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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 836 709 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.14% 10.12% 13.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.26% 53.83% 59.58%
Number of salaries quoted 544 316 631
10th Percentile £37,000 £34,605 £31,680
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,175 £73,713
90th Percentile £82,200 £77,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,343 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.86% +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 1,631 1,317 1,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.83% 18.81% 23.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 769 1,212
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £32,461
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,918 £61,250 £65,720
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -1 332 £55,000 -1.79% 42
Wiltshire +12 156 £50,000 -24.53% 23
Bristol 0 156 £62,500 - 81
Devon +18 73 £40,000 -4.76% 12
Dorset -23 59 £50,000 - 12
Somerset +11 48 £45,000 -18.18% 13
Cornwall - 5 £55,000 -
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 64 (7.66%) Apache
2 30 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.63%) nginx
4 19 (2.27%) Jupyter
5 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.32%) Confluence
7 9 (1.08%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.84%) IIS
9 5 (0.60%) JBoss
10 4 (0.48%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.48%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.36%) Captiva
11 3 (0.36%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.36%) FileNet
11 3 (0.36%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.60%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.60%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.24%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.24%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 243 (29.07%) AWS
2 180 (21.53%) Azure
3 102 (12.20%) OpenShift
4 42 (5.02%) SaaS
5 40 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (4.55%) GCP
7 32 (3.83%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.11%) PaaS
9 25 (2.99%) IaaS
10 19 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.15%) Serverless
12 17 (2.03%) MinIO
13 12 (1.44%) Nutanix
14 9 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.96%) GitHub
15 8 (0.96%) Power Platform
16 7 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 72 (8.61%) TCP/IP
2 65 (7.78%) Firewall
3 63 (7.54%) DNS
4 44 (5.26%) HTTP
5 43 (5.14%) DHCP
6 28 (3.35%) Internet
7 25 (2.99%) VSAN
8 21 (2.51%) SAN
9 20 (2.39%) WAN
10 18 (2.15%) AMQP
11 16 (1.91%) Ethernet
11 16 (1.91%) NAS
12 15 (1.79%) iSCSI
12 15 (1.79%) Wireless
13 13 (1.56%) LAN
14 12 (1.44%) 5G
15 11 (1.32%) Network Security
15 11 (1.32%) RS-232
16 10 (1.20%) VLAN
16 10 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.14%) Big Data
2 39 (4.67%) MongoDB
3 36 (4.31%) SQL Server
4 30 (3.59%) Hadoop
4 30 (3.59%) MySQL
5 17 (2.03%) Presto
6 16 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
8 12 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.20%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.96%) Power BI
12 7 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.84%) SQLite
13 6 (0.72%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.72%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.60%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.48%) GIS
15 4 (0.48%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 65 (7.78%) JIRA
2 61 (7.30%) Git
3 51 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.99%) Subversion
5 17 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 17 (2.03%) Visual Studio
6 12 (1.44%) Eclipse
7 9 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.72%) GitLab
8 6 (0.72%) Maven
8 6 (0.72%) Postman
8 6 (0.72%) RStudio
9 5 (0.60%) LabVIEW
10 4 (0.48%) Gradle
10 4 (0.48%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 141 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 118 (14.11%) Aerospace
3 69 (8.25%) Finance
4 57 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.19%) Electronics
7 31 (3.71%) Manufacturing
8 26 (3.11%) Marketing
9 25 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (2.87%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.91%) Retail
13 9 (1.08%) Military
14 8 (0.96%) Aviation
15 7 (0.84%) Automotive
15 7 (0.84%) Avionics
15 7 (0.84%) Banking
15 7 (0.84%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 165 (19.74%) Software Engineer
2 159 (19.02%) Senior
3 136 (16.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 90 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (10.05%) Administrator
6 71 (8.49%) Embedded Engineer
7 70 (8.37%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 59 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 57 (6.82%) Linux Engineer
10 53 (6.34%) Systems Engineer
11 52 (6.22%) Developer
12 44 (5.26%) Lead
13 40 (4.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (4.67%) Systems Administrator
15 33 (3.95%) Architect
15 33 (3.95%) DBA
16 31 (3.71%) Consultant
17 30 (3.59%) Linux Administrator
18 29 (3.47%) Support Engineer
19 27 (3.23%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 42 (5.02%) React
3 31 (3.71%) HTML
4 28 (3.35%) Apache NiFi
5 26 (3.11%) Qt
5 26 (3.11%) REST
6 24 (2.87%) CSS
7 22 (2.63%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.51%) JSON
8 21 (2.51%) STL
8 21 (2.51%) XML
8 21 (2.51%) YAML
9 20 (2.39%) Spring Boot
10 19 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (2.27%) Swagger
11 18 (2.15%) Spring
12 17 (2.03%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (2.03%) Node.js
13 15 (1.79%) JSON Schema
13 15 (1.79%) KML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.10%) Public Cloud
2 35 (4.19%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (3.35%) Data Centre
4 28 (3.35%) Linux Command Line
4 28 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.75%) GNSS
6 22 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
7 18 (2.15%) FPGA
7 18 (2.15%) PKI
8 17 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 16 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.67%) EMC VNX
11 13 (1.56%) VHDL
12 12 (1.44%) Device Driver
13 11 (1.32%) Analogue Electronics
13 11 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.32%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.96%) IoT
14 8 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 331 (39.59%) Windows
2 125 (14.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 76 (9.09%) CentOS
4 67 (8.01%) Embedded Linux
5 62 (7.42%) Unix
6 55 (6.58%) Windows Server
7 52 (6.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 43 (5.14%) Ubuntu
8 43 (5.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 38 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 32 (3.83%) Debian
11 21 (2.51%) CoreOS
11 21 (2.51%) Windows 10
12 10 (1.20%) AIX
12 10 (1.20%) Solaris
13 8 (0.96%) Android
13 8 (0.96%) VMS
14 7 (0.84%) Windows 7
14 7 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (24.88%) Software Engineering
2 204 (24.40%) DevOps
3 174 (20.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 143 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
5 130 (15.55%) Agile
6 118 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (12.32%) Cybersecurity
8 90 (10.77%) Containerisation
9 85 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 83 (9.93%) CI/CD
11 80 (9.57%) Collaborative Working
11 80 (9.57%) Configuration Management
12 77 (9.21%) Mentoring
13 75 (8.97%) Computer Science
14 70 (8.37%) Validation
15 57 (6.82%) B2B
16 56 (6.70%) Scrum
17 53 (6.34%) SDLC
18 51 (6.10%) Continuous Integration
18 51 (6.10%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 355 (42.46%) Python
2 263 (31.46%) Bash
3 132 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 128 (15.31%) C
5 118 (14.11%) Java
6 110 (13.16%) SQL
7 72 (8.61%) C++
8 65 (7.78%) JavaScript
9 57 (6.82%) Embedded C
10 56 (6.70%) Rust
11 41 (4.90%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.99%) Perl
13 21 (2.51%) PHP
14 14 (1.67%) C#
14 14 (1.67%) TypeScript
15 12 (1.44%) Go
15 12 (1.44%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.32%) Tcl
17 10 (1.20%) Ada
17 10 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 432 (51.67%) Security Cleared
2 228 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 118 (14.11%) Degree
4 112 (13.40%) SC Cleared
5 33 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.03%) HND
7 14 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.44%) CCNA
9 10 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.20%) CCNP
9 10 (1.20%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.20%) RHCE
9 10 (1.20%) RHCSA
10 9 (1.08%) PMP
11 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.60%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.03%) PMO
2 12 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (1.44%) QA
3 10 (1.20%) SLA
4 8 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.72%) NCSC
6 4 (0.48%) GDPR
7 3 (0.36%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.36%) MISRA
8 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (16.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 138 (16.51%) Docker
3 63 (7.54%) Active Directory
4 58 (6.94%) Hyper-V
5 39 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (3.71%) Firmware
7 30 (3.59%) vSphere
8 18 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (1.44%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.84%) KVM
11 7 (0.84%) XenApp
12 3 (0.36%) Ceph
12 3 (0.36%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (0.36%) Gluster
12 3 (0.36%) oVirt
12 3 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.24%) NFS
13 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 248 (29.67%) Ansible
2 179 (21.41%) Kubernetes
3 134 (16.03%) Puppet
4 116 (13.88%) Terraform
5 42 (5.02%) vCenter Server
6 34 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 27 (3.23%) Nagios
8 26 (3.11%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.99%) Grafana
10 17 (2.03%) EMC NetWorker
10 17 (2.03%) HAProxy
11 15 (1.79%) SCCM
12 11 (1.32%) ZABBIX
13 9 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.84%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.72%) Icinga
15 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.72%) Opsgenie
16 5 (0.60%) Podman
16 5 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 180 (21.53%) VMware
2 155 (18.54%) Red Hat
3 120 (14.35%) Microsoft
4 52 (6.22%) Oracle
5 40 (4.78%) Cisco
6 27 (3.23%) Veeam
7 24 (2.87%) EMC
7 24 (2.87%) SolarWinds
8 19 (2.27%) Google
9 17 (2.03%) SaltStack
10 13 (1.56%) Citrix
10 13 (1.56%) NetApp
10 13 (1.56%) SAP
11 12 (1.44%) Brocade
12 9 (1.08%) Xilinx
13 8 (0.96%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.84%) Altera
14 7 (0.84%) Green Hills
14 7 (0.84%) Motorola
14 7 (0.84%) Sybase