Debian Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Debian skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Debian over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 810 1036
Rank change year-on-year +75 +226 -263
Permanent jobs citing Debian 170 183 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.21% 1.10% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 93 156 136
10th Percentile £31,300 £45,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,813 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.31% -1.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £36,750
% change year-on-year -13.04% +56.46% -8.13%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,101 16,590 29,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 15.99% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,896 11,178 16,749
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
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 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Debian.

Salary trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
England +67 158 £52,500 -19.23% 24
UK excluding London +84 135 £50,000 -13.04% 19
South East +41 42 £75,000 +57.89% 3
Work from Home +14 34 £62,500 +3.31% 11
South West +8 34 £44,500 -11.00% 5
London +36 26 £65,000 -3.70% 6
Midlands - 21 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands - 19 £50,000 - 3
North of England +65 17 £22,000 -60.00% 3
East of England -12 17 £57,500 -4.17% 2
North West +21 16 £22,000 -62.80% 2
Scotland -64 3 £48,500 +29.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £32,000 - 2
Wales - 1 £50,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £40,681 - 1

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (15.88%) Apache
2 25 (14.71%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.53%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.94%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 95 (55.88%) Azure
2 57 (33.53%) AWS
3 47 (27.65%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (23.53%) IBM Cloud
5 31 (18.24%) GCP
6 28 (16.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (14.71%) OpenShift
7 25 (14.71%) Serverless
8 13 (7.65%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.94%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.76%) AWS IoT
12 3 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (1.18%) AWS OpsWorks
13 2 (1.18%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.71%) AMQP
2 19 (11.18%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.47%) Internet
4 8 (4.71%) VLAN
4 8 (4.71%) VPN
5 6 (3.53%) DNS
5 6 (3.53%) Firewall
5 6 (3.53%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (3.53%) VSAN
6 4 (2.35%) BGP
6 4 (2.35%) RTP
7 3 (1.76%) DHCP
7 3 (1.76%) IPv6
8 2 (1.18%) Wireless
9 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.59%) GPON
9 1 (0.59%) HSRP
9 1 (0.59%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.59%) OSPF
9 1 (0.59%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.29%) Big Data
1 26 (15.29%) Hadoop
2 25 (14.71%) Cloudera CDH
3 15 (8.82%) MySQL
3 15 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.65%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.12%) Ingres
8 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Git
2 6 (3.53%) JIRA
3 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 40 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 26 (15.29%) Aerospace
3 17 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.71%) Finance
4 8 (4.71%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.76%) Games
6 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Back Office
7 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Electronics
7 1 (0.59%) Front Office
7 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (29.41%) Software Engineer
2 39 (22.94%) Linux Engineer
3 25 (14.71%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (12.94%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (8.82%) Administrator
5 15 (8.82%) Systems Administrator
6 13 (7.65%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) Linux Administrator
7 11 (6.47%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.88%) Lead
8 10 (5.88%) Ubuntu Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Network Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) QA Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) IT Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) IT Support
11 5 (2.94%) Junior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.71%) AngularJS
1 25 (14.71%) gRPC
1 25 (14.71%) Material-UI
1 25 (14.71%) Node.js
1 25 (14.71%) OpenAPI
1 25 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
1 25 (14.71%) React
1 25 (14.71%) REST
1 25 (14.71%) Spring
1 25 (14.71%) Spring Boot
1 25 (14.71%) Swagger
2 10 (5.88%) GTK
3 7 (4.12%) EDI
4 5 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.35%) XMPP
6 3 (1.76%) LDAP
7 2 (1.18%) Qt
8 1 (0.59%) Redfish
8 1 (0.59%) SAML
8 1 (0.59%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 40 (23.53%) Blockchain
1 40 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (14.71%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.41%) PKI
4 10 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.12%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.76%) IoT
6 3 (1.76%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.76%) Replication
7 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.59%) Derivative
8 1 (0.59%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.59%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.59%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 170 (100.00%) Linux
2 89 (52.35%) Ubuntu
3 83 (48.82%) CentOS
4 40 (23.53%) Alpine Linux
5 36 (21.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (17.06%) Windows
7 11 (6.47%) SUSE
8 9 (5.29%) Unix
9 8 (4.71%) Solaris
10 5 (2.94%) Windows Server
11 3 (1.76%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.18%) Fedora
13 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.59%) openSUSE
13 1 (0.59%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (37.06%) DevOps
2 51 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 50 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 48 (28.24%) CI/CD
5 42 (24.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 42 (24.71%) Open Source
6 40 (23.53%) Co-Creation
6 40 (23.53%) Data Science
6 40 (23.53%) Functional Testing
6 40 (23.53%) Separation of Concerns
6 40 (23.53%) Task Automation
6 40 (23.53%) Technology Transformation
7 39 (22.94%) Containerisation
8 31 (18.24%) Agile
9 26 (15.29%) Collaborative Working
9 26 (15.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (14.71%) API Development
10 25 (14.71%) Kanban
10 25 (14.71%) Microservices
10 25 (14.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.12%) Python
2 52 (30.59%) Bash
3 27 (15.88%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.29%) Java
5 22 (12.94%) C
6 21 (12.35%) SQL
7 14 (8.24%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.47%) C++
9 4 (2.35%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.76%) AWK
10 3 (1.76%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.76%) sed
11 2 (1.18%) C#
11 2 (1.18%) Go
11 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.59%) Perl
12 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (28.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (27.65%) MCSE
3 43 (25.29%) MCSA
4 40 (23.53%) Azure Certification
5 31 (18.24%) Security Cleared
6 28 (16.47%) Degree
7 26 (15.29%) DV Cleared
7 26 (15.29%) SC Cleared
8 9 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.35%) CCNA
10 4 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.76%) RHCT
12 1 (0.59%) CCNP
12 1 (0.59%) HNC
12 1 (0.59%) HND
12 1 (0.59%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.71%) PMO
2 7 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.53%) QA
4 4 (2.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) MISRA
System Software
1 46 (27.06%) Docker
2 19 (11.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.88%) vSphere
4 9 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.94%) KVM
6 3 (1.76%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.59%) LXC
8 1 (0.59%) Samba
8 1 (0.59%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 72 (42.35%) Kubernetes
2 69 (40.59%) Terraform
3 35 (20.59%) Ansible
4 30 (17.65%) Puppet
5 9 (5.29%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.53%) ZABBIX
7 4 (2.35%) Podman
7 4 (2.35%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.76%) Salt
9 1 (0.59%) Grafana
9 1 (0.59%) Icinga
9 1 (0.59%) Juju
9 1 (0.59%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.59%) Nagios
9 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 87 (51.18%) Red Hat
2 40 (23.53%) IBM
3 37 (21.76%) VMware
4 25 (14.71%) Google
4 25 (14.71%) SaltStack
5 18 (10.59%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.35%) Citrix
6 4 (2.35%) Juniper
7 3 (1.76%) Cisco
7 3 (1.76%) Veeam
8 1 (0.59%) MikroTik
8 1 (0.59%) Splunk
8 1 (0.59%) TP-LINK
8 1 (0.59%) ZyXEL