Linux Jobs in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 39 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,290 2,397 5,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.45% 7.13% 7.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.59% 45.09% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 856 1,766 2,563
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,029 5,316 12,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.80% 15.82% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,293 4,073 6,114
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux in London

Linux
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the London 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
Central London -40 138 £70,000 -17.65% 34
West London +2 115 £52,501 -12.50% 19
South London -3 35 £66,250 +26.19% 7
East London +14 16 £57,500 - 87
North London +2 4 £62,750 - 2
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 45 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (3.26%) Apache
3 36 (2.79%) Confluence
4 35 (2.71%) nginx
5 32 (2.48%) IIS
6 20 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 19 (1.47%) Tomcat
8 17 (1.32%) WebSphere
9 15 (1.16%) Apache Spark
10 14 (1.09%) JBoss
11 11 (0.85%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.70%) WordPress
13 7 (0.54%) WildFly
14 6 (0.47%) SAS
15 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
16 4 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
16 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
17 3 (0.23%) CMS
17 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.078%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (1.24%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.62%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.47%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.078%) Endur
6 1 (0.078%) Findur
6 1 (0.078%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.078%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.078%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 427 (33.10%) Azure
2 355 (27.52%) AWS
3 161 (12.48%) Entra ID
4 80 (6.20%) GCP
5 57 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (3.33%) Serverless
7 39 (3.02%) GitHub
8 38 (2.95%) Amazon S3
9 37 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.78%) IaaS
14 22 (1.71%) SaaS
15 20 (1.55%) Azure AKS
16 19 (1.47%) PaaS
17 18 (1.40%) Power Platform
18 15 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 207 (16.05%) Firewall
2 147 (11.40%) 5G
2 147 (11.40%) Broadband
3 121 (9.38%) TCP/IP
4 116 (8.99%) DNS
5 101 (7.83%) VPN
6 82 (6.36%) WAN
7 79 (6.12%) LAN
8 61 (4.73%) Internet
9 48 (3.72%) DHCP
10 46 (3.57%) SAN
11 45 (3.49%) Network Security
12 28 (2.17%) SNMP
13 25 (1.94%) HTTP
14 24 (1.86%) Wireless
15 23 (1.78%) BGP
16 21 (1.63%) MPLS
17 20 (1.55%) SSL
18 19 (1.47%) NAS
19 16 (1.24%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.69%) SQL Server
2 95 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.20%) MongoDB
4 63 (4.88%) MySQL
5 55 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.79%) DB2
7 32 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.02%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.86%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.40%) Redis
12 17 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.32%) Power BI
13 14 (1.09%) Tableau
14 12 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.93%) Big Data
14 12 (0.93%) Data Hub
14 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 108 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 78 (6.05%) JIRA
3 74 (5.74%) Git
4 57 (4.42%) GitLab
5 32 (2.48%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.17%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.17%) Metasploit
7 19 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 11 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.54%) GDB
10 7 (0.54%) Snyk
11 6 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.47%) JUnit
11 6 (0.47%) Maven
12 5 (0.39%) DTrace
12 5 (0.39%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
13 4 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 367 (28.45%) Finance
2 326 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 277 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (12.17%) Banking
6 51 (3.95%) Front Office
7 45 (3.49%) Public Sector
8 43 (3.33%) Retail
9 39 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.95%) Law
11 36 (2.79%) Financial Institution
12 33 (2.56%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.55%) Marketing
14 15 (1.16%) Back Office
15 13 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.93%) Billing
16 12 (0.93%) Police
17 10 (0.78%) Games
17 10 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (22.33%) Senior
2 149 (11.55%) Developer
3 148 (11.47%) Linux Specialist
4 144 (11.16%) Technical Specialist
5 126 (9.77%) Architect
6 106 (8.22%) Linux Engineer
7 98 (7.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 95 (7.36%) Lead
9 94 (7.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 93 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 92 (7.13%) Senior Linux Specialist
12 90 (6.98%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 90 (6.98%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 89 (6.90%) Software Engineer
14 85 (6.59%) Analyst
15 64 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
16 59 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
17 56 (4.34%) Applications Support
18 50 (3.88%) Support Analyst
19 49 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.97%) .NET
2 69 (5.35%) React
3 67 (5.19%) REST
4 56 (4.34%) FIX Protocol
5 45 (3.49%) Kafka
6 41 (3.18%) HTML
7 38 (2.95%) CSS
8 32 (2.48%) YAML
9 31 (2.40%) Web Services
10 30 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (2.33%) XML
11 29 (2.25%) Node.js
12 26 (2.02%) JSON
12 26 (2.02%) Middleware
13 25 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (1.86%) ASP.NET
14 24 (1.86%) LDAP
15 22 (1.71%) AngularJS
16 18 (1.40%) SOAP
17 16 (1.24%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.16%) Social Media
2 84 (6.51%) Public Cloud
3 80 (6.20%) Data Centre
4 62 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (4.26%) PKI
6 48 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 47 (3.64%) Cloud Native
8 44 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
9 41 (3.18%) Replication
10 38 (2.95%) Hedge funds
11 34 (2.64%) Legacy Code
12 33 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
13 32 (2.48%) Clustering
14 31 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
15 30 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
16 29 (2.25%) FPGA
17 25 (1.94%) Client/Server
17 25 (1.94%) Cyberattack
17 25 (1.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 473 (36.67%) Windows
2 260 (20.16%) Ubuntu
3 208 (16.12%) Unix
4 130 (10.08%) Windows Server
5 103 (7.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 71 (5.50%) CentOS
7 47 (3.64%) VMS
8 44 (3.41%) Solaris
9 32 (2.48%) Android
10 29 (2.25%) Apple iOS
10 29 (2.25%) Kali Linux
11 27 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
12 26 (2.02%) Debian
12 26 (2.02%) Mac OS
13 22 (1.71%) zOS
14 21 (1.63%) Windows 10
15 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
16 16 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
16 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
17 13 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (23.80%) DevOps
2 272 (21.09%) Cybersecurity
3 224 (17.36%) Agile
4 212 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (15.66%) Software Engineering
6 199 (15.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 197 (15.27%) CI/CD
8 151 (11.71%) IT Strategy
9 150 (11.63%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (11.09%) CRM
11 135 (10.47%) Computer Science
12 114 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 109 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
14 98 (7.60%) Containerisation
15 85 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
16 81 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 80 (6.20%) Fintech
18 78 (6.05%) Mentoring
19 72 (5.58%) Application Security
20 71 (5.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 429 (33.26%) Python
2 334 (25.89%) Bash
3 269 (20.85%) SQL
4 174 (13.49%) PowerShell
5 164 (12.71%) Java
6 127 (9.84%) C
7 117 (9.07%) C++
8 109 (8.45%) C#
9 101 (7.83%) JavaScript
10 77 (5.97%) Perl
11 66 (5.12%) Go
12 50 (3.88%) Rust
13 46 (3.57%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.87%) Ruby
15 28 (2.17%) TypeScript
16 18 (1.40%) PHP
17 13 (1.01%) Groovy
18 11 (0.85%) Korn
19 10 (0.78%) Scala
20 7 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (16.67%) Degree
2 146 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 95 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 71 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 59 (4.57%) SC Cleared
6 36 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.94%) CCNA
9 18 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.24%) CISSP
12 15 (1.16%) CISA
12 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.09%) MCSE
14 13 (1.01%) MCSA
14 13 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 11 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (1.94%) SLA
2 22 (1.71%) QA
3 20 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.40%) NIST
6 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.70%) GDPR
9 6 (0.47%) ITGC
9 6 (0.47%) PMO
10 5 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.31%) GRC
11 4 (0.31%) JTAG
11 4 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.23%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 304 (23.57%) Active Directory
2 187 (14.50%) Docker
3 123 (9.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (3.18%) vSphere
5 39 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.24%) Hyper-V
8 15 (1.16%) KVM
9 12 (0.93%) vCloud
10 8 (0.62%) NFS
11 7 (0.54%) Ceph
12 6 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.39%) Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.31%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.16%) LXC
16 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 237 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 210 (16.28%) Ansible
3 194 (15.04%) Terraform
4 161 (12.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.16%) Jamf Pro
6 76 (5.89%) Puppet
7 57 (4.42%) Progress Chef
8 44 (3.41%) Grafana
9 41 (3.18%) Prometheus
10 34 (2.64%) SCCM
11 21 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (1.40%) Nagios
12 18 (1.40%) vCenter Server
13 16 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 14 (1.09%) HAProxy
14 14 (1.09%) Nessus
15 11 (0.85%) Graphite
16 10 (0.78%) WSUS
17 9 (0.70%) Salt
18 7 (0.54%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 330 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 176 (13.64%) VMware
3 160 (12.40%) Oracle
4 144 (11.16%) CyberArk
4 144 (11.16%) Tanium
5 142 (11.01%) Red Hat
6 86 (6.67%) Cisco
7 48 (3.72%) Google
8 41 (3.18%) IBM
8 41 (3.18%) Palo Alto
9 38 (2.95%) Splunk
10 32 (2.48%) Atlassian
11 31 (2.40%) F5
12 26 (2.02%) Bloomberg
12 26 (2.02%) Veeam
13 25 (1.94%) ION Trading
13 25 (1.94%) Qualys
14 22 (1.71%) HP
14 22 (1.71%) Juniper
15 21 (1.63%) Citrix