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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 33 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,229 3,346 5,789
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.61% 7.75% 8.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.34% 50.22% 49.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 2,280 3,402
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +0.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 4,708 6,663 11,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.95% 15.44% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,659 4,860 7,445
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
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 27 April 2024.

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
1 117 (5.25%) Apache
2 58 (2.60%) nginx
3 56 (2.51%) IIS
3 56 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 49 (2.20%) ArcGIS
6 48 (2.15%) GeoServer
7 33 (1.48%) OpenStack
7 33 (1.48%) SharePoint
8 24 (1.08%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.94%) Confluence
10 8 (0.36%) WordPress
11 7 (0.31%) CMS
12 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Drupal
14 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) JBoss
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
15 2 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.03%) Simulink
3 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.36%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.22%) OrCAD
5 5 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (0.22%) Trello
6 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.090%) CATIA
7 2 (0.090%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.045%) 1Password
8 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 48 (2.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
3 14 (0.63%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.090%) Magento
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.090%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.045%) Shopify
6 1 (0.045%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 788 (35.35%) Azure
2 705 (31.63%) AWS
3 260 (11.66%) Entra ID
4 126 (5.65%) GCP
5 120 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
6 105 (4.71%) GitHub
7 103 (4.62%) Amazon S3
8 89 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
9 82 (3.68%) SaaS
10 65 (2.92%) Serverless
11 49 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
12 47 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
13 43 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
14 42 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (1.88%) OpenShift
15 37 (1.66%) Power Platform
16 30 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 28 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (1.03%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 322 (14.45%) Firewall
2 240 (10.77%) 5G
3 222 (9.96%) Broadband
4 215 (9.65%) DNS
5 168 (7.54%) TCP/IP
6 157 (7.04%) VPN
7 126 (5.65%) Internet
8 113 (5.07%) DHCP
9 89 (3.99%) WAN
10 81 (3.63%) SAN
11 72 (3.23%) LAN
12 66 (2.96%) BGP
12 66 (2.96%) SNMP
13 63 (2.83%) IPsec
13 63 (2.83%) SSL
14 57 (2.56%) Wireless
15 53 (2.38%) Network Security
16 43 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
17 40 (1.79%) RS-232
18 39 (1.75%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 151 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 140 (6.28%) MongoDB
4 130 (5.83%) MySQL
5 101 (4.53%) Relational Database
6 100 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 97 (4.35%) Oracle Database
8 81 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
9 67 (3.01%) RDBMS
10 58 (2.60%) GIS
11 50 (2.24%) NoSQL
12 48 (2.15%) QGIS
13 39 (1.75%) DB2
14 31 (1.39%) Redis
15 28 (1.26%) Power BI
16 20 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
17 17 (0.76%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.58%) Data Hub
19 12 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 12 (0.54%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 185 (8.30%) Git
2 139 (6.24%) Jenkins
3 133 (5.97%) JIRA
4 94 (4.22%) GitLab
5 45 (2.02%) Subversion
6 27 (1.21%) IBM UrbanCode
7 24 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 18 (0.81%) Vagrant
8 18 (0.81%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.76%) CMake
10 15 (0.67%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.67%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.63%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.54%) webpack
13 10 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.45%) git-flow
13 10 (0.45%) Trac
14 8 (0.36%) IntelliJ
14 8 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
15 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 540 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 423 (18.98%) Finance
3 367 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (13.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (5.25%) Public Sector
6 111 (4.98%) Banking
7 108 (4.85%) Aerospace
8 99 (4.44%) Telecoms
9 78 (3.50%) Electronics
10 70 (3.14%) Manufacturing
11 62 (2.78%) Retail
12 55 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (2.06%) Marketing
14 41 (1.84%) Military
15 40 (1.79%) Law
16 38 (1.70%) Automotive
17 30 (1.35%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.03%) Investment Banking
19 21 (0.94%) Front Office
20 20 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 573 (25.71%) Senior
2 397 (17.81%) Software Engineer
3 241 (10.81%) Developer
4 221 (9.91%) Linux Specialist
5 218 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 212 (9.51%) Technical Specialist
7 188 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 184 (8.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 165 (7.40%) Lead
10 152 (6.82%) Embedded Engineer
11 136 (6.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 131 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 129 (5.79%) Senior Linux Specialist
14 127 (5.70%) Senior Technical Specialist
14 127 (5.70%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
15 120 (5.38%) Linux Engineer
16 118 (5.29%) Architect
17 101 (4.53%) Consultant
18 91 (4.08%) Support Engineer
19 82 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
2 120 (5.38%) React
3 83 (3.72%) HTML
4 77 (3.45%) REST
5 72 (3.23%) .NET
6 69 (3.10%) YAML
7 67 (3.01%) Django
8 60 (2.69%) CSS
9 57 (2.56%) Web Services
10 52 (2.33%) Spring Boot
11 49 (2.20%) Leaflet
11 49 (2.20%) Node.js
11 49 (2.20%) OpenLayers
11 49 (2.20%) PostGIS
12 48 (2.15%) Middleware
13 42 (1.88%) SOAP
14 41 (1.84%) Yocto
15 38 (1.70%) Kafka
16 36 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
16 36 (1.62%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 211 (9.47%) Social Media
2 170 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 156 (7.00%) Public Cloud
4 88 (3.95%) IoT
5 81 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 73 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 53 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
9 47 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 44 (1.97%) Client/Server
11 43 (1.93%) Embedded Systems
12 40 (1.79%) FPGA
13 39 (1.75%) Algorithms
13 39 (1.75%) Device Driver
13 39 (1.75%) PKI
14 34 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.35%) Cloud Native
15 30 (1.35%) Onboarding
16 29 (1.30%) Clustering
17 28 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 822 (36.88%) Windows
2 387 (17.36%) Ubuntu
3 227 (10.18%) Windows Server
4 226 (10.14%) Unix
5 186 (8.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 137 (6.15%) Embedded Linux
7 87 (3.90%) CentOS
8 58 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 54 (2.42%) Data ONTAP
10 45 (2.02%) Android
10 45 (2.02%) Solaris
10 45 (2.02%) VMS
11 43 (1.93%) AIX
12 34 (1.53%) Debian
13 30 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
14 28 (1.26%) Apple iOS
15 25 (1.12%) Mac OS
15 25 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 25 (1.12%) zOS
16 21 (0.94%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (24.85%) DevOps
2 553 (24.81%) Software Engineering
3 520 (23.33%) Agile
4 388 (17.41%) Cybersecurity
5 359 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
6 340 (15.25%) CI/CD
7 306 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 287 (12.88%) Actionable Insight
9 260 (11.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 226 (10.14%) CRM
11 223 (10.00%) IT Strategy
12 219 (9.83%) Technology Strategy
13 200 (8.97%) Mentoring
14 199 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
15 189 (8.48%) Project Management
16 184 (8.25%) Computer Science
17 160 (7.18%) Scrum
18 156 (7.00%) Continuous Integration
19 152 (6.82%) Open Source
20 140 (6.28%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 710 (31.85%) Python
2 469 (21.04%) Bash
3 332 (14.89%) C
4 298 (13.37%) SQL
5 246 (11.04%) Java
6 217 (9.74%) C++
7 204 (9.15%) PowerShell
8 189 (8.48%) JavaScript
9 128 (5.74%) C#
10 120 (5.38%) Embedded C
11 89 (3.99%) PHP
12 85 (3.81%) Shell Script
13 79 (3.54%) Rust
14 74 (3.32%) Perl
15 58 (2.60%) TypeScript
16 46 (2.06%) Ruby
17 43 (1.93%) Go
18 39 (1.75%) VB
19 31 (1.39%) Groovy
20 27 (1.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 528 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 375 (16.82%) Degree
3 278 (12.47%) SC Cleared
4 133 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 123 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 71 (3.19%) Azure Certification
8 56 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.30%) CISSP
12 28 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 28 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (1.12%) CCNA
14 22 (0.99%) CISM
15 20 (0.90%) CISA
16 18 (0.81%) MCSE
17 17 (0.76%) PMI Certification
18 16 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (1.70%) QA
2 26 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (1.17%) SLA
3 20 (0.90%) NIST
4 19 (0.85%) PMO
5 16 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.67%) ITGC
7 12 (0.54%) MISRA
7 12 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.27%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.27%) ISO 9000
9 6 (0.27%) NCSC
10 5 (0.22%) GRC
10 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.18%) GDPR
11 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.090%) DICOM
13 2 (0.090%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 469 (21.04%) Active Directory
2 428 (19.20%) Docker
3 220 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 114 (5.11%) Hyper-V
5 61 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (2.20%) Firmware
7 44 (1.97%) vSphere
8 28 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
9 19 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.72%) NFS
10 16 (0.72%) pfSense
11 15 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (0.49%) KVM
12 11 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
13 9 (0.40%) Forefront TMG
14 8 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.22%) VMware NSX
15 5 (0.22%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.18%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 445 (19.96%) Ansible
2 397 (17.81%) Kubernetes
3 328 (14.72%) Terraform
4 258 (11.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 210 (9.42%) Jamf Pro
6 92 (4.13%) Puppet
7 84 (3.77%) vCenter Server
8 83 (3.72%) Prometheus
9 73 (3.28%) Grafana
10 67 (3.01%) Progress Chef
11 46 (2.06%) SCCM
12 45 (2.02%) ZABBIX
13 41 (1.84%) WSUS
14 37 (1.66%) SCOM
15 33 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 30 (1.35%) Nagios
17 20 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
17 20 (0.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 16 (0.72%) FortiGate
19 14 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 533 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 326 (14.63%) VMware
3 235 (10.54%) Oracle
4 210 (9.42%) CyberArk
4 210 (9.42%) Tanium
5 167 (7.49%) Red Hat
6 91 (4.08%) NetApp
7 68 (3.05%) Cisco
8 67 (3.01%) IBM
9 59 (2.65%) Palo Alto
10 56 (2.51%) Google
11 54 (2.42%) SolidFire
12 49 (2.20%) ESRI
13 48 (2.15%) Sparx
14 47 (2.11%) Dell
15 44 (1.97%) SAP
16 41 (1.84%) Juniper
17 35 (1.57%) Veeam
18 33 (1.48%) Citrix
18 33 (1.48%) SolarWinds