%) Go
13 71 (2.97%) C#
14 59 (2.47%) Rust
15 37 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 32 (1.34%) MATLAB
17 30 (1.26%) Groovy
18 27 (1.13%) VBScript
19 24 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 679 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 405 (16.96%) Degree
3 327 (13.69%) SC Cleared
4 269 (11.26%) DV Cleared
5 94 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
6 68 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 62 (2.60%) AWS Certification
9 52 (2.18%) MCSE
10 36 (1.51%) CCNA
11 35 (1.47%) Linux+ Certification
12 30 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
14 26 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 25 (1.05%) Master's Degree
15 25 (1.05%) PhD
16 23 (0.96%) CCNP
17 17 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.59%) CISSP
19 12 (0.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.06%) QA
2 67 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (1.55%) SLA
4 25 (1.05%) GDPR
5 24 (1.01%) PMO
6 22 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (0.71%) NIST
8 13 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
10 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
11 7 (0.29%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.21%) GRC
12 5 (0.21%) NCSC
13 4 (0.17%) ITGC
13 4 (0.17%) MISRA
13 4 (0.17%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.13%) JTAG
System Software
1 454 (19.01%) Docker
2 293 (12.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 265 (11.10%) Active Directory
4 147 (6.16%) Hyper-V
5 72 (3.02%) Firmware
6 42 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
6 42 (1.76%) vSphere
7 24 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
8 22 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
9 17 (0.71%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.59%) LXC
12 13 (0.54%) KVM
12 13 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (0.34%) Samba
15 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 7 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
16 6 (0.25%) GPFS
17 5 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 582 (24.37%) Ansible
2 503 (21.06%) Terraform
3 446 (18.68%) Kubernetes
4 245 (10.26%) Puppet
5 68 (2.85%) Grafana
6 55 (2.30%) SCCM
7 50 (2.09%) Prometheus
8 48 (2.01%) SCOM
9 45 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 39 (1.63%) Nagios
11 27 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 22 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 19 (0.80%) HAProxy
14 18 (0.75%) Packer
14 18 (0.75%) Tivoli
14 18 (0.75%) ZABBIX
15 17 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
15 17 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
16 16 (0.67%) Data Guard
16 16 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 401 (16.79%) VMware
2 368 (15.41%) Microsoft
3 225 (9.42%) Red Hat
4 211 (8.84%) Oracle
5 156 (6.53%) Cisco
6 88 (3.69%) Google
7 73 (3.06%) IBM
8 61 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 58 (2.43%) Splunk
10 56 (2.35%) Apple
11 43 (1.80%) Atlassian
11 43 (1.80%) Fortinet
12 40 (1.68%) SAP
13 38 (1.59%) CheckPoint
14 37 (1.55%) Dell
15 34 (1.42%) HP
16 33 (1.38%) Dynatrace
17 32 (1.34%) Veeam
18 30 (1.26%) F5
19 26 (1.09%) NetApp