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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,258 4,380 7,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.08% 7.09% 10.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.25% 42.95% 48.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,802 2,471 3,614
10th Percentile £32,525 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 10,579 10,198 14,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.10% 16.50% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,222 6,430 9,397
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 1,163 £55,000 +10.00% 234
South West +4 836 £54,000 -1.82% 180
North of England +24 829 £50,000 - 141
North West +24 523 £52,500 - 84
Midlands +9 467 £50,000 -9.09% 122
East of England +11 423 £52,500 -8.70% 131
Scotland -39 362 £52,500 -4.55% 79
East Midlands +15 261 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Yorkshire +14 253 £47,500 -5.00% 49
West Midlands -8 206 £53,250 -3.18% 65
Wales +33 136 £50,000 - 10
North East -14 53 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Northern Ireland -2 46 £61,250 +18.93% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 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
1 211 (4.96%) Apache
2 134 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (2.21%) WebLogic
4 84 (1.97%) nginx
5 83 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 77 (1.81%) IIS
7 60 (1.41%) Confluence
8 51 (1.20%) OpenStack
9 47 (1.10%) Apache Spark
9 47 (1.10%) ArcGIS
10 45 (1.06%) Oracle Service Bus
11 40 (0.94%) GeoServer
12 37 (0.87%) WebSphere
13 34 (0.80%) Tomcat
14 22 (0.52%) Captiva
14 22 (0.52%) FileNet
14 22 (0.52%) Jupyter
15 14 (0.33%) WordPress
16 13 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
17 11 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 119 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.61%) Simulink
5 9 (0.21%) OrCAD
6 6 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
7 5 (0.12%) GNU Octave
8 4 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.094%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.094%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.047%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.047%) CATIA
10 2 (0.047%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.023%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 45 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.19%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.094%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.070%) Maximo
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.047%) Shopify
8 2 (0.047%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.023%) Magento
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.023%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.023%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,288 (30.25%) Azure
2 916 (21.51%) AWS
3 312 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
4 255 (5.99%) IBM Cloud
5 220 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 207 (4.86%) GCP
7 183 (4.30%) Serverless
8 175 (4.11%) Entra ID
9 142 (3.33%) OpenShift
10 141 (3.31%) SaaS
11 119 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 112 (2.63%) Azure Functions
13 111 (2.61%) GitHub
14 110 (2.58%) Azure API Management
15 109 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
16 102 (2.40%) Amazon S3
17 87 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
18 71 (1.67%) IaaS
19 64 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
20 62 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 551 (12.94%) Firewall
2 346 (8.13%) DNS
3 294 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 223 (5.24%) DHCP
5 196 (4.60%) VPN
6 167 (3.92%) SAN
7 140 (3.29%) Internet
8 135 (3.17%) WAN
9 131 (3.08%) Wireless
10 108 (2.54%) LAN
11 103 (2.42%) 5G
12 98 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (2.11%) Network Security
14 87 (2.04%) Broadband
15 83 (1.95%) SNMP
16 81 (1.90%) HTTP
17 76 (1.78%) VLAN
18 72 (1.69%) NAS
18 72 (1.69%) SSL
19 68 (1.60%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 353 (8.29%) MongoDB
3 288 (6.76%) MySQL
4 276 (6.48%) NoSQL
5 252 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 252 (5.92%) SQL Server
6 238 (5.59%) DB2
7 130 (3.05%) Oracle Database
8 86 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 81 (1.90%) Big Data
10 80 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 62 (1.46%) RDBMS
12 58 (1.36%) GIS
13 47 (1.10%) Hadoop
14 46 (1.08%) Oracle Database 11g
15 45 (1.06%) Oracle Database 10g
15 45 (1.06%) VLDB
16 40 (0.94%) QGIS
17 38 (0.89%) Power BI
18 37 (0.87%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 325 (7.63%) Git
2 280 (6.58%) JIRA
3 198 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.35%) Subversion
5 99 (2.33%) GitLab
6 60 (1.41%) Visual Studio
7 37 (0.87%) Eclipse
8 34 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 31 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
10 30 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 30 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
11 24 (0.56%) Ant
12 21 (0.49%) CMake
13 20 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.42%) Robot Framework
15 17 (0.40%) Maven
16 16 (0.38%) Trac
17 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
18 14 (0.33%) Gradle
18 14 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 868 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 500 (11.74%) Finance
3 410 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 381 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 371 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 218 (5.12%) Aerospace
7 199 (4.67%) Electronics
8 172 (4.04%) Manufacturing
9 143 (3.36%) Law
10 137 (3.22%) Marketing
11 131 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 91 (2.14%) Banking
13 77 (1.81%) Military
14 72 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (1.69%) Retail
15 71 (1.67%) Automotive
16 53 (1.24%) Legal
17 37 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
18 27 (0.63%) Games
19 22 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 874 (20.53%) Software Engineer
2 803 (18.86%) Senior
3 570 (13.39%) Developer
4 424 (9.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 314 (7.37%) Embedded Engineer
6 285 (6.69%) Lead
7 266 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
8 252 (5.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 252 (5.92%) Support Engineer
9 245 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
10 225 (5.28%) Linux Engineer
11 201 (4.72%) Administrator
12 180 (4.23%) Analyst
13 159 (3.73%) Full Stack Developer
14 155 (3.64%) IT Support
15 151 (3.55%) IT Engineer
16 149 (3.50%) Architect
16 149 (3.50%) Systems Engineer
17 142 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
18 135 (3.17%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (10.45%) HTML
2 416 (9.77%) React
3 389 (9.14%) CSS
4 362 (8.50%) REST
5 339 (7.96%) .NET
6 302 (7.09%) AngularJS
7 300 (7.05%) Web Services
8 276 (6.48%) jQuery
9 269 (6.32%) Vue
10 255 (5.99%) Node.js
11 235 (5.52%) ASP.NET
12 221 (5.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 213 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 213 (5.00%) Backbone.js
13 213 (5.00%) Ember.js
14 156 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
15 111 (2.61%) XML
16 82 (1.93%) Laravel
17 79 (1.86%) Qt
17 79 (1.86%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 365 (8.57%) Algorithms
2 311 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 281 (6.60%) Data Centre
4 255 (5.99%) Blockchain
5 223 (5.24%) Data Structures
6 220 (5.17%) Public Cloud
7 192 (4.51%) IoT
8 138 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
9 119 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
10 104 (2.44%) e-Learning
11 92 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
12 89 (2.09%) Management Information System
13 85 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
14 84 (1.97%) Cloud Native
15 78 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
16 67 (1.57%) Social Media
17 65 (1.53%) Device Driver
18 57 (1.34%) Replication
19 56 (1.32%) PKI
20 45 (1.06%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1,882 (44.20%) Windows
2 465 (10.92%) Windows Server
3 388 (9.11%) Unix
4 308 (7.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 298 (7.00%) Ubuntu
6 291 (6.83%) Android
7 257 (6.04%) Apple iOS
8 254 (5.97%) Embedded Linux
9 244 (5.73%) CentOS
10 159 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
11 134 (3.15%) Debian
12 101 (2.37%) Windows 10
13 100 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 99 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
15 79 (1.86%) Mac OS
16 73 (1.71%) Solaris
17 50 (1.17%) Data ONTAP
18 46 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
19 43 (1.01%) AIX
20 38 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,121 (26.33%) Software Engineering
2 1,003 (23.56%) Agile
3 917 (21.54%) DevOps
4 729 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
5 536 (12.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 515 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 475 (11.16%) CI/CD
8 460 (10.80%) Mentoring
9 436 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
10 379 (8.90%) Computer Science
11 374 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
12 370 (8.69%) OO
13 329 (7.73%) Web Development
14 328 (7.70%) Full Stack Development
15 323 (7.59%) User Experience
16 299 (7.02%) OOP
17 281 (6.60%) ITIL
18 278 (6.53%) SDLC
19 277 (6.51%) MVC
20 276 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,311 (30.79%) Python
2 895 (21.02%) SQL
3 719 (16.89%) Java
4 677 (15.90%) C
5 621 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 568 (13.34%) Bash
7 519 (12.19%) C++
8 464 (10.90%) C#
9 430 (10.10%) PowerShell
10 165 (3.88%) Embedded C
11 164 (3.85%) PHP
12 135 (3.17%) Shell Script
13 110 (2.58%) PL/SQL
14 92 (2.16%) Rust
15 91 (2.14%) Perl
15 91 (2.14%) TypeScript
16 69 (1.62%) VB
17 56 (1.32%) Go
18 39 (0.92%) Ruby
19 37 (0.87%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 999 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 755 (17.73%) Degree
3 547 (12.85%) SC Cleared
4 380 (8.92%) DV Cleared
5 218 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 132 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 122 (2.87%) Azure Certification
9 120 (2.82%) CCNA
10 96 (2.25%) MCSE
11 91 (2.14%) AWS Certification
12 87 (2.04%) Master's Degree
13 64 (1.50%) MCSA
14 63 (1.48%) PhD
15 61 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 55 (1.29%) CCNP
17 40 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
18 35 (0.82%) HND
19 33 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 28 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (2.65%) SLA
2 85 (2.00%) QA
3 59 (1.39%) GDPR
4 50 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (0.70%) PMO
6 22 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (0.52%) NIST
7 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
8 13 (0.31%) ITGC
8 13 (0.31%) MISRA
9 12 (0.28%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.23%) JTAG
11 9 (0.21%) NCSC
12 8 (0.19%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.16%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.14%) Def Stans
15 5 (0.12%) GRC
16 4 (0.094%) IEC 61131
16 4 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 547 (12.85%) Docker
2 526 (12.35%) Active Directory
3 477 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 255 (5.99%) Hyper-V
5 143 (3.36%) Firmware
6 96 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
7 92 (2.16%) vSphere
8 84 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
10 53 (1.24%) Oracle RAC
11 34 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
12 30 (0.70%) VMware NSX
13 20 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
14 18 (0.42%) pfSense
15 17 (0.40%) KVM
16 15 (0.35%) VMware Server
17 13 (0.31%) NFS
18 12 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
19 8 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 8 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 674 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 605 (14.21%) Ansible
3 415 (9.75%) Terraform
4 200 (4.70%) Puppet
5 149 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 144 (3.38%) vCenter Server
7 111 (2.61%) Prometheus
8 88 (2.07%) Grafana
9 80 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 77 (1.81%) SCCM
11 72 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
12 66 (1.55%) SCOM
12 66 (1.55%) ZABBIX
13 56 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
14 55 (1.29%) WSUS
15 52 (1.22%) Data Guard
16 45 (1.06%) Nagios
17 35 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 35 (0.82%) FortiGate
18 33 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 756 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 692 (16.25%) VMware
3 588 (13.81%) Red Hat
4 420 (9.86%) Oracle
5 349 (8.20%) IBM
6 224 (5.26%) Cisco
7 124 (2.91%) Veeam
8 111 (2.61%) NetApp
9 108 (2.54%) Google
10 92 (2.16%) SAP
11 78 (1.83%) Dell
12 71 (1.67%) CyberArk
13 70 (1.64%) Citrix
13 70 (1.64%) Palo Alto
14 68 (1.60%) Tanium
15 61 (1.43%) EMC
15 61 (1.43%) Remedy
16 59 (1.39%) SolarWinds
17 56 (1.32%) Juniper
18 50 (1.17%) ServiceNow