Debian Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Debian over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 696 743 774
Rank change year-on-year +47 +31 +311
Permanent jobs citing Debian 25 179 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.35% 1.25% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 21 93 145
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,300 £43,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -19.23% +32.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +66.67%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,076 14,310 15,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.58% 13.20% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,297 10,728 10,332
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 10 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 10 June 2025. 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 +23 24 £61,000 +16.19% 54
UK excluding London +70 17 £60,000 +20.00% 47
Work from Home +89 9 £60,000 -7.69% 30
London +111 8 £75,000 +15.38% 12
North of England +51 6 £60,000 +172.73% 8
South East +48 6 £55,000 -13.73% 13
North West 0 6 £60,000 +172.73% 7
East of England +24 3 £62,500 +8.70% 12
West Midlands +68 2 £60,000 +87.50% 9
Midlands +61 2 £60,000 +20.00% 13

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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) ColdFusion
3 1 (4.00%) Drupal
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (12.00%) Route 53
6 2 (8.00%) Cloudflare
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (8.00%) Rubrik
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) VLAN
2 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
3 3 (12.00%) DHCP
4 2 (8.00%) HTTP
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) VPN
5 1 (4.00%) 3GPP
5 1 (4.00%) 4G
5 1 (4.00%) 5G
5 1 (4.00%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (4.00%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (4.00%) Internet
5 1 (4.00%) Multicast
5 1 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (4.00%) SAN
5 1 (4.00%) SCTP
5 1 (4.00%) SSH
5 1 (4.00%) SSL
5 1 (4.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Big Data
1 2 (8.00%) MySQL
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) GitLab
3 4 (16.00%) Git
4 3 (12.00%) CircleCI
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Data Centre Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.00%) Laravel
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) gRPC
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) Next.js
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) Swagger
3 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (4.00%) Vue
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.00%) IoT
3 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Derivative
4 1 (4.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Equities
4 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Molecular Biology
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (68.00%) Ubuntu
3 10 (40.00%) Windows
4 6 (24.00%) CentOS
5 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (8.00%) SUSE
7 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
8 1 (4.00%) Rocky
8 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (12.00%) Agile
7 3 (12.00%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.00%) High Availability
7 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (12.00%) Patch Management
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.00%) ITIL
8 2 (8.00%) Open Source
8 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) C++
5 2 (8.00%) Go
5 2 (8.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) PhD
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) PMO
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) vSphere
4 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 7 (28.00%) Ansible
3 6 (24.00%) Grafana
3 6 (24.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (12.00%) Proxmox
5 2 (8.00%) NetBackup
5 2 (8.00%) Puppet
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.00%) Nessus
6 1 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (32.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (12.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) Commvault
4 2 (8.00%) Dell
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.00%) Zerto
5 1 (4.00%) Apple
5 1 (4.00%) New Relic
5 1 (4.00%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (4.00%) Perforce
5 1 (4.00%) Sophos
5 1 (4.00%) Veeam
5 1 (4.00%) YouTube
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