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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,218 3,181 6,208
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.59% 7.76% 8.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.87% 50.30% 49.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 2,189 3,450
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 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.76% +0.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £76,250
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 4,633 6,324 12,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.76% 15.44% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,586 4,645 7,490
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £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 14 May 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
1 127 (5.73%) Apache
2 65 (2.93%) IIS
3 58 (2.61%) nginx
4 55 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 53 (2.39%) WebLogic
6 49 (2.21%) ArcGIS
7 48 (2.16%) GeoServer
8 32 (1.44%) OpenStack
9 29 (1.31%) SharePoint
9 29 (1.31%) Tomcat
10 16 (0.72%) Confluence
11 6 (0.27%) WordPress
12 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.23%) CMS
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.14%) GlassFish
13 3 (0.14%) JBoss
14 2 (0.090%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.090%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 32 (1.44%) Simulink
2 24 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.36%) GNU Octave
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.23%) OrCAD
4 5 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.23%) Trello
5 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.090%) CATIA
6 2 (0.090%) NASTRAN
7 1 (0.045%) 1Password
7 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 48 (2.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (1.08%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
4 9 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.090%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.045%) Endur
6 1 (0.045%) Findur
6 1 (0.045%) Shopify
6 1 (0.045%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 788 (35.53%) Azure
2 687 (30.97%) AWS
3 264 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 118 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (4.96%) GCP
6 101 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 95 (4.28%) GitHub
8 85 (3.83%) SaaS
9 84 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (2.39%) Serverless
11 48 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
12 46 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
13 42 (1.89%) OpenShift
14 41 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
15 40 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (1.53%) Power Platform
18 27 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
19 26 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 22 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 317 (14.29%) Firewall
2 239 (10.78%) 5G
3 221 (9.96%) Broadband
4 209 (9.42%) DNS
5 166 (7.48%) TCP/IP
6 153 (6.90%) VPN
7 122 (5.50%) Internet
8 112 (5.05%) DHCP
9 85 (3.83%) WAN
10 79 (3.56%) SAN
11 69 (3.11%) LAN
12 67 (3.02%) SNMP
13 63 (2.84%) IPsec
14 62 (2.80%) BGP
15 60 (2.71%) SSL
16 57 (2.57%) Wireless
17 54 (2.43%) Network Security
18 43 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
19 40 (1.80%) RS-232
20 38 (1.71%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 147 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
3 140 (6.31%) MongoDB
4 120 (5.41%) MySQL
5 106 (4.78%) Oracle Database
6 99 (4.46%) Relational Database
7 96 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
8 77 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
9 66 (2.98%) RDBMS
10 58 (2.61%) GIS
11 54 (2.43%) NoSQL
12 48 (2.16%) QGIS
13 39 (1.76%) DB2
14 30 (1.35%) Redis
15 26 (1.17%) Power BI
16 18 (0.81%) BigQuery
17 16 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (0.59%) Big Data
18 13 (0.59%) Data Hub
18 13 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 188 (8.48%) Git
2 139 (6.27%) Jenkins
3 129 (5.82%) JIRA
4 84 (3.79%) GitLab
5 42 (1.89%) Subversion
6 26 (1.17%) IBM UrbanCode
7 23 (1.04%) Artifactory
7 23 (1.04%) Vagrant
8 16 (0.72%) CMake
8 16 (0.72%) Eclipse
8 16 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.54%) webpack
11 10 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.45%) Trac
12 8 (0.36%) git-flow
12 8 (0.36%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
General
1 542 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 414 (18.67%) Finance
3 362 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (13.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 109 (4.91%) Aerospace
7 102 (4.60%) Banking
8 96 (4.33%) Telecoms
9 78 (3.52%) Electronics
10 70 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 57 (2.57%) Retail
12 55 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.89%) Marketing
14 40 (1.80%) Automotive
14 40 (1.80%) Law
15 39 (1.76%) Military
16 30 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 26 (1.17%) Police
18 24 (1.08%) Local Government
19 21 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 571 (25.74%) Senior
2 397 (17.90%) Software Engineer
3 235 (10.60%) Developer
4 216 (9.74%) Linux Specialist
5 212 (9.56%) Technical Specialist
6 206 (9.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 192 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 181 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 160 (7.21%) Lead
10 153 (6.90%) Embedded Engineer
11 136 (6.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 134 (6.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 129 (5.82%) Senior Linux Specialist
14 127 (5.73%) Senior Technical Specialist
14 127 (5.73%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
15 118 (5.32%) Architect
15 118 (5.32%) Linux Engineer
16 100 (4.51%) Consultant
17 87 (3.92%) Support Engineer
18 83 (3.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
2 117 (5.28%) React
3 80 (3.61%) HTML
4 75 (3.38%) REST
5 72 (3.25%) .NET
6 70 (3.16%) YAML
7 66 (2.98%) Web Services
8 65 (2.93%) Django
9 58 (2.61%) CSS
10 52 (2.34%) Spring Boot
11 50 (2.25%) Middleware
12 49 (2.21%) Leaflet
12 49 (2.21%) OpenLayers
12 49 (2.21%) PostGIS
13 47 (2.12%) Node.js
14 42 (1.89%) SOAP
15 41 (1.85%) Yocto
16 39 (1.76%) Kafka
17 36 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
18 34 (1.53%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 211 (9.51%) Social Media
2 175 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 160 (7.21%) Public Cloud
4 86 (3.88%) IoT
5 82 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 73 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
7 52 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 51 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
9 44 (1.98%) Client/Server
9 44 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
10 43 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 42 (1.89%) FPGA
12 39 (1.76%) Device Driver
13 38 (1.71%) Algorithms
14 36 (1.62%) PKI
15 35 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
16 28 (1.26%) Clustering
16 28 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
17 27 (1.22%) Cloud Native
17 27 (1.22%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 820 (36.97%) Windows
2 392 (17.67%) Ubuntu
3 231 (10.41%) Unix
4 221 (9.96%) Windows Server
5 187 (8.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 144 (6.49%) Embedded Linux
7 90 (4.06%) CentOS
8 58 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 55 (2.48%) Solaris
10 54 (2.43%) Data ONTAP
11 48 (2.16%) Android
12 44 (1.98%) VMS
13 43 (1.94%) AIX
14 37 (1.67%) Debian
15 31 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
16 25 (1.13%) Apple iOS
16 25 (1.13%) zOS
17 23 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
18 22 (0.99%) Mac OS
19 20 (0.90%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (24.62%) Software Engineering
2 541 (24.39%) DevOps
3 521 (23.49%) Agile
4 377 (17.00%) Cybersecurity
5 361 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 323 (14.56%) CI/CD
7 315 (14.20%) Artificial Intelligence
8 279 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
9 270 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 225 (10.14%) CRM
11 224 (10.10%) IT Strategy
12 215 (9.69%) Technology Strategy
13 207 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 199 (8.97%) Mentoring
15 191 (8.61%) Computer Science
16 187 (8.43%) Project Management
17 164 (7.39%) Scrum
18 157 (7.08%) Open Source
19 149 (6.72%) Continuous Integration
20 144 (6.49%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 686 (30.93%) Python
2 456 (20.56%) Bash
3 338 (15.24%) C
4 297 (13.39%) SQL
5 245 (11.05%) Java
6 217 (9.78%) C++
7 197 (8.88%) PowerShell
8 190 (8.57%) JavaScript
9 128 (5.77%) C#
10 122 (5.50%) Embedded C
11 88 (3.97%) Shell Script
12 82 (3.70%) PHP
13 76 (3.43%) Rust
14 62 (2.80%) Perl
15 55 (2.48%) TypeScript
16 40 (1.80%) Ruby
17 39 (1.76%) Go
17 39 (1.76%) VB
18 32 (1.44%) Groovy
19 27 (1.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 544 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 384 (17.31%) Degree
3 279 (12.58%) SC Cleared
4 139 (6.27%) DV Cleared
5 130 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 86 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 75 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 56 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.35%) CISSP
12 28 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 28 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.17%) CCNA
14 23 (1.04%) CISM
15 18 (0.81%) CISA
15 18 (0.81%) MCSE
16 17 (0.77%) PMI Certification
17 16 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (1.89%) QA
2 27 (1.22%) SLA
3 26 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 21 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (0.77%) NIST
6 15 (0.68%) PMO
7 13 (0.59%) ITGC
7 13 (0.59%) MISRA
8 11 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.27%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.27%) ISO 9000
10 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.23%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.18%) GRC
11 4 (0.18%) NCSC
11 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.14%) GDPR
13 2 (0.090%) DICOM
System Software
1 460 (20.74%) Active Directory
2 422 (19.03%) Docker
3 220 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 111 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 60 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (2.30%) Firmware
7 43 (1.94%) vSphere
8 30 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
10 18 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.72%) pfSense
12 15 (0.68%) NFS
12 15 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.50%) KVM
13 11 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (0.41%) Forefront TMG
15 7 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.23%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.18%) Ceph
18 3 (0.14%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 444 (20.02%) Ansible
2 396 (17.85%) Kubernetes
3 322 (14.52%) Terraform
4 256 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 210 (9.47%) Jamf Pro
6 86 (3.88%) vCenter Server
7 85 (3.83%) Prometheus
7 85 (3.83%) Puppet
8 72 (3.25%) Grafana
9 66 (2.98%) Progress Chef
10 45 (2.03%) ZABBIX
11 41 (1.85%) SCCM
11 41 (1.85%) WSUS
12 38 (1.71%) SCOM
13 33 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 31 (1.40%) Nagios
15 23 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
16 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 15 (0.68%) FortiGate
18 13 (0.59%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 542 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 327 (14.74%) VMware
3 245 (11.05%) Oracle
4 210 (9.47%) CyberArk
4 210 (9.47%) Tanium
5 168 (7.57%) Red Hat
6 91 (4.10%) NetApp
7 70 (3.16%) Cisco
8 65 (2.93%) IBM
9 57 (2.57%) Palo Alto
10 54 (2.43%) SolidFire
11 49 (2.21%) ESRI
11 49 (2.21%) Google
12 48 (2.16%) Sparx
13 47 (2.12%) Dell
14 41 (1.85%) Juniper
14 41 (1.85%) SAP
15 37 (1.67%) Veeam
16 34 (1.53%) Citrix
17 33 (1.49%) SolarWinds