Linux Jobs in Essex

Linux
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 55 55
Rank change year-on-year +22 0 -22
Permanent jobs citing Linux 27 19 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 5.58% 2.17% 4.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.57% 12.18% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 20
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% +23.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £54,625
90th Percentile £65,250 - £63,575
East of England median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -8.70% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 70 156 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 14.46% 17.85% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39 142 106
10th Percentile £27,000 £22,825 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £25,759 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £30,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% -2.60%
75th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £79,375
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £38,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.88% -14.44% +5.88%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
Waltham Abbey - 4 £57,500 -
Chelmsford +17 2 £63,750 +15.91% 50
Basildon +12 2 £32,500 -37.50% 48
Buckhurst Hill - 2 - -
Saffron Walden - 2 £55,000 - 6
Colchester +12 1 £47,500 +18.75% 43
Grays +4 1 - -
Hockley - 1 - -
Purfleet - 1 - -
Epping - 1 - -
Chigwell - 1 - -
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 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) Azure
3 8 (29.63%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (29.63%) Pulumi
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) Broadband
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (29.63%) NoSQL
1 8 (29.63%) RDBMS
1 8 (29.63%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jaeger
2 7 (25.93%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Vite
3 2 (7.41%) webpack
4 1 (3.70%) PetaLinux
General
1 16 (59.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Lead
2 8 (29.63%) Software Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Team Leader
3 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Junior
4 2 (7.41%) Junior Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Junior PHP Developer
4 2 (7.41%) PHP Developer
4 2 (7.41%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) .NET
2 10 (37.04%) Node.js
3 8 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (29.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (29.63%) Pandas
4 5 (18.52%) jQuery
5 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (11.11%) Entity Framework
5 3 (11.11%) LINQ
5 3 (11.11%) REST
5 3 (11.11%) Web Services
6 2 (7.41%) Bootstrap
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) HTML
6 2 (7.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Cyberattack
2 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.70%) FPGA
3 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Verilog
3 1 (3.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Android
2 8 (29.63%) Unix
3 3 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Agile
2 16 (59.26%) Containerisation
3 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) DevOps
4 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
5 9 (33.33%) Android Development
5 9 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 9 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 9 (33.33%) OO
5 9 (33.33%) OOP
6 8 (29.63%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (29.63%) GitOps
6 8 (29.63%) High Availability
6 8 (29.63%) Line Management
6 8 (29.63%) Performance Optimisation
6 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
6 8 (29.63%) Secure Coding
6 8 (29.63%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Python
2 18 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 16 (59.26%) Go
3 16 (59.26%) Java
4 11 (40.74%) C++
5 9 (33.33%) Rust
6 8 (29.63%) Bash
7 3 (11.11%) C#
7 3 (11.11%) SQL
8 2 (7.41%) PHP
9 1 (3.70%) C
9 1 (3.70%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) AWS Certification
2 8 (29.63%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) CCNA
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) LPIC
4 1 (3.70%) MCP
4 1 (3.70%) MCSE
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 19 (70.37%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (59.26%) Ansible
2 16 (59.26%) Terraform
3 9 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 8 (29.63%) Argo
4 8 (29.63%) Kustomize
5 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Google
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Adobe
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) Xilinx