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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5,102 6,274 12,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.94% 6.98% 9.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.76% 43.46% 46.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,456 4,034 5,922
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,504 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £106,250 £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 12,517 14,436 25,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.57% 16.07% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,893 9,945 14,962
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £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 11 May 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 11 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
London -5 1,295 £75,000 -6.25% 400
South East -1 1,188 £55,000 +10.00% 236
South West +2 843 £52,750 -4.09% 167
North of England +20 830 £50,000 - 143
North West +22 522 £54,424 +3.66% 85
Midlands +14 488 £50,000 -9.09% 119
East of England +13 424 £54,000 -6.09% 127
East Midlands +23 281 £50,000 -9.09% 61
Yorkshire +16 254 £47,500 -5.00% 48
West Midlands -12 207 £54,000 -1.82% 58
North East -15 54 £52,500 +31.25% 13
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
1 230 (4.51%) Apache
2 172 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 114 (2.23%) nginx
4 106 (2.08%) IIS
5 91 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 85 (1.67%) Confluence
7 65 (1.27%) Apache Spark
8 57 (1.12%) WebLogic
9 43 (0.84%) WebSphere
10 42 (0.82%) Tomcat
11 41 (0.80%) OpenStack
12 35 (0.69%) ArcGIS
13 28 (0.55%) GeoServer
14 23 (0.45%) WordPress
15 22 (0.43%) Jupyter
16 20 (0.39%) JBoss
17 18 (0.35%) Captiva
17 18 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
17 18 (0.35%) FileNet
18 14 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 88 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.69%) Simulink
4 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.20%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.14%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.078%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.078%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.039%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.039%) CATIA
10 2 (0.039%) NASTRAN
10 2 (0.039%) Trello
11 1 (0.020%) 1Password
11 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 20 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.12%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.098%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.078%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.078%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.059%) Maximo
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.039%) Shopify
11 1 (0.020%) Magento
11 1 (0.020%) Sage X3
11 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.020%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.020%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.020%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,608 (31.52%) Azure
2 1,202 (23.56%) AWS
3 330 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
4 321 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 279 (5.47%) IBM Cloud
6 250 (4.90%) GCP
7 236 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
8 230 (4.51%) Serverless
9 149 (2.92%) GitHub
10 143 (2.80%) OpenShift
11 135 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 133 (2.61%) SaaS
13 132 (2.59%) Azure Functions
14 129 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (2.47%) Azure API Management
16 115 (2.25%) Amazon S3
17 106 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
18 77 (1.51%) IaaS
19 73 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 73 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 699 (13.70%) Firewall
2 417 (8.17%) DNS
3 369 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 256 (5.02%) VPN
5 253 (4.96%) 5G
6 246 (4.82%) DHCP
7 230 (4.51%) Broadband
8 204 (4.00%) SAN
9 197 (3.86%) WAN
10 176 (3.45%) LAN
11 173 (3.39%) Internet
12 133 (2.61%) Wireless
13 115 (2.25%) Network Security
14 106 (2.08%) HTTP
15 90 (1.76%) NAS
15 90 (1.76%) SNMP
16 88 (1.72%) VLAN
17 83 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
18 76 (1.49%) BGP
19 68 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 421 (8.25%) MongoDB
3 357 (7.00%) NoSQL
4 353 (6.92%) SQL Server
5 338 (6.62%) MySQL
6 278 (5.45%) DB2
7 247 (4.84%) Relational Database
8 104 (2.04%) Oracle Database
9 100 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 90 (1.76%) Big Data
11 88 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 53 (1.04%) Redis
13 52 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 52 (1.02%) Power BI
14 48 (0.94%) GIS
15 43 (0.84%) RDBMS
16 41 (0.80%) MariaDB
17 28 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
17 28 (0.55%) QGIS
18 26 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 394 (7.72%) Git
2 332 (6.51%) JIRA
3 272 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 137 (2.69%) GitLab
5 97 (1.90%) Subversion
6 60 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 59 (1.16%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 33 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.55%) Ant
10 28 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 24 (0.47%) TeamCity
12 22 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 22 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
13 20 (0.39%) CMake
14 19 (0.37%) Robot Framework
15 18 (0.35%) GDB
16 16 (0.31%) Trac
16 16 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 1,090 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 682 (13.37%) Finance
3 615 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 467 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 401 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.80%) Aerospace
7 208 (4.08%) Banking
8 200 (3.92%) Electronics
9 163 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 150 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 107 (2.10%) Retail
12 103 (2.02%) Marketing
13 79 (1.55%) Law
14 77 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
15 76 (1.49%) Automotive
16 61 (1.20%) Military
17 57 (1.12%) Front Office
18 45 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
19 42 (0.82%) Financial Institution
20 37 (0.73%) Games
Job Titles
1 985 (19.31%) Senior
2 767 (15.03%) Software Engineer
3 728 (14.27%) Developer
4 490 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 326 (6.39%) Lead
6 317 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 317 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
7 300 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
8 268 (5.25%) Architect
9 255 (5.00%) Support Engineer
10 242 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 236 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 226 (4.43%) Administrator
13 219 (4.29%) Linux Specialist
14 214 (4.19%) Technical Specialist
15 207 (4.06%) Analyst
16 188 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
17 183 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
18 175 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
19 157 (3.08%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (9.68%) HTML
2 491 (9.62%) React
3 442 (8.66%) REST
4 438 (8.58%) CSS
5 426 (8.35%) .NET
6 342 (6.70%) Web Services
7 337 (6.61%) AngularJS
8 303 (5.94%) jQuery
9 292 (5.72%) Vue
10 286 (5.61%) Node.js
11 272 (5.33%) ASP.NET
12 246 (4.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (4.66%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (4.66%) Backbone.js
13 238 (4.66%) Ember.js
14 145 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
15 136 (2.67%) XML
16 109 (2.14%) Middleware
17 91 (1.78%) YAML
18 86 (1.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 362 (7.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 356 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 305 (5.98%) Data Centre
4 282 (5.53%) Blockchain
5 256 (5.02%) Data Structures
6 247 (4.84%) Public Cloud
7 211 (4.14%) Social Media
8 202 (3.96%) IoT
9 166 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
10 137 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
11 130 (2.55%) Management Information System
12 128 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
13 120 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
14 117 (2.29%) Cloud Native
15 113 (2.21%) e-Learning
16 109 (2.14%) PKI
17 85 (1.67%) Replication
18 72 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
18 72 (1.41%) FPGA
19 68 (1.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2,167 (42.47%) Windows
2 545 (10.68%) Ubuntu
3 520 (10.19%) Windows Server
4 496 (9.72%) Unix
5 384 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 339 (6.64%) Android
7 312 (6.12%) CentOS
8 299 (5.86%) Apple iOS
9 243 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
10 168 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 160 (3.14%) Debian
12 121 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 113 (2.21%) Windows 10
13 113 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 92 (1.80%) Solaris
15 91 (1.78%) Mac OS
16 66 (1.29%) VMS
17 51 (1.00%) AIX
18 46 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
19 42 (0.82%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,119 (21.93%) DevOps
2 1,117 (21.89%) Software Engineering
3 1,063 (20.83%) Agile
4 885 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
5 662 (12.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 606 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
7 605 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 567 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 503 (9.86%) Mentoring
10 490 (9.60%) Computer Science
11 417 (8.17%) OO
12 403 (7.90%) Full Stack Development
13 378 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 370 (7.25%) Actionable Insight
15 348 (6.82%) User Experience
16 346 (6.78%) Web Development
17 333 (6.53%) OOP
18 332 (6.51%) Containerisation
19 309 (6.06%) MVC
20 298 (5.84%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1,580 (30.97%) Python
2 1,011 (19.82%) SQL
3 856 (16.78%) Bash
4 765 (14.99%) Java
5 738 (14.46%) C
6 727 (14.25%) JavaScript
7 619 (12.13%) C++
8 575 (11.27%) C#
8 575 (11.27%) PowerShell
9 184 (3.61%) PHP
10 159 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 158 (3.10%) Perl
12 139 (2.72%) Embedded C
13 137 (2.69%) Rust
14 123 (2.41%) TypeScript
15 120 (2.35%) Go
16 74 (1.45%) VB
17 72 (1.41%) Ruby
18 49 (0.96%) Kotlin
19 40 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,077 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 875 (17.15%) Degree
3 537 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 449 (8.80%) DV Cleared
5 299 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 136 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 122 (2.39%) CCNA
9 117 (2.29%) Azure Certification
10 115 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 103 (2.02%) AWS Certification
11 103 (2.02%) MCSE
12 71 (1.39%) MCSA
13 61 (1.20%) PhD
14 53 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 49 (0.96%) CCNP
16 41 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 33 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
18 30 (0.59%) HND
18 30 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (1.98%) SLA
2 86 (1.69%) QA
3 65 (1.27%) GDPR
4 64 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (0.73%) NIST
6 36 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 28 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (0.49%) PMO
9 15 (0.29%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.27%) NCSC
11 13 (0.25%) MISRA
12 9 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.16%) GRC
13 8 (0.16%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.16%) JTAG
14 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 790 (15.48%) Active Directory
2 664 (13.01%) Docker
3 541 (10.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 239 (4.68%) Hyper-V
5 139 (2.72%) Firmware
6 132 (2.59%) vSphere
7 131 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
8 100 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 38 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 29 (0.57%) KVM
12 24 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
13 23 (0.45%) NFS
13 23 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
14 18 (0.35%) pfSense
14 18 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
15 17 (0.33%) VMware NSX
16 16 (0.31%) VMware Server
17 13 (0.25%) vCloud
18 10 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 756 (14.82%) Kubernetes
2 740 (14.50%) Ansible
3 556 (10.90%) Terraform
4 299 (5.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 271 (5.31%) Puppet
6 215 (4.21%) Jamf Pro
7 136 (2.67%) vCenter Server
8 120 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 116 (2.27%) Prometheus
10 115 (2.25%) Grafana
11 95 (1.86%) SCCM
12 71 (1.39%) SCOM
13 70 (1.37%) ZABBIX
14 67 (1.31%) Nagios
15 65 (1.27%) WSUS
16 39 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 32 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
18 31 (0.61%) HAProxy
19 28 (0.55%) Rancher
20 25 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,035 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 781 (15.31%) VMware
3 722 (14.15%) Red Hat
4 402 (7.88%) Oracle
5 387 (7.59%) IBM
6 281 (5.51%) Cisco
7 212 (4.16%) Tanium
8 211 (4.14%) CyberArk
9 142 (2.78%) Veeam
10 131 (2.57%) Google
11 96 (1.88%) NetApp
12 93 (1.82%) Palo Alto
13 86 (1.69%) Citrix
13 86 (1.69%) SAP
14 83 (1.63%) Splunk
15 79 (1.55%) Juniper
16 65 (1.27%) Atlassian
16 65 (1.27%) EMC
17 64 (1.25%) SolarWinds
18 62 (1.22%) Dell