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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 717 810
Rank change year-on-year +38 +93 +242
Permanent jobs citing Debian 33 174 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.45% 1.25% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 26 92 139
10th Percentile £39,375 £31,150 £44,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £42,250 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -23.08% +34.72%
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,875 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +64.29%

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 7,333 13,973 15,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 13.99% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,433 10,731 10,713
10th Percentile £27,275 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +16 31 £61,000 +16.19% 70
UK excluding London +72 21 £60,000 +20.00% 61
London +97 12 £61,000 -6.15% 21
Work from Home +96 10 £60,000 - 46
South East +60 8 £55,000 -26.67% 12
North of England +36 7 £60,000 +172.73% 11
North West -15 5 £60,000 +172.73% 9
East of England +25 3 £62,500 +8.70% 18
Midlands +52 2 £60,000 +20.00% 8
West Midlands +43 2 £60,000 +87.50% 4
Scotland +117 1 £37,500 -22.68% 8
Yorkshire +63 1 £45,000 +10.62% 1
North East - 1 £85,000 - 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 7 (21.21%) nginx
2 3 (9.09%) Confluence
3 2 (6.06%) Apache
4 1 (3.03%) ColdFusion
4 1 (3.03%) Drupal
4 1 (3.03%) IIS
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (6.06%) Cloudflare
6 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
6 2 (6.06%) Route 53
6 2 (6.06%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DNS
1 5 (15.15%) VLAN
2 4 (12.12%) Firewall
3 3 (9.09%) DHCP
3 3 (9.09%) HTTP
4 2 (6.06%) SSL
4 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.06%) VPN
5 1 (3.03%) 3GPP
5 1 (3.03%) 4G
5 1 (3.03%) 5G
5 1 (3.03%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (3.03%) Internet
5 1 (3.03%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (3.03%) SAN
5 1 (3.03%) SCTP
5 1 (3.03%) SSH
5 1 (3.03%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MySQL
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Big Data
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) JIRA
4 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 5 (15.15%) Electronics
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Back Office
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Systems Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Software Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Backup Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Head of Support
8 1 (3.03%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) Laravel
2 2 (6.06%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.03%) ColdBox
3 1 (3.03%) CSS
3 1 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.03%) gRPC
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) jQuery
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) Next.js
3 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) Swagger
3 1 (3.03%) Vue
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
2 5 (15.15%) Molecular Biology
3 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 2 (6.06%) IoT
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Derivative
5 1 (3.03%) Device Driver
5 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Equities
5 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (60.61%) Ubuntu
3 13 (39.39%) Windows
4 5 (15.15%) CentOS
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.06%) SUSE
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.03%) Rocky
7 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps
1 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (24.24%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 6 (18.18%) Open Source
5 5 (15.15%) Bioinformatics
5 5 (15.15%) Biology
5 5 (15.15%) Commercialisation
5 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
5 5 (15.15%) Customer Analysis
5 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
5 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (15.15%) Disruptive Innovation
5 5 (15.15%) Informatics
5 5 (15.15%) Workflow
5 5 (15.15%) Workflow Management
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) Bash
3 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) C
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) Master's Degree
2 5 (15.15%) PhD
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) PMO
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.09%) vSphere
4 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Ansible
3 5 (15.15%) Grafana
3 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.06%) NetBackup
5 2 (6.06%) Proxmox
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.03%) Nessus
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 7 (21.21%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.06%) Commvault
4 2 (6.06%) Dell
4 2 (6.06%) HP
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) Zerto
5 1 (3.03%) Apple
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) New Relic
5 1 (3.03%) Sophos
5 1 (3.03%) Veeam
5 1 (3.03%) YouTube