Linux Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,384 2,121 2,738
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.60% 6.36% 7.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.54% 47.60% 50.14%
Number of salaries quoted 483 1,367 1,963
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,341
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,525 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -12.36% +7.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £81,875
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,585 4,456 5,461
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.33% 13.36% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 3,341 4,186
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,690
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.28% +3.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.59% -13.33% -

Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux.

Linux salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Linux over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

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 26 (1.88%) IIS
2 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.30%) Apache
4 16 (1.16%) nginx
5 13 (0.94%) Confluence
5 13 (0.94%) Tomcat
6 11 (0.79%) CMS
7 10 (0.72%) Apache Solr
7 10 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.22%) GemFire
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.14%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.14%) WordPress
12 1 (0.072%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Simulink
4 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.072%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) Trello
5 1 (0.072%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 661 (47.76%) AWS
2 453 (32.73%) Azure
3 237 (17.12%) GCP
4 226 (16.33%) Pulumi
5 78 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (3.18%) SaaS
9 35 (2.53%) Entra ID
10 33 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (2.38%) GitHub
10 33 (2.38%) Serverless
11 30 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
12 28 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (1.88%) Amazon S3
14 22 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (1.23%) PaaS
16 16 (1.16%) Cloudflare
17 15 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (1.01%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 295 (21.32%) VPN
2 262 (18.93%) Cisco IOS
3 216 (15.61%) Broadband
4 68 (4.91%) Firewall
5 67 (4.84%) TCP/IP
6 59 (4.26%) DNS
7 48 (3.47%) DHCP
8 37 (2.67%) Wireless
9 30 (2.17%) WAN
10 28 (2.02%) Software-Defined Radio
11 24 (1.73%) VLAN
12 23 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (1.37%) SD-WAN
14 16 (1.16%) HTTP
15 13 (0.94%) Internet
15 13 (0.94%) VoIP
16 12 (0.87%) SAN
17 9 (0.65%) 5G
17 9 (0.65%) LAN
17 9 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (18.28%) NoSQL
2 241 (17.41%) Relational Database
3 227 (16.40%) RDBMS
4 76 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
5 59 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 55 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (2.60%) MySQL
8 28 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.23%) Redis
11 5 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.36%) Metadata
11 5 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (0.22%) Big Data
13 3 (0.22%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.22%) InterSystems Cache
14 2 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (15.53%) Jaeger
2 117 (8.45%) Git
3 62 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.38%) JUnit
5 30 (2.17%) GitLab
6 28 (2.02%) JIRA
7 24 (1.73%) Maven
8 18 (1.30%) IntelliJ
9 17 (1.23%) Mockito
10 15 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.94%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.87%) Subversion
13 8 (0.58%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.58%) webpack
14 7 (0.51%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.51%) Jasmine
14 7 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
14 7 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (0.51%) Protractor
General
1 747 (53.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 373 (26.95%) Analytical Skills
3 203 (14.67%) Finance
4 190 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 73 (5.27%) Banking
6 35 (2.53%) Law
7 26 (1.88%) Telecoms
8 22 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.30%) Games
10 18 (1.30%) Public Sector
11 12 (0.87%) Electronics
11 12 (0.87%) Front Office
11 12 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (0.87%) Retail
12 11 (0.79%) Legal
13 9 (0.65%) Czech Language
13 9 (0.65%) Marketing
14 7 (0.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 318 (22.98%) Senior
2 305 (22.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 264 (19.08%) Lead
4 257 (18.57%) Software Engineer
5 238 (17.20%) Team Leader
6 202 (14.60%) Senior Software Engineer
7 162 (11.71%) Developer
8 61 (4.41%) Administrator
9 57 (4.12%) Software Developer
10 48 (3.47%) Embedded Engineer
11 43 (3.11%) Analyst
12 40 (2.89%) Systems Administrator
13 39 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
14 37 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
14 37 (2.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 34 (2.46%) IT Support
16 30 (2.17%) Java Developer
17 28 (2.02%) Support Analyst
18 27 (1.95%) AWS DevOps
18 27 (1.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (35.69%) Elastic Stack
2 252 (18.21%) .NET
3 245 (17.70%) Node.js
4 215 (15.53%) OpenTelemetry
5 57 (4.12%) Pandas
6 48 (3.47%) REST
7 30 (2.17%) Spring
8 29 (2.10%) Middleware
9 26 (1.88%) React
10 24 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (1.73%) Spring Boot
11 22 (1.59%) JSON
12 20 (1.45%) HTML
13 19 (1.37%) Hibernate
14 18 (1.30%) CSS
15 15 (1.08%) Django
15 15 (1.08%) Kafka
16 14 (1.01%) RESTful
17 13 (0.94%) AngularJS
18 12 (0.87%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 490 (35.40%) Cyberattack
2 219 (15.82%) Self-Motivation
3 194 (14.02%) Linux Command Line
4 54 (3.90%) e-Learning
5 48 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
7 36 (2.60%) Algorithms
8 33 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 31 (2.24%) MicroBlaze
10 30 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (1.95%) RISC-V
12 25 (1.81%) Public Cloud
13 24 (1.73%) FPGA
14 22 (1.59%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.37%) Cloud Native
15 19 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.30%) Product Ownership
17 16 (1.16%) Clustering
17 16 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
18 13 (0.94%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 506 (36.56%) Windows
2 337 (24.35%) Unix
3 323 (23.34%) Android
4 92 (6.65%) Windows Server
5 58 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (3.11%) Embedded Linux
7 33 (2.38%) CentOS
8 20 (1.45%) Solaris
9 18 (1.30%) Ubuntu
10 15 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.87%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.87%) Rocky
12 11 (0.79%) Apple iOS
13 9 (0.65%) Debian
13 9 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.36%) AIX
15 5 (0.36%) Windows 10
16 4 (0.29%) HPUX
17 2 (0.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (47.04%) DevOps
2 584 (42.20%) Agile
3 487 (35.19%) Task Automation
4 461 (33.31%) Mentoring
5 436 (31.50%) Problem-Solving
6 345 (24.93%) Software Engineering
7 334 (24.13%) Containerisation
8 332 (23.99%) Mathematics
9 317 (22.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 314 (22.69%) Line Management
11 301 (21.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 287 (20.74%) Platform Engineering
13 276 (19.94%) High Availability
14 274 (19.80%) Risk Management
15 264 (19.08%) Storage Management
16 248 (17.92%) Roadmaps
17 246 (17.77%) Continuous Integration
18 228 (16.47%) Microservices
19 227 (16.40%) Performance Optimisation
20 216 (15.61%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 929 (67.12%) Python
2 572 (41.33%) Bash
3 550 (39.74%) Java
4 527 (38.08%) JavaScript
5 471 (34.03%) Go
6 350 (25.29%) PowerShell
7 342 (24.71%) C++
8 232 (16.76%) Rust
9 153 (11.05%) SQL
10 94 (6.79%) C
11 33 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.02%) Perl
13 26 (1.88%) PHP
14 19 (1.37%) C#
15 14 (1.01%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.94%) MATLAB
16 13 (0.94%) R
17 11 (0.79%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 426 (30.78%) AWS Certification
2 354 (25.58%) Security Cleared
3 268 (19.36%) DV Cleared
4 180 (13.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 179 (12.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 119 (8.60%) Degree
7 101 (7.30%) SC Cleared
8 49 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (2.46%) CCNP
11 27 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.81%) MCSE
13 24 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
13 24 (1.73%) RHCSA
14 23 (1.66%) MCSA
15 22 (1.59%) CCNA
16 21 (1.52%) Azure Certification
17 17 (1.23%) MCP
17 17 (1.23%) PhD
17 17 (1.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.96%) QA
2 20 (1.45%) GDPR
3 18 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.16%) ISO 9001
5 13 (0.94%) SLA
6 10 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.36%) ITGC
8 5 (0.36%) PMO
9 4 (0.29%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.22%) JTAG
10 3 (0.22%) NIST
11 1 (0.072%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.072%) ECSS
11 1 (0.072%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.072%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.072%) MiFID
11 1 (0.072%) NCSC
11 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 646 (46.68%) Docker
2 298 (21.53%) Hyper-V
3 273 (19.73%) vSphere
4 269 (19.44%) VMware NSX
5 79 (5.71%) Active Directory
6 55 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
7 47 (3.40%) Firmware
8 36 (2.60%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
10 20 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 7 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.36%) KVM
12 5 (0.36%) NFS
13 4 (0.29%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.29%) Postfix
14 3 (0.22%) GPFS
14 3 (0.22%) Lustre
14 3 (0.22%) Xen
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 643 (46.46%) Terraform
2 637 (46.03%) Ansible
3 362 (26.16%) Kubernetes
4 241 (17.41%) Prometheus
5 219 (15.82%) Argo
6 216 (15.61%) Kustomize
7 32 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (2.10%) Grafana
9 22 (1.59%) Puppet
10 15 (1.08%) SCCM
11 12 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.87%) SCOM
12 11 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.79%) Istio
12 11 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (0.72%) Nagios
13 10 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.65%) Kibana
15 8 (0.58%) WSUS
16 7 (0.51%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 301 (21.75%) Cisco
2 274 (19.80%) Splunk
3 268 (19.36%) Juniper
4 262 (18.93%) 3PAR
5 239 (17.27%) Google
6 146 (10.55%) Microsoft
7 95 (6.86%) VMware
8 89 (6.43%) Red Hat
9 80 (5.78%) Oracle
10 30 (2.17%) IBM
11 11 (0.79%) Dell
12 10 (0.72%) SAP
12 10 (0.72%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.65%) HP
13 9 (0.65%) Meraki
14 8 (0.58%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.51%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.51%) Fortinet
16 6 (0.43%) Okta
17 5 (0.36%) Veritas