linkerd
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring linkerd skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited linkerd over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 723 833 828
Rank change year-on-year +110 -5 +375
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing linkerd 3 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.050% 0.038% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £60,500
25th Percentile £103,750 £105,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £110,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +69.23% -27.78%
75th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £78,750
90th Percentile - - £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -27.78%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

linkerd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,004 7,797 10,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 8.90% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,299 4,904 7,647
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,650
25th Percentile £41,280 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -0.54% -4.18%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for linkerd in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing linkerd.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing linkerd

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Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing linkerd within the UK over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +117 3 £107,500 -2.27% 7
London +56 3 £107,500 -2.27% 4

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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 3 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) NAS
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BCP
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 3 (100.00%) Istio
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) VMware