Linux Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Linux
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 57 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 -42 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 46 71 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 4.28% 3.52% 10.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.10% 31.98% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10 65 81
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £36,875 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £67,125 £55,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 124 222 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.52% 11.01% 23.22%
Number of salaries quoted 76 185 183
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £42,438 £50,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.58% -8.95%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Buckinghamshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Buckinghamshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Buckinghamshire

Linux
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +26 7 £47,500 -6.86% 58
Bletchley - 4 £45,000 -
High Wycombe +9 2 £70,000 +75.00% 52
Marlow -11 2 £42,500 -
Newport Pagnell - 2 - -
Princes Risborough - 2 - -
Iver +3 1 - -
Buckingham - 1 - -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) AWS
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (2.17%) IaaS
4 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (54.35%) TCP/IP
1 25 (54.35%) VPN
2 9 (19.57%) 5G
2 9 (19.57%) Bluetooth
2 9 (19.57%) LTE
2 9 (19.57%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.35%) Firewall
3 2 (4.35%) iSCSI
3 2 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (2.17%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) MySQL
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.17%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (54.35%) Cucumber
1 25 (54.35%) Robot Framework
2 1 (2.17%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (80.43%) Social Skills
2 35 (76.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (54.35%) Telecoms
4 10 (21.74%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Test Engineer
2 25 (54.35%) Test Automation Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Lead
4 9 (19.57%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) Developer
6 2 (4.35%) IT Support
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Communications Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Support
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) React
2 1 (2.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) GStreamer
2 1 (2.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) Laravel
2 1 (2.17%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (56.52%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (21.74%) IoT
3 9 (19.57%) NB-IoT
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.17%) LIMS
6 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (91.30%) Windows
2 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) DevOps
2 28 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (56.52%) Test Automation
4 25 (54.35%) Coaching
4 25 (54.35%) Mentoring
4 25 (54.35%) System Testing
4 25 (54.35%) Test Management
5 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (19.57%) Asset Management
6 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (19.57%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (19.57%) Project Planning
6 9 (19.57%) Software Testing
6 9 (19.57%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (8.70%) Agile
7 4 (8.70%) ITIL
8 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.52%) Software Engineering
9 2 (4.35%) Containerisation
9 2 (4.35%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (84.78%) Python
2 36 (78.26%) Bash
3 35 (76.09%) PowerShell
4 27 (58.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.52%) SQL
6 2 (4.35%) C++
6 2 (4.35%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) Korn
6 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (80.43%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) CompTIA Security+
2 9 (19.57%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (54.35%) QA
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (21.74%) vSphere
2 6 (13.04%) Docker
3 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 9 (19.57%) Puppet
4 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) VMware
3 2 (4.35%) Dell
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.17%) Veeam