Linux Jobs in the East of England

Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -43 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 155 469 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.57% 6.84% 7.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.80% 41.00% 37.92%
Number of salaries quoted 90 394 216
10th Percentile £27,938 £31,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £84,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.70% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 410 1,144 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.09% 16.69% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 279 967 600
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £58,086 £57,500 £61,563
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the East of England.

Salary trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hertfordshire +4 68 £57,500 +4.55% 72
Cambridgeshire -23 34 £39,000 -33.62% 157
Essex +12 24 £55,000 - 27
Bedfordshire -4 18 £29,000 -27.50% 2
Norfolk -3 8 £37,000 +12.98%
Suffolk -35 4 £57,500 +6.98% 6
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 10 (6.45%) Tomcat
2 9 (5.81%) IIS
3 4 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.94%) Apache
5 2 (1.29%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.29%) CMS
5 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.29%) WordPress
6 1 (0.65%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) Documentum
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.29%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 73 (47.10%) AWS
2 55 (35.48%) Azure
3 32 (20.65%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (16.77%) Pulumi
5 15 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (7.10%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (5.81%) Power Automate
8 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.23%) Nutanix
9 5 (3.23%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.29%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.29%) DigitalOcean
10 2 (1.29%) GCP
10 2 (1.29%) GitHub
10 2 (1.29%) IaaS
10 2 (1.29%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.77%) Broadband
2 21 (13.55%) VPN
3 17 (10.97%) TCP/IP
4 14 (9.03%) Firewall
5 9 (5.81%) DMARC
5 9 (5.81%) SSL
6 5 (3.23%) DNS
7 4 (2.58%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (2.58%) DHCP
7 4 (2.58%) Ethernet
7 4 (2.58%) MPLS
7 4 (2.58%) VLAN
8 2 (1.29%) HTTP
8 2 (1.29%) SAN
9 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.65%) GSM
9 1 (0.65%) IPv4
9 1 (0.65%) SNMP
9 1 (0.65%) UMTS
9 1 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.06%) NoSQL
2 26 (16.77%) RDBMS
2 26 (16.77%) Relational Database
3 17 (10.97%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.52%) MySQL
7 2 (1.29%) Power BI
8 1 (0.65%) Big Data
8 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 26 (16.77%) Jaeger
2 15 (9.68%) Cucumber
2 15 (9.68%) Git
2 15 (9.68%) Robot Framework
3 7 (4.52%) JIRA
4 6 (3.87%) GitLab
5 3 (1.94%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.29%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.29%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.29%) git-flow
6 2 (1.29%) Vite
6 2 (1.29%) webpack
7 1 (0.65%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.65%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.65%) Selenium
7 1 (0.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (36.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 48 (30.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.81%) Czech Language
5 9 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Retail
7 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.29%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Aviation
8 1 (0.65%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (18.06%) Lead
2 26 (16.77%) Team Leader
3 22 (14.19%) Developer
4 17 (10.97%) Administrator
5 16 (10.32%) Software Developer
6 15 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
6 15 (9.68%) Test Engineer
7 13 (8.39%) Senior
8 12 (7.74%) IT Support
9 11 (7.10%) Linux Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (5.81%) IT Administrator
11 9 (5.81%) Support Engineer
12 8 (5.16%) Linux Support
12 8 (5.16%) Linux Support Engineer
12 8 (5.16%) Software Engineer
12 8 (5.16%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (3.87%) Linux Administrator
13 6 (3.87%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 6 (3.87%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.42%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (16.77%) OpenTelemetry
3 20 (12.90%) .NET
4 17 (10.97%) Node.js
5 15 (9.68%) Pandas
6 13 (8.39%) REST
7 9 (5.81%) JSON
7 9 (5.81%) SOAP
7 9 (5.81%) XML
8 7 (4.52%) CSS
9 6 (3.87%) HTML
10 5 (3.23%) LDAP
10 5 (3.23%) Web Services
11 4 (2.58%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.58%) Laravel
11 4 (2.58%) Vue
12 3 (1.94%) jQuery
12 3 (1.94%) Yocto
13 2 (1.29%) .NET Framework
13 2 (1.29%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (9.68%) Cyberattack
3 13 (8.39%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (6.45%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.87%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.23%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.23%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.29%) FPGA
10 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 72 (46.45%) Windows
2 37 (23.87%) Unix
3 18 (11.61%) Android
3 18 (11.61%) Mac OS
4 10 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.16%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.87%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.58%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.94%) Debian
9 3 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.29%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.29%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.65%) DevOps
2 56 (36.13%) Agile
3 51 (32.90%) Containerisation
4 44 (28.39%) Mentoring
5 38 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (22.58%) Roadmaps
7 29 (18.71%) CI/CD
7 29 (18.71%) High Availability
8 28 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (17.42%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (17.42%) Product Management
9 27 (17.42%) Software Engineering
10 26 (16.77%) Budget Control
10 26 (16.77%) Cost Optimisation
10 26 (16.77%) GitOps
10 26 (16.77%) Performance Optimisation
10 26 (16.77%) Resource Management
10 26 (16.77%) Task Automation
11 23 (14.84%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (12.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (56.77%) Python
2 73 (47.10%) JavaScript
3 72 (46.45%) Bash
4 56 (36.13%) Java
5 49 (31.61%) PowerShell
6 41 (26.45%) Go
7 23 (14.84%) C++
8 19 (12.26%) SQL
9 18 (11.61%) Rust
10 10 (6.45%) VBA
11 9 (5.81%) C
12 8 (5.16%) Shell Script
13 6 (3.87%) C#
14 4 (2.58%) PHP
15 2 (1.29%) Ada
15 2 (1.29%) Groovy
16 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
16 1 (0.65%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 31 (20.00%) Degree
2 29 (18.71%) Security Cleared
3 26 (16.77%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.29%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CCNA
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.65%) MCSA
9 1 (0.65%) MCSE
9 1 (0.65%) PhD
9 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.32%) QA
2 11 (7.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) JTAG
5 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (41.29%) Docker
2 24 (15.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.94%) Firmware
6 2 (1.29%) vSphere
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (33.55%) Ansible
1 52 (33.55%) Kubernetes
2 43 (27.74%) Terraform
3 31 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (18.06%) Prometheus
5 26 (16.77%) Argo
5 26 (16.77%) Kustomize
6 9 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.23%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.29%) Grafana
8 2 (1.29%) Rancher
9 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.65%) Graylog
9 1 (0.65%) Nessus
9 1 (0.65%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.65%) Puppet
9 1 (0.65%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.65%) WMI
9 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.77%) Google
3 16 (10.32%) VMware
4 10 (6.45%) Oracle
5 8 (5.16%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.52%) Apple
7 6 (3.87%) Cisco
8 5 (3.23%) Commvault
8 5 (3.23%) Juniper
8 5 (3.23%) Zerto
9 4 (2.58%) SevOne
10 3 (1.94%) NetApp
11 2 (1.29%) Adobe
11 2 (1.29%) Freshdesk
11 2 (1.29%) Workday
12 1 (0.65%) Dell
12 1 (0.65%) Nimble Storage
12 1 (0.65%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.65%) Pure Storage
12 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow