Linux Jobs in the South East

Linux
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,180 1,169 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.91% 8.25% 11.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.77% 43.23% 51.41%
Number of salaries quoted 787 805 1,078
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,825 2,704 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.55% 19.09% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,252 1,876 2,784
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,719 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -8.95% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £77,350
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Hampshire +1 413 £57,500 +15.00% 62
Thames Valley -11 412 £55,000 +10.00% 90
Berkshire 0 223 £59,000 -15.71% 63
Surrey -1 209 £55,000 - 26
Oxfordshire +11 115 £50,000 +17.65% 14
Buckinghamshire -43 74 £45,000 -5.26% 13
West Sussex +23 48 £54,918 +4.60% 10
East Sussex +39 36 £50,000 -20.00% 8
Middlesex +7 35 £60,000 -31.43%
Kent -33 16 £40,000 +23.08% 3
Sussex - 2 £60,000 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 40 (3.39%) Apache
2 31 (2.63%) IIS
3 30 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (2.29%) OpenStack
5 21 (1.78%) Confluence
5 21 (1.78%) nginx
6 19 (1.61%) WebLogic
7 14 (1.19%) Oracle Service Bus
8 7 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.51%) WordPress
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.34%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.34%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.085%) Kinematics
Applications
1 32 (2.71%) Simulink
2 31 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.42%) OrCAD
6 4 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.34%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.085%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 415 (35.17%) Azure
2 167 (14.15%) AWS
3 124 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (9.83%) IBM Cloud
5 98 (8.31%) Entra ID
6 80 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (6.78%) Serverless
7 75 (6.36%) Azure Functions
8 74 (6.27%) Azure API Management
8 74 (6.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 74 (6.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 33 (2.80%) GitHub
10 18 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (1.44%) SaaS
12 16 (1.36%) Azure Storage
13 15 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.27%) GCP
14 12 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 175 (14.83%) Firewall
2 112 (9.49%) DNS
3 87 (7.37%) 5G
4 77 (6.53%) Broadband
5 69 (5.85%) TCP/IP
6 68 (5.76%) DHCP
7 52 (4.41%) VPN
8 44 (3.73%) SAN
8 44 (3.73%) Wireless
9 31 (2.63%) SNMP
10 27 (2.29%) WAN
11 26 (2.20%) NAS
12 22 (1.86%) BGP
12 22 (1.86%) LAN
13 19 (1.61%) HTTP
14 18 (1.53%) Network Security
15 16 (1.36%) VoIP
16 15 (1.27%) SSH
17 14 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
18 13 (1.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 111 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (8.64%) Relational Database
4 88 (7.46%) DB2
5 87 (7.37%) MongoDB
6 83 (7.03%) MySQL
7 32 (2.71%) SQL Server
8 23 (1.95%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.19%) Oracle Database 10g
10 14 (1.19%) Oracle Database 11g
10 14 (1.19%) VLDB
11 12 (1.02%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.93%) GIS
13 9 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.68%) Redis
15 7 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.51%) Power BI
17 5 (0.42%) Big Data
17 5 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 111 (9.41%) Git
2 76 (6.44%) JIRA
3 53 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.71%) Subversion
5 23 (1.95%) Ant
6 20 (1.69%) GitLab
6 20 (1.69%) Visual Studio
7 19 (1.61%) Robot Framework
8 18 (1.53%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.44%) Vagrant
10 16 (1.36%) CMake
11 10 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.85%) Trac
12 4 (0.34%) GDB
13 3 (0.25%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.17%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.17%) GCC
14 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
15 1 (0.085%) Gradle
General
1 239 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 151 (12.80%) Public Sector
3 119 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (5.85%) Finance
6 64 (5.42%) Electronics
7 55 (4.66%) Telecoms
8 49 (4.15%) Manufacturing
9 48 (4.07%) Aerospace
10 40 (3.39%) Military
11 34 (2.88%) Marketing
12 9 (0.76%) Banking
13 8 (0.68%) Aviation
13 8 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.34%) Aeronautics
15 4 (0.34%) Billing
15 4 (0.34%) Legal
16 2 (0.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 232 (19.66%) Software Engineer
2 207 (17.54%) Senior
3 187 (15.85%) Developer
4 125 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 85 (7.20%) Full Stack Developer
6 82 (6.95%) Support Engineer
7 76 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 74 (6.27%) Azure Developer
9 72 (6.10%) Embedded Engineer
10 68 (5.76%) Linux Specialist
11 67 (5.68%) Technical Specialist
12 64 (5.42%) Lead
13 60 (5.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 54 (4.58%) Applications Engineer
15 49 (4.15%) Linux Engineer
16 47 (3.98%) Architect
17 39 (3.31%) Applications Support
17 39 (3.31%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
17 39 (3.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 38 (3.22%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (13.05%) HTML
2 134 (11.36%) REST
3 130 (11.02%) CSS
4 119 (10.08%) Web Services
5 116 (9.83%) .NET
6 114 (9.66%) React
7 102 (8.64%) AngularJS
8 92 (7.80%) Node.js
9 91 (7.71%) jQuery
10 86 (7.29%) Vue
11 78 (6.61%) ASP.NET
12 76 (6.44%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (6.44%) Backbone.js
12 76 (6.44%) Ember.js
12 76 (6.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 59 (5.00%) XML
14 42 (3.56%) Qt
15 41 (3.47%) Middleware
16 32 (2.71%) SOAP
17 27 (2.29%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 163 (13.81%) Algorithms
2 122 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (9.83%) Blockchain
4 77 (6.53%) Data Structures
5 75 (6.36%) Data Centre
6 67 (5.68%) Social Media
7 60 (5.08%) IoT
8 56 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
9 34 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
9 34 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (2.12%) PKI
11 24 (2.03%) CMDB
12 23 (1.95%) Product Ownership
13 22 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
14 20 (1.69%) CUDA
15 17 (1.44%) Client/Server
15 17 (1.44%) Raspberry Pi
16 16 (1.36%) Robotics
17 15 (1.27%) Driving Licence
18 14 (1.19%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 539 (45.68%) Windows
2 139 (11.78%) Ubuntu
3 129 (10.93%) Windows Server
4 101 (8.56%) CentOS
5 97 (8.22%) Android
6 81 (6.86%) Unix
7 79 (6.69%) Apple iOS
8 74 (6.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 70 (5.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 68 (5.76%) Embedded Linux
11 44 (3.73%) Debian
11 44 (3.73%) Windows Server 2019
12 40 (3.39%) Alpine Linux
13 34 (2.88%) Windows 10
14 26 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
15 15 (1.27%) Solaris
16 12 (1.02%) Windows XP
17 11 (0.93%) AIX
18 10 (0.85%) VMS
19 8 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (26.53%) Software Engineering
2 309 (26.19%) DevOps
3 266 (22.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 261 (22.12%) Agile
5 207 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (12.46%) Computer Science
7 141 (11.95%) CI/CD
7 141 (11.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 132 (11.19%) OO
9 118 (10.00%) OOP
10 116 (9.83%) Co-Creation
11 110 (9.32%) Mathematics
12 105 (8.90%) MVC
13 98 (8.31%) Web Development
14 97 (8.22%) Full Stack Development
15 96 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
16 94 (7.97%) Actionable Insight
17 93 (7.88%) MVVM
17 93 (7.88%) SOLID
18 82 (6.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 395 (33.47%) Python
2 270 (22.88%) Java
3 248 (21.02%) SQL
4 224 (18.98%) C++
5 199 (16.86%) C
6 198 (16.78%) JavaScript
7 181 (15.34%) C#
8 153 (12.97%) Bash
9 113 (9.58%) PowerShell
10 43 (3.64%) Kotlin
11 33 (2.80%) Fortran
11 33 (2.80%) PL/SQL
12 32 (2.71%) Perl
13 29 (2.46%) PHP
14 24 (2.03%) Go
15 19 (1.61%) Bicep
15 19 (1.61%) VB
16 17 (1.44%) Embedded C
16 17 (1.44%) XAML
17 16 (1.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 319 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 278 (23.56%) Degree
3 239 (20.25%) SC Cleared
4 105 (8.90%) DV Cleared
5 98 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (5.51%) Master's Degree
7 58 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.75%) MCSE
9 55 (4.66%) Azure Certification
10 47 (3.98%) PhD
11 43 (3.64%) MCSA
12 36 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
13 34 (2.88%) CCNA
14 25 (2.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (1.44%) CCNP
16 14 (1.19%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
18 5 (0.42%) A+ Certification
18 5 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 4 (0.34%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.64%) SLA
2 17 (1.44%) QA
3 7 (0.59%) ISO 13485
3 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.34%) IEC 61131
4 4 (0.34%) JTAG
5 3 (0.25%) GDPR
5 3 (0.25%) GRC
6 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.085%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.085%) NIST
7 1 (0.085%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 185 (15.68%) Active Directory
2 137 (11.61%) Docker
3 99 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (4.83%) Hyper-V
5 33 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (2.71%) vSphere
7 22 (1.86%) Firmware
7 22 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
9 17 (1.44%) pfSense
10 16 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
12 11 (0.93%) NFS
13 7 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
14 5 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.42%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.17%) GPFS
16 2 (0.17%) KVM
16 2 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 175 (14.83%) Kubernetes
2 113 (9.58%) Terraform
3 102 (8.64%) Ansible
4 97 (8.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (5.68%) Jamf Pro
6 42 (3.56%) vCenter Server
7 41 (3.47%) SCOM
8 34 (2.88%) SCCM
8 34 (2.88%) ZABBIX
9 29 (2.46%) Puppet
9 29 (2.46%) WSUS
10 21 (1.78%) Grafana
11 20 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
12 16 (1.36%) NetBackup
13 15 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.27%) Data Guard
13 15 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
14 13 (1.10%) WMI
15 11 (0.93%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.85%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 268 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 171 (14.49%) Red Hat
3 162 (13.73%) VMware
4 122 (10.34%) IBM
5 67 (5.68%) CyberArk
5 67 (5.68%) Tanium
6 65 (5.51%) Oracle
7 49 (4.15%) Juniper
8 42 (3.56%) Cisco
9 33 (2.80%) Veeam
10 32 (2.71%) SAP
10 32 (2.71%) Xilinx
11 27 (2.29%) EMC
11 27 (2.29%) Fortinet
12 25 (2.12%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.69%) Dell
13 20 (1.69%) Splunk
14 18 (1.53%) Atlassian
15 16 (1.36%) ServiceNow
15 16 (1.36%) Sun