Oracle Linux Job Trends

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Oracle Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 649 738 713
Rank change year-on-year +89 -25 +345
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Linux 10 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.021% 0.004%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.19% 0.16% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 2
10th Percentile £51,250 £74,000 £45,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £84,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £110,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +120.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £80,000 £115,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £54,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% +7.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

Oracle 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 5,393 8,884 9,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 13.14% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 5,144 7,392
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -

Oracle Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Oracle Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Linux job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Linux
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Linux over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 13 November 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 +95 10 £71,500 -35.00% 1
London +59 8 £80,000 -27.27%
Work from Home +80 7 £80,000 -27.27%
UK excluding London +67 2 £52,500 -16.00% 1
Midlands +61 2 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands +41 1 £52,500 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Oracle Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Linux Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Linux Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (70.00%) CentOS
4 4 (40.00%) HPUX
4 4 (40.00%) Solaris
4 4 (40.00%) Unix
5 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Perl
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (20.00%) RHCE
2 2 (20.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) Commvault
4 2 (20.00%) EMC
4 2 (20.00%) Zerto
5 1 (10.00%) Dell
5 1 (10.00%) HP