Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 31 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,779 7,183 14,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.87% 7.07% 9.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.34% 44.29% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,812 4,480 6,699
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,978 16,217 29,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.19% 15.97% 18.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,769 10,941 16,610
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,450
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% - -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK

Linux
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +5 5,079 £55,843 -14.09% 1,258
UK excluding London -1 4,301 £52,500 - 868
Work from Home -1 2,213 £57,750 -7.60% 636
London -4 1,287 £75,000 -6.25% 399
South East -2 1,180 £55,000 +10.00% 232
South West +2 844 £53,500 -2.73% 172
North of England +22 830 £51,364 +2.73% 156
North West +22 523 £55,000 +6.80% 89
Midlands +15 483 £50,000 -9.09% 122
East of England +12 423 £52,500 -8.70% 141
Scotland -38 364 £52,500 -4.55% 52
East Midlands +22 279 £50,000 -9.09% 62
Yorkshire +13 254 £47,500 -5.00% 59
West Midlands -12 204 £54,000 -1.82% 59
Wales +28 135 £47,500 -2.56% 12
North East -18 53 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Northern Ireland -2 45 £55,000 +5.77% 3
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

Linux
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
1 256 (4.43%) Apache
2 179 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 119 (2.06%) nginx
4 106 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 106 (1.83%) WebLogic
5 105 (1.82%) IIS
6 92 (1.59%) Confluence
7 64 (1.11%) Apache Spark
8 58 (1.00%) WebSphere
9 55 (0.95%) ArcGIS
10 54 (0.93%) OpenStack
11 48 (0.83%) GeoServer
12 46 (0.80%) Tomcat
13 45 (0.78%) Oracle Service Bus
14 28 (0.48%) Captiva
14 28 (0.48%) FileNet
15 26 (0.45%) Jupyter
16 25 (0.43%) WordPress
17 19 (0.33%) JBoss
18 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 134 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.52%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) GNU Octave
5 11 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.087%) Trello
9 4 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.069%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.069%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.035%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.035%) CATIA
11 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.017%) 1Password
12 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 51 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 48 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
4 15 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 14 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.087%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.069%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.052%) Maximo
10 3 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
11 2 (0.035%) Magento
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.035%) Shopify
12 1 (0.017%) Endur
12 1 (0.017%) Findur
12 1 (0.017%) Misys Opics
12 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.017%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,817 (31.44%) Azure
2 1,352 (23.40%) AWS
3 368 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
4 333 (5.76%) Entra ID
5 323 (5.59%) GCP
6 279 (4.83%) IBM Cloud
7 277 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 244 (4.22%) Serverless
9 189 (3.27%) GitHub
10 176 (3.05%) SaaS
11 158 (2.73%) OpenShift
12 142 (2.46%) Amazon S3
13 135 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
13 135 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
14 132 (2.28%) Azure Functions
15 129 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
16 126 (2.18%) Azure API Management
17 105 (1.82%) IaaS
18 97 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
19 85 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 778 (13.46%) Firewall
2 461 (7.98%) DNS
3 419 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 309 (5.35%) VPN
5 268 (4.64%) DHCP
6 256 (4.43%) 5G
7 233 (4.03%) Broadband
8 224 (3.88%) WAN
9 217 (3.75%) SAN
10 207 (3.58%) Internet
11 187 (3.24%) LAN
12 163 (2.82%) Wireless
13 144 (2.49%) Network Security
14 112 (1.94%) HTTP
15 111 (1.92%) SNMP
16 102 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
17 100 (1.73%) VLAN
18 95 (1.64%) BGP
19 93 (1.61%) SSL
20 90 (1.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 509 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
2 449 (7.77%) MongoDB
3 394 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 359 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 356 (6.16%) MySQL
6 289 (5.00%) DB2
7 287 (4.97%) Relational Database
8 151 (2.61%) Oracle Database
9 123 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 114 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 100 (1.73%) Big Data
12 74 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 68 (1.18%) GIS
14 55 (0.95%) Redis
15 53 (0.92%) Hadoop
16 52 (0.90%) Power BI
17 48 (0.83%) QGIS
18 46 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
19 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
19 45 (0.78%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 423 (7.32%) Git
2 365 (6.32%) JIRA
3 323 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 162 (2.80%) GitLab
5 103 (1.78%) Subversion
6 66 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 65 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.67%) Eclipse
9 38 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
10 36 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 34 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
12 28 (0.48%) Ant
12 28 (0.48%) Burp Suite
12 28 (0.48%) Metasploit
12 28 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 23 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 23 (0.40%) TeamCity
14 22 (0.38%) Vagrant
15 21 (0.36%) Maven
16 20 (0.35%) CMake
General
1 1,221 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 880 (15.23%) Finance
3 676 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 575 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 480 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 271 (4.69%) Aerospace
7 248 (4.29%) Banking
8 220 (3.81%) Electronics
9 196 (3.39%) Telecoms
10 184 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 181 (3.13%) Law
12 163 (2.82%) Marketing
13 120 (2.08%) Retail
14 86 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 75 (1.30%) Military
16 74 (1.28%) Automotive
17 73 (1.26%) Legal
18 56 (0.97%) Front Office
19 49 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
20 46 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,134 (19.62%) Senior
2 1,010 (17.48%) Software Engineer
3 761 (13.17%) Developer
4 531 (9.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 411 (7.11%) Lead
6 380 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 357 (6.18%) Linux Engineer
8 330 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
9 320 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 313 (5.42%) Architect
11 294 (5.09%) Support Engineer
12 264 (4.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 261 (4.52%) Analyst
14 239 (4.14%) Administrator
15 220 (3.81%) Linux Specialist
16 215 (3.72%) Technical Specialist
17 202 (3.50%) Systems Engineer
18 192 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
19 186 (3.22%) Full Stack Developer
20 177 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (8.95%) React
2 507 (8.77%) HTML
3 450 (7.79%) REST
4 449 (7.77%) CSS
5 445 (7.70%) .NET
6 356 (6.16%) Web Services
7 342 (5.92%) AngularJS
8 312 (5.40%) Node.js
9 307 (5.31%) jQuery
10 295 (5.10%) Vue
11 273 (4.72%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.12%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.12%) Ember.js
14 183 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
15 139 (2.41%) XML
16 111 (1.92%) YAML
17 109 (1.89%) Middleware
18 99 (1.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 403 (6.97%) Algorithms
2 369 (6.39%) Data Centre
3 365 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 301 (5.21%) Public Cloud
5 282 (4.88%) Blockchain
6 254 (4.40%) Data Structures
7 211 (3.65%) Social Media
8 206 (3.56%) IoT
9 177 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
10 155 (2.68%) Management Information System
11 151 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
12 148 (2.56%) Cloud Native
13 140 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
14 123 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
15 113 (1.96%) e-Learning
16 112 (1.94%) PKI
17 104 (1.80%) Replication
18 96 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 74 (1.28%) FPGA
20 71 (1.23%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,396 (41.46%) Windows
2 600 (10.38%) Unix
3 595 (10.30%) Windows Server
4 590 (10.21%) Ubuntu
5 426 (7.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 342 (5.92%) Android
7 329 (5.69%) CentOS
8 302 (5.23%) Apple iOS
9 267 (4.62%) Embedded Linux
10 177 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
11 171 (2.96%) Debian
12 125 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
13 124 (2.15%) Windows 10
14 118 (2.04%) Solaris
15 117 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
16 107 (1.85%) Mac OS
17 68 (1.18%) VMS
18 57 (0.99%) AIX
19 55 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
20 46 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,401 (24.24%) Software Engineering
2 1,308 (22.63%) Agile
3 1,299 (22.48%) DevOps
4 979 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 764 (13.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 724 (12.53%) CI/CD
7 658 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
8 653 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 570 (9.86%) Mentoring
10 538 (9.31%) Computer Science
11 512 (8.86%) Actionable Insight
12 427 (7.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 424 (7.34%) OO
14 407 (7.04%) Full Stack Development
15 386 (6.68%) Containerisation
16 368 (6.37%) Web Development
17 350 (6.06%) User Experience
18 337 (5.83%) OOP
19 331 (5.73%) ITIL
20 329 (5.69%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,819 (31.48%) Python
2 1,213 (20.99%) SQL
3 928 (16.06%) Bash
4 927 (16.04%) Java
5 829 (14.35%) C
6 768 (13.29%) JavaScript
7 661 (11.44%) C++
8 613 (10.61%) PowerShell
9 610 (10.56%) C#
10 193 (3.34%) PHP
11 192 (3.32%) Shell Script
12 176 (3.05%) Perl
13 173 (2.99%) Embedded C
14 132 (2.28%) Rust
15 130 (2.25%) Go
16 129 (2.23%) TypeScript
17 112 (1.94%) PL/SQL
18 92 (1.59%) Ruby
19 79 (1.37%) VB
20 45 (0.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,174 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 1,006 (17.41%) Degree
3 623 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 462 (7.99%) DV Cleared
5 328 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 176 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
7 154 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 150 (2.60%) CCNA
9 144 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 134 (2.32%) AWS Certification
11 122 (2.11%) Master's Degree
12 114 (1.97%) MCSE
13 82 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 76 (1.32%) MCSA
15 68 (1.18%) PhD
16 56 (0.97%) CCNP
17 42 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 40 (0.69%) CISSP
19 38 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
20 36 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (2.46%) SLA
2 110 (1.90%) QA
3 85 (1.47%) GDPR
4 64 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (0.66%) PMO
6 36 (0.62%) NIST
7 30 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 28 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.29%) ITGC
10 15 (0.26%) ISO 13485
10 15 (0.26%) NCSC
10 15 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.24%) JTAG
12 13 (0.22%) MISRA
13 12 (0.21%) Data Quality
14 8 (0.14%) GRC
14 8 (0.14%) IEC 62304
14 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 834 (14.43%) Active Directory
2 791 (13.69%) Docker
3 606 (10.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 274 (4.74%) Hyper-V
5 154 (2.66%) Firmware
6 132 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
6 132 (2.28%) vSphere
7 108 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
9 54 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
10 36 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
11 33 (0.57%) KVM
12 29 (0.50%) VMware NSX
13 23 (0.40%) NFS
13 23 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
14 18 (0.31%) pfSense
14 18 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
15 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
16 13 (0.22%) vCloud
17 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 960 (16.61%) Kubernetes
2 867 (15.00%) Ansible
3 648 (11.21%) Terraform
4 311 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 283 (4.90%) Puppet
6 216 (3.74%) Jamf Pro
7 158 (2.73%) vCenter Server
8 148 (2.56%) Prometheus
9 138 (2.39%) Progress Chef
10 137 (2.37%) Grafana
11 107 (1.85%) SCCM
12 72 (1.25%) ZABBIX
13 70 (1.21%) SCOM
14 65 (1.12%) WSUS
15 63 (1.09%) Nagios
16 56 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
17 52 (0.90%) Data Guard
18 38 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 34 (0.59%) FortiGate
19 34 (0.59%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1,101 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 877 (15.18%) VMware
3 751 (13.00%) Red Hat
4 593 (10.26%) Oracle
5 410 (7.09%) IBM
6 314 (5.43%) Cisco
7 215 (3.72%) CyberArk
8 212 (3.67%) Tanium
9 171 (2.96%) Google
10 154 (2.66%) Veeam
11 129 (2.23%) NetApp
12 114 (1.97%) Palo Alto
13 107 (1.85%) SAP
14 92 (1.59%) Citrix
15 91 (1.57%) Splunk
16 87 (1.51%) Dell
17 80 (1.38%) Juniper
18 70 (1.21%) EMC
19 69 (1.19%) Remedy
20 68 (1.18%) Atlassian