Linux Jobs in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 33 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,230 5,920 12,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.75% 7.04% 8.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.42% 42.90% 47.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,482 3,829 5,866
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,627 13,801 26,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.88% 16.40% 19.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,835 9,490 14,814
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
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 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in England.

Salary trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London -7 1,298 £75,000 -3.23% 419
South East -3 1,213 £55,000 +10.00% 229
South West +3 880 £52,500 -4.55% 173
North of England +15 840 £50,000 - 143
North West +19 533 £52,500 -0.94% 87
Midlands +21 524 £50,000 -9.09% 110
East of England +12 443 £54,000 -6.09% 124
East Midlands +31 301 £50,000 -13.04% 48
Yorkshire +11 250 £46,304 -2.52% 47
West Midlands -13 223 £54,000 -1.82% 62
North East -15 57 £52,500 +20.69% 9
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 235 (4.49%) Apache
2 180 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (2.14%) nginx
4 106 (2.03%) IIS
5 91 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 81 (1.55%) Confluence
7 67 (1.28%) Apache Spark
8 55 (1.05%) WebLogic
9 45 (0.86%) Tomcat
10 42 (0.80%) OpenStack
11 35 (0.67%) ArcGIS
12 28 (0.54%) GeoServer
12 28 (0.54%) WebSphere
13 22 (0.42%) JBoss
13 22 (0.42%) WordPress
14 21 (0.40%) Jupyter
15 18 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
16 14 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
17 11 (0.21%) CMS
17 11 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 89 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (0.82%) Simulink
3 41 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.13%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.076%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.076%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.038%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.038%) CATIA
10 2 (0.038%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.038%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.038%) Trello
11 1 (0.019%) 1Password
11 1 (0.019%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.46%) NEC Housing
3 22 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.11%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.096%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.096%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.076%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.057%) Maximo
10 2 (0.038%) C-CURE
10 2 (0.038%) Magento
10 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.038%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.038%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 2 (0.038%) Shopify
11 1 (0.019%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,597 (30.54%) Azure
2 1,224 (23.40%) AWS
3 340 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 332 (6.35%) Entra ID
5 278 (5.32%) IBM Cloud
6 234 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 229 (4.38%) Serverless
8 225 (4.30%) GCP
9 151 (2.89%) SaaS
10 149 (2.85%) OpenShift
11 135 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
12 132 (2.52%) Azure Functions
13 131 (2.50%) GitHub
14 129 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.41%) Azure API Management
16 113 (2.16%) Amazon S3
17 108 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
18 76 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
19 75 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
20 71 (1.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 706 (13.50%) Firewall
2 428 (8.18%) DNS
3 372 (7.11%) TCP/IP
4 254 (4.86%) DHCP
4 254 (4.86%) VPN
5 253 (4.84%) 5G
6 231 (4.42%) Broadband
7 209 (4.00%) SAN
8 203 (3.88%) WAN
9 184 (3.52%) LAN
10 180 (3.44%) Internet
11 134 (2.56%) Wireless
12 117 (2.24%) Network Security
13 112 (2.14%) HTTP
14 93 (1.78%) NAS
15 92 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
16 89 (1.70%) VLAN
17 85 (1.63%) SNMP
18 75 (1.43%) BGP
19 73 (1.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 427 (8.16%) MongoDB
3 369 (7.06%) NoSQL
4 364 (6.96%) SQL Server
5 338 (6.46%) MySQL
6 284 (5.43%) DB2
7 251 (4.80%) Relational Database
8 108 (2.07%) Oracle Database
9 105 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (1.68%) Big Data
11 82 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 56 (1.07%) Redis
13 55 (1.05%) Hadoop
14 52 (0.99%) Power BI
15 49 (0.94%) GIS
16 42 (0.80%) MariaDB
16 42 (0.80%) RDBMS
17 29 (0.55%) Cloudera CDH
18 28 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
18 28 (0.54%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 395 (7.55%) Git
2 324 (6.20%) JIRA
3 279 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 141 (2.70%) GitLab
5 95 (1.82%) Subversion
6 62 (1.19%) Visual Studio
7 59 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 30 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.54%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.54%) Metasploit
11 26 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 24 (0.46%) Ant
13 23 (0.44%) Robot Framework
14 20 (0.38%) CMake
14 20 (0.38%) Vagrant
15 19 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 18 (0.34%) GDB
17 16 (0.31%) Trac
18 14 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 1,101 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 680 (13.00%) Finance
3 605 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 399 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 268 (5.12%) Aerospace
7 204 (3.90%) Electronics
8 197 (3.77%) Banking
9 163 (3.12%) Telecoms
10 154 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 111 (2.12%) Retail
12 102 (1.95%) Marketing
13 87 (1.66%) Automotive
14 81 (1.55%) Law
15 74 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
16 60 (1.15%) Front Office
16 60 (1.15%) Military
17 47 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 39 (0.75%) Financial Institution
19 35 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,001 (19.14%) Senior
2 800 (15.30%) Software Engineer
3 732 (14.00%) Developer
4 527 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 348 (6.65%) Linux Engineer
6 316 (6.04%) Lead
7 310 (5.93%) Embedded Engineer
8 297 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 281 (5.37%) Architect
10 265 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 247 (4.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 245 (4.68%) Support Engineer
13 233 (4.46%) Administrator
14 216 (4.13%) Analyst
15 215 (4.11%) Linux Specialist
16 214 (4.09%) Technical Specialist
17 186 (3.56%) Full Stack Developer
17 186 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
18 169 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
19 164 (3.14%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (9.67%) HTML
2 487 (9.31%) React
3 454 (8.68%) REST
4 446 (8.53%) CSS
5 422 (8.07%) .NET
6 347 (6.63%) Web Services
7 337 (6.44%) AngularJS
8 306 (5.85%) jQuery
9 293 (5.60%) Vue
10 284 (5.43%) Node.js
11 272 (5.20%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.55%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.55%) Ember.js
14 147 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
15 138 (2.64%) XML
16 119 (2.28%) Middleware
17 90 (1.72%) Laravel
18 89 (1.70%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 368 (7.04%) Algorithms
2 359 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 311 (5.95%) Data Centre
4 280 (5.35%) Blockchain
5 257 (4.91%) Data Structures
6 240 (4.59%) Public Cloud
7 210 (4.02%) Social Media
8 201 (3.84%) IoT
9 173 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
10 142 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
11 136 (2.60%) Management Information System
12 128 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
13 121 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
14 116 (2.22%) e-Learning
15 110 (2.10%) Cloud Native
16 109 (2.08%) PKI
17 88 (1.68%) Replication
18 76 (1.45%) FPGA
19 75 (1.43%) Client/Server
20 74 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,217 (42.39%) Windows
2 563 (10.76%) Ubuntu
3 534 (10.21%) Windows Server
4 511 (9.77%) Unix
5 394 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 348 (6.65%) Android
7 320 (6.12%) CentOS
8 298 (5.70%) Apple iOS
9 273 (5.22%) Embedded Linux
10 179 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 166 (3.17%) Debian
12 126 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
13 121 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 117 (2.24%) Windows 10
15 111 (2.12%) Solaris
16 82 (1.57%) Mac OS
17 68 (1.30%) VMS
18 58 (1.11%) AIX
19 48 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
20 42 (0.80%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,151 (22.01%) Software Engineering
2 1,103 (21.09%) DevOps
3 1,089 (20.82%) Agile
4 884 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
5 675 (12.91%) Artificial Intelligence
6 645 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 598 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
8 555 (10.61%) CI/CD
9 518 (9.90%) Computer Science
10 505 (9.66%) Mentoring
11 422 (8.07%) OO
12 400 (7.65%) Full Stack Development
13 381 (7.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 361 (6.90%) Actionable Insight
15 358 (6.85%) User Experience
16 351 (6.71%) Web Development
17 333 (6.37%) OOP
18 332 (6.35%) Containerisation
19 317 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
19 317 (6.06%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,611 (30.80%) Python
2 994 (19.01%) SQL
3 867 (16.58%) Bash
4 769 (14.70%) Java
5 766 (14.65%) C
6 728 (13.92%) JavaScript
7 651 (12.45%) C++
8 581 (11.11%) PowerShell
9 574 (10.98%) C#
10 185 (3.54%) PHP
11 159 (3.04%) Perl
11 159 (3.04%) Shell Script
12 146 (2.79%) Embedded C
13 144 (2.75%) Rust
14 118 (2.26%) TypeScript
15 114 (2.18%) Go
16 75 (1.43%) VB
17 72 (1.38%) Ruby
18 56 (1.07%) Kotlin
19 47 (0.90%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,140 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 907 (17.34%) Degree
3 572 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 488 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 312 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 144 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 132 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 126 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 121 (2.31%) CCNA
9 121 (2.31%) Master's Degree
10 111 (2.12%) AWS Certification
11 98 (1.87%) MCSE
12 71 (1.36%) PhD
13 68 (1.30%) MCSA
14 55 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 51 (0.98%) CCNP
16 38 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 35 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 32 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
19 30 (0.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (2.08%) SLA
2 88 (1.68%) QA
3 66 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (0.94%) GDPR
5 40 (0.76%) NIST
6 39 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 27 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.50%) PMO
9 15 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.25%) MISRA
11 13 (0.25%) NCSC
12 9 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.15%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.15%) JTAG
14 7 (0.13%) GRC
14 7 (0.13%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.11%) Def Stans
System Software
1 779 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 670 (12.81%) Docker
3 553 (10.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 247 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 142 (2.72%) Firmware
6 133 (2.54%) vSphere
7 126 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
8 113 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
9 64 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 42 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
11 33 (0.63%) KVM
12 31 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
13 25 (0.48%) NFS
14 20 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
15 19 (0.36%) pfSense
16 18 (0.34%) VMware NSX
16 18 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
17 16 (0.31%) VMware Server
18 14 (0.27%) XenApp
19 11 (0.21%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 766 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 751 (14.36%) Ansible
3 565 (10.80%) Terraform
4 302 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 273 (5.22%) Puppet
6 215 (4.11%) Jamf Pro
7 134 (2.56%) vCenter Server
8 120 (2.29%) Prometheus
9 111 (2.12%) Progress Chef
10 109 (2.08%) Grafana
11 98 (1.87%) SCCM
12 78 (1.49%) SCOM
13 74 (1.41%) ZABBIX
14 73 (1.40%) Nagios
15 66 (1.26%) WSUS
16 40 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 34 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
18 29 (0.55%) HAProxy
19 28 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
20 25 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,084 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 808 (15.45%) VMware
3 760 (14.53%) Red Hat
4 410 (7.84%) Oracle
5 373 (7.13%) IBM
6 286 (5.47%) Cisco
7 212 (4.05%) Tanium
8 211 (4.03%) CyberArk
9 138 (2.64%) Veeam
10 132 (2.52%) Google
11 99 (1.89%) NetApp
12 97 (1.85%) Citrix
13 92 (1.76%) Palo Alto
14 88 (1.68%) Splunk
15 81 (1.55%) Juniper
16 67 (1.28%) EMC
16 67 (1.28%) SAP
17 65 (1.24%) SolarWinds
18 63 (1.20%) Dell
19 62 (1.19%) Atlassian