Debian Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Debian over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 662 1000
Rank change year-on-year -49 +338 -73
Permanent jobs citing Debian 67 102 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.73% 0.99% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 40 84 129
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,911 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% +17.62% -
75th Percentile £58,086 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +5.26%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,239 10,352 23,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 17.41% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 7,679 14,323
10th Percentile £28,388 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% -

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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
England -60 65 £50,000 -20.00% 13
UK excluding London -63 50 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Work from Home +6 26 £53,750 -10.42% 26
South East -10 20 £50,000 -23.08% 5
South West -9 13 £50,000 +25.00% 1
London -1 12 £42,500 -32.00% 4
East of England -51 9 £55,320 -11.49% 1
North of England -43 4 £45,000 -23.40% 2
Midlands -28 3 £37,000 -31.16% 1
North West -24 2 £40,000 -4.76%
North East -28 2 £50,000 -9.09%
East Midlands - 2 £37,000 - 1
Scotland -8 1 £48,500 -3.00% 1
West Midlands -36 1 - -

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 (17.91%) Apache
2 8 (11.94%) Confluence
3 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (7.46%) Apache Spark
4 5 (7.46%) IIS
5 4 (5.97%) nginx
6 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.36%) AWS
2 17 (25.37%) Azure
3 10 (14.93%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.46%) GitHub
5 5 (7.46%) OpenShift
5 5 (7.46%) Serverless
6 4 (5.97%) Cloudflare
6 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.97%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.48%) Sentry
8 2 (2.99%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.99%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.99%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.99%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (29.85%) Firewall
2 15 (22.39%) DNS
3 12 (17.91%) DHCP
3 12 (17.91%) VLAN
4 10 (14.93%) VPN
5 8 (11.94%) SAN
6 7 (10.45%) HTTP
7 6 (8.96%) BGP
7 6 (8.96%) OSPF
7 6 (8.96%) SSL
7 6 (8.96%) WAN
8 5 (7.46%) AMQP
8 5 (7.46%) FTP
8 5 (7.46%) HTTPS
8 5 (7.46%) IP Telephony
8 5 (7.46%) LAN
8 5 (7.46%) PABX
8 5 (7.46%) Wireless
9 4 (5.97%) iSCSI
9 4 (5.97%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.43%) MariaDB
3 8 (11.94%) MySQL
3 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.96%) Big Data
4 6 (8.96%) Hadoop
5 5 (7.46%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (4.48%) Redis
7 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) JIRA
2 6 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (4.48%) GitLab
5 2 (2.99%) Git
6 1 (1.49%) Maven
6 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Aerospace
3 7 (10.45%) Electronics
3 7 (10.45%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.96%) Finance
5 5 (7.46%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (22.39%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Software Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Support Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Administrator
4 7 (10.45%) Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Software Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (8.96%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Lead
6 5 (7.46%) Support Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) LDAP
2 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
2 5 (7.46%) gRPC
2 5 (7.46%) Material-UI
2 5 (7.46%) Node.js
2 5 (7.46%) OpenAPI
2 5 (7.46%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (7.46%) React
2 5 (7.46%) REST
2 5 (7.46%) Spring
2 5 (7.46%) Spring Boot
2 5 (7.46%) Swagger
3 4 (5.97%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (5.97%) Kafka
4 3 (4.48%) Django
4 3 (4.48%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.48%) Flask
4 3 (4.48%) RESTful
5 1 (1.49%) Playwright
5 1 (1.49%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (14.93%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.45%) Algorithms
3 7 (10.45%) Molecular Biology
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.49%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.49%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (1.49%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 67 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (55.22%) Ubuntu
3 22 (32.84%) Windows
4 18 (26.87%) CentOS
5 16 (23.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (19.40%) Windows Server
7 5 (7.46%) Windows 10
8 3 (4.48%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (4.48%) Fedora
8 3 (4.48%) Rocky
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (2.99%) openSUSE
9 2 (2.99%) SUSE
9 2 (2.99%) Unix
10 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (19.40%) Configuration Management
2 13 (19.40%) Open Source
3 12 (17.91%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (16.42%) Agile
4 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
5 10 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (13.43%) DevOps
7 8 (11.94%) Software Engineering
8 7 (10.45%) Bioinformatics
8 7 (10.45%) Biology
8 7 (10.45%) Commercialisation
8 7 (10.45%) Customer Analysis
8 7 (10.45%) Data Analysis
8 7 (10.45%) Disruptive Innovation
8 7 (10.45%) Informatics
8 7 (10.45%) Workflow
8 7 (10.45%) Workflow Management
9 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) Python
2 19 (28.36%) Bash
3 12 (17.91%) Java
4 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.46%) C#
7 4 (5.97%) C++
7 4 (5.97%) Perl
7 4 (5.97%) SQL
8 3 (4.48%) C
8 3 (4.48%) Rust
9 2 (2.99%) Ruby
9 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Degree
2 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) Master's Degree
4 7 (10.45%) PhD
4 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.99%) CCNP
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.99%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.49%) MCSA
7 1 (1.49%) MCSE
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.49%) RHCT
System Software
1 19 (28.36%) Docker
2 13 (19.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.96%) vSphere
5 4 (5.97%) Firmware
5 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (5.97%) NFS
5 4 (5.97%) pfSense
5 4 (5.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.97%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (4.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.99%) KVM
7 2 (2.99%) Samba
8 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (32.84%) Ansible
1 22 (32.84%) Kubernetes
2 17 (25.37%) Terraform
3 12 (17.91%) Puppet
4 6 (8.96%) SCCM
5 5 (7.46%) Grafana
6 3 (4.48%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.48%) ZABBIX
7 2 (2.99%) Icinga
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.99%) Nagios
7 2 (2.99%) WSUS
8 1 (1.49%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.49%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.49%) Nessus
8 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Red Hat
2 17 (25.37%) VMware
3 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
4 8 (11.94%) Google
5 6 (8.96%) Citrix
6 5 (7.46%) SaltStack
7 4 (5.97%) Aruba
7 4 (5.97%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.97%) Cisco
7 4 (5.97%) NetApp
7 4 (5.97%) QNAP
7 4 (5.97%) Synology
7 4 (5.97%) Ubiquiti
8 2 (2.99%) Apple
8 2 (2.99%) EMC
8 2 (2.99%) HP
8 2 (2.99%) Juniper
8 2 (2.99%) MikroTik
8 2 (2.99%) TP-LINK
8 2 (2.99%) ZyXEL