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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -42 +12 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 159 438 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.75% 6.80% 7.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.31% 39.85% 37.11%
Number of salaries quoted 93 365 219
10th Percentile £26,625 £31,350 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £47,250
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 £78,500 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £64,140
% change year-on-year +9.09% -14.25% +6.90%

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 415 1,099 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.41% 17.07% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 274 940 614
10th Percentile £27,075 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,250 £31,063
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 31 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 31 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 +1 69 £57,500 +4.55% 46
Cambridgeshire -21 34 £42,500 -26.09% 136
Essex +22 26 £56,250 +13.64% 19
Bedfordshire -2 19 £31,688 -20.78% 8
Norfolk -8 8 £37,000 +13.85% 3
Suffolk -31 4 £57,500 +6.98% 5
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 (6.29%) Tomcat
2 9 (5.66%) IIS
3 5 (3.14%) Apache
3 5 (3.14%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.89%) nginx
5 2 (1.26%) WordPress
6 1 (0.63%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) Documentum
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.26%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 73 (45.91%) AWS
2 58 (36.48%) Azure
3 34 (21.38%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (16.35%) Pulumi
5 15 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (7.55%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (5.66%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.14%) Nutanix
8 5 (3.14%) Rubrik
9 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.89%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.26%) DigitalOcean
11 2 (1.26%) GCP
11 2 (1.26%) IaaS
11 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.35%) Broadband
2 21 (13.21%) VPN
3 17 (10.69%) TCP/IP
4 16 (10.06%) Firewall
5 9 (5.66%) DMARC
5 9 (5.66%) SSL
6 6 (3.77%) DNS
7 5 (3.14%) DHCP
7 5 (3.14%) VLAN
8 4 (2.52%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (2.52%) Ethernet
8 4 (2.52%) MPLS
9 3 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.89%) HTTP
10 2 (1.26%) SAN
10 2 (1.26%) VoIP
11 1 (0.63%) IPv4
11 1 (0.63%) OSPF
11 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.61%) NoSQL
2 26 (16.35%) RDBMS
2 26 (16.35%) Relational Database
3 19 (11.95%) SQL Server
4 16 (10.06%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.77%) MySQL
7 3 (1.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.63%) Big Data
8 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (16.35%) Jaeger
2 16 (10.06%) Git
3 15 (9.43%) Cucumber
3 15 (9.43%) Robot Framework
4 8 (5.03%) GitLab
5 7 (4.40%) JIRA
6 5 (3.14%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.26%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (1.26%) git-flow
8 2 (1.26%) Vite
8 2 (1.26%) webpack
9 1 (0.63%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.63%) ClearQuest
9 1 (0.63%) GDB
9 1 (0.63%) Selenium
9 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 57 (35.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 45 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.43%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.66%) Czech Language
5 9 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.14%) Retail
7 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.26%) Electronics
7 2 (1.26%) Finance
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 28 (17.61%) Lead
2 26 (16.35%) Team Leader
3 24 (15.09%) Developer
4 18 (11.32%) Administrator
5 16 (10.06%) Software Developer
5 16 (10.06%) Test Automation Engineer
5 16 (10.06%) Test Engineer
6 13 (8.18%) IT Support
7 12 (7.55%) Senior
8 11 (6.92%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) IT Administrator
9 9 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (5.03%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.40%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Architect
12 5 (3.14%) Junior
12 5 (3.14%) Linux Administrator
12 5 (3.14%) Linux Support
12 5 (3.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.98%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (16.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 22 (13.84%) .NET
4 17 (10.69%) Node.js
5 15 (9.43%) Pandas
5 15 (9.43%) REST
6 9 (5.66%) JSON
6 9 (5.66%) SOAP
6 9 (5.66%) XML
7 7 (4.40%) CSS
7 7 (4.40%) Web Services
8 6 (3.77%) ASP.NET
8 6 (3.77%) HTML
9 4 (2.52%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (2.52%) Entity Framework
9 4 (2.52%) jQuery
9 4 (2.52%) Laravel
9 4 (2.52%) LDAP
9 4 (2.52%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.84%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (9.43%) Cyberattack
3 14 (8.81%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (7.55%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.40%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.77%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.52%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.89%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (1.26%) FPGA
11 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 75 (47.17%) Windows
2 37 (23.27%) Unix
3 18 (11.32%) Android
4 15 (9.43%) Mac OS
5 12 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.03%) Windows Server
7 6 (3.77%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.52%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.89%) Debian
10 3 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.26%) Windows 10
11 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.63%) CentOS
12 1 (0.63%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.25%) DevOps
2 58 (36.48%) Agile
3 51 (32.08%) Containerisation
4 45 (28.30%) Mentoring
5 43 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (22.01%) Roadmaps
7 30 (18.87%) CI/CD
8 29 (18.24%) High Availability
9 28 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (16.98%) Product Management
10 27 (16.98%) Software Engineering
11 26 (16.35%) Budget Control
11 26 (16.35%) Cost Optimisation
11 26 (16.35%) GitOps
11 26 (16.35%) Performance Optimisation
11 26 (16.35%) Resource Management
11 26 (16.35%) Task Automation
12 22 (13.84%) Collaborative Working
13 20 (12.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (54.72%) Python
2 72 (45.28%) JavaScript
3 71 (44.65%) Bash
4 56 (35.22%) Java
5 49 (30.82%) PowerShell
6 41 (25.79%) Go
7 23 (14.47%) C++
7 23 (14.47%) SQL
8 18 (11.32%) Rust
9 10 (6.29%) VBA
10 9 (5.66%) C
11 8 (5.03%) C#
12 5 (3.14%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.52%) PHP
14 2 (1.26%) Ada
14 2 (1.26%) Groovy
15 1 (0.63%) SystemVerilog
15 1 (0.63%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 32 (20.13%) Degree
2 29 (18.24%) Security Cleared
3 26 (16.35%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.58%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.29%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.26%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.26%) CCNA
9 2 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.26%) MCSE
9 2 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CCNP
10 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.63%) MCP
10 1 (0.63%) MCSA
10 1 (0.63%) PhD
10 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.06%) QA
2 11 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) JTAG
5 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (40.88%) Docker
2 27 (16.98%) Active Directory
3 15 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.89%) Firmware
5 3 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.89%) vSphere
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (33.96%) Ansible
1 54 (33.96%) Kubernetes
2 43 (27.04%) Terraform
3 29 (18.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (17.61%) Prometheus
5 26 (16.35%) Argo
5 26 (16.35%) Kustomize
6 9 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.14%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.89%) Graylog
8 3 (1.89%) Nagios
8 3 (1.89%) Puppet
8 3 (1.89%) Rundeck
9 2 (1.26%) Grafana
9 2 (1.26%) Rancher
10 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.63%) Nessus
10 1 (0.63%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 41 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.35%) Google
3 19 (11.95%) VMware
4 10 (6.29%) Cisco
4 10 (6.29%) Oracle
5 8 (5.03%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.40%) Juniper
7 5 (3.14%) Commvault
7 5 (3.14%) NetApp
7 5 (3.14%) Zerto
8 4 (2.52%) Apple
8 4 (2.52%) Citrix
8 4 (2.52%) SevOne
9 3 (1.89%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.89%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.26%) Adobe
10 2 (1.26%) Freshdesk
10 2 (1.26%) Workday
11 1 (0.63%) Dell
11 1 (0.63%) EMC