Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 32 30
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 3,009 5,670 6,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.00% 5.67% 7.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.63% 42.65% 43.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 3,643 3,927
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,400
25th Percentile £43,995 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
UK

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,405 13,293 14,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 13.29% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,639 9,894 9,935
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,293 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK

Linux
Top 18 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 18 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 2,825 £60,000 +9.09% 1,648
UK excluding London -16 2,111 £55,000 +4.76% 1,163
Work from Home -7 1,371 £60,000 +9.09% 828
North of England +18 1,090 £50,000 - 181
North West +18 956 £53,750 +2.38% 103
London -1 715 £80,000 +3.23% 635
South East -42 380 £53,065 -3.52% 346
Midlands -48 211 £57,500 +15.00% 135
South West -33 184 £51,058 -4.12% 186
East of England -59 146 £55,320 +0.58% 231
West Midlands -8 134 £65,000 +20.37% 85
Yorkshire -27 114 £42,500 -5.56% 55
Scotland -28 79 £57,500 +15.00% 79
East Midlands -64 74 £40,000 -15.79% 46
Wales -10 38 £76,250 +52.50% 33
North East +3 20 £65,000 +16.07% 25
Northern Ireland +10 7 - - 20
Isle of Man +10 1 £34,500 -19.77% 3

Linux
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
1 109 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (3.46%) Confluence
3 46 (1.53%) Apache
4 42 (1.40%) IIS
5 37 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 30 (1.00%) nginx
7 14 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.37%) CMS
9 10 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 8 (0.27%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.23%) Apache Spark
12 7 (0.23%) OpenEdge
13 6 (0.20%) GemFire
14 5 (0.17%) SAS
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.100%) JBoss
16 3 (0.100%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.100%) WordPress
17 2 (0.066%) Drupal
Applications
1 62 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.13%) Simulink
6 3 (0.100%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.066%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.066%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.033%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.033%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.033%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.033%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.033%) Trello
8 1 (0.033%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.100%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.066%) MFGPRO
4 2 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.066%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 953 (31.67%) AWS
2 768 (25.52%) Azure
3 278 (9.24%) GCP
4 228 (7.58%) Pulumi
5 184 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
6 101 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
7 90 (2.99%) Amazon S3
8 89 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 77 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
10 75 (2.49%) GitHub
11 74 (2.46%) Entra ID
12 67 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 65 (2.16%) SaaS
14 57 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 52 (1.73%) AWS KMS
16 48 (1.60%) Serverless
17 41 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
17 41 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
18 40 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
19 39 (1.30%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 832 (27.65%) VPN
2 573 (19.04%) DNS
3 288 (9.57%) Cisco IOS
4 274 (9.11%) Firewall
5 218 (7.24%) Broadband
6 205 (6.81%) TCP/IP
7 126 (4.19%) DHCP
8 84 (2.79%) WAN
9 81 (2.69%) VLAN
10 68 (2.26%) Wireless
11 65 (2.16%) SAN
12 60 (1.99%) Network Security
13 54 (1.79%) LAN
14 50 (1.66%) VoIP
15 43 (1.43%) HTTP
16 36 (1.20%) Multicast
17 34 (1.13%) Software-Defined Radio
18 31 (1.03%) SD-WAN
19 30 (1.00%) SMTP
19 30 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 287 (9.54%) NoSQL
3 242 (8.04%) RDBMS
4 146 (4.85%) SQL Server
5 137 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 111 (3.69%) MySQL
7 106 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
8 95 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
9 56 (1.86%) MongoDB
10 29 (0.96%) Redis
11 21 (0.70%) DB2
12 18 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (0.50%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.37%) Big Data
16 8 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
17 7 (0.23%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.20%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 286 (9.50%) Git
2 217 (7.21%) Jaeger
3 182 (6.05%) Jenkins
4 169 (5.62%) JIRA
5 80 (2.66%) Cucumber
6 72 (2.39%) GitLab
7 65 (2.16%) Robot Framework
8 58 (1.93%) JUnit
9 56 (1.86%) Maven
10 42 (1.40%) SonarQube
11 41 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 38 (1.26%) Vagrant
13 35 (1.16%) Bitbucket
14 33 (1.10%) Mockito
15 22 (0.73%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.70%) Artifactory
17 20 (0.66%) Subversion
18 17 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
18 17 (0.56%) IntelliJ
19 14 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 1,268 (42.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 855 (28.41%) Analytical Skills
3 813 (27.02%) Finance
4 585 (19.44%) Social Skills
5 148 (4.92%) Banking
6 129 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 83 (2.76%) Law
8 80 (2.66%) Public Sector
9 57 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 53 (1.76%) Front Office
11 51 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.60%) Electronics
13 37 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 36 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.20%) Retail
15 30 (1.00%) Marketing
16 25 (0.83%) Automotive
17 24 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 23 (0.76%) Games
19 22 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 710 (23.60%) Developer
2 530 (17.61%) Senior
3 472 (15.69%) Software Developer
4 405 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 379 (12.60%) Software Engineer
6 366 (12.16%) Lead
7 256 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 248 (8.24%) Team Leader
9 153 (5.08%) Support Engineer
10 141 (4.69%) Analyst
11 135 (4.49%) Administrator
12 115 (3.82%) Linux Engineer
13 113 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
14 99 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
15 95 (3.16%) IT Support
16 93 (3.09%) Systems Administrator
17 87 (2.89%) Support Analyst
18 85 (2.82%) Embedded Engineer
19 78 (2.59%) Test Engineer
20 73 (2.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (17.15%) Elastic Stack
2 302 (10.04%) .NET
3 264 (8.77%) Node.js
4 216 (7.18%) OpenTelemetry
5 77 (2.56%) React
6 69 (2.29%) REST
7 65 (2.16%) Spring
8 59 (1.96%) Pandas
9 55 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
10 50 (1.66%) HTML
10 50 (1.66%) Spring Boot
11 46 (1.53%) AngularJS
12 42 (1.40%) Hibernate
13 40 (1.33%) CSS
14 37 (1.23%) Middleware
15 36 (1.20%) RESTful
16 35 (1.16%) Kafka
17 32 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
18 30 (1.00%) JSON
19 28 (0.93%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 889 (29.54%) Cyberattack
2 309 (10.27%) Linux Command Line
3 246 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
4 97 (3.22%) Algorithms
5 93 (3.09%) Management Information System
6 88 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 79 (2.63%) Cloud Native
8 73 (2.43%) e-Learning
9 71 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
10 70 (2.33%) Equities
11 68 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
12 64 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
13 56 (1.86%) Hedge funds
14 51 (1.69%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.69%) Driving Licence
14 51 (1.69%) Public Cloud
15 47 (1.56%) Clustering
16 45 (1.50%) Replication
17 40 (1.33%) FPGA
18 39 (1.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,078 (35.83%) Windows
2 752 (24.99%) Android
3 443 (14.72%) Unix
4 263 (8.74%) Windows Server
5 178 (5.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 74 (2.46%) CentOS
6 74 (2.46%) Ubuntu
7 69 (2.29%) Embedded Linux
8 61 (2.03%) Mac OS
9 59 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 56 (1.86%) Windows 10
11 46 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 44 (1.46%) VMS
13 33 (1.10%) Apple iOS
14 31 (1.03%) Rocky
15 28 (0.93%) Solaris
16 27 (0.90%) Debian
16 27 (0.90%) Mac OS X
17 22 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
18 15 (0.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (39.81%) Agile
2 944 (31.37%) DevOps
3 774 (25.72%) Mathematics
4 714 (23.73%) Line Management
5 690 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
6 644 (21.40%) Mentoring
7 534 (17.75%) Software Engineering
8 526 (17.48%) Task Automation
9 514 (17.08%) OO
10 495 (16.45%) OOP
11 464 (15.42%) Design Patterns
12 456 (15.15%) Android Development
13 438 (14.56%) Containerisation
14 430 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 414 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 395 (13.13%) CI/CD
17 357 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
18 325 (10.80%) High Availability
19 323 (10.73%) Continuous Integration
20 297 (9.87%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,780 (59.16%) Python
2 1,096 (36.42%) Java
3 920 (30.57%) C++
4 918 (30.51%) Go
5 804 (26.72%) Bash
6 682 (22.67%) JavaScript
7 628 (20.87%) PowerShell
8 361 (12.00%) SQL
9 279 (9.27%) Rust
10 209 (6.95%) C
11 85 (2.82%) Shell Script
12 73 (2.43%) C#
12 73 (2.43%) Perl
13 54 (1.79%) PHP
14 49 (1.63%) Groovy
15 44 (1.46%) TypeScript
16 28 (0.93%) R
17 26 (0.86%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.60%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 975 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 749 (24.89%) DV Cleared
3 444 (14.76%) AWS Certification
4 393 (13.06%) Degree
5 233 (7.74%) SC Cleared
6 183 (6.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 179 (5.95%) AWS Certified Developer
8 106 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
9 103 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 99 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 69 (2.29%) CCNP
12 62 (2.06%) CCNA
13 46 (1.53%) MCSE
14 44 (1.46%) Azure Certification
15 43 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
16 41 (1.36%) MCSA
17 30 (1.00%) PhD
17 30 (1.00%) RHCSA
18 25 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
18 25 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.55%) QA
2 50 (1.66%) SLA
3 36 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.10%) GDPR
5 21 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 15 (0.50%) NIST
8 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.23%) Data Quality
12 7 (0.23%) MIL-STD-1553
13 6 (0.20%) PMO
14 5 (0.17%) Def Stans
14 5 (0.17%) ITGC
14 5 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.13%) HL7
16 3 (0.100%) JTAG
System Software
1 1,217 (40.45%) Docker
2 369 (12.26%) Hyper-V
3 321 (10.67%) vSphere
4 284 (9.44%) Active Directory
5 268 (8.91%) VMware NSX
6 219 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 80 (2.66%) Firmware
8 70 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
10 48 (1.60%) Embedded Firmware
11 25 (0.83%) DFS Replication
12 23 (0.76%) NFS
13 15 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
14 13 (0.43%) Postfix
15 10 (0.33%) KVM
16 8 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 8 (0.27%) Dovecot
16 8 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
17 7 (0.23%) BitLocker
18 6 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1,234 (41.01%) Ansible
2 825 (27.42%) Terraform
3 559 (18.58%) Kubernetes
4 317 (10.54%) Prometheus
5 222 (7.38%) Argo
6 216 (7.18%) Kustomize
7 130 (4.32%) Grafana
8 106 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 52 (1.73%) Puppet
10 32 (1.06%) SCCM
11 29 (0.96%) Nagios
12 21 (0.70%) vCenter Server
13 20 (0.66%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.66%) Nessus
14 19 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
14 19 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
15 18 (0.60%) Progress Chef
16 16 (0.53%) Kibana
16 16 (0.53%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 437 (14.52%) Cisco
2 414 (13.76%) Microsoft
3 315 (10.47%) Splunk
4 307 (10.20%) VMware
5 297 (9.87%) Juniper
6 271 (9.01%) Google
7 262 (8.71%) 3PAR
8 191 (6.35%) Red Hat
9 139 (4.62%) Oracle
10 64 (2.13%) Atlassian
11 56 (1.86%) IBM
12 54 (1.79%) Dell
13 52 (1.73%) ServiceNow
14 39 (1.30%) Apple
14 39 (1.30%) SAP
15 35 (1.16%) Veeam
16 33 (1.10%) HP
17 32 (1.06%) Citrix
18 27 (0.90%) Commvault
18 27 (0.90%) Fortinet