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 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 18 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 867 713 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.10% 10.59% 13.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.04% 56.72% 60.85%
Number of salaries quoted 543 305 626
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,400 £31,590
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,750 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,175 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
South 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 1,666 1,257 1,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.49% 18.67% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 718 1,179
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,715
25th Percentile £33,125 £32,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% +15.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,125 £76,250
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 23 May 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 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
Gloucestershire +3 344 £55,000 -1.79% 34
Wiltshire +9 171 £50,000 -28.57% 36
Bristol +4 157 £60,000 - 59
Devon +11 78 £37,500 -16.67% 6
Dorset -19 60 £50,000 - 6
Somerset +4 43 £42,125 -21.63% 20
Cornwall -15 3 £55,000 - 3
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 68 (7.84%) Apache
2 34 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.77%) nginx
4 21 (2.42%) Jupyter
5 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.27%) Confluence
7 8 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.81%) JBoss
9 6 (0.69%) IIS
10 4 (0.46%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.46%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.35%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.35%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.23%) WordPress
13 1 (0.12%) Captiva
13 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 20 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.58%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.23%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.23%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (29.30%) AWS
2 193 (22.26%) Azure
3 112 (12.92%) OpenShift
4 45 (5.19%) SaaS
5 42 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (4.50%) GCP
7 32 (3.69%) Amazon S3
8 23 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (2.65%) IaaS
8 23 (2.65%) PaaS
9 22 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (2.54%) Serverless
10 21 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (1.96%) MinIO
12 12 (1.38%) Nutanix
13 8 (0.92%) GitHub
13 8 (0.92%) Power Platform
14 7 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (8.42%) Firewall
2 70 (8.07%) TCP/IP
3 64 (7.38%) DNS
4 47 (5.42%) HTTP
5 42 (4.84%) DHCP
6 31 (3.58%) Internet
7 28 (3.23%) VSAN
8 22 (2.54%) AMQP
8 22 (2.54%) WAN
9 19 (2.19%) SAN
10 17 (1.96%) Ethernet
11 16 (1.85%) Wireless
12 15 (1.73%) iSCSI
13 14 (1.61%) NAS
14 13 (1.50%) 5G
14 13 (1.50%) LAN
15 11 (1.27%) RS-232
16 10 (1.15%) Network Security
17 9 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
17 9 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.54%) Big Data
1 48 (5.54%) MongoDB
2 37 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 34 (3.92%) Hadoop
4 33 (3.81%) MySQL
5 19 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
6 17 (1.96%) Presto
7 11 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.92%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.92%) Power BI
10 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.81%) SQLite
11 6 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.69%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.58%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.58%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.46%) GIS
13 4 (0.46%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 69 (7.96%) JIRA
2 62 (7.15%) Git
3 57 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.00%) Subversion
5 20 (2.31%) Visual Studio
6 17 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (1.73%) Eclipse
8 14 (1.61%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.69%) Postman
9 6 (0.69%) RStudio
9 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.58%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.46%) Gradle
11 4 (0.46%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.46%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.35%) GitLab
12 3 (0.35%) JMeter
12 3 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
12 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 146 (16.84%) Social Skills
2 145 (16.72%) Aerospace
3 66 (7.61%) Finance
4 64 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.15%) Electronics
7 31 (3.58%) Manufacturing
8 29 (3.34%) Marketing
9 27 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.73%) Retail
13 10 (1.15%) Aviation
14 8 (0.92%) Automotive
15 7 (0.81%) Avionics
16 6 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.69%) Military
16 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.58%) Games
17 5 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 168 (19.38%) Software Engineer
2 164 (18.92%) Senior
3 141 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 92 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (10.27%) Administrator
6 70 (8.07%) Embedded Engineer
7 69 (7.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 63 (7.27%) Linux Engineer
9 62 (7.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 52 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
11 49 (5.65%) Developer
12 44 (5.07%) Lead
13 42 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (4.50%) Systems Administrator
15 37 (4.27%) Architect
15 37 (4.27%) DBA
16 31 (3.58%) Consultant
16 31 (3.58%) DV Cleared DBA
17 28 (3.23%) Linux Administrator
17 28 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.54%) React
2 47 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
3 34 (3.92%) HTML
4 33 (3.81%) REST
5 28 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
6 27 (3.11%) AngularJS
6 27 (3.11%) CSS
7 25 (2.88%) Qt
8 24 (2.77%) Spring Boot
9 23 (2.65%) Swagger
10 22 (2.54%) Spring
11 21 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (2.42%) JSON
11 21 (2.42%) STL
11 21 (2.42%) XML
11 21 (2.42%) YAML
12 20 (2.31%) Node.js
13 17 (1.96%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (1.96%) gRPC
13 17 (1.96%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.19%) Public Cloud
2 37 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.58%) Data Centre
3 31 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (3.23%) GNSS
4 28 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 28 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
6 19 (2.19%) FPGA
7 17 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 16 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.85%) PKI
9 14 (1.61%) EMC VNX
9 14 (1.61%) VHDL
10 11 (1.27%) Analogue Electronics
10 11 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.27%) Device Driver
10 11 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.04%) Replication
12 8 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 339 (39.10%) Windows
2 128 (14.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 86 (9.92%) CentOS
4 65 (7.50%) Embedded Linux
5 63 (7.27%) Unix
6 55 (6.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 51 (5.88%) Ubuntu
7 51 (5.88%) Windows Server
8 47 (5.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 39 (4.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 38 (4.38%) Debian
11 24 (2.77%) Windows 10
12 19 (2.19%) CoreOS
13 13 (1.50%) Solaris
14 10 (1.15%) AIX
15 8 (0.92%) Android
15 8 (0.92%) VMS
16 7 (0.81%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
17 6 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (24.80%) Software Engineering
2 203 (23.41%) DevOps
3 175 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 154 (17.76%) Agile
5 131 (15.11%) Actionable Insight
6 128 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (12.34%) Collaborative Working
8 101 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
9 95 (10.96%) Containerisation
10 92 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 89 (10.27%) Configuration Management
12 87 (10.03%) CI/CD
13 83 (9.57%) Mentoring
14 82 (9.46%) Computer Science
15 76 (8.77%) Validation
16 64 (7.38%) Scrum
17 62 (7.15%) B2B
17 62 (7.15%) SDLC
18 58 (6.69%) Kanban
19 54 (6.23%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 359 (41.41%) Python
2 274 (31.60%) Bash
3 134 (15.46%) PowerShell
4 131 (15.11%) C
5 118 (13.61%) Java
6 106 (12.23%) SQL
7 75 (8.65%) C++
8 69 (7.96%) JavaScript
9 57 (6.57%) Embedded C
10 54 (6.23%) Rust
11 39 (4.50%) Shell Script
12 30 (3.46%) Perl
13 21 (2.42%) PHP
14 17 (1.96%) C#
15 13 (1.50%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.38%) Tcl
16 12 (1.38%) T-SQL
17 11 (1.27%) Go
17 11 (1.27%) MATLAB
17 11 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 454 (52.36%) Security Cleared
2 237 (27.34%) DV Cleared
3 136 (15.69%) SC Cleared
4 129 (14.88%) Degree
5 35 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.96%) HND
7 16 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.61%) CCNA
9 13 (1.50%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.15%) CCNP
10 10 (1.15%) RHCE
10 10 (1.15%) RHCSA
11 9 (1.04%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.04%) PMP
12 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.69%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.31%) PMO
2 13 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (1.38%) QA
4 10 (1.15%) SLA
5 9 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.69%) NCSC
7 3 (0.35%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.35%) MISRA
8 2 (0.23%) GDPR
8 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 148 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 147 (16.96%) Docker
3 61 (7.04%) Hyper-V
4 58 (6.69%) Active Directory
5 43 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (3.81%) Firmware
7 30 (3.46%) vSphere
8 23 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (1.38%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.81%) KVM
11 7 (0.81%) XenApp
12 4 (0.46%) NFS
12 4 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.35%) Ceph
13 3 (0.35%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.35%) Gluster
13 3 (0.35%) oVirt
13 3 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 265 (30.57%) Ansible
2 187 (21.57%) Kubernetes
3 136 (15.69%) Puppet
4 124 (14.30%) Terraform
5 42 (4.84%) vCenter Server
6 33 (3.81%) Prometheus
7 31 (3.58%) Nagios
8 27 (3.11%) Grafana
8 27 (3.11%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.96%) EMC NetWorker
9 17 (1.96%) HAProxy
10 11 (1.27%) ZABBIX
11 10 (1.15%) SCCM
12 7 (0.81%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.69%) Icinga
13 6 (0.69%) Opsgenie
13 6 (0.69%) Rancher
14 5 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 188 (21.68%) VMware
2 170 (19.61%) Red Hat
3 131 (15.11%) Microsoft
4 56 (6.46%) Oracle
5 39 (4.50%) Cisco
6 28 (3.23%) Veeam
7 24 (2.77%) EMC
7 24 (2.77%) SolarWinds
8 21 (2.42%) Google
8 21 (2.42%) SaltStack
9 14 (1.61%) Citrix
10 13 (1.50%) NetApp
11 12 (1.38%) Brocade
12 11 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 11 (1.27%) SAP
13 10 (1.15%) Xilinx
14 8 (0.92%) Altera
14 8 (0.92%) Green Hills
14 8 (0.92%) Motorola
14 8 (0.92%) Salesforce