Linux Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 39 39 36
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,614 4,226 3,964
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.06% 7.60% 7.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.23% 43.87% 47.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,093 2,806 2,983
10th Percentile £39,720 £38,725 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,649 9,632 8,298
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.96% 17.32% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,840 6,435 6,328
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Linux salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 71 (4.40%) Confluence
2 39 (2.42%) Apache
3 37 (2.29%) nginx
4 19 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.12%) IIS
5 18 (1.12%) Tomcat
6 14 (0.87%) WebLogic
7 10 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.50%) Oracle Service Bus
10 7 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
11 6 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
11 6 (0.37%) MS Exchange
12 5 (0.31%) WordPress
13 4 (0.25%) CMS
13 4 (0.25%) JBoss
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 3 (0.19%) Drupal
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Simulink
5 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.062%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.37%) Exstream
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.12%) Salerio
6 1 (0.062%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.062%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.062%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 634 (39.28%) AWS
2 491 (30.42%) Azure
3 316 (19.58%) GCP
4 180 (11.15%) Serverless
5 156 (9.67%) OpenShift
6 117 (7.25%) SaaS
7 106 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
8 90 (5.58%) PaaS
9 84 (5.20%) IaaS
10 83 (5.14%) GitHub
11 69 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 66 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
14 54 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
15 52 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
16 42 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
17 39 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (1.55%) Entra ID
18 25 (1.55%) Power Platform
19 24 (1.49%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 190 (11.77%) Firewall
2 109 (6.75%) TCP/IP
3 103 (6.38%) SAN
4 94 (5.82%) DNS
5 79 (4.89%) VPN
6 78 (4.83%) WAN
7 70 (4.34%) Internet
8 44 (2.73%) SD-WAN
9 43 (2.66%) LAN
9 43 (2.66%) VLAN
10 38 (2.35%) HTTP
11 36 (2.23%) IPv4
12 34 (2.11%) DHCP
13 33 (2.04%) OSPF
14 29 (1.80%) 5G
14 29 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 29 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 28 (1.73%) Network Security
16 26 (1.61%) SSL
17 25 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (8.86%) MySQL
2 88 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 85 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (4.09%) Relational Database
5 60 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 49 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (2.48%) RDBMS
9 37 (2.29%) Redis
10 33 (2.04%) Big Data
11 31 (1.92%) Oracle Database
12 29 (1.80%) MongoDB
13 22 (1.36%) Power BI
14 15 (0.93%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.93%) DB2
15 12 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (0.62%) Hadoop
18 9 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
19 8 (0.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 170 (10.53%) Git
2 168 (10.41%) Jenkins
3 120 (7.43%) JIRA
4 82 (5.08%) GitLab
5 52 (3.22%) Maven
6 33 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 20 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.24%) JUnit
8 19 (1.18%) Selenium
9 18 (1.12%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 17 (1.05%) Subversion
11 14 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.74%) CMake
13 12 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.74%) Travis CI
14 11 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.68%) MSI
14 11 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 383 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 359 (22.24%) Finance
3 133 (8.24%) Banking
4 114 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (6.88%) Retail
6 108 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
8 67 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 59 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (3.41%) Aerospace
11 44 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.66%) Marketing
13 38 (2.35%) Games
14 36 (2.23%) Law
15 25 (1.55%) Military
16 23 (1.43%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.36%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.24%) Manufacturing
19 14 (0.87%) Front Office
19 14 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 399 (24.72%) Senior
2 270 (16.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 262 (16.23%) Software Engineer
4 174 (10.78%) Architect
5 160 (9.91%) Developer
6 150 (9.29%) Senior Software Engineer
7 130 (8.05%) Linux Engineer
8 127 (7.87%) Lead
9 98 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 95 (5.89%) Infrastructure Architect
11 81 (5.02%) Administrator
12 80 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 75 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
14 74 (4.58%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 74 (4.58%) Senior Developer
15 67 (4.15%) Analyst
16 63 (3.90%) Python Engineer
17 58 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
17 58 (3.59%) Support Engineer
18 56 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.15%) .NET
2 58 (3.59%) Node.js
3 55 (3.41%) Kafka
4 52 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
5 48 (2.97%) REST
6 47 (2.91%) HTML
7 46 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
8 45 (2.79%) React
9 43 (2.66%) JSON
10 42 (2.60%) CSS
10 42 (2.60%) Spring
11 35 (2.17%) Django
12 31 (1.92%) XML
13 29 (1.80%) RESTful
14 28 (1.73%) Spine.js
15 27 (1.67%) Hibernate
16 26 (1.61%) LDAP
16 26 (1.61%) Spring Boot
17 24 (1.49%) Middleware
18 22 (1.36%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 161 (9.98%) Public Cloud
2 117 (7.25%) Data Centre
3 86 (5.33%) Private Cloud
4 79 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 77 (4.77%) Cloud Native
6 64 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
7 53 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
9 46 (2.85%) Management Information System
10 42 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
11 32 (1.98%) Product Ownership
12 26 (1.61%) Mainframe
13 25 (1.55%) Cyberattack
13 25 (1.55%) Replication
14 23 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
15 22 (1.36%) Algorithms
15 22 (1.36%) PKI
16 21 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (1.24%) IoT
17 20 (1.24%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 573 (35.50%) Windows
2 293 (18.15%) Unix
3 143 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 138 (8.55%) Windows Server
5 85 (5.27%) Ubuntu
6 69 (4.28%) CentOS
7 43 (2.66%) Solaris
8 41 (2.54%) Debian
9 40 (2.48%) Android
10 35 (2.17%) Mac OS
11 27 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (1.24%) Windows 10
12 20 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 19 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
14 17 (1.05%) VMS
15 16 (0.99%) HPUX
16 15 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
17 13 (0.81%) Apple iOS
18 11 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
19 9 (0.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (32.90%) DevOps
2 475 (29.43%) CI/CD
3 461 (28.56%) Agile
4 400 (24.78%) Software Engineering
5 285 (17.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 259 (16.05%) Configuration Management
7 252 (15.61%) Containerisation
8 233 (14.44%) Microservices
9 208 (12.89%) Actionable Insight
10 195 (12.08%) Mentoring
11 176 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (9.98%) Cybersecurity
13 135 (8.36%) Continuous Integration
14 134 (8.30%) Computer Science
14 134 (8.30%) Design Patterns
15 130 (8.05%) DevSecOps
16 119 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 113 (7.00%) Scrum
18 110 (6.82%) Project Management
19 105 (6.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 672 (41.64%) Python
2 341 (21.13%) Java
3 260 (16.11%) Bash
4 230 (14.25%) SQL
5 176 (10.90%) C++
6 174 (10.78%) PowerShell
7 145 (8.98%) JavaScript
8 107 (6.63%) C
9 96 (5.95%) PHP
10 80 (4.96%) Perl
11 71 (4.40%) Shell Script
12 65 (4.03%) Go
13 57 (3.53%) Rust
14 56 (3.47%) C#
14 56 (3.47%) Ruby
15 23 (1.43%) Groovy
16 20 (1.24%) TypeScript
17 19 (1.18%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.87%) Korn
19 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 365 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.56%) Degree
3 191 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 144 (8.92%) DV Cleared
5 79 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
11 24 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 24 (1.49%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.30%) CCNP
13 16 (0.99%) CCNA
14 14 (0.87%) MCSE
15 13 (0.81%) RHCE
16 12 (0.74%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.68%) CISSP
17 11 (0.68%) GIAC
17 11 (0.68%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (2.35%) QA
3 37 (2.29%) PMO
4 25 (1.55%) SLA
5 19 (1.18%) NIST
6 18 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.68%) NCSC
9 9 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.31%) GDPR
10 5 (0.31%) ITGC
11 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.19%) GRC
12 3 (0.19%) MISRA
13 2 (0.12%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.12%) ECSS
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.12%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.062%) JTAG
System Software
1 365 (22.61%) Docker
2 136 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 104 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.35%) Hyper-V
5 29 (1.80%) Firmware
5 29 (1.80%) vSphere
6 17 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.99%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.93%) LXC
9 13 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
10 12 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
10 12 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 11 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
12 9 (0.56%) OpenSIPS
13 7 (0.43%) Samba
14 6 (0.37%) Ceph
14 6 (0.37%) NFS
15 5 (0.31%) KVM
16 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 405 (25.09%) Terraform
2 380 (23.54%) Ansible
3 332 (20.57%) Kubernetes
4 118 (7.31%) Puppet
5 51 (3.16%) Progress Chef
6 49 (3.04%) Grafana
7 34 (2.11%) Nagios
8 26 (1.61%) SCCM
9 19 (1.18%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
11 15 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.87%) Kustomize
13 13 (0.81%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.74%) Data Guard
14 12 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
14 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
14 12 (0.74%) systemd
15 11 (0.68%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 208 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 183 (11.34%) Oracle
3 172 (10.66%) VMware
4 127 (7.87%) Red Hat
5 122 (7.56%) Google
6 70 (4.34%) Cisco
7 55 (3.41%) Splunk
8 44 (2.73%) IBM
8 44 (2.73%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.29%) CheckPoint
9 37 (2.29%) Sun
10 33 (2.04%) F5
11 31 (1.92%) Atlassian
12 29 (1.80%) Fortinet
13 26 (1.61%) Remedy
14 24 (1.49%) Dell
15 22 (1.36%) HP
15 22 (1.36%) SAP
16 18 (1.12%) NetApp
17 16 (0.99%) Apple