Linux Jobs in Bristol

Linux
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 38 39
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 49 161 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 4.14% 5.10% 6.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.00% 39.36% 49.02%
Number of salaries quoted 36 135 82
10th Percentile £40,412 £40,000 £46,300
25th Percentile £45,250 £47,500 £51,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £87,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £77,500 - £92,250
South West median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 100 409 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.45% 12.97% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 60 372 203
10th Percentile £32,325 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £43,625 £36,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £77,542
South West median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -6.25%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Bristol

Linux
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Bristol.

Salary trend for Linux in Bristol

Linux
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Bristol

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (10.20%) OpenStack
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (6.12%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) NetWeaver
4 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.29%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.16%) IaaS
4 3 (6.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.12%) SaaS
5 2 (4.08%) Apigee
5 2 (4.08%) AWS
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
1 4 (8.16%) LAN
1 4 (8.16%) WAN
2 3 (6.12%) MPLS
2 3 (6.12%) SD-WAN
2 3 (6.12%) Unified Communications
2 3 (6.12%) VPN
2 3 (6.12%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.04%) Broadband
3 1 (2.04%) DHCP
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
3 1 (2.04%) Internet
3 1 (2.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Big Data
3 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.04%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (36.73%) JIRA
1 18 (36.73%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.12%) Eclipse
2 3 (6.12%) Eclipse RCP
2 3 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) JUnit
3 2 (4.08%) Maven
3 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.04%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.04%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 18 (36.73%) Avionics
2 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Retail
5 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Electronics
6 1 (2.04%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (55.10%) Senior
2 12 (24.49%) Software Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Junior
5 4 (8.16%) Junior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Data Centre Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Development Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Lead
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Development Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.04%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Network Manager
8 1 (2.04%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) CSS
1 3 (6.12%) HTML
1 3 (6.12%) JSP
1 3 (6.12%) Middleware
1 3 (6.12%) OpenCL
2 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
2 2 (4.08%) RESTful
2 2 (4.08%) Spring
2 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.12%) CUDA
3 3 (6.12%) Device Driver
3 3 (6.12%) PCIe
4 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) CCTV
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Unix
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.12%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.04%) AIX
5 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) Mathematics
1 24 (48.98%) Physics
2 19 (38.78%) User Experience
3 18 (36.73%) Quality Management
3 18 (36.73%) UX Design
4 14 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
7 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.20%) ITIL
8 5 (10.20%) OO
8 5 (10.20%) Software Testing
9 4 (8.16%) Agile
9 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (8.16%) ITSM
9 4 (8.16%) Migration
9 4 (8.16%) UML
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) C
2 15 (30.61%) Python
3 10 (20.41%) Java
4 8 (16.33%) SQL
5 6 (12.24%) C++
5 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.16%) Bash
8 3 (6.12%) C#
8 3 (6.12%) Clojure
8 3 (6.12%) Go
9 2 (4.08%) Ada
9 2 (4.08%) Rust
10 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
10 1 (2.04%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 26 (53.06%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) MCSA
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) SLA
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.04%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) MISRA
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) Firmware
2 4 (8.16%) vSphere
3 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) Istio
3 2 (4.08%) Podman
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
4 1 (2.04%) Argo
4 1 (2.04%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.04%) SCCM
4 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) VMware
3 5 (10.20%) Graphcore
4 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
4 4 (8.16%) Zscaler
5 3 (6.12%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.12%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (4.08%) SAP
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco
7 1 (2.04%) Google
7 1 (2.04%) IBM
7 1 (2.04%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle
7 1 (2.04%) Splunk
7 1 (2.04%) Veeam