Linux Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 32 33 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,227 3,141 6,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.58% 7.77% 8.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.07% 50.34% 50.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 2,148 3,435
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.76% +0.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £76,125
90th Percentile £91,866 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,633 6,239 12,537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.68% 15.44% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,577 4,572 7,436
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,000 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Linux salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 131 (5.88%) Apache
2 68 (3.05%) IIS
3 58 (2.60%) nginx
4 54 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 53 (2.38%) WebLogic
6 49 (2.20%) ArcGIS
7 48 (2.16%) GeoServer
8 32 (1.44%) OpenStack
8 32 (1.44%) Tomcat
9 28 (1.26%) SharePoint
10 17 (0.76%) Confluence
11 6 (0.27%) WordPress
12 5 (0.22%) CMS
12 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) JBoss
15 2 (0.090%) Drupal
15 2 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (1.62%) Simulink
2 25 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.36%) GNU Octave
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.22%) OrCAD
4 5 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.22%) Trello
5 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.090%) CATIA
6 2 (0.090%) NASTRAN
7 1 (0.045%) 1Password
7 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 48 (2.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (1.21%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
4 9 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.090%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.045%) Endur
6 1 (0.045%) Findur
6 1 (0.045%) Shopify
6 1 (0.045%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 789 (35.43%) Azure
2 690 (30.98%) AWS
3 264 (11.85%) Entra ID
4 117 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (4.71%) GCP
6 100 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 94 (4.22%) GitHub
8 84 (3.77%) SaaS
9 83 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (2.33%) Serverless
11 48 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
12 46 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
13 43 (1.93%) OpenShift
14 41 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
17 32 (1.44%) Power Platform
18 28 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
19 26 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 22 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 318 (14.28%) Firewall
2 239 (10.73%) 5G
3 221 (9.92%) Broadband
4 207 (9.30%) DNS
5 166 (7.45%) TCP/IP
6 155 (6.96%) VPN
7 122 (5.48%) Internet
8 111 (4.98%) DHCP
9 84 (3.77%) WAN
10 79 (3.55%) SAN
11 69 (3.10%) LAN
12 66 (2.96%) SNMP
13 63 (2.83%) IPsec
14 62 (2.78%) BGP
15 60 (2.69%) SSL
16 57 (2.56%) Wireless
17 53 (2.38%) Network Security
18 43 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
19 39 (1.75%) RS-232
20 38 (1.71%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 147 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 139 (6.24%) MongoDB
4 119 (5.34%) MySQL
5 109 (4.89%) Oracle Database
6 100 (4.49%) Relational Database
7 97 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
8 76 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
9 66 (2.96%) RDBMS
10 58 (2.60%) GIS
11 55 (2.47%) NoSQL
12 48 (2.16%) QGIS
13 40 (1.80%) DB2
14 30 (1.35%) Redis
15 26 (1.17%) Power BI
16 18 (0.81%) BigQuery
17 16 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (0.58%) Data Hub
18 13 (0.58%) Tableau
19 12 (0.54%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 189 (8.49%) Git
2 137 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 132 (5.93%) JIRA
4 82 (3.68%) GitLab
5 42 (1.89%) Subversion
6 25 (1.12%) IBM UrbanCode
6 25 (1.12%) Vagrant
7 23 (1.03%) Artifactory
8 17 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 16 (0.72%) CMake
10 15 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.67%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.54%) webpack
12 10 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.45%) Trac
13 8 (0.36%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.36%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.31%) git-flow
14 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.27%) Snyk
General
1 546 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 418 (18.77%) Finance
3 365 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (13.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 110 (4.94%) Aerospace
7 102 (4.58%) Banking
8 96 (4.31%) Telecoms
9 78 (3.50%) Electronics
10 69 (3.10%) Manufacturing
11 59 (2.65%) Retail
12 55 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.93%) Automotive
14 41 (1.84%) Marketing
15 40 (1.80%) Law
16 39 (1.75%) Military
17 30 (1.35%) Financial Institution
18 29 (1.30%) Police
19 27 (1.21%) Local Government
20 21 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 573 (25.73%) Senior
2 397 (17.83%) Software Engineer
3 238 (10.69%) Developer
4 215 (9.65%) Linux Specialist
5 213 (9.56%) Technical Specialist
6 205 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 190 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 179 (8.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 158 (7.09%) Lead
10 152 (6.83%) Embedded Engineer
11 137 (6.15%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 133 (5.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 129 (5.79%) Senior Linux Specialist
14 128 (5.75%) Senior Technical Specialist
14 128 (5.75%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
15 118 (5.30%) Architect
16 115 (5.16%) Linux Engineer
17 101 (4.54%) Consultant
18 88 (3.95%) Support Engineer
19 82 (3.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
2 117 (5.25%) React
3 80 (3.59%) HTML
4 75 (3.37%) REST
5 70 (3.14%) .NET
6 69 (3.10%) YAML
7 68 (3.05%) Web Services
8 66 (2.96%) Django
9 58 (2.60%) CSS
10 52 (2.33%) Middleware
10 52 (2.33%) Spring Boot
11 49 (2.20%) Leaflet
11 49 (2.20%) OpenLayers
11 49 (2.20%) PostGIS
12 47 (2.11%) Node.js
13 42 (1.89%) SOAP
14 40 (1.80%) Yocto
15 37 (1.66%) Kafka
16 35 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
17 34 (1.53%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 211 (9.47%) Social Media
2 175 (7.86%) Data Centre
3 164 (7.36%) Public Cloud
4 86 (3.86%) IoT
5 82 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
6 72 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 53 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 50 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
9 44 (1.98%) Client/Server
9 44 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
10 43 (1.93%) FPGA
11 42 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 38 (1.71%) Device Driver
13 36 (1.62%) PKI
14 34 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.21%) Clustering
16 27 (1.21%) Cyberattack
17 26 (1.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 828 (37.18%) Windows
2 394 (17.69%) Ubuntu
3 234 (10.51%) Unix
4 222 (9.97%) Windows Server
5 187 (8.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 146 (6.56%) Embedded Linux
7 89 (4.00%) CentOS
8 59 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 58 (2.60%) Solaris
10 54 (2.42%) Data ONTAP
11 50 (2.25%) Android
12 45 (2.02%) VMS
13 43 (1.93%) AIX
14 37 (1.66%) Debian
15 32 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
16 25 (1.12%) Apple iOS
16 25 (1.12%) zOS
17 23 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
18 22 (0.99%) Mac OS
19 21 (0.94%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (24.52%) Software Engineering
2 540 (24.25%) DevOps
3 520 (23.35%) Agile
4 373 (16.75%) Cybersecurity
5 364 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
6 321 (14.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 317 (14.23%) CI/CD
8 279 (12.53%) Actionable Insight
9 269 (12.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 225 (10.10%) CRM
11 224 (10.06%) IT Strategy
12 215 (9.65%) Technology Strategy
13 208 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 196 (8.80%) Computer Science
14 196 (8.80%) Mentoring
15 186 (8.35%) Project Management
16 165 (7.41%) Scrum
17 158 (7.09%) Open Source
18 152 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
19 150 (6.74%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 686 (30.80%) Python
2 452 (20.30%) Bash
3 341 (15.31%) C
4 301 (13.52%) SQL
5 246 (11.05%) Java
6 223 (10.01%) C++
7 194 (8.71%) PowerShell
8 190 (8.53%) JavaScript
9 126 (5.66%) C#
10 121 (5.43%) Embedded C
11 88 (3.95%) Shell Script
12 80 (3.59%) PHP
13 76 (3.41%) Rust
14 59 (2.65%) Perl
15 54 (2.42%) TypeScript
16 39 (1.75%) VB
17 38 (1.71%) Ruby
18 37 (1.66%) Go
19 31 (1.39%) Groovy
20 27 (1.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 553 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 392 (17.60%) Degree
3 280 (12.57%) SC Cleared
4 144 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 135 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 87 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 75 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 56 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.35%) CISSP
12 28 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 28 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 26 (1.17%) CCNA
15 23 (1.03%) CISM
16 18 (0.81%) CISA
17 17 (0.76%) MCSE
17 17 (0.76%) PMI Certification
18 16 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (1.89%) QA
2 29 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.26%) SLA
4 21 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (0.76%) NIST
6 14 (0.63%) PMO
7 13 (0.58%) ITGC
7 13 (0.58%) MISRA
8 11 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.31%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.27%) Def Stans
10 6 (0.27%) ISO 9000
11 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.18%) GRC
12 4 (0.18%) NCSC
12 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.13%) GDPR
14 2 (0.090%) NIST 800
System Software
1 459 (20.61%) Active Directory
2 421 (18.90%) Docker
3 219 (9.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 112 (5.03%) Hyper-V
5 62 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (2.29%) Firmware
7 44 (1.98%) vSphere
8 30 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
10 18 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.72%) pfSense
12 15 (0.67%) NFS
12 15 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.49%) KVM
13 11 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (0.40%) Forefront TMG
15 7 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.22%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.18%) Ceph
18 3 (0.13%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 447 (20.07%) Ansible
2 397 (17.83%) Kubernetes
3 326 (14.64%) Terraform
4 256 (11.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 210 (9.43%) Jamf Pro
6 86 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 86 (3.86%) vCenter Server
7 83 (3.73%) Puppet
8 72 (3.23%) Grafana
9 66 (2.96%) Progress Chef
10 45 (2.02%) ZABBIX
11 41 (1.84%) SCCM
12 39 (1.75%) WSUS
13 38 (1.71%) SCOM
14 31 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 31 (1.39%) Nagios
15 23 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
16 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 15 (0.67%) FortiGate
18 13 (0.58%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 552 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 327 (14.68%) VMware
3 249 (11.18%) Oracle
4 210 (9.43%) CyberArk
4 210 (9.43%) Tanium
5 167 (7.50%) Red Hat
6 91 (4.09%) NetApp
7 72 (3.23%) Cisco
8 64 (2.87%) IBM
9 58 (2.60%) Palo Alto
10 54 (2.42%) SolidFire
11 49 (2.20%) ESRI
12 48 (2.16%) Sparx
13 47 (2.11%) Google
14 45 (2.02%) Dell
15 42 (1.89%) Juniper
16 41 (1.84%) SAP
17 37 (1.66%) Veeam
18 33 (1.48%) Citrix
19 32 (1.44%) Xilinx