Linux Jobs in Devon

Linux
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 37 78 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 7.44% 8.87% 8.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.74% 51.66% 54.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4 21 31
10th Percentile £44,625 - £24,146
25th Percentile £49,688 £30,000 £30,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,125 £42,500 £52,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £55,000
South West median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 113 151 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 22.74% 17.18% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 61 80 66
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £24,625
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £40,000 £35,753
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +11.88% -11.72%
75th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,900
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,700 £55,000
South West median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -5.26%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Devon

Linux
Salary Trend in Devon

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

Salary trend for Linux in Devon

Linux
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Devon over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Devon

Linux
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Devon region over the 6 months to 18 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
Paignton -1 25 £60,000 -
Exeter +16 4 £55,000 +29.41% 9
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Pulumi
3 2 (5.41%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) 5G
1 4 (10.81%) SD-WAN
1 4 (10.81%) WAN
1 4 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (8.11%) Broadband
3 2 (5.41%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
1 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (51.35%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
3 3 (8.11%) Jaeger
General
1 28 (75.68%) Social Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Electronics
4 5 (13.51%) Marketing
5 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Support Engineer
2 19 (51.35%) Technical Engineer
2 19 (51.35%) Technical Support
2 19 (51.35%) Technical Support Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Senior
4 6 (16.22%) FPGA Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior VHDL Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) VHDL Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) C Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Embedded C Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Real Time Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Real Time Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Real Time Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (8.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.70%) Laravel
2 1 (2.70%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.70%) RESTful
2 1 (2.70%) Symfony
2 1 (2.70%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 24 (64.86%) Satnav
2 9 (24.32%) GNSS
3 6 (16.22%) FPGA
3 6 (16.22%) MicroBlaze
3 6 (16.22%) VHDL
4 4 (10.81%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) B2B
2 27 (72.97%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (62.16%) Test Automation
4 19 (51.35%) CRM
4 19 (51.35%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (24.32%) Computer Science
5 9 (24.32%) Defect Tracking
5 9 (24.32%) Requirements Analysis
6 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.22%) FPGA Design
8 5 (13.51%) Creative Thinking
8 5 (13.51%) Innovative Thinking
8 5 (13.51%) Signal Processing
9 4 (10.81%) Configuration Management
9 4 (10.81%) DevOps
9 4 (10.81%) Multithreading
9 4 (10.81%) Product Marketing
9 4 (10.81%) Software Architecture
9 4 (10.81%) UML
9 4 (10.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) C
1 9 (24.32%) C++
2 5 (13.51%) MATLAB
2 5 (13.51%) Perl
2 5 (13.51%) Tcl
2 5 (13.51%) VB
3 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.11%) Bash
4 3 (8.11%) Go
4 3 (8.11%) Java
4 3 (8.11%) Python
5 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) PHP
6 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) Degree
2 19 (51.35%) HND
3 16 (43.24%) HNC
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.41%) CCNA
5 2 (5.41%) CCNP
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.41%) CISSP
5 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (16.22%) Firmware
2 3 (8.11%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Ansible
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Argo
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Kustomize
2 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Salesforce
2 6 (16.22%) Xilinx
3 5 (13.51%) Altera
3 5 (13.51%) Green Hills
4 4 (10.81%) Intel
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) Google
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.41%) HP
6 2 (5.41%) VMware
7 1 (2.70%) SAP