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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,298 4,336 7,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.11% 7.07% 10.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.58% 42.90% 49.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,816 2,447 3,624
10th Percentile £32,875 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,750
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 10,591 10,107 14,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.05% 16.47% 20.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8,216 6,387 9,426
10th Percentile £25,300 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 1,181 £55,000 +10.00% 222
South West +3 845 £54,000 -1.82% 173
North of England +21 827 £51,364 +2.73% 154
North West +20 522 £55,000 +4.76% 85
Midlands +15 480 £50,000 -9.09% 119
East of England +13 422 £52,500 -8.70% 141
Scotland -38 365 £52,500 -4.55% 51
East Midlands +22 275 £50,000 -9.09% 58
Yorkshire +12 252 £47,500 -5.00% 60
West Midlands -11 205 £54,000 -1.82% 61
Wales +29 135 £48,750 -2.50% 8
North East -16 53 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Northern Ireland -4 46 £61,250 +18.93% 4
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
1 212 (4.93%) Apache
2 134 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (2.19%) WebLogic
4 85 (1.98%) SharePoint
5 84 (1.95%) nginx
6 76 (1.77%) IIS
7 57 (1.33%) Confluence
8 51 (1.19%) OpenStack
9 50 (1.16%) Apache Spark
10 47 (1.09%) ArcGIS
11 45 (1.05%) Oracle Service Bus
12 40 (0.93%) GeoServer
13 37 (0.86%) WebSphere
14 32 (0.74%) Tomcat
15 23 (0.54%) Jupyter
16 22 (0.51%) Captiva
16 22 (0.51%) FileNet
17 14 (0.33%) WordPress
18 13 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
19 11 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 121 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.70%) Simulink
5 11 (0.26%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.12%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.093%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.047%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.047%) CATIA
11 2 (0.047%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.023%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 45 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.19%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.093%) 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 1,305 (30.36%) Azure
2 922 (21.45%) AWS
3 312 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
4 269 (6.26%) IBM Cloud
5 225 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (4.72%) GCP
7 188 (4.37%) Serverless
8 174 (4.05%) Entra ID
9 144 (3.35%) OpenShift
10 143 (3.33%) SaaS
11 125 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 118 (2.75%) Azure Functions
13 116 (2.70%) Azure API Management
14 115 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
15 112 (2.61%) GitHub
16 101 (2.35%) Amazon S3
17 88 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
18 71 (1.65%) IaaS
19 64 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
20 59 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 549 (12.77%) Firewall
2 344 (8.00%) DNS
3 294 (6.84%) TCP/IP
4 223 (5.19%) DHCP
5 196 (4.56%) VPN
6 168 (3.91%) SAN
7 141 (3.28%) Internet
8 137 (3.19%) WAN
9 134 (3.12%) Wireless
10 107 (2.49%) LAN
11 105 (2.44%) 5G
12 99 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
13 91 (2.12%) Network Security
14 87 (2.02%) Broadband
15 83 (1.93%) HTTP
16 82 (1.91%) SNMP
17 75 (1.74%) VLAN
18 73 (1.70%) NAS
19 71 (1.65%) SSL
20 67 (1.56%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 368 (8.56%) MongoDB
3 297 (6.91%) NoSQL
4 284 (6.61%) MySQL
5 256 (5.96%) Relational Database
6 253 (5.89%) DB2
7 251 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 129 (3.00%) Oracle Database
9 85 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (1.95%) Big Data
11 78 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 61 (1.42%) RDBMS
13 58 (1.35%) GIS
14 48 (1.12%) Hadoop
15 46 (1.07%) Oracle Database 11g
16 45 (1.05%) Oracle Database 10g
16 45 (1.05%) VLDB
17 40 (0.93%) QGIS
18 37 (0.86%) Power BI
19 35 (0.81%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 329 (7.65%) Git
2 281 (6.54%) JIRA
3 199 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.33%) Subversion
5 96 (2.23%) GitLab
6 62 (1.44%) Visual Studio
7 37 (0.86%) Eclipse
8 33 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 31 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
10 30 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 30 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
11 24 (0.56%) Ant
12 21 (0.49%) CMake
13 19 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.42%) Robot Framework
15 17 (0.40%) Vagrant
16 16 (0.37%) Trac
17 15 (0.35%) Maven
17 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
18 14 (0.33%) Gradle
General
1 866 (20.15%) Social Skills
2 495 (11.52%) Finance
3 425 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 380 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 377 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 224 (5.21%) Aerospace
7 201 (4.68%) Electronics
8 172 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 141 (3.28%) Law
10 138 (3.21%) Marketing
11 132 (3.07%) Telecoms
12 88 (2.05%) Banking
13 79 (1.84%) Military
14 74 (1.72%) Automotive
15 73 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 71 (1.65%) Retail
17 52 (1.21%) Legal
18 35 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (0.60%) Games
20 22 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 887 (20.64%) Software Engineer
2 811 (18.87%) Senior
3 581 (13.52%) Developer
4 428 (9.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 319 (7.42%) Embedded Engineer
6 285 (6.63%) Lead
7 269 (6.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 256 (5.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 247 (5.75%) Support Engineer
10 240 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 227 (5.28%) Linux Engineer
12 203 (4.72%) Administrator
13 178 (4.14%) Analyst
14 164 (3.82%) Full Stack Developer
15 161 (3.75%) IT Support
16 159 (3.70%) Architect
17 156 (3.63%) IT Engineer
18 149 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
19 148 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
20 134 (3.12%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (10.70%) HTML
2 433 (10.07%) React
3 405 (9.42%) CSS
4 378 (8.79%) REST
5 355 (8.26%) .NET
6 316 (7.35%) AngularJS
6 316 (7.35%) Web Services
7 290 (6.75%) jQuery
8 283 (6.58%) Vue
9 262 (6.10%) Node.js
10 250 (5.82%) ASP.NET
11 236 (5.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 228 (5.30%) ASP.NET Core
12 228 (5.30%) Backbone.js
12 228 (5.30%) Ember.js
13 157 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
14 110 (2.56%) XML
15 83 (1.93%) Laravel
16 81 (1.88%) Yocto
17 80 (1.86%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 381 (8.86%) Algorithms
2 327 (7.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 282 (6.56%) Data Centre
4 270 (6.28%) Blockchain
5 241 (5.61%) Data Structures
6 215 (5.00%) Public Cloud
7 192 (4.47%) IoT
8 140 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
9 119 (2.77%) Embedded Systems
10 113 (2.63%) e-Learning
11 91 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 89 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
13 86 (2.00%) Cloud Native
14 85 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
15 78 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
16 67 (1.56%) Social Media
17 66 (1.54%) Device Driver
18 56 (1.30%) Replication
19 55 (1.28%) PKI
20 46 (1.07%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1,897 (44.14%) Windows
2 463 (10.77%) Windows Server
3 384 (8.93%) Unix
4 312 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 308 (7.17%) Android
6 303 (7.05%) Ubuntu
7 271 (6.31%) Apple iOS
8 260 (6.05%) Embedded Linux
9 249 (5.79%) CentOS
10 162 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
11 135 (3.14%) Debian
12 103 (2.40%) Windows 10
13 101 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 101 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
14 80 (1.86%) Mac OS
15 73 (1.70%) Solaris
16 50 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
17 46 (1.07%) Alpine Linux
18 43 (1.00%) AIX
19 38 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,140 (26.52%) Software Engineering
2 1,024 (23.83%) Agile
3 924 (21.50%) DevOps
4 733 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
5 557 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
6 520 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 477 (11.10%) Mentoring
8 473 (11.01%) CI/CD
9 438 (10.19%) Actionable Insight
10 392 (9.12%) Computer Science
11 389 (9.05%) OO
12 370 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
13 344 (8.00%) Web Development
14 342 (7.96%) Full Stack Development
15 338 (7.86%) User Experience
16 316 (7.35%) OOP
17 294 (6.84%) MVC
18 283 (6.58%) SDLC
19 282 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
20 279 (6.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1,327 (30.87%) Python
2 917 (21.34%) SQL
3 738 (17.17%) Java
4 689 (16.03%) C
5 641 (14.91%) JavaScript
6 572 (13.31%) Bash
7 536 (12.47%) C++
8 482 (11.21%) C#
9 431 (10.03%) PowerShell
10 167 (3.89%) Embedded C
10 167 (3.89%) PHP
11 132 (3.07%) Shell Script
12 110 (2.56%) PL/SQL
13 93 (2.16%) Perl
14 91 (2.12%) TypeScript
15 89 (2.07%) Rust
16 71 (1.65%) VB
17 52 (1.21%) Go
18 42 (0.98%) Kotlin
19 38 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,016 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 769 (17.89%) Degree
3 556 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 388 (9.03%) DV Cleared
5 226 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
7 130 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 122 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 120 (2.79%) CCNA
10 95 (2.21%) MCSE
11 91 (2.12%) AWS Certification
12 88 (2.05%) Master's Degree
13 63 (1.47%) MCSA
13 63 (1.47%) PhD
14 60 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 55 (1.28%) CCNP
16 38 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
17 35 (0.81%) HND
18 34 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 28 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (2.63%) SLA
2 86 (2.00%) QA
3 59 (1.37%) GDPR
4 47 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (0.70%) PMO
6 20 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (0.44%) NIST
8 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
9 13 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.30%) MISRA
10 12 (0.28%) ITGC
11 10 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 10 (0.23%) JTAG
12 8 (0.19%) IEC 62304
12 8 (0.19%) NCSC
13 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.14%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.093%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 547 (12.73%) Docker
2 523 (12.17%) Active Directory
3 482 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 256 (5.96%) Hyper-V
5 148 (3.44%) Firmware
6 95 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
7 93 (2.16%) vSphere
8 85 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
10 53 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
11 32 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
12 31 (0.72%) VMware NSX
13 20 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
14 18 (0.42%) KVM
14 18 (0.42%) pfSense
15 15 (0.35%) VMware Server
16 14 (0.33%) NFS
17 12 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 8 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 673 (15.66%) Kubernetes
2 613 (14.26%) Ansible
3 414 (9.63%) Terraform
4 203 (4.72%) Puppet
5 148 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 142 (3.30%) vCenter Server
7 109 (2.54%) Prometheus
8 87 (2.02%) Grafana
9 81 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 75 (1.74%) SCCM
11 72 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
12 66 (1.54%) ZABBIX
13 64 (1.49%) SCOM
14 56 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
15 55 (1.28%) WSUS
16 52 (1.21%) Data Guard
17 46 (1.07%) Nagios
18 35 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 34 (0.79%) FortiGate
20 33 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 754 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 700 (16.29%) VMware
3 609 (14.17%) Red Hat
4 419 (9.75%) Oracle
5 363 (8.45%) IBM
6 223 (5.19%) Cisco
7 125 (2.91%) Veeam
8 111 (2.58%) NetApp
9 108 (2.51%) Google
10 91 (2.12%) SAP
11 78 (1.81%) Dell
12 71 (1.65%) CyberArk
13 70 (1.63%) Citrix
13 70 (1.63%) Palo Alto
14 68 (1.58%) Tanium
15 63 (1.47%) EMC
16 61 (1.42%) Remedy
17 58 (1.35%) SolarWinds
18 56 (1.30%) Juniper
19 49 (1.14%) SolidFire