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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 20 33
Rank change year-on-year -34 +13 -13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 153 423 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.15% 6.98% 7.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.53% 39.53% 37.36%
Number of salaries quoted 114 345 235
10th Percentile £30,375 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,313 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,625 £80,000 £75,450
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,686 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% -14.33% +8.33%

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 387 1,070 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.02% 17.65% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 299 920 667
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £25,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,938 £31,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -20.00% +11.76%
75th Percentile £58,086 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £67,500 £72,000
England median annual salary £46,323 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -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 1 May 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 1 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
Hertfordshire +7 64 £55,320 +0.58% 48
Cambridgeshire -18 32 £55,000 - 154
Bedfordshire +7 28 £40,000 - 11
Essex +26 23 £57,500 +4.55% 34
Norfolk -9 5 £37,000 +13.85% 3
Suffolk -25 2 £57,500 +9.52% 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 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.92%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.27%) Apache
4 4 (2.61%) IIS
5 3 (1.96%) nginx
6 2 (1.31%) Alfresco
6 2 (1.31%) Documentum
6 2 (1.31%) WordPress
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.65%) CMS
7 1 (0.65%) Confluence
7 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (39.87%) Azure
2 47 (30.72%) AWS
3 35 (22.88%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.23%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.61%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.61%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.61%) Rubrik
9 3 (1.96%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.96%) SaaS
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.31%) DigitalOcean
10 2 (1.31%) GCP
10 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.73%) VPN
2 19 (12.42%) TCP/IP
3 17 (11.11%) Firewall
4 13 (8.50%) DNS
5 8 (5.23%) VLAN
6 6 (3.92%) DHCP
7 5 (3.27%) SSL
8 4 (2.61%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (2.61%) DMARC
8 4 (2.61%) Ethernet
8 4 (2.61%) MPLS
8 4 (2.61%) Network Security
9 3 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.96%) HTTP
9 3 (1.96%) Internet
9 3 (1.96%) WAN
9 3 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.31%) PBX
10 2 (1.31%) VoIP
10 2 (1.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.46%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.58%) MySQL
5 6 (3.92%) Power BI
6 4 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.31%) Big Data
7 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.31%) Tableau
8 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (13.07%) Git
2 15 (9.80%) Cucumber
2 15 (9.80%) Robot Framework
3 7 (4.58%) GitLab
3 7 (4.58%) JIRA
4 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.31%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.31%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.31%) git-flow
6 2 (1.31%) Vite
6 2 (1.31%) webpack
7 1 (0.65%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.65%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.65%) GDB
7 1 (0.65%) Log4j
7 1 (0.65%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 44 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.80%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.92%) Retail
7 5 (3.27%) Electronics
8 4 (2.61%) Czech Language
8 4 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Finance
10 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Aviation
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (18.30%) Developer
2 17 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 17 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 15 (9.80%) Software Developer
4 14 (9.15%) Administrator
5 12 (7.84%) IT Support
5 12 (7.84%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Senior
7 10 (6.54%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (5.23%) .NET Developer
9 8 (5.23%) IT Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) Architect
12 5 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) PHP Developer
12 5 (3.27%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.99%) .NET
2 17 (11.11%) Node.js
3 15 (9.80%) Pandas
4 14 (9.15%) REST
5 11 (7.19%) Web Services
6 10 (6.54%) ASP.NET
7 8 (5.23%) .NET Framework
7 8 (5.23%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (5.23%) ASP.NET Web API
7 8 (5.23%) Entity Framework
7 8 (5.23%) jQuery
7 8 (5.23%) LINQ
8 7 (4.58%) CSS
9 6 (3.92%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (3.92%) HTML
10 5 (3.27%) XML
11 4 (2.61%) JSON
11 4 (2.61%) Laravel
11 4 (2.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (10.46%) Cyberattack
3 14 (9.15%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (5.23%) Driving Licence
6 7 (4.58%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.61%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.96%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.96%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.31%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.31%) FPGA
10 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.31%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 84 (54.90%) Windows
2 18 (11.76%) Android
3 14 (9.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (7.84%) Windows Server
5 11 (7.19%) Mac OS
6 8 (5.23%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (4.58%) Unix
8 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.61%) Windows 10
9 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.96%) Debian
10 3 (1.96%) SUSE
10 3 (1.96%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.31%) CentOS
11 2 (1.31%) VMS
12 1 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.65%) Rocky
12 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.68%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (26.14%) DevOps
3 33 (21.57%) CI/CD
4 32 (20.92%) Agile
5 28 (18.30%) Containerisation
5 28 (18.30%) Software Engineering
6 22 (14.38%) Collaborative Working
6 22 (14.38%) Mentoring
7 21 (13.73%) Test Automation
8 19 (12.42%) OO
9 18 (11.76%) Mathematics
9 18 (11.76%) OOP
10 17 (11.11%) Design Patterns
10 17 (11.11%) System Testing
11 16 (10.46%) Android Development
11 16 (10.46%) Coaching
11 16 (10.46%) ITIL
11 16 (10.46%) Line Management
12 15 (9.80%) Kanban
12 15 (9.80%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 67 (43.79%) Python
2 43 (28.10%) PowerShell
3 41 (26.80%) JavaScript
4 39 (25.49%) Bash
5 29 (18.95%) SQL
6 26 (16.99%) C++
6 26 (16.99%) Java
7 19 (12.42%) Rust
8 16 (10.46%) Go
9 14 (9.15%) C#
10 11 (7.19%) C
11 5 (3.27%) PHP
11 5 (3.27%) VBA
12 2 (1.31%) Ada
12 2 (1.31%) Groovy
13 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.65%) Tcl
13 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (24.18%) Degree
2 36 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 23 (15.03%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.50%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.61%) CCNA
7 4 (2.61%) CCNP
7 4 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.61%) MCP
7 4 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.96%) MCSA
8 3 (1.96%) MCSE
9 2 (1.31%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.31%) LPIC
9 2 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.46%) QA
2 5 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.65%) JTAG
5 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (30.72%) Docker
2 27 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.58%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.92%) vSphere
6 5 (3.27%) Firmware
7 3 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.96%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.31%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 35 (22.88%) Kubernetes
2 27 (17.65%) Ansible
3 21 (13.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (11.11%) Terraform
5 4 (2.61%) Graylog
5 4 (2.61%) NetBackup
5 4 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.96%) Nagios
6 3 (1.96%) Puppet
6 3 (1.96%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.96%) SCCM
6 3 (1.96%) WSUS
7 2 (1.31%) cPanel
7 2 (1.31%) Grafana
7 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.31%) Rancher
7 2 (1.31%) SCOM
7 2 (1.31%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (28.76%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.38%) VMware
3 13 (8.50%) Cisco
4 11 (7.19%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.58%) Juniper
6 6 (3.92%) NetApp
6 6 (3.92%) Oracle
7 5 (3.27%) Citrix
8 4 (2.61%) Commvault
8 4 (2.61%) SevOne
8 4 (2.61%) Zerto
9 3 (1.96%) EMC
9 3 (1.96%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.96%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.31%) Adobe
10 2 (1.31%) Avaya
10 2 (1.31%) BMC
10 2 (1.31%) Dell
10 2 (1.31%) SolarWinds