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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,185 1,238 2,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.06% 8.30% 11.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.19% 43.12% 50.90%
Number of salaries quoted 797 844 1,080
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,750 £31,437
25th Percentile £39,750 £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 £57,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.31% +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 2,877 2,871 4,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.15% 19.26% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,322 2,000 2,804
10th Percentile £25,760 £25,744 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £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 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 6 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 6 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
Thames Valley -8 439 £52,500 +6.06% 97
Hampshire +2 401 £57,925 +15.85% 71
Berkshire +3 242 £58,350 -10.23% 57
Surrey +1 206 £55,000 - 34
Oxfordshire +18 122 £42,500 - 24
Buckinghamshire -41 75 £45,000 - 16
West Sussex +24 46 £53,250 +9.23% 10
East Sussex +37 36 £50,000 -21.57% 4
Middlesex +9 34 £60,000 -31.43% 1
Kent -37 14 £40,000 +23.08% 7
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 41 (3.46%) Apache
2 33 (2.78%) IIS
3 28 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (2.36%) OpenStack
4 24 (2.03%) nginx
5 23 (1.94%) Confluence
6 20 (1.69%) WebLogic
7 15 (1.27%) Oracle Service Bus
8 7 (0.59%) WordPress
9 5 (0.42%) SharePoint
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 (0.084%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 33 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.03%) Simulink
3 23 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.27%) 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 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.084%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.084%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 413 (34.85%) Azure
2 168 (14.18%) AWS
3 126 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (9.87%) IBM Cloud
5 97 (8.19%) Entra ID
6 80 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (6.75%) Serverless
7 75 (6.33%) Azure Functions
8 74 (6.24%) Azure API Management
8 74 (6.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 74 (6.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 33 (2.78%) GitHub
10 17 (1.43%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (1.35%) GCP
11 16 (1.35%) SaaS
12 15 (1.27%) Azure Storage
13 14 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.01%) OCI
15 11 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 167 (14.09%) Firewall
2 112 (9.45%) DNS
3 87 (7.34%) 5G
4 78 (6.58%) Broadband
5 72 (6.08%) TCP/IP
6 68 (5.74%) DHCP
7 51 (4.30%) VPN
8 43 (3.63%) SAN
8 43 (3.63%) Wireless
9 34 (2.87%) SNMP
10 29 (2.45%) WAN
11 24 (2.03%) NAS
12 23 (1.94%) LAN
13 22 (1.86%) BGP
14 18 (1.52%) Network Security
15 16 (1.35%) HTTP
15 16 (1.35%) VoIP
16 15 (1.27%) SSH
16 15 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (1.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (9.37%) NoSQL
3 102 (8.61%) Relational Database
4 89 (7.51%) MySQL
5 87 (7.34%) MongoDB
6 85 (7.17%) DB2
7 32 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 24 (2.03%) Oracle Database
9 16 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.27%) Oracle Database 10g
10 15 (1.27%) Oracle Database 11g
10 15 (1.27%) VLDB
11 12 (1.01%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.93%) GIS
13 9 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.68%) Redis
15 7 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.59%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.42%) Power BI
16 5 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 111 (9.37%) Git
2 73 (6.16%) JIRA
3 48 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.87%) Subversion
5 24 (2.03%) Ant
6 23 (1.94%) GitLab
7 20 (1.69%) Visual Studio
8 18 (1.52%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.43%) CMake
9 17 (1.43%) Robot Framework
10 13 (1.10%) Vagrant
11 10 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.84%) Trac
12 5 (0.42%) GDB
13 3 (0.25%) Gradle
13 3 (0.25%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.17%) GCC
14 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 233 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 152 (12.83%) Public Sector
3 125 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (5.57%) Electronics
6 65 (5.49%) Finance
7 56 (4.73%) Telecoms
8 51 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 41 (3.46%) Military
10 39 (3.29%) Aerospace
11 34 (2.87%) Marketing
12 9 (0.76%) Aviation
12 9 (0.76%) Banking
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
16 3 (0.25%) Law
17 2 (0.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 234 (19.75%) Software Engineer
2 211 (17.81%) Senior
3 186 (15.70%) Developer
4 123 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 96 (8.10%) Support Engineer
6 85 (7.17%) Full Stack Developer
7 77 (6.50%) Embedded Engineer
7 77 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 74 (6.24%) Azure Developer
9 70 (5.91%) Linux Specialist
10 67 (5.65%) Technical Specialist
11 65 (5.49%) Lead
12 64 (5.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 54 (4.56%) Applications Engineer
14 52 (4.39%) Linux Engineer
15 44 (3.71%) Applications Support
16 42 (3.54%) Analyst
16 42 (3.54%) Architect
16 42 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
17 41 (3.46%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (13.08%) HTML
2 133 (11.22%) REST
3 130 (10.97%) CSS
4 117 (9.87%) Web Services
5 116 (9.79%) .NET
6 115 (9.70%) React
7 102 (8.61%) AngularJS
8 92 (7.76%) Node.js
9 91 (7.68%) jQuery
10 87 (7.34%) Vue
11 78 (6.58%) ASP.NET
12 76 (6.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (6.41%) Backbone.js
12 76 (6.41%) Ember.js
12 76 (6.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 59 (4.98%) XML
14 44 (3.71%) Qt
15 32 (2.70%) SOAP
16 30 (2.53%) Middleware
17 29 (2.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 163 (13.76%) Algorithms
2 122 (10.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (9.79%) Blockchain
4 79 (6.67%) Data Structures
5 70 (5.91%) Data Centre
6 67 (5.65%) Social Media
7 62 (5.23%) IoT
8 57 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
9 33 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
11 27 (2.28%) CMDB
12 25 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
12 25 (2.11%) PKI
13 22 (1.86%) Product Ownership
14 20 (1.69%) CUDA
14 20 (1.69%) Raspberry Pi
15 16 (1.35%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.35%) Robotics
16 15 (1.27%) Device Driver
16 15 (1.27%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 546 (46.08%) Windows
2 134 (11.31%) Ubuntu
3 128 (10.80%) Windows Server
4 101 (8.52%) CentOS
5 95 (8.02%) Android
6 81 (6.84%) Unix
7 79 (6.67%) Apple iOS
8 76 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 70 (5.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 67 (5.65%) Embedded Linux
11 45 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
12 42 (3.54%) Debian
13 40 (3.38%) Alpine Linux
14 37 (3.12%) Windows 10
15 27 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
16 16 (1.35%) Solaris
17 12 (1.01%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.93%) AIX
19 10 (0.84%) VMS
20 8 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (25.99%) Software Engineering
2 306 (25.82%) DevOps
3 259 (21.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 252 (21.27%) Agile
5 207 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (11.98%) CI/CD
7 138 (11.65%) Computer Science
8 135 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 133 (11.22%) OO
10 120 (10.13%) OOP
11 116 (9.79%) Co-Creation
12 109 (9.20%) Mathematics
13 103 (8.69%) MVC
14 101 (8.52%) Actionable Insight
15 100 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
16 98 (8.27%) Full Stack Development
17 97 (8.19%) Web Development
18 92 (7.76%) MVVM
18 92 (7.76%) SOLID
19 85 (7.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 380 (32.07%) Python
2 262 (22.11%) Java
3 248 (20.93%) SQL
4 227 (19.16%) C++
5 200 (16.88%) C
6 194 (16.37%) JavaScript
7 181 (15.27%) C#
8 148 (12.49%) Bash
9 117 (9.87%) PowerShell
10 37 (3.12%) PL/SQL
11 34 (2.87%) Perl
12 33 (2.78%) Kotlin
13 32 (2.70%) Fortran
14 31 (2.62%) PHP
15 23 (1.94%) Go
16 19 (1.60%) VBScript
17 18 (1.52%) Bicep
17 18 (1.52%) VB
18 17 (1.43%) Embedded C
19 16 (1.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 324 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 268 (22.62%) Degree
3 244 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 100 (8.44%) DV Cleared
5 90 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (5.49%) Master's Degree
7 59 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.73%) MCSE
9 55 (4.64%) Azure Certification
10 46 (3.88%) PhD
11 43 (3.63%) MCSA
12 36 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
13 34 (2.87%) CCNA
14 24 (2.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (1.43%) CCNP
16 11 (0.93%) AWS Certification
17 9 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
18 6 (0.51%) A+ Certification
19 5 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 4 (0.34%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.63%) SLA
2 19 (1.60%) 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 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.084%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.084%) NCSC
7 1 (0.084%) NIST
7 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 196 (16.54%) Active Directory
2 140 (11.81%) Docker
3 106 (8.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (4.98%) Hyper-V
5 32 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.62%) vSphere
7 30 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.03%) Firmware
9 19 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
10 16 (1.35%) pfSense
11 14 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.84%) NFS
13 7 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
14 6 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.42%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.25%) GPFS
16 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.17%) KVM
17 2 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 169 (14.26%) Kubernetes
2 116 (9.79%) Terraform
3 100 (8.44%) Ansible
4 97 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (5.65%) Jamf Pro
6 50 (4.22%) vCenter Server
7 43 (3.63%) SCOM
8 34 (2.87%) ZABBIX
9 33 (2.78%) SCCM
10 28 (2.36%) WSUS
11 25 (2.11%) Puppet
12 22 (1.86%) Grafana
13 20 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
14 16 (1.35%) Data Guard
14 16 (1.35%) EMC NetWorker
15 15 (1.27%) NetBackup
15 15 (1.27%) Rancher
16 14 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (1.10%) WMI
18 11 (0.93%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 263 (22.19%) Microsoft
2 174 (14.68%) Red Hat
3 166 (14.01%) VMware
4 123 (10.38%) IBM
5 67 (5.65%) CyberArk
5 67 (5.65%) Tanium
6 66 (5.57%) Oracle
7 49 (4.14%) Juniper
8 41 (3.46%) Cisco
9 37 (3.12%) Veeam
10 32 (2.70%) SAP
11 27 (2.28%) EMC
11 27 (2.28%) Fortinet
12 24 (2.03%) Palo Alto
12 24 (2.03%) Xilinx
13 21 (1.77%) Dell
14 19 (1.60%) Splunk
15 18 (1.52%) Atlassian
16 17 (1.43%) Sun
17 16 (1.35%) HP