Linux Jobs in Essex

Linux
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 52 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 -21 -14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 25 37 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 2.85% 4.30% 7.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.06% 24.50% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 21 22 23
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,375 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% -29.17%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,875 £56,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,750 £61,000
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +10.60%

All Operating Systems
Essex

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 166 151 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 18.91% 17.56% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 149 112 97
10th Percentile £23,350 £25,000 £24,900
25th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.90% -18.95%
75th Percentile £40,000 £62,625 £52,500
90th Percentile £51,200 £80,000 £65,000
East of England median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.76% -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Essex over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Essex

Linux
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Essex region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Colchester +6 9 £40,000 -33.33% 1
Basildon -11 4 £52,000 -45.55%
Chelmsford 0 3 £55,000 +29.41%
Grays -2 3 £60,000 -
Southend-on-Sea +16 2 - -
Harlow - 2 - -
Brentwood -17 1 £57,500 +43.75%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 6 (24.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) FTP
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 7 (28.00%) GitLab
3 6 (24.00%) webpack
4 3 (12.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (8.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (8.00%) JIRA
5 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
1 6 (24.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) PHP Developer
1 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Technician
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Node.js
1 6 (24.00%) React
1 6 (24.00%) Symfony
2 3 (12.00%) ADO
3 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.00%) JSON
3 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Alpine Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.00%) Security Hardening
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) Line Management
6 2 (8.00%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.00%) Issue Tracking
6 2 (8.00%) Microservices
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Static Code Analysis
6 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) PHP
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (24.00%) Rust
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.00%) C
3 3 (12.00%) Java
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) Ruby
3 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.00%) Groovy
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) COBOL
5 1 (4.00%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.00%) CCNA
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (8.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Puppet
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Micro Focus