Linux Jobs in Cambridge

Linux
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 5 16
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 18 205 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.26% 20.16% 12.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.50% 73.48% 62.30%
Number of salaries quoted 17 148 50
10th Percentile - £36,250 £32,447
25th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - -16.98% +6.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £40,000 £56,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -28.89% -10.00% -

All Operating Systems
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 48 279 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 19.35% 27.43% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 38 220 98
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,625 £27,925
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,188 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £42,500 £46,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.60% -2.11% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cambridge

Linux
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Linux in Cambridge

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cambridge over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Cambridge

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 6 (33.33%) IIS
1 6 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
1 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 6 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DMARC
1 6 (33.33%) SSL
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) Bluetooth
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) GDB
4 1 (5.56%) KGDB
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Czech Language
2 6 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Aviation
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Administrator
2 6 (33.33%) IT Administrator
2 6 (33.33%) IT Support
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Support
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Research Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) JSON
1 6 (33.33%) REST
1 6 (33.33%) SOAP
1 6 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) Django
2 1 (5.56%) Google JAX
2 1 (5.56%) JAX
2 1 (5.56%) OpenEmbedded
2 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
5 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (5.56%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (5.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Unix
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Android
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) CRM
2 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 6 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 6 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 6 (33.33%) Project Management
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 3 (16.67%) Change Control
3 3 (16.67%) Open Source
4 2 (11.11%) Linux Kernel Development
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Generative AI
5 1 (5.56%) LLM
5 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 6 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) VBA
3 5 (27.78%) Bash
4 4 (22.22%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) C
6 1 (5.56%) C++
6 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) JTAG
2 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) Firmware
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Graylog
3 3 (16.67%) Nagios
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 3 (16.67%) Rundeck
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
2 3 (16.67%) Citrix
2 3 (16.67%) Juniper
2 3 (16.67%) NetApp
2 3 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 3 (16.67%) Pure Storage
2 3 (16.67%) VMware