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

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,251 4,398 7,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.08% 7.07% 10.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.07% 42.89% 48.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,813 2,478 3,598
10th Percentile £32,500 £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 10,608 10,253 14,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.17% 16.48% 20.72%
Number of salaries quoted 8,280 6,486 9,401
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 24 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 24 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 -1 1,169 £55,000 +10.00% 247
South West +4 843 £54,000 -1.82% 182
North of England +20 826 £50,000 - 158
North West +26 519 £52,500 - 95
Midlands +12 450 £50,000 -9.09% 122
East of England +11 423 £52,500 -8.70% 139
Scotland -37 363 £52,500 -4.55% 86
Yorkshire +13 254 £47,500 -5.00% 54
East Midlands +14 250 £50,000 -9.09% 57
West Midlands -7 200 £52,500 -4.55% 65
Wales +34 136 £50,000 - 15
North East -11 53 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Northern Ireland -4 48 £58,750 +14.08% 8
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 2
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
1 206 (4.85%) Apache
2 135 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (2.21%) WebLogic
4 85 (2.00%) nginx
5 84 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 68 (1.60%) IIS
7 60 (1.41%) Confluence
8 50 (1.18%) OpenStack
9 47 (1.11%) Apache Spark
9 47 (1.11%) ArcGIS
10 45 (1.06%) Oracle Service Bus
11 40 (0.94%) GeoServer
12 37 (0.87%) WebSphere
13 27 (0.64%) 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 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (1.62%) 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 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.047%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.047%) CATIA
10 2 (0.047%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.024%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 45 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
4 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.094%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.071%) Maximo
7 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.047%) Shopify
7 2 (0.047%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.024%) Magento
8 1 (0.024%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.024%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,283 (30.18%) Azure
2 926 (21.78%) AWS
3 319 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 244 (5.74%) IBM Cloud
5 218 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 208 (4.89%) GCP
7 184 (4.33%) Serverless
8 177 (4.16%) Entra ID
9 143 (3.36%) SaaS
10 141 (3.32%) OpenShift
11 116 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 110 (2.59%) GitHub
13 109 (2.56%) Azure Functions
14 107 (2.52%) Azure API Management
15 106 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
16 103 (2.42%) Amazon S3
17 92 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
18 73 (1.72%) IaaS
19 64 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 64 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 552 (12.99%) Firewall
2 346 (8.14%) DNS
3 294 (6.92%) TCP/IP
4 223 (5.25%) DHCP
5 195 (4.59%) VPN
6 166 (3.90%) SAN
7 142 (3.34%) Internet
8 136 (3.20%) WAN
9 130 (3.06%) Wireless
10 107 (2.52%) LAN
11 104 (2.45%) 5G
12 98 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
13 89 (2.09%) Network Security
14 88 (2.07%) Broadband
15 83 (1.95%) SNMP
16 82 (1.93%) HTTP
17 77 (1.81%) VLAN
18 72 (1.69%) NAS
18 72 (1.69%) SSL
19 67 (1.58%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 342 (8.05%) MongoDB
3 291 (6.85%) MySQL
4 267 (6.28%) NoSQL
5 250 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 250 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 226 (5.32%) DB2
7 123 (2.89%) Oracle Database
8 89 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
9 83 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
10 82 (1.93%) Big Data
11 63 (1.48%) RDBMS
12 58 (1.36%) GIS
13 48 (1.13%) 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%) MariaDB
17 38 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 329 (7.74%) Git
2 285 (6.70%) JIRA
3 204 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 104 (2.45%) GitLab
5 101 (2.38%) Subversion
6 60 (1.41%) Visual Studio
7 37 (0.87%) Eclipse
8 35 (0.82%) Artifactory
9 34 (0.80%) Bitbucket
10 31 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
11 30 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
12 24 (0.56%) Ant
13 22 (0.52%) Maven
14 21 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 21 (0.49%) CMake
14 21 (0.49%) SonarQube
15 18 (0.42%) Robot Framework
16 16 (0.38%) Trac
17 15 (0.35%) Gradle
18 14 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 868 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 496 (11.67%) Finance
3 392 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 382 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 363 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 219 (5.15%) Aerospace
7 197 (4.63%) Electronics
8 172 (4.05%) Manufacturing
9 144 (3.39%) Law
10 137 (3.22%) Marketing
11 132 (3.11%) Telecoms
12 92 (2.16%) Banking
13 77 (1.81%) Military
14 73 (1.72%) Retail
15 72 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
16 70 (1.65%) Automotive
17 53 (1.25%) Legal
18 38 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (0.61%) Games
20 22 (0.52%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 876 (20.61%) Software Engineer
2 800 (18.82%) Senior
3 568 (13.36%) Developer
4 427 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 313 (7.36%) Embedded Engineer
6 284 (6.68%) Lead
7 266 (6.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 253 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 253 (5.95%) Support Engineer
9 251 (5.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 231 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
11 202 (4.75%) Administrator
12 183 (4.30%) Analyst
13 156 (3.67%) Full Stack Developer
14 155 (3.65%) IT Support
15 154 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
16 150 (3.53%) IT Engineer
17 144 (3.39%) Architect
18 135 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
19 134 (3.15%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (10.21%) HTML
2 405 (9.53%) React
3 378 (8.89%) CSS
4 353 (8.30%) REST
5 327 (7.69%) .NET
6 291 (6.85%) AngularJS
7 281 (6.61%) Web Services
8 265 (6.23%) jQuery
9 258 (6.07%) Vue
10 252 (5.93%) Node.js
11 224 (5.27%) ASP.NET
12 210 (4.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 202 (4.75%) ASP.NET Core
13 202 (4.75%) Backbone.js
13 202 (4.75%) Ember.js
14 160 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
15 111 (2.61%) XML
16 81 (1.91%) Laravel
17 80 (1.88%) YAML
18 78 (1.83%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 353 (8.30%) Algorithms
2 300 (7.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 280 (6.59%) Data Centre
4 244 (5.74%) Blockchain
5 213 (5.01%) Public Cloud
6 211 (4.96%) Data Structures
7 192 (4.52%) IoT
8 138 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
9 119 (2.80%) Embedded Systems
10 96 (2.26%) e-Learning
11 91 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
12 89 (2.09%) Management Information System
13 87 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
14 85 (2.00%) Cloud Native
15 79 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
16 67 (1.58%) Social Media
17 65 (1.53%) Device Driver
18 57 (1.34%) Replication
19 55 (1.29%) PKI
20 44 (1.04%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1,861 (43.78%) Windows
2 469 (11.03%) Windows Server
3 378 (8.89%) Unix
4 311 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 298 (7.01%) Ubuntu
6 281 (6.61%) Android
7 252 (5.93%) Embedded Linux
8 247 (5.81%) Apple iOS
8 247 (5.81%) CentOS
9 159 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 134 (3.15%) Debian
11 101 (2.38%) Windows 10
12 100 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 99 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
14 79 (1.86%) Mac OS
15 65 (1.53%) Solaris
16 50 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
17 46 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
18 43 (1.01%) AIX
19 38 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,122 (26.39%) Software Engineering
2 997 (23.45%) Agile
3 927 (21.81%) DevOps
4 728 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
5 525 (12.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 519 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 482 (11.34%) CI/CD
8 454 (10.68%) Mentoring
9 436 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
10 379 (8.92%) Computer Science
11 378 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
12 358 (8.42%) OO
13 318 (7.48%) Web Development
14 317 (7.46%) Full Stack Development
15 311 (7.32%) User Experience
16 289 (6.80%) OOP
17 283 (6.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 280 (6.59%) ITIL
19 279 (6.56%) SDLC
20 266 (6.26%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,316 (30.96%) Python
2 884 (20.80%) SQL
3 720 (16.94%) Java
4 675 (15.88%) C
5 609 (14.33%) JavaScript
6 571 (13.43%) Bash
7 515 (12.11%) C++
8 453 (10.66%) C#
9 433 (10.19%) PowerShell
10 166 (3.90%) PHP
11 165 (3.88%) Embedded C
12 131 (3.08%) Shell Script
13 109 (2.56%) PL/SQL
14 98 (2.31%) Perl
15 93 (2.19%) Rust
16 90 (2.12%) TypeScript
17 69 (1.62%) VB
18 57 (1.34%) Go
19 39 (0.92%) Ruby
20 36 (0.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 997 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 749 (17.62%) Degree
3 554 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 382 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 219 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
7 131 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 121 (2.85%) Azure Certification
9 119 (2.80%) CCNA
10 96 (2.26%) MCSE
11 90 (2.12%) AWS Certification
12 87 (2.05%) Master's Degree
13 63 (1.48%) MCSA
13 63 (1.48%) PhD
14 61 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 55 (1.29%) CCNP
16 40 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
17 35 (0.82%) HND
18 32 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 27 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (2.66%) SLA
2 91 (2.14%) QA
3 59 (1.39%) GDPR
4 51 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (0.71%) 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 10 (0.24%) JTAG
10 9 (0.21%) NCSC
11 8 (0.19%) IEC 62304
12 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
13 6 (0.14%) Data Quality
13 6 (0.14%) Def Stans
14 5 (0.12%) GRC
15 4 (0.094%) Accessibility
15 4 (0.094%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 552 (12.99%) Docker
2 531 (12.49%) Active Directory
3 477 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 256 (6.02%) Hyper-V
5 143 (3.36%) Firmware
6 97 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
7 92 (2.16%) vSphere
8 84 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
10 53 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
11 33 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
12 30 (0.71%) VMware NSX
13 20 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
14 18 (0.42%) pfSense
15 17 (0.40%) KVM
16 14 (0.33%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.28%) NFS
17 12 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 8 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 682 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 613 (14.42%) Ansible
3 426 (10.02%) Terraform
4 200 (4.70%) Puppet
5 152 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 145 (3.41%) vCenter Server
7 113 (2.66%) Prometheus
8 89 (2.09%) Grafana
9 80 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 77 (1.81%) SCCM
11 72 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
12 66 (1.55%) ZABBIX
13 65 (1.53%) SCOM
14 56 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
15 55 (1.29%) WSUS
16 52 (1.22%) Data Guard
17 44 (1.04%) Nagios
18 35 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 35 (0.82%) FortiGate
19 33 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 751 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 690 (16.23%) VMware
3 576 (13.55%) Red Hat
4 412 (9.69%) Oracle
5 339 (7.97%) IBM
6 224 (5.27%) Cisco
7 124 (2.92%) Veeam
8 111 (2.61%) NetApp
9 108 (2.54%) Google
10 91 (2.14%) SAP
11 78 (1.83%) Dell
12 71 (1.67%) CyberArk
13 70 (1.65%) Citrix
13 70 (1.65%) Palo Alto
14 68 (1.60%) Tanium
15 61 (1.43%) EMC
15 61 (1.43%) Remedy
16 58 (1.36%) SolarWinds
17 56 (1.32%) Juniper
18 50 (1.18%) ServiceNow