Linux Jobs in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 881 722 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.82% 10.92% 14.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.28% 57.30% 61.38%
Number of salaries quoted 543 315 627
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £31,872
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £73,713
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,685 1,260 1,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.87% 19.06% 22.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,263 731 1,168
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,746
25th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South West.

Salary trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the South West

Linux
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Gloucestershire +3 347 £55,000 -5.17% 47
Wiltshire +8 175 £50,000 -28.57% 38
Bristol -1 160 £60,000 +4.35% 51
Devon +9 79 £37,500 -21.47% 8
Dorset -22 59 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Somerset +2 45 £41,500 -22.79% 20
Cornwall -23 3 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 66 (7.49%) Apache
2 34 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.61%) nginx
4 20 (2.27%) Jupyter
5 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.25%) Confluence
7 8 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.79%) JBoss
9 6 (0.68%) IIS
10 4 (0.45%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.45%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.45%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.34%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.23%) WordPress
13 1 (0.11%) CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Moodle
Applications
1 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.57%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.23%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.23%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 260 (29.51%) AWS
2 197 (22.36%) Azure
3 112 (12.71%) OpenShift
4 50 (5.68%) SaaS
5 43 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (4.54%) GCP
7 31 (3.52%) Amazon S3
8 24 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (2.61%) Serverless
10 22 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (2.38%) PaaS
12 20 (2.27%) IaaS
13 16 (1.82%) MinIO
14 12 (1.36%) Nutanix
15 8 (0.91%) GitHub
15 8 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (0.91%) Power Platform
16 7 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (8.51%) Firewall
2 72 (8.17%) TCP/IP
3 67 (7.60%) DNS
4 48 (5.45%) HTTP
5 44 (4.99%) DHCP
6 29 (3.29%) Internet
7 28 (3.18%) VSAN
8 23 (2.61%) AMQP
9 22 (2.50%) WAN
10 19 (2.16%) SAN
11 17 (1.93%) Ethernet
12 16 (1.82%) iSCSI
12 16 (1.82%) Wireless
13 14 (1.59%) NAS
14 13 (1.48%) 5G
14 13 (1.48%) LAN
15 11 (1.25%) RS-232
16 10 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
16 10 (1.14%) Network Security
17 8 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 48 (5.45%) Big Data
3 39 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 34 (3.86%) Hadoop
5 33 (3.75%) MySQL
6 20 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (2.04%) Cloudera CDH
8 16 (1.82%) Presto
9 12 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.14%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.91%) Power BI
12 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.79%) SQLite
13 6 (0.68%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.57%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.57%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.45%) GIS
15 4 (0.45%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 71 (8.06%) JIRA
2 62 (7.04%) Git
3 55 (6.24%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.95%) Subversion
5 20 (2.27%) Visual Studio
6 16 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (1.70%) Eclipse
8 14 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.68%) Postman
9 6 (0.68%) RStudio
9 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.57%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.45%) Gradle
11 4 (0.45%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.45%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.34%) GitLab
12 3 (0.34%) Maven
12 3 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
12 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 149 (16.91%) Aerospace
1 149 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 67 (7.60%) Finance
3 66 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.09%) Electronics
6 32 (3.63%) Manufacturing
7 30 (3.41%) Marketing
8 28 (3.18%) Telecoms
9 25 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.59%) Retail
12 10 (1.14%) Aviation
13 8 (0.91%) Automotive
14 7 (0.79%) Avionics
14 7 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Military
16 5 (0.57%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 172 (19.52%) Software Engineer
2 168 (19.07%) Senior
3 144 (16.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 94 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (10.10%) Administrator
6 72 (8.17%) Embedded Engineer
7 71 (8.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 66 (7.49%) Linux Engineer
9 65 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 51 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
11 49 (5.56%) Developer
12 43 (4.88%) Lead
12 43 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (4.31%) DBA
13 38 (4.31%) Systems Administrator
14 37 (4.20%) Architect
15 32 (3.63%) DV Cleared DBA
16 30 (3.41%) Consultant
17 28 (3.18%) Support Engineer
18 27 (3.06%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.56%) React
2 47 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
3 36 (4.09%) REST
4 34 (3.86%) HTML
5 28 (3.18%) AngularJS
6 27 (3.06%) Apache NiFi
6 27 (3.06%) CSS
7 24 (2.72%) Qt
7 24 (2.72%) Swagger
8 23 (2.61%) Spring
8 23 (2.61%) Spring Boot
9 22 (2.50%) XML
10 21 (2.38%) JSON
10 21 (2.38%) Node.js
10 21 (2.38%) STL
11 20 (2.27%) YAML
12 19 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (2.04%) gRPC
13 18 (2.04%) Material-UI
13 18 (2.04%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.88%) Public Cloud
2 36 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 30 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.18%) GNSS
5 28 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
5 28 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.84%) Cyber Defence
7 19 (2.16%) FPGA
7 19 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 16 (1.82%) PKI
9 15 (1.70%) EMC VNX
10 14 (1.59%) VHDL
11 11 (1.25%) Analogue Electronics
11 11 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.25%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.14%) Device Driver
12 10 (1.14%) Replication
13 8 (0.91%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 342 (38.82%) Windows
2 130 (14.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 89 (10.10%) CentOS
4 64 (7.26%) Embedded Linux
5 60 (6.81%) Unix
6 56 (6.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (5.90%) Ubuntu
7 52 (5.90%) Windows Server
8 48 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 40 (4.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 39 (4.43%) Debian
11 25 (2.84%) Windows 10
12 19 (2.16%) CoreOS
13 12 (1.36%) Solaris
14 10 (1.14%) AIX
15 8 (0.91%) Android
15 8 (0.91%) VMS
16 7 (0.79%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
17 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (24.86%) Software Engineering
2 203 (23.04%) DevOps
3 177 (20.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 160 (18.16%) Agile
5 131 (14.87%) Actionable Insight
6 129 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (12.60%) Collaborative Working
8 101 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
9 92 (10.44%) Containerisation
10 88 (9.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 87 (9.88%) Configuration Management
12 86 (9.76%) CI/CD
13 84 (9.53%) Computer Science
13 84 (9.53%) Mentoring
14 77 (8.74%) Validation
15 68 (7.72%) Scrum
16 65 (7.38%) SDLC
17 62 (7.04%) B2B
17 62 (7.04%) Kanban
18 57 (6.47%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 359 (40.75%) Python
2 271 (30.76%) Bash
3 134 (15.21%) PowerShell
4 130 (14.76%) C
5 119 (13.51%) Java
6 106 (12.03%) SQL
7 77 (8.74%) C++
8 69 (7.83%) JavaScript
9 57 (6.47%) Embedded C
10 54 (6.13%) Rust
11 37 (4.20%) Shell Script
12 30 (3.41%) Perl
13 22 (2.50%) PHP
14 17 (1.93%) C#
15 13 (1.48%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.36%) Go
16 12 (1.36%) Tcl
16 12 (1.36%) T-SQL
17 11 (1.25%) MATLAB
17 11 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 458 (51.99%) Security Cleared
2 238 (27.01%) DV Cleared
3 142 (16.12%) SC Cleared
4 135 (15.32%) Degree
5 37 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (1.93%) HND
7 15 (1.70%) CCNA
8 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.48%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.14%) CCNP
10 10 (1.14%) RHCE
10 10 (1.14%) RHCSA
11 9 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.02%) PMP
12 8 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.57%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.27%) PMO
2 13 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.36%) QA
3 12 (1.36%) SLA
4 6 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.68%) NCSC
5 3 (0.34%) Def Stans
5 3 (0.34%) MISRA
6 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.11%) GDPR
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 152 (17.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 149 (16.91%) Docker
3 62 (7.04%) Hyper-V
4 59 (6.70%) Active Directory
5 44 (4.99%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (3.75%) Firmware
7 30 (3.41%) vSphere
8 23 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (1.36%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.79%) KVM
11 7 (0.79%) XenApp
12 4 (0.45%) NFS
12 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.34%) Ceph
13 3 (0.34%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.34%) Gluster
13 3 (0.34%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 267 (30.31%) Ansible
2 189 (21.45%) Kubernetes
3 135 (15.32%) Puppet
4 126 (14.30%) Terraform
5 43 (4.88%) vCenter Server
6 32 (3.63%) Nagios
6 32 (3.63%) Prometheus
7 27 (3.06%) Grafana
8 25 (2.84%) Progress Chef
9 18 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (1.82%) HAProxy
11 12 (1.36%) ZABBIX
12 10 (1.14%) SCCM
13 7 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.79%) Icinga
13 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.68%) Opsgenie
14 6 (0.68%) Rancher
15 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 191 (21.68%) VMware
2 175 (19.86%) Red Hat
3 136 (15.44%) Microsoft
4 58 (6.58%) Oracle
5 41 (4.65%) Cisco
6 29 (3.29%) Veeam
7 26 (2.95%) SolarWinds
8 25 (2.84%) EMC
9 22 (2.50%) Google
9 22 (2.50%) SaltStack
10 14 (1.59%) Citrix
10 14 (1.59%) NetApp
11 13 (1.48%) Brocade
12 11 (1.25%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.14%) SAP
13 10 (1.14%) Xilinx
14 8 (0.91%) Altera
14 8 (0.91%) Green Hills
14 8 (0.91%) Motorola
14 8 (0.91%) Salesforce