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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,294 2,443 5,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.48% 7.12% 7.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.15% 45.25% 44.91%
Number of salaries quoted 864 1,802 2,578
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
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% +5.26%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.08% +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 3,070 5,399 11,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.00% 15.73% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,332 4,131 6,147
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £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 10 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 10 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 -37 141 £70,000 -17.65% 37
West London +4 115 £52,501 -12.50% 23
South London -7 34 £71,875 +33.72% 8
East London +13 17 £57,500 - 2
North London 0 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 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.09%) Apache
3 36 (2.78%) Confluence
4 35 (2.70%) nginx
5 30 (2.32%) IIS
6 21 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.39%) WebSphere
8 17 (1.31%) Tomcat
9 15 (1.16%) Apache Spark
10 14 (1.08%) JBoss
11 11 (0.85%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.70%) WordPress
13 7 (0.54%) WildFly
14 6 (0.46%) 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%) FileNet
Applications
1 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (1.24%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.46%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.077%) Endur
5 1 (0.077%) Findur
5 1 (0.077%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.077%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.077%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 435 (33.62%) Azure
2 361 (27.90%) AWS
3 161 (12.44%) Entra ID
4 85 (6.57%) GCP
5 58 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (3.48%) Serverless
7 44 (3.40%) GitHub
8 39 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 37 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.85%) IaaS
14 22 (1.70%) SaaS
15 20 (1.55%) Azure AKS
16 19 (1.47%) PaaS
17 18 (1.39%) Power Platform
18 14 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 208 (16.07%) Firewall
2 147 (11.36%) 5G
2 147 (11.36%) Broadband
3 122 (9.43%) TCP/IP
4 114 (8.81%) DNS
5 100 (7.73%) VPN
6 82 (6.34%) WAN
7 78 (6.03%) LAN
8 61 (4.71%) Internet
9 48 (3.71%) DHCP
10 46 (3.55%) SAN
11 45 (3.48%) Network Security
12 30 (2.32%) SNMP
13 26 (2.01%) HTTP
14 23 (1.78%) BGP
14 23 (1.78%) Wireless
15 22 (1.70%) MPLS
16 19 (1.47%) NAS
16 19 (1.47%) SSL
17 16 (1.24%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 96 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (6.26%) MongoDB
4 66 (5.10%) MySQL
5 55 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.78%) DB2
7 34 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 21 (1.62%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.39%) Redis
12 17 (1.31%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.31%) Power BI
13 14 (1.08%) Tableau
14 13 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (1.00%) Big Data
15 12 (0.93%) Data Hub
15 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.77%) RDBMS
17 9 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 107 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 78 (6.03%) JIRA
3 75 (5.80%) Git
4 56 (4.33%) GitLab
5 32 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.16%) Burp Suite
6 28 (2.16%) Metasploit
7 19 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.54%) Snyk
11 6 (0.46%) GDB
11 6 (0.46%) JUnit
11 6 (0.46%) Maven
12 5 (0.39%) DTrace
12 5 (0.39%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 366 (28.28%) Finance
2 329 (25.43%) Social Skills
3 280 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (13.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 155 (11.98%) Banking
6 49 (3.79%) Front Office
7 44 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 43 (3.32%) Retail
9 41 (3.17%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.94%) Financial Institution
10 38 (2.94%) Law
11 33 (2.55%) Investment Banking
12 21 (1.62%) Marketing
13 14 (1.08%) Back Office
14 13 (1.00%) Billing
15 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.77%) Games
16 10 (0.77%) Police
16 10 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 290 (22.41%) Senior
2 149 (11.51%) Linux Specialist
3 148 (11.44%) Developer
4 144 (11.13%) Technical Specialist
5 130 (10.05%) Architect
6 106 (8.19%) Linux Engineer
7 105 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 101 (7.81%) Lead
9 94 (7.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 92 (7.11%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 90 (6.96%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 90 (6.96%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 89 (6.88%) Software Engineer
13 87 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 84 (6.49%) Analyst
15 68 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
16 62 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
17 55 (4.25%) Applications Support
18 51 (3.94%) Infrastructure Architect
19 49 (3.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.18%) .NET
2 73 (5.64%) React
3 67 (5.18%) REST
4 55 (4.25%) FIX Protocol
5 43 (3.32%) Kafka
6 40 (3.09%) HTML
7 38 (2.94%) CSS
8 33 (2.55%) YAML
9 31 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
9 31 (2.40%) Node.js
9 31 (2.40%) XML
10 29 (2.24%) Web Services
11 27 (2.09%) JSON
11 27 (2.09%) Middleware
12 25 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (1.85%) LDAP
14 23 (1.78%) AngularJS
14 23 (1.78%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.39%) SOAP
16 16 (1.24%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.13%) Social Media
2 82 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 80 (6.18%) Public Cloud
4 63 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (4.25%) PKI
6 51 (3.94%) Cloud Native
7 47 (3.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 47 (3.63%) Management Information System
8 46 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
9 42 (3.25%) Replication
10 37 (2.86%) Hedge funds
11 36 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 36 (2.78%) Legacy Code
12 33 (2.55%) Clustering
13 30 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (2.16%) FPGA
15 26 (2.01%) Client/Server
15 26 (2.01%) Onboarding
16 25 (1.93%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 467 (36.09%) Windows
2 260 (20.09%) Ubuntu
3 206 (15.92%) Unix
4 130 (10.05%) Windows Server
5 101 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 73 (5.64%) CentOS
7 46 (3.55%) VMS
8 40 (3.09%) Solaris
9 32 (2.47%) Android
10 29 (2.24%) Apple iOS
10 29 (2.24%) Kali Linux
11 27 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
12 26 (2.01%) Mac OS
13 25 (1.93%) Debian
14 22 (1.70%) zOS
15 21 (1.62%) Windows 10
16 17 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
17 16 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
18 15 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
19 12 (0.93%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (24.19%) DevOps
2 274 (21.17%) Cybersecurity
3 226 (17.47%) Agile
4 215 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (16.07%) CI/CD
6 207 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 197 (15.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 151 (11.67%) IT Strategy
9 149 (11.51%) Technology Strategy
10 143 (11.05%) CRM
11 135 (10.43%) Computer Science
12 113 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 108 (8.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 100 (7.73%) Containerisation
15 86 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
16 81 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 80 (6.18%) Mentoring
18 79 (6.11%) Fintech
19 74 (5.72%) Configuration Management
20 71 (5.49%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 440 (34.00%) Python
2 339 (26.20%) Bash
3 271 (20.94%) SQL
4 177 (13.68%) PowerShell
5 168 (12.98%) Java
6 125 (9.66%) C
7 114 (8.81%) C#
7 114 (8.81%) C++
8 105 (8.11%) JavaScript
9 80 (6.18%) Perl
10 69 (5.33%) Go
11 49 (3.79%) Rust
12 44 (3.40%) Shell Script
13 38 (2.94%) Ruby
14 31 (2.40%) TypeScript
15 20 (1.55%) PHP
16 13 (1.00%) Groovy
17 11 (0.85%) Korn
18 10 (0.77%) Scala
19 8 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 215 (16.62%) Degree
2 140 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 96 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 58 (4.48%) SC Cleared
6 36 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.32%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.01%) CCNA
9 18 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.24%) CISSP
11 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.16%) CISA
12 15 (1.16%) MCSE
13 14 (1.08%) MCSA
13 14 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 11 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.85%) SLA
2 22 (1.70%) QA
3 21 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.39%) NIST
5 17 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.85%) GDPR
8 10 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.46%) ITGC
9 6 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.077%) COBIT
System Software
1 306 (23.65%) Active Directory
2 190 (14.68%) Docker
3 121 (9.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (3.25%) vSphere
5 40 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 15 (1.16%) KVM
8 13 (1.00%) vCloud
9 8 (0.62%) NFS
10 6 (0.46%) Ceph
10 6 (0.46%) Firmware
10 6 (0.46%) Forefront TMG
10 6 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) HDFS
13 2 (0.15%) Varnish
13 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 240 (18.55%) Kubernetes
2 209 (16.15%) Ansible
3 194 (14.99%) Terraform
4 162 (12.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 144 (11.13%) Jamf Pro
6 79 (6.11%) Puppet
7 58 (4.48%) Progress Chef
8 47 (3.63%) Grafana
9 39 (3.01%) Prometheus
10 34 (2.63%) SCCM
11 19 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (1.39%) Nagios
12 18 (1.39%) vCenter Server
13 16 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 14 (1.08%) HAProxy
14 14 (1.08%) Nessus
15 12 (0.93%) Graphite
16 11 (0.85%) Salt
17 10 (0.77%) WSUS
18 7 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 323 (24.96%) Microsoft
2 172 (13.29%) VMware
3 157 (12.13%) Oracle
4 144 (11.13%) CyberArk
4 144 (11.13%) Tanium
5 138 (10.66%) Red Hat
6 83 (6.41%) Cisco
7 48 (3.71%) Google
8 43 (3.32%) Palo Alto
9 41 (3.17%) IBM
10 38 (2.94%) Splunk
11 33 (2.55%) Atlassian
12 29 (2.24%) F5
13 28 (2.16%) Veeam
14 26 (2.01%) Bloomberg
15 25 (1.93%) ION Trading
15 25 (1.93%) Qualys
16 23 (1.78%) HP
17 22 (1.70%) Juniper
18 21 (1.62%) Reuters