Linux
UK

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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 34 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 3,593 8,694 9,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.73% 6.94% 7.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.05% 41.91% 44.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,493 5,528 6,713
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +1.01%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,201 20,743 22,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 16.55% 17.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,153 13,901 16,216
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,581 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +3 3,151 £60,000 -4.00% 1,540
UK excluding London +11 2,348 £55,000 +4.76% 1,127
Work from Home -2 1,574 £65,000 +8.33% 993
London -4 1,054 £80,000 +3.23% 559
South East +10 705 £52,500 - 332
South West +7 529 £54,000 -1.82% 192
North of England +16 456 £55,000 +0.64% 228
North West +33 267 £60,000 +9.09% 124
Midlands -13 221 £57,500 +15.00% 108
Scotland +4 207 £60,000 +2.64% 96
Yorkshire +3 174 £55,000 - 88
East of England +1 151 £65,000 +8.33% 161
West Midlands -15 125 £56,000 +12.00% 61
East Midlands -15 95 £60,000 +14.29% 47
Wales +12 54 £62,500 +38.89% 22
Northern Ireland +5 50 £50,000 -4.76% 11
North East -6 14 £61,250 +50.31% 21
Channel Islands +9 1 £55,000 +10.00%

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
1 127 (3.53%) Confluence
2 96 (2.67%) Apache
3 69 (1.92%) nginx
4 65 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 57 (1.59%) IIS
6 44 (1.22%) Apache Spark
7 40 (1.11%) WebSphere
8 38 (1.06%) Tomcat
9 26 (0.72%) WebLogic
10 22 (0.61%) Captiva
10 22 (0.61%) FileNet
11 20 (0.56%) OpenStack
12 16 (0.45%) MS Exchange
13 13 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 12 (0.33%) Jupyter
15 10 (0.28%) JBoss
15 10 (0.28%) WordPress
16 8 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
17 7 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
18 6 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 46 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.31%) Simulink
4 10 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.11%) OrCAD
6 3 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.056%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.028%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.028%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.17%) Exstream
3 6 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.11%) Magento
6 3 (0.083%) ION Anvil
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.083%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.083%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.056%) Salerio
7 2 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.028%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.028%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.028%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.028%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.028%) Shopify
8 1 (0.028%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,178 (32.79%) AWS
2 1,039 (28.92%) Azure
3 417 (11.61%) GCP
4 295 (8.21%) OpenShift
5 267 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
6 239 (6.65%) Serverless
7 219 (6.10%) SaaS
8 156 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
8 156 (4.34%) IaaS
9 147 (4.09%) PaaS
10 139 (3.87%) GitHub
11 132 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
13 94 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
14 84 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
15 79 (2.20%) Amazon S3
16 70 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
17 62 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
18 59 (1.64%) Entra ID
19 49 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 437 (12.16%) Firewall
2 379 (10.55%) TCP/IP
3 368 (10.24%) DNS
4 259 (7.21%) DHCP
5 195 (5.43%) SAN
6 174 (4.84%) HTTP
7 163 (4.54%) VPN
8 153 (4.26%) WAN
9 97 (2.70%) LAN
10 96 (2.67%) Internet
11 88 (2.45%) Wireless
12 85 (2.37%) VLAN
13 75 (2.09%) Network Security
14 57 (1.59%) SD-WAN
15 56 (1.56%) OSPF
16 51 (1.42%) SSL
17 48 (1.34%) IPv4
18 47 (1.31%) BGP
19 46 (1.28%) VoIP
20 43 (1.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (6.74%) MySQL
2 200 (5.57%) SQL Server
3 149 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
4 107 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 103 (2.87%) Big Data
6 93 (2.59%) MongoDB
6 93 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 91 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
8 78 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 67 (1.86%) Oracle Database
10 52 (1.45%) Redis
11 50 (1.39%) RDBMS
12 39 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 32 (0.89%) Power BI
14 26 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (0.61%) DB2
15 22 (0.61%) InfluxDB
16 18 (0.50%) MariaDB
17 17 (0.47%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 366 (10.19%) Jenkins
2 329 (9.16%) Git
3 226 (6.29%) JIRA
4 179 (4.98%) GitLab
5 82 (2.28%) Maven
6 78 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 65 (1.81%) Artifactory
8 53 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 45 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 45 (1.25%) Selenium
10 42 (1.17%) CircleCI
11 38 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
12 32 (0.89%) JUnit
13 31 (0.86%) Robot Framework
14 29 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
15 28 (0.78%) Cucumber
15 28 (0.78%) Visual Studio
16 27 (0.75%) Subversion
17 23 (0.64%) Gradle
18 22 (0.61%) Liquibase
General
1 879 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 672 (18.70%) Finance
3 263 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 230 (6.40%) Banking
6 131 (3.65%) Retail
7 123 (3.42%) Aerospace
8 121 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
9 113 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 102 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 97 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 94 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 74 (2.06%) Marketing
14 71 (1.98%) Electronics
15 63 (1.75%) Law
16 53 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 53 (1.48%) Games
17 49 (1.36%) Automotive
18 39 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
19 37 (1.03%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 670 (18.65%) Senior
2 487 (13.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 450 (12.52%) Software Engineer
4 370 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 348 (9.69%) Developer
6 272 (7.57%) Architect
7 247 (6.87%) Linux Engineer
8 240 (6.68%) Lead
9 234 (6.51%) Analyst
10 175 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 174 (4.84%) Support Engineer
12 161 (4.48%) Administrator
13 151 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
14 133 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
15 131 (3.65%) Infrastructure Architect
16 108 (3.01%) Senior Developer
17 107 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
18 103 (2.87%) Embedded Engineer
19 101 (2.81%) Senior DevOps
20 93 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
2 120 (3.34%) .NET
3 117 (3.26%) Kafka
4 112 (3.12%) React
5 109 (3.03%) HTML
6 104 (2.89%) REST
7 96 (2.67%) Node.js
8 91 (2.53%) CSS
9 82 (2.28%) Spring
9 82 (2.28%) XML
10 75 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
11 68 (1.89%) JSON
12 56 (1.56%) Middleware
12 56 (1.56%) YAML
13 54 (1.50%) AngularJS
14 52 (1.45%) RESTful
15 51 (1.42%) Hibernate
16 50 (1.39%) LDAP
17 49 (1.36%) Spring Boot
18 43 (1.20%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 243 (6.76%) Public Cloud
2 215 (5.98%) Data Centre
3 131 (3.65%) Private Cloud
4 127 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 113 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
6 103 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 99 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 94 (2.62%) Virtual Team
9 85 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
10 74 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
11 66 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 65 (1.81%) Algorithms
13 53 (1.48%) PKI
14 52 (1.45%) Product Ownership
15 51 (1.42%) Replication
16 46 (1.28%) Hedge funds
17 44 (1.22%) Onboarding
18 42 (1.17%) Clustering
18 42 (1.17%) CMDB
18 42 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1,529 (42.55%) Windows
2 551 (15.34%) Unix
3 441 (12.27%) Windows Server
4 378 (10.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 203 (5.65%) Ubuntu
6 175 (4.87%) Android
7 166 (4.62%) CentOS
8 122 (3.40%) Mac OS
9 94 (2.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 78 (2.17%) Debian
10 78 (2.17%) Solaris
11 74 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
12 72 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
13 62 (1.73%) Windows 10
14 61 (1.70%) Embedded Linux
15 37 (1.03%) Apple iOS
16 35 (0.97%) VMS
17 25 (0.70%) AIX
18 23 (0.64%) HPUX
19 20 (0.56%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (28.64%) DevOps
2 838 (23.32%) Agile
3 788 (21.93%) CI/CD
4 718 (19.98%) Software Engineering
5 514 (14.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 491 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
7 428 (11.91%) Containerisation
8 422 (11.75%) Configuration Management
9 420 (11.69%) Actionable Insight
10 419 (11.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 364 (10.13%) Mentoring
12 318 (8.85%) Microservices
13 282 (7.85%) Computer Science
14 277 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
15 255 (7.10%) Continuous Integration
16 205 (5.71%) ITIL
17 200 (5.57%) Scrum
18 196 (5.46%) Test Automation
19 174 (4.84%) DevSecOps
20 168 (4.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,468 (40.86%) Python
2 710 (19.76%) Java
3 682 (18.98%) Bash
4 597 (16.62%) PowerShell
5 557 (15.50%) SQL
6 469 (13.05%) C++
7 314 (8.74%) C
8 270 (7.51%) JavaScript
9 183 (5.09%) Shell Script
10 167 (4.65%) Perl
11 158 (4.40%) C#
12 146 (4.06%) PHP
13 135 (3.76%) Go
14 116 (3.23%) Ruby
15 85 (2.37%) Rust
16 59 (1.64%) TypeScript
17 46 (1.28%) Groovy
18 40 (1.11%) PL/SQL
19 32 (0.89%) MATLAB
19 32 (0.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 795 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 577 (16.06%) Degree
3 396 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 310 (8.63%) DV Cleared
5 155 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 151 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 92 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 89 (2.48%) AWS Certification
9 69 (1.92%) MCSE
10 66 (1.84%) CCNA
11 63 (1.75%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.09%) CCNP
13 36 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 35 (0.97%) Linux+ Certification
15 30 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
16 29 (0.81%) CISSP
17 26 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 26 (0.72%) PhD
18 24 (0.67%) MCSA
19 22 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (3.28%) QA
2 85 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (1.34%) SLA
4 41 (1.14%) GDPR
5 38 (1.06%) PMO
6 34 (0.95%) NIST
7 30 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.42%) NCSC
10 12 (0.33%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
11 10 (0.28%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.17%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
13 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.14%) GRC
13 5 (0.14%) ITGC
13 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.11%) MISRA
15 3 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 708 (19.70%) Docker
2 401 (11.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 398 (11.08%) Active Directory
4 191 (5.32%) Hyper-V
5 77 (2.14%) vSphere
6 68 (1.89%) Firmware
7 66 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
8 49 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
9 24 (0.67%) VMware NSX
10 23 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
11 18 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 16 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
13 14 (0.39%) KVM
13 14 (0.39%) vCloud
14 13 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 12 (0.33%) NFS
16 11 (0.31%) OpenSIPS
17 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 820 (22.82%) Ansible
2 772 (21.49%) Terraform
3 727 (20.23%) Kubernetes
4 335 (9.32%) Puppet
5 115 (3.20%) Grafana
6 79 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 78 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 64 (1.78%) SCCM
9 50 (1.39%) SCOM
10 43 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 43 (1.20%) Nagios
11 35 (0.97%) vCenter Server
12 30 (0.83%) Packer
12 30 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
12 30 (0.83%) ZABBIX
13 23 (0.64%) Data Guard
13 23 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
14 22 (0.61%) NetBackup
15 20 (0.56%) HAProxy
16 19 (0.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 571 (15.89%) VMware
2 510 (14.19%) Microsoft
3 367 (10.21%) Red Hat
4 328 (9.13%) Oracle
5 220 (6.12%) Cisco
6 161 (4.48%) Google
7 111 (3.09%) Splunk
8 93 (2.59%) IBM
9 79 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 76 (2.12%) Atlassian
11 65 (1.81%) HP
12 60 (1.67%) Apple
13 57 (1.59%) Veeam
14 56 (1.56%) Fortinet
14 56 (1.56%) SAP
15 47 (1.31%) Dell
16 46 (1.28%) NetApp
17 43 (1.20%) Palo Alto
18 42 (1.17%) CheckPoint
19 39 (1.09%) F5