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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 59 13
Rank change year-on-year +18 -46 -7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 56 75 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.48% 3.83% 11.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.75% 32.75% 46.32%
Number of salaries quoted 19 69 90
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £31,020
25th Percentile £44,375 £38,750 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,650 £65,000 £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 128 229 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 12.52% 11.69% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 78 191 195
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,850
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £49,688 £51,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,825 £57,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £40,050 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.76% - -10.53%

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 14 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 14 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 +29 14 £60,000 +17.65% 18
Bletchley - 8 £57,500 - 2
Marlow -5 2 £42,500 - 1
Newport Pagnell - 2 - -
Princes Risborough - 2 - -
High Wycombe +3 1 £70,000 +75.00% 8
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 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) AWS
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.93%) SaaS
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.57%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.79%) IaaS
6 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (44.64%) TCP/IP
1 25 (44.64%) VPN
2 9 (16.07%) 5G
2 9 (16.07%) Bluetooth
2 9 (16.07%) LTE
2 9 (16.07%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.57%) DNS
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) Internet
3 2 (3.57%) SSL
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) DVB
4 1 (1.79%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.79%) SAN
4 1 (1.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.36%) Tableau
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (44.64%) Cucumber
1 25 (44.64%) Robot Framework
2 2 (3.57%) Eclipse
2 2 (3.57%) IntelliJ
2 2 (3.57%) Jasmine
2 2 (3.57%) JUnit
2 2 (3.57%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (3.57%) Mockito
2 2 (3.57%) Protractor
3 1 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 36 (64.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (44.64%) Telecoms
4 10 (17.86%) Electronics
5 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.79%) Finance
8 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Test Engineer
2 25 (44.64%) Test Automation Engineer
3 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Lead
4 9 (16.07%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Data Scientist
6 3 (5.36%) IT Support
7 2 (3.57%) Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior
7 2 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.79%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Technical Support
8 1 (1.79%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) React
2 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (3.57%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.57%) JPA
2 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) GStreamer
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Laravel
3 1 (1.79%) Node.js
3 1 (1.79%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (53.57%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (17.86%) IoT
3 9 (16.07%) NB-IoT
4 7 (12.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.57%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.79%) LIMS
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (80.36%) Windows
2 9 (16.07%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.36%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.79%) Android
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) DevOps
2 30 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 27 (48.21%) Test Automation
5 26 (46.43%) Coaching
6 25 (44.64%) System Testing
6 25 (44.64%) Test Management
7 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (17.86%) Project Planning
9 9 (16.07%) Agile
9 9 (16.07%) Asset Management
9 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (16.07%) Penetration Testing
9 9 (16.07%) Software Testing
9 9 (16.07%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 7 (12.50%) ITIL
11 5 (8.93%) Analytics
11 5 (8.93%) Data Science
11 5 (8.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 45 (80.36%) Python
2 37 (66.07%) PowerShell
3 35 (62.50%) Bash
4 28 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.07%) SQL
6 5 (8.93%) Java
7 3 (5.36%) Go
8 2 (3.57%) C#
8 2 (3.57%) C++
8 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) Korn
9 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (69.64%) Degree
2 11 (19.64%) CompTIA Security+
3 9 (16.07%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
4 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CCNP
6 1 (1.79%) CCSE
6 1 (1.79%) CCSM
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CISSP
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (44.64%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.86%) Docker
2 10 (17.86%) vSphere
3 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Terraform
2 10 (17.86%) Ansible
3 9 (16.07%) Puppet
4 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.57%) Graylog
6 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.64%) VMware
3 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) Apple
4 2 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco
5 1 (1.79%) Dell
5 1 (1.79%) F5
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Veeam