Linux Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 34 33 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4,308 4,231 7,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.07% 7.07% 10.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.80% 43.10% 49.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,815 2,402 3,580
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,560 9,816 14,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.87% 16.39% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,172 6,217 9,312
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK excluding London 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
South East -1 1,188 £55,000 +10.00% 238
South West +2 843 £52,750 -4.09% 169
North of England +20 830 £50,000 - 143
North West +22 522 £54,424 +3.66% 85
Midlands +14 488 £50,000 -9.09% 118
East of England +13 424 £54,000 -6.09% 128
Scotland -39 360 £52,500 -4.55% 51
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% 57
Wales +24 133 £48,750 -2.50% 12
North East -15 54 £52,500 +31.25% 13
Northern Ireland -3 45 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 219 (5.08%) Apache
2 133 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.14%) WebLogic
4 83 (1.93%) nginx
5 82 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 80 (1.86%) IIS
7 53 (1.23%) Confluence
8 52 (1.21%) Apache Spark
9 51 (1.18%) OpenStack
10 47 (1.09%) ArcGIS
11 44 (1.02%) Oracle Service Bus
12 40 (0.93%) GeoServer
13 37 (0.86%) WebSphere
14 34 (0.79%) Tomcat
15 24 (0.56%) Jupyter
16 22 (0.51%) Captiva
16 22 (0.51%) FileNet
17 14 (0.32%) WordPress
18 13 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
19 11 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 121 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 35 (0.81%) Simulink
5 11 (0.26%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.12%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.093%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.046%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.046%) CATIA
11 2 (0.046%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.023%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 44 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.093%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.070%) Maximo
8 2 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.046%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.046%) Shopify
8 2 (0.046%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.023%) Magento
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.023%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.023%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,293 (30.01%) Azure
2 921 (21.38%) AWS
3 307 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
4 269 (6.24%) IBM Cloud
5 214 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (4.71%) GCP
7 187 (4.34%) Serverless
8 174 (4.04%) Entra ID
9 143 (3.32%) OpenShift
10 142 (3.30%) SaaS
11 125 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 118 (2.74%) Azure Functions
13 116 (2.69%) Azure API Management
14 115 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
15 112 (2.60%) GitHub
16 101 (2.34%) Amazon S3
17 88 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
18 70 (1.62%) IaaS
19 63 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
20 59 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 554 (12.86%) Firewall
2 339 (7.87%) DNS
3 286 (6.64%) TCP/IP
4 219 (5.08%) DHCP
5 196 (4.55%) VPN
6 165 (3.83%) SAN
7 141 (3.27%) Internet
8 135 (3.13%) WAN
9 132 (3.06%) Wireless
10 106 (2.46%) 5G
11 105 (2.44%) LAN
12 97 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (2.16%) Network Security
14 86 (2.00%) Broadband
15 81 (1.88%) SNMP
16 80 (1.86%) HTTP
17 74 (1.72%) VLAN
18 70 (1.62%) NAS
19 69 (1.60%) SSL
20 67 (1.56%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 367 (8.52%) MongoDB
3 305 (7.08%) NoSQL
4 282 (6.55%) MySQL
5 255 (5.92%) Relational Database
6 253 (5.87%) DB2
7 248 (5.76%) SQL Server
8 133 (3.09%) Oracle Database
9 88 (2.04%) Big Data
10 86 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
11 77 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 60 (1.39%) RDBMS
13 58 (1.35%) GIS
14 50 (1.16%) Hadoop
15 45 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
16 44 (1.02%) Oracle Database 10g
16 44 (1.02%) VLDB
17 40 (0.93%) QGIS
18 36 (0.84%) Power BI
19 35 (0.81%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 330 (7.66%) Git
2 278 (6.45%) JIRA
3 190 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 97 (2.25%) Subversion
5 86 (2.00%) GitLab
6 63 (1.46%) Visual Studio
7 38 (0.88%) Eclipse
8 33 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
10 27 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 25 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
12 24 (0.56%) Ant
13 20 (0.46%) CMake
14 19 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 19 (0.44%) Robot Framework
14 19 (0.44%) Vagrant
15 16 (0.37%) Trac
16 15 (0.35%) Maven
17 14 (0.32%) Gradle
18 12 (0.28%) GDB
General
1 872 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 490 (11.37%) Finance
3 434 (10.07%) Public Sector
4 378 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 373 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
6 248 (5.76%) Aerospace
7 204 (4.74%) Electronics
8 171 (3.97%) Manufacturing
9 141 (3.27%) Law
10 139 (3.23%) Marketing
11 134 (3.11%) Telecoms
12 80 (1.86%) Banking
13 76 (1.76%) Automotive
14 75 (1.74%) Military
14 75 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
15 70 (1.62%) Retail
16 54 (1.25%) Legal
17 35 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.60%) Games
19 22 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 895 (20.78%) Software Engineer
2 809 (18.78%) Senior
3 586 (13.60%) Developer
4 424 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 324 (7.52%) Embedded Engineer
6 285 (6.62%) Lead
7 270 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 259 (6.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 238 (5.52%) Support Engineer
10 230 (5.34%) Linux Engineer
11 227 (5.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 202 (4.69%) Administrator
13 175 (4.06%) Architect
14 170 (3.95%) Analyst
15 163 (3.78%) Full Stack Developer
16 160 (3.71%) IT Support
17 154 (3.57%) IT Engineer
18 146 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
19 138 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
20 137 (3.18%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (10.70%) HTML
2 433 (10.05%) React
3 406 (9.42%) CSS
4 379 (8.80%) REST
5 354 (8.22%) .NET
6 323 (7.50%) Web Services
7 317 (7.36%) AngularJS
8 290 (6.73%) jQuery
9 283 (6.57%) Vue
10 262 (6.08%) Node.js
11 249 (5.78%) ASP.NET
12 236 (5.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 228 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (5.29%) Backbone.js
13 228 (5.29%) Ember.js
14 157 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
15 108 (2.51%) XML
16 84 (1.95%) Laravel
17 80 (1.86%) Middleware
17 80 (1.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 380 (8.82%) Algorithms
2 328 (7.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 284 (6.59%) Data Centre
4 270 (6.27%) Blockchain
5 241 (5.59%) Data Structures
6 208 (4.83%) Public Cloud
7 193 (4.48%) IoT
8 142 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
9 120 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
10 113 (2.62%) e-Learning
11 97 (2.25%) Cloud Native
12 91 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
13 87 (2.02%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
15 74 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
16 67 (1.56%) Social Media
17 64 (1.49%) Device Driver
18 57 (1.32%) Replication
19 53 (1.23%) PKI
20 47 (1.09%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1,871 (43.43%) Windows
2 453 (10.52%) Windows Server
3 384 (8.91%) Unix
4 309 (7.17%) Android
4 309 (7.17%) Ubuntu
5 308 (7.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 270 (6.27%) Apple iOS
7 264 (6.13%) Embedded Linux
8 254 (5.90%) CentOS
9 158 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 137 (3.18%) Debian
11 102 (2.37%) Windows 10
12 99 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 97 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 78 (1.81%) Solaris
15 75 (1.74%) Mac OS
16 50 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
17 46 (1.07%) Alpine Linux
18 43 (1.00%) AIX
19 38 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,143 (26.53%) Software Engineering
2 1,037 (24.07%) Agile
3 910 (21.12%) DevOps
4 747 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
5 563 (13.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 520 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 471 (10.93%) Mentoring
8 470 (10.91%) CI/CD
9 415 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
10 398 (9.24%) Computer Science
11 391 (9.08%) OO
12 365 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
13 346 (8.03%) Web Development
14 341 (7.92%) Full Stack Development
15 337 (7.82%) User Experience
16 317 (7.36%) OOP
17 295 (6.85%) MVC
18 286 (6.64%) SDLC
19 284 (6.59%) Collaborative Working
20 280 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,334 (30.97%) Python
2 917 (21.29%) SQL
3 743 (17.25%) Java
4 696 (16.16%) C
5 645 (14.97%) JavaScript
6 561 (13.02%) Bash
7 547 (12.70%) C++
8 482 (11.19%) C#
9 410 (9.52%) PowerShell
10 171 (3.97%) Embedded C
11 167 (3.88%) PHP
12 137 (3.18%) Shell Script
13 108 (2.51%) PL/SQL
14 90 (2.09%) Perl
15 89 (2.07%) TypeScript
16 88 (2.04%) Rust
17 70 (1.62%) VB
18 52 (1.21%) Go
19 50 (1.16%) Kotlin
20 38 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,012 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 777 (18.04%) Degree
3 554 (12.86%) SC Cleared
4 380 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 229 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 128 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 123 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 121 (2.81%) CCNA
10 94 (2.18%) MCSE
11 92 (2.14%) AWS Certification
12 88 (2.04%) Master's Degree
13 63 (1.46%) MCSA
13 63 (1.46%) PhD
14 60 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 55 (1.28%) CCNP
16 37 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
17 35 (0.81%) HND
18 34 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 28 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (2.58%) SLA
2 83 (1.93%) QA
3 60 (1.39%) GDPR
4 44 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (0.70%) PMO
6 19 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 18 (0.42%) NIST
8 17 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.32%) MISRA
11 12 (0.28%) Data Quality
12 11 (0.26%) ITGC
13 10 (0.23%) JTAG
14 8 (0.19%) IEC 62304
15 7 (0.16%) ISO 9000
15 7 (0.16%) NCSC
16 6 (0.14%) Def Stans
17 4 (0.093%) GRC
17 4 (0.093%) IEC 61131
17 4 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 535 (12.42%) Docker
2 510 (11.84%) Active Directory
3 474 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 249 (5.78%) Hyper-V
5 151 (3.51%) Firmware
6 92 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
7 91 (2.11%) vSphere
8 87 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
9 63 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
10 52 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
11 35 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 29 (0.67%) VMware NSX
13 20 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
14 18 (0.42%) KVM
14 18 (0.42%) pfSense
15 15 (0.35%) NFS
15 15 (0.35%) VMware Server
16 12 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
17 8 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 8 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 664 (15.41%) Kubernetes
2 609 (14.14%) Ansible
3 405 (9.40%) Terraform
4 201 (4.67%) Puppet
5 148 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 138 (3.20%) vCenter Server
7 102 (2.37%) Prometheus
8 81 (1.88%) Grafana
8 81 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 72 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
10 69 (1.60%) SCCM
11 66 (1.53%) ZABBIX
12 64 (1.49%) SCOM
13 55 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
13 55 (1.28%) WSUS
14 51 (1.18%) Data Guard
15 47 (1.09%) Nagios
16 35 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 34 (0.79%) FortiGate
18 32 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 759 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 693 (16.09%) VMware
3 605 (14.04%) Red Hat
4 422 (9.80%) Oracle
5 360 (8.36%) IBM
6 223 (5.18%) Cisco
7 123 (2.86%) Veeam
8 111 (2.58%) NetApp
9 100 (2.32%) Google
10 90 (2.09%) SAP
11 77 (1.79%) Dell
12 71 (1.65%) CyberArk
13 70 (1.62%) Citrix
13 70 (1.62%) Palo Alto
14 68 (1.58%) Tanium
15 62 (1.44%) EMC
16 59 (1.37%) Remedy
17 57 (1.32%) Juniper
17 57 (1.32%) SolarWinds
18 51 (1.18%) ServiceNow