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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 52 156 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 4.17% 5.01% 6.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.60% 38.90% 48.75%
Number of salaries quoted 38 130 86
10th Percentile £44,650 £40,000 £45,125
25th Percentile £45,250 £47,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £63,125 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 - £91,250
South West median annual salary £46,500 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.85% -4.09% +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 107 401 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.58% 12.89% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 67 363 213
10th Percentile £34,750 £28,000 £26,400
25th Percentile £45,250 £36,625 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £77,533
South West median annual salary £40,000 £47,578 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.93% +5.73% -5.26%

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 12 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 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (9.62%) OpenStack
2 4 (7.69%) NetWeaver
2 4 (7.69%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.77%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) Azure
2 7 (13.46%) IaaS
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.69%) PaaS
4 3 (5.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Apigee
5 2 (3.85%) AWS
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Firewall
1 4 (7.69%) LAN
1 4 (7.69%) WAN
2 3 (5.77%) MPLS
2 3 (5.77%) SD-WAN
2 3 (5.77%) Unified Communications
2 3 (5.77%) VPN
2 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.85%) DHCP
3 2 (3.85%) DNS
4 1 (1.92%) Broadband
4 1 (1.92%) Internet
4 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (7.69%) SAP BW
2 4 (7.69%) SAP Data Services
2 4 (7.69%) SAP HANA
3 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) JIRA
1 18 (34.62%) Visual Studio
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (5.77%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.77%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (3.85%) Git
4 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) JUnit
4 2 (3.85%) Maven
4 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.92%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.92%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 18 (34.62%) Avionics
2 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Banking
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) General Ledger
5 3 (5.77%) Retail
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (51.92%) Senior
2 12 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Junior
5 4 (7.69%) Junior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Data Centre Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Development Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Firmware Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Lead
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Development Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Systems Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Web Services
2 3 (5.77%) CSS
2 3 (5.77%) HTML
2 3 (5.77%) JSP
2 3 (5.77%) Middleware
2 3 (5.77%) OpenCL
3 2 (3.85%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.85%) RESTful
3 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.69%) Device Driver
3 3 (5.77%) CUDA
3 3 (5.77%) PCIe
3 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) CCTV
5 1 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Unix
3 8 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.69%) AIX
4 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.92%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Mathematics
1 24 (46.15%) Physics
2 19 (36.54%) User Experience
3 18 (34.62%) Quality Management
3 18 (34.62%) UX Design
4 14 (26.92%) Software Engineering
5 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.54%) ITIL
7 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
8 5 (9.62%) OO
8 5 (9.62%) Service Delivery
8 5 (9.62%) Software Testing
9 4 (7.69%) Agile
9 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (51.92%) C
2 15 (28.85%) Python
3 13 (25.00%) Java
4 8 (15.38%) SQL
5 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.69%) Bash
6 4 (7.69%) C++
7 3 (5.77%) C#
7 3 (5.77%) Clojure
7 3 (5.77%) Go
8 2 (3.85%) Ada
8 2 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.85%) PMP
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) MCSA
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SLA
2 3 (5.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.92%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.92%) MISRA
4 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
1 5 (9.62%) Firmware
1 5 (9.62%) vSphere
2 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.46%) Terraform
3 4 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (3.85%) Istio
4 2 (3.85%) Podman
5 1 (1.92%) Ansible
5 1 (1.92%) Argo
5 1 (1.92%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) VMware
3 5 (9.62%) Graphcore
3 5 (9.62%) SolarWinds
3 5 (9.62%) Zscaler
4 4 (7.69%) IBM
4 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 4 (7.69%) SAP
5 3 (5.77%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.77%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (3.85%) Splunk
6 2 (3.85%) Veeam
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco
7 1 (1.92%) Google