Rocky Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Rocky skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Rocky over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 878 945
Rank change year-on-year +230 +67 -
Permanent jobs citing Rocky 36 7 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.007% 0.040%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.55% 0.050% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 35 7 9
10th Percentile £29,000 £47,800 -
25th Percentile £37,000 £48,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £64,375 £52,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £76,000 £54,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,250 £51,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.49% +21.76% -

All Operating Systems
UK

Rocky 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 6,583 14,121 16,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 14.36% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,456 10,927 11,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,625 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Top 10 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 30 April 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 +215 33 £52,500 +2.94% 9
UK excluding London +224 23 £44,250 -14.49% 8
London +114 11 £67,500 +40.63% 1
Midlands - 11 £40,000 - 1
South East +118 10 £80,000 +56.86%
Work from Home - 7 £30,000 - 10
East Midlands - 6 £40,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £30,000 - 1
East of England - 1 £48,500 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) nginx
2 3 (8.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) DNS
2 8 (22.22%) DHCP
2 8 (22.22%) Firewall
3 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (13.89%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (11.11%) Multicast
5 4 (11.11%) Telnet
6 3 (8.33%) VLAN
7 2 (5.56%) VPN
8 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.78%) RTP
8 1 (2.78%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Git
2 10 (27.78%) GitLab
2 10 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.78%) Robot Framework
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) JUnit
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 12 (33.33%) Banking
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (13.89%) Law
3 5 (13.89%) Police
3 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Electronics
5 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Administrator
3 5 (13.89%) Applications Support
3 5 (13.89%) Applications Support Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) FIX Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) FIX Support Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Linux Support
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Support Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) Graduate
4 4 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Graduate Java Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) React
2 10 (27.78%) Django
3 9 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (13.89%) GWT
4 5 (13.89%) J2EE
4 5 (13.89%) JPA
4 5 (13.89%) Middleware
4 5 (13.89%) Vaadin
5 4 (11.11%) Node.js
6 3 (8.33%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.78%) CSS
7 1 (2.78%) HTML
7 1 (2.78%) Kafka
7 1 (2.78%) Vue
7 1 (2.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Equities
1 9 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 7 (19.44%) Derivative
3 5 (13.89%) Bitcoin
3 5 (13.89%) Eurex
3 5 (13.89%) Mobile App
4 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
5 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Digital Signage
6 1 (2.78%) IPTV
6 1 (2.78%) MPEG
6 1 (2.78%) PCIe
6 1 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (47.22%) CentOS
3 11 (30.56%) Windows
4 10 (27.78%) Ubuntu
5 9 (25.00%) Unix
6 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
7 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.78%) Debian
8 1 (2.78%) Fedora
8 1 (2.78%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
3 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
4 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.89%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (13.89%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (13.89%) ITIL
4 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
4 5 (13.89%) Requirements Analysis
4 5 (13.89%) SDLC
4 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
5 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 4 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (11.11%) Low Latency
6 3 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 28 (77.78%) SQL
2 24 (66.67%) Python
3 15 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 13 (36.11%) Bash
5 11 (30.56%) C++
6 6 (16.67%) Java
7 5 (13.89%) Perl
8 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.78%) C
9 1 (2.78%) PHP
9 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (36.11%) DV Cleared
3 10 (27.78%) Degree
4 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) SLA
2 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Ansible
1 9 (25.00%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Nagios
2 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (80.56%) Red Hat
2 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 9 (25.00%) Atlassian
4 6 (16.67%) Oracle
5 5 (13.89%) Bloomberg
5 5 (13.89%) CQG
5 5 (13.89%) ION Trading
5 5 (13.89%) Patsystems
5 5 (13.89%) Reuters
5 5 (13.89%) Trayport
6 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
6 3 (8.33%) VMware
7 1 (2.78%) Cisco
7 1 (2.78%) Google
7 1 (2.78%) Veeam