CompTIA Linux+ Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Linux+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 904 986 577
Rank change year-on-year +82 -409 +155
Permanent jobs citing Linux+ Certification 3 9 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.009% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.011% 0.027% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £41,200
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +42.86% -10.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £58,500
90th Percentile - - £64,200
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Linux+ Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,264 33,185 42,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.68% 32.68% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,216 14,890 18,866
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

Linux+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Linux+ Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux+ Certification in the UK

Linux+ Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux+ Certification in the UK

Linux+ Certification
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux+ Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +85 3 £75,000 +7.14% 3
UK excluding London -14 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
London +122 1 £75,000 +7.14% 3

Linux+ Certification
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 1 (33.33%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) DMZ
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Blue Team
1 2 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
1 2 (66.67%) Network Packet Capture
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (66.67%) CASP
1 2 (66.67%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (66.67%) CREST Certified
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) VMware