Linux Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Linux
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 7 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 33 236 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.64% 14.16% 10.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.74% 66.67% 49.08%
Number of salaries quoted 27 172 67
10th Percentile £25,950 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £85,000 £91,000
East of England median annual salary £55,320 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.09% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 95 354 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.11% 21.24% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 67 277 153
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.06% +2.11%
75th Percentile £54,363 £68,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £79,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +5.88%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Cambridge -24 17 £50,000 -9.09% 253
Huntingdon - 3 £26,000 - 3
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 9 (27.27%) IIS
1 9 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) nginx
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.03%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (12.12%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) Entra ID
2 10 (30.30%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Copilot
3 9 (27.27%) Power Automate
4 5 (15.15%) AWS
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) DMARC
1 9 (27.27%) SSL
2 6 (18.18%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) VLAN
4 3 (9.09%) HTTP
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.03%) Bluetooth
6 1 (3.03%) Broadband
6 1 (3.03%) CATAPAN
6 1 (3.03%) DHCP
6 1 (3.03%) IPsec
6 1 (3.03%) Multicast
6 1 (3.03%) OSPF
6 1 (3.03%) SAN
6 1 (3.03%) SNMP
6 1 (3.03%) SSH
6 1 (3.03%) VoIP
6 1 (3.03%) VPN
6 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) SQL Server
2 9 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 3 (9.09%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.03%) GDB
4 1 (3.03%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.03%) KGDB
4 1 (3.03%) Selenium
4 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Czech Language
2 9 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Aviation
4 1 (3.03%) Electronics
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Administrator
2 9 (27.27%) IT Administrator
2 9 (27.27%) IT Support
3 7 (21.21%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Linux Support
4 5 (15.15%) Linux Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) 1st Line Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Junior
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) JSON
1 9 (27.27%) REST
1 9 (27.27%) SOAP
1 9 (27.27%) XML
2 2 (6.06%) Yocto
3 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.03%) Django
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Google JAX
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) JAX
3 1 (3.03%) OpenEmbedded
3 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.03%) POSIX
3 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.03%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
4 4 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (9.09%) Driving Licence
5 3 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
7 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (3.03%) Device Driver
7 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (3.03%) PKI
7 1 (3.03%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (3.03%) Robotics
7 1 (3.03%) Smartcard
7 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 10 (30.30%) Unix
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (15.15%) Mac OS
5 2 (6.06%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.03%) Android
6 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (36.36%) Agile
3 10 (30.30%) Roadmaps
4 9 (27.27%) CRM
4 9 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 9 (27.27%) Data Privacy
4 9 (27.27%) Portfolio Management
4 9 (27.27%) Project Management
4 9 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
5 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (18.18%) Asset Management
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Conversational UI
7 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.12%) Open Source
7 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
8 3 (9.09%) CAD
8 3 (9.09%) Hardware Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 13 (39.39%) SQL
3 12 (36.36%) Bash
3 12 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 10 (30.30%) Java
5 9 (27.27%) VBA
6 7 (21.21%) Python
7 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
8 4 (12.12%) C
9 2 (6.06%) C++
10 1 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.03%) CCNA
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) PhD
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) JTAG
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) Docker
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.03%) Firmware
5 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (15.15%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) Graylog
4 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.06%) Nagios
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
4 2 (6.06%) Rundeck
4 2 (6.06%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) Argo
5 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.03%) Kustomize
5 1 (3.03%) Nessus
5 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) WMI
5 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle
3 4 (12.12%) Apple
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 3 (9.09%) VMware
5 2 (6.06%) Citrix
5 2 (6.06%) Juniper
5 2 (6.06%) NetApp
5 2 (6.06%) PagerDuty
5 2 (6.06%) Pure Storage
6 1 (3.03%) Dell
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Veeam