Linux Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 32 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 3,794 3,634 6,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.81% 7.55% 7.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.93% 42.82% 43.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 2,165 3,594
10th Percentile £34,918 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +7.14%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8,838 8,487 14,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.54% 17.63% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,376 5,618 9,333
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +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 26 July 2024.

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 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
South East -2 1,099 £55,000 +5.77% 138
South West +5 771 £55,000 - 83
North of England +13 681 £50,000 -9.09% 94
Midlands +20 524 £50,000 -9.09% 66
North West +13 440 £52,500 -12.50% 57
East of England +12 298 £55,000 -8.33% 56
Scotland -40 295 £50,000 -9.09% 48
East Midlands +30 283 £47,500 -13.64% 18
West Midlands -5 241 £55,000 - 48
Yorkshire +11 195 £45,000 -13.46% 26
Wales +19 97 £50,000 - 7
North East -2 46 £56,000 +24.44% 11
Northern Ireland -17 31 £52,500 +5.00% 18
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1
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
1 213 (5.61%) Apache
2 99 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 70 (1.85%) nginx
4 69 (1.82%) WebLogic
5 63 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 58 (1.53%) IIS
7 52 (1.37%) Apache Spark
8 48 (1.27%) Confluence
9 46 (1.21%) OpenStack
10 34 (0.90%) Tomcat
11 27 (0.71%) Oracle Service Bus
12 23 (0.61%) Jupyter
13 18 (0.47%) WebSphere
14 11 (0.29%) Tuxedo
15 10 (0.26%) CMS
15 10 (0.26%) Drupal
15 10 (0.26%) Moodle
16 9 (0.24%) Totara
16 9 (0.24%) WordPress
17 7 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 95 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (1.90%) Simulink
3 69 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 28 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.29%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Stateflow
9 3 (0.079%) Fusion 360
9 3 (0.079%) GNU Octave
9 3 (0.079%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.053%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.053%) Windchill
11 1 (0.026%) 1Password
11 1 (0.026%) CATIA
11 1 (0.026%) Doxygen
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.026%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 40 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 28 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.42%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.13%) Maximo
5 5 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.11%) C-CURE
6 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.053%) Magento
8 2 (0.053%) Shopify
9 1 (0.026%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.026%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.026%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.026%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.026%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,060 (27.94%) Azure
2 759 (20.01%) AWS
3 270 (7.12%) IBM Cloud
4 246 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
5 196 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (4.74%) Serverless
7 144 (3.80%) GCP
8 134 (3.53%) Entra ID
9 123 (3.24%) SaaS
10 119 (3.14%) Azure Functions
10 119 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 118 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 115 (3.03%) Azure API Management
13 114 (3.00%) OpenShift
14 93 (2.45%) Amazon S3
15 88 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
16 80 (2.11%) GitHub
17 67 (1.77%) IaaS
18 59 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
19 58 (1.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 438 (11.54%) Firewall
2 257 (6.77%) DNS
3 224 (5.90%) TCP/IP
4 205 (5.40%) Internet
5 162 (4.27%) VPN
6 154 (4.06%) DHCP
7 151 (3.98%) Network Security
8 113 (2.98%) SAN
9 108 (2.85%) WAN
10 104 (2.74%) Wireless
11 102 (2.69%) 5G
12 84 (2.21%) WLAN
13 82 (2.16%) LAN
14 78 (2.06%) HTTP
15 74 (1.95%) Broadband
16 71 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
17 65 (1.71%) SSL
18 64 (1.69%) BGP
18 64 (1.69%) SNMP
19 62 (1.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 346 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
3 333 (8.78%) NoSQL
4 261 (6.88%) DB2
5 236 (6.22%) MySQL
6 234 (6.17%) Relational Database
7 216 (5.69%) SQL Server
8 114 (3.00%) Oracle Database
9 85 (2.24%) Big Data
10 84 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
11 75 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
12 58 (1.53%) RDBMS
13 56 (1.48%) Hadoop
14 33 (0.87%) Redis
15 29 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
16 28 (0.74%) MariaDB
16 28 (0.74%) Oracle Database 11g
17 27 (0.71%) Oracle Database 10g
17 27 (0.71%) VLDB
18 20 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 268 (7.06%) Git
2 213 (5.61%) JIRA
3 144 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 70 (1.85%) GitLab
5 53 (1.40%) Visual Studio
6 52 (1.37%) Subversion
7 37 (0.98%) Vagrant
8 33 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 26 (0.69%) Eclipse
10 19 (0.50%) Robot Framework
11 16 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 15 (0.40%) Artifactory
13 14 (0.37%) Maven
14 13 (0.34%) CMake
14 13 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.29%) GDB
16 10 (0.26%) JMeter
16 10 (0.26%) webpack
17 9 (0.24%) Trac
17 9 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 722 (19.03%) Social Skills
2 400 (10.54%) Public Sector
3 348 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 344 (9.07%) Finance
5 317 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 247 (6.51%) Aerospace
7 163 (4.30%) Electronics
8 155 (4.09%) Manufacturing
9 110 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 93 (2.45%) Law
11 83 (2.19%) Marketing
12 76 (2.00%) Retail
13 75 (1.98%) Automotive
14 61 (1.61%) Military
15 51 (1.34%) Legal
16 40 (1.05%) Banking
17 33 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
19 21 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
20 20 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 745 (19.64%) Software Engineer
2 609 (16.05%) Senior
3 504 (13.28%) Developer
4 365 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 268 (7.06%) Embedded Engineer
6 251 (6.62%) Linux Engineer
7 232 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 217 (5.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 214 (5.64%) Support Engineer
10 209 (5.51%) Lead
11 202 (5.32%) Architect
12 187 (4.93%) IT Engineer
13 177 (4.67%) IT Support
14 158 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
15 155 (4.09%) Full Stack Developer
16 141 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
17 139 (3.66%) Administrator
18 136 (3.58%) Full Stack Engineer
19 135 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
20 129 (3.40%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (11.65%) HTML
2 394 (10.38%) CSS
3 392 (10.33%) React
4 376 (9.91%) REST
5 348 (9.17%) .NET
6 317 (8.36%) Web Services
7 313 (8.25%) AngularJS
8 273 (7.20%) jQuery
9 272 (7.17%) Vue
10 243 (6.40%) ASP.NET
11 240 (6.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 232 (6.11%) Node.js
13 231 (6.09%) ASP.NET Core
13 231 (6.09%) Backbone.js
13 231 (6.09%) Ember.js
14 158 (4.16%) RabbitMQ
15 92 (2.42%) Middleware
16 83 (2.19%) XML
17 81 (2.13%) Spring Boot
18 74 (1.95%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 366 (9.65%) Algorithms
2 327 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 270 (7.12%) Blockchain
4 262 (6.91%) Data Centre
5 246 (6.48%) Data Structures
6 151 (3.98%) Public Cloud
7 128 (3.37%) e-Learning
8 114 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 104 (2.74%) IoT
10 102 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
10 102 (2.69%) Management Information System
11 92 (2.42%) Driving Licence
12 82 (2.16%) Onboarding
13 77 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
14 76 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
15 75 (1.98%) Cloud Native
16 67 (1.77%) Social Media
17 66 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
18 60 (1.58%) PKI
19 46 (1.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,611 (42.46%) Windows
2 382 (10.07%) Windows Server
3 338 (8.91%) Android
4 305 (8.04%) Unix
5 302 (7.96%) Embedded Linux
6 286 (7.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 282 (7.43%) Ubuntu
8 258 (6.80%) Apple iOS
9 226 (5.96%) CentOS
10 136 (3.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 123 (3.24%) Debian
12 94 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
13 81 (2.13%) Windows 10
14 80 (2.11%) Solaris
15 67 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
16 50 (1.32%) Data ONTAP
17 46 (1.21%) Alpine Linux
18 41 (1.08%) Mac OS
19 37 (0.98%) AIX
20 24 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (26.36%) Software Engineering
2 876 (23.09%) Agile
3 702 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
4 690 (18.19%) DevOps
5 565 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 465 (12.26%) Computer Science
7 442 (11.65%) Mentoring
8 435 (11.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 397 (10.46%) CI/CD
10 377 (9.94%) OO
11 340 (8.96%) Full Stack Development
12 323 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
13 321 (8.46%) User Experience
14 304 (8.01%) MVC
15 302 (7.96%) Web Development
16 299 (7.88%) OOP
17 295 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
18 287 (7.56%) Actionable Insight
19 270 (7.12%) Co-Creation
20 262 (6.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,145 (30.18%) Python
2 775 (20.43%) SQL
3 642 (16.92%) Java
4 626 (16.50%) C++
5 591 (15.58%) JavaScript
6 585 (15.42%) C
7 465 (12.26%) Bash
8 434 (11.44%) C#
9 289 (7.62%) PowerShell
10 152 (4.01%) PHP
11 137 (3.61%) Embedded C
12 103 (2.71%) Perl
13 96 (2.53%) Shell Script
14 75 (1.98%) PL/SQL
15 70 (1.85%) TypeScript
16 69 (1.82%) Kotlin
17 62 (1.63%) Rust
18 61 (1.61%) VB
19 50 (1.32%) Fortran
20 44 (1.16%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 917 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 784 (20.66%) Degree
3 482 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 384 (10.12%) DV Cleared
5 300 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 171 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
7 167 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 154 (4.06%) CCNA
9 136 (3.58%) MCSE
10 120 (3.16%) Azure Certification
11 110 (2.90%) CCNP
12 96 (2.53%) Master's Degree
13 81 (2.13%) AWS Certification
14 75 (1.98%) MCP
15 71 (1.87%) PhD
16 67 (1.77%) LPIC
17 59 (1.56%) MCSA
18 54 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 43 (1.13%) HND
20 38 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (2.42%) SLA
2 69 (1.82%) QA
3 55 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (1.03%) GDPR
5 29 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 29 (0.76%) PMO
6 18 (0.47%) NIST
7 17 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 12 (0.32%) JTAG
10 9 (0.24%) ITGC
11 8 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.18%) ISO 9000
12 7 (0.18%) NCSC
13 6 (0.16%) ISO 13485
13 6 (0.16%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.11%) AUTOSAR
15 4 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 480 (12.65%) Docker
2 409 (10.78%) Active Directory
3 394 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 172 (4.53%) Hyper-V
5 147 (3.87%) Firmware
6 95 (2.50%) vSphere
7 86 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
8 74 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
9 58 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
10 35 (0.92%) VMware NSX
11 33 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
12 29 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
12 29 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
13 19 (0.50%) pfSense
14 18 (0.47%) NFS
15 15 (0.40%) KVM
16 14 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 12 (0.32%) VMware Server
18 11 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
19 10 (0.26%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 596 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 516 (13.60%) Ansible
3 388 (10.23%) Terraform
4 173 (4.56%) Puppet
5 121 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 118 (3.11%) vCenter Server
7 98 (2.58%) Prometheus
8 82 (2.16%) Grafana
9 72 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
10 62 (1.63%) SCCM
11 60 (1.58%) ZABBIX
12 53 (1.40%) Progress Chef
12 53 (1.40%) SCOM
13 46 (1.21%) WSUS
14 37 (0.98%) Nagios
15 35 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
16 33 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 30 (0.79%) Data Guard
18 27 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
19 24 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 758 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 568 (14.97%) Red Hat
3 561 (14.79%) VMware
4 340 (8.96%) Oracle
5 316 (8.33%) IBM
6 245 (6.46%) Cisco
7 89 (2.35%) NetApp
8 86 (2.27%) Palo Alto
9 83 (2.19%) Veeam
10 77 (2.03%) Google
11 74 (1.95%) CyberArk
12 73 (1.92%) Xilinx
13 67 (1.77%) Tanium
14 53 (1.40%) EMC
15 49 (1.29%) Dell
15 49 (1.29%) SAP
15 49 (1.29%) SolidFire
16 46 (1.21%) Fortinet
17 43 (1.13%) Citrix
17 43 (1.13%) Splunk