Rocky Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Rocky skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Rocky over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 944 -
Rank change year-on-year +66 - -
Permanent jobs citing Rocky 7 42 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.040% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.050% 0.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 0
10th Percentile £47,800 - -
25th Percentile £48,500 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £42,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £64,375 £52,500 -
90th Percentile £76,000 £54,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,750 £42,500 -
% change year-on-year +21.76% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Rocky 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 14,121 16,635 29,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.99% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10,927 11,200 16,776
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rocky over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rocky within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +77 7 £51,000 +20.00% 6
UK excluding London -27 6 £51,750 +21.76% 6
South East +8 5 £51,000 +20.00% 3
South West -46 1 £52,500 - 2
London - 1 £48,000 -

Rocky
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Robot Framework
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Support
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Django
1 1 (14.29%) LAMP
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) EMC VNX
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) CentOS
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) ITSM
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
2 3 (42.86%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (42.86%) Nagios
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) SCCM
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) EMC
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam
4 2 (28.57%) Aruba
4 2 (28.57%) Meraki
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft