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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 801 1047
Rank change year-on-year +90 +246 -241
Permanent jobs citing Debian 175 174 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.25% 1.09% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 93 146 138
10th Percentile £31,300 £45,000 £29,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +34.72% -3.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £92,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £35,750
% change year-on-year -13.79% +62.24% -13.33%

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 13,959 15,993 30,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.97% 16.08% 18.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,719 10,770 16,579
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 20 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 20 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 +77 162 £52,500 -19.23% 15
UK excluding London +62 140 £50,000 -13.79% 11
South East +45 43 £75,000 +36.36% 2
South West +11 38 £44,500 -11.00% 2
Work from Home +16 37 £60,000 -4.00% 9
London +31 25 £65,000 -3.70% 6
Midlands +12 20 £50,000 -23.08% 3
East of England -21 18 £57,500 -8.00%
East Midlands - 18 £50,000 - 3
North of England +48 16 £22,000 -60.00% 1
North West +12 15 £22,000 -62.80%
Scotland -64 4 £48,500 +29.33% 2
West Midlands +14 2 £32,000 -50.77%
Yorkshire +82 1 £40,681 - 1
Wales - 1 £50,000 - 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 28 (16.00%) Apache
2 27 (15.43%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.00%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.29%) IIS
4 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.86%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 98 (56.00%) Azure
2 59 (33.71%) AWS
3 47 (26.86%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.86%) IBM Cloud
5 35 (20.00%) GCP
6 29 (16.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (15.43%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (15.43%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (15.43%) OpenShift
7 27 (15.43%) Serverless
8 14 (8.00%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.86%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.71%) AWS IoT
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon ELB
13 2 (1.14%) AWS OpsWorks
13 2 (1.14%) CloudFront
13 2 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.43%) AMQP
2 19 (10.86%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.29%) Internet
4 10 (5.71%) VLAN
5 8 (4.57%) VPN
6 7 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.43%) VSAN
8 5 (2.86%) DNS
8 5 (2.86%) Firewall
9 4 (2.29%) RTP
10 3 (1.71%) DHCP
10 3 (1.71%) Wireless
11 2 (1.14%) BGP
11 2 (1.14%) GPON
11 2 (1.14%) OSPF
11 2 (1.14%) PPP
12 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.57%) HSRP
12 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.57%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.57%) Big Data
1 29 (16.57%) Hadoop
2 27 (15.43%) Cloudera CDH
3 15 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (8.00%) MySQL
5 13 (7.43%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.71%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.00%) Ingres
9 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Git
2 6 (3.43%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 40 (22.86%) Public Sector
2 29 (16.57%) Aerospace
3 17 (9.71%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.71%) Finance
5 8 (4.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.57%) Back Office
7 1 (0.57%) Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Electronics
7 1 (0.57%) Front Office
7 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (30.29%) Software Engineer
2 38 (21.71%) Linux Engineer
3 27 (15.43%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (12.57%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (9.14%) Administrator
6 15 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (6.86%) Linux Administrator
7 12 (6.86%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 11 (6.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.71%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.71%) Ubuntu Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Lead
11 7 (4.00%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Network Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) 3rd Line Support
12 6 (3.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) QA Engineer
13 5 (2.86%) Junior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.43%) AngularJS
1 27 (15.43%) gRPC
1 27 (15.43%) Material-UI
1 27 (15.43%) Node.js
1 27 (15.43%) OpenAPI
1 27 (15.43%) RabbitMQ
1 27 (15.43%) React
1 27 (15.43%) REST
1 27 (15.43%) Spring
1 27 (15.43%) Spring Boot
1 27 (15.43%) Swagger
2 10 (5.71%) GTK
3 7 (4.00%) EDI
4 4 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.29%) XMPP
5 2 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.14%) Kafka
5 2 (1.14%) LDAP
5 2 (1.14%) Qt
6 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.86%) Blockchain
1 40 (22.86%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (22.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (15.43%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.14%) PKI
4 10 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.71%) IoT
7 3 (1.71%) Replication
8 2 (1.14%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) Derivative
9 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.57%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 175 (100.00%) Linux
2 92 (52.57%) Ubuntu
3 87 (49.71%) CentOS
4 41 (23.43%) Alpine Linux
4 41 (23.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (16.57%) Windows
6 11 (6.29%) SUSE
7 8 (4.57%) Unix
8 7 (4.00%) Solaris
9 6 (3.43%) Windows Server
10 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.14%) Fedora
12 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.57%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.57%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (37.14%) DevOps
2 53 (30.29%) Configuration Management
2 53 (30.29%) Software Engineering
3 47 (26.86%) CI/CD
4 45 (25.71%) Open Source
5 42 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 40 (22.86%) Co-Creation
6 40 (22.86%) Containerisation
6 40 (22.86%) Data Science
6 40 (22.86%) Functional Testing
6 40 (22.86%) Separation of Concerns
6 40 (22.86%) Task Automation
6 40 (22.86%) Technology Transformation
7 35 (20.00%) Agile
8 29 (16.57%) Collaborative Working
9 27 (15.43%) API Development
9 27 (15.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (15.43%) Microservices
9 27 (15.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 27 (15.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.43%) Python
2 49 (28.00%) Bash
3 29 (16.57%) Java
3 29 (16.57%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.57%) C
5 21 (12.00%) SQL
6 15 (8.57%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.29%) C++
8 4 (2.29%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.71%) AWK
9 3 (1.71%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.71%) sed
10 2 (1.14%) C#
10 2 (1.14%) Perl
10 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) Go
11 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (27.43%) MCSE
3 44 (25.14%) MCSA
4 40 (22.86%) Azure Certification
5 35 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 30 (17.14%) Degree
6 30 (17.14%) DV Cleared
7 28 (16.00%) SC Cleared
8 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.29%) CCNA
10 4 (2.29%) RHCT
10 4 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.14%) CCNP
11 2 (1.14%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.57%) HNC
12 1 (0.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) PMO
2 7 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.43%) QA
4 4 (2.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.57%) MISRA
System Software
1 46 (26.29%) Docker
2 21 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 20 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.71%) vSphere
5 6 (3.43%) KVM
6 4 (2.29%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.57%) LXC
8 1 (0.57%) Samba
8 1 (0.57%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 76 (43.43%) Kubernetes
2 71 (40.57%) Terraform
3 35 (20.00%) Ansible
4 33 (18.86%) Puppet
5 8 (4.57%) ZABBIX
6 5 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.29%) Podman
7 4 (2.29%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.14%) Icinga
8 2 (1.14%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.14%) Nagios
9 1 (0.57%) Grafana
9 1 (0.57%) Juju
9 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 91 (52.00%) Red Hat
2 40 (22.86%) IBM
3 39 (22.29%) VMware
4 27 (15.43%) Google
4 27 (15.43%) SaltStack
5 19 (10.86%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.86%) Citrix
7 3 (1.71%) Veeam
8 2 (1.14%) Juniper
8 2 (1.14%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.14%) TP-LINK
8 2 (1.14%) ZyXEL
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco
9 1 (0.57%) Fortinet