Linux Jobs in Scotland

Linux
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 69 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -41 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 356 387 538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.30% 8.47% 9.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.01% 51.12% 55.18%
Number of salaries quoted 169 218 256
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,227 £44,991
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 791 757 975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.78% 16.56% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 413 423 561
10th Percentile £26,050 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,950 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -76 173 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Edinburgh +10 134 £60,000 +9.09% 37
West Lothian -4 20 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Dundee -6 10 £49,990 +33.31% 2
Aberdeen -17 7 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Aberdeenshire +5 3 £28,500 -56.15% 1
Lanarkshire -8 2 £27,500 -11.29% 3
Fife -8 1 - - 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 -
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 20 (5.62%) Apache
2 11 (3.09%) WebSphere
3 10 (2.81%) Tomcat
4 8 (2.25%) ArcGIS
4 8 (2.25%) GeoServer
4 8 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.25%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.69%) Captiva
5 6 (1.69%) FileNet
6 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.12%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.84%) IIS
9 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (3.09%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (2.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 82 (23.03%) Azure
2 61 (17.13%) AWS
3 29 (8.15%) GCP
4 25 (7.02%) SaaS
5 21 (5.90%) IaaS
6 20 (5.62%) PaaS
7 19 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (3.37%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (2.53%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.25%) GitHub
11 6 (1.69%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.12%) Google Docs
14 3 (0.84%) Asana
14 3 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.84%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.24%) Firewall
2 29 (8.15%) VPN
3 23 (6.46%) Wireless
4 22 (6.18%) Network Security
5 18 (5.06%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.78%) SD-WAN
6 17 (4.78%) WAN
7 16 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (4.21%) Ethernet
9 14 (3.93%) DNS
9 14 (3.93%) Internet
10 13 (3.65%) RS-232
11 11 (3.09%) SNMP
12 10 (2.81%) IPsec
13 8 (2.25%) BGP
13 8 (2.25%) SSL
14 6 (1.69%) DHCP
15 4 (1.12%) LAN
16 3 (0.84%) Modbus
17 2 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.93%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.93%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.65%) RDBMS
5 12 (3.37%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.09%) DB2
6 11 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.25%) Big Data
7 8 (2.25%) GIS
7 8 (2.25%) QGIS
8 7 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.40%) Pentaho
10 3 (0.84%) Ingres
10 3 (0.84%) MySQL
11 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (5.62%) JIRA
2 11 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.81%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (2.25%) Git
5 7 (1.97%) GitLab
5 7 (1.97%) IBM UrbanCode
6 6 (1.69%) Maven
7 5 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.40%) JUnit
7 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) GoCD
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 150 (42.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 149 (41.85%) Finance
3 96 (26.97%) Law
4 77 (21.63%) Social Skills
5 58 (16.29%) Marketing
6 38 (10.67%) Legal
7 26 (7.30%) Banking
8 20 (5.62%) Manufacturing
9 17 (4.78%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (3.93%) Military
11 12 (3.37%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.97%) Retail
13 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.84%) Automotive
16 3 (0.84%) Electronics
17 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 187 (52.53%) Software Engineer
2 75 (21.07%) Senior
3 61 (17.13%) Lead
4 48 (13.48%) Senior Software Engineer
5 47 (13.20%) Lead Software Engineer
6 23 (6.46%) Embedded Engineer
7 22 (6.18%) Architect
7 22 (6.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 22 (6.18%) Support Engineer
8 18 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (4.49%) Analyst
10 15 (4.21%) Support Analyst
11 14 (3.93%) C Software Engineer
11 14 (3.93%) Consultant
11 14 (3.93%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 14 (3.93%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 14 (3.93%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 13 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.37%) IT Manager
14 11 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
2 13 (3.65%) Spring Boot
2 13 (3.65%) Yocto
3 12 (3.37%) React
4 11 (3.09%) Web Services
5 10 (2.81%) YAML
6 9 (2.53%) .NET
7 8 (2.25%) Django
7 8 (2.25%) HTML
7 8 (2.25%) Leaflet
7 8 (2.25%) OpenLayers
7 8 (2.25%) PostGIS
7 8 (2.25%) RESTful
8 6 (1.69%) CSS
9 5 (1.40%) Kafka
9 5 (1.40%) LDAP
9 5 (1.40%) OpenCV
9 5 (1.40%) OpenVINO
9 5 (1.40%) Spring
9 5 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.48%) Algorithms
2 33 (9.27%) Public Cloud
3 32 (8.99%) Data Centre
4 21 (5.90%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.93%) Device Driver
5 14 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.65%) Replication
7 12 (3.37%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.69%) DataPower
10 6 (1.69%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.40%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
12 4 (1.12%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.84%) IoT
13 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 133 (37.36%) Windows
2 51 (14.33%) Unix
3 46 (12.92%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.93%) Embedded Linux
4 14 (3.93%) Mac OS X
4 14 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.81%) Data ONTAP
6 9 (2.53%) Mac OS
6 9 (2.53%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.97%) CentOS
8 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.12%) AIX
9 4 (1.12%) Mesosphere
9 4 (1.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.84%) Debian
10 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.56%) Android
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (53.09%) Software Engineering
2 164 (46.07%) Agile
3 112 (31.46%) SDLC
4 97 (27.25%) CI/CD
5 91 (25.56%) Community of Practice
6 74 (20.79%) DevOps
7 59 (16.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 59 (16.57%) Machine Learning
8 52 (14.61%) Operational Stability
9 51 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (13.48%) Continuous Delivery
11 47 (13.20%) Architectural Design
11 47 (13.20%) Information Architecture
12 44 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (12.36%) Visualisation
13 42 (11.80%) Actionable Insight
14 38 (10.67%) Mentoring
15 35 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.83%) ITIL
16 34 (9.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (43.26%) Python
2 139 (39.04%) SQL
3 136 (38.20%) Java
4 53 (14.89%) C
5 39 (10.96%) PL/SQL
6 32 (8.99%) C++
7 30 (8.43%) Embedded C
8 28 (7.87%) Bash
9 17 (4.78%) PowerShell
10 15 (4.21%) JavaScript
11 12 (3.37%) Shell Script
12 11 (3.09%) C#
13 5 (1.40%) Groovy
14 4 (1.12%) Ruby
14 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.12%) VB
15 3 (0.84%) PHP
16 2 (0.56%) Perl
16 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
17 1 (0.28%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 56 (15.73%) Degree
2 21 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (5.62%) Security Cleared
4 18 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.78%) CCNA
6 16 (4.49%) CISSP
7 14 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.93%) CISM
7 14 (3.93%) GCIA
7 14 (3.93%) GCIH
7 14 (3.93%) GREM
8 13 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.37%) Azure Certification
10 11 (3.09%) CISA
11 4 (1.12%) CCDP
11 4 (1.12%) CCSP
11 4 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.09%) ITGC
1 11 (3.09%) PMO
2 7 (1.97%) GDPR
3 6 (1.69%) QA
4 2 (0.56%) DICOM
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (7.58%) Docker
3 16 (4.49%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.21%) Active Directory
5 13 (3.65%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.40%) KVM
8 3 (0.84%) Firmware
9 2 (0.56%) Xen
10 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (33.15%) Kubernetes
2 46 (12.92%) Ansible
3 32 (8.99%) Terraform
4 15 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.65%) FortiGate
5 13 (3.65%) Progress Chef
6 12 (3.37%) Grafana
7 10 (2.81%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.69%) Puppet
10 5 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.84%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 128 (35.96%) Oracle
2 51 (14.33%) VMware
3 31 (8.71%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.46%) NetApp
5 22 (6.18%) Cisco
6 21 (5.90%) Dell
7 17 (4.78%) SAP
8 15 (4.21%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.93%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.65%) IBM
11 11 (3.09%) Google
11 11 (3.09%) Sage
12 10 (2.81%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.81%) SolidFire
13 8 (2.25%) ESRI
13 8 (2.25%) Sparx
14 6 (1.69%) Kofax
14 6 (1.69%) Pega
15 5 (1.40%) CA
15 5 (1.40%) Splunk