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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 6 June 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Linux UK |
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6 months to
6 Jun 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
22 |
18 |
16 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-4 |
-2 |
0 |
| Permanent jobs citing Linux |
7,933 |
15,097 |
18,306 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK |
9.16% |
10.50% |
10.58% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
43.59% |
45.78% |
45.22% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
6,767 |
12,497 |
15,195 |
| Median annual salary |
£55,000 |
£55,000 |
£50,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+8.91% |
+1.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£32,500 |
£31,250 |
£31,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£86,250 |
£85,000 |
£82,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£47,500 |
£45,591 |
£45,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.19% |
+1.31% |
+5.88% |
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 |
18,198 |
32,978 |
40,480 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
21.02% |
22.93% |
23.39% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
14,714 |
26,213 |
32,720 |
| Median annual salary |
£48,500 |
£47,500 |
£46,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+2.11% |
+3.26% |
+2.22% |
| 10th Percentile |
£26,250 |
£25,750 |
£25,738 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£80,000 |
£76,250 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£43,000 |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.38% |
+5.00% |
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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 6 June 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 6 June 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 |
7,296 |
£55,000 |
- |
893 |
| UK excluding London |
-3 |
4,637 |
£47,500 |
+4.19% |
646 |
| London |
-7 |
3,124 |
£67,500 |
+3.85% |
303 |
| South East |
0 |
1,585 |
£50,000 |
- |
154 |
| North of England |
-6 |
859 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
167 |
| South West |
-1 |
714 |
£45,000 |
- |
86 |
| Midlands |
+4 |
579 |
£47,500 |
+7.95% |
78 |
| Work from Home |
-5 |
531 |
£60,000 |
-4.00% |
123 |
| North West |
+1 |
507 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
108 |
| East of England |
-6 |
432 |
£50,000 |
- |
105 |
| West Midlands |
+8 |
406 |
£47,500 |
+7.95% |
49 |
| Yorkshire |
-11 |
293 |
£50,000 |
+3.17% |
40 |
| Scotland |
-3 |
269 |
£50,000 |
+17.65% |
20 |
| East Midlands |
-2 |
167 |
£45,000 |
-2.70% |
28 |
| Wales |
+1 |
160 |
£40,000 |
- |
27 |
| North East |
-19 |
59 |
£40,000 |
-15.79% |
19 |
| Northern Ireland |
-6 |
51 |
£41,750 |
-16.50% |
9 |
For the 6 months to 6 June 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 |
2,891 (36.44%) |
Windows |
| 2 |
2,732 (34.44%) |
Python |
| 3 |
2,275 (28.68%) |
AWS |
| 4 |
2,243 (28.27%) |
DevOps |
| 5 |
2,064 (26.02%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 6 |
1,865 (23.51%) |
Docker |
| 7 |
1,766 (22.26%) |
Java |
| 8 |
1,718 (21.66%) |
SQL |
| 9 |
1,529 (19.27%) |
Azure |
| 10 |
1,441 (18.16%) |
Finance |
| 11 |
1,424 (17.95%) |
Unix |
| 12 |
1,386 (17.47%) |
Git (software) |
| 13 |
1,380 (17.40%) |
JavaScript |
| 14 |
1,350 (17.02%) |
Kubernetes |
| 15 |
1,282 (16.16%) |
Ansible |
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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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