Linux Jobs in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,119 6,165 12,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.92% 6.99% 9.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.98% 43.28% 46.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,450 3,949 5,888
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,491 14,245 25,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.44% 16.15% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9,837 9,773 14,905
10th Percentile £25,760 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux in England

Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London -5 1,290 £75,000 -6.25% 489
South East -1 1,184 £55,000 +10.00% 313
South West +3 855 £52,500 -4.55% 193
North of England +21 834 £50,000 - 133
North West +25 526 £52,500 - 71
Midlands +20 497 £50,000 -9.09% 137
East of England +13 427 £52,500 -8.70% 142
East Midlands +32 287 £50,000 -9.09% 66
Yorkshire +19 253 £47,500 -5.00% 55
West Midlands -9 210 £54,000 -1.82% 71
North East -16 55 £52,500 +31.25% 8
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 234 (4.57%) Apache
2 170 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (2.21%) nginx
4 107 (2.09%) IIS
5 90 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 84 (1.64%) Confluence
7 66 (1.29%) Apache Spark
8 57 (1.11%) WebLogic
9 45 (0.88%) Tomcat
10 41 (0.80%) OpenStack
11 38 (0.74%) WebSphere
12 35 (0.68%) ArcGIS
13 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
14 23 (0.45%) WordPress
15 22 (0.43%) Jupyter
16 21 (0.41%) JBoss
17 18 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
18 14 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
19 13 (0.25%) Captiva
19 13 (0.25%) FileNet
Applications
1 88 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (0.76%) Simulink
3 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.20%) OrCAD
5 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
7 4 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.078%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.078%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.039%) Abaqus
9 2 (0.039%) CATIA
9 2 (0.039%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.039%) Trello
10 1 (0.020%) 1Password
10 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.47%) NEC Housing
3 20 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.12%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.098%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.078%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.078%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.039%) Shopify
11 1 (0.020%) FLEXCUBE
11 1 (0.020%) LabWindows
11 1 (0.020%) Misys Opics
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.020%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,599 (31.24%) Azure
2 1,197 (23.38%) AWS
3 329 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 321 (6.27%) Entra ID
5 279 (5.45%) IBM Cloud
6 241 (4.71%) GCP
7 234 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
8 228 (4.45%) Serverless
9 147 (2.87%) OpenShift
10 142 (2.77%) GitHub
11 137 (2.68%) SaaS
12 135 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
13 132 (2.58%) Azure Functions
14 129 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.46%) Azure API Management
16 114 (2.23%) Amazon S3
17 107 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
18 76 (1.48%) IaaS
19 74 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
20 73 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 700 (13.67%) Firewall
2 419 (8.19%) DNS
3 370 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 253 (4.94%) 5G
5 252 (4.92%) VPN
6 248 (4.84%) DHCP
7 230 (4.49%) Broadband
8 206 (4.02%) SAN
9 195 (3.81%) WAN
10 176 (3.44%) LAN
11 174 (3.40%) Internet
12 136 (2.66%) Wireless
13 114 (2.23%) Network Security
14 106 (2.07%) HTTP
15 92 (1.80%) NAS
16 88 (1.72%) VLAN
17 87 (1.70%) SNMP
17 87 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
18 76 (1.48%) BGP
19 70 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 422 (8.24%) MongoDB
3 360 (7.03%) NoSQL
4 357 (6.97%) SQL Server
5 336 (6.56%) MySQL
6 279 (5.45%) DB2
7 249 (4.86%) Relational Database
8 108 (2.11%) Oracle Database
9 100 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
10 90 (1.76%) Big Data
11 86 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
12 53 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 53 (1.04%) Redis
13 52 (1.02%) Power BI
14 48 (0.94%) GIS
15 43 (0.84%) MariaDB
15 43 (0.84%) RDBMS
16 28 (0.55%) QGIS
17 27 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
17 27 (0.53%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 393 (7.68%) Git
2 330 (6.45%) JIRA
3 277 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 136 (2.66%) GitLab
5 96 (1.88%) Subversion
6 61 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 60 (1.17%) Visual Studio
8 40 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 32 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 27 (0.53%) Ant
12 25 (0.49%) TeamCity
13 22 (0.43%) Robot Framework
14 21 (0.41%) CMake
15 20 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.37%) GDB
17 18 (0.35%) Vagrant
18 17 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
19 16 (0.31%) Trac
General
1 1,095 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 679 (13.26%) Finance
3 612 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 470 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 399 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 255 (4.98%) Aerospace
7 206 (4.02%) Banking
8 200 (3.91%) Electronics
9 161 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 150 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 106 (2.07%) Retail
12 103 (2.01%) Marketing
13 80 (1.56%) Automotive
14 79 (1.54%) Law
15 76 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
16 61 (1.19%) Military
17 59 (1.15%) Front Office
18 46 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
19 40 (0.78%) Financial Institution
20 37 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 984 (19.22%) Senior
2 765 (14.94%) Software Engineer
3 730 (14.26%) Developer
4 499 (9.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 320 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
6 317 (6.19%) Lead
7 307 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 301 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
9 270 (5.27%) Architect
10 251 (4.90%) Support Engineer
11 244 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 237 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 230 (4.49%) Administrator
14 217 (4.24%) Linux Specialist
15 214 (4.18%) Technical Specialist
16 209 (4.08%) Analyst
17 187 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
18 183 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
19 172 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
20 159 (3.11%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (9.79%) HTML
2 489 (9.55%) React
3 444 (8.67%) REST
4 441 (8.61%) CSS
5 421 (8.22%) .NET
6 345 (6.74%) Web Services
7 337 (6.58%) AngularJS
8 303 (5.92%) jQuery
9 293 (5.72%) Vue
10 285 (5.57%) Node.js
11 272 (5.31%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.65%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.65%) Ember.js
14 146 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
15 137 (2.68%) XML
16 113 (2.21%) Middleware
17 90 (1.76%) YAML
18 88 (1.72%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 361 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 356 (6.95%) Algorithms
3 306 (5.98%) Data Centre
4 280 (5.47%) Blockchain
5 257 (5.02%) Data Structures
6 248 (4.84%) Public Cloud
7 211 (4.12%) Social Media
8 200 (3.91%) IoT
9 167 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
10 135 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
11 132 (2.58%) Management Information System
12 127 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
13 120 (2.34%) Embedded Systems
14 114 (2.23%) Cloud Native
14 114 (2.23%) e-Learning
15 109 (2.13%) PKI
16 86 (1.68%) Replication
17 74 (1.45%) FPGA
18 71 (1.39%) Client/Server
18 71 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,182 (42.63%) Windows
2 547 (10.69%) Ubuntu
3 523 (10.22%) Windows Server
4 497 (9.71%) Unix
5 385 (7.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 343 (6.70%) Android
7 309 (6.04%) CentOS
8 299 (5.84%) Apple iOS
9 250 (4.88%) Embedded Linux
10 171 (3.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 162 (3.16%) Debian
12 122 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
13 116 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 112 (2.19%) Windows 10
15 100 (1.95%) Solaris
16 88 (1.72%) Mac OS
17 66 (1.29%) VMS
18 52 (1.02%) AIX
19 47 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
20 42 (0.82%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (21.78%) Software Engineering
2 1,107 (21.63%) DevOps
3 1,072 (20.94%) Agile
4 887 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
5 665 (12.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 612 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 604 (11.80%) Cybersecurity
8 554 (10.82%) CI/CD
9 503 (9.83%) Mentoring
10 499 (9.75%) Computer Science
11 419 (8.19%) OO
12 400 (7.81%) Full Stack Development
13 377 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 366 (7.15%) Actionable Insight
15 353 (6.90%) User Experience
16 348 (6.80%) Web Development
17 336 (6.56%) Containerisation
18 331 (6.47%) OOP
19 311 (6.08%) MVC
20 301 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1,578 (30.83%) Python
2 1,006 (19.65%) SQL
3 856 (16.72%) Bash
4 764 (14.92%) Java
5 743 (14.51%) C
6 727 (14.20%) JavaScript
7 623 (12.17%) C++
8 569 (11.12%) PowerShell
9 567 (11.08%) C#
10 183 (3.57%) PHP
11 161 (3.15%) Shell Script
12 156 (3.05%) Perl
13 142 (2.77%) Embedded C
14 138 (2.70%) Rust
15 120 (2.34%) TypeScript
16 114 (2.23%) Go
17 73 (1.43%) VB
18 70 (1.37%) Ruby
19 52 (1.02%) Kotlin
20 40 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,091 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 886 (17.31%) Degree
3 546 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 460 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 304 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 147 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
7 135 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 124 (2.42%) CCNA
9 118 (2.31%) Azure Certification
10 114 (2.23%) Master's Degree
11 105 (2.05%) AWS Certification
12 101 (1.97%) MCSE
13 70 (1.37%) MCSA
14 61 (1.19%) PhD
15 54 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 49 (0.96%) CCNP
17 40 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 32 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
19 31 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 30 (0.59%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (2.03%) SLA
2 86 (1.68%) QA
3 63 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.15%) GDPR
5 39 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 38 (0.74%) NIST
7 29 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.51%) PMO
9 15 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.27%) NCSC
11 13 (0.25%) MISRA
12 9 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.16%) GRC
13 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.16%) JTAG
14 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.12%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 780 (15.24%) Active Directory
2 663 (12.95%) Docker
3 542 (10.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 241 (4.71%) Hyper-V
5 139 (2.72%) Firmware
6 132 (2.58%) vSphere
7 130 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
8 104 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 38 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 29 (0.57%) KVM
12 25 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
13 23 (0.45%) NFS
13 23 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
14 18 (0.35%) pfSense
14 18 (0.35%) VMware NSX
14 18 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
15 15 (0.29%) VMware Server
16 12 (0.23%) vCloud
17 10 (0.20%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 755 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 741 (14.48%) Ansible
3 557 (10.88%) Terraform
4 296 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 267 (5.22%) Puppet
6 215 (4.20%) Jamf Pro
7 135 (2.64%) vCenter Server
8 119 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 117 (2.29%) Prometheus
10 113 (2.21%) Grafana
11 95 (1.86%) SCCM
12 72 (1.41%) SCOM
13 71 (1.39%) ZABBIX
14 69 (1.35%) Nagios
15 64 (1.25%) WSUS
16 38 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 32 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
18 31 (0.61%) HAProxy
19 27 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
20 26 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,048 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 787 (15.37%) VMware
3 729 (14.24%) Red Hat
4 405 (7.91%) Oracle
5 383 (7.48%) IBM
6 287 (5.61%) Cisco
7 212 (4.14%) Tanium
8 211 (4.12%) CyberArk
9 139 (2.72%) Veeam
10 132 (2.58%) Google
11 98 (1.91%) NetApp
12 94 (1.84%) Palo Alto
13 87 (1.70%) Citrix
14 83 (1.62%) Splunk
15 82 (1.60%) Juniper
16 80 (1.56%) SAP
17 66 (1.29%) Atlassian
18 65 (1.27%) EMC
19 62 (1.21%) SolarWinds
20 61 (1.19%) Fortinet