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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 33 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,226 4,401 4,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.61% 5.88% 7.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.95% 41.14% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 898 2,842 2,322
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,360 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 5,065 10,697 9,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.76% 14.28% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 8,165 5,978
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,225
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 of England +21 1,072 £55,000 +10.00% 311
North West +19 952 £55,000 +4.76% 200
South East -35 408 £52,500 -4.55% 261
Midlands -33 244 £47,500 -5.00% 155
South West -21 214 £46,500 -11.43% 185
East of England -42 159 £55,320 +5.37% 217
West Midlands +16 156 £52,500 -2.78% 107
Scotland -8 98 £57,500 +12.75% 113
Yorkshire -26 97 £42,500 -8.21% 86
East Midlands -50 85 £40,101 -19.80% 47
Wales -18 36 £65,000 +36.84% 23
North East +16 23 £63,000 +20.00% 26
Northern Ireland +6 6 - - 53
Isle of Man +11 1 £34,500 -19.77%
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 77 (3.46%) Confluence
2 60 (2.70%) Apache
3 46 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.39%) IIS
5 22 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.63%) nginx
6 14 (0.63%) OpenEdge
7 13 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.18%) GemFire
10 4 (0.18%) SAS
10 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.090%) CMS
12 2 (0.090%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.090%) WordPress
13 1 (0.045%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.18%) Simulink
5 2 (0.090%) EngageOne
5 2 (0.090%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.090%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.045%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.045%) Trello
6 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.13%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.090%) MFGPRO
4 2 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.045%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 549 (24.66%) AWS
2 512 (23.00%) Azure
3 244 (10.96%) GCP
4 127 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (3.28%) Pulumi
6 63 (2.83%) SaaS
7 55 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 43 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (1.53%) AWS KMS
13 33 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (1.44%) Entra ID
15 30 (1.35%) GitHub
16 28 (1.26%) Serverless
17 24 (1.08%) PaaS
18 23 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
19 20 (0.90%) Amazon ELB
20 19 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 783 (35.18%) VPN
2 514 (23.09%) DNS
3 285 (12.80%) Cisco IOS
4 162 (7.28%) Firewall
5 136 (6.11%) TCP/IP
6 95 (4.27%) DHCP
7 68 (3.05%) Network Security
8 65 (2.92%) Broadband
9 54 (2.43%) VLAN
10 45 (2.02%) WAN
11 41 (1.84%) Wireless
12 39 (1.75%) Internet
12 39 (1.75%) SAN
12 39 (1.75%) WLAN
13 32 (1.44%) Wireshark
14 30 (1.35%) LAN
14 30 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
15 22 (0.99%) Modbus
15 22 (0.99%) NAS
16 21 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (6.33%) Relational Database
2 113 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 103 (4.63%) MySQL
4 94 (4.22%) RDBMS
5 91 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
6 88 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 72 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 62 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (1.21%) MongoDB
10 19 (0.85%) Redis
11 14 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (0.63%) Big Data
12 13 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.36%) Power BI
15 6 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.27%) MariaDB
15 6 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
16 5 (0.22%) Apache Hive
16 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 157 (7.05%) Git
2 145 (6.51%) JIRA
3 100 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.96%) Jaeger
5 64 (2.88%) Cucumber
5 64 (2.88%) Robot Framework
6 46 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 46 (2.07%) JUnit
7 42 (1.89%) Eclipse
8 34 (1.53%) GitLab
9 33 (1.48%) Visual Studio
10 27 (1.21%) Mockito
11 25 (1.12%) Eclipse RCP
12 24 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
13 23 (1.03%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.90%) Maven
14 20 (0.90%) Vagrant
15 17 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
16 16 (0.72%) IntelliJ
17 15 (0.67%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,065 (47.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 774 (34.77%) Analytical Skills
3 508 (22.82%) Finance
4 388 (17.43%) Social Skills
5 105 (4.72%) Telecoms
6 55 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 53 (2.38%) Electronics
7 53 (2.38%) Law
8 45 (2.02%) Retail
9 42 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (1.48%) Public Sector
11 28 (1.26%) Banking
12 27 (1.21%) Avionics
13 26 (1.17%) Automotive
14 21 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.85%) Marketing
16 15 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.58%) Military
18 12 (0.54%) Legal
19 9 (0.40%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 570 (25.61%) Developer
2 448 (20.13%) Software Developer
3 382 (17.16%) Senior
4 352 (15.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 344 (15.45%) Software Engineer
6 231 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 148 (6.65%) Lead
8 135 (6.06%) Support Engineer
9 114 (5.12%) IT Support
10 94 (4.22%) IT Engineer
11 91 (4.09%) Analyst
11 91 (4.09%) Team Leader
12 87 (3.91%) Administrator
13 85 (3.82%) Systems Engineer
14 84 (3.77%) Test Engineer
15 70 (3.14%) Test Automation Engineer
16 64 (2.88%) Systems Administrator
17 63 (2.83%) Embedded Engineer
18 60 (2.70%) Support Analyst
19 57 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (15.27%) Elastic Stack
2 296 (13.30%) .NET
3 221 (9.93%) Node.js
4 65 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 58 (2.61%) Middleware
6 55 (2.47%) HTML
7 47 (2.11%) CSS
8 44 (1.98%) React
9 43 (1.93%) Hibernate
10 39 (1.75%) REST
11 38 (1.71%) Pandas
12 36 (1.62%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.57%) Spring
14 30 (1.35%) JPA
15 29 (1.30%) Web Services
16 27 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (1.17%) SOAP
17 26 (1.17%) Spring Boot
18 25 (1.12%) JSP
19 24 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 859 (38.59%) Cyberattack
2 266 (11.95%) Linux Command Line
3 219 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (2.88%) Driving Licence
5 61 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 57 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 53 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 48 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
9 41 (1.84%) IoT
10 40 (1.80%) e-Learning
11 35 (1.57%) Device Driver
12 28 (1.26%) Cloud Native
13 26 (1.17%) Product Ownership
13 26 (1.17%) Replication
14 25 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 21 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (0.85%) Clustering
16 19 (0.85%) MicroBlaze
16 19 (0.85%) Mobile App
16 19 (0.85%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 928 (41.69%) Windows
2 703 (31.58%) Android
3 191 (8.58%) Unix
4 166 (7.46%) Windows Server
5 88 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 64 (2.88%) Ubuntu
7 50 (2.25%) Embedded Linux
8 44 (1.98%) CentOS
9 42 (1.89%) Windows 10
10 37 (1.66%) Mac OS
11 34 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
12 31 (1.39%) Mac OS X
13 24 (1.08%) VMS
14 22 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
15 20 (0.90%) Debian
16 15 (0.67%) Rocky
17 10 (0.45%) Solaris
18 9 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
18 9 (0.40%) SUSE
19 8 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 908 (40.79%) Agile
2 779 (35.00%) Mathematics
3 692 (31.09%) Line Management
4 616 (27.67%) Problem-Solving
5 588 (26.42%) DevOps
6 510 (22.91%) OO
7 472 (21.20%) OOP
8 464 (20.84%) Mentoring
9 446 (20.04%) Design Patterns
10 434 (19.50%) Software Engineering
11 428 (19.23%) Android Development
12 366 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 354 (15.90%) Task Automation
14 293 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
15 271 (12.17%) Storage Management
16 266 (11.95%) Risk Management
17 240 (10.78%) CI/CD
18 233 (10.47%) Microservices
19 232 (10.42%) Containerisation
20 220 (9.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1,366 (61.37%) Python
2 848 (38.10%) Java
3 755 (33.92%) C++
4 685 (30.77%) Go
5 524 (23.54%) Bash
6 506 (22.73%) PowerShell
7 444 (19.95%) JavaScript
8 273 (12.26%) SQL
9 237 (10.65%) Rust
10 156 (7.01%) C
11 108 (4.85%) C#
12 50 (2.25%) PHP
13 43 (1.93%) Shell Script
14 36 (1.62%) Perl
15 27 (1.21%) PL/SQL
16 25 (1.12%) Groovy
17 23 (1.03%) Ada
18 21 (0.94%) TypeScript
19 19 (0.85%) MATLAB
20 17 (0.76%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 841 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 697 (31.31%) DV Cleared
3 403 (18.10%) Degree
4 262 (11.77%) AWS Certification
5 176 (7.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 172 (7.73%) AWS Certified Developer
7 151 (6.78%) SC Cleared
8 105 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 91 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
10 88 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 83 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 75 (3.37%) CCNP
13 70 (3.14%) MCSE
14 59 (2.65%) CCNA
15 47 (2.11%) MCP
16 40 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
17 36 (1.62%) PhD
18 35 (1.57%) MCSA
19 34 (1.53%) HND
20 30 (1.35%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.09%) QA
2 33 (1.48%) SLA
3 22 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (0.54%) GDPR
6 10 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.22%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.22%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.22%) NIST
9 5 (0.22%) PMO
10 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.090%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.090%) NCSC
11 2 (0.090%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.045%) ECSS
12 1 (0.045%) MISRA
System Software
1 949 (42.63%) Docker
2 316 (14.20%) Hyper-V
3 303 (13.61%) vSphere
4 267 (11.99%) VMware NSX
5 181 (8.13%) Active Directory
6 135 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
7 56 (2.52%) Firmware
8 37 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
9 35 (1.57%) Embedded Firmware
10 26 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
11 14 (0.63%) NFS
12 13 (0.58%) DFS Replication
13 10 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
14 9 (0.40%) Postfix
15 6 (0.27%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.27%) Dovecot
15 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.27%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.22%) KVM
Systems Management
1 931 (41.82%) Ansible
2 528 (23.72%) Terraform
3 226 (10.15%) Kubernetes
4 104 (4.67%) Prometheus
5 68 (3.05%) Argo
6 66 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 65 (2.92%) Kustomize
8 48 (2.16%) Puppet
9 46 (2.07%) Grafana
10 15 (0.67%) Proxmox
11 14 (0.63%) Nessus
11 14 (0.63%) SCCM
12 13 (0.58%) Nagios
13 12 (0.54%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.40%) Istio
15 9 (0.40%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.40%) SCOM
16 8 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
16 8 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 413 (18.55%) Cisco
2 326 (14.65%) Microsoft
3 295 (13.25%) Juniper
4 273 (12.26%) Splunk
5 260 (11.68%) 3PAR
6 188 (8.45%) VMware
7 109 (4.90%) Google
8 90 (4.04%) Red Hat
9 80 (3.59%) Oracle
10 65 (2.92%) Atlassian
11 29 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 28 (1.26%) Veeam
13 26 (1.17%) Dell
13 26 (1.17%) IBM
14 23 (1.03%) SAP
15 22 (0.99%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.94%) Apple
17 19 (0.85%) Salesforce
18 17 (0.76%) Progress
19 15 (0.67%) HP