Linux Jobs in Croydon

Linux
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 46 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 -24 +23
Permanent jobs citing Linux 9 7 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 4.41% 3.32% 6.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.94% 50.00% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £66,750 -
25th Percentile - £76,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile - £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £88,000
South London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% +26.19% -28.81%

All Operating Systems
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 14 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 8.33% 6.64% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 18
10th Percentile £37,750 £23,000 £34,025
25th Percentile £49,375 £23,688 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +15.00% +13.52%
75th Percentile £78,125 £82,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,250 £86,000 £80,000
South London median annual salary £45,000 £39,750 £42,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% +1.20%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Croydon

Linux
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Linux in Croydon

Linux
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 15 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
Coulsdon - 1 - -
Kenley - 1 - -
South Croydon - 1 - -
Thornton Heath - 1 - -
Linux
South London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) Pulumi
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) SSL
2 4 (44.44%) Broadband
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
1 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (44.44%) Jaeger
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Team Leader
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (44.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Ubuntu
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Capacity Management
2 5 (55.56%) Patch Management
3 4 (44.44%) Budget Control
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (44.44%) GitOps
3 4 (44.44%) High Availability
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Key Management
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (44.44%) Product Management
3 4 (44.44%) Resource Management
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Log Aggregation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) Go
3 4 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Nessus
3 4 (44.44%) Argo
3 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (44.44%) Kustomize
3 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 4 (44.44%) Proxmox
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
1 4 (44.44%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Sophos
2 1 (11.11%) VMware