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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 31 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 2,249 3,049 6,663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.47% 7.93% 8.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.36% 51.33% 50.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 2,078 3,465
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £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 4,651 5,940 13,255
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.39% 15.44% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,547 4,381 7,456
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £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 1 June 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 (5.82%) Apache
2 68 (3.02%) IIS
3 58 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 57 (2.53%) nginx
5 51 (2.27%) WebLogic
6 49 (2.18%) ArcGIS
7 48 (2.13%) GeoServer
8 33 (1.47%) OpenStack
8 33 (1.47%) Tomcat
9 29 (1.29%) SharePoint
10 17 (0.76%) Confluence
11 6 (0.27%) CMS
11 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.27%) WordPress
12 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
13 3 (0.13%) JBoss
14 2 (0.089%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.089%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 40 (1.78%) Simulink
2 25 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.36%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.22%) OrCAD
5 5 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (0.22%) Trello
6 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.089%) CATIA
7 2 (0.089%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.044%) 1Password
8 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 48 (2.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (1.20%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
4 11 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.089%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.089%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.044%) Endur
7 1 (0.044%) Findur
7 1 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.044%) Shopify
7 1 (0.044%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 790 (35.13%) Azure
2 695 (30.90%) AWS
3 270 (12.01%) Entra ID
4 125 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (4.45%) Amazon S3
6 95 (4.22%) GCP
7 90 (4.00%) GitHub
8 83 (3.69%) SaaS
9 82 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 48 (2.13%) Serverless
11 43 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
13 38 (1.69%) OpenShift
14 32 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (1.38%) Power Platform
16 29 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
18 27 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 331 (14.72%) Firewall
2 238 (10.58%) 5G
3 222 (9.87%) Broadband
4 212 (9.43%) DNS
5 165 (7.34%) TCP/IP
6 159 (7.07%) VPN
7 125 (5.56%) Internet
8 116 (5.16%) DHCP
9 88 (3.91%) WAN
10 83 (3.69%) SAN
11 74 (3.29%) LAN
12 67 (2.98%) SNMP
13 65 (2.89%) IPsec
14 61 (2.71%) BGP
15 60 (2.67%) Network Security
15 60 (2.67%) SSL
16 58 (2.58%) Wireless
17 43 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
18 40 (1.78%) RS-232
19 39 (1.73%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 152 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
3 142 (6.31%) MongoDB
4 120 (5.34%) MySQL
5 107 (4.76%) Oracle Database
6 102 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
7 99 (4.40%) Relational Database
8 75 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
9 64 (2.85%) RDBMS
10 62 (2.76%) NoSQL
11 59 (2.62%) GIS
12 48 (2.13%) QGIS
13 45 (2.00%) DB2
14 32 (1.42%) Redis
15 25 (1.11%) Power BI
16 18 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (0.80%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.67%) Tableau
18 13 (0.58%) Data Hub
19 12 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 187 (8.31%) Git
2 137 (6.09%) Jenkins
2 137 (6.09%) JIRA
3 79 (3.51%) GitLab
4 40 (1.78%) Subversion
5 27 (1.20%) Vagrant
6 23 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 18 (0.80%) IBM UrbanCode
8 17 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 15 (0.67%) CMake
9 15 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.53%) webpack
12 10 (0.44%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.44%) Trac
13 8 (0.36%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.31%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.27%) git-flow
15 6 (0.27%) Snyk
General
1 550 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 406 (18.05%) Finance
3 365 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (13.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 113 (5.02%) Aerospace
7 94 (4.18%) Telecoms
8 90 (4.00%) Banking
9 76 (3.38%) Electronics
10 70 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 60 (2.67%) Retail
12 50 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (2.00%) Automotive
14 40 (1.78%) Law
15 38 (1.69%) Marketing
15 38 (1.69%) Military
16 29 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.29%) Police
17 27 (1.20%) Local Government
18 20 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 565 (25.12%) Senior
2 399 (17.74%) Software Engineer
3 241 (10.72%) Developer
4 213 (9.47%) Linux Specialist
4 213 (9.47%) Technical Specialist
5 196 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 194 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 174 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 156 (6.94%) Lead
9 151 (6.71%) Embedded Engineer
10 136 (6.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 134 (5.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 128 (5.69%) Senior Linux Specialist
12 128 (5.69%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 128 (5.69%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 123 (5.47%) Architect
14 121 (5.38%) Linux Engineer
15 105 (4.67%) Consultant
16 86 (3.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 85 (3.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
2 116 (5.16%) React
3 82 (3.65%) HTML
4 78 (3.47%) REST
5 72 (3.20%) .NET
6 68 (3.02%) Web Services
6 68 (3.02%) YAML
7 67 (2.98%) Django
8 61 (2.71%) CSS
9 52 (2.31%) Middleware
10 49 (2.18%) Leaflet
10 49 (2.18%) OpenLayers
10 49 (2.18%) PostGIS
10 49 (2.18%) Spring Boot
11 46 (2.05%) Node.js
12 42 (1.87%) SOAP
13 41 (1.82%) Yocto
14 35 (1.56%) Kafka
14 35 (1.56%) Laravel
15 33 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 210 (9.34%) Social Media
2 177 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 160 (7.11%) Public Cloud
4 86 (3.82%) IoT
5 84 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
6 76 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 53 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
9 45 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
9 45 (2.00%) FPGA
10 44 (1.96%) Client/Server
11 39 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 37 (1.65%) Device Driver
13 36 (1.60%) PKI
14 35 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.24%) Clustering
17 27 (1.20%) Cyberattack
17 27 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 831 (36.95%) Windows
2 405 (18.01%) Ubuntu
3 237 (10.54%) Unix
4 227 (10.09%) Windows Server
5 188 (8.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 152 (6.76%) Embedded Linux
7 93 (4.14%) CentOS
8 64 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 59 (2.62%) Solaris
10 54 (2.40%) Data ONTAP
11 50 (2.22%) Android
12 47 (2.09%) VMS
13 46 (2.05%) AIX
14 40 (1.78%) Debian
15 36 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
16 25 (1.11%) zOS
17 23 (1.02%) Apple iOS
18 22 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
19 21 (0.93%) Mac OS X
19 21 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (24.50%) Software Engineering
2 536 (23.83%) DevOps
3 518 (23.03%) Agile
4 366 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
5 363 (16.14%) Cybersecurity
6 325 (14.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 318 (14.14%) CI/CD
8 283 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 278 (12.36%) Actionable Insight
10 226 (10.05%) CRM
11 224 (9.96%) IT Strategy
12 215 (9.56%) Technology Strategy
13 210 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 202 (8.98%) Computer Science
15 189 (8.40%) Mentoring
16 185 (8.23%) Project Management
17 173 (7.69%) Scrum
18 164 (7.29%) Open Source
19 156 (6.94%) Collaborative Working
20 151 (6.71%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 681 (30.28%) Python
2 440 (19.56%) Bash
3 343 (15.25%) C
4 294 (13.07%) SQL
5 250 (11.12%) Java
6 231 (10.27%) C++
7 201 (8.94%) PowerShell
8 191 (8.49%) JavaScript
9 132 (5.87%) C#
10 124 (5.51%) Embedded C
11 81 (3.60%) Shell Script
12 77 (3.42%) PHP
13 76 (3.38%) Rust
14 53 (2.36%) TypeScript
15 52 (2.31%) Perl
16 42 (1.87%) VB
17 38 (1.69%) Ruby
18 37 (1.65%) Go
19 30 (1.33%) VBScript
20 26 (1.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 573 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 402 (17.87%) Degree
3 288 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 158 (7.03%) DV Cleared
5 144 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 89 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 82 (3.65%) Azure Certification
8 56 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 33 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 30 (1.33%) CISSP
13 28 (1.24%) CCNA
14 27 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (1.02%) CISM
17 18 (0.80%) CISA
18 17 (0.76%) PMI Certification
19 16 (0.71%) MCSE
19 16 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (1.91%) QA
2 29 (1.29%) Accessibility
2 29 (1.29%) SLA
3 25 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.76%) NIST
5 13 (0.58%) ITGC
5 13 (0.58%) MISRA
5 13 (0.58%) PMO
6 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.27%) Def Stans
8 6 (0.27%) ISO 9000
8 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.22%) GDPR
9 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.22%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.13%) GRC
10 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 467 (20.76%) Active Directory
2 422 (18.76%) Docker
3 220 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 112 (4.98%) Hyper-V
5 67 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 53 (2.36%) Firmware
7 47 (2.09%) vSphere
8 29 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 22 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
12 17 (0.76%) pfSense
13 16 (0.71%) NFS
14 12 (0.53%) KVM
15 11 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
16 9 (0.40%) Forefront TMG
17 5 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
17 5 (0.22%) VMware Server
18 4 (0.18%) Ceph
19 3 (0.13%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 446 (19.83%) Ansible
2 405 (18.01%) Kubernetes
3 329 (14.63%) Terraform
4 259 (11.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 210 (9.34%) Jamf Pro
6 89 (3.96%) Prometheus
7 85 (3.78%) vCenter Server
8 80 (3.56%) Puppet
9 71 (3.16%) Grafana
10 57 (2.53%) Progress Chef
11 45 (2.00%) SCCM
11 45 (2.00%) ZABBIX
12 41 (1.82%) SCOM
12 41 (1.82%) WSUS
13 34 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 33 (1.47%) Nagios
15 24 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
16 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 15 (0.67%) FortiGate
18 13 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 564 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 329 (14.63%) VMware
3 250 (11.12%) Oracle
4 210 (9.34%) CyberArk
4 210 (9.34%) Tanium
5 168 (7.47%) Red Hat
6 92 (4.09%) NetApp
7 73 (3.25%) Cisco
8 60 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 59 (2.62%) IBM
10 54 (2.40%) SolidFire
11 49 (2.18%) ESRI
12 48 (2.13%) Sparx
13 43 (1.91%) Juniper
14 39 (1.73%) Dell
14 39 (1.73%) Google
14 39 (1.73%) SAP
15 37 (1.65%) Veeam
16 36 (1.60%) Xilinx
17 34 (1.51%) Citrix