Debian Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Debian skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Debian over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 649 917 897
Rank change year-on-year +268 -20 -235
Permanent jobs citing Debian 81 155 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.89% 0.76% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 65 130 133
10th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,625 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +21.05% +18.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,131 20,345 22,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.23% 16.56% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,096 13,692 16,198
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,839 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Debian.

Salary trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +254 70 £60,000 +4.39% 26
UK excluding London +209 54 £57,500 - 23
Work from Home +176 41 £60,000 +7.62% 17
London +234 16 £76,250 +22.00% 5
North of England +150 14 £62,500 +56.25% 3
South West +78 14 £40,000 -43.86% 4
East of England +98 12 £60,000 +4.35%
South East +125 10 £61,250 +24.62% 8
Yorkshire +115 10 £62,500 +81.16%
North West +119 4 £45,500 -9.00% 3
Midlands +135 3 £50,000 -23.08% 5
West Midlands - 2 £42,500 - 4
East Midlands +53 1 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Scotland +35 1 £50,000 - 3

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (14.81%) Apache
2 7 (8.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.70%) nginx
5 2 (2.47%) Confluence
6 1 (1.23%) IIS
6 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (44.44%) AWS
2 25 (30.86%) Azure
3 19 (23.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (20.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (17.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (14.81%) AWS CodeBuild
7 12 (14.81%) Route 53
8 8 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
11 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (6.17%) GCP
11 5 (6.17%) Serverless
12 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.47%) Amazon ELB
13 2 (2.47%) AWS OpsWorks
13 2 (2.47%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.28%) Firewall
2 10 (12.35%) Internet
3 9 (11.11%) DNS
4 7 (8.64%) DHCP
4 7 (8.64%) TCP/IP
5 5 (6.17%) AMQP
5 5 (6.17%) BGP
5 5 (6.17%) FTP
5 5 (6.17%) IPv6
6 4 (4.94%) 5G
6 4 (4.94%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.94%) SSH
6 4 (4.94%) VPN
6 4 (4.94%) WAN
7 2 (2.47%) Ethernet
7 2 (2.47%) IPv4
7 2 (2.47%) NGFW
7 2 (2.47%) SAN
7 2 (2.47%) SNMP
7 2 (2.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.28%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.88%) MySQL
2 8 (9.88%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.41%) Big Data
3 6 (7.41%) Firebird
3 6 (7.41%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.17%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.23%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (20.99%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.81%) CircleCI
2 12 (14.81%) GitLab
3 7 (8.64%) Git
4 4 (4.94%) JIRA
5 3 (3.70%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.47%) Selenium
7 1 (1.23%) Appium
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.23%) JMeter
7 1 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.23%) Postman
7 1 (1.23%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (11.11%) Banking
2 7 (8.64%) Retail
2 7 (8.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Finance
4 4 (4.94%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.94%) Games
5 3 (3.70%) Electronics
5 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Aviation
6 2 (2.47%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (38.27%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (19.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (18.52%) Senior
4 14 (17.28%) Administrator
5 13 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (14.81%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (13.58%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (12.35%) IT Engineer
8 10 (12.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 9 (11.11%) Network Engineer
9 9 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
11 5 (6.17%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (6.17%) Operations Engineer
12 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Engineer
12 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (4.94%) Senior Network Engineer
13 3 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.16%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (7.41%) REST
3 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.17%) gRPC
3 5 (6.17%) Material-UI
3 5 (6.17%) Node.js
3 5 (6.17%) OpenAPI
3 5 (6.17%) React
3 5 (6.17%) Spring
3 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.17%) Swagger
4 3 (3.70%) LDAP
5 1 (1.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.23%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.23%) Kafka
5 1 (1.23%) Playwright
5 1 (1.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (12.35%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.41%) IoT
4 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.23%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.23%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 81 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (61.73%) Ubuntu
3 32 (39.51%) Windows
4 18 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (20.99%) CentOS
6 9 (11.11%) Unix
7 8 (9.88%) Fedora
8 7 (8.64%) openSUSE
8 7 (8.64%) Solaris
8 7 (8.64%) Windows Server
9 3 (3.70%) Android
10 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Configuration Management
2 25 (30.86%) DevOps
3 23 (28.40%) Containerisation
4 19 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (19.75%) CI/CD
6 13 (16.05%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (14.81%) Auto-Scaling
8 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.11%) Availability Management
9 9 (11.11%) ITIL
9 9 (11.11%) Open Source
10 8 (9.88%) Agile
10 8 (9.88%) Microservices
10 8 (9.88%) Test Automation
11 7 (8.64%) Batch Processing
11 7 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (8.64%) Incident Management
11 7 (8.64%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.51%) Bash
2 29 (35.80%) Python
3 19 (23.46%) SQL
4 8 (9.88%) Java
4 8 (9.88%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.94%) PHP
6 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.47%) C
8 1 (1.23%) C#
8 1 (1.23%) Go
8 1 (1.23%) Groovy
8 1 (1.23%) Rust
8 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.41%) Degree
3 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.17%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) CCNA
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) SLA
2 4 (4.94%) PMO
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 29 (35.80%) Docker
2 21 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (16.05%) Active Directory
4 7 (8.64%) Samba
5 2 (2.47%) KVM
5 2 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.23%) Ceph
6 1 (1.23%) Firmware
6 1 (1.23%) GPFS
6 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.23%) Lustre
6 1 (1.23%) QEMU
6 1 (1.23%) Shibboleth
6 1 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (41.98%) Ansible
2 30 (37.04%) Terraform
3 24 (29.63%) Kubernetes
4 17 (20.99%) Grafana
5 14 (17.28%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.88%) Puppet
7 7 (8.64%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.94%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (4.94%) HAProxy
8 4 (4.94%) Nagios
9 3 (3.70%) Salt
9 3 (3.70%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.23%) Icinga
10 1 (1.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.23%) Podman
10 1 (1.23%) Proxmox
10 1 (1.23%) Rancher
10 1 (1.23%) SCOM
10 1 (1.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 27 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 25 (30.86%) VMware
3 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
4 14 (17.28%) Splunk
5 12 (14.81%) Cisco
6 9 (11.11%) Google
7 5 (6.17%) Juniper
7 5 (6.17%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.47%) Veeam
9 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.23%) Oracle