Linux Developer Jobs

Linux Developer
UK

The median Linux Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 975 1160
Rank change year-on-year +120 +185 -305
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Developer 39 18 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.017% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.019% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 36 17 29
10th Percentile £32,500 - £40,853
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £92,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £140,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +57.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Linux Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Linux Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Developer.

Salary trend for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +139 38 £52,500 -30.00% 7
UK excluding London +18 32 £50,000 +25.00% 6
East of England +32 17 £60,000 +50.00% 1
Work from Home +87 16 £41,250 +3.13% 7
Midlands - 12 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands - 12 £50,000 - 1
London +141 6 £95,000 -12.64% 2
South East +31 3 £72,000 - 1

Linux Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Linux Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Linux Developer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (48.72%) C++
3 17 (43.59%) C
4 15 (38.46%) Android
5 14 (35.90%) Embedded Systems
6 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 13 (33.33%) Multithreading
7 12 (30.77%) Client/Server
7 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (30.77%) Multithreaded Programming
8 11 (28.21%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (28.21%) Commercial Awareness
8 11 (28.21%) Raspberry Pi
8 11 (28.21%) IoT
8 11 (28.21%) Git
8 11 (28.21%) Customer Engagement
8 11 (28.21%) Apple iOS
8 11 (28.21%) Automotive
8 11 (28.21%) Unix
8 11 (28.21%) Blog
8 11 (28.21%) Business Development
9 10 (25.64%) Subversion
9 10 (25.64%) MySQL
9 10 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (25.64%) Firewall
9 10 (25.64%) POSIX
9 10 (25.64%) GNU Toolchain
9 10 (25.64%) Open Source
9 10 (25.64%) Bash
9 10 (25.64%) Node.js

Linux Developer Skill Set
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 (25.64%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.56%) AWS
1 1 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Multicast
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) MySQL
1 10 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (2.56%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
2 10 (25.64%) GNU Toolchain
2 10 (25.64%) Subversion
3 1 (2.56%) GCC
3 1 (2.56%) GDB
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Automotive
2 11 (28.21%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Marketing
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Front Office
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) Node.js
1 10 (25.64%) POSIX
2 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 4 (10.26%) J2EE
3 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.56%) Middleware
4 1 (2.56%) Spring
4 1 (2.56%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (30.77%) Client/Server
3 11 (28.21%) Blog
3 11 (28.21%) IoT
3 11 (28.21%) Raspberry Pi
4 10 (25.64%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (38.46%) Android
3 11 (28.21%) Apple iOS
3 11 (28.21%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 12 (30.77%) Multithreaded Programming
2 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) Business Development
3 11 (28.21%) Commercial Awareness
3 11 (28.21%) Customer Engagement
4 10 (25.64%) Open Source
5 8 (20.51%) Agile
6 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.26%) BDD
7 4 (10.26%) Embedded Software Development
7 4 (10.26%) Power Management
7 4 (10.26%) Presales
7 4 (10.26%) TDD
8 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Development
8 2 (5.13%) Software Engineering
9 1 (2.56%) Algorithmic Trading
9 1 (2.56%) Asset Management
9 1 (2.56%) Cryptography
9 1 (2.56%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) C++
2 17 (43.59%) C
3 10 (25.64%) Bash
4 8 (20.51%) Java
4 8 (20.51%) Python
5 4 (10.26%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle
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