Linux Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 33 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,425 4,090 7,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.82% 7.23% 10.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.21% 42.65% 49.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,859 2,318 3,543
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,796 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,519 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,738 9,590 15,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.13% 16.96% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,185 5,970 9,259
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK excluding London 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
South East -3 1,213 £55,000 +10.00% 227
South West +3 880 £52,500 -4.55% 174
North of England +15 840 £50,000 - 147
North West +19 533 £52,500 -0.94% 90
Midlands +21 524 £50,000 -9.09% 110
East of England +12 443 £54,000 -6.09% 121
Scotland -45 351 £51,000 -7.27% 78
East Midlands +31 301 £50,000 -13.04% 48
Yorkshire +11 250 £46,304 -2.52% 48
West Midlands -13 223 £54,000 -1.82% 62
Wales +24 130 £47,500 -5.00% 14
North East -15 57 £52,500 +20.69% 9
Northern Ireland -9 43 £52,500 +3.45% 6
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 222 (5.02%) Apache
2 137 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 90 (2.03%) WebLogic
4 82 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 81 (1.83%) nginx
6 79 (1.79%) IIS
7 53 (1.20%) Apache Spark
8 52 (1.18%) Confluence
8 52 (1.18%) OpenStack
9 47 (1.06%) ArcGIS
10 44 (0.99%) Oracle Service Bus
11 40 (0.90%) GeoServer
12 37 (0.84%) Tomcat
13 23 (0.52%) Jupyter
14 22 (0.50%) WebSphere
15 13 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
15 13 (0.29%) WordPress
16 11 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
16 11 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
17 8 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 121 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 43 (0.97%) Simulink
5 11 (0.25%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.11%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.090%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.090%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.045%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.045%) CATIA
11 2 (0.045%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.023%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 44 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.090%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.068%) Maximo
8 2 (0.045%) C-CURE
8 2 (0.045%) Magento
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.045%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 2 (0.045%) Shopify
8 2 (0.045%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.023%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,290 (29.15%) Azure
2 955 (21.58%) AWS
3 315 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
4 268 (6.06%) IBM Cloud
5 209 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
6 188 (4.25%) Serverless
7 185 (4.18%) GCP
8 178 (4.02%) Entra ID
9 152 (3.44%) SaaS
10 147 (3.32%) OpenShift
11 125 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 118 (2.67%) Azure Functions
13 116 (2.62%) Azure API Management
14 115 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 104 (2.35%) GitHub
16 99 (2.24%) Amazon S3
17 90 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
18 65 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
18 65 (1.47%) IaaS
19 56 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 564 (12.75%) Firewall
2 344 (7.77%) DNS
3 288 (6.51%) TCP/IP
4 225 (5.08%) DHCP
5 190 (4.29%) VPN
6 171 (3.86%) SAN
7 144 (3.25%) Internet
8 134 (3.03%) WAN
9 133 (3.01%) Wireless
10 106 (2.40%) 5G
11 105 (2.37%) LAN
11 105 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
12 99 (2.24%) Network Security
13 87 (1.97%) Broadband
14 86 (1.94%) HTTP
15 78 (1.76%) SNMP
16 77 (1.74%) VLAN
17 73 (1.65%) NAS
18 71 (1.60%) SSL
19 65 (1.47%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
2 374 (8.45%) MongoDB
3 316 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 292 (6.60%) MySQL
5 258 (5.83%) DB2
5 258 (5.83%) Relational Database
6 255 (5.76%) SQL Server
7 131 (2.96%) Oracle Database
8 93 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 88 (1.99%) Big Data
10 75 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 59 (1.33%) GIS
12 58 (1.31%) RDBMS
13 54 (1.22%) Hadoop
14 45 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
15 44 (0.99%) Oracle Database 10g
15 44 (0.99%) VLDB
16 40 (0.90%) QGIS
17 37 (0.84%) Power BI
17 37 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 333 (7.53%) Git
2 271 (6.12%) JIRA
3 191 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.15%) Subversion
5 86 (1.94%) GitLab
6 66 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 40 (0.90%) Eclipse
8 36 (0.81%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 23 (0.52%) Robot Framework
10 23 (0.52%) Vagrant
11 21 (0.47%) Ant
12 19 (0.43%) CMake
13 17 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 17 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
14 16 (0.36%) Trac
15 15 (0.34%) Maven
16 12 (0.27%) Gradle
16 12 (0.27%) webpack
17 11 (0.25%) GDB
General
1 891 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 467 (10.55%) Finance
3 437 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 383 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 376 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 271 (6.12%) Aerospace
7 210 (4.75%) Electronics
8 177 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 138 (3.12%) Telecoms
10 137 (3.10%) Law
11 136 (3.07%) Marketing
12 92 (2.08%) Automotive
13 74 (1.67%) Military
14 71 (1.60%) Retail
15 69 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 56 (1.27%) Legal
17 55 (1.24%) Banking
18 36 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 23 (0.52%) Games
19 23 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 919 (20.77%) Software Engineer
2 816 (18.44%) Senior
3 595 (13.45%) Developer
4 441 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 335 (7.57%) Embedded Engineer
6 284 (6.42%) Senior Software Engineer
7 279 (6.31%) Lead
8 271 (6.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 256 (5.79%) Linux Engineer
10 229 (5.18%) Support Engineer
11 216 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 208 (4.70%) Administrator
13 194 (4.38%) Architect
14 171 (3.86%) Analyst
15 164 (3.71%) Full Stack Developer
16 163 (3.68%) IT Support
17 157 (3.55%) IT Engineer
18 146 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
19 140 (3.16%) Consultant
20 135 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (10.76%) HTML
2 439 (9.92%) React
3 418 (9.45%) CSS
4 390 (8.81%) REST
5 356 (8.05%) .NET
6 325 (7.34%) Web Services
7 321 (7.25%) AngularJS
8 291 (6.58%) jQuery
9 285 (6.44%) Vue
10 266 (6.01%) Node.js
11 248 (5.60%) ASP.NET
12 236 (5.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 228 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (5.15%) Backbone.js
13 228 (5.15%) Ember.js
14 159 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
15 110 (2.49%) XML
16 92 (2.08%) Laravel
16 92 (2.08%) Middleware
17 81 (1.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 388 (8.77%) Algorithms
2 330 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 293 (6.62%) Data Centre
4 268 (6.06%) Blockchain
5 242 (5.47%) Data Structures
6 198 (4.47%) Public Cloud
7 192 (4.34%) IoT
8 148 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
9 121 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
10 116 (2.62%) e-Learning
11 96 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
12 91 (2.06%) Management Information System
13 89 (2.01%) Cloud Native
14 80 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
15 73 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
16 67 (1.51%) Social Media
17 63 (1.42%) Replication
18 61 (1.38%) Device Driver
19 56 (1.27%) PKI
20 51 (1.15%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1,899 (42.92%) Windows
2 469 (10.60%) Windows Server
3 387 (8.75%) Unix
4 324 (7.32%) Ubuntu
5 318 (7.19%) Android
6 305 (6.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 294 (6.64%) Embedded Linux
8 269 (6.08%) Apple iOS
9 261 (5.90%) CentOS
10 169 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 142 (3.21%) Debian
12 110 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 102 (2.31%) Windows 10
14 101 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 91 (2.06%) Solaris
16 63 (1.42%) Mac OS
17 50 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
18 48 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
19 45 (1.02%) AIX
20 39 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,180 (26.67%) Software Engineering
2 1,049 (23.71%) Agile
3 890 (20.11%) DevOps
4 759 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
5 570 (12.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 538 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 473 (10.69%) Mentoring
8 469 (10.60%) CI/CD
9 428 (9.67%) Computer Science
10 407 (9.20%) Actionable Insight
11 397 (8.97%) OO
12 353 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
13 351 (7.93%) Web Development
14 348 (7.86%) User Experience
15 346 (7.82%) Full Stack Development
16 323 (7.30%) Collaborative Working
17 316 (7.14%) OOP
18 302 (6.82%) MVC
19 296 (6.69%) SDLC
20 283 (6.40%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,371 (30.98%) Python
2 892 (20.16%) SQL
3 742 (16.77%) Java
4 718 (16.23%) C
5 658 (14.87%) JavaScript
6 586 (13.24%) C++
7 574 (12.97%) Bash
8 487 (11.01%) C#
9 409 (9.24%) PowerShell
10 178 (4.02%) Embedded C
11 176 (3.98%) PHP
12 132 (2.98%) Shell Script
13 105 (2.37%) PL/SQL
14 92 (2.08%) Perl
14 92 (2.08%) TypeScript
15 90 (2.03%) Rust
16 74 (1.67%) VB
17 56 (1.27%) Kotlin
18 49 (1.11%) Go
19 47 (1.06%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,062 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 817 (18.46%) Degree
3 588 (13.29%) SC Cleared
4 411 (9.29%) DV Cleared
5 248 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 147 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
7 128 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 128 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 125 (2.82%) CCNA
9 100 (2.26%) Master's Degree
10 95 (2.15%) AWS Certification
11 93 (2.10%) MCSE
12 73 (1.65%) PhD
13 64 (1.45%) MCSA
14 62 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 57 (1.29%) CCNP
16 39 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 36 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
18 35 (0.79%) HND
19 29 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (2.60%) SLA
2 84 (1.90%) QA
3 48 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (1.02%) GDPR
5 31 (0.70%) PMO
6 22 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.43%) NIST
8 18 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.34%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.32%) MISRA
11 13 (0.29%) Data Quality
12 11 (0.25%) ITGC
13 10 (0.23%) JTAG
14 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
15 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
16 6 (0.14%) Def Stans
16 6 (0.14%) NCSC
17 4 (0.090%) IEC 61131
17 4 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 3 (0.068%) GRC
System Software
1 547 (12.36%) Docker
2 504 (11.39%) Active Directory
3 478 (10.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 255 (5.76%) Hyper-V
5 156 (3.53%) Firmware
6 96 (2.17%) vSphere
7 91 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
8 90 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
9 64 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
10 49 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
11 38 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
12 31 (0.70%) VMware NSX
13 27 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
14 19 (0.43%) KVM
14 19 (0.43%) pfSense
15 16 (0.36%) NFS
16 15 (0.34%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.18%) XenApp
19 7 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 675 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 610 (13.79%) Ansible
3 407 (9.20%) Terraform
4 206 (4.66%) Puppet
5 149 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 137 (3.10%) vCenter Server
7 98 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 78 (1.76%) Grafana
9 75 (1.69%) Progress Chef
10 74 (1.67%) SCCM
11 72 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
12 71 (1.60%) SCOM
13 70 (1.58%) ZABBIX
14 56 (1.27%) WSUS
15 53 (1.20%) Nagios
15 53 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 48 (1.08%) Data Guard
17 38 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 35 (0.79%) FortiGate
19 34 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 792 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 710 (16.05%) VMware
3 627 (14.17%) Red Hat
4 414 (9.36%) Oracle
5 337 (7.62%) IBM
6 227 (5.13%) Cisco
7 124 (2.80%) Veeam
8 114 (2.58%) NetApp
9 96 (2.17%) Google
10 75 (1.69%) Citrix
11 74 (1.67%) Palo Alto
12 73 (1.65%) SAP
13 71 (1.60%) CyberArk
14 68 (1.54%) Tanium
15 67 (1.51%) Dell
16 65 (1.47%) EMC
17 61 (1.38%) Juniper
18 58 (1.31%) Remedy
18 58 (1.31%) SolarWinds
19 56 (1.27%) Splunk