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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 716 806
Rank change year-on-year +72 +90 +219
Permanent jobs citing Debian 40 170 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.61% 1.20% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 33 94 155
10th Percentile £44,500 £31,450 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -19.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +56.46%

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 6,583 14,121 16,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 14.36% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,456 10,927 11,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,625 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 13 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 30 April 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
England +69 38 £61,000 +16.19% 33
UK excluding London +94 22 £60,000 +20.00% 27
London +96 18 £61,000 -6.15% 11
Work from Home +163 16 £60,000 -4.00% 30
South East +81 10 £60,000 -20.00% 1
North of England +72 6 £60,000 +172.73% 6
North West +21 4 £60,000 +172.73% 5
East of England +44 3 £62,500 +8.70% 3
West Midlands +51 2 £60,000 +87.50% 4
Midlands +42 2 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Scotland +126 1 £37,500 -22.68% 4
Yorkshire +69 1 £45,000 -12.77% 1
North East - 1 £85,000 -

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 10 (25.00%) nginx
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) ColdFusion
4 1 (2.50%) Drupal
4 1 (2.50%) IIS
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 25 (62.50%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Cloudflare
5 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.00%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.50%) Route 53
6 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (12.50%) DNS
2 5 (12.50%) VLAN
3 3 (7.50%) DHCP
3 3 (7.50%) HTTP
4 2 (5.00%) SSL
4 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) 3GPP
5 1 (2.50%) 4G
5 1 (2.50%) 5G
5 1 (2.50%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (2.50%) Internet
5 1 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (2.50%) SAN
5 1 (2.50%) SCTP
5 1 (2.50%) SSH
5 1 (2.50%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) MySQL
1 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.00%) JIRA
3 3 (7.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (12.50%) Electronics
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Back Office
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) IT Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Developer
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Lead
8 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) Laravel
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) gRPC
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) LDAP
3 1 (2.50%) Next.js
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) SOAP
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
3 1 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Vue
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 5 (12.50%) Molecular Biology
4 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Derivative
6 1 (2.50%) Device Driver
6 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Equities
6 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.50%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (67.50%) Ubuntu
3 21 (52.50%) Windows
4 11 (27.50%) CentOS
5 7 (17.50%) Mac OS
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.00%) SUSE
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (2.50%) Rocky
8 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (25.00%) DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.00%) Open Source
5 5 (12.50%) Bioinformatics
5 5 (12.50%) Biology
5 5 (12.50%) Commercialisation
5 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 5 (12.50%) Customer Analysis
5 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 5 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (12.50%) Disruptive Innovation
5 5 (12.50%) Informatics
5 5 (12.50%) Workflow
5 5 (12.50%) Workflow Management
6 3 (7.50%) Agile
6 3 (7.50%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.50%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Bash
3 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.00%) SQL
5 2 (5.00%) C
5 2 (5.00%) C++
5 2 (5.00%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 5 (12.50%) PhD
3 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) PMO
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (15.00%) pfSense
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.50%) vSphere
5 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 4 (10.00%) Grafana
3 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (5.00%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.50%) Nessus
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
1 9 (22.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (17.50%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.00%) Commvault
3 2 (5.00%) Dell
3 2 (5.00%) HP
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.00%) Zerto
4 1 (2.50%) Apple
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Juniper
4 1 (2.50%) New Relic
4 1 (2.50%) Sophos
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam
4 1 (2.50%) YouTube