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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 9 April 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Linux UK |
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6 months to
9 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
22 |
20 |
16 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-2 |
-4 |
0 |
| Permanent jobs citing Linux |
10,334 |
15,552 |
18,822 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK |
8.97% |
10.44% |
10.62% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
41.88% |
45.16% |
44.82% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
8,678 |
13,100 |
15,782 |
| Median annual salary |
£54,486 |
£52,500 |
£50,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+3.78% |
+5.00% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£31,250 |
£30,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£87,500 |
£85,000 |
£80,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£47,500 |
£45,500 |
£45,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.40% |
+1.11% |
+4.65% |
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 |
24,677 |
34,436 |
41,999 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
21.43% |
23.11% |
23.70% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
19,839 |
27,523 |
34,354 |
| Median annual salary |
£47,500 |
£47,500 |
£45,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+2.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£26,000 |
£25,750 |
£25,250 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£78,750 |
£76,250 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£42,500 |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.19% |
+5.00% |
+1.27% |
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Linux
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Linux
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux.
Linux
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
Linux
Top 17 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 9 April 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 |
-3 |
9,558 |
£55,000 |
- |
1,536 |
| UK excluding London |
-3 |
6,102 |
£47,500 |
+4.40% |
1,084 |
| London |
-8 |
4,019 |
£67,500 |
+3.85% |
550 |
| South East |
0 |
2,131 |
£48,500 |
-3.00% |
303 |
| North of England |
-5 |
1,135 |
£50,000 |
+7.53% |
205 |
| South West |
-2 |
917 |
£45,000 |
- |
158 |
| Midlands |
0 |
734 |
£46,484 |
+5.65% |
134 |
| North West |
+1 |
655 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
119 |
| Work from Home |
-6 |
621 |
£55,000 |
-8.33% |
99 |
| East of England |
-4 |
608 |
£50,000 |
- |
188 |
| West Midlands |
+7 |
495 |
£47,500 |
+9.83% |
79 |
| Yorkshire |
-9 |
393 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
48 |
| Scotland |
-6 |
316 |
£46,000 |
+8.24% |
64 |
| East Midlands |
-5 |
235 |
£45,000 |
- |
55 |
| Wales |
+2 |
207 |
£41,500 |
+3.75% |
30 |
| North East |
-12 |
87 |
£37,000 |
-17.78% |
38 |
| Northern Ireland |
+7 |
64 |
£35,000 |
-22.22% |
4 |
For the 6 months to 9 April 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 |
3,872 (37.47%) |
Windows |
| 2 |
3,451 (33.39%) |
Python |
| 3 |
3,003 (29.06%) |
AWS |
| 4 |
2,859 (27.67%) |
DevOps |
| 5 |
2,743 (26.54%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 6 |
2,343 (22.67%) |
Docker |
| 7 |
2,317 (22.42%) |
Java |
| 8 |
2,200 (21.29%) |
SQL |
| 9 |
1,980 (19.16%) |
Azure |
| 10 |
1,919 (18.57%) |
Finance |
| 11 |
1,880 (18.19%) |
Unix |
| 12 |
1,802 (17.44%) |
Git (software) |
| 13 |
1,719 (16.63%) |
JavaScript |
| 14 |
1,676 (16.22%) |
Kubernetes |
| 15 |
1,638 (15.85%) |
Software Engineering |
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| 16 |
1,637 (15.84%) |
Ansible |
| 17 |
1,608 (15.56%) |
Bash Shell |
| 18 |
1,460 (14.13%) |
Microsoft |
| 19 |
1,428 (13.82%) |
VMware |
| 20 |
1,289 (12.47%) |
Jenkins |
| 21 |
1,285 (12.43%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 22 |
1,277 (12.36%) |
MySQL |
| 23 |
1,230 (11.90%) |
Degree |
| 24 |
1,211 (11.72%) |
C++ |
| 25 |
1,161 (11.23%) |
PHP |
| 26 |
1,135 (10.98%) |
Terraform |
| 27 |
1,125 (10.89%) |
Puppet |
| 28 |
1,124 (10.88%) |
Windows Server |
| 29 |
1,052 (10.18%) |
Firewall |
| 30 |
1,036 (10.03%) |
PowerShell |
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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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