Debian Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Debian skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Debian over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 729 791 1035
Rank change year-on-year +62 +244 -257
Permanent jobs citing Debian 173 181 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.23% 1.12% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 93 154 136
10th Percentile £31,300 £45,000 £31,813
25th Percentile £42,250 £52,500 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +34.72% -3.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £92,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +64.29% -12.50%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,033 16,182 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.97% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,810 10,929 16,503
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Debian.

Salary trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +86 161 £52,500 -19.23% 24
UK excluding London +73 138 £50,000 -13.04% 18
South East +33 43 £75,000 +57.89% 4
South West +10 36 £44,000 -12.00% 6
Work from Home -4 36 £60,000 -1.64% 11
London +22 25 £65,000 -3.70% 7
Midlands - 21 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands - 19 £50,000 - 4
North of England +68 17 £22,000 -60.00% 1
East of England -9 17 £57,500 -6.12% 2
North West +28 16 £22,000 -62.80% 1
Scotland -66 3 £48,500 +29.33%
West Midlands - 2 £32,000 - 1
Wales - 1 £50,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £40,681 -

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (16.18%) Apache
2 26 (15.03%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.47%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.73%) IIS
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.89%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 97 (56.07%) Azure
2 58 (33.53%) AWS
3 47 (27.17%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (23.12%) IBM Cloud
5 32 (18.50%) GCP
6 29 (16.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (15.03%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (15.03%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (15.03%) OpenShift
7 26 (15.03%) Serverless
8 13 (7.51%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.89%) ClickUp
12 3 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.73%) AWS IoT
12 3 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon ELB
13 2 (1.16%) AWS OpsWorks
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.03%) AMQP
2 19 (10.98%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.36%) Internet
4 9 (5.20%) VLAN
5 7 (4.05%) VPN
6 6 (3.47%) DNS
6 6 (3.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (3.47%) VSAN
7 5 (2.89%) Firewall
8 4 (2.31%) RTP
9 3 (1.73%) BGP
9 3 (1.73%) DHCP
9 3 (1.73%) Wireless
10 2 (1.16%) GPON
10 2 (1.16%) OSPF
10 2 (1.16%) PPP
11 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.58%) HSRP
11 1 (0.58%) IPv6
11 1 (0.58%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.18%) Big Data
1 28 (16.18%) Hadoop
2 26 (15.03%) Cloudera CDH
3 15 (8.67%) MySQL
3 15 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.51%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.78%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.05%) Ingres
8 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Git
2 6 (3.47%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 40 (23.12%) Public Sector
2 28 (16.18%) Aerospace
3 18 (10.40%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.62%) Finance
4 8 (4.62%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.58%) Back Office
6 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.58%) Electronics
6 1 (0.58%) Front Office
6 1 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 51 (29.48%) Software Engineer
2 38 (21.97%) Linux Engineer
3 26 (15.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 22 (12.72%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (9.25%) Administrator
6 15 (8.67%) Systems Administrator
7 13 (7.51%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) Linux Administrator
9 11 (6.36%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.78%) Ubuntu Engineer
11 9 (5.20%) Lead
11 9 (5.20%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.47%) Network Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.47%) QA Engineer
14 5 (2.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 5 (2.89%) 3rd Line Support
14 5 (2.89%) IT Engineer
14 5 (2.89%) Junior QA Engineer
14 5 (2.89%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.03%) AngularJS
1 26 (15.03%) gRPC
1 26 (15.03%) Material-UI
1 26 (15.03%) Node.js
1 26 (15.03%) OpenAPI
1 26 (15.03%) RabbitMQ
1 26 (15.03%) React
1 26 (15.03%) REST
1 26 (15.03%) Spring
1 26 (15.03%) Spring Boot
1 26 (15.03%) Swagger
2 10 (5.78%) GTK
3 7 (4.05%) EDI
4 5 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.31%) XMPP
6 2 (1.16%) LDAP
6 2 (1.16%) Qt
7 1 (0.58%) Kafka
7 1 (0.58%) SAML
7 1 (0.58%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 40 (23.12%) Blockchain
1 40 (23.12%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (23.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (15.03%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.25%) PKI
4 10 (5.78%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.73%) IoT
7 3 (1.73%) Replication
8 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Derivative
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 173 (100.00%) Linux
2 92 (53.18%) Ubuntu
3 86 (49.71%) CentOS
4 40 (23.12%) Alpine Linux
5 39 (22.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (16.76%) Windows
7 11 (6.36%) SUSE
8 9 (5.20%) Unix
9 8 (4.62%) Solaris
10 5 (2.89%) Windows Server
11 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.16%) Fedora
13 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.58%) openSUSE
13 1 (0.58%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.99%) DevOps
2 52 (30.06%) Configuration Management
3 51 (29.48%) Software Engineering
4 48 (27.75%) CI/CD
5 44 (25.43%) Open Source
6 42 (24.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 40 (23.12%) Co-Creation
7 40 (23.12%) Containerisation
7 40 (23.12%) Data Science
7 40 (23.12%) Functional Testing
7 40 (23.12%) Separation of Concerns
7 40 (23.12%) Task Automation
7 40 (23.12%) Technology Transformation
8 33 (19.08%) Agile
9 28 (16.18%) Collaborative Working
10 27 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (15.03%) API Development
11 26 (15.03%) Microservices
11 26 (15.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 26 (15.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (43.35%) Python
2 50 (28.90%) Bash
3 29 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 28 (16.18%) Java
5 22 (12.72%) C
6 21 (12.14%) SQL
7 14 (8.09%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.36%) C++
9 4 (2.31%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.73%) AWK
10 3 (1.73%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.73%) sed
11 2 (1.16%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Go
11 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
12 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (28.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (27.17%) MCSE
3 43 (24.86%) MCSA
4 40 (23.12%) Azure Certification
5 33 (19.08%) Security Cleared
6 29 (16.76%) Degree
7 28 (16.18%) DV Cleared
8 27 (15.61%) SC Cleared
9 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.31%) CCNA
11 4 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.73%) RHCT
13 2 (1.16%) CCNP
13 2 (1.16%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.58%) HNC
14 1 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) PMO
2 7 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.47%) QA
4 4 (2.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) MISRA
System Software
1 46 (26.59%) Docker
2 19 (10.98%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.78%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (5.78%) vSphere
4 5 (2.89%) KVM
5 3 (1.73%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.16%) Firmware
7 1 (0.58%) LXC
7 1 (0.58%) Samba
7 1 (0.58%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 74 (42.77%) Kubernetes
2 70 (40.46%) Terraform
3 35 (20.23%) Ansible
4 31 (17.92%) Puppet
5 7 (4.05%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.47%) ZABBIX
7 4 (2.31%) Podman
7 4 (2.31%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.16%) Icinga
8 2 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.16%) Nagios
9 1 (0.58%) Grafana
9 1 (0.58%) Juju
9 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 88 (50.87%) Red Hat
2 40 (23.12%) IBM
3 37 (21.39%) VMware
4 26 (15.03%) Google
4 26 (15.03%) SaltStack
5 18 (10.40%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.31%) Citrix
7 3 (1.73%) Juniper
7 3 (1.73%) Veeam
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco
8 2 (1.16%) MikroTik
8 2 (1.16%) TP-LINK
8 2 (1.16%) ZyXEL
9 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.58%) Splunk