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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 23 January 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Linux UK |
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6 months to
23 Jan 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
22 |
18 |
16 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-4 |
-2 |
0 |
| Permanent jobs citing Linux |
11,633 |
16,034 |
18,414 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
9.25% |
10.56% |
10.55% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
41.33% |
45.45% |
43.61% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
8,994 |
12,910 |
14,810 |
| UK median annual salary |
£52,500 |
£52,500 |
£50,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.00% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£31,250 |
£29,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£87,500 |
£82,500 |
£80,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,500 |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.11% |
- |
- |
Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.
| All Operating Systems UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills |
28,147 |
35,282 |
42,222 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
22.38% |
23.24% |
24.18% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
22,562 |
28,276 |
34,545 |
| UK median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£47,500 |
£45,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
-5.26% |
+5.56% |
+2.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£25,000 |
£25,750 |
£24,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£78,750 |
£75,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£41,000 |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.38% |
+5.00% |
+1.27% |
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Linux
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Linux as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Linux
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux.
Linux
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 23 January 2020.
Linux
Top 16 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 23 January 2020.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
-4 |
10,823 |
£55,000 |
- |
2,518 |
| UK excluding London |
-2 |
6,903 |
£45,500 |
+1.11% |
1,870 |
| London |
-7 |
4,500 |
£67,500 |
+3.85% |
801 |
| South East |
-3 |
2,385 |
£47,500 |
- |
494 |
| North of England |
-6 |
1,260 |
£47,500 |
+5.56% |
386 |
| South West |
-1 |
1,098 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
281 |
| Midlands |
+3 |
825 |
£45,000 |
+2.27% |
254 |
| North West |
-6 |
754 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
222 |
| East of England |
+3 |
735 |
£47,500 |
-9.52% |
303 |
| West Midlands |
+5 |
570 |
£45,000 |
+4.05% |
157 |
| Yorkshire |
-10 |
416 |
£50,000 |
+8.70% |
107 |
| Scotland |
-5 |
357 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
98 |
| East Midlands |
-8 |
253 |
£45,000 |
- |
97 |
| Wales |
-3 |
204 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
43 |
| North East |
-9 |
90 |
£37,500 |
-16.67% |
57 |
| Northern Ireland |
0 |
58 |
£35,000 |
-30.00% |
11 |
For the 6 months to 23 January 2020, IT jobs citing Linux also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Linux.
| 1 |
4,311 (37.06%) |
Windows |
| 2 |
3,944 (33.90%) |
Python |
| 3 |
3,402 (29.24%) |
AWS |
| 4 |
3,218 (27.66%) |
DevOps |
| 5 |
3,131 (26.91%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 6 |
2,612 (22.45%) |
Java |
| 7 |
2,469 (21.22%) |
Docker |
| 8 |
2,425 (20.85%) |
SQL |
| 9 |
2,206 (18.96%) |
Azure |
| 10 |
2,198 (18.89%) |
Unix |
| 11 |
2,156 (18.53%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,913 (16.44%) |
Ansible |
| 13 |
1,894 (16.28%) |
Software Engineering |
| 14 |
1,848 (15.89%) |
Git (software) |
| 15 |
1,783 (15.33%) |
Kubernetes |
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| 16 |
1,775 (15.26%) |
JavaScript |
| 17 |
1,730 (14.87%) |
Bash Shell |
| 18 |
1,683 (14.47%) |
Microsoft |
| 19 |
1,570 (13.50%) |
VMware |
| 20 |
1,494 (12.84%) |
Jenkins |
| 21 |
1,482 (12.74%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 22 |
1,478 (12.71%) |
Degree |
| 23 |
1,467 (12.61%) |
Puppet |
| 24 |
1,400 (12.03%) |
C++ |
| 25 |
1,386 (11.91%) |
MySQL |
| 26 |
1,240 (10.66%) |
Windows Server |
| 27 |
1,216 (10.45%) |
Terraform |
| 28 |
1,181 (10.15%) |
Firewall |
| 29 |
1,172 (10.07%) |
PHP |
| 30 |
1,155 (9.93%) |
Oracle |
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Linux
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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