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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 33 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,381 5,783 12,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.71% 7.00% 8.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.92% 42.63% 47.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,521 3,747 5,907
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £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 12,836 13,565 27,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.63% 16.41% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9,829 9,413 14,860
10th Percentile £25,852 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,246
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 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -9 1,303 £75,000 -3.23% 350
South East -3 1,233 £55,000 +10.00% 233
South West +3 902 £52,500 -4.55% 172
North of England +14 846 £50,000 -1.96% 139
Midlands +25 605 £50,000 -9.09% 121
North West +16 541 £52,500 -6.25% 91
East of England +12 458 £54,000 -6.09% 138
East Midlands +34 323 £50,000 -13.04% 54
West Midlands +5 282 £54,000 -1.82% 67
Yorkshire +11 248 £45,000 -5.26% 37
North East -15 57 £52,500 +20.69% 11
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 (4.35%) Apache
2 185 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (2.10%) nginx
4 106 (1.97%) IIS
5 93 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 81 (1.51%) Confluence
7 65 (1.21%) Apache Spark
8 53 (0.98%) WebLogic
9 45 (0.84%) Tomcat
10 42 (0.78%) OpenStack
11 28 (0.52%) ArcGIS
12 26 (0.48%) WebSphere
13 22 (0.41%) JBoss
13 22 (0.41%) WordPress
14 21 (0.39%) GeoServer
14 21 (0.39%) Jupyter
15 18 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
16 13 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
17 11 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
17 11 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 88 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (0.87%) Simulink
3 43 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.13%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.074%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.037%) CATIA
10 2 (0.037%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.037%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.037%) Trello
11 1 (0.019%) Weka
11 1 (0.019%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (0.45%) NEC Housing
3 23 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 6 (0.11%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.093%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.074%) C-CURE
8 4 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.056%) Magento
9 3 (0.056%) Maximo
9 3 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.056%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 2 (0.037%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.037%) Shopify
11 1 (0.019%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,599 (29.72%) Azure
2 1,229 (22.84%) AWS
3 352 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
4 338 (6.28%) Entra ID
5 278 (5.17%) IBM Cloud
6 235 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
7 227 (4.22%) Serverless
8 219 (4.07%) GCP
9 160 (2.97%) SaaS
10 143 (2.66%) OpenShift
11 135 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 132 (2.45%) Azure Functions
13 129 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
13 129 (2.40%) GitHub
14 126 (2.34%) Azure API Management
15 114 (2.12%) Amazon S3
16 108 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
17 77 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
18 73 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
19 70 (1.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 712 (13.23%) Firewall
2 433 (8.05%) DNS
3 374 (6.95%) TCP/IP
4 256 (4.76%) DHCP
4 256 (4.76%) VPN
5 253 (4.70%) 5G
6 249 (4.63%) Internet
7 231 (4.29%) Broadband
8 205 (3.81%) SAN
9 204 (3.79%) WAN
10 188 (3.49%) Network Security
11 185 (3.44%) LAN
12 134 (2.49%) Wireless
13 116 (2.16%) HTTP
14 95 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
15 93 (1.73%) NAS
16 92 (1.71%) VLAN
17 84 (1.56%) SNMP
18 81 (1.51%) WLAN
19 76 (1.41%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 430 (7.99%) MongoDB
3 378 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 372 (6.91%) NoSQL
5 339 (6.30%) MySQL
6 285 (5.30%) DB2
7 254 (4.72%) Relational Database
8 111 (2.06%) Oracle Database
9 105 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (1.62%) Big Data
11 82 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 56 (1.04%) Redis
13 55 (1.02%) Hadoop
14 51 (0.95%) Power BI
15 43 (0.80%) MariaDB
16 42 (0.78%) GIS
17 41 (0.76%) RDBMS
18 29 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
19 27 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
20 22 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 399 (7.41%) Git
2 322 (5.98%) JIRA
3 277 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 145 (2.69%) GitLab
5 95 (1.77%) Subversion
6 63 (1.17%) Visual Studio
7 57 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 42 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 29 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.52%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.52%) Metasploit
11 26 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 22 (0.41%) Ant
12 22 (0.41%) Robot Framework
12 22 (0.41%) Vagrant
13 20 (0.37%) CMake
14 19 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 17 (0.32%) GDB
16 16 (0.30%) Maven
16 16 (0.30%) Trac
General
1 1,104 (20.52%) Social Skills
2 678 (12.60%) Finance
3 609 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 467 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 401 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 267 (4.96%) Aerospace
7 210 (3.90%) Electronics
8 196 (3.64%) Banking
9 170 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 161 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 116 (2.16%) Retail
12 102 (1.90%) Marketing
13 88 (1.64%) Automotive
14 85 (1.58%) Law
15 69 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 61 (1.13%) Front Office
17 60 (1.12%) Military
18 47 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
19 39 (0.72%) Financial Institution
20 36 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,002 (18.62%) Senior
2 815 (15.15%) Software Engineer
3 744 (13.83%) Developer
4 548 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 370 (6.88%) Linux Engineer
6 321 (5.97%) Lead
7 315 (5.85%) Embedded Engineer
8 306 (5.69%) Support Engineer
9 285 (5.30%) Architect
10 281 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 268 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
12 250 (4.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 232 (4.31%) IT Engineer
14 230 (4.27%) Administrator
15 225 (4.18%) Analyst
16 219 (4.07%) IT Support
17 216 (4.01%) Linux Specialist
18 214 (3.98%) Technical Specialist
19 191 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
20 189 (3.51%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 515 (9.57%) HTML
2 484 (8.99%) React
3 458 (8.51%) REST
4 454 (8.44%) CSS
5 422 (7.84%) .NET
6 351 (6.52%) Web Services
7 339 (6.30%) AngularJS
8 307 (5.71%) jQuery
9 293 (5.45%) Vue
10 283 (5.26%) Node.js
11 272 (5.05%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.42%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.42%) Ember.js
14 149 (2.77%) RabbitMQ
15 137 (2.55%) XML
16 122 (2.27%) Middleware
17 94 (1.75%) Laravel
18 90 (1.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 372 (6.91%) Algorithms
2 360 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 318 (5.91%) Data Centre
4 280 (5.20%) Blockchain
5 256 (4.76%) Data Structures
6 237 (4.40%) Public Cloud
7 211 (3.92%) Social Media
8 202 (3.75%) IoT
9 171 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
10 152 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
11 141 (2.62%) Management Information System
12 131 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
13 124 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
14 117 (2.17%) e-Learning
15 111 (2.06%) Cloud Native
16 109 (2.03%) PKI
17 106 (1.97%) Driving Licence
18 105 (1.95%) Onboarding
19 87 (1.62%) Replication
20 78 (1.45%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2,304 (42.82%) Windows
2 568 (10.56%) Ubuntu
3 545 (10.13%) Windows Server
4 522 (9.70%) Unix
5 392 (7.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 352 (6.54%) Android
7 317 (5.89%) CentOS
8 298 (5.54%) Apple iOS
9 286 (5.31%) Embedded Linux
10 181 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 168 (3.12%) Debian
12 127 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
13 120 (2.23%) Windows 10
13 120 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 117 (2.17%) Solaris
15 80 (1.49%) Mac OS
16 68 (1.26%) VMS
17 60 (1.12%) AIX
18 48 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
19 41 (0.76%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,170 (21.74%) Software Engineering
2 1,095 (20.35%) DevOps
3 1,084 (20.14%) Agile
4 957 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 677 (12.58%) Artificial Intelligence
6 666 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 604 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
8 598 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 567 (10.54%) Mentoring
10 550 (10.22%) CI/CD
11 426 (7.92%) OO
12 404 (7.51%) Full Stack Development
13 385 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 360 (6.69%) User Experience
15 350 (6.50%) Actionable Insight
16 348 (6.47%) Web Development
17 343 (6.37%) ITIL
18 333 (6.19%) OOP
19 328 (6.10%) Containerisation
20 324 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1,623 (30.16%) Python
2 1,000 (18.58%) SQL
3 878 (16.32%) Bash
4 787 (14.63%) C
5 776 (14.42%) Java
6 735 (13.66%) JavaScript
7 673 (12.51%) C++
8 590 (10.96%) PowerShell
9 579 (10.76%) C#
10 191 (3.55%) PHP
11 165 (3.07%) Perl
12 159 (2.95%) Shell Script
13 153 (2.84%) Embedded C
14 146 (2.71%) Rust
15 124 (2.30%) TypeScript
16 116 (2.16%) Go
17 74 (1.38%) Ruby
17 74 (1.38%) VB
18 59 (1.10%) Kotlin
19 49 (0.91%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,148 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 995 (18.49%) Degree
3 562 (10.44%) SC Cleared
4 498 (9.25%) DV Cleared
5 386 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 206 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 196 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 184 (3.42%) CCNA
9 163 (3.03%) MCSE
10 129 (2.40%) Azure Certification
11 124 (2.30%) Master's Degree
12 117 (2.17%) CCNP
13 112 (2.08%) AWS Certification
14 76 (1.41%) MCP
15 73 (1.36%) PhD
16 68 (1.26%) LPIC
17 67 (1.25%) MCSA
18 56 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 36 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 35 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (2.12%) SLA
2 88 (1.64%) QA
3 71 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (0.85%) GDPR
5 42 (0.78%) NIST
6 40 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 28 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.48%) PMO
9 15 (0.28%) Data Quality
9 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.24%) MISRA
10 13 (0.24%) NCSC
11 9 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 8 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.15%) IEC 62304
12 8 (0.15%) JTAG
13 7 (0.13%) GRC
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.11%) Def Stans
System Software
1 787 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 670 (12.45%) Docker
3 559 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 246 (4.57%) Hyper-V
5 146 (2.71%) Firmware
6 134 (2.49%) vSphere
7 126 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
8 116 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
9 66 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 42 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
11 34 (0.63%) KVM
11 34 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
12 26 (0.48%) NFS
13 20 (0.37%) pfSense
14 18 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
14 18 (0.33%) VMware NSX
14 18 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
15 16 (0.30%) VMware Server
15 16 (0.30%) XenApp
16 11 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 764 (14.20%) Kubernetes
2 749 (13.92%) Ansible
3 563 (10.46%) Terraform
4 305 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 276 (5.13%) Puppet
6 215 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
7 136 (2.53%) vCenter Server
8 121 (2.25%) Prometheus
9 107 (1.99%) Grafana
10 103 (1.91%) Progress Chef
11 98 (1.82%) SCCM
12 79 (1.47%) SCOM
13 74 (1.38%) Nagios
13 74 (1.38%) ZABBIX
14 67 (1.25%) WSUS
15 41 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 34 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
17 31 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
18 29 (0.54%) HAProxy
19 25 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,171 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 813 (15.11%) VMware
3 772 (14.35%) Red Hat
4 415 (7.71%) Oracle
5 369 (6.86%) IBM
6 360 (6.69%) Cisco
7 212 (3.94%) Tanium
8 211 (3.92%) CyberArk
9 137 (2.55%) Veeam
10 127 (2.36%) Google
11 98 (1.82%) Citrix
12 95 (1.77%) NetApp
13 93 (1.73%) Palo Alto
14 88 (1.64%) Splunk
15 82 (1.52%) Juniper
16 67 (1.25%) EMC
17 66 (1.23%) SAP
18 64 (1.19%) SolarWinds
19 63 (1.17%) Dell
20 61 (1.13%) Fortinet