Linux Jobs in Hertfordshire

Linux
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 28 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 69 110 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.26% 5.31% 6.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.59% 32.07% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45 106 67
10th Percentile £51,250 £35,000 £46,050
25th Percentile £52,554 £47,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
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
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 145 343 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 17.37% 16.55% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 95 311 215
10th Percentile £31,450 £24,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £27,000 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £40,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -16.67% +12.94%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £65,000 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +5.88%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +8 12 £60,000 - 18
St Albans +18 7 £62,500 +13.64%
Hemel Hempstead +3 7 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Watford +10 6 £52,500 -8.70% 10
Hertford +14 4 £73,750 +268.75%
Bishop's Stortford +10 2 £57,500 -11.54%
Hatfield +6 1 - -
Borehamwood +5 1 - - 1
Potters Bar +3 1 - -
Hoddesdon -1 1 - -
Radlett - 1 - -
Waltham Cross - 1 - -
Cheshunt - 1 - -
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (1.45%) Alfresco
1 1 (1.45%) Confluence
1 1 (1.45%) Documentum
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 44 (63.77%) AWS
2 32 (46.38%) Azure
3 21 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (17.39%) Pulumi
5 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.25%) Nutanix
7 5 (7.25%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.45%) IaaS
9 1 (1.45%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.39%) Broadband
2 7 (10.14%) Firewall
3 4 (5.80%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (5.80%) Ethernet
3 4 (5.80%) MPLS
4 3 (4.35%) VPN
5 2 (2.90%) DNS
5 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.45%) DHCP
6 1 (1.45%) IPv4
6 1 (1.45%) SAN
6 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.45%) SpaceWire
6 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) NoSQL
2 12 (17.39%) RDBMS
2 12 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.14%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (10.14%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.45%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Jaeger
2 4 (5.80%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.35%) GitLab
4 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.45%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.45%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) Subversion
General
1 22 (31.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.80%) Retail
4 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Lead
1 12 (17.39%) Team Leader
2 9 (13.04%) Developer
2 9 (13.04%) Systems Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Software Developer
4 6 (8.70%) Administrator
4 6 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (7.25%) Architect
5 5 (7.25%) Senior
5 5 (7.25%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 5 (7.25%) Systems Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (5.80%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Backup Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
1 12 (17.39%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (14.49%) .NET
3 7 (10.14%) Node.js
3 7 (10.14%) Pandas
4 4 (5.80%) LDAP
4 4 (5.80%) Web Services
5 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.90%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.90%) LINQ
5 2 (2.90%) REST
5 2 (2.90%) XSLT
6 1 (1.45%) COM
6 1 (1.45%) CSS
6 1 (1.45%) HTML
6 1 (1.45%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Cyberattack
2 6 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 37 (53.62%) Windows
2 14 (20.29%) Unix
3 9 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (11.59%) Android
5 7 (10.14%) Mac OS
6 5 (7.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.90%) Debian
8 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (46.38%) DevOps
2 24 (34.78%) Containerisation
3 22 (31.88%) Agile
4 15 (21.74%) High Availability
5 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
5 14 (20.29%) Mentoring
6 13 (18.84%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (17.39%) Budget Control
7 12 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
7 12 (17.39%) GitOps
7 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
7 12 (17.39%) Product Management
7 12 (17.39%) Resource Management
7 12 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 12 (17.39%) Task Automation
8 8 (11.59%) Design Patterns
8 8 (11.59%) Line Management
8 8 (11.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (56.52%) Python
2 30 (43.48%) Bash
3 24 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 21 (30.43%) Java
5 20 (28.99%) PowerShell
6 19 (27.54%) Go
7 8 (11.59%) C++
8 7 (10.14%) Rust
9 5 (7.25%) SQL
10 2 (2.90%) C
10 2 (2.90%) C#
10 2 (2.90%) Groovy
11 1 (1.45%) Tcl
11 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 12 (17.39%) Degree
3 11 (15.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
5 7 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.45%) MCSA
6 1 (1.45%) MCSE
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (50.72%) Docker
2 10 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (40.58%) Kubernetes
2 26 (37.68%) Ansible
3 19 (27.54%) Terraform
4 16 (23.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (17.39%) Argo
5 12 (17.39%) Kustomize
5 12 (17.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.25%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.90%) Rancher
8 1 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) VMware
3 12 (17.39%) Google
4 8 (11.59%) Red Hat
5 5 (7.25%) Commvault
5 5 (7.25%) Zerto
6 4 (5.80%) Cisco
6 4 (5.80%) Juniper
6 4 (5.80%) SevOne
7 2 (2.90%) NetApp
7 2 (2.90%) Workday
8 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.45%) EMC
8 1 (1.45%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow